The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1897-04-29
Politics and Business.

who imagine they have IL personal
grievance against Bushfeld, haye
been chewing the rag considerably
because the Press Office has done
some county printing We care as
little for their personal grievances as
we do for their cowardly lies. But
as an abstract matter Of business
why should the Press not do county
printing, or printing for anybody
else? This establishment is a legiti-
mate business enterprise of Miller
and Hand county; pays taxes and
contributes in every way that any
other business does to help build up
the community. Ii Hand county
has work to DO in our line the PRESS
Office has a right to compete for it
with any other in the county, and Il
far better right than those outside.
Politics has nothing to do with busi-
ness, except in the minds OF d few
''rOund-heads' or possibly one or
two yindictive whelps, who Will be
lovingly caressed when the proper
time arrives.
This office prints a newspaper and
does nearly all kinds OF commercial
printing and book binding, doing
business with every body regardless
OF their political belief. We try to
do it correctly and honestly and give
full value for all money received.
While dong this, we have Just as
much right to have political Opin-
ion OF our own as the man who ia
v0rs any other side. We claim our
own right and grant him the same
privilege. To say that neither must
do business with the other, is a child
ish idea begot OF ignorance, and the
man who presents such a PROPOSE
tion deserves the sympathy OF those
whom God has more literally endow-
ed When the county or an individ-
ual buys coal do they ask what
what the dealers political be-
lief is? When they buy lumber for
bridges must the dealer be Q. X. po-
itically? If an order be given for
poor supplies, must it be filed by a
certain kind OF merchant with certain
political belief? What ahsurdityl
Every general merchandise store in
Miller is conducted by republican.
Must those OF opposite belief never
trade with them? The only meat
market we have is admirably run by
a populist,-chairman OF the county
committee at that. Should nobody
but populists-Kyle populists-buy
meat Of this market? Should Walsh
be boycotted? Should no one but
populists eat the excellent -four made
by the Miller Mill because it's proprie-
tors demand their inalienable right
to political opinion of their own?
Should a populist county treasur-
er refuse to deposit county money
with Mr.. Waters or Mr. Bills because
they are republicans? Should any
republican refuse TO insure his prop
erty with states attorney Christ, or
employ him or Mr. Hutson or Mr..
pusey as counsel? and the list could
be extended to nearly all classes OF
business men.
But why consume space illustrat-
inc such a silly proposition, which a
ten year old school boy ought to
"laugh to scorn!'
As a matter of fact in this day and
age a man buys what he wants wher-
ever he can find that which best
suits him. A boycott is an impossi-
bility, as has often been demonstrate
ed. We know it from experience.
1t affects only two classes, and they
are so few that it is an absolute fail
ure. One class represents the vindic-
tive fellow, who has become frenzied
by. anger, and the other the idiot.
But the only real point we care to
make is this: The PRESS has the
best printing plant of any office iii
this mart of the state. It's proprie-