Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1867-10-11

each other the results of your theories
and experiments; you will gain by 1t
the very best kind of money-making
capital: you will be stimulated to
thought; you will moreover unite your
co-la5orers In the ties of a common In
terest; you will get higher views of
your calling and your associates. La
Dor to encourage agricultural schools,
colleges and clubs, and send some of
your common-sense, live farmers into
the Legislative halls to watch your in-
terests there. "a
Encourages fairs, agricultural ccnven-
tions, libraries, and papers, where they
who are more especially interested In
the Industrial pursuits can elucidate
their thoughts, and yDu may be stinlu-
lated to nobler emulation. hafI.gtl
We do not desire great overshadow-
Ing federal Institution, which shall at
tempt to direct or control agricultural
matters. We hang our hopes for agri-
cultural progress In this country upon
tural Colleges, and the Agricultural
Associations established so thickly
throughout the country. Again we
say, encourage all these by your voice,
your pen, your money, aud Your la
bOr.
My friends, we meet here for no Sec
tional object, no partisan purpose. We
stand upon n platform broader, deeper
and firmer than that Of any mere poll
tician or partisan, q platform upon
which these may stand side by side
with the noble yeomanry of our state.
Il congratulate you upon the great i'm
tcrest manifested In age and state in
this noble cause; upon the wonderful
advancement which Inventive genius
has made In the implements OF hus-
bandry; upon the Improvement of do
mesic animals; and upon the facilities
for the transportation of agricultural
products to the great narts of the
world.
The display here to-day of industry,
skill and taste, Ii cheering Indication
that our state will not be outstripped
In the race of Improvement, aud the
exhibition In all departments IL unusu-
ally attractive. fNt
Behold these beautiful fair grounds,
with their halls full of choice speci-
mems of domestic manufacture, or the
forming hand; OF floral beauty, and the
choice and abundant productions of the
gardens, orchards and vineyards, the
fields and the daries. Superior imple-
ments of hnsbandry, useful inventions,
works of art, and mechanical ingenui-
ty! Yonder extensive ranges of stalls
and pens of the best blooded domestic
animals; and then above and beyond
all these contrast the large gathering
OF the intelligent people ofour state and
sister states, with the first fair held at
Fairfield, Jefferson county, fourteen
years ago. t.f.
WHAT'S the chief agency through
which all these changes have been
wrought? All will answer, Agricul-
ture, IL has converted the fertile prai-
ries into farms, reared the comfortable
dwelling, the school houses, the coll
leges, the temples of religion, and filled
our state with smiling villages and
splendid cities. The axe and tho plow
have been tho pioneers of improve
| mont. All las been produced by pa
tient, persevering industry, and but
for this the state to-day would he a
WILDERNESS, and Its inhabitants wild
beasts and savages. EG Es.ss
! The sweat-drors from the brow of
honest, Intelligent labor, have made
these improvements, SO cheering to us
all to-day. We may well indulge
emotions of just pride over the benefi-
! cence OF agriculture. ci aEIfa ilH
My friends, have you thought with
what rapid strides Iowa is growing
that she is 'sof agen--that on the 18th
of December last, she reached her
twenty-first birthday? A writer says
Its infancy was very cretlitable. In its
youth IL has won great rcnown for Its
vaior in arms, and its fidelity to the
cause of freedom. In it's manhood,
while Ii retains these good qualities, Ii
will doubtless become noted also for Its
immense agricultural products, and Its
devotion 10 the cause of education, and
NIL that can elevate humanity Our
populations, now about one million,
growing not only In this regard, but I'm
production and wealth, and also I'm
those higher and better matters per.
tanning TO refinement, intellectually
and religion. The schools, the church
generation, what energy, practical
shrewdness and hard work have done
and are doing for the present. a9a3W ifts
We can predict for our great State in
the language of another, with all Its
elements of usefulness, destiny more
| glorious than tllat which has ever dis
tinguished any people beneath the sky.
Ii Is already,"a great country and
it hasEalready great people; but do we
realize how rapidly we are becoming
greater continually?--how speedily our
communities are growing; our schools
increasing; our churches multiplying;
our genius developing; our rough edges
becoming smooth; our love for books,
the fine arts, all the humanixing and
refining influences of the age widening
aud strengthening! Every school house
and every church that Is built, however
unpretentious, is q pledge given by us
to-day for the bett6rment Of our race
Tomorrow and In all umeto come; and
every beautiful home that Is established
In . community with its library, its
paintings, and Its generous, polite, and
gardens, fower-beds, walks and attract
I've grounds without. Ii not only an
earthly paradise which angels visit, but
. fountain, as it were, which sends pure
streams out into parched and drouth-
suffering earth, watering aud refreshing
IL forever. Looking forward but q
single year, q writer says: = When. the
successor Of Gov. Stone reads his ipaug-
ural message before the Twelfth Gene
raj Assembly OF Iowa, he will represent
the intelligence, thrift, patriotism, loy-
atty and virtue of million Of people.
Iowa will then, In oil probability, be
traversed from the Mississippi 10 the
Missouri by at least two great lines OF
railroads, while the great connecting
links which bind the northern and
southern, lines OF the State together will
be 80 far advanced towards completion
as to make Iowa the seventh railroad
State In the Union, In tho develope-
nlent Of Its agricultural resources, min
eral, wealth and notwithstanding facil-
ities, our State win be In January next,
so far In advance Of the position II
occupied four years before, that the
1864, viii be q marvel OF rapid growth
and solid progress to ourselves only less
than To those who see the results with
out aiding to secure them
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