The Columbus journal. (Columbus, Neb.) 1874-1911, 1911-06-14
power and paying wages to Nebraska

power and paying wages to Nebraska
| workers.
I claim that Nebraska, with more
to advertise than any other state. 10
! the least known state-at home or
! abroad-of any state in the Union.
Kansas spends $4,000 . year in pub
licity and immigration work: Missouri
|! spends $40. 900 year Colorado spends
| $4,000 a year; Washington and Ore
gon spend $4,000 a year each; Cali
fornia spends quarter of a million
NEBRASKA doesn't spend a dollar.
Any wonder thousands pass US by to
invest in the higher priced and less
| productive lands of the northwest?
Any wonder that Canada is getting
some Of Nebraska's best? Any won
der that the Nebraskan in New York
who undertakes to tell some of the
real facts about Nebraska is laughed
at and set down as a chronic prevari-
Gator?
Time that We made Nebraska
known to all the world, High time
that We acquaint the world with the
marvellous improvement that has been
wrought within her borders in less
than a generation, High time that
We let the world know that right here
in the heart of the once Great
American Desert" We have builded
in less than a generation a state that
stands at the front in education. that
stands at the front in wealth produc-
ton per capita. that stands at the
front in development of manufacture.
ing. that leads all other states in civic
reforms and accomplishes them with
out revolution and wholly by thought
full study and intelligent progress.
But before We can adequately tell
the world We must first know Ne.
braska So this is the message
bring you. fellow newspaper men: Let
us study Nebraska, study her history.
her resources and her possibilities. to
the end that We may be fitted to ad-
vertise our beloved state to all tho
world for what she is-the most pro-
ductive. progressive and pushing; the
most enterprising. energetic and en-
thusiastic: the most intelligent. in
dustriOus and inspiring-in short. the
greatest area Of productivity peopled
by the most progressive people In all
the world.
This toast I give to you:
Nebraska. the producer of the best
of all things: of bad things the pos
SCISSOR of least; state without a
bread line or n child sent breakfast
less to school: with future unlimited !
and a past to be proud of: a state Of |
homes and schools and churches-her |
greater development our duty, her !
bounty our sufficient reward"
o. the glories Of Nebraska, With her |
fields Of waving grain: |
With their promises of plenty meath the |
summer sun and rain
Ripping wheat fast turning yellow for |
the harvest soon to be:
RuStlinG cornblideS in the brceZeS MAX |
ing sweetest melody:
Beloved fields Of scented clover curing
meath the skies of blue:
Sunny slopes. AMI shaded valleys with
the clear streams ripping through
Over all is pe:ic. and comfort. not "A trace
And to live in Old Nebraska is the great
est joy Of all!
O. the slories of Nebraska, Far abroad
her stores are spread:
From the measure az her hacveSts are
the distant nations fed.
Here within her wide. dominionS. wrought
from stretch of desert lands.
Is the greatest work nj progress ever
wrought Ivy human hands:
Here. within generation. we have
buiideI. strong I:i great.
On 4 deep and sure foundation, Il pro-
gressirc. happy state.
!Snd at even. resting. list'ning to the
childrcn's laughing call :
Say. just living i'm Nebraska is the great
est joy Of Ill.
o. the -lories Of Nebraska. Like an
Eden Garden spread:
Filled with natures fruits and flowers.
and a blue sky overhead.
Like that Land OF Milk and Honey that
the Israelitish spies
Said spread out across old Jordan 10 de-
light their womb ring eyes:
Like old Caanan seen by Moses as he
viewed the landscape DER.
With that cnuntryS richest treaureS laid
before him-a:nd some more.
o, there's lots oi joy in living where the
streams "f plenty flow:
Ard tn live in old Nebraska is the great
est man may know.
o. the glories Of Nebraska. Sing her
praises fun and free,
past that's but the promise
Of the greatness Yet to he:
Pouring forth her wealth. 81 products as |
from Pienty's Golden Horn.
Filling all the worlds storehOuses with
her crops If wheat and corn
Spread between the mighty river and the
mountains Of the west.
Fairest land in NIL creation. by the God
Of Bounty bleSt.
And from rose Of early dawning till the
long. gray shadows fall n
Jus: Ia live in Old NebrsIsk:, is the great
est joy of all.
Honorary Degrees Conferred.