ADDRESSES OF MAJOR LACEY 271 



We take a natural pride in our ancestry, for although 

 little is known of particular families in America, every- 

 thing may be expected of the race that has been pro- 

 duced from the best blood of northern Europe and par- 

 ticularly from our Anglo-Saxon forefathers. An invig- 

 orating and severe climate will bring this race to its best 

 estate. 



We have but a few old families and neither have we 

 many ruins. At Paestum, in Italy, you will find the tem- 

 ples and walls of the old city still in perfect condition. 

 The malaria of the adjacent marches has prevented new 

 towns from being built, and the ruins have not been used 

 as quarries for new cities. 



Out at Salt Lake City you may see 800 feet above you 

 on the side of the mountains, the beach line of the shore 

 of the ancient fresh water lake called by the geologists 

 Lake Bonneville. It has receded and left its mark with 

 each receding period. But had it progressed the old 

 marks would have been obliterated. 



In the old world the ebbing tide of settlement has left 

 the ruins of antiquity on every hand. But in America 

 the constantly advancing flow has swept from view all 

 the old landmarks, and we see no ruins, for the wreckage 

 of the past is used in constructing the buildings of the 

 present. 



In this day of financial depression we have different 

 views as to what the remedy should be. But we all agree 

 that it is the chief business of everybody to restore pros- 

 perity again to our native land. It is a high compliment 

 to our fertile state to know that during this period of 

 depression the values of our Iowa have held their own 

 or made a satisfactory advance. But the people of Iowa 

 are not satisfied to see our state alone prosper. We 

 want our sister states to march with us in the procession. 



