The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-11-29
Secretary Of Iowa State Manufacture
er's Association Delivers Strong
Address to Manufacturers
and Shippers.
KEoKUK's ADVANTAGES
In the Center Of Richest Country on
Earth and Has Great Inland
Waterway Right at Her
Very Door.

VI. "A. WTlSnIman, secretary OF the
Iowa State Manufacturers Associa-
ton, was guest at luncheon TODAY at
the Hotel Keokul1 which was attended
by eighty or more prominent manu-
facturers and shippers of Keokuk.
The luncheon was given under the
auspices of the Keokuk Industrial AS
ISOLATION. In his strong address which
folowed the luncheon, Secretary
Wrightman eulogized Keokuk because
OF its location in the heart of the
richest country on earth and on the
Mississippi river, which is the great
est inland waterway IN the country.
In part Secretary Wrightman said:
Your climate is ideal for a pros
porous country. Perfect climates are
in barren countries where Industries
do not reach high state of develop
ments No prosperous cou1try that |
know of has the Keokuk climate
beaten.
Your city is in the heart of the
richest country on earth.
For wealth, taste, liberality, needs
and wants and hence as market, the
I1O0,000,000 of people in whose center
Keoktk lies are the equal of the rest
of the human race put together.
transportation Makes a City.
From the dawn of history trans.
portation has fixed the sites of cities
The classification may be as follows:
"a river CT sing on caravan
route.
"A good harbor.
"A narrow place in a stream with
jutting banks for bridge.
THE head of water navigation.
These four causes account for
Babylon, Thebes Carthage Tyre,
Sidon, Athens, Rome, Venice, London,
New York, Boston, Buffalo, CINCINNATI
| st. Louis, Chicago, New Orleans, San
Francisco and Seattle.
odd Keokuk stands at the head OF
the lower river navigation. She
stands today On the greatest inland
waterway in the world and on the cen
trail line of the United States where
all land transportation rates break.
Produce Capital by Operation.
In recent times no force outside
OF transportation has been more DO
tent than nearness to low cost power
for the locating of cities. Pittsburg
and Columbus have cheap coal: the
Twin Cities, southern cities and Spo-
kama have water power.
The best way for a new industry
to get capital in this country is to
produce it by operation.
There is no manufactured article
made by man for which the location OF
keokuk is not adopted
Manufacturing is a science by it
self. 1t is different from the science
LOT farming, banking, distributing or
any other kind of business. A mann
facturer starting in, who still has
the science to learn, would best make
his mistake both mechanical and ad-
mlnistrative on small scale.
Near Greatest Market.
The free American market in half
OF the world and its nearness to Keo-
kuk makes it, for our purposes, four
fifths of the world. Whoever has dis.
covered or improved on a new wav to
fill a human want or need has dis.
covered a Klondike.
"A city can only be governed bv
public spirit. Public spirit in the city
corresponds to state pride and patriot.
tism in the natiotn
1T is because the Americans have
been poor in public spirit that the
Notwithstanding of our cities have
been stencil in the nostrils of man
Kind. blot on human history No
scheme of government can be called a
success if it breaks down in its mos.
vital part, Cities are the vital part
OF humanity; in them is all progress
made; they are the ganglia, the brains,
OF our species; state and national
lines come and go but cities remain.
Serve for Common Good.
The kernel. of public spirit is ser
vice for the common good. AS we rise
in civilization we graduate into that
service division.