Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1914-08-04
THE GREATEST OF ALL.


entail monarchies! Rave over the
productive valleys of the Nile! You
folks hereabouts who do so know
not whereof you talk. Neither are
you sufficiently informed to be
properly loyal to the great state of
Iowa. For you are living in the
greatest section that is or ever was
on earth.
For Iowa is the Queenly State of
Bannered Corn.
The following is from the Nation
al Tribune, of Washington, D. c.:
Americans should cease looking
abroad for illustrations of where the
kindly earth laughs with the most
abundant harvests.
"For 5000 years mankind has
looked upon Egypt as the most
bounteous field of food for man. The
narrow Valley of the Nile fed ma
jestic Rome for centuries. But the
11-mile wide strip of arabic land
along the ancient river is not in it
alongside Iowa's imperial sweep Of
black, deep soil, reaching down to
the stimulating limestone. Iowa will
raise more corn in a couple of her
Congressional districts than Joseph
stored up in seven years of fairness
against the seven lean years that he
had interpreted Pharaoh's dream to
mean as forthcoming.
For centuries the Banat of Hun
gary has been regarded as the
"granary of Europe" Great wars
have been fought for its possession
and it has ruled the prices in the
grain markets Of the world.
"A peasant, being shown the
! priceless jewels of the Austrial I'm
perial regalla, remarked that they
were mot all together worth one
good rain on the Banat."
"Yet the Banat has an area of
only 10000 square miles, or less
than one-fifth that Of Iowa, and
acre for acre, will not raise BUSH
ell Of grain more.
iowa has 56,025 square miles Of
territory or more than one fourth
the size of France, Germany or Aus
tro-Hungary. She is almost exactly
the size of England and Wales to-
gether."
Iowa carries less dead weight
than any other similar stretch of
country in the world. Farms take
up 94.4 per cent of it's area, and
S6.5 per cent of the land is under
actual cultivation. And such cult
walton! Think of a production Of
339,300,000 bushels of corn in
1913, or nearly four bushels for ev-
cry man, woman and child in Iowa!
Besides this her fields produced 49,
$4,000 bushels of wheat, 168,360,-
600 bushels of oats, 100000 BUSH
els Of potatoes and 100000 tons Of
hay. Neither man nor beast need go
hungry in Iowa.
'The population of Iowa increas-
ed rapidly until 1880, when it was
1,624,615. Then it began to slow
down, and for the next 10 years was
only 16 per cent. The census Of
1910 showed an actual falling of
from 2,231,863 in 1900 to 2,224,771
in 1910"
This was caused by farming land
becoming so high that thousands
sold out at the big prices and went
where they could buy so much more
for the money. They probably found
to their bitter disappointment that
land as good as that in Iowa was
as rare as a profitable gold mine"
THE MORMON QUESTION.
In recent issue of the Eagle
Grove Eagle occur some astound-
ing criticisms of Senator Cannon's
lecture against the present day men
ace of the Mormon church. In brief,
the Eagle" article asserts that Sem
ator Cannons address is one of a.
exit avagant Nominations: CD that
the lecturer is saying many things
which are not true: (3.) that he is
capitalizing prejudice: (4.) that the
issue of polygamy always has been
and now is a negligible quantity:
and (5.J that the public must not
look to Frank ]. Cannon for the
truth about the Mormon Kingdom.
This sounds so like the common Nor
mon structures on Frank T. Cannon