Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-08-19

An interesting feature was short talks
by the old settlers on their experiences
since they first came to the county. At
1880 o'clock a grand free dinner was
served on the grounds.
Champ CIark's Address.
Hon. Champ Clark delivered a char
Aeteristically eloquent and entertain
Ing address on Imperial Missouri" in
which he said:
OF all the puissant states carved from
the magnificent empire which jefferson
bought for song from the self-styled
EARNED Soldier of Democracy" Mis-
souri, is easily the frst-frst in soil,
first in clima@, first in wealth, first in
resources, first in influence, first in
educational advantages, first in popu-
lation, first in posi- bilities.
Knowledge, like charity, should be-
gin at home. In teaching my children
geography l have moved the hub of the
universe from Boston, Mass, to Bowl
ing Green, Pike county, Mo-; and, SO
far as they are concerned, their map of
this mundane sphere is laid off in con-
centric circles whose center is the seat
of justice of the land of Joe Bowers,
and every other place on earth is locat-
ed by its distance and direction from
the spot where they were born.
1t was said that a stranger could not
stand out of a shower quarter of an
hour under an arch with Edmund
Burke without discovering that he was
profound scholar. Neither shall any
body ever be able to stay ten minutes
with my children without learning that
they are issourians-ineffably proud
of their birthright.
AS we came from Washington my
little boy stopped in Kentucky to visit
relatives One day my little 21S-year-
old girl was cutting some wild and
woolly western capers, and her aunt
said: ''Genevieve, if you don't behave
better, you'll never go to Heaven"
Il don't want to go to Heaven" an
swered the child: II want to go to Mis-
souri,"
As we were crossing the Mississippi
river on our recent return from Wash
ington my little son made me tell him
when we reached the middle of the
channel and he astonished his drowsy
fellow-passengers by whooping, "Hur-
rah for sweet Missouri IN a tone loud
enough to wake the turtles sleeping on
either shore This is patriotism of the
purest sort, for what is patriotism any
how but an extended and sublimated
love of home and kindred and neigh
bors and friends?
From 1851 to 1S65-those days that
tried mems souls-the Missourians
were so patriotic and bellicose that
they could not find fighting enough to
do on one side, so they volunteered in
about equal numbers on both sides
and put in four bloody and awful years
fighting each other, and they are SO
generous that it is difficult to-day to
discern which they love the most, old
Pap Price, John S. Marmadulxe and Joe
Shelby, or Frank Blair, John S. Phelps
and brave Bob Fyan.
1t is said that when Hon. Thomas B.
Reed first feasted his eyes upon Mis-
souri,, he threw up his hands in as
constituent and exclaimed: MY God,
this soil is SO rich that if we had it
back in New England we would sell it
by the peck for seedp'
Missouri has three billions of wealth
in above ground. How much is hoard
ed in safety deposit vaults, bank vaults,
old stockings and old tea kettles, invis-
ible to the eye of the assessor, this de-
ponent saith not. What an infinitude
of wealth is under her crust Omnis-
eience only knows.
She has 6S, 500 square miles of land
not one acre of which is desert land,
and sss. quantity of which will pro-
duce so bushels of wheat or loo bush
els of corn per acre.
Missouri stands first among the states
In the production Of manufactured to-
baceo. She leads the world in the pro-
duction of zinc; stands second in lead,
with an absolute certainty of soon be-
ing first. She has iron enough to last
the entire human race till crack of
doom.
In the ~ great counties north of the
Missouri river there is not a scrub cow,
n scrub sheep. or a razor-backed hog
unless they have been bought in for
feeding purposes. Herds of short horns,
Herefords, Holsteins, polled Anguses
and Jerseys browse upon a thousand
hills and beautify the broad prairies.
FLOODED horses, blooded cattle, bloOded
sheep and blooded swine abound on
every hand.
In 1896 besides what we used at home,
Missouri shipped 700, 900 head of cattle,
1900, 600 head of hogs. 30, QUO head of
horses, Soc 900 sheep. 5, OOO, 900 pounds
OF wool, so. O00, 900 pounds of poultry,
Is. OO0, 900 dozen eggs, $50, OOo, 900 feet of
lumber, 3. 500, 900 railroad ties, l. 600, 600
feet of piling, 100000 pounds of
piclxles, IS, 600, 900 pounds of canned
goods, and Z. 600, 600 pounds of hides
This year her corn crop will reach
ESQ, 0OO, 900 bushels. her wheat 10000
600 bushels, her cat crop 10000, 900
bushels, her hay 4 600, 600 tons. her cot
ton &C, oOo, coo pounds, her tobacco TO-
Ooo. 600 pounds. her haxsed $50, 600 BUSH
els, her potatoes 10000, 600 bushels. and
her fruit crop il worth $50. 00o eco; her
dairy product, not counting what is
consumed by her own people, 10 worth