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a considerable age. Such people thrive in 

 Nebraska. 



Another feature of the situation, which 

 the majority of my fellow-citizens might 

 be excused for not taking into account, I am 

 brought face to face with because of the 

 nature of my business. I mean the school 

 work, life and organization of these states. 



The question who gave our schools such 

 a splendid start goes back to the rare quality 

 of our original population. In this, too, I 

 believe the states under survey most fortu- 

 nate. You gathered your English-speaking 

 population, some from New England, 

 some from New York, some from Ohio, 

 from Illinois, from the South ; but they were 

 all first-class people. They came here not to 

 exploit the country and then leave, but to 

 make homes, to till the soil, to build up 

 commonwealths and to make them the best 

 in the Union, and they have done these 

 things. There came also Englishmen, Irish, 

 Germans, Scandinavians, and Bohemians. 

 Some of the best school people and teachers, 

 and some of the finest students in our state 



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