The Bad River news. [volume] (Philip, Stanley County, S.D.) 19??-1912, 1908-04-09

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you make, which is not probable, a.
Section 10 presents on the face Of it 4
plausible case for the law Is it 10.
They will not carry the case to the
supreme court because they have no
money and can't afford 1t, for we
would fight it off for years and we can
afford to do that, and we are prepared
to do it
Governor-''But suppose I let the
law 20 out as 1t is, what is to hinder
he pioneer ''soddies" as YOU call
them, from filing the petition provi-
ded for by Section IL and getting 4
chance to vote to suspend the law,
and vote you down as you say, ten to
one /"
John-"You must have overlooked
that provision in Section IL which
would compel the "soddies' to pro-
cure the signature of a majority OF
all the voters in county In order to
authorize the county commissioners
to submit the question to vote; we
walled that up high, you bet; who do
YOU suppose, among those pauper pio-
neers, is going to canvass a great
county like Stanley or Lyman, until
they get majority Of the voters in
the county to sign such petition?
They haze got all they can do to
break and plant their little garden
patches. nd watch our cattle. SeeY'
Governor-'See! should say did
see. Worse and worse, and more of
1t, John. wonder who the legal re-
MUS was that presided at the birth of
your bill. Why, John, the constitu-
tion has provided, am sorry to say,
against any such trick as that Section
10: 1t was Ingenious, I admit, and
showed practice and at first view
would muddle most anyone but law
yer. But this requiring majority OF
all the voters in the county to sign
petition to referend Chapter 244,
tramples upon the state constitution
again, which, In relation to invoking
the referendum of a law to the peo-
pie OF county or state provides as
follows: That not more than five per
cent'-note the language, John-'of
the qualified electore Of the state, or
county, shall he required to invoke
either the iniative or the referen-
dunn, and adds in line four thereaf-
ter, This Section shall apply to mu-
inequalities. A county, John, is held
to be municipality. OF course, I
appreciate your situation, John, and
am willing to do all can for you, but
! dare not sign this bill; but 1 will
not return the bill to the legislature
with suggestions to amend or correct
1T, as l might do; l will pigeon hole
it and forget all about it, and in five
days it will become a law, according
to the constitution, without my sig
nature"
With that, John arose, thanked the
governor very heartily, and departed.
AS he closed the door after him,
awoke. Whether this was q dream,
or clairvoyant vision, may never be
known, but we can verify so much of
it as to justify the belief that 1t was
all alike true.
When, next summer, the wife Ia
watching the corn by day, and tho
husband by night, to keep cattle and
horses from destroying it, as some Of
my neighbors had to do last summer
and many will have to do the coming
summer, remember, Ill Of you, that
it 10 Crawford and not the cattle that
IL to blame; and when tho women
dare not 60 to the neighbors because
Of the Wild cattle that line up across
their path, let them remember that
1t Is by Orawford's permission the
trespassing cattle are there; when the
mother, for the same reason, dare not
let her children 60 to school, remem.
ber that she is enjoying the fruit Of
Crawford administration, which Is
in tho interest Of the rich cattle rails
ers, and takes no note Of what b.
comes of the homesteaders. And
whom fall comes and winter Is ap-
preaching, and the homestsader has
lost al Of his crop, nothing Of all he
sowed and planted loft to support his
family with during the coming win
ter; nothing to feed his one COW, on
which tho children depend for milk,
nor to winter his one team he ex.
poets to plow with the coming spring;
whom he Is absolutely compelled, a.
were some last fall, because Of de-
struction Of their crops, to load their
wives and children into their farm
wagons and journey eastward until
they could hnd bread and employ
mont for their families; let I'll such,
and oil friends Of such, and all sym
pethizers With such, and al honest
and fair minded men and all who, like
myself, worked and voted for Craw-
ford for governor, line up, and ak
one another, els It In harmony with
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