The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1912-07-05
We Answer TRADE of the News.

10 w hite River to celebrate IN prefer
ence to Wood, because of our water
supply and shade which is more abun-
dant than al Wood.*.#We under
stand the town of Wood is trying to
induce you Indians to come down
there to celebrate. But they are not
giving you any Of their own money.
They are making big celebration
out OF the Indians money.*s~lf you
go to Wood you will have to celebrate
with your own money."-The Mellette
County News.
Say, Bro. Richmond, you must have
whole lot of love for the town in
which you are publishing paper, to
perjure your soul to the extent you
did in the articles in your last week
issue from which the above excerpts
were taken. You know as well as
any one on earth that they are a bunch
of falsehoods from beginning to end.
Could you not have offered good lie
gitimate inducements to the Indians
to get them to come and celebrate at
your town without deliberately hatch
ing up Il bunch of junk like that
which you know is absolutely untrue ?
Haven't you enough confidence in
your town to think that it can hold
it's share of the crowd at celebration
without resorting TO such tactics as
knocking against another town over
eighteen miles away, which distance
should eliminate all confliction be-
tween the two? Amt YOU newspaper
man enough to know that a knock as
far out of reason as that, is the best
boost that could be given the town
against which it is directed' Don't
you know that the Indians whom you
tried to turn toward your town with
the above bunch of buncombe know
the situationat Wood better than you
ever will know it, With only two
towns in the county. couldn't they
both celebrate at the same time and
both have good crowds and good
timer
If the people of your town sane
toned your TRADE against Wood, they
are a sweet bunch and will never be
able to build up town that will
amount to cuss. because good towns
are not built by such tactics. If they
do not sanction such tactics, your
TRADE will react against you more
than you know.
Perhaps some one wrote the dope
for you, perhaps you did not know
all you understood about the matter,
or perhaps you were green-eyed with
envy because Wood had prospect OF
securing good crowd for their cele.
bration: it makes no difference, you
certainly had no prvocation to blow
up aud scatter around as you did.
Wood Is NOT using any of the
Indians money with which to carry
on the celebration. The business
men are digging up for that. The
Indians did get up celebration fund
but they are using that among them
selves as they see fit.
There have been 1000 or more oi
Indians camped here for over week
who have had plenty of water and
feed for their horses, and they have
enjoyed themselves if they hadn't
they would have left and gone some
other place.
II is shame to devote so much
good newspaper space in answering
such absurd dope as appeared in thu
News last week, but you are welcome
to the space, Bro, and if you want t.
answer us, hop to it, as we are oper
for just such engagements.
We have not and will not knocl
against your town unless forced to
and we will not stand for such dop'
as you handed out against the towi
of Wood last week.