The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1911-06-15
GOVERNOR VESSEY'S ADDRESS
AT OPENING OF CELEBRATION

Governor Vessey in his address of
Welcome at 2 o'clock this afternoon,
said:
We ave with us at this time many of
Dakota: in fact, the gathering in which
we are participating is an old settlers
Homecoming and r%eunion, and IN passing
t seems fit that we pay them our slight
tribute or affection and gratitude. The
ales of the struggles and privations
which the early settlers of Dakota en-
sured can never be forgotten, for it was
n order that you and 1 might occupy a
and second to none in our whole magni-
icent country, that these hardships were
Undergone. Let us pause for a moment
tlso n think of the mothers who left
hose they loved and came to the prairie
where they moved into log and sod houses
" little old shack situated on the barren
,iains peopled only by the Indians and
Wild animals. Recollections Of their sac
1tices live In our mem cries like a bene-
lection. renewing our jaded energies and
Purrlng us on to greater activity.
Present Debt to Past.
The debt we owe to our frontiersmen
AN never be measured. neither the length
,or the breadth, and the gratitude Of our
i,eaTts can we'll be proportioned. BY him
ne howl of the wolf was often heard to
Inn the hostile savage was not unknown.
. whether or not he could withstand the
ummer's drouth and the winters bliz-
lard.
But now all is changed and the old order
road ~pra.ries which yesterday were the
habitat of the buffalo, today furnish
ZONES for hundreds of thousands of happy
men and women. The whistle OF the en-
md we find the Dakota which we know
n entirely different institution.
Magic of Dakota's Growth.
In many sections cities have grown
beautiful homes have sprung up as if by
magic, gardens are In evidence every.
took testify to success. yhe old IDEAS OF
iistance have all changed until now the
rayeler may so into the never never
ands of yesterday and still find himself
n the midst of civilization.
Wave of New Ideas.
At the present time the country through.
ut Is being swept by a cosmic wave o.
lew ideas in regard to the rights of The
their fellow and believe that the PEG
,le-the great, surg-ng mass OF common
,eople-zare. slowly perhaps but surely
orcing themselves into their own. Nj
onger can there be any doubt as to the
;hange which has been accomplished ii
he order of politics. Time was when thu
political prestidigitator, smooth in speech
md adroit in manner, dealing in ambigu
rus and very often misleading statements
vas able to gain his purpose and win tn
tqnarely into the open and defining hi:
policy.
On the Square in Politics.
Such tactics are rapidly being elm
mated from the course Of political pro
:edure. upon which fact we can we'll con
S%ratuiate ourselves, n as year passe,
fygsfe.
he seeker of public office, the would-b,
lolder of political honors, to state hi
Platform to the people frankly. to let /
,e known without hesitation Just wha
MS acton would be on the important ques
ions of the day, to clearly define the con
ines Of his policy, and various new act
y legislation now pending throughou
he several states require that he keel
he faith and make good MS pronises
The people are becoming so well awar
y their right to q squar deal that the,
are more insistcnt In their demand for 1
thanseYer hefd0A q nd asa result he