The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1910-03-03
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am told by an cold timer" from
Dakota, one who was there, like
ourselves, when there was but one
Dakota, that Frank Pettigrew once
said in a reply to a gentleman from
the far southeast: "You can't raise
men and bananas in the same re-
gion," and I heard an attempt to
compliment this section as an CT
ange raising country in the same
way the other day.
There have been some pretty
good men raised here in the past
and while the "native sons" cut
quite a figure here in a social way
I've never heard OF any off them
being distinguished as great except
in the real estate business and my
impression is that the men who
have redeemed this country from
its old desert character, of forty or
fifty years ago, we're largely in
debted to the country east of the
Rocky mountains for their birth.
And that reminds me of a smart
thing a native son got off a short
time ago. He was up north in
British Columbia and met an Iowa
man there who said to him that he
heard that southern California was
noted for the large number of its
liars. The native son replied, 81
don't know how that is. Most all
the people down there came from
Iowa" ItIhas the largest repre-
sentation.
We have some politics down here
in which the Southern Pacific rail
road company so often takes a
hand that an organization of re-
publicans exist to save the state
from its power. The organization
is known as the "Lincoln Roose-
welt" or good government people,
and the other fellows call them the
"Goo-Goos."
Senator Flint of our state has
introduced a bill in the U. s. SEN
ate providing for government line
| of steamers up the Pacific coast so
as to make competition with the
different Pacific railroads when the
Panama canal is completed, and
complete the work already begun
| by the government in establishing
a line of steam ships on the Allan.
lie coast. Rep. McLachlin from
this section has a bill in the House
for the same purpose as the Flint
bill. Flint will not be a candidate
to succeed himself because he says
he cannot stand the expense of a
primary election, and the primary
people say he was elected by the
Southern Pacific and the 5000
Coos" will have no more of him.
Senator Crawford of South Dako-
ia, it seems, is against Sen. Flint's
bill, according to the Los Angeles
Daily Express, a leading newspa-
per of the 5000 Goo" order from
which the following is an extract:
"The government is running boats
to the isthmus on the Atlantic coast
incident only to the canal, "said United
States Senator Crawford, in discussing
Senator Flint's bill for a federal steam
ship line on the Pacific to Panama,
'and the line will be sold in a few
years. Why establish a government
line on the Pacific coast for such a
oA'hl pciiuu.
Such a statement might temporarily
deceive a few farmers in the Middle
Nest, hut TO the people c! both coasts
1t is fo%olishness. 1t is untrue as to its
alleged history, incorrect in conclusion
and totally illogical, Notwithstanding
it was Intended to convey thus the fiat
of the transcontinental railroads. X \
1t is still fundamental that railway
rates are governed by the conditions of
water transportation. If railway can
bottle up lakes, rivers and oceans, buy
up harbor fronts and dictate shipping,
1T may say, almost without molesta-
, ton, what its traffic rates shall be across
country. Such being the fact, it is not
strange that transcontinental compa-
MES are excited ove the prospect of a
government-owned steamship line be-
tween Pacific ports and the Panama