Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1893-01-14
HAS A FIRM FOUNDATION
Joseph Sampson Looks to the Farms
for Sioux City's Support.
THE ANNEXATION OF CANADi
The Lack 9: Room Argumsnt In Favor Of
the Proposition Hardly Logical One
While There Is Land In the Northwest
for the Millions OF Another Generation"
Superiority Of Agricultural Resources.

Superiority OF Agricultural Resources.
Joseph Sampson, president Of the FL.
deity Loan and Trust company OF
Sioux City,. Ia, has handed to the press
of our city the following breezy and in.
vigorating article:
In recent issue Of the New York Sun
strong and we'll written article appears In
large type--indicating, perhaps, that the
venerable editor, Dana, Is its author--sug-
gesting and urging the annexation Of
Canada to the United States. While rec-
ognizing that popular sentiment in Can.
ada itself upon this subject Is indeter-
inmate as yet, he points out that we here
In the states ought to be getting ready To
meet the people OF the dominion more
than half way, whenever the propo-
sition IL made by our northern neigh.
bors, which he assumes will soon be
done. He points out the tempting treas.
ures OF coal, iron, copper, lumber, etc.
which we would receive In return for our
assumption OF the dominion public debt
Of some SS00, ,000, COO. The commercial and
Industrial advantages of the union of this
country with G5,000,000 people andof n
land area of some 100000 square miles,
with country numbering some 6,0O0, 900
souls and a land area OF about 3.l00, 900
square miles, are duly weighed and pre-
sented. Before Mr.. Dana's fervid imagi.
nation there rises the outlines Of vast,
powerful, homogeneous people, all speak
ing the same language. preserving the
same traditions of common -iitcrata"s
and ancestry, and obeying the same laws;
q dream, so 10 speak, OF an imperial North
America, self contained self sufficient
and needing not to heed or obey the COM
bined powers OF all Europe.
the keynote of .hs article, however, ts
sounded when the emphatic inquiry il
made as to where the increasing popula-
ton of the states will go TO find cheap
lands and found homes. Mr.. Dana ex-
plains that i'm very few years the only
evenings that will be left To find good
cheap lands will be up north and north
west of Manitoba, or from 500 10 800
miles northwest of st. Paul. Few of us
who have grown up In Iowa and moved
around on the frontier realize as fully a.
we ought the limited quantity of good,
fertile prairie that remains 10 be occupied
this side of the Rocky mountains. Sioux
City Is as yet modest, medium sized city,
because IL IL on the western edge of what
has become fairly well settled country
within period of only ten short years.
When the compact settlement of the prai-
rie lying west of us II accomplished,
as IL surely will be within the next ten
wears, placing Sioux City on the eastern
edge of a. highly cultivated and thickly
settled country a. central Iowa is today,
then will the fullest measure OF prosperity
as vet inchoate he realized. The wise
and prudent husbandman will be slow To
take up his home In far northwestern
country, where pig is "a curiosity, so
long as he can find excellent farming land
within six hours railroad journey from
one OF the great packing centers of the
continent. Before Mr. Dana's Canadian
land nf promise needs tn he opened for
shrewd farmers they will find as good
land nearer the old home. nea cer consum-
ing centers and nearer--let rs say-Sioux
City than the readers OF the sun may be
led To suppose.
We, here In Sioux City, need to aid. fos-
| ter and encourage in every way possible
the inflow of superior resource full farmers
into northern Nebraska and South Da-
kota. Their boom is our boom, and their
work To promote Immigration is also ours.
Those Sioux City people who visited
Mitchelfs recent corn palace were fully
convinced at the marvellous agricultural
and horticultural resources of Dakota.
Those who visited the last state fair az
| Lincoln saw Nebraska's wonderful dis.
play of farm products. On these
| foundations we build our city and our
| adjacent country. Upon na better ma
terial foundation could people build.
Mines may BE- exhausted, forests be cut
| down, but while land yields snch abund-
ant increase of food tho millions will mul.
tiplv and replenish the earth. We here
In Sioux City will not need Canada as an
overflow outlet far land hungry farmers
until we introsisee AT least. 4 0Dosa1o. ..-----.
into the only hrst-class corner of land
left to the north aud west of Sioux City.
When this ls done and Sioux City has a
population of $50, 900, then we will take up
the consideration of the enlargement OF
our country with our highly esteemed Mr..
Dana OF the New York sun
| JOSEPH SAMpsoS