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The Kadoka Press (Newspaper) - July 29, 1910, Kadoka, South DakotaTHE KADOKA PRESS.
VOLUME 111 KADOKA, SOUTH DAKOTA, FRIDAY, JULY 29, 1910 NUMBER 13
OUR STATE’S OPPORTUNITY.
South Dakota never faced a more
inviting opportunity for convincing
and profitable advertising than is af-
forded by the State Fair next Sep-
tember.
While Nature smiles on every lo-
cality, when every body is prosper-
ous and opportunity is knocking at
every door, all that the most favor-
ed section can offer to the possible
immigrant or investor is a fuller
measure of prosperity or a wide mar-
gin of profit on his investment. He
is doing well—you ask him to let go
where he is established and cast his
lot in with you in hope of doing bet-
ter. That is all you can offer, but
the sound old maxim, “Let well
enough alone,” rings in his ear as he
listens to you and the conservatism
inherent in every man bids him hesi-
tate to change.
But when he is not doing well;
when his bank account is dwindling.
When the balance in on the wrong
side of the ledger, when his granary
is empty after thj harvest time is
past and his hay mow only half filled
when short feed forces immature
stock onto the market and the crop
is taken to pay the rent, he is not
only ready, but eager, to listen to a
promise of something better.
That is the condition today in South
Dakota’s advertising field, as it
stretches away from her eastern bord-
er to the Atlantic coast. Very re-
cently the writer of these lines made
ft trip through Minnesota, Wisconsin,
Northern Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Ken-
tucky and Virginia, paying especial
attention to the crop conditions along
the route. Except in a very small
section—three or four counties in
Western Wisconsin—he did not see
a single field of corn or small grain
that compared favorable with the
average crop anywhere in the settled
portions of South Dakota. Nowhere
Was the corn crop so well advanced
or of so good color, and in the grain
field the straw was shorter, the stand
poor, the heads small and the grain
dying for lack of rain instead of rip-
ening naturally as it is doing here.
In propitious seasons the en-
tire United States is a magnificent
grain field. There is, apparently, but
little choice. But the adverse season,
the late spring, the early fall or the
year of scant rainfall is the crucial
test which brings out the latent pos-
sibilities and comparative advantages
of the more favored localities.
We dwellers in this favored land
have known full well of its magnifi-
cent resources for years, but the bal- |
ance of the country does not know '
and only one half believes the en-1
trancing story. You may hammer:
statistics into a man for years; you
may tell him all about South Dako-
ta’s gorgeous wheat fields, her miles
of w’aving corn, her oats and barley
and rye, her potatoes and pumpkins
and cabbages; you may describe ac- j
curately and in glowing colors her j
magnificent studs of Percherons and
Clydesdales, her splendid herds of
Shorthorns, Herefordsand Galloways,
her Shropshires, her Poland Chinas
and Plymouth Rocks; you may prove
to him by cold figures that the South
Dakotan creates more annual wealth
per capita than any other man, houses,
feeds, clothes and educates his family |
better than any other man sirnplv be-
cause he is able to do it—and that he
is able only because he tills a richer
soil under more genial skies than the
other fellow does; you may show to
him that a share in all these good
things are at bis command for less
than balf the price per acre of the
stony hillside in his boyhood home;
and he may believe you, in a dull,
uncomprehending fashion, but you
have not impressed him. How do I
know? Why simply because 95 per
cent of them linger on the stony hill
side and they would not do it if they
comprehended and believed the story.
But—talk to his eves! Consider
every man a Missourian and “show
him.” Show the grain, the hay, the
vegetables, the sheep, hogs, horses
and poultry that South Dakota can
produce in a year of universal drought
that SHE HAS PRODUCED THIS
YEAR when not one of her most fa-
vored sister states can show halt a
crop. Pile up at our State Fair such
an aggregation of Wonderful farm
produce as the state can get together
with only the most trifling effort; tell
him what you have and invite him to
come and see it. Get him here at
any cost. Organise cheap excursions
from all the nearby states. Let him
see what the state has done this year
and you have convinced him NOT
ONLY THAT WE HAVE A GOOD
STATE, BUT THE BEST STATE.
