The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1894-06-01
PETTIGREW PROTECTION.
South Dakota,s Senior Senator Lays Down
the Law of Progress and Prosperity
TO His Democratic Brethren
Solid for Silver, South Da-
kota and Protective
Tariff.
concludea fromlyesssrday's Issue.

Il - v AV" 0%b"E0A SsS SNaA 80 $50
river valley and that Of the Yellow val
ley Ia China, which has sustained a pop
~ulation averaging o person TO each
acre OF the 100000 acres OF its area
for over four thousand years, without
any diminution Of its productive quail
ties. A full description OF the possibii-
ties OF the James river valley in the way
OF irrigation is also given, including sta
tistics as to the hundreds of artesian
wells that have been sunk, which are
adaptable not only to irrigation but for
power to run factories OF different kinds,
and also furnish fire protection for cities
and towns. He says:
The supply OF water is ipexhaustible,
and this whole valley a be irrigated
and produce t~wentY-four tons of sugar
baets per acre instead OF the crop of If
teen tons now produced, besides furnish
ishing power to run all the machinery
for making the sugar. One million
acres OF the land in this valley would
produce 4,00O,O00.0Oo pounds of sugar,
which ia the total consumption of the
people OF the United States, leaving
$4,000 acres for other crops. Two
great factories would have been built in
this valley this year If 1t were not for the
threat Of the democratic party to repeal
the bounty. Retain this bounty and We
will furnish you with sugar.
The details regarding artesian wells in
South Dakota, as furnished by Senator
Pettigrew will be a revelation to those
who may have opportunity to read the
same. He names and describes partic.
ularly the wells at Aberdeen, Redfield,
Hitchcock, Huron, Woonsocket, Mitch
ell, Springfield, Chamberlain, Yankton,
Pierre. and elsewhere. Comparison Is
made between what has teen actually
achieved by irrigation works In India
and what it is possible 10 achieve In
South Dakota. In Punjab, India, the
cost of irrigation is approximately $751;
100000. aud the crops OF the first year
paid for ~two-thirds OF il, where there
we're no crops before. 1t is estimated
that in the various provinces of the great
empire of India, water is drawn from
not less than u million wells; that the
Puniab supports q population OF 80
persons to the square mile; while South
Dakota ut the present time supports
ne-fftieth as many. II South Dakota
by the useof adequate irrigation works,
over that part OF she state fwhsrs they
are needed, should gather 10 herself $50
people to the square mile, she would
have n population of twenty millions.
Facts regarding irrigation in France,
Italy, New South Wales, South Africa,
Chill, Argentine and elsewhere are in
troduced in support OF promoting SINH
lar enterprises in South Dakota.
Mr.. President, give us equitable laws
and fair play, and South Dakota asks
no odds OF any state Of the union OF any
portion OF the planet. Born from al
primeval wilderness during this genera
tion, she hos doubled her population
four times in the last ten years and has
been accepted as an equal member OF
the sisterhood OF states during the lus-
trum not yet ended. She asks for jus
tice under the law, but she does not ask
for and would not accept any special
privileges. She is toe popuious TO plead
weakness; too rich TO plead poverty;
too noble and s~elf-fespecting to receive
any largess al the hands OF others. RI
her past has not been without local
affections and transient losses, her flu
ture is aglow with magnificent promise.
Where u hundred have withdrawn from
her soil because their too ardent expec-
tations' we're not realized, a thousand
and Industrious settlers going
in have met them at the boundary. i
make no claims that the conditions that
South Dakota presents are ideal In their
excellence. She lies in that belt which
comprises the finest wheat belt In the
world and the richest grazing land in
the world, and she would be tol~rably
with either" She will be pros
porous in the future just in PROF ortion
to her success in providing against the
subhumid conditions which frequently
prevail in a portion OF her area. Her
are brave, enthusiastic, industri-
Gus, persistent, enduring, and possessed
the masterfrl qualities which build
up empires. They ask for neither aims
nor sympathy, and would resent the
offer OF either; but, just because they
are 9 spirited and ~self-reliant, they will
not tamely consent to be plundered by
law or despoiled ia the nam OF the tax
gatherers. They will not allow you to
plumber them doubly-not 10 compel
them to compete in their products with
the kern and serf and slubberdegyillion
of the European and Asiatic lower
world and at the Same time tax them
heavily on all they have to buy from
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