THIRTEENTH ANNUAL YEAR BOOK— PART IV 179 



decent lines at all, they are helpful in spite of ourselves. And so when 

 you come here tonight in this gathering to discuss questions of interest, 

 you are helping all Iowa. 



There was a thought suggested by Mr. Thorne a while ago that here 

 in this country, compared with other countries, I thought of the refer- 

 ence Mr. Green, in his history of the English people, made in closing up 

 that history, referring to the conditions in England and in Germany, the 

 old civilizations of the world and what had happened there, and he wound 

 up by saying: "Not along the Thames, not along the Rhine, not in the 

 old countries of the world, but along the Mississippi river, in North 

 America, are the great problems of the Anglo-Saxon race to be worked 

 out." And that is where you live, if you please, in the heart of the Ameri- 

 can continent, upon that great river. You live in a country, if you please, 

 which has in the fertility of its soil and in its promise of the future, 

 greater promise than any other in the world, and when we have the great 

 population that we shall have here in the years that are not distant in 

 the future — we are increasing by millions every year. James Hill says 

 we will have two hundred millions here within fifty years — a great popu- 

 lation then is to fill this Mississippi valley, and great wealth is to be 

 here, and a mightier people is to live in the center of the American conti- 

 nent, as predicted by Green, than has ever lived in the history of the 

 world, and here are the great problems of humanity to be worked out. 

 And you are beginning to work them out. You are beginning to lay the 

 foundation of the solutions of the great problems of the world here, and 

 I congratulate you that we are located right here in the center of the 

 best country in the world. I thank you. (Applause.) 



The Toastmaster: This association has been wonderfully helped by 

 the press of the state, and by none so much as by The Register and Leader, 

 of this city, of which Mr. Harvey Ingham is the editor. We have had 

 the pleasure on one or two occasions of hearing from him, and we are 

 fortunate tonight in being able to once more call upon him. (Applause.) 



Mr. Harvey Ingham: My Brother Stockmen — I say that with a great 

 deal of assurance, because I am a regularly admitted member of this as- 

 sociation. I don't remember now what the occasion was for admitting me 

 to membership, but I am very confident it was not the ownership of a 

 dairy cow. (Laughter.) To prove my right to sit with a body of stock- 

 men, I want to devote my remarks to matters directly pertaining to the 

 stock business, at least to one feature of it. I was surprised when your 

 toastmaster remarked that there were more young men present in this 

 association meeting at this time than had ever been before, because I had 

 only a few minutes before commented to Uncle Henry Wallace on the 

 number of gray heads here in this body, and I was asking him where 

 the young men were who were going to take the places of these older 

 men in the stock business in the Mississippi valley. Now your toast- 

 master may be right that the young men are going to take up this 

 business, but I tell him the statistics show that the consumption of meat 

 has increased enormously faster than the production of meat in this coun- 

 try, that while the number of people in our cities and our great centers 



