The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1897-07-10
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Official PaDer Of the CITY and County

Official Paper Of the City and County
THE EARdus.LEADER'3 "BRoADsiDEs."
The Sioux Falls Argus-Leader makes
one tired.
When newspaper through public
spirited reasons only and without ul-
terror motives seeks to impress upon its
constituency state of optimism-,es-
pecially when it envolves an unusual a.
mount OF work-the gathering of facts
and fgures-lt is engaged in most
commendable undertaking. But the
Sioux Falls Argus Leader is not that
sort of q newspaper. 1t isn't built that
way. That Is why the Argus-Leader
makes one tired.
OF late the Argus-Lsader has beenrak-
ing the state with flne-toothed comb,
6guratiyely writing, hunting evidence
of the prosperity promised by the party
with which it happens at this time to be
affiliating. 1t has prodded its correspon-
dents throughout the state to hunt up
farmers especially, business men If need
be, and any others handy, and write up
Gheir prosperity" Compiling these
gleanings from the prairies, it issues
what 1t calls its "broadsides" grape
and canister against the calamity how
lers..w take it.
Whilo the GRAPHIC has 10 sympathy
with this latter class it has still less ad-
miration for the Argus-Leader's peculiar
methods of carrying its points. The so
called "broadsldes" are worthless as
evidencing the condition of the South
Dakota farmers, in that the state of
one farmer in every five hundred is not
a basis OF comparison this is about
the proportion of tho farmers repre-
sented in the columns Of the Argus
Leader. Furthermore. the Argus-Leader
has not published any more convincing
facts Of the prosperity of the South
Dakota farmer than 1t could have done
one year, two years, three years ago or
four years ago-under Cleveland's ad-
ministration or under Harrison's-with
the same efforts it has lately put forth to
secure data, As matter CT fact, South
Dakota has scores upon scores Of offarmers
who have made money steadily for the
past ten years-some years more than
others, to be sure-but none the less
steadily, and without reference to the
happenstance occupant OF the White
House-or the Sionx Falls postof1ice.
Give the South Dakota farmer plenty Of
rain and not too severe winter on his
stock and it makes very little difference
with him who distributes the Offices at
Washington-though it may make all
the difference in the world to the editors
OF the Sioux Falls organ. The western
farmer is somewhat rcconciled to the
fact that he will get 1t in the neck any
how so far as it is possible to give it to
him. Ii 1897 finds any OF them any
moro prosperous than usual it Is due to
help across the Atlantic and not to any
coterie OF public papsuckers in this
land OF the free aud home of tho brave"
That the Dakota farmers wheat is not
now moulding in his bins for want of q
market, along with his Iowa brother $
corn, is due to the great scarcity of tho
grain across the sea; and it is only be-
cause the English buyers have taken
every pound OF butter offered below Is
cents That has held our fancy creamery
product from going to the demnition
bow-wows along with other farm pro-
ducts. Live stock were higher during
periods Of Cleveland's reign than now,
and tons upon tons of dressed beef and
mutton 60 to Europe weekly to help
keep the price where it is.
For whatever prosperity that may he
fall the South Dakota farmer in a 6nan-
cial sense he is indebted to God and the
foreigners who buy his truck. All the
mill hands in Christendom couldn't eat
it, and the Mckinley prosperity cry is
nothing but the old worn out humbue
Of home market that yearly becomes
farther and farther away from reallza.
| tion.
The Argus-Leader is doing tho best il
can, possibly. to earn that $1,000 pest
Office plum-and some other perquisites
but 1t cannot fool anybody, when its
own files contradict its every day deduc
tions and conclusions.
! That's why the Argus-Leader makes
one tired.