The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1899-02-28


Voluntarily subscribed and paid tor
higher educational insti. utions. S 10 600
and for church purposes $50 900, max
ing over 5000 900 for schools and
churches in seven years.
Need l say that such people thus
environed are rich? crossed the state
OF Iowa for the first time in 1870.
nave eaten in dngouts, slept in d
houses. fed my horse in straw sheds,
and Travelled forty miles without seeing
signs of human habitatiOn, and when
could have purchased whole townships
at S5 an acre. In the thirty wears that
have passed since theu the primitive
dwellings of a hardy race have given
place to substantial homes and spacious
barns, and not an acre of that forty
miles of unbroken prairie can now be
bought for less than $50. l have per
sonally begged in VAIN since 1880 to-
negotiate loans of S. an acre ON the
best improved farms at 10 per cent in.
terest, and have lived to see the same
investors beg in turn for three times AS
large loans upon the sam lands at half
/, that rate Of interest.
The people of Iowa have over $780,
600 600 on deposit in the banks of their
| state. showing an increase of 800 DEL
cent in twenty years. In addition GER
tainly $50 000O 600 have been taken or in.
vested beyond State lines. Every tow n
OF any SIZE. every farming community.
has furnished its quota OF those who
have accumulated from ten to one hun.
dred thousand dollars. and then have
gone to some city outside the state aud
contributed to the utmost OF their ablI
lily to Temporary BOOM Some of
them have returned and some have
come back as empty rs When thew first
entered the state, ten, fifteen or twe4t,
years before.
Iowa, Mr.. Charm IN. is AN agrcul
tural state, aud we believe it ! ROPER 10
invite us to interstate farmers conyeu.
lions and when invited Iowa will .c
cept. DOUBTLESS she will contlisue TO
contribute in the populations OF the
sunny South as she has in past years.
Certainly YOU have many most favor
aple conditions, soil, especially i'm the
1azoo valley. unexcelled, and d climate
III many ways ideal. While believe
that the average Iowa farm will proye
better Investment at the ayerae e
price than the bank stock of any state
III the Union, | still believe there are
great opportunities ON the rich bottoms
OF the lower Mississippi. Let me sug-
gest 10 any land agents who NAV be
present, however, that Should you have
occasion to show the people OF Iowa
around 1t would be we'll to take them
To the best you have. for Iowa farmers
are experts on qualities OF soil. You
need not look for any great influx how.
ever. The two millions and ,nnle
whose representatives you have ac
corded such hospitable welcome. are
a contehted people, and are living amid
conditions as conductive to both happi
ness and contentment as surround any
people IN any state or anywhere, and il
called upon would approve the Ian
guage with which [ commenced nv
response to the most cordial words Of
the mayor of your city, and the othel
distinguished gentlemen who are siriv
ing, and not i'll vain, to make our st4,
among you continual pleasure.
You ask which land i love the best.
II Iowa. It's Iowa
The fairest land of all the West
is Iowa. is Iowa"
The Dubuque quartette then sane
the song from which the governor hac
quoted The effect was electrical