The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1914-04-23
FOR A BETTER IOWA
Oskaloosa Gentlemen Take Part
In State Wide Movement.

Y,
More than one hundred business men
from over the state convened In the
Governors office to confer upon
ways and means. The gentlemen lat.
Ell In the session moved 10 the sen.
ate chamber. as a more convenient
place
II. o. BernbrOCk. OF Waterloo, call.
! ed the conference to order f.. r.
Moore, of Cedar Rapids, was made
chairman. He suggested that all
present at later time will come TO
| think II great honor 10 have parti.
| cipated in this initial greater Iowa
meeting.
Governor Clarke reported for the
Temporary commission that went to
San Francisco to arrange for an Iowa
building at the Panama Exposition,
| to open next February. Besides the
Governor, the members of the commits
sion were: Horace f.. Deemer, Ora
Williams, II. o. BernbrOck, Waterloo;
Geo Haw. Ottumwa; Hugh II. Shep.
paFd, Mason City; w. G. Haskell, Ce
dar Rapids; Ralph Bolton, Des
MOines; Geo. f.. French, Davenport;
Geo +. Wilson, Sr., Clinton; Allan
Wallis, Dubuque; Philip p. Paschel
Council Bluffs.
The commission was on serious
business. Negotiations were effected
with the exposition management that
will prove very favorable to Iowa
interests. Though late in selection,
a site for the state building was Sc
cured believed to be favorable, In
every sense worthy the state. 1t is
one block back from the bay, and
next to the Massachusetts building.
The Governor closed with red hot
five.minute Iowa booster speech, say.
| ing among other splendid things that
when Iowa's forests are gone, her
mines worked out and, forgotten. Iowa
soil will remain a never.failing asset,
the foundation of a greater state both
agriculturally and industrially.
w. w. Marsh, of Waterloo, said he
was not so much concerned about the
retired, the has-beens. They may
remain in Iowa or move away. What
1--WE are interested In is keeping the
young men In Iowa. We must paral
lei this agricultural Iowa with an In
dustrial Iowa This state has a
death rate of 5000 a year. The
births number 2.000--a proportion dis.
! We spend the sum of $13,000,000 an
nually to educate Iowa young people
and then let them get away from us.
| In Germany the manufacture of pc.
tato alcohol has quadTupled the nor
NAL price of potatoes. In ten years
in Iowa we spent 800, 000, 900 for au-
omobles-cOmbustion propelled ma
chimes. With this information before
hot Gol 10 In fr, he. ,,1
facmre and sale OF potato alcohol
only one simple instance of greater
Iowa industrial possibilities.
| Mr.. Marsh, you will recall, address
ed company of FARMERS and business
men in OskalOosa three or four years
ago. He employs a thousand men in
Waterloo making cream separatOrs,
and does other large things.
J. c. Davis, general counsel for the
| Northwestern railroad, said that to
attend an Iowa picnic in California
was like being present at the resur.
rectiOn--yOu see people, thousands of
them, You had thought dead for TWEEN
tty years. Iowa has 50, 00J,0 900 acres
of finest farm land in the world, and
| it has doubled in value the last 10
years. We have a more equal dis
! tributiOn OF riches than any state.
We are if anything too prosperous,
too fat-"fat dogs never hunt" We
need to give a little time from bust
ness to boosting Iowa as a state. Iowa
lis known as u state where lots of peo.
pie come from, and always have
plenty of money. This is a state for
all the people. There is no dOminat-
| ing city.
Judge Deemer Of the supreme bench
said he supposed he should be. or is
usually thought TO be, conservative
on everything. He confessed, how
ever, that upon returning from San
! Francisco he found himself as enthus-
! iastiC as the rest. The lsthmuS OF
Panama halted Columbus, but we have
removed the barrier. Through this
great cash in the continent we shall
enter into the commerce OF the world.
There will eventually be Il tide back
| to Iowa. Prepare Tor il. hasten il by
pulling together for greater Iowa.
Much as ! am interested in the Pana-
ma Exposition il is mere incident
TO my mind as compared with foster
| ing Iowa prosperity"
Col. French of Davenport banker,
captain OF industry, and lastly farm
err, would induce the young men to
remain by interesting them in thor
oughbred stock. We like to do things
better than father did. Make 1t pleas.
ant and profitable for the young peo-
pie. Ship out the fine stock but keep
the young people. The Iowa COW now
produces 100000, 900. Later this
number of cows will be made to pro-
duce twice as much. Teach farming
as an honorable profession. Begin
with thoroughbred stock, and drift
naturally to first class grains, fruits
and vegetables.
| A resolution was adopted asking the
Governor to appoint committee OF
Is to formulate and perfect a perm
anent Greater Iowa" organization.
The Governor was also asked to name
a Panama exposition commission of
nine members TO conserve the inter-
ests of the state in this connection.
The last Legislature. it will be re-
called, did not. make an appropriation
for an Iowa building at the EXPOSE
ton. The building will be erected
however. probably by private sub
lscription, and the next legislature
win be asked early in the session, to
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