Philip weekly review. [volume] (Philip, Stanley County, S.D.) 1907-1912, 1910-01-27
Carving the Empire Of Stanley

show the other side-our igorance,
jealousy and selfishness.
l happened to be in attendance
at the last meeting of the business
mems association, and want to
say that not one word WIS said
about county seat. The question
was simply this: Shall we continue
to 60 80 miles to transact all our
county business, or shall we 60
not to exceed Is miles by having
a county seat somewhere in the
west end of the countyY The en-
tire sentiment of the meeting was
for a three county division, leaving
the lines to be determined later by
the good horse sense of all parties
concerned. This is also the senti-
ment in regard to the county
seats.
1t would be senseless for a Phil
ipino to say he did not want the
county seat at Philip. But every
voter in Philip realizes that that is
a matter that must be left entirely
in the hands of the voters of the
new county after the division is
made. If every man who has vote
in the new county will think sober
ly of where the county seat will
best serve his individual interests
and then vote for his own best in
terests, the county seat will go
where it will best serve the ma
jority of the voters of the new
county. The voter who is not will
ing to abide BY the decision of the
majority w6s!ds hardly be willing
by the constitution of the United
States.
Now, l don't believe there are
many voters in the western half of
Stanley county who are so selfish
and SO small that they would want
to put off for two or four or an in
definite number of years the divi-
sion of county IS miles wide by
more than a hundred miles long,
and filling up so fast that there
will soon be a home on nearly
every quarter, and the county seat
q hundred miles and more from
some Of it's residents, merely be-
cause Philip possibly stands little
better show at the present time to
get the county seat than some of
the others. What have you got
against Philip, anyways Havn't We
done as much for the community
as any other town in the county
Are we to be despised because
every business man in town puts
his shoulder to the wheel and tries
to build up city that will make a
decent market for the farmers9
Are we to be despised because we
dug down in our pockets and put
$4,000 in creamery and $4,000
in our mill and $4,000 in our fair
grounds, several thousand in our
churches and have voted to build q
$12, 500 schoolhouse this season9
Wouldn't you, my friends all
over western Stanley county,
rather patronize city of 10000
inhabitants than a hamlet of one
or two hundreds Wouldn't it be
better to have good central mar
ket where there we're people to
buy at a good price than to find
the market glutted with two loads
of corn or oats or hay or IS pounds
of butter? Would it not be better
to send your children when they
are ready to 60 to q high school
20 or 80 miles than a hundreds
There are a thousand reasons
why we should divide up this vast
territory and have good town or
two out here west of the Big Mud
dy to against one. Let the county
seat take care of itself. We don't
care in Philip whether the north
county seat is at Milesville, Dow
ling, Manila or Elbon. And we see
no reason why the north part of
the county should care whether we
secure the county seat at Philip,
or at Cottonwood, Kadoka or Mid
land, or 90 out on the prairie and
make new place. What we want
now is . division that will give US
| 8 chance to build up! TIE west end