Hand County press. (Miller, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1893, 1892-10-27

W 'he territory, but admitted IN,
S'a'e' out thousands OF others beIa ,ho
! party IN power responsible for the fa,,
a e ., the clouds to pIecipitate their
'rai'iai moisture over the lind.
Inc seasons Of drouth that cana i,
succession fell with heavy los upon
'he people of Dakota. They fell baov
upon the people of this state, where for q
quarter OF century or longer, the peopls
u"o peen accumuIating a surplus and
satherlhg strength to meet these re
verses OF the seasons. What wondsr
'nsh tilat they discouraged the peo.
PIE IN Dakota, where people were living
III strange land, a land untried and
without any reserve stores? Il ,s a
syringe ana Interesting fact that the peo.
pies party gathered strength as III.
arouth grew in intensity.
But very short experience with neo-
pies party statesmen in power must have
convinced the most skeptlcal that they
cannot with human enactmepts cure ali
the ails and ills that individuals and
communities are heir to. That myster.
ious Power which propels the clouds and
causes the sunshine to fall benignly ON
heids OF waving corn or wheat drippipp
wet with due alone can do that.
iiut meanwhiie the calamity howIer has
lost his prestige In the mort west. He has
been prophet of disaster, not of pros.
peritv.
10 develop new states two forces are
necessary. labor and capital One cannot
be dispensed with any more than the
other. Everything that makes capital
AFRAID 70 invest in new country is 80
much loss TO that c, uniry. Tie calamity
hoWlers have kept out not only capital.
Cut labor from the new states. Men NAV |
rail- at capital, out capital is necessary, il
Is as necessary as labor, in fact capital is |
only accumulated labor. In Iowa the
state and savings banks TO-DAY hold mil
lions OF dollars. What are these hold.
lngs! Only accumulated labor. The
washerwomen has stood over her tub of
snds. and her savings, her labor ex.
pressed IN collars and cents, are In these
banks. The farmer has followed his
piow, and his savings are in these banks.
he mechanic has his savings there. And
this accumulated labor, condensed lab or.
when taken to new western states pIays
IS useful part fu their development as
does the labor that goes there on two
feet and with two hands.
After the storm com es the quiet. So
after the storm of calamity howlers that
mas swept oyer these states there comes
he quiet of common sense. Men stop to
mnk, ana In thinking they regain their
senses. That is what the people in Iowa
Ire dong this year, and that is what they
ire doing in Kansas and in Dakota. THIS
process is now goins on in all OF these
states. The Hand County PRESS, a paper
which represents one of the best sections
n all Soath Dakota, says: The people
II this locality have seen the bauble
'usrt and beyond it see record of ad-
and progress due to repubIi-
,an policies. never before equal cd by
'ivilized man, Not visionary; not theor-
'tical; not promises; but actual facts
,nown OF all men,
These fine utterances are made in the
course of an article reviewing the speech
II Hamlin Garland, at Miller. The
PRESS says so many are the evide noes of
prosperity in South Dakota that even
iarland had to repeatedly assert that he
vas lot a calamity howler.' He found
he occupation of the calamity howler
tone. The bird of political carrion had
AIKEN his omlnous black flight to other
egions."