Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1904-07-21

any time they desired transportation.
The farmer is a busy man at some
certain seasons of the year. They
could not travel when transportation
was 50 easy to get. But the promi-
SEES were good they were to have the
transportation when the time cane
that they could leave their farm
work. La June and July these
gentlemen asked for this transp,r
tation. They were told it was sent
for. 1t has not come yet except in
cases where men are supposed to
carry the township in which they
reside in their pocket. These few
have been supplied. Others have
been permitted to get all ready to
go to various places with positive
assurance that transportation would
be here when they were ready to 60.
The people were ready but the tran
sportation had not come. Why you
ask. There is a reason.
When the time came to tell the
people of the capital question the
Mitchell people had two Arguments
we should say alleged arguments
the new building and Pierre's loca-
cation away from the center of pop
ulatlon. They had used these two
to the fullest extent. Then came
the Pierre supporters and showed
the voters that they-the people of
the state owned hundreds and hun
dreds of thousands of acres of pub
lie land that was right around Pierre
that would be effected by the change
of capital. The people of the
country generally commenced to
talk about the capital contest. They
saw that these lands donated to the
state by the general government
were to be- some day the states
greatest They saw that
these lands or rather the income
therefrom would some day bear the
greatest part of the states expenses
and taxes would be cut down to
almost nothing, They saw that to
remove the capital from Pierre would
be to strike value from their own
lands. They saw that if they voted
in favor of capital removal they
voted truth to the stories circulated
by Mitchell that all that part of the
state lying north Of the north line Of
Dawson county and west of the jim
river was nothing but a barren waste.
They saw that in doing this they
were condemning their own property.
The people commenced to draw some
conclusions of their own on the CAPT
tai question and began to do some
talking of their own. The croaking
of the Mitchell supporters was
drowned in a swarm of questions
that were Immediately propounded
to them. What will the state gain
by moving the capital to Mitchell?
Why if we vote for Mitchell don't
we vote against the value of these
state lands? Who is benefited by
moving the capital to Mitchel other
than holders of Mitchell real estate.
If the state capital enhances the
value of Mitchell property why won't
it enhance the value of that vast
body of land owned by the state
lying near Pierreg If the land
around Pierre is SO valueless why is
it that thousands Of American citi-
zens have within the past year taken
up homesteads across the river?
Why do the Mitchell papers in their
telegraph columns speak of the
almost phenomenal growth Of the
country batween the Missouri river
and the Black Hills? Why is this
land any different from the Rosebud
reservation which joins it on the
south and he's already many times
AS many applicants for claims as the
government has to dispenser Why
will not an artesian well at Pierre
remove the cost of lighting and heat
ing the state house for all time?
Why will not the Northwestern rail.
way build a road from Pierre to the
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