Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1913-10-16

wood was on the farm and a mes
senger came on horse back to bring
to him the message from the Sc
cretary of State. He read 1T and
looked at the man on horseback,
and asked how he was to get a
regiment of men. Gov. Kirkwood is
sued his call for men and within
ten days there came marching ten
regiments across Iowa. That was
the kind of loyalty that was in ev-
idence in that day and it is here
yet. Men they were who heard and
responded to the call in the giving
of life and suffering for their
state. And they are here yet. These
old soldiers who have lived during
the last Is years have seen in
the development of their country
and the world and this great ma
ton more than any other man
who has lived in any other period
of the worlds history. 1t seems
they might say, II ann now ready
to go. have seen the salvation
of this people. Let me nov depart
in peace" think / should be pretty
i nearly ready to say that after l
had seen the world made in all
its greatness. Iowa does not yet
appear what we shall be. For no
one thinks this progress lis going
to stop. / have vision that we
shall go on and on developing a
greater people and more intelligent
people. Every young man and
young woman who has a vision of
this future are the young men and
women who moe ahead and get
ready to accomplish it. Whose
names are in the history as these
that have accomplished great
things. Those, who had a
vision of this future and no other
name is written there from the be-
ginning of the history to this day.
To illustrate. Mr.. Brick Pomeroy,
newspaper correspondent in CHINA
ii, went out to Denver. He had a
vision and hoped and dreamed of
a great railroad from Denver to the
Pacific Coast and they laughed at
him. They made fun of his dream,
but today the vision of Brick Pom
eroy is being realized and the
dream is come true. Young man, do
not be afraid of your dream or
vision, stand by it. The day will
comejust as sure as you live that
as you have a vision for yourself
or the future of your state your
vision will be rea. lied. / wonder
sometimes why there was objection
to every new idea. Why, when Gall
| ileo told his dreams he was i'm
prisoned, but his visions have all
come true. Why, when Columbus
dreamed this world was round he
was laughed at, but he stuck to
the vision and his dream and finally
| he sailed to Thu great country Of
ours. Young man, dream your
dreams and see your visions and
in doing SO you pull the balance
of mankind ahead.
1 Old settlers, look back over the
: years of your life and think OF
1.-THE things that were objected to.
| Take your town of Extra. l don't
know about your buildings. If
you have paved streets, if you
have cement walks. you got them
over the objection of somebody, but
the men who objected the most,
walk with great pride over the
streets and tell the visitor what
WE have done. Why % years ago
you could get land for $4,000 an
acre which you cannot buy for $3.50
an acre now. What fine thing
it would have been if you had had
the vision and the nerve to buy
| when you saw this. Fellow citizens,
we must have these visions and
stand by them in our state, in our
schools, in everything.
Why you have made Iowa great
in the last twelve years in it's edu-
cational institutions. There are
Iowa City and Ames, and what a
great thing Ames shall be for this
State.
This is an old settlersis meeting,
!, and think of it. You had no litera-
ture when you were young men.
You, readers had no literature eith-
er of Bryant, Longfellow, Whittier
or Prescott. T he literature of Great
Britain has come within the lives
of men of this time. Excepting Mil
tom and Shakespeare the literature
of the world has come Within the
time of men who live in this age.
So much for the past. Now what of
the future? What kind of a coun-