Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1909-01-29
Iowans in
thDak
A BANQUET At SIOUX FALLS DUR
ING WHICH JUDGE KENNEDY
TALKS ABOUT THE
FUTURE.

entS at present attending that school
met at Sioux Falls On Saturday the
second of this month and enjoyed a
banquet at Dickinson's.
President McClain of the Iowa State
University was present as the guest
| of honor and delivered a splendid ad-
dress.
G. B. Kennedy of Canton was pres
ent and he with his clasSmate Mr..
lies Of Sioux Falls, we're the oldest
alumni In date Of graduation of all
who were there. 1t was a grand re-
union and the sons Of Iowa's great
University thoroughly enjoyed the
occasion. Mr.. Kennedy was honored
with being one Of the coasters and his
toast was university IDEALS" and
the ideal he described was grand.
He stated that all the grand young
men present were sons OF Iowa, but
they had left their state to build up
another great common wealth and
their shoulders would never be taken
from the wheel until South Dakota
was the equal of any commonwealth
in this nation, that this realization
was sure for they were the sons Of
Iowa and Iowa men never faultered
in the face of any task.
This evening they were the chill
dren who had gone out from the old
home returning again and assembling
around a new home table to enjoy a
reunion with the old folks, old mem
cries and experiences and live over
again the dreams and ambitions of
their youth. When attending the
little log school house they had lined
up with one another in spelling class
es and struggled to spell each other
down and 60 to the head of the class.
The same ambition still inspired the
men of Iowa and the men admins
tering it's great University would new
er cease spelling and working and
pushing upward until Old Yale, Har-
ward and Princeton were standing
below them in the class Of great Uni
verSities. Nature had done everything
for Iowa to place her at the head OF
all states in this great land of ours
and her climate Is the most adaptable
to agricultural productions in great
variety and wealth and produces an
energetic and irrepressible people.
Nothing is impossible to the men of
Iowa in developing her natural re-
and her great University
will be as great as the state.
Her eastern boundary is washed by
the great Mississippi and the great
Missouri and the Big Sioux washes
her western boundaries. Her soil is
the most fertile and her inland riv-
ers the most extensive, her capacity
for the production Of the e of
life and her mines and t%ransporta-
tion facilities were second to none
Her geographical position placed her
at the heart of the nation and a
glance into the future naturally
makes her the controlling member of
our galaxy of states. The people have
just begun the electric and water
transportation age, the developm ent
of which, in the near future, will far
excel and exceed the most ex trav-
agant dream of present day lar
The people of this country have
wakened to the great possibilities in
the development Of these immense
powers; they will be developed and
Iowa will be at the head. Its position
and natural resources points out its
position.
The American people have COM
menced to dig canals in order that
the great leviathians blowing the
oceans Of the world may land at every
great center In the land. The Pana-
ma canal is but the beginning. The
completion Of this great work and the
uniting of the two great oceans that
bathe the shores of all great nations
earth will only whet the ambition
of u people for still greater achieve
Already the murmerings for
greater canals are heard in the land
and this manifestation of determine
tion will not cease until great ship
canals will extend from the Gulf Of
Mexico to the great lakes. Other "a
nails will follow the Valley of the
Missouri even to the head waters In
the Rocky Mountains. Another ca
nal will extend up the Sioux Valley
and down the Red River until the
mighty leviathans Of the deep will
land at Davenport, Chicago, Dubuque
and St. Paul. They will go up to
Sioux Falls, Fargo and Hudson bay,
and will splash the waters Of another
great canal at the foot Of the Rocky
We are in the canal age
and the above will be more than real
lied.
The great Missouri River just above
Bismark is about three hundred feet
above the Sioux at the city of Can
ton. The physical formation of the
Dakotas is such that no ~insuperable
exists to the leading
down of the waters Of the great Mis-
souri, through a magnificent ship
canal pouring its waters over into the
valley Of the Sioux three hundred feet
below and when this Is done the
power available will make thesgreat
Niagara Falls dwindle into insignid-