Itpaysannually $24.500. and biennially. wheutheLegislature meets. $38.850 more. so that in one year it pays $24.500 for the support of the Territory. and every alternate year it pays $63.350 for the support of the Territory. and yet Southern Dakota expended for its public schools last year $1.670.000. raised from its own resources. and its taxesI have not the figures hereraised for other purposes were about $500.000. It makes interest higher. it makes taxes higher. it retards development. it makes it impossible for the poor man to get along as well as he can in a State. Itis within the knowledge of every Senator here that if Dakota were to be admitted as a State. the whole or any portion of it. immigration would go there with a rush just as soon as that announcement was made to the public. because it would be felt then that there was to be a stable conditionnot an unstable condition of things. All that the AngloSaxon holds dear to him in government is wanting in a Territorial government. for until the Territory comes to that period when it is entitled to be admitted as a State it has no Magna Charta. no constitution. no election of executive or administrative officers. It is in vassalage. it is in a degraded condition.
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