Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1914-12-25

cause you will have the unreal instead
of the genuine. because you will in.
sist on dealing with the unknown in
stead Of trading with your own home
merchants. 1t is human nature for
you to do this because the rule Of life
is to follow the will.o.the-wisp blindly.
Everybody does this, everybody tries
to grasp the indefinite instead of grab.
bling the things at our very home
door.
Really 1t is laughable when you
come to think of it. You sent your
dollars to US because you fancied and
hoped that the distance. which gives
enehantment to the view, would send
you gsomething in the way of q great
prize. OF course we did not.
We spend our dollars like water in
Mfs6Sn lands while at home we do
mt find 80 much to interest us
Mther we think that we do not. Year
tsaser year I have made the pilgrim.
~ into practically all of the foreign
u hds. It has cost me, do not care
!. say how many, thousands of dol
ars.
Yet all this time know and realize
that we have better things to see, bet
ter things to ride In, better things to
|eat, than any other land. To the
crooked and thieving guides in Paris
and London and Berlin we are the
.seasy marks" We are the simple.
minded. We are the deluded, the
easily decoyed. The gilded palaces OF
reYelry in Paris and Vienna, the un.
Wholesome cabaret Of st. Petersburg
and Brussels. the gambling hell OF
Monaco, the glittering vice halls OF
Cair6are all maintained. by Ameri'
can dollars. We support them. We
make them rich. We have made
champagne q necessity, we have made
trufdes and mushrooms both expensive
and desirable.
It's the history Of life., Every crea.
ture shall prey upon the weaker. And
we are the weaker who lavish our
money on this sort of foolishness. II
10 really true that It is you, the PEG.
pie Of the s0n, the jewellers in the
country, who IRE the wiser, after all.
I've seek dissipation and spend our
energy and heath as we'll as our dol.
lars in lookinG1or excitement.
!. It is to. yoa the country, that
the nation looklsin time of war. Why
not in peace al6b? The strength lies
with you. The power is within your
grasp. All you must do is to exercise
your rights offranchise and your good
sense and Judgment.
Try it. Get together among your
selves in your scattered communities
Hold meetings.f Discuss among your
selves what YOU ought to do to i'm.
prove Conditions. Talk it overflow
to keep thsamoney at home. Simply
feather your own nests, that's all.
Make you efforts count to your own
advantage. ),
Is 1t possible that the dissensions
and petty ~ aodsies that are popular.
" supposed to exist in all small com.
Qllaitias 6tSbe done away With
%, chat you ban all combine for the
good Of the wholef What II an armed
power were on the way downasthe
county road to burn and sack your
Istown and cut the threats Of your WON
len and childrenf What would you
Edo? Would you sidestep. q mass
Injecting, called to create u dSfeksS
because Bill Jones OF Hank Buncomt
was going 10 be there1 a Would you
sulk and refuse to have thing tc
lido with the defense plan juGt because
you had sons grievance. real or other
wise, against somebody who would be
There?
Not on your life. It would be q
grand rally. It.would be Hello Bill
and "Hello Hank" Gimme a lif,
with this pesky cannon" "Cut buckle
hole in this strap for q belt to hold W
my sword" sEand over the powder
there. want TO ire a few bullets al
the enemy"
That's the spirit. Unite for the com
mon interest vttk trade at home" a,
your slogan.
Messa1es on Cannon eaiIs.