Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1899-01-27
Address of Welcome.

Address of Welcome.
Delivered before the farmers institute
by Mayor Roome.
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN:
When / stand up before so intelligent
an audience / feel somewhat embarras.
sed in attempting to make an address
Most of you, however, are aware that I
never make public speeches except to
return thanks for same favor bestowed.
[ am glad to see SO many able represen-
~tatives of the great producing classes as.
sembled together for social and business
relations as it shows you are trying to
benefit one another, which is neighborly
and just, when you gather together in
the city. Shows you have a good will to
the city. The city and the agricultural
can never be separated because the city
is the outgrowth of the mercantile and
mechanical necessities of the farm and
will always be indispensable to it, it has
always been SO and we could not avoid it
if we would. Let us consider how a city
is formed, it will give a clearer idea of
our relations to one another.
1t is said that agriculture is next to
the chase, which produces all the unciv-
ilized need, food, clothing and house,
but in agriculture there is an advance in
civilization and with that advance their
wants increase. and the more advanced
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the greater the wants, convenience re
qulres right here, then, the necessity of
8 village commerce. settlement of sew
eral families either on the prairie or in
the timber, no matter, civilization has
advanced and there is a demand for what
they can't raise or make, and it Is there.
fore necessary that these should be clos
or together. So some one among them,
or some one comes among them and
starts a special work, let us assume the
first requirement of the farm is usually
q blacksmith shop and some one starts
one, right there you have the first call,
as the psychologist would have it. of a
new being. Some one finds out that a
little money can be made by STARTING a
grocery store, as farmers often do not
have time to go to the city, many times a
good ways off, and the men must have a
little tobacco and the woman a little tea,
and a grocery store is the next called in-
to active being; other wants manifest
themselves, dry goods, shoes-for they
will wear out-and many other things
become necessary through civilization;
and SO what started from the need of a
blacksmith shop. grew step by step, or
cell by cell as you find the necessity of
them, until you not only have a black
smithshop ana grocery, but dry goods
hardware, butchers. &C., you have in fact
q village, and a city is only a large vii
lage with the increase of accumulated
wealth, manufactures are established
and they begin. not only to retail goods
to the surrounding country. but send
them to others more distant, or what is
known as wholesaling. and you have null.
tiplied the cells until a new being is
formed, which, while still depending on
the farm, is practically as independent
of agriculture as the agriculturalist is OF
them-the new being becomes your peer.
And you who have prospered on the farm
are no longer satisfied with the necessi-
ties, you must have some Of the Injuries,
your children have grown up SO they
must have a better education than the
district school furnishes, and must go to
the village school, or perhaps the over.
grown village, the city, where wealth has
accumulated and all the new and most
approved methods are adopted for the
advance of education. And hero is where
the social relations begin. We have seen
that villages are the outgrowth of the
necessities Of civilization from a com
mercial base. The barbarian has nc
such use for towns, there is simply an &C.
oumplation for social convenience, as
usually tho unciyilized place more on
their sociability to one another than they
do on their honesty in dealing, though /
believe dishonesty in dealing with your
neighbor belongs principally to modern
civilization, who depend more on their
written laws and their chances in court,
than the savage who has no written laws
They simply try a man and if he is guilty
of a wrong he either has to make ii right
or he is executed and they have no more
bother with him.
But as I said, when you first begin to
send your children to the village school
as I said before, cities are only a lot
more cells added together of the same
mater,al-they finish their education and
having had a glimpse of its social life
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