The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1904-09-16

1telerrlnR TO The free excursions the
Northwestern railroad is running in.
to Pierre, the Howard Spirit
Will advise every voter to avail
himself OF the cheapest ana most
favorable opportunity to see what
he will vote for or against. What
you know, you know. What you
hear is 'may-be-so." One thing we
are all sure of. Whatever the
effect on capital aspirations, no
harm can come to the voter by
seeing both towns. If Pierre, for
example, is such Il place as she
was represented to be early in the
fight, the more people see her the
smaller her vote.
The foregoing is a very pat illus.
tration of the desperate resorts the
Pierre push and their allies are dry
On to get away from the main issue.
Since when was the capital removal
proposition based on the relative
merits of the rival cities as cities? In
all the discussions that have taken
place, in the legislature and in the
press, prior to the passage of the reso-
! luton submitting the question of a
{ new location for the capital, not once
was the merits or dement's of Pierre
as Il town raised. 1t was Simply a
question Of location. If Pierre was a
second Sioux Falls it would not
change M iota the reasons for CAPT.
| tai removal. No one understands this
) better than the editor of the SPIRIT.
In replying to an article in the Pierre
Free Press, not so many months ago,
the Spirit said:
If he (Besancon) was located
any place else he would doubtless
realize the fact that Pierre is the
most inaccessible, out-of-the-way
and altogether in%convenicnt loca-
tlon for Il state capital that could
have been chosen.
! Again:
The state capital is a mere con-
v%enience, created and maintained
for public use. T. should be placed
where it will be the most %convien-
tent to the whole people. It's
present location IS the cause Of
needless waste OF time and mon
eY to every n having business
to transact at the capital. THAT
rs L THERE is TO THE CAPITAL
FIGHT, and a Niagara of elo-
quence,- a flood of yerbiage, a
world of sophistry, train loads of
free beer or an army of boomers
loaded with Doodle cannot add one
jot or title to it.
There you have it IN a nutshell,
Not a line, not a word against Pierre
as a town; and in thus expressing the
gtst of the argument for removal the
Spirit simply echoed the sentimen,
Notwithstanding Mitchell.
1t is very III that this much of the
sentiment existed-and still exists
that it will take more than q flood Of
verbiage and world OF sophistry on the
part Of the Spirit to pull Pierre out OF
its isolation and something more than
train loads OF free beer on the part of
Pierre to cut down it's distance from
the center of population.
1t is natural and proper for Nit
chell to point with pride to what She
has to offer in the way of a city aside
from her accessibility and railway
facilities, but She draws no inyidious
comparisons in this respect with
Pierre or with any other of the many
nice towns and cities in the state. II
Mitchell's desires that her many ad.
vantages as a place Of residence and
public utilities become as we'll known
as her central location are interpreted
by a few people, and provincial editors
In Miner county, as an intimation
that Pierre people wear hair on their
teeth and feathers on their toes and
live in tepees, it is due to the remote
ness of that town from the line of
travel and the haunts of men prohib.
iting a better acquaintance. The
finest and best city between Winni-
peg and Vancouver is way out lust
this side of the Rockies, but for
hundreds Of miles around it there
isn't a farm or a settlement--just
grass and fat cattle. The fact that a
free excursion ticket is necessary tc
bring Il citizen in conjunction with
the capital of his state is a sad COM
mentary on the Judgment of those
who located it.
1t is particularly distressing when
such an inducement was necess ary to
bring understanding to one who is
supposed to have knowledge sufficient.
ly ripened to qualify him to edit a
state newspaper.
Pierre's small "army Of boomers
may continue to run in train loads OF
Sunday excursionists indefinitely
landing them from midnight to $3.50 a.
m. and sending them away two hours
before daylight-but it will not hide
the 1858 acres Of vacant government
land in the country Of which Pierre