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the Wabash and Erie Canal opened np the vast resources of the Wabash 

 Vallc}' and paved the way lor the Wabash Raih-oad on the banks of the 

 canal, with the water power for mills and machinery as long as the banks 

 of the canal stood to contain the water. 



Snch wei'e the facilities for transportation that the people of Indiana 

 had found, and wore provided with, by the energy, hard labor, thrift and 

 industry of the men and women who have made Indiana one of the fore- 

 most States of the Union. 



We have had our ditRculties, our trials, our hardships, all conquered 

 by the common sense, industry, grace that Our Father has blessed our 

 Hoosier family, both native and foreign-born, with. Those of us who 

 have gone through the fight, see the victory all the way. 



Glad are we to hand down the achievements from 181G to 1903 as the 

 offspring of the valiant men and women who have toiled and labored to 

 transmit to the future the victories, the joys, the pleasures, the indwelling 

 delights, that filled up the soul of those who have discharged their duty 

 to humanity, to God. 



Bad roads, slow travel, combined with an abundance of common sense, 

 will work out an abundant harvest, notwithstanding the errors of human 

 judgments. 



Now, Pullman coaches, forty to seventy miles an hour, cars with 

 capacity for sixty tons of freight. Even now, the railroads have their 

 own time. No use for solar time. 



Watt's old tea kettle must give place to Ben Franklin's lightning; 

 trolley instead of coaches; lightning instead of steam. And all this in the 

 lifetime of Indiana Iloosiers, who thank the Lord that they have found 

 "pleasant pastures" within the parallelogram, bounded ii^^the north by the 

 Lake and State of Michigan, on the East by Ohio, on the South by the 

 Ohio River and Kentucky, and on the West by the Wabash River and 

 Illinois. 



