Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1898-02-25
PETT1GREw coMPLIMENTED.

We commend to the strict attention
and intelligent study of the senators of
the United States. AMI of all patriotic
Americans, the line of policy which the
Hon Richard Franklin Pettigrew of
>iouv Falls may adopt while the Ha.
waiian treaty is pending
This advice is not given in a spirit OF
jocosity It is intended in cad ca, nest
Why so much interest in what Sena-
tor Pettigrew may say or think, or say
he thinks, concerning the eApediency
OF raLifying the treaty and making
Hawaii a art of the union?
Because, in the first place, the Hon
Richard Franklin Pettlgrew is no
ordinary stat. sulan and senator. His
career has been vicissitudinous, and
his practica experience Of life il vast
and various Washington and the
senate end OF the capitol constitute only
an item in his itinerary, an episode in
his biogr. ply He is LII III OF affairs.
He understands the seamy side of
human existence. He understands
business He understands the real
estate business He Knows logarithms
He can shoot his eye through the
cobwebs in the telescope OF Surveyors
transit and hit the horizon nine times
out Of ten. Yes, Pe'tigrew is a man Of
action aud affairs. with an uncolulnonly
long ranged vision for The main Chance.
III the second place, he has travelled.
He has journey ed leagues beyond the
territorial limits covered by the govel
menGs system of mileage " hen al
oulsiue ques tion comes up, such a ques
question, The Hon Richard Franklin
Pettigrew first impulse is to 70 and
see Tor himself Hespends the Vacations
Ut craftsmanship in businesslike inves IT,
cations afield and a,ar. Will it be
believed that, although Senator Pet
tigrews uuLies in cOlL mittee work are
specially concerned with Indian affairs,
The census, pubic lands, Canada. ana
International expositions and 10 not
come dlrecLly within the functions Ut
the foreign relations committee, he
tahes such Il lively perso. al interest III
the future Of Hawali that he travelled
thlther recently on his own account?
He is one OF the few senators who have
studied the subject on the ground.
PeLtigrew took snip and Went and saw.
We have NO knowledge about Senator
PettgI ew's movements while in Hawaii,
but il is safe to assume that u gentle-
man endowed with such personal enter
prise and habituated to such business
like methods wasted no time there The
statesman, the surveyor and real estate
agent must have all been alert. There
ca be little doubt that Senator Petit
grew ascertained the merits of the mon.
archical side of the question from the
adherents of Liliu'kalani, if the poor
woman has any adherents left Proha.
bly, he did not neglect to investigate the
British aspects of the case, as repre-
sented by the slender and inter sting
Kaiulani. Her guardian and devote1
servitor and promoter, Mr. Theodore
w Davies, was undoubtedly in posi-
tion to give Pettigrew much valuable
informal ion. all of which PetGgtew
assimilated, as is his way We may be
snre that nothing was neglected. from
sugar to eruptions, from leprosy to poi,
during that cyclonic visit of di>inter-
ested curiosity and self imposed investi-
CATION 1t is even possible that the
senator from South Dakota came into
contact with the members of the Dole
administration. and aScertained for
himself what manner of men they are
Let us hear now " hat he learned what
he did, what his observations and con-
clusions are Listen to the report of
the statesman and the man of business.
Watch Pettigrew! One hundred and
forty million eyes are upon him New
York Sun.