Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-09-18

find they can make a fortune for their
land they will let a neighbor have 1T
and step across the border into South
Dakota and buy a farm a mile square
and have money for large fine build
ings with the proceeds of a small farm
in Iowa.
Many rich farmers having large
herds and improved machinery, own
$40 or so acres. Finding a prosper
Gus farmer thus in possession of tract,
on which four or five families once
lived he might exclaim "The popula-
tion has decreased in IoWa!" SO 1t
has anywhere if a rich man has come
into the neighborhood and established
even a summer home. Where a half
dozen families once lived, a rich sum
mer resident may now have his golf
links and smooth velvet pastures for
his ponies Except for the large
cities in Massachusetts like Lynn and
Brocllton and Haverhil and Worces-
ter our population would not be sure
to multiply. 1t is not farming on
Cape Cod and Cape Ann that keeps us
growing. Iowa. has no large cities,
except Des Moines and a few points
on the two great rivers. If Iowa
land, being so remarkable, were near
great centers of population, owners
of it could engage in what is called
intense farming or what is etyled in
the east truck gardening, where the
man having little land is likely to
find ten acres too much But all
around, general purpose farming is
most profitable when, like other
forms of business, it is engaged in on
large scale, even if the agriculturalist
has to merge the land of his neigh
Dor with his own and we find the
population has decreased The edi-
torial of Friday continues, Iowa has
had the reputation for many year
of being a fine state IN which to To-
cate
SO it is for the man who has money.
The day of cheap land In that
state is gone forever. Every
deep principle, found in human expe-
rience is always best stated In the in
spired volume. When there was not
room enough for the increasing herds
of Abraham and Lot they arranged.
at the happy suggestion of one OF
them, to amicably separate and for
one Of them to move on, thus leaving
the other more room, after which 1T
might have been said that the popu-
lation had decreased" But it was a
wise eXpedient as it is in Iowa which
now has more banks than amy other
state in the union. Compared with
Iowa, Massachusetts is an illiterate
state. on account of her great cities
like Fall River, Lowell and Lawrence.
Iowa writes more letters and takes
more papers than any state in the
union in proportion to her population.
Iowa employs more teachers than any
state under our federal government
with the single exception of New York
and that on account of her great city,
and / do not mean proportionately
but actually counting the teachers one
by one. Iowa was the banner state in
the Civil war. Iowa is always on the
right side of every great question.
Iowa got just the right ini-
tiative at Just the right time. But
if do rot look out the
neighbors will have to be called in
and close up this letter like the mans
prayer. Iowa needs no enconium
from me. There she stands" There
are her school houses on every hilltop
and there are her colleges and uni
versties and there they will remain
forever. 1t is natural and inevitable
that she shall supply her eminent
sons for conspicuous places in the
cabinet and in our national affairs
She has not the vices that prevail in
great cities. The earth is a great dis
infectant Her people have the "coun-
try heart" Quality icing considered
she is grea ar and more prosperous
than ever before although in becoming
such it is simply inevitable that "the
population has decreased"