The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1905-11-03
O. n. Havill Grows Eloquent
Over Her Resources.
Tells the National Association
of This Commonwealth.
Praise for the Handsome Wo-
men and Gallant Men.

At the recent meeting in the city of
| Washington of the National Bankers
association, President O. H. Havil of the
+! Merchants National Bank of st. Cloud
represented the Minnesota bankers and
| in response to the toast Minnesota"
made the following happy and eloquent
response, which truthfully sets forth the
/ magnificent resources of our great state,
and should be given wide circulation:
From the rolling prairie of her south
ern boundary to the evergreen "leafless
| forests of her northern line, the hum of
wheels of manufacturing plants and the
lowing of her kline ascend to heaven,
powerful anthem, Indicative of the
grateful, prosperous and contented peo
! pie who live in the state of Minnesota.
| Eve are a state of diversified inter
ests, the state of no total failures. We
will produce and ship this year every
product from catnip leaves to 2l,000,000
| tons of iron ore. Our cattle bred with
in our own borders, in competition with
the world, captured the first prizes. Our
farmers raise and market anything from
gingseng root to trotting horses. The
Father of Waters has been harnessed
and turns the wheels of manufactures
! from near its source through the entire
cheap power thus developed innumerable
industries are distributing immense sums
to employees.
Eve are an empire within ourselves
and are under no obligations for our
maintenance to any state or country in
the universe. We can supply all the ne
oessities and most of the Injuries; be-
stow culture and intellectual develop
ment necessary for complete existence
from the cradle to the grave.
"A child born in the state of Mime
sofa may be nourished from the proven
pure milk, fattened upon the worlds
best butter from any one of the 1000, 900
dairy cows His life will be sustained
with home eatables; from breakfast
food to moose meat; clothed with cloth
from the fleece of Minnesota's sheep.
He will be educated from our 100000
school fund. He can secure the adyan-
tages of thorough training in our col
lege of agriculture and in association
with our pupils from Maine to Japan,
become one of the princes of independent
humanity, care free Minnesota farmer.
SAT our university he may imbibe
knowledge that will fit him for any
profession he may select, or he can en-
gage in any of the now successful man.
ufacturing industries within the state
and build anything from a fsh-hook to
a whaleback vessel We can furnish him
n helpmate from the handsomest and
most accomplished women in the world /;
he can spend his declining years by the
10000 lakes, famed by the healthgivng
breezes filtered through our pine forests,
and when he has passed away we will
erect upon his grave a monument of
time enduring Minnesota granite.
Our farmers are using their own au-
tomobiles; our manufacturing plants
are working overtime Minnesota mer-
chants are doing an enormous and profit
able business. The demand for mechanics
and laborers never before was so great
in the state, and wages so high A large
per cent of our artisans own their own
homes. These being facts, it necessarily
follows that the banking business is
satisfactory and profitable
! ''The North Star state sends her sis
tiers happy greeting. She win have
several melons cut this year and hopes
You are all enjoying the same prosper
ity.'