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Iowa and get some of these unemployed people that have energy and 

 ambition and a little bit of nerve and bring them out, they can do 

 what we are doing." So those are the impluses all tending in the same 

 direction. I am sure every one of us, whether member of the Association 

 or not, are all headed in that same direction, and I want to assure you 

 we have no idea of doing anything that is wrong — nothing that will be 

 done in a hurry. This is a campaign that will last over a term of years. 

 The first thing we did was to go out around the state and raise $100,000 

 as a guaranty for the building at the Exposition at San Francisco. Some 

 one said we would not raise that amount. I told them sure we could; 

 that this was only the opening gun. And I believe that every man in this 

 room will thank us for raising it. When I learn that Indiana is spend- 

 ing $30,000 for live stock at the exposition, and that Ohio and New 

 York are going to spend $35,000; that Wisconsin, Illinois and Minnesota 

 are spending between $12,000 and $20,000 for an agricultural building ex- 

 hibit at San Francisco, then to think this great state of Iowa would 

 stand back in shame because it had no exhibit and see other states 

 around it so abundantly represented. Men, we are too big for that. 

 We have got too broad a vision for that and, while we are for economy 

 in public affairs, while we are for retrenchment along similar lines, we 

 do not want to stop in this march of progress; we want to be up in 

 the front rank with the progressive citizens, and I hope we may be able 

 to go out to the world's fair next year and show them what Iowa has done 

 and is capable of doing. We don't want a repetition of what happened 

 a year ago in regard to that Japanese live stock commission that came 

 over here two years ago to buy the foundation stock for the rehabilita- 

 tion of Japanese live stock; how they came here, coming through from the 

 East and through Wisconsin and finally came back to Iowa and said 

 "Your stock is the best, the nicest, neatest we have seen, but we would 

 not dare to take the stock back to Japan because they have never heard 

 of Iowa, and we are going back up to Wisconsin and buy a herd that we 

 have heard of up there." Which they did. Not a nickel's worth of 

 that Japanese money did we get. Now, we are going out there to tell 

 them the story and we will take that dairy train up through the north- 

 western dairy country, and we are going to show them in a practical 

 way what Iowa can do with live stock. 



I hope every one of you will give this full consideration and full 

 thought. It has dollars and cents in it every way you look at it, and we 

 have to have your help; we have to have your enthusiastic support, 

 and we have to have your pelf. I thank you. 



Chairman: The next thing on our program, gentlemen, will 

 be an address, "How the Extension Department Can Assist the 

 Connty Fairs and Farmers' Institutes." by Prof. R. K. Bliss, Di- 

 rector Extension Department, at Ames. 



