The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1904-09-30
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Paper Of the CITY and County
p,tRRE,s AGRICULTURAL EXHIBIT

PlERRE'S AGRICULTURAL EXHIBIT
No greater fraud was eyer put up
on an honest public than Plerre's So
called exhibit of agricultural products
from Hughes county displayed at
1ankton and Huron and brought to
Mitchell with "a blare of trumpets
from a subsidized press and opened in
a vacant room in the new Widmann
hotel Corn Palace week.
AT Yankton and Huron it was
shown as a Hughes county exhibit,
but at Mitchell it had turned into an
exhibit of the''region Mitchell is SLAM
dering"-if you'd stop to listen to the
tale of woe. AS the Pierre frauds have
been yelling for eighteen months that
Mitchell was knocking two.thirds of
the state. including the northern part
and the Black Hills, it is not surpris-
ing that they were able, regardless of
expense, to gather a display which
would compare in some respects at
least with the products grown in and
shown by a single county elsewhere.
Pierre has spread to the four winds
the report that their exhibit was de-
MED admittance to the corn palace,
being careful to keep it back that the
management was forced to cut down
the space for exhibits one-half even
after the building had been greatly
{ enlarged.
To have admitted the exhibit as a
Hughes county exhibit would have
been a direct insult to those showing
the normal products of their respec-
tive counties. 1t would have turned
the whole exposition into a farce.
If, on the other hand, the Pierre
exhibit purported to be a showing Of
agricultural products gathered over
an area of so, 1850 square miles, it had
no business in the corn palace in COM
petition with %distinctively county en-
hibits.
Pierre may take either horn of the
proposition and blow it until she is
black in the face.
Pierre may fool outside people, and
tn which there isn't the slightest OBJ
lection, but-as one Lyman county
observer remarked--s'she can't fool
the people of South Dakota with her
picked up exhibits from irrigated
garden patches along Medicine creek
and over in Sully county: with fruit
from the irrigated orchards in the
Black Hills, sheafs of grain from the
Faulk county exhibit and stuff out of
a fruit store in Yankton."
Nobody ever heard of Pierre travel
ing around with an exhibit of any
thing from Hughes county except
hides and sheep pelts until the CAPT
tai question came up. though the
Mitchell corn palace has been open to
any county in the state since it was
instituted twelve years ago.
Last year that county caughtta lit
tile more rain than usual and there
was a slight foundation to back up an
exhibit in competition with the u r
crop counties. The public was also
disposed to humor Pierre's desperate
attempt to make a showing Of some
kind. But this year Hughes county
has experienced one of the worst
dronghts in its history, and over all
OF the area which the present CAPT
tai can rightfully call its own the
crops were practically a total failure.
In spite of the drought Pierre
comes to the front with a bigger ex-
hibit than ever-though not to be
compared with counties that have
made a legitimate showing-and asks
honest people to believe it, while 9th
er counties with ten times the crop
did not feel justified in making any
display whatever.
In proof Of this, compare the rain
fall at Pierre during the crop growing
months with the Jim river valley,
taken from the central weather bu-
reau Office at Huron:
May June July Aug. Total
Aberdeen 3.19 500 PIP 1893 1898
Huron 3.1S 81 2,6O 4G5 14sn
Mitchell 1.S5 5.3s 35G 1.;,l u "a
Pierre .G2 2.4S 1.46 LOB 5G5
Nobody knows better than a farmer
that $3.50 inches Of rain distributed
over the hot mouths-the four vital
c~rop-growing months of the eyear-
won't scarcely grow Russian thistles.
Think of a gang of schemers showing
samples of great yields of wheat, oats,
barley, rye and other grains alleged to
be grown on less rainfall in four
months than the jim river valley and
the eastern aud southern parts Of the
state caught in four weeks.
DO you want to ''stand pat'' O n u
fraud of that kind?
The only thing Pierre lacked to
make her exhibit complete was a few
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