The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1905-08-04
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Official Paper Of the CITY and County
RAILROADS AND NEWSPAPERS

ANU NEWSPAPERS
A couple of weeks ago we said that
rather than forego the pleasure of
reading "Billy" LaFollette's sharp
criticisms Of men and things we'd
stir him up on our OWL accountant
by jlnks! we had already the Gazette
m%enagerle all upset-for behold! last
weeks Gazette fires a double track
railroad editorial somewhat IN the
Kimball direction-but it never
"teched" us. The Gazette's admission
that "the editor OF the K1MBALL Ora.
PHO can write his own editorials and
If pressed write them for others''
rather upsets the inference that any
railroad bureau is supplying the Ora
PHO with opinions, Meanwhile, if
we get hold of anything from any
source bearing on the railroad rate
Question which happens to coincide
with the opinions of the editor of the
GRAPHIC it is going to be published.
Nobody has money or influence enough
to stop it-and nobody has money or
influence enough to get stuff into the
GRAPHIC that doesn't jibe with It's
honest opinions.
We recall some ten years ago when
otherwise level-headed and sane men
went stark crazy in South Dakota on
the l6 to l proposition, and practically
every newspaper followed suit, includ-
ing that edited by our esteemed
friend at Mitchell, Mr.. w. T. La
Toilette, that the KlMBALL GRAPHIC
and a few Others that stood out
against the mania and for the inte-
gritty of the government finances we're
accused right and left of being in the
pay and employ Of the plutocrats.
"Ye amt wild u.s." said an Irish sub
scriber of long standing, as he quit
this office n day with tears almost
in his eyes, after he had gaid up and
stopped his copy of the paper. There
were a whole lot of things the matter
with this government in those DAYS,
but the money question was the least
of them, Notwithstanding it's magni-
fed Importance. There is much in
modern railroad methods to condemn
land the railroad companies them
selves are about as anxious to part
company with some Of them as the
people are-and out of all this agita-
ton much good is going to come. But
there are some remedies worse than
the trouble and the GRAPHfC is yet to
be convinced that the proposed plan
of permitting a government commits
sion to fix rates will work any good to
South Dakota, while 1T may work
harm-and it's South Dakota we are
interested in: the devil may catch the
other fellows ior all we .care, That
isn't a very patriotic way to look at a
national question, perhaps, but, it
seems to be the prevailing one never.
theless.
The k1MBALL GRAPHIC is no part
nor parcel of the alleged Republican,
railroad machine in this state-a fac,
we'll known to the Gazette, Del
Rapids Tribune and some other news
papers that have expressed surprise
because we have seen fit to give tt
some extent the railroad side of the
question to the public. And the Ora
PHO stands no nearer TO the railroad
powers that be in Soath Dakota thar
does the Gazette; receives no NOR.
favors from them and is under NJ
greater obligations to them. This Mr.
LaFollette knows. AS much is tru,
of a hundred or more other newspaper
in the state: and notwithstandin,
the w%ell-known corruption of the
Wisconsin newspapers and the some
what venal attitude OF a considerable
number of South Dakota newspaper
when the capital question came up
one Of which is now loudest in it's dc
noGnciations OF the railroads tn
Gazette hasn't the slightest proc
that a single newspaper in this stat
has been approached with none
for giving the railroads an opportun
ity to present their side of the one.