Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1904-03-19
Bro. Moody's Arguments Answered

In the Sturgis Record of last week ap-
pears five arguments in favor of moving
the capital from Pierre to Mitchell No
legislature has ever met at Pierre but
what the honorable body brought up the
matter Of capital removal, the same be.
ing sure sign Of the unfitness of Pierre
as a capital site, says Moody. He neg
lected to mention, however, that the
main reason that caused the legislature
to take up the capital question was the
frantic knockings of otner towns, that
wanted the capital to boom their own
real estate values, while the rest of the
state could go to the devil, 80 far as they
were concerned.
If the fact of telling the Black Hills
delegation that this side of the country
is being rapidly settled up by farmers
and agriculturists is slander, this paper
hereby slanders the Black Hills delega-
ton to finish. Any representative
who will go to the legislature and say
that this country is not fit for the small
rancher and farmer is certainly not rep
resenting his section. Anybody that
knows anything about this country at
all, knows that the range cattle business
is doomed on account of the influx OF
farmers, and further the herd law is Just
as sure to come to western South Oak ota
as it came to eastern South Dakota
Why was the Northwestern Stock
growers association formed? TIC pro.
tect the farmer who had a little bunch
Of cattle. If this section is not an agri
cultural section where then do the -four
mills at Sturgis, Rapid City, Whitewood
and Belle Fourche get their wheat? Ii
was only little while ago that the Re.
cord was boasting of the deposits in the
bank of Sturgis. Surely one big cow
outfit did not deposit all that money.
No, those deposits were made by farm
ers, and now the Record is trying to
make those farmers believe that they do
not exist.
Brother Moody claims that the capital
should be moved to Mitchell because the
Milwaukee is just waiting to get the cap
ital at Mitchell and then build across to
the Hills. A child knows that under
tIlOSe COHultlODS MlJCnell WOulQ De 1ar-
ther from the Hills than Pierre. With
a railroad direct to any Missouri river
point Pierre will still be the nearest to
the Hills.
Brother Moody says that Mitchell will
give the state public building. Surely,
that is nice Of Mitchell, but is not the
state of South Dakota able to build its
own public buildings? Furthermore,
Mitchell is not going to give the state
anything without getting a rake-off.
Mitchell is certainly not giving the state
public buildings for the fun of the thing.
This paper desires to 60 on record as
saying that it is only matter of time
when the herd law will exist in western
South Dakota, for the time is rapidly ap.
preaching when conditions will be the
same as they are in eastern South Dako.
ia. The ranges will be irrigated and green
with grain for people must have homes
and farms, and it is certain that they all
cannot be big cattle owners.
Let's see, didn't some old fossil years
ago say that all of the country whica
now includes the Dakotas, Montana and
Wyoming was desert? Today it is a
mighty Observation-Disclosures
! Plaindealer.