A state that can not only produce
Wealth in abundance when prosper-
ity is universal, but can product
1 splendid paying crops in a year whei
failure is universal, is a state whicl
has only to place the proof befort
his eyes to become the Mecca o
every intending immigrant.
; Of all years, past or to come, South
Dakota should this year make a show
ing of what she has produced.
Twenty connties have already made
application for space for county ex-
hibits. They are: Butte, Brookings,
Brown, Clay, Clark, Corson, Faulk,
Davison. Hyde, Hughes, Kingsbury,
Hand, Minnehaha, McCook, Miner,
Perkins, Pennington, Sanborn, Spink
and Turner. This is the largest ap-
plication for space for county exhib-
its ever made, and the counties ap-
plying are well distributed over the
state and are representative of its
richest agricultural, grazing and mil -
ing sections. The superintendents
of these twenty county exhibits are
doing injustice to their own counties
if they are not already pushing to the
very limit the arrangements for full
and splendid exhibits. We are advis-
ed that some of them, at least, are
doing so and those who are not can-
not afford to let tneir counties suffer
by comparison.
Such a showing of products as South
Dakota can make this year will be ad-
vertised gratuitously all over the
west. The leading news, stock aud
agricultural press have asked for press
tickets and willsend staff correspond-
ents to write up this Fair. The big
dailies of Chicago, New York, Indian-
apolis, Milwaukee and the TwinCities
will be represented by a staff of men,
as will also such great papers as The
Breeder’s Gazette, Wall Street Jour-
nal, lowa Homestead, Farm & Home
and Orange Judd Farmer, of Chicago,
and the Twentieth Century Farmer,
of Omaha, Nebraska and many othert.
Sowing Winter Wheat.
It is not yet possible to lay before
the readers of The Dakota Farmer
the results from trials in growing
winter Wheat in the Dakotas the past
season. More Particular information
willbe given later. The trend of the
results, however, thus far gleaned,
tends to show that the crop pretty
generally failed on summer-fallow,
and that itpretty generally succeeded
when drilled in on barley and wheat
stubble, especially the former. In
many instances the failure on the
summer-fallowed land was due to late
sowing, but not in all. A few instanc-
es occurred in which the farmers say
the wheat failed on such land, al-
though the stand was good in the au-
tumn. Some of those reporting, in
fact quite a number of them, say that
the wheat did not come up on the
summer-fallowed land because of lack
of moisture. Where this happened,
the land was not properly summer-
fallowed as it ought to ,be, wheat'
ought to come up. Such land will
have moisture in it, at least enough
to sprout the wheat, and to maintain
its growth until the autumn is past
If the lard fallowed is plowed earlv,
sav in Mav, and firmed and kept
clean by successive harrowing, it will
have enough of moisture in it to ac-
complish what has been stated, how-
ever dry the season may be.
It would be a great consideration
could winter wheat be grown with
measurable success. The hot and dry
weather such as came the past season
would not greatly harm it. In Mon-
tana, winter wheat that had only two
and one-half inches of rain since
March Ist, will make a ten bushel
crop; spring grain beside it is in rnanj
instances a complete failure. Itshould
therefore, be tried this year again,
but only in a small way. I have
never asked a farmer to sow more
than one acre as a trial. The hazard
in one acre is very small. If it fails
the farmer can sow spring crop on
that acre. He only loses his seed,
that is one bushel, and the time of
towing it. Why should not one
thousand farmers in the Dakotas sow
one acre*
Those who do sow winter wheat
the coming season should not fail to
sow it in Angust, and not much later
than the middle of the month. Up
toward the Canadian boundary, earl-
ier would be better than later sowing.
In the southern part of the state the
middle of August should not be far
from right, and in South Dakota a
little later may be better. Those who
sow the crop in stubble should drillin
the seed without plowing or discing
the land, and they should sow as
early as when the grain is sown on
summer-fallowed land. Barlev stub-
ble is preferable to wheat stubble for
the reason that the crop should be
sown on itearlier.
Attempt should not be made to sow
winter wheat on newly plowed land.
Where it is sown thus the fact is al-
most certain that the plants willfail
In the winter season.
Those who sow should be looking
after their seed, a-« in a month from
appearance of this paper the seed
should be in the ground. The meth-
od of sowing in standing corn should
not be overlooked. This has not
yet been tried to any considerable ex-
tent. It should prove one of the best
methods of sowing this grain.—Da-
kota Farmer.
