Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1881-03-25
IQWa's Baby Crop.

Iowa gives 50 900 Il publican mi "
| ity. Oar schools are more numeruu.
aud better attehue than III any other
State. OR churches show healthy
religious feeling. Our farmers are in
| Instrions. Ioaa M .kes more butter
raises more h 'gs. and .q7,ls auv State
III the country, almost, III our corn aud
wheat pro iuct. We have more news.
papers and periodicals than any State
Ia the West, and every one of them
is readable. Onr manufactures are
numerous and growing. The State il
gridironed with railroa 10. The land
-cspe on all sides is spread out in
meadows, upon whose nutritious grass
large herds of cattle are feeding or is
dotted with productive farms, whose
bursting grauaries give evidence, aud
whose farm houses give signs of plenty
aud content. Oar cities are booming
wi h business. Merchants and farmers
man u iacturers aud workingmen, in all
vocations, Gnd enough to do and are re-.
paid for doing it. These signs OF pros.
perity are 80 common that our people
are unmindful Of the strides forward
that the State is making. Immigration
for the last season was large, and the
indications for next year are that tho
tide will set this way il immense
numbers. The class Of people who
have come among Va are substantial in
means and energy. But all these signs
OF prosperity, ~ magnificent as they
may be, are collapsed by one which
asses unnoticed Us an everyday occur
renee. We have gotten used to it. 80 to
speak, aad since Adam and Ewes time
the human family have had time to get
nsed to it, Babies we are speaking Of
Iowa excels any State in the Uaion for
babies. First and foremost, to tue pop.
ulation, We have more births than any
other country in or out of the United
States that the sun shines on. There
are big uncanny babies. A nine pound
baby in Iowa does not get u newspaper
notice q ten or twelve.pound infant
gets q word or two of mention, but We do
brag abont our twenty FOUNDERS, their
size, OF course, and of their numbers,
too. Livery State newspaper, Of which
we have several hundred, have weekly
mentions to half dozen or more in
lumber, Of show TON Jones is step
ing high" and closes up the mention
with the significant word "bAby.' odd
any get a~ay?' is another form of an
nuuncement, for twins are frequent and
triplets not uncommon in Iowa. The
fact is, what portion of his paper that is
not devoted to the farming o. other To-
cal interests of his constituency, the
country editor is compelled to give up to
chronicling the arrival OF babies. This
falls crop, for instance, would paraly z4
the census man, who lounged through
the count last June, were he to come
around these times. TO sum it up, thls
record of births indicates that our pros.
perity and population for the decade
will astonish the census man OF 1890.
We might incidentally mention, in i'm
mediate connection with the foregoing,
that the county clerks throughout the
State have little time for anything else
than the recording of marriage licenses.
Altogether, Iowa is proud Of her pros
porous present, and has the babies to
keep it up. In enumerating our many
and conspicuous blessings, we have
omitted, as inappropriate to the genius
OF the article, to say any thing about our
fuel famine.-I Sioux City Journal.