The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-04-29
Iowa Worked and Waited.

Iowa Worked and Waited.
For forty years the state of Iowa re-
manned practically undiscovered politi-
cally and otherwise.
For forty years the railroads used
their lines across Iowa to carry people
farther west to inhabit territories with
uncertain resources and more uncertain
rainfall. For forty years the Iowa
railroads made Iowa Feast of the
Passover.
Iowa has never been boom state
and has never until within two or
three years had the sympathy and CO.
operation of its railroads. They seem
ingly preferred the Dakotas, Nebraska.
Colorado, Texas and Kansas They
claimed that Iowa was unfriendly.
They doomed other localities with
special trains, special rates and big
posters. Finally it was demonstrated
that the states most favored by the
railroads became the railroads great
est enemies. The favored states turned
against the corporations: then the
roads concluded that steady going old
Iowa was a pretty good place after all
Iowa is gradually coming to her own.
For years the Iowa people attempted
to boom Senator Allison for president
and could scarcely receive a vote from
a neighboring state, Our people
seemed to be boycotted politically. At
the time General Harrison was nomi.
mated for president. Senator Allison
would have been the nominee except for
the feeling in New York state against
Iowa. This state has been called a
granger" state and for years we have
been made to suffer by being classed
with Kansas and Nebraska as having
wild notions on political questions
though there is not word of truth in
it. iowa has always been sound on the
money question while the states about
her have been uhsound and for time
they seemingly dragged Iowa down to
their own level.
But Iowa has been coming slowly
into her birthright.
The first discovery was that we had
the lowest rate or percent of illiteracy.
The people could hardly believe it but
the census related it that way.
When they come to examine the
election returns they found Iowa had
been sound on national issues for fifty
years.
Then it was discovered that in pro
portion to population Iowa sent more
boys and girls to college than any other
state. 1t took the people a long time
to become acquainted with that fact.
In material sense it was discovered
that Iowa was the first state in the pro-
duct OF the dairy and the poultry yard.
Later it was discovered that Iowa
was the first state in corn and hogs.
| Still later it was discovered Iowa ex-
celled Texas in cattle.
| Now it is announced by a bulletin
| from Washington that according to the
census of 1900 Iowa leads all the states
in the value of domestic animals
The bulletin of the census bureau gives
the following facts. as to value of
domestic animals"
Iowa ..S271 s44 ,o34 Nebra ska 142 769. 6e9
Texas $3.50 1876, 222277 1874 New York 12o673,lO1
inois hto
Missouri. 154, 295, 1903 Wisconsin J. 90 521, 43O
Let these facts be submitted to the
| world. Iowa has been content to labor
and to wait. Our people have not gone
around the country with brsss band.
But the men and women of Iowa have
been at work. They have titled the
soil and while cultivating the soil have
not neglected their minds.
| Iowa has the secretary of the treas
ury: the secretary of agriculture: the
speaker of the house; more congress
sional chairmanships than any other
state: has the leading orators of the
country: the new pension commissioner
was an Iowa soldier: the soldier first
to go oyer the walls of the sacred city
in China was boy born in Iowa.
Former Iowa students are found hold
ing down professorships in the leading
colleges of the nation. Politically and
intellectually Iowa has come into her
own.
Iowa has more banks than any other
state in the union, population con.
sidered.
The railroads have expended more
money in Iowa the past two years in
betterments than in any other state.
Iowa therefore is coming into the pos
session of her own in financial sense.
1t is a great thing to be the first
stat. in all the Union in the growth of
domestic animals. Iowa has achieved
that end
tits a greater thing to be the first
state in the Union in the growth of
men. This is Iowa's proudest achieve
ment. -Des Moines Capital
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