The New York herald., 1921-12-02

II the one who calls them owes them a
bill or can't pay for the trip West of
Pierre. across the Missouri River. is a
vast expanse of territory, and on many
str etches OF the Black and Yellow trail
I'd the Black Hills one will not see q
single occupied building from horizon to
horizon, which means many miles, as
the country Is rather level. When we
are In New York we can hardly realize
that small section of the city will con-
tain as many people as the entire State
OF South Dakota, and that there are
many blocks that have more population
IN New York than have the majority of
the larger counties OF the State. Haul
Ing grain to market Is a real big job
II II Is done with horses, and auto tn k
Ing Is very expensive. although many
employ It until they are forced to aban-
don 1t on account of the expense
There is still frontier and we live
close to 1t out here. II this winter is
not tempered to the shorn lambs there
will be need OF real help for our people
In the country. as the ban have p'shod
collection OF their paper and forced the
ling OF all available property that
might be turned into cash and left the
peoTle with very little or nothing.
Three, four and five years ago the
people in the country were generally
milking and getting into good shape.
Then the cattle dealers from the cities
and from Texas came In wi'h cattle and
persuaded the farmers thn, n was a
slow. tedious way of makh z living
and induced many Of them 20 Hscontinue
milking and take on great herds OF cat
tie. taking their notes for the same.
The cattle were sod at high price and
the notes bear a high interest rate Sew
eral dollars head went to the different
people connected with the matter OF
placing the catt e, the banker In many
cases getting 81 head or more for taxi
ing the paper.
Thus the cost OF the cattle was In
creased. which would not have been so
bad had not many of the cattle that
we're shipped in been afflicted with the
scab, which spread to native cattle on
the open range and practically the whole
territory was afflicted with the scourge
and thousands of head of cattle died,
running those who had given their notes
for them. One man who had some OF
these cattle sued the parties who sold
them to him and got Judgment for over
500. 900. Others didn't sue. as so many
OF the cattle commission men went broke
that they couldn't have recovered on a
Judgment had they received one.
This is enough at one sitting. We are
not dying OF starvation and may not do
so, but we will reserve the right to
adopt whatever means seem best to
avoid asking for any kind of charity.
and this letter Is written to give our
Eastern friends clearer conception of
the situation out here so they may know
that when we do certain things that
81 en- TO be economically wasteful we are
simply adorting emergency measures to
ovoid asking for fnar ,ial assistance. I
might add that the reduction In rail
rates on some grain is so small that Il
rs almost Joke, and we may freeze to
death before II goes into effect if we do
not sell our corn until then and buy
coal after we have sold our grain. Most
OF the relief measures that are adopted
are put Off too long to be of the great
est good to the greatest number.
A. e. MOORE.
PrnRRE, 8. D.. November 2s.