Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-10-24
SOME SOLID SENSE.
a Few of the Reasons why Pierre should
BE the Permanent CaDital.

Plerre is on a navigable riyer-th
Missouri.
Pierre has a commanding and beau
tiful location.
Pierre has erected a capitol buildin,
which was used by the legislature las
winter.
Pierre will make new railway cen
ter.
1t will save taxpayers the cost of /;
new capitol building, $1,000, COO a,
| least.
All railways will desire to build tt
the permanent capital, as they have
done in Iowa. (see Des Monies. the
capital, on recent map).
twill cause money to be expended
among us for construction and main.
tenance.
1t will aid any practical system OF
government irrigation, as the more
money the railways have invested In
the state, the stronger will their in.
fluence be felt at Washington.
1t will stimulate government i'm.
provement of the Missouri river, fur
nishing employment for labor and Civ
ing water freights along the river.
1t will hasten railway from the
Black Hills, which will open to the
farmers the markets of the mining
cities of the Hills, for sale of their
dairy products, etc.
1t will afford South Dakota mer-
chants a new field. There from three
hundred to five hundred million dol
lars worth of ore tributary to Dead
wood, most of which will be stamped
and smelted there: Large quantities
tributary to RAPID City; the largest
amounts OF. tin ore in America near
Harney's Peak and Custer City, which
is about to be worked on an immense
scale.
1t will bring travellers bound to and
from the Hills through our state, in
stead of going through Nebraska, as
they now are obliged to go.
1t will establish closer social and
business relations between the eastern
and western portions of our state,
which is very desirable.
1t will give our wholesalers and job
bers increased territory, by develop
ing the western portion of the state
and affording them means of reaching
for the valuable trade of the Hills,
which now largely goes to Omaha and
Sioux City.
1t will force direct railway lines
from the northwestern and southeast
ern corners of the state to Pierre, also
line along the Missouri river.
1t will give us cheap coal from the
Black Hills.
1t will give us cheap lumber from
the Black Hills.
Every vote for Pierre is an indiyid-
ual denial of Huron's statements to
the world that large portion of our
state is worthless, and does not war
rant any more railways.
1t will beyour stern rebuke to Huron
for her campaign of SANDER which has
kept out settlers, made eastern capt.
tai timid, has deprecated our pro-
perty. and made rates of interest the
highest.
The land on which the capitol build
ing is now erected will be worth $780,
10000 to the state.
The two school sections adjacent to
Pierre, belonging to the state, will be
largely increased in value.
Pierre is a true Dakota Rustler''
having raised 5000, 10000 to aid in ex-
tending the Northern Pacific from
Cakes through Aberdeen to Pierre.
Pierre's citizens are enterprising
and broad gagged, not envious, mar
row-minded and malicious.
Pierre ought 70 be rewarded for her
manly and loyal defense Of our grand
state and heritage, against Huron's
"rule OF ruin policy"
Today Pierre is a larger, better and
more progressive city than Huron, and
is one of the gem citiesof the Missouri
valley.
By making Pierre the permanent
capital you have ''the cinch'' on the
railways. They always build to the
capital, and quickly, too. (See maps
of Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Arkansas,
Colorado, Ohio and other states.l
1t is doing justice to ourselves, our
children and the whole state, to place
the permanent capital in the exact
geographical center of the whole state,
so there will be no occasion for it's re-
moval in the course of a few years.
To move the capital from Pierre,
where it is now located, eastward to
Huron, would be like asettler starting
into a new country, gettingdiscouraged
and going back east, simply an adj
mission that South Dakota is worth
loss and will not develop.