Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1907-09-03
CREsGo HOWARD COUNTY IOWA. TUESDAY 1907

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| that electricity will make as much i'm
i provement over steam, as steam ha
over the stage coach and canal and il
much less time, but time is too shor
to discuss the matter and I must leav'
it to your intelligence to make tn,
contrast. / was born during the yea
that the first mile Of railroad was bull
in 1927. New York and Pennsylvani,
were then the western boundary of civil
ization. Think of the 'Iron Horse
and his conquering legions, think Of
the towns, villages and cities he hes
planted, of the mines he has opened,
the forests he has conquered, the
values he has made, the value of i'm.
proved lands 80 years ago, perhaps
Sc, 600, 600, 600 now over $50, 900, 000, 600,
mines, forests, railway factories, $780,
600, 600, 600 more; our annual product in
agriculture alone over $4,000, 600, 600,
equal to the whole value Of improved
farms 80 years ago, and all of this and
more is to be exceeded and in much
less time by this age of electricity,
the goth century transportation. The
age of steam has filled the cities at the
expense or loss of the county; now the
age of electricity will fill both country
and city at great profit to each. Cresco,
our old town and loved home, is .'strict-
ly in it" with the Dan Patch Electric
Air Line.
In addition to improving our roads,
the greatest system of canals ever
devised has been begun by our govern
ment from Maine to Florida, west to
New Orleans, Jennings, La, and
Brownsville, Texas, and 'front.' the Lakes
to the Gulf, fourteen feet through the
valley, all tributary to the great Pana-
ma Canal. Our foreign commerce,
amounting to q billions of dollars and
our internal commerce of the Mississippi
and its branches of 20 billions of dollars,
is the greatest on earth. Our rivers
(moving roads, are to be canalized in
order to move by the cheapest route
known. The largest production will be
transported by the best transportation
via. New Orleans, and Panama to the
Orient to those just weakening, hungry,
naked, thirsty and in the prison Of
ignorance. The rule Of happiness and
the law Of duty lies in our supplying
those wants. China, India and Japan,
the largest and best markets of the
earth, will be the great bulwark of
peace on earth, good will to men,"
The Book says that we are indebted to
woman for two of the greatest bless
ings to humanity: the right to labor
and the knowledge of good and evil.
Of this woman, / would say with the
poet:
"Why, Man, were She all mlne own; were
possessed of such a jewel, I'd be richer far
than twenty seas If all their sands were
pearls, their water nectar and their rocks
pure gold"
It has been fully demonstrated that
an intellectual education cannot take
the place of manual labor. Give each
child an industrial education, trade.
You will empty our prisons, urreform-
atories, and our poor houses, and teach
them that character is better than
innocense and contract with good and
evil. The only way to form character:
@If mirth is lost, nothing is lost; If wealth is
lost, nothing Is lost; If health Is lost, some
thing is lost; If character Is lost, all is lost.
The toughest road, the thorny path, leads to
the highest achievements OF earth and ends
in Heaven
We are greatly blessed to see this
day for which all other days were made,
largely the results of the immigration
of the best of all nations our govern
ment of the people, by the people, and
for the people," the beloved Of all
lovers of liberty, freedom and mankind,
the hated of all tyrants, and the deliver
er of the oppressed everywhere. Our
religion is the one, true religion on
earth, and like our government will
soon be the universal religion stripped
of all its fringes, its dogmas, creeds
and theologies, is love, the greatest
power in all Gods universe. God is
love. It is very early in the morning
of the brightest day the world ever
saw. To-day, an honest doubt is worth
a thousand blind beliefs. Right makes
might. Moral questions are upper
most in mems minds, and this admins
tration is the most glorious in history
and will be noted for the greatest up
heaval of morality and moral questions
in all of the ages. Emerson says that
'tthe best test of greatness is not in
the census, the size of cities, or of the
crops, but the kind of men the country
turns out. Prof. S. A. Knapp says
that "Iowa's best crop is men. !" !
boast of the Iowa Colony at Jennings,
Louisiana.
| 1000
For Sale.
240 acre farm with modern improve.
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