The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1889-05-24
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AuSCEtASC SONtn 1DaA0t0.
Sioux City Journal:-Adyertise South
Dakota? The crop outlook in Dakota
is excellent. AT the corresponding per
Tod there has not been a more encourag.
ing prospect ia South Dakota for many
years. Wheat, fax, all small grains,
and corr are in splendid condition, as
shown by the official reports both of the
territory and of the United States gov.
eminent. as we'll as by all the evidence
emanating from local and unofficial
sources. 1t is true that present coadi-
tions'are not absolutely conclusive of
the result, but they are such as to give
strongest confidence and they are such
as to warrant action.
There is q lesson in the situations
lesson OF the utmost Importance to the
people ofSouth Dakota and to every.
body interested In South Dakota.
South Dakota will miss the greatest
par: of Its opportunity If it merely goes
on tending and gathering a magnificent
crop this year. important as that may be
The rich harvest which is almost in
sight is Of less value for the dollars it
will. bring into the market this fall than
for the effect 1t may have, If the proper
means be taken upon tina public mind in
stimulating emigration from the states
further east. With a crop growing on
the cheap lands of South Dakc.a ex-
ceediny by far the yield of the high
priced land of Ohio and Illinois, will not
South Dakota have in its hand the dem
onstrativc evidence the adequate presen-
tation OF which will bring new settlers
BY the thousands and tens OF thousands?
The demonstration which Dakota has
to offer is the demonstration of fat.
The important thing then, the vitality
important thing, is now to bring this
fact to the mind and eye Of the eastern
farmer 1t will be to a considerable ex-
teat in vain that the fact exists if the
men In other states who are wanted IN
South Dakota cannot be brought to re
alizs tie fact This is self-eyident.
Advertise; advertise; advertise. That
ehould be the wattlword.
There ara two ways of advertising the
fact. In the lirst place, there must be
cooperative effort on the part of the
more enterprising men of South Dakota
to the end that the fact may be dinned
into the public ear. 1t must be forced
upon the public attention. Every ngcn-
cy must be set at work TO seize and re-
solve the public judgment. Compel
them to coma" is as good a motto for
South Dakota as ii is for the Lords
vineyard. There should be no respite in
the bom%bardment of the public mind
from every gun which South Dakota
can bring to bear-from every gun load
ed to the muzzle with facts
Let eastern farmers thus be interested,
moved, induced and compelled to GO to
South Dakota to see with their own eyes.
1t matters not SO much If at the be
ginning only q comparatively few of
them are moved to spy out tie land.
The vital thing Is to %inaugurate the
movement. Then their eyes will sec the
facts, will see the grand harvests grewn
on cheap lands and they in turn will add
new force to the advertisements. They
n their several neighborhoods will be-
come advocates of South Dakota. And
when this sort of thing is once set going
the work OF advertising South Dakota
will have been accomplished. From
that time on the Sonth Dakota boom will
take care Of itself.
Let South Dakota take the initiative
and start things going, and before it
fairly re allies ii itself, every railroad and
all other interests will become, from IN
independent stand point, CO operative
agencies There will then be no need TO
urge railroad companies to coneeds the
low sniGrant rates which were the in
strument by which 800, 0o0 and more
people were transferred to Kansas with
In ten years. The railroad companies
will themselves take cars Of that mat
ter aud will be contestins in eager rival
ry for this class of business.
Advertise South Dakota.