The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-01-30

ening of the publishers of Iowa's
newspapers to realization that 1t is /
their duty to conserve the interests
of the state and the people of the {
state, by denying their columns to the
1 sweet-scented but poison-tipped stories
which say between the lines that most
any place is better than Iowa, especi f
ally for the farmer. l do not advocate
an effort to hold our poulation by +
keeping our farmers ignorant of OPP
portunities elsewhere, but l do say +
that when your publish story con- /
corning the alleged wonderful oppor-l
tunities in some other section of the
country, you first ascertain whether
the truth and the whole truth is told.
! And when you can get hold of story
of the pleasing success of some Iowa
| farmer, and you know it is true. give
it Just little more space and a.
better location than you would the
story from Near Marysville, Calf !
Twenty thousand men, receiving an
average wage of 5000 per year, would
mean pay roll of Eighteen Million
/ Dollars per year. OF this wage, full
Fly ten per cent is net profit to the
butcher, the baker, the candle-stick
maker-and the landlord. Ten per
cent OF eighteen million dollars is one
million, eight hundred thousand dol
lars net profit per annum, plus direct
dividends declared by the industries
employing the men. Assume this divi-
dend profit to be only 5 per cent, or
s250,000 per annum, on the $5,000,000
invested, and we have profit of over
/ two million dollars year resulting
from an investment of five million dol
lars. In addition to that, we keep our
men and women in Iowa, we increase
the population, and both farm and city
, property become more valuable. Com
/ merce, industry, society and religion
J all receive good healthy impetus, and
; life becomes more thoroughly worth
3 while
Gov. Carroll has endorsed the sug-
: gestion of intensified farming. | be-
5 lieve we all agree that an advance
r should be made along that line. but
j it is not in agriculture that Iowa is
: deficient. Intensified farming will
!. come as natural consequence to in
dustrial expansion. Let your cities
e become buster and bigger and the mar
kets for farm produce are increased
g within our own state. AS cities grow,
d the adjacent farms become more valu-
d able and it is natural tendency to
It Intensity crop cultivation. Iowa. is
Z making good progress with agricul-
$ ture; but we are not making the same
D. progress with commerce and industry
a One improvement we can undertake
a however, which will make the rural
8, districts in Iowa more desirable; make
Q the farms more valuable and the pro
le duce more profitable and make inter
If communication between cities and
b towns and between one farm and an
1t other more comfortable-is gooc
roads. While our friends In the Cana
5. dian country or from near Marys
W VILE are pleading with our farmers
alto forsake Iowa, let us so improve liv
10 ing conditions in Iowa that Canad;
at and California will suffer by contrast
,e Good roads make good neighbors
IN good neighbors make good counties
10 and good counties make good states
r. When good roads separate good farm
i, ers, they visit each other more fire
IN auently and their circle of friends be
10 comes larger When farmer ha
a many friends in the county he will
=. think a long time before DESERVING
10 Iowa for any other place under Cod
ct blue sky, be it advertised In five col
ne ors or one color-with scare heads, o
without.
N. Some men shout Advance SO loud
re ly that they have no breath left wit
O which to indicate the direction. Tha
al seems to be the chief trouble in low
20 today From every nook and corne
70. of the state comes the cry Advance,
nd but on the query In what direction?
n there Is such a babel of voices an
-, conflict of commands, we who ar
!. cautious, fear to take a step forward
70 Gentlemen, the state of Iowa shout
.s be treated simply as business propt
"a sition. It's conditions should be care
~ fully analysed, and the causes thereo
, , determined beyond peradventure c
"a doubt. When we know defnitel
~ what is the matter and why certai
~ conditions exist. we can find wise coul
!. sci within the state which will diree
- our footsteps upward and onward an
insure our grasping, every legitimat
~ opportunity to upbuild the common
III wealth.
sct
~, Mrs. d. Gilkenson, 326 lngles Az,
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, gained wisdom b