Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 September 1887 — Dakota Keeps Up After All. [ARTICLE]

Dakota Keeps Up After All.

•Ah!” said the Dakota man, proudly, “you never hear of a bank cashier in my Territory absconding with the funds.” “No, that’s so,” replied the Eastern men humbly. “There isn’t a Dakota banker in Canada, sir, not one!” “I believe it. I suppose it is the virgin honesty of your people that brings about this gratifying state of things.” “W-e-1-1, n-o, I don’t know that I can say that exactly. ” “Perhaps they realize that honesty is the best policy?” “Oh, I don*t know—l hardly think that has much to do with it.” “How do you explain it, then ?” “Why, you see it is mighty easy to get elected County Treasurer and they can carry off’ three times as much as they could from a bank. Dakota County Treasurers pass over the Canadian line on an average of one every ten minutes, sir Dakota Bell. If 32,000,000 persons should clasp hands they would reach round the globe. Walking advertisements for Dr. Sage’s Catarrh Remedy are the thousands it has cured. An auctioneer does as he is bid, a postman as he is directed.