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lie ahead of him or his sons who will take his place. He is progressive 

 and strives for better things, and he and his sons will achieve them. 



The rude aborigine looked upon this State and called it Iowa, the 

 beautiful land. He was proud of his home, and boasted its superiority. 

 "With greater knowledge and wider vision we echo the name and the 

 sentiment, and we, too, boast with proper pride of our superiority over 

 those less favored by nature. Those who come after us with greater 

 knowledge of how to unlock Nature's storehouse, with wiser minds, with 

 more of patience and intelligent industry, will get more for their efforts 

 than we do for ours. They, too, will look back to this generation and its 

 magnificent achievements; they, too, will look with pride upon their own 

 greater and better achievements. They, too, with ourselves and the sav- 

 age, will be glad to live in the State of which we are so proud; and 

 thinking then of the reasons for their riches, their prosperity, their 

 happiness and contentment they, too, will exclaim, as we do and as did 

 the Indian who gave this State its name, Iowa, meaning beautiful land. 



Miss Marie Jones, of Cedar Rapids, sang a lullaby, which was 

 roundly applauded. 



The President: We are favored this evening by the pres- 

 ence of the State Dairy Commissioner of Minnesota, about whom 

 we hear so much, and I have no doubt you would like to hear 

 from him a few minutes. I have the pleasure of introducing to 

 you Mr. E. K. Slater, of Minnesota. 



REMARKS. 



HON. E. K. SLATER, DAIRY AND FOOD COJIMISSIONER, ST. PAUL, MINN. 



Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemeyi of the Convention: You remem- 

 ber the history of the battle of Gettysburg when the immortal Lincoln 

 prepared his speech upon the back of an old envelope while waiting to be 

 called on for his address. Now I do not believe this speech will go 

 thundering down the ages, but it is on the back of an old envelope. I 

 did not intend to make a speech and I would not have been called on if it 

 had not been the desire of your President to get even with me. I tried 

 to get him into the same sort of scrape at Minneapolis, and I hate to 

 announce to you that he did not make good; he backed down and would 

 not make a speech. 



We have always thought that we had a pretty good State over in 

 Minnesota, and I don't know but I have found out this evening why it is 

 a good State, as good as it is, and it must be because we are so close to 

 Iowa, judging from what we have heard about Iowa here this evening. 



I want to bring to you the greetings of the Minnesota buttermakers 

 and dairymen, and I am glad to assure you dairymen of Iowa that the 

 feeling of the Minnesota buttermakers, especially, because I know more 

 of them than I do of the dairymen, the feeling of the buttermakers of 

 Minnesota towards the buttermakers of the State of Iowa was never 



