The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1912-02-02

against unlawful restraint of mon
opolies.
There are innumerable bills be
ing introduced providing for the
maintenance and improvement Of
post roads throughout the Unit
ed States, which are principal
ly those used in the rural deliver
sys' EN-. Mr.. Mcclure, of Okla
homa, is the author of one of the
measures.
The nations official colony, en-
sconced in beautiful Washington,
just inside one edge Of the south
land, is sort Of storm center
to the fullest extent the agricul-
for the big movement to develope
tural manufacturing and com
mercial advantages of that choser
land meath Mason and Dixon S
line Horace Greely was great
booster for the west; then came
the empire builders, as well as
those energetic schemers who
created towns over night. All
these have something yet to learn
from e, systematic plans Vi the
southerners, and thousands have
enlisted for "a greater nation
through a greater south. - The
south. dear people, has awakened
and things downthcre in the year
1912 are going with biff an
bang. With climatic tha
grows things ten out of every
i twelve months, the rest of
the development proposition
seems to be up to individuals, az
they are now trying to catch
with what nature started down
there in the making of the cou,
try On the same great planta
tlons where cotton was king. and
easy going southern colonels once
rode like lords over their broad
acres there have beensurveys of
(soil and endless scientific investi-
cations in agriculture. Men like
Doctor Seaman A. Knapp, who
had needed the advice to ego
west young man" and after
ward obeyed the hunch to investi
gate the south, demontrafed that
rice, tomatoes, etc. were the
source of riches in Louisiana.
and that the dreaded boil weevil
could be effectually kiboshed.
Now it is asserted positively that
everything that grows in America
from'paenuts corn, grains, grasses
to fr1lits, can be successfully cul-
tlvated in the southland, where
lands are cheap and the sun shine
the year round. The Southern
Railway starts at the national
capital, and makes a net work of
the entire south. and from the
general offices in Washington
whole organizations of empire
builders ''are carrying the south s
message to the crowded east,
as well as into land where still
reigns the esprit Of the west -
The al'uring call TO +he sunny
south gives welcome to
the invaders in commercial in
dnstr'al and manufacturing de.
velopm"nt. and Memphis. Birm
have sprung into the foreground
1nghnm. and a few other cities.
IN manner tha' would make
even th" ma'vclous Growth of thn
west look to their laurolS Tho
South makes it's oroater claim
IN having homn for all
The house committee in charge
of the WileyMcCabe controversy.
after spending considerable time
and a large amount. of Uncln
Sam S money, has arrived at the
very interesting conclusion that
most everybody around the de-
par mont of agriculture. incluH-
ing Secretary Wilson, Dr.. Wiley
and Solicitor McCa'he, are jolly
good fellows, and that each and
every one Of them have been do
ing their plainduty enforcing the
laws. The interesting Doctor
Wiley IS getting another deluee
of nationwide publicity and some
body has called attention to the
incident that. while he is suppos-
ed to be the foe of patent medi-
zines, that the papers carrying
the largest amount of advertis-