Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1888-12-07

THE DAILY PRESS AND DAKoTAIAr
ts published every evening. excepting bun-
days.
TERMS OF SuBsoRIpTroN-By CARRIERS, per
month, 81 90; per year, ei2 90; by mail. per
month, 81 cents; per year, $40 90.
othce-PREss AND DAKoTAIAN block corner Of
Third and Capital streets.
Telephone number 8.
BOWEN & KINasBURY. Prop'trs
The democratic Des Moines Leader
remarks:
1t is just as we'll to keep an eye en- the
fact that the proposition to make two
states of Dakota has no excuse in pub
lie policy and for it theirs is absolutely
no defense. except the desire to gain
partisan advantage. To the admission
OF the territory as one state there has
been no valid OH ,ction for long time.
10 the creation OF two rotten boroughs
with no natural boundary between them,
with population that is probably near
its maximum limit now, there is valid
oblsction, based on the rights OF other
states greater now in ersa and always
to be greater in population than either
OF the common weslths which merely
party need proposes to carve out of that
cold northern territory. We are Just
witnessing the failure of attempting to
plant permanent population in west
ern Kansas. and the wires have recently
brought the story OF starvation from
Dakota which means an ultimate re.
cession of population from that place OF
short, dry summers and polar winters.
Let Dakota come into the union as q
whole.
This species of rot tires people. Not
in the slang sense-is actually, literally,
physically and mentally fatigues one to
encounter SO much 6isbollsm in 30 brief
paragraph. One.quarter OF Dakota
laps upon one-third of Iowa, the stgte
which surely is not proud to contain
the Des Moines Leader. Our soil and
climate are identical with those OF Iowa,
our people are the same, our products
similar, our capabilities equal. If South
Dakota is rotten borough. then as q
physical and political necessity must
Iowa also be rotten borough. Ons
would think ircm the emanations of the
Leader that Iowa was somewhat tinctur
ed in spots with at least moral decay.
Ii South Dakota oan sustain nc more
population than 1t now possesses, then
Iowa must of necessity retrograde in the
volume OF its census. II it is disastrous
to the Dakotas to have no natural
boundary line between them, then what
is to be the magnitude OF the calamity
in store for the state OF Iowa, with
boundary lines not natural on its north
and its south? And to what condition
OF future misery are the adjacent north
and south states of Minnesota and M,s-
souri, TO be relegated because they are
divided from Iowa by
boundary lines not natural ?
Let US have the names of the states
greater in area than either half of Dako-
ta-ststes that will suffer from the con-
summation OF the division project. Ger
tsinly Iowa is not one OF them, as Iowa
is very much smaller than Dakota divid-
ed into two fragments. Whatever msy
have occurred in Kansas is no more q
guide to what msy occur in Dakota than
it is q guide to what may occur in lowe,
where the conditions are identical. II
the wires have brought to the Des
Moines Leader tales OF starvation in Da-
kota, they brought them back to their
own-to the custody of the father of all
lies. and it must feel very much at home
With them about the house. If We 1--we
in land OF short. dry summers and
polar winters, then the Leader must
,expe rjeuce oompanionship in our suf-
ferings. The isothermal line which
swings northward from the Des Moines
region passes north of Yankton and the
record OF moisture precipitation shows
that when Des Moines is parched we are
bathed in cooling, moistening rains. The
Sioux Oity Journal has something to
say in response to the Lenders exhala.
ton and from its comments we select
the following sample:
"Rotten poroughs," forsooth! How
rotten? Not in enterprise. not in intel
ligence, not in industrial condition, not
in morals-oh. no; there Is no pretense
of specification on these points. Dakota
is uot rotten. as are half dozsn 90 uth-
ern states which vote the Gemocratic
ticket, all OF which together do not poll
as large vote as Dakota. Dakota is
not rotten politically, unless the practice
in Dakota of allowing each citizen to
cast freely just one ballot and to have it
neetly counted is to be considered as
"rottenness." Perhaps it is from the
Leaders standpoint.