The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-10-17

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herself, ARE they of such q nature as to
in any way lessen the burden OF our
pioneer ife, OF our farm taxes, or the ex.
fpenses OF our state government? Or
have all her improvements been with an
eye single to the purpose Of enhancing
the wealth OF her own people and the
value Of her own real estate? To put it
in still palmer words, can it be truthful
~ said that during her ten years of ex-
istence Pierre has in any wise done
aught that should draw unto herself the
sympathy, the fealty, the loyalty, the
suffrage powers OF the Taxpayers OF our
state? liAAher boasted efforts to open
the reservation on which she pretenls to
bank SO heavily for popularity, did she
do any o than numerous of our
public men from all over the state have
also done? And in it's accomplishment
wherein has the state at large been ben
lifted a single little as much as she had
hoped would fall to her lot by reason OF
expected immigration? Whatever pres.
tige she takes to herself on the opening
OF that reservation can be traced back
directly to her own selfish impulses and
impotent greed. Is it not a fact that
the natural highways Of commerce, lead
ing across the trans-MissOuri region.
follow up the natural watercourses
towards the Black Hills in South Da-
kota, as would be the ase under simila'
conditions elsewhere? LIS it not a fact
that the consensus OF opinion OF nearly
all the OnE hundred editors who trav-
tit only for extensive stock ranges? Is
before the world, Huron's friends are
only doing justice not only to the reser-
walton and to Pierre, but to the un-
counted thousands in the eastern states
who desire the truth, the whole truth
and nothing but the truth? Is it not
also a fact that Pierre, from her close
connection with the reservation region
has positively known beyond a doubt,
that such was the abstract condition oil
that country? And yet is it not also a
fact, that so knowing, she persistently
wilfully, premeditatedly, and systemat-
ically promulgated throughout the east
as we'll as throughout Europe, liMitless
laudations OF the hidden wealth of that
reservation, its agricultural resources,
beautiful scenery, equable climate, BAH
bling brooks, powerful waterfalls, and
all other etceteras, that go so far
toward home-making in the west easy
and profitable? On these accounts, and
for the good name OF our state in the
future as well as the present, is it not
wise, is it not honest, is it not business,
that the facts be made known, un-
colored, truthful and reliable?
Since being where she Is, has she in
augurated any better communications
with the western part OF the state than
the original freight lines, propelled by
mule and OK power? And even which
slender means OF communication have
long since vanished, leaving her isolated
to the greatest possible extent from
that portion OF the state which she seeks
to seduce into her support? Has she
thrown either he energies or her money
into opening new avenues OF communi-
cation with her nearby sections, east Of
--he Missouri? Has she spent a dollar
in affording anything like an improved
means OF transportation up and down
her boosted Missouri, whereby there is
the shadow OF hope to the farmers Of
the state that even in the distant future,
there will ever be lower freight rates to
the seaboard or other markets by way
OF the river! In consideration OF the
location OF the capital last fall, has she
since in any way advanced the interests
of the state as such, by providing any
thing more than the meagerest of legisla.
tive Accommodations? Or has she not
gone to the extent OF even charging the
state a rental for those meager accomo
| dations? Can she or does she deny thatit
is almost a typographical impossibility
for any extended system OF railroads tt
climb down or tunnel through the i'm
mense area OF broken headlands into
| her from the east, and can she deny that
| she has wasted her energies for the ter
years last past waiting for somebody
| else to do for her in the way OF railroad
| building what she claimed she could dc
for herself? And what does she now
promise for the second or third time she
will do, when she comes before the
! voters of the state asking for theil
votes for permanent capital? Look al
her as she sits in her obscure corner O
the civilized portion ofthe state. Trave
| her streets from end to end. Inspect
her buildings, her improvements, pres
emit and contemplated. Then picture
her to yourself as the permanent capita
| OF the state. Look back at her recorC
for the decade just closed. Basing YOU
| opinions and judgement on her deeds Q
| the past, does it stand to reaso that
having secured the plum she pleads fol
| she will do any more in the future with
| the capital than she has done in thu
past without it? Is it IN the nature o
! things that a community of men who
have put their heads together for thu
purpose OF unloading such immense
quantities OF valueless real estate upor
a contiding public, will 80 far forget theil
old predictions as to inaugurate i'm
provements OF Il state wide characte!
when they fail to do 80 in q. practica
form when asking that the suffrage o
the people be given to them?
But with Huron the case is different
| What she offers you is real, is tangible
is certain. She does not offer you papel
railroads OF ten years standing. Blu
she does offer you the outlets and inlet
which she now possesses and they ar
made OF iron.
She offers irrigation to you, which if ad
opted will encourage more railroads an.
the better operation OF those now built
She holds up a 81, 600 school sec
ton, which should be d prize for ever
father and mother in the state who hav
children to educate, to endeavor to sc
cure it for their benefit in the schoc
fund.
She has four other school sections a
near to her as the nearest of Pierre
and either one OF them is rs good farm
ing land as the Jim valley contains
Each OF these school sections when solt
with Huron the capital, will add anothe
large amount to the school fund of OF
state. )
!. Huron sits right in the central midt
OF our population, where you can at a
times Keep your legislature under 20,
eye and where you IAN visit them with
!, modicum OF expense.
She expects direct connections in tt
near future with Forest City and Char
berlain, on lines already marked o,
} and surveyed by powerful companie
but she does not feel like prostitutil
J truth, as does Pierre, and promise thu
they shall be built tomorrow if you vo
: for her for capital, and that they W
/ never be built if you don't.
She also expects other lines Of ra
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