Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1904-09-30

couldn't deliver the goods. It's %. ism.

No country, or section Of the country,
can be permanently prosperous unless
II has something to back 1t up besides
wind-and gas. The world, on the
other hand, il too small to hide On Ell
Dorado, whether Of golden grain. yel.
low gold or golden hoof. Western
South Dakota will be settled on Its
merits just a. eastern South Dakots
has been settled -and you know whore
the crowd is, Hostile Indians and
United States regulars combined could
not keep the gold seekers out Of the
Black Hills in the early seventies. and
ten years later hundred thousand
men and their families swarmed over
the eastern part 81 the state and settled
upon its fertile acres like . swarm of
bees-all this without thought by any
Of them as to the whereabouts of the
state capital. and during the very time
that . territorial capital commission
stole the seat Of government away from
the south half Of the territory com.
pletely and carried it of to what is
now another state. According to
Pierre doctrine this should have given
Yankton nervous prostrssion and the
state complete relapse, Bat 1t didn't
Yankton is bigger and better town
than ever. and its county has doubled
its population. while Hughes, with .
state capital, has steadily lost ground
There is good deal Of territory west
Of the Missouri that IL q we'll adapted
to farming purposes as Ia much Of the
country bordering on the river just
east Of It, The Missouri is not
. dividing line. But in general way
the settler requires from two to eight
times a. much land west Of line
dividing the state into equal areas as
east Of that line. This forbide any
equal distribution Of population. In
sustaining this long admitted fact
Mitchell is being placed in false light
by Pierre to hide her own failings and
disadvantages as site for the business
office Of the state.
One needs but to look over the Pierre
literature Of the capital campaign Of
1890 to notice that she is now playing |
the same game in 1904. In the pre-.
liminsry scrap Of 1889 Pierre talked no.
thing but geographical center" But
years experience with the 'geograph
ical center" fraud gave the people their |
fill. When 1890 rolled around some.
thing else was needed to hold them in
line. It was then that Pierre conceiv.
ed the idea Of ''knocker.' and she
shouted 1t at everybody and anybody
who talked . moro convenient and &C.
cessible place for the capital which ct
that time happened to be Huron. Ev.
cry argument made BY Huron was
twisted and distorted BY the Pierre
strikers into slandsr and calumny Of
the state in the vicinity Of Pierre and
west Of It. II the TRADE against Mitch.
ell 10 worse it is not because Il has been
more aggressive but because It requires
more dust and dirt to hide PierTe's
shortcomings e proper location for
the capital
In 1880 Pierre asked that the temper.
ary location Of the capital be made
permanent, because to remove It would
be . confession" that what >Huron
was alleged to have said was true. She
had not possessed the seat Of govern.
ment long enough to fairly acquaint
the people outside the state with ito
location. yet her real estate sharks and
bond manipulators were asking that the
folly might be perpetuated, because to
remove it would be . reflection" upon
that part Of the state. Leave the
capital where It is." Pierre pleaded,
.'and we will show you halt million
people in western South Dakota inside
of ten years" Today, after fourteen
years of failure to even hold It's own
ground and less than five-hundreth