The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1894-03-09

"Mr. j. b. Harman, Of Potter Co..
won the first prize ($5O) offered by the
Dakota Farmer for the best showing
made as farmer in this State. Mr..
Harman IS radical Peoples Party
man. .'-Walter Price, in Onida
Journal.
Knowing the politics of the writer
we were surprised at the hope and en-
couragement it contained. awe raise
the best grade horses and it pays. A
good COW will pay for herself in one
year and have the calfleft The garden
is paying investment. There is
great profit IN eggs, with but little in
vested. l pay my grocery bills with
butter and eggs and find it much bet
ter shedding. Have never had good
crop, but have always made little
profit. Farming is profession and
requires brains as we'll as muscle"
There is not a calamity text from
first to last, but it abounds in implied
censure of those who do not succeed,
and the other farmer writer's are more
severe than he.
If it had appeared in the WATCH
MAN over a Non-de-plume Mr. Price
would have denounced it as forgery.
Judged by points as the articles were
and should be it was worthy of first
place, but number of men excelled
him from money stand point. Omit
ting his living and loss by fire Mr..
Harman made an annual gain on the
original Investment of 100 per cent.
and another man made 1856 per cent.
Another one began with $75. and now
has $]1 300 and another began with
$1,000 and is worth $4,000. Three
Of them have money to let and two
have built elegant residences IN town.
The articles are Goals of fire on the heads
of the calamity crowd. After so in
discreet reference Price says.
"Where, now Is the WATCHMAN's
theory that none but Republicans are
successful, and that people are Popu-
lists because they are too lazy or
shlftless to amount to anything"
The WATCHMAN meyer said anything
of the kind and the unwarranted charge
only shows the extent to which Mr..
Price is pushed for something to say.
But we have SAID and we repeat it that
popism fourishes only IN new localities
where the people are generally poor,
and nowhere else, and we have said
what Mr.. Harman says: brains and
muscle must work together.
II will venture the assertion that 9
out of 10 Populists of Sully Co. have
done more days work, and have more
to show IN this worlds goods than the
sheep editor or his assistant and yet
such men presume to teach farmers to
farm"
Here, again, Price forgets his calam-
ity role and boasts Of the general pros
perity Of the farmers, but that is what
the WATCHMAN has done ever since
the calamity howl began. 1t has
copied sketches of wheat fields yield
ing quarter million bushels on farms
worth cool million and of other farm
ers climbing rapidly up the same lad
der of success. But we are glad that
Walter testifes to the poverty of the
publishers lot. The people will have
more sympathy for the poor-down-
trodden newspaper men. Walter
knows how it is himself He tried it
with the usual pop. note "you fiddle
while | dance" annex, but it failed and
he waltzed all over this senatorial dis
trict for an office he didn't get, and he
labored three years for post office
that didn't pay, and wiggled himself
into secretary Of their central COM
mittee and in his own words lost two
commissioners, and his present exhibit
of himself will hardly pay. Farming
is the only sure thing.
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