Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1912-04-13
CREDIT WHERE DUE.
Senator Gamble and Congressman Mar:
tin and Burke Have Rendered
Material Aid in Devel-
opment Of State.

The daily and weekly press of tn
State is commenting quite freely on tn
good work which is being done by tn
Commissioners of Immigration of Soutl
Dakota in behalf of the State. The gen
eral opinion appears to be that the Leg
islature acted wisely when it made tn
appropriation for the creation of tn
bureau, and that the bureau should b.
made permanent.
To this all those interested in the ad
vancement and development ofthe Stat,
will heartily agree. No one will dis
pute the claim that the immigration
bureau, receiving as it does the hearty
cooperation of the press of the State, |,
the greatest advertising asset which
South Dakota can have.
Work accomplished by the immigra
tion bureau has been largely responsible
for the return to western South OAK ota
of hundreds of homesteaders who last
fall, following the unusually unfavorable
summer, went to other parts of the
United States. Conditions from a crop
standpoint are now infinitely better than
at this time last year, and that the
homesteaders will profit greatly from
their returns cannot be doubted. Dur
ing the coming and successive seasons,
they will have the opportunity to profit
greatly themselves and add TO the wealth
of the State at large.
The settlement of the rich region re-
ferred to has been made possible by the
loyal and effective efforts OF Senator
Gamble and Congressman Burke and
Martin. Senator Gamble at all times
has championed the cause of the home
steaders in the Senate. Through his
efforts bills were introduced and passed
in the Senate opening to settlement the
vast area west Of the Missouri river.
After having been passed by the Sen.
ate through the influence of Senator
Gamble these bills were taken in charge
by Congressman Burke and with the as
sistance of Congressman Martin passed
by the house of representatives.
That the homesteaders were able to
leave their lands last fall and return to
them this spring, without affecting their
rights to the land, that the immigration
bureau was able to get so many to re-
turn, was made possible by the united
efforts of Senator Gamble and Congress-
man Burke in securing the passage of a
bill granting the homesteaders a years
leave of absence from their lands.
Senator Gamble is chairman Of the
Senate committee on Indian affairs-a
most important committee so far as the
interests of the State of South Dakota
are concerned. Mr.. Burke is the rank.
ing republican member of the same COM
mittee in the house, and in the last
Congress was chairman. They have
both demonstrated their fitness for
places on such important committees by
what they have been able to accomplish
for South Dakota and its people. An
inexperienced member of the United
States Senate could not have weathered
the storm through which Senator Gam
BILE went in securing the passage of his
bill providing for the opening to white
settlement of the Standing Rock Indian
reservation.
In praising the wonderfully effective
work which has been done by the state
immigration bureau, it is proper and
right that credit also should he given to
those who have made it necessary that
South Dakota have an immigration bu-
reau, and by their loyal and tireless
work made it possible for settlers to oc-
cupy the vast region west of the Mis-
souri, river, thus adding in many ways
to the wealth of the State.
The settlement of the ceded Indian
lands west of the Missouri river means
the enrichment and further development
of that part of the State lying east of the
river; it makes and stimulates trade in
the trade centers, and among other ben
ef1ts increases the value of lands lying
east Of the river and has added many
thousands of acres of taxable lands to
the States assets.
1t is only fair and just that attention
be called to the above facts, and it is
reasonable to assume that the people of
South Dakota fully appreciate the work
that has been done by these men in be-
half of the State of South Dakota and
its people.-Argus-Lea
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