Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1889-04-06
WHOSE BUSINESS Is TT

The Deadwood Times, considered by
many people to DO the leading daily in
the Hills, has peculiar habit, which
looks extremely bad upon its face, Of
appearing to blackmail persons or
localities engaged in local strife. A
very strange phase Of all the attacks is
that the one against which the Times
vents its caustic rhetoric always happens
to be the ono whose financial standing is
considered the best Of all engaged in the
bloodless skirmish. Bear IN mind, we
do not say that Editor Warner does levy
blackmail upon those he thinks the bet-
ter able to pay it, Far from il. The
Times would mover do such thing!
No, sir!
Suppose the course of tho Times is a
little erratic. Whose business is it? II
inter certain monetary obligations are
met and but one email item of very
few hundred dollars alone remain, whose
business is it il tho Times transfers its
business to the First National bank Of
Deadwood and suddenly booms Judge
Moody for the United States senate?
Again. Whose affair is it if the
Times did say in its issue of March 2, in
speaking Of the location of the state cap
ital: "Self interest should suggest to MS
Pierre as the proper location OF the cap
itals' and again on March 10: "The
Hills should cast 10000 votes and every
one of them should be for Pierre for the
capital" we repeat, whose affair is it if tho
Times did give utterance to the above
sentiments and then on March IA, say:
"It matters little whether the capital be
at Pierre, Chamberlain, Huron, Mitchell,
Sioux Falls or any of the many towns
aspiring for distinction. The Times has
said good word for Pierre, but all that
has been uttered applies with equal force
to every town on the list, while present
routes Of travel afford strong argument
against the plucky river town. The
Times has not given the subject sufi-
Gent thought or study to warrant q
conclusion as yet" etc? What right
has anyone to say that tho Times, by the
last quoted editorial above, has served
notice on Pierre that il that town wants
its support, it must have sugar. No
one who thoroughly knows the Times
management would for one brief instant
think it. Emphatically no! The people
of Sturgis don't think the Times could
be quieted in its conscientious efforts to
give the Meade county capital to Til
ford or Meyers ranch, and keep it from
this town. If delegation of citizens
should call upon "the emperor" and en-
deavor to 'ssee' him in order that his
hostility to Sturgis might end they
never would meet with success, as that
particular portion Of the free American
press cannot be subsidized. Milky!
We are glad to see the Times on the
side of the weak and against the strong.
The Times may appear to the casual
observer to be philanthropic. We havs.|
heard incidentally it is not. We don't
believe it! In order that its philan-
bhropic efforts may be continued and its
fight against this city maintained it be-
hooves every one of our citizens to pat
ronize it by subscribing for the daily,
paying cash in advance. as we like to see
our enemies flourish, particularly when
they live off us. Citizens of Sturgis,
don't forget it. Patronize our enemy,
The Deadwood Times.