The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1907-03-28
A NEW IOWA IDEA.

burlington HaWk-Eye:A new Iowa
idea has been evolved and seems to
be taking root and spreading over the
state. 1t is the best Iowa idea that
has been promulgated in many years.
1t is simply to boom Iowa. To drop
all sorts of foolish quarrels and differ
ences between sections and towns and
to stand up for the best state in the
union
Heretofore, there has been very
much that worked positive injury to
the state. Instead of realizing that an
injury to one Iowa towa was an in
jury to all Iowa, many Iowa towns
have been engaged III bitter war.
fare, and there was rejoicing in one,
if she succeeded in infiicting an injury
upon another. 1t might be a factory
that was virtually lured away from
the other by big promises of fat bo-
nus, or it might be some public insti,
tuition That was secured by methods
that might and might not be defensi-
BILE. And it might be many other
things. And this spirit of strife was
rampant in the towns themselves, and
instead of working for the benefit of
the town, time and energy were frit-
tered away in endless quarrels and
chickering's. In the country, conditions
were not much better. And despite
this fact the state has made wonder
full progress, although of late the in
crease in the population has not been
what it should be.
And now, all Iowa is beginning to
realize that we can not build up the
state as rapidly ana as magnificeltly
as We ought as long as one mans
hand is raised against the other, as
ong as communities fail to realize
that their interests are common, and
as long as we are trying to tear down
he work of others, rather than to
build up our own community, our own
section and to work FOR the advance
nent of the whole. Even Des Moines
S beginning to- see the new light
sven the capital is beginning to dis.
cover that it is not by plunderi1g the
provinces and building up. Des Moines
It the expense of Iowa, that either
Des Moines or Iowa can really pro-
,rese. .....
And so the peace peans are sound
ID and the Ratchet is to be buried
md everybody is to work for the al
-alcement of the state, and everybody
5 to fight, not others who are work
ng for Iowa, but those who would
Under Iowa's advancement. We are
o get the spirit of the great north
vest, or of California or of Chicago.
And we can honestly and conscien-
lousy aver that we have the best
umpire in all the world, right here at
Iome. The Iowan VINO leaves in
earch of something better, may cover
he habitable glooe, but sooner or later
lis weary feet will bring him home a
adder and wiser man. He will know
What we all ought to know and pro-
there is no place like
owa. We, as rule, know very little
4 our own state, of its magnificent
nd manifold resources, and in order
o be able to boom Iowa, many IOwans
will find it necessary to study Iowa.
The new Iowa idea mas everything
o commend it, and if many towns and
Many citizens and many communities
will put in as mucn time, ingenuity
md actual labor in spreading the new
dea and in putting it into effect, as
hey have in maintaining the fight
within our borders, the results will be
ar beyond the fondest aaticipations
II the promulgators Of the new Iowa
Gea-