The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1889-11-08

FOR ENFORCEMENT.
TO DAK6rANs ,BY THE
NEW LEAGUE.
Fuil Text OF the circular Letter just Is
sued Col. King ON the Reservation
Quesion-Senstor Pctligrew In WASH
ington-Olller Dakota News.
The following circular letter has just
been issued by the Enforcement League:
To the People of South. Dakota: The
South Dakota Enforcement League sends
greeting and congratulations to the people
OF the commonwealth over the matchless
victory recently gained in putting prohibi-
ton into the organic law of the state.
Than this no grander moral achievement
was ever witnessed, either in this or any
other land. South Dakota leads the world
in this respect, and every citizen should be
proud Of her, be his politics or religion
what they may. We say, she has done
magnificentiy. God bless her! The non
partisan prohibition organization, having
served the purpose for which it was crea-
settlement of its financial obligations, and
is succeeded by the South Dakota En-
forcement league, which was formed on
the 18th inst, and whose officers we're
elected at Huron six days later. The OBJ
iects of the league are:
1. 10 promote and c~rystalize q healthy
public sentiment which shall guarantee
to the state the highest possible achieve
ment of the prohlbitory principle.
2. 10 aid in the securement of the most
stringent AMI effective legislation touching
every phase OF the question, and
8. 10 lend to our civil officers, both
executive and judicial, such encourage
ment and assistance as the emergencies Of
the times may demand.
We commend this new organization to
every loyal citizen and to every lover of
the home throughout tho state. We ask
you to join it. We urge you to lend it
your influence, your time and your means
to II limited extent. If the $500 men
who, at the late election, voted "For con-
stitutional prohibition, yes, together with
their wives and children. will now put
themselves squarely into line with the
present movement, not only will prohibit
ton be a principle in otir organic law, but,
what is even better, 1t will shortly become
an actual TACT in our experiences as a peo-
pie. "A strong pull, and a long pull, and
a pull altogether cannot fail to give us a
complete victory. In the naIhe of the
home and in the name of the church and
the commemorative demand this victory
at your hands. The eyes of the whole
country are upon you. Be true. Be brave.
Be irresistible. And it shall again be said
of our state, Behold what South Dakota
has Gone!" Yours for a clean state,
WILLIAM FIELDER, President.
+. ENGLISH, Secretary.
The Sioux Reservation.
A recent Chicago Tribune has this: The
man who had as much to do with the
opening of the Sioux reservation as any,
body else was Col. John H. King, of
Rapil City, S. D. He is at the Grand Pa
cifc with II. ]. Rice. of Huron, a member
OF the State Railway association. Col.
klng says the bill does not need %ratifca-
ton.
The contoller Of the treasury, he says,
found two appropriations III relation to
he's Sioux reservation. One was in the
Sioux bill aud the other was a separate
appropriation, which was the result of a
conference between Senator Allison, of
Iowa, the Dakota peop'e and Chairman
Peel, Of the committee on Indian affairs.
The Sioux bill provided for SIS, 600 for
the secretary to get the signatures. Fear
ing this Sioux bill might be n failure. and
that the Indians would not sign. Allison
and Peel thought it best to provide a sep
arate and distinct appropriation for an
other commission, which was only in
tended to be used in case of the failure of
the Indians to sign the Sioux bill. The
controller simply used the wrong S25. OOl.
but it makes no difference where the
money comes from, as the Indians signed
the bill, and il the evidence of the signing
is brought to the president lie should issue
a proclamation. This, no doubt, will be
done When the senators from Dakota.
Messrs. Pettigrew and Moody, and the
members, Clifford and Picker, present
the matter. They and all the members of
the Indian committee of both houses un-
derstand it the Same way, The reserya-
ton may not be opened by the president
by proclamation until next spring, bul
when it is opened it will be by proclama-
tlon."
Senato. Pettigrew in Washington.
Senator Pettigrew. of South Dakota. has
started out early in his political career to
make war on the railroads. says a Wash
ington dispatch. That was the object of
his visit to Chicago which closed yesterday
afternoon when the new senator took the
limited for Washington.
The cause of it" be said, is the dis
elimination by all the big Chicago lines
against Sioux Falls, S. D.. in favor of
Sioux City, Iowa. They are determined
to make Sioux City the distributing point
for the entire section, just as Kansas City
was made the distributing point for all
Kansas to the great injury of Kansas
towns. We don't propose to permit this.
Sioux Falls is the natural distributing
point for our territory, and we will fghtto
the hilt any scheme of rates like the exist.
ing one, that robs us of our natural adyan.
tages.'
Have you brought the railroads to
timer
Il have left them to think it over. We
Will give them an opportunity for medita-
ton before we begin i'll earnest tho Iiveli-
est warfare ever wage in the northwest"
MIR. Pettlgrew's visit ha another object
the interesting of Chicago capitalists in
the transcontinental railway, with terminal
points at Sioux Falls and Puget Sound.
Whether he succeeded in this or not he
would not say, but he professed great
faith in the ultimate success Of the ven
ture.
I'VE have got laid out only ten miles of
it, he said. "BS. the rest is SURVEYED
and the work will be vigorously pushed.
In five years the line will be completed.
1t is bound to pay. 1t runs through the
most fertile and best settled country of the
northwest, as well as through Yellowstone
Park. There are no heavy grades in it.
for it strikes the mountains at the great
watershed and ascends slowly for hun
dreds of miles. 1t will be the air line
from Chicago TO the coast-250 miles
shorter than any possible route-and That
is why Chicago men should hustle out and
take hold of it." a
The Big Muddy.
Says the Davenport Democrat Gosetie.
Mr.. Mari, in charge of the Missouri river
survey, has been working down from Bis
marck this summer, and there is vet re-
naming to be closed the gap between
Yankton and Sioux City, to which point
previous surveys have been extended. The
Missouri river will then be surveyed from