Oakes weekly Republican. (Oakes, Dickey County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1898, 1890-01-10
To the Readers of the Oakes Re-
publican.

The year 1889 has passed and
gone, andthe year 1890 has been
ushered in. In looking over our
labors Of the past year, have we not
reason to rejoice that we are in such
a goodly land, wherein our lot is
cast? 1t would really appear that
an ''all wise Providence" had re-
served these great pralries of Dako-
ia for the people Of this nineteenth
century. How often have you heard
your parents tell the old, old story,
of the trials and sufferings they and
their parents endured in their early
days in the settlement of Michigan,
Indiana, Ohio and Pennsylvania.
Dakotians talk of hardships: they
bear no comparison, only a mere
bagatelle, to those of forty and fifty
years age. Why, if the settlers in
those early days had been of the
same stripe as many of the settlers
Of the present day it is doubtful if
the country would ever been popu-
lated west of Lake Erie. If this
country had depended On its growth
by this class Of noncompoops, who
are ever complaining and fail to do
manual work, only with their tongue,
could that class ever produce a St.
Paul, Minneapolis, Fargo, Aberdeen
OF growing town like Oakes?
The remark is often made that Mr..
A., B. or G. has become discouraged
and is going to leave Dakota. /
say God speed to all such, as that
class is detriment to the neighbor-
hood, wherein he resides. Let all
such 60, but watch his future Tor
ten years to come, then compare
notes and if you cannot count ten
dollars to his one then | am sadly
mista ken. There are but few men
in the past, present and will be in
the future, but have had, or will
have, ups and downs in life. Every
child is not BON with a silver spoon
in his mouth. What would a. pro-
fessional man amount to if he
should remain short time in a
town, then pull up and leave?
Why, all such would not amount
to row of pins. just so with a
farmer; he should not get the blues
and throw up the foundation he had
laid for comfortable home. The
old motto is if;at first you don't
succeed, try, try again" Look at
the years Of toll by settlers in Penn
sylvania and Ohio, who had all
they could do to make both ends
meet, yet under their farms were
beds Of coal, worth millions of dol
lars. Even in the little state Of
Now Jersey the early settlers at
Amboy were not aware that a bed
of white clay existed, which has net
fortunes to hundreds Of people in
that locality. Dakota comparatively
is new country and you may rest
assured, that as true as there is a
God in heaven, this very North Da-
kota, wherin Dickey county is To-
Gated, is destined to become a
wealthy country, and he who parts
with his land will see the time when
he will say, what fool have been
look at the history of Kansas and
Nebraska, states run over with
grasshoppers, malaria and cyclones
Thousands, yes tens OF thousand:
left their claims, other pioneers wen,
and took possession. Those state:
are now foremost in every goot
work and deed. Property has ad
vanced in value, villages have grown
into towns and towns into cities
and such will be the case in Dicke,
county, as sure as the sun rises il
the east and sets in the west. III
REPUBLICAN, I am told, the COMM
year will haye letters from a hos
Of able writer's, letters that will b
interesting to the settlers, and
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