FOUTH OF JULY ADDRESS
The following addiess was deliverer
‘ by Philip F. Wells at the 4th of Jul;
celebration at Allen, 8. D.
My Friends; —You have kindly hon
ored me to-day by an invitation u
address you on matters of the utmos
importance by reason of the import
ant change that is about to take placi
affecting the new position which yoi
are about to assume.
First allow me to speak to you In
dian mixed bloods and also to yoi
“white men who are incorporated
with us by reason of marriage.” Now
, let us compare conditions
i that exhisted a number of years age
i when our white fathers first married
our Indian mothers, with the present
condition of affairs, and consequently
to reflect upon the obligations undei
which we are now placed as the re-
sult of such changed conditions.
The Indians at that time were self-
i governing and fought against neigh-
I boring tribes and white men who
were then encroaching upon our lands
!of the present day, and I think it
should be needless to state they suf-
fered everything incidental to war
until the authorities stepped in and
made the honorable treaties whose
benefits we are enjoying at the pres-
ent day.
Here I may lie pardoned for the
frequent use of the personal pronoun
considering that for thirty years I
have been employed as chief inter-
preter in every treaty and every at-
tempted treaty between the Indians
and the United States Government.
In every instance, when in the opin-
ion of these wrinkled, old faces sit-
ting around here, propositions were
offered which they considered unfair,
one and all said “No, tho’ I perish
with starvation and my bones lay
bleaching over these prairies, I will
not sacrifice the interest of my pos-
terity,” and the one we are most in-
debted to for these sentiments is our
old and incorruptible chieftain, Red
Cloud.
We have, in part, made acknowl-
edgement of his services to us Indi-
ans; mixed bloods and white men
alike vieing with one another to con-
tribute money to erect a monument
to his memory.
When by starvation the Indians
were forced to cross the international
boundary line as exiles from their
beloved country, where they suffered
starvation and humiliation as fuga-
tives in a foreign country. There
they were repelled by hostile tribes
of Indians until the British Govern-
ment stepped in and protected them,
and it was under these conditions
they were forced to live until the
United States sudmitted propositions
by which they could honorably re-
turn to their beloved country and
live in peace.
Now let us see what part our fath-
ers aud we mixed bloods acted iu the
drama. W’e never raised a hand to
help them in all their struggles for
their rights, but our fathers reaped a
rich reward of plenty of money by
work for the government during the
struggles and we mix bloods were
raised in ease and plenty, not being
bothered by the trouble of learning
how to earn a dollar for ourselves,
and we were provisioned and clothed
by the money created by their efforts,
and the greater benefits still that the
Indians conferred upon us is that we
were left the richest class of people
in South Dakota by reason of the
vast tracts of valuable lands that we
now own.
Some might say that our fathers
and we worked for the interest of the
Indians for the government. Now
what were the attractive features
that caused us to engage in thia labor?
It was tho big fat pay and the pres-
tige it gave us. Right here I wish
to draw your attention to this par-
ticular tact—it was no discredit to
either our* fathers or ourselves for
such apparent ingratitude, because
the laws that were made between
the United States and the Indians in
1868 practically made us mixed bloods
and white men criminals” if we help-
ed the Indians la their fights against
the neighboring tribes or white men
who were encroaching upon our lands.
We have had examples of the work-
ings of that law which are still fresh
in our memories. Of course we have
had agents who were both honorable
and conscientious, but I regret to Bay
that we have had agents who were
anything but that class of men—-
agents who under pretext of carrying
out that law, persecuted us for pro-
testing against their unjust treatment
of the Indians.
But all that now is a thing of the
past and we are standing on the
threshold of citizenship where rights
must be protected and wrongs re-
dressed not by force of arms but by ¦
the more peaceful and intelligent
I way—the ballot. We have now ar-
rived at the point where the agent
and his assistants, the farmers are
no longer able to guide the Indians
1¦ in their new role, because the office
1 tney hold forbids them from meddl-
ing in politics. Then to whom can
the Indians look for guidance? To,
no others but us, mixed bloods and
.
white men that are joined with us.
