Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1888-06-12

In it's embrace loan. yellow and dark
from mountain heights hundreds of miles
away, 10 haste to deposit its trust q
thousand miles below and there to build
o new land. Not long is the viewer in
doubt which way this current flows. This
Is a mighty stream and goes on with a
rush, q type of the living humanity |
building o new commonwealth on ats
banks. If this stream has a potency
above the turning of splndles or turbine
wheels. then the needed force is nearer
at hand. From the rushing brock rs it |
hurries by the Manse like house, sruly q
perennial flow coming from yonder hill
hard by the Manse in full sight Of the
study window in the chosen residence OF
the minister, o stream which spouted
upwards as the drill of human ingenuity
went down to the cayerns of the earth,
tapping the hidden waters, chafibg q
restless tide, pent up from within eager
to break tie barriers of confinement to
free itself to turn o thousand spindles. a
free cffer to man to turn the wheat to
bread. the corn to meal, the
hax to fabric, the tuber to sugar
and the darkest night to the brightest
day, to print the pages and columns and
bind the volumes. Over yonder, not
three blocks distant from the new par
sonage, the sinking drill went down
hundreds Of feet to the recesses of the
earth and human labor was answered
back by a living stream from the pro-
foundest depths, a perfect cataract of
"water power" enough for the manu-
fact0rer, enough for the iremsn's wants,
enough for domestic use and enough
for even more. Already this power Is
converting the mountain cliff, turning
the clay to brick, while the iron horse
PUSHES north, south, east aid west with
theae furnished supplies and public
buildings, business houses and private
residences become records of history in
our hopeful commonwealth.
, There the incentives to thought sur.
roudning the thinkers in the newly oo-
3 | DupiSO HiubSSs Al thS lululbbOE OOcc uOk
+ deal in living thoughts, If he fails to put
3 in motion trains of thought more com
: prehensiye, higher, deeper and broader
his surroundings will not be in fault fol
che deficiency.
Amid the water spouts from innel
. pent up lakes, the wild rush of water 81
: it gains the freedom OF air and light, the
8 shrlll whistle of the iron horse coming
= going, arriving and departing with train
;, heavily laden with human life and treas
y ure, the shrill whistle of steam o sigma
8 to stop the "roller" and let the tire
Q laborer go to bed and rest. Surely
Q life with such favorable influences, {
" respond to the living issues of the da.
o is worth the living. Life with sue.
8 surroundings ia o life in Yankton. Pro
gress seen every where-progress in edu
Q cation, in nnsic, in art, in invention, i
thought, in q better civilization. in
nearer approach to God, Give me
10 home in the living west, where CITIES ar
born in q day, where maturity is reache
without passing through tedious stage
d of independence of childhood, where ii
IL living actor can at will leave the old RI
a. made by former generations and cary
10 out his own position and shape bis oW
future. Where men can think and 81
ir for themselves, vote according to Il
ia convictions of duty without let or hir
or drance except in regard to the rigl
be to declare ones preference for ststehoe
IS, rather thsn the government of o PR
Dir vince by e foreign procusstor.
d. Here let me live and here let me d
and from this stirring soil let my ash
he be gathered for o higher, broader an
more glorious life to come. d. B. N.