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

tiooding the state with literature tell
ing how the Mitchell press bureau is
inluring the entire state by "inock-
ing the country west of the Missouri
river" You have probably seen some
of it, and will continue to either read
1T whenever you chance to run across
newspaper subsidized by Pierre and
have it handed out to you by her paid
agentS-though both he: newspapers
and her agents are mighty scarce
hereabouts.
The Mitchell Gazette man has been
digging up some capital history of
fourteen years ago, at which time the
Hon. Il. c. CALDWELL who is now in
the employ Of Pierre on a big salary
to pound Mitchell, was editor and
owner of the Sioux Falls Daily Press,
and the Hon. John Longstatr, owner
and editor of the Daily Huronite. was
doing his level best to land the capi-
tai at Huron.
| Replying to the Deadwcod Times,
a Pierre paper, on July 26, 1890, where
the Times had accused the Huron
supporting newspapers Of calling the
western part OF the state ''a region
OF utter desolation, unpopulatcd and
without pleasant feature" T.. W..
Caldwell in his Sioux Falls Press of
that date said
Nobody has intimated that the
(. region is one Of utter desolation,
unpopulated and without a pleas
/. ant feature, but the Huron and
| Sioux Falls papers candidly sub
init, that however many pleasant
features there may be over there,
there are more, and will be more
oyer here. That is all there is to
| it. There has been nothing to
| Justify the insults OF the Dead
| wood Times.
Excepting five counties, the
entl1e region west OF the river is
ut only for grazing purposes, ac-
cordlng to the declaration of
Pierre and Black Hills authorities.
LII Will not maintain an agricul-
tural population. 1t is not to be
state east of the river as a country
for homes and people. There
have been no slurs of Huron ana
Sioux Fails papers. If the Dead
wood paper wants the seat of goy-
ernment located entirely with ref
ercncc to its little and selfish in
tercst, and without reference to
the principle OF the greatest good
to the greatest number, let it say
SO latly. But don't let it attempt
to blacliguard that greatest num-
ber."
Read the first paragraph of the fore
going again.
Nobody has intimated that the
region is one OF cutter desolation.
i unpopulated and without pleas
ant FEATURE" but We candldly
pleasant features there may be
over there, there are more and
will be more over here. That is
all there is Of it.
Now, doesn't that sound like IT.
mans writing of 1904, fourteen years
after? Renders OF the GRAPHIC will
go on the stand and swear that almost
the same words have appeared in
these columns time and again during
the last fifteen months. In the QUOT
eel paragraph is contained the whole
sum and substance of the alleged
knocking" by Mitchell, which has
been magniiied by Pierre into whole
volumes OF slander and abuse OF the
country west OF the river that has
never been uttered by any body. She
| hac ftnpn tniu To
the concern OF the state.
Again, on July 10, 1890. r. W. Cald-
well now Pierre's Sioux City hired
writer) said regarding the country
west of Pierre, in his Sioux Falls
Press.
1T is to be remembered that a
comparison of the country over
there with that on this side is not
| the same as a comparison of South
| Dakota with Iowa. There are
special features in the former case
which do not apply to the latter.
The country west of the Missouri
river is not calculated for so dense
| population as that this side of the
river. stock raising does not MAIN
tain SO many people us agricul-
ture.
That sounds as though it came
! right hot off from the Mitchell grid
die, too, doesn't it:
On May !, 1908, -four months after
the city of Huron had been knocked
out OF the box in the capital caucus in
the legislature, and it's chief spokes-
man was able to sit up and take no
ticc, John Longstaff said in his HUI
ronite:
The Pierre Register in its i'm
aginatlon sees tllocc plains dotted
with thousands OF settlers. 1t
watches the passing OF the stock
man and the squaw and in their
places sees a population which sur
passes IN density that of any por-