Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-08-09
MOT TREASON BUT DESTINY.

MOT TREASON BUT DESTINY.
Would you rather have a farm in the
Rocky Gulch Valley, Out West, than a
farm in Iowa? If so, go out there by all
means. Iowa wants good loyal citizens,
and can get a man to fill your place
Des Moines Capital
Now this is carrying patriotism to
the extreme. 1t isn't likely that many
Iowans prefer farms in Rocky Gulch"
to the fertile understanding corn
prairies of Iowa but it scarcely follows
logically or any other way that he Is
traitor to his state when he buys
land or settles on it outside. His loyalty
is not to be classified by the standard
OF his bank account nor is lack of
judgment to be attained by treason.
Iowa has lost a great many good
men to Rocky Gulch" and other spots
outside the state. incidentally all farms
outside of Iowa are not rocky. We see
many husky happy and prosperous ex-
patriates coming home on a visit who
have found and made places for them
selves elsewhere. If we take parti-
cular notice we shall be astonished at
the small proportion of returning
movers wagons" bearing the blazonry
Busted" On the contrary the ex-
off to see the folks on the way home
from conveying three loads of fat ones
to THE Stockyards'' and jingle their
money in our ears. Yes" he says,
Lands a boonin' out there Farm I
paid SO an acre for g worth on the
market today sos. Haven't had any
thing like a failure in our county for
seven years. Feliers ebuyin' autono-
biles but I've got a pair of standard
bred horses that's good enough for
me" 1t isn't likely that the carriage
team can edo better than three min
utes' as he ayers and he may have
sprung the price of the farm $3.50 or
$40 an acre but he's got the drafts for
the fat ones IN his pockets, isn't averse
to showing them and any one Of them
would have bought 100 in Iowa thirty
years ago. 1t isn't all desert beyond
the Iowa state lines.
If moving west IS treason 1t is in the
blood. Make the most of that. The
$3.50 an acre farms of Iowa were
broken out of raw prairie by a bunch
Of treasonous young married men from
Illinois and Ohio. They did not forget
the states that bore them. Columbiana
county is as well known in Iowa as in
Ohio Neither do their grandsons who
have ''gone west" forget. Five thou
sand ex-Iowans gathered the other day
to recall the greatness of Iowa as Scots
celebrate the glories Of Albin.
4 Iowa is only paying her debts when
her children move on to grow grass on
the deserts and bid the mountainsides
/ blossom and bring forth. 1t is the i'm
mutable law, the first force, the gov
erning impulse of virile and dominant
race It is the spirit of the pioneer, the
atavisrn of the third generation to its
grandsires. When the 1owan takes his
Z courage and his cash box and journeys
afar to find a spot where one may sup
plement the other he is neither I'M
faithful nor forgetful. He has simply
bred true to the type which wrought
upon the prairies of the Mississippi
Valley the transferring miracle of pro-
duction: which built an empire ont Of
the wild grasses and created a splendid
civilization where the wilderness and
its laws had been supreme.
From Alaska to Patagonia from Kan
sas TO Cathay, north, south, east and
west around the world and back again
leads the trail Of the Iowan. Where il
leads new farrnss pring out ofthe waste
places, new enterprises rise to success
all things suffer change into something
new and change. Far may the trail
lead, many the feet that follow. 1t is
the destiny of the Iowan.