Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-06-17
Can Any State Beat Io,Oa

lie American 'Magazine.1
(, men were southern in their sympathles
and characteristics South of the q
one still finds the political and social
life profoundly affected by the early
| settlers OF the Boone and Crockett
stripe. Here and there are the de-
scendants Of the French voyageurs and
coureurs de bois.
! But there came sitting in thru Illf-
nois. Michigan, Ohio, and Wisconsin the
sturdy stocks Of New York and Penn
! sylvania-and the New England con-
fscience in its migration from New Eng
f, land gave Iowa to local self-gpvern-
| ment and the common school, And
after old fashioned Americanism had
become entrenched in the towns. and on
the farms, there came the best people
of Europe-Danes Mortimer, Celts.
Germans, British-and filled the state
with their virile strains and their DEM
ocratic PHILOSOPHERS.
God is the supreme opportunist. He
proved it by keeping back the best
lands in the world for the best peoples
in the world, and then turning the plant
over to the stockholders-the people Of
Iowa.
Iowa wealth. is stag SeTiuS. hel
farms are worth more than all those Of
Maine. New Hampshire, Vermont, Mas
sachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut,
New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, West
Virginia, South Carolina, Florida, Ala
bama, Arizona. Utah, Nevada, New
Mexico. Montana and Wyoming COM
bined. Her farm buildings are of more
value than all those in New Hampshire,
Vermont Rhode Island, Delaware, Flor
ida, Louisiana, Montana, Idaho, Wyom-
ing Arkansas, New Mexico, Utah, Ne
vada, Oregon, Washington and West
Virginia combined. The live stock in
dustry in Iowa is now suffering from
depression, but her live stock is worth
more than all that of Maine. Ne*
Hampshire. Vermont, Massachusetts,
Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Jersey.
Delaware, Maryland, Florida, Arizona,
Utah, Nevada, West Virginia, Louisiana
and New Mexico combined.
She Is fifteenth in population among
the states. and twenty third in area;
but she ranks first in total value OF
farm products, in value of live stock, in
value Of farm property per farm, in
percentage of farm property improved.
in percentage OF total area in farms,
in number of automobiles per thousand
Of population, in the value of her
horses, in the value of her cattle, in
tbs value Of her swine, 4: poultry, in
egg production, in farm implements, in
tonnage of forage Crops-in spite of the
alfalfa of Kansas and the west-in corn
production. Her wheat crop is OF
greater value than that Of all Canada
T.
worth more in money than all the iron
ore, or anthracite coal. or petroleum
products, or the gold, copper, or silver
of all the United States. Iowa is a
poor apple state, she thinks, but she has
more bearing apple trees than any two
of the Pacific states, and in apple pro-
duction falls below the states of New
York, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Mis-
souri, only. Her swine production is
worth more than all the farm crops of
any Of the eleven mountain and Pacific
states. except California. The cattle she
markets every year are worth more
than the whole tobacco crops of the
United States. Her women and children
sell more eggs every year than would
buy all the oranges grown in the United
States.
The swine Of Iowa exceed in value all
the farm crops Of Maine New Hamp-
shire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode
Island, Connecticut. New Jersey, Mary
land. West Virginia, Florida, Delaware,
Montana, Idaho, Wyoming Colorado,
New Mexico. Arizona, Utah, Nevada or
Oregon.
The horses of 1owa--in spite of her
automobiles-exceed in value the total
farm crops Of twenty-seven states.
The greatest possession Of Iowa is
not her wealth, nor her power Of pro-
ducing wealth. tho both are stupendous
1t lies in her people, in her free insti-
tutions. in her growing body of great
traditions. She has produced many
great men and women: but her greatest
wealth is in that fine body OF great men
and women Of whom the world does not
hear. To them is committed the keep
ing OF a state which Is so wonderful
that all its neighbor states make their
proudest boast when they assert that
those portions of them which lie next
the Iowa border are "as good as Iowa"
ingly, in their efforts to get rid Of this
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