The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1897-09-11
THE KIMBALL GRAPHIC
CLATE r. TINAN.
Official Pauer Of the City and County
Dollar wheat.

When the farmer smiles everybody else
is glad, and the American farmer these
days has smile that stretches pretty
we'll across his face. Wheat has not only
reached what the farmer has always con-
sidered Its proper place-the dollar ele-
vation-but there is n movement all
along the line in the price OF products of
his farm. AS result he is calling in his
mortgages, taking his family to the coun-
ty fair. and once more is on familiar
terms with the bankers of hie county
town.
The country and the people generally
are beginning to share the farmers ella
tion. The city merchant is welcoming
the town and country merchants, and
the channels OF trade. almost run dry
with the financial drought of the last
few years, are once more filling up with
with the long-delayed tide OF prosperity.
Good times,which always travels in com.
panv with dollar wheat, are not only
coming-they are here at last, and the
air Of hopefulness displaced the air of
stagnation.
The best story about the renewal of
prosperity is that 1t comes from natural
sources-the soil. the sun, the rains, the
air Of heaven. Legislators have been ly-
Ing awake nights trying to bring pros
lty by law, but just when the process
seemed almost hopeless nature took
hand, and once more the country re-
joices. Legislation NAV hinder, but it
seldom greatly promotes prosperity
along enduring lines. Wastefulness and
extravaganza aud lll-considered laws on
the part Of the government and lawmak-
ers may increase the burdens of taxati on,
may dry up temporarily the sources Of
public revenue and stagnate the channels
of trade. But when nature is working
full time and pouring out its abundance
even bad laws and economic misrule can
not wholly overcome the:largesses Of the
soil. serious shortage of crops IN
otEer countries has added greatly to the
prices Of Americana abundant harvests.
Another fact connected with the
great crops of the present year furnishes
| additional ground for hopefulness. For
several successive years the country in
general has suffered more or less from
what may be called continued drought.
The lakes of the northwest sunk year
after year, until the lowering level be-
came matter of serious concern. Now
they are filling up, and have reached the
level of two years ago on the smaller
lakes of the north. and probably have
nearly reached it on the greater lakes.
The area from which evaporation is go.
ing on is thus largely increased, and it
is probable that for several years, at
least there will be good crops, with at
tendant prosperity. These periods of
drought and abundant moisture seems to
go in cycles, and We are now, it seems,
in the midst Of waxing instead of
waning cycle, and there is. therefore, the
best OF reasons for hopetulness to the
farmers and people Of the United States
the granary Of the world. What the
new tariff law may do or may not do in
the way ct increasing this prosperity re-
mains to be seen. Nature at least has
done its part of the work, and after the
long pull uphill the country breathes
easier and fresr.-Chicago Record.
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