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that, with existing farm values, our soil may 

 be made to yield quite as large a return 

 upon investment as that of any other state. 

 Aside from that, nature has been exceed- 

 ingly kind to us. In the association of ar- 

 able lands with mountains, and rivers, and 

 lakes, and forests, and glens, and water- 

 falls, and with rainfalls and climate, and all 

 that stimulates the imagination and makes 

 for the physical and moral health of the peo- 

 ple, we stand second to no State in the Union. 

 In the association of all this with commer- 