Philip weekly review and Bad River news. [volume] (Philip, Stanley County, S.D.) 1912-1918, 1913-07-10

disappointments and many have
been the will-o '-the-wisps we
chased, only to find that we were
going round and round in a vic
ious circle. Still, we have made
progress; but how different
would have been South Dakota s
station had we taken it as nature
intended. The buffalo was the
victim Of age and the huntsman
not lack of food. Had we continu-
ed with domestic animals instead
Of using steam plOws to turn too
much Of the sod wrong side up,
prosperity would have attended
our efforts. Notwithstanding
many Of our mistakes, as the
years went by people prospered
and many remained because we
saw it was a goodly land. Others
stayed because they couldn t get
away, but the majority folded
their tents and started for new
Ell DOrad0s. The homesteader is
not a home builder. The second
and third settlement of a c0un-
try builds it's homes. 1t is one
of the penalties of advancing
civilization that the feet of pro-
gress must generally wade
through the mire before planting
themselves on firm upland. Ma
ture did much for this western
country. 1t furnished it with a
most abundant fertile soil, an
abundant underflow of water, a
climate unsurpassed for healthfu!
ness and it requires not the vision
Of the prophet to look down the
files of time and see here a
prosperous, contented people. II
you travel from the tropics to
the circle studying conditions
and possibilities you can not get
away from the conclusion that
this great northwest must be the
feeding ground Of the coming
millions. 1t is the producer of
the staples of life. Some To-
calities may excel in vegetables,
others in fruits and others in one
product or another but such see
tiOns are to Il certain extent local
and limited and are not the pro-
dncers of all Of the staples Of
life. Nowhere can be found as
extensive a territory producing
nearly all Of the food products
and the necessities Of an ad-
vanced civilization except cotton
but the great northwest. Tomor-
row more than ever before great
tides Of h0lneseekers will press
with unquestioning confidence in
to what was a few years ago an
inhospitable frontier.
The face Of our continent il
changing. Yesterday We faced
Europe. Tomorrow We will fac
Asia. West of this point lies one
half Of the territory Of the Unit.
ed States with onetenth OF the
people. 1t is the better half and
capable Of maintaining a popuia
tion many times greater than
the total Of the whole country
We are at present simply scratch
ing around on the surface Of
things. A thousand civilized
men will thrive where hundred
savages starved. The inner chan
bers Of Gods great granite safes
where the oil and coal and the
iron, the nitrogen, the silver and
the gold have been stored since
the morning stars sang together
are fastened with time locks sci
for the hour Of man = necessity.
It i for u to Get the combina-
tion. One years experience
good or bad-proyes nothing and
little heed = given to the man
who comes with the report of on.
years suceess or failure. If he
eoaes again in five years aud
says his theory y working we'll
not : failure - far-you listen Il
him and advise him to 60 ahead
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