Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1865-07-22

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sony to the wisdom Of the Government in
its establishment. The same il also true
of our Naval school. The Medical schools
oil over the land are recognized o. . neces-
sity, without which our progress in the
healing art would not have been attained.
The patronage bestowed upon our Law
schools is sufficient proof Of their being
justly appreciated by the whole country,
towards the advancement Of whose iuris-
prudence they have very largely contribu-
ted Our Normal schools have bourne rich
harvests Of instructions for the children
in our common schools all over the land
Our Agricultural Colleges and their
instructions are producing their i'm
pressi0ns both on the mind and soil of
the country; and thereby the productive
industry Of the country, and especially az
ricultnral labor, is fast becoming the most
honorable as it is the leading indus
trial pursuit Of the nation. And
finally we are establishing all over
the country Commercial Colleges to
afford opportunities and enable every
| man and woman to qualify himself
and herself for the dis, barge Of the bust
ness Of life, which either will certainly or
may possibly devolve upon them.
say every man and ronan, because in
the light of our present surroundings, the
duty of acquiring business education is
devolved with almost equal obligations
upon the women as the men. Now,
not as formerly, woman, though married,
has a separate legal existence, and as con
corning her separate properly. may, in
many States, act independent IT, and even
in antagonism to her husband. She may
control and manage it without his concur
renee and against his will. She may, in
many cases. without joining him, sue and
he sued, and may also even sue him or be
sued by him. This great advance in juris
prudence recognizing the rights OF women
and giving to her, before the law, an elc-
waited, if not fully equal, Legal status with
her husband, as well as the possible and
probable duties, which before this advance,
AS now. were bv the death of her husband
devolved upon her in the administration OF
estates and guardianship Of children, i'm
tentatively demand that our women shall
have business education commensurate
with the requirements of the business
which has by the law or may possibly
Hereunder, dcyolve upon them.
And further, since the inventive genius
of the country has devised machinery for
the performance Of much of the physical
labor formerly executed by our women, it
has placed them in competition with our
men for employment in many OF the ave
nucs and details of commerce. To success
fully maintain this competition our women
now have afforded them opportunities,
which they must embrace, of acquiring a
business education, qualifying them for the
intelligent and efficient discharge of the
duties Of their new positions.
The present condition of our country, the
government of which, by the great and ter
rihc struggle just successfully closed, has
received a new impress and recognition of
its unity, perpetuity and power, is one of
great promise for commercial success. And
this condition gives importance to the en-
tcrprisc we formally inaugurate to day, and
invites, with strong inducements, to its
patronage That genius. intellect, energy
and physical power which has been en-
| nlONcI ItI tIt tiSt ip"i NtHis III thS Pi'
servation of our government, is now ready
to be turned into the channels of peaceful
pursuit. The vast and almost incompre-
| hcnsiblc achievements in the avenues of
war, NAV he taken as an earnest of what
will be attained in the paths Of peace.
| When we reflect upon the magnitude of
our commercial present, how overwhelming,
in view Of our progress, is that of the .tu-
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and operations of war, our population has
increased This increase of population, by
birth and emigration has pcoplcd and IS
pcopling vast areas of territory heretofore
unoccupcd and unoultivatcd. This terri
tory develops agricultural and mineral
capacity aifording basis for commerce,
far beyond my ability to estimate or por-
tray to YOU The aggregate States during
the decade from 1850 to 1860 increased 126
per cent in wealth, while, by themselves,
nine of the Northwestern States and Ter
| ritorics, including Iowa, increased in the
same time Ala per cent The cotton grow
ing States, even with their unintelligent,
unstimulated, unpaid, duh, plodding slave
labor, actually doubled their products
in the half decade closing with 1861
Now, relieved of that accursed and ac
capacity, converted into intelligent, ambi.
tious, compensated, voting sovereign labor
ers, their products will be q,adrupled in
the same length of time, and Cotton, that
reasonably aspired to be King, may yet,
by the grace of Loyalty and Freedom, be-
come one of the honorcd ministers to our
| commercial greatness. We have seventeen
degrees of latitude. with like measure OF
longitude, making an area of more than
million square miles, burtened, grooming,
aud :" literally stocked with gold, silver,
precious stones marble, gypsum, salt, tin,
| quicksilver, asphaltum, coal, iron, copper
| and lead" only awaiting an amount OF la
Dor relatively equal to that expended on
California to afford annually near a half
billion of dollars in gold and silver alone.
We have an oil neutrality-suspicious.
tending from the Allegheny Mountains to
the Pacific Ocean, and embracing two mil
lions of square miles, an area of which.
equal to the Iowa statutory exemption
from judicial sale for burial purposes, has
in the past afforded and will in the future
afford untold wealth to numbers of our
successful workers. and the whole extent
of which must become a basis for an meal
cuable amount of commerce and bouniless
national wealth. Our population, too, Is
SO increasing, as that upon the basis Of the
past it may safely be set down as attaining
seventy millions, before the probable close
of the business career of many who now
hear me.
With these natural fields open before us,
with the attendant surroundings mentioned
and unmentioned, and with American en-
terprise, intelligence, ingenuity and gen
ius to develop them, how inviting and
promising become the avenues Of com
merce and how interestingly important be-
comes the Institution now here established!
How true, too, it must now appear in the
light of these facts to the philosopher of
history, that this Iowa State Business Col
lcge and itsconncctions, is certain to be re-
cognized as an important influence in the
high commercial destiny which SO surely
awaits us as people; and although the
mere value of the history of our times NAV
not discover the little event we here tpIe