The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1910-07-28
South Dakota's Opportunity.

South Dakota's Opportunity.
South Dakota never faced a more
inviting opportunity for conyinc-
ing and profitable advertising than
is afforded by the state fair next
September.
While Nature smiles on every To-
cality, when every body is prosper
GUS and opportunity is knocking at
every door, all that the most favor.
ed section can offer to the possible
immigrant or investor is a fuller
measure of prosperity or a wider
margin of profit on his investment.
But when he is not doing we'll;
when his bank account is dwind-
ling, when the balance is on the
wrong side of the ledger, when his
granary is empty after the harvest
time is past and his hay NOW only
half filled, when short feed forces
immature stock onto the market
and the crop is taken to pay the
rent, he i is not only ready, but eis-
ger, to listen to the promise Of
something better.
This is the condition today in
South Dakota's advertising field,as
it stretches away from her eastern
border to the Atlantic coast. Very
recently the writer of these lines
made a trip through Minnesota,
Wisconsin, Northern Illinois, Indi-
ana, Ohio, Kentucky and Virginia,
paying especial attention to the
crop conditions along the route.
Except in a very small section
three or four counties in western
Wisconsin-he did not see single
field of corn or small grain that
compared favorably with the aver
age crop anywhere in the settled
portions OF South Dakota.
We dwellers in this favored land
have known full we'll of its magnif-
icent resources for years, but the
balance of the country does not
know and only one half believes
the enhancing story. You may
hammer statistics into man for
years you may tell him all about
South Dakota's gorgeous wheat
fields, her miles of waving corn,
her oats and barley and rye and
potatoes ; you may prove to him
by cold figures that the South Da-
kotan creates more annual wealth
per capita than any other man,
houses, clothes, feeds and educates
his family better than any other
man simply because he is able to
do it--and that he is able only be-
cause he tills a richer soil under
more genial skies than the other
fellow does you may show ito him
that share in all these good things
are at bis command for less than
half the price per acre of the stony
hillside in his boyhood home, and
he may believe you, in dull, un-
comprehending fashion, but you
have not impressed him.
But-talk to his eyes Consider
every man Missourian and "show
him." Show the grain, the hay,
the vegetables, the sheep, hogs,
horses and poultry that South Da-
kota can produce in a year of uni
versal drought, that she has pro-
duced this year when not one of
her most favored sister states can
show half crop. Pile up at our
state fair such an aggregation of
wonderful farm produce as the
state can get together with only
the most trifiing effort; tell him
what you have and invite him to
come and see it. Get him here at
any cost. Organize cheap excur-
sions from all the nearby states.
Let him see what the state has
done this year and you have con.
vinced him not only that we have
a good state, but the best state.
A state that can not only pro.
duce wealth in abundance wher
prosperity is universal, but cal
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