The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-08-08
Manufacturers Close Their Convention

ls for man to look on his business
as thing OF service to the people
and the community. IF every man
looked upon his business in that way
as service for the common good II
woSld be a great thing for the people
OF the community" he continued. III
the merchant will look beyond his coun-
ter to the people he serves and see
visions and possibilities OF service
beyond mere selfishness his business
would then be glorified.
We are becoming great brother
hood, coming to realize that what is
to the interest of one is to the inter,
est of another" he said, declaring
his belief that we are coming more
and more to look at business in that
light.
The Value Of Vision.
i thought on the dam today" he
continued, that no man ever accom-
plsshed anything without vision. It
Is the man with vision that accom-
plishes great purpose Men who are
famous down through history are
the men who had vision, although
they may have been centuries ahead
of their time. The man who built that
great dam saw 1t In perfection before
the work was ever begun, and this
thought OF the man who built the dam
is a monument to his name as long as
rivers run to the sea" Citing other
illustrations Governor Clarke declar.
ed his hope that every man at the
banquet had vision of great state
in the future, vision that he wants
to aid in the development of the great
commonwealth and make Iowa indeed
the greatest state In the union. 81
suggest that every true Iowan and
every man here is true Iowan, that
every man lend his influence to carry.
ing out those visions for a greater
and better Iowa."
Garden Spot Of the Earth.
Governor Clarke told of his trip
from Gettysburg and said that ii
seemed as he came all the way from
the Atlantic ocean the country go,
better until Iowa was reached and
there was nothing better farther on
nor coming from the Gulf of Mexico
or down from the north in resource
fitness. "And SO say to you," he
said. "that we dwell in a state that
has greater possibilities than any 9th
er state in the union"
Governor Clarke also congratulated
the Iowa manufacturers on the in
crease noted in their organization and
congratulated them upon the Interest
they had created in the upbuilding o.
the. state. s
Governor Clarke was cheered fol
several minutes at the conclusion Of
his eloquent plea for the glory of the
state.
Other Speakers Praise iowa.
Toastmaster Irwin called upon a
score Of other manufacturers to make
short talks and stranger, after list.
ening to them, might well think they
were orators as we'll as manufactur.
ers. John A. Gum. president of the
association, thanked local manufactur.
ers for the courtesies extended and
declared the trip we'll worth taking II
only to see the dam. All through the
other talks statistics were quoted and
stories told to illustrate the possibilj-
ties and the greatness already attain
ed by the manufacturers in manufac.
turing in Iowa
The speakers could not forget the
dam and congratulated Keokuk upon
the splendid opportunity for manufac-
turing which the dam presents, de-
claring that as Keokuk was the Gate
City Of Iowa in former days 1t should
become the Gate City again In the
upbuild!ng of manufacturing In Iowa.