Shall we ignore our obligation to
them? Shall we repudiate our debt
of gratitude and desert them in their ,
hour of need? No; if we be guilty of |
¦ any such act, it would be both cow-1
; ardly and contemptible and be un-I
worthy of either the white or Indian
blood that is in us. Rather in a man-
' ly and honorable way, let us discharge
the many debts of gratitude we owe
| them. Let us be cautious and not
confuse them by our factional fights ,
I in trying to advance our own selfish
aims—fights to which politics are too
¦ often subject—but rather let us one
and all remember the great reeponsi-'
bilities resting upon us and give them
1 our wisest counsel. Finally, I appeal
ito you, one aud all, to stand bv the j
i Indian in his efforts to reach the stand-¦
I ard of good citizenship, first, last and
all the time.
Now, you fullblood Indians, I wish
’to speak to you. You are perfectly ,
aware of the changed conditions of
to-day,—particularly I wish to speak
\to two of you chiefs, namely, Bad
Wound and Plenty Bear who are res-
i idents of Bennett county, which is
I soon to be opened for settlement to
| the white people, and who are also
leaders of the Indains who reside ,
therein. It has fallen to your lot to
take the first steps in the new life
that we are about to enter. Now let
me quote an old traditional ceremony ,
that the leading er.iefs among our '
grandfathers used when they were <
installing a young warrior who had ]
! shown marked ability upon the war <
path and aptitude for leadership, to <
chieftainship. They would say “young ]
man, I take you to-day aud place you '
upon an ant-hill and those anta are to <
eat you and if you cry with pain and ]
run away, you will be a disgrace to J
yourself and a great injury to your <
people; but if you pay no attention ]
:to the pain and only keep steadily in J
mind the work I have chosen for you, <
| you will confer many honors upon ,
yourself aud be a blessing to your ]
people.” <
Now the anta that our grandfathers ]
referred to are a good illustration of ’
what you have to contend with now, <
which is none other than warring <
factions, the result of selfish greed, 1
personal ambition and envy and jeal- i <
ousy, which I would warn you against , <
and advise you to take counsel from ’
men who are giving you unpartisan <
and unselfish advice. Tho’ you may <
suffer from unjust criticism and un- J
popularity, stand firm and be men of <
your convictions and you are bound <
to win a glorious triumph in the end. J
Speaking to the whole Oglala tribe, <
there are many men whose services <
are very valuable, but you in particu- ’
lar, my friend Turning Hawk, whb
for the past number of years has been
taking place of our venerable old ¦
chief, Red Cloud; the same tradition
which I have quoted, very aptly fits ¦
in your case.
Let your one aim be to guide your
people wisely and justly, remember-
ing that there is nothing so strong
and desirable as union in any class
of people, and follow the footsteps
of our late old cheif, Red Cloud, who
died in a bed of laurels he made for
himself; whose name and memory
willlast longer than any of us living
to-day.
j WETA NEWS ITEMS |
Wm. Grube was home over Bunday.
Sam Young came down toWeta:
town Saturday.
Fred Me. is digging a well on his j
farm this week.
Bert Smith began making hav the
first of the week.
Herman Dolstrom’s wife is very
sick at this writing.
John Keester and wife was out
from Kadoka Sunday.
Ohmer Hensel made a business trip
to Kadoka Sunday night.
Stanley Barber is shocking grain
for Vern Oaten this week.
A ball game an horse races were |
the excitement in town last Saturday..
Roy Grube went to Rapid City on
Sunday night to attend teachers’ ex-1
amination this week.
Lenard Devine drove Jim McHenry
and Ray Kelliher to interior Sunday
with their race horses.
A protest was filed ageing Leo
Davis which puts him back nearly
two months on his claim.
David Doss was hired to help build
a claim shack but as he took his herd
of cattle he was not wanted.
Mtiron Eggers has bought a well I
machine he says it is cheeper to buy
the machine than it is to hire his well
dug.
L. K. Goldsmith. Cash. Fort Pierre Bank K. A. Birlski. Cash. First State Bank of Philip
Martin Johnaon. Pres. Bank of Kadoka L. A. Pier. Cashier. Belvidere State Bank
Home Land & Abstract Co.
M. L. Pakciixs cretary and Bonded Abstracter
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