Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1906-06-27

GOVERNOR DAVIDSoN'S SHOWING FOR
WISCONSIN.
Ii is no small task to describe in a
short article the multitudinous advan-
tages of the state of Wisconsin. Every
great division of modern industry is re-
presented in our state and represented
because we have natural advantages
which assure us pre-eminence in agri-
culture, in commerce, in manufacture
and in mining.
If Wisconsin were a barren state, still
it would be ealthy from its sheer nat
ural position. With the Great Lakes on
two sides and the Mississippi valley-a
storehouse FOR the world-on the other,
with the natural gateway to the North
west at Sur erior, her natural position
is unequaled. / repeat that If our great
state could not grow blade of grass,
our natural position would make us
wealthy We cannot help becoming
the outlet and inlet for the Golden
Northwest "
But when we add TO our natural po-
sition the fact that our state is in a
garden spot of fertility, we have, in
deed, advantages W which cannot be du-
plicated. Our climate is mild We are
neither parched by heat nor scorched
with drought. The green valleys and
the pure water have made our state the
greatest dairying state, save one, in the
whole Union Nearly 8, COO cheese and
butter factories testify the quality of
our cattle, the fertility Of cur soil and
Al, III sn4 4aTl nf fup
ers.
Our state has reached the stage when
the more profitable and intense forms
of agriculture are now engaged in.
Just as the farmers near big city be-
came market gardeners, so, too, our
state from its natural position, and the
easy access by water and rail to the
populous sections of the country en-
cages in the more profitable industries
But our state does more than al
low industry to grow by itself She
gives an additional advantage in her
exceptional educational facilities. Her
university receives the farmer with
open arms and coaches him the high
est science of agriculture. need not
dwell upon this. The fame of Henry,
Babcock and Russell are known to all.
They have added millions to the wealth
of our farmers. No man need remain
poor in our state with facilities like
these open to him.
We have learned in America that
manufacture and agriculture go hand in
hand in our most prosperous communi-
ties. No state has made greater prog
ress and has q greater future in manu-
featuring enterprise than our state of
Wisconsin. No state has greater natur.
al water power or better facilities for
reaching the markets of the country.
The statistics collected by the Bureau
of Labor are not YET ready for the pub
lie. but the iuter-relatlon of agriculture
and manufactured farm products has in
creased in our state in the last year
alone over s.. 500, 900, while the value of
leather produced has increased 81, 600, =
600 during that period, and farm i'm
plements nearly 81 600 000. The in
crease in the number of factories aud
the capital invested he's been astound-
ing. The return to capital invested has
reached in some industries Ms high as
so per cent, Hundreds of factories have
been built within the last FIVE years.
Capital is flowing into our state because
of our prosperity. We have TINS vast
unlimited possibilities, not only for the
farmer but capitalist.
But the northern part of our state is
still open to the poorest immigrant
Capital alone cannot build the state.
There are still forests to cut down and
cheap good land for all Andrew Car
neeie once placed the money value OF an
immigrant at 81, 900. We want immi-
grants in our state as well as capital
Wisconsin still has ample room for
thousands. We can assure every honest
and willing man an abundance Of good
cheap land, chance to build little
home. good schc,'a for his children,
and boundless pportunitiea for his
sturdy sons. The strength Of the nation,
after all, is in the bone and sinew of its
people-a wealth which cannot be esti-
mated.
Wisconsin invites the capitalist the
farmer and the humble worker What
ever may he said of the tyranny of mon
ouolies and the money power in other
parts of this great land, Wisconsin,
Young. strong, vigorous and untainted,
offers her natural gifts, her benificent
laws and equality of opportunity to
all
Wisconsin may we'll be designated
the cradle of the great Northwest. 1t
was here that Northwestern civiliZ4-
tion began and spread. through the
efforts of the early explorers, ever what
are now the great wealth producing
states of Minnesota North and South
Dakota.
In the mighty constructive period
that has elapsed since Wisconsin's settle
ment, the people Of this great common
wealth can point with pride the fact
that it has steadily maintained its place
in the onward march of progress until
today it IL at the fore front of develop
ment in the production of wealth, in
tine arts and sciences. The population
80 NNtncnr,ain "a 3 22a A4g and the Yalna