Excerpt from Iowa Day for the Public Schools of the State

It may well become the schools of Iowa to devote one day, at least, each year to a careful consideration of its history, its progress and its wealth. 'tis well to have seen Iowa first, but it is often true that a better appreciation of what you have at home is yours after having seen and tasted the fruits of other fields.

The rock bound coast of New England has a history well written in its rugged walls; the beauty of the Great Lake region, with its cli max of strength at Niagara and its cadence of delight at the Thousand Islands, cannot be denied; the wealth of genial hospitality, as revealed in the shade of Southern pine or in the plantation homes of mountain ous Kentucky is proverbial; there is a grandeur and sublimity among the rugged peaks of the Needle and Teton mountain sections of the Rocky Mountain system that cannot be expressed; but, as between all these and Old Iowa, with a farm-born prosperity that has built happy homes and industrious cities, telephone and railroad equipment, school houses, colleges and universities, there can be no Neutrality, - we're for Iowa.

The people of Iowa must be educated to a better realization of what this great state is producing, in the many and various industries within her borders. One of the great industrial managers in Iowa has well said: We have actually found, from past experiences, that people living in towns that contain worthy enterprises and industries are often the least informed about them.

There has never been a boom in Iowa, but there has been the steady march of prosperity. Her people have never been exultant because of a flood in the tide of progress, neither has the state been depressed by the ebb of such a tide; but there is always the rejoicing attendant upon having enough, together with the ever present feeling that our people will know well what to do with an abundance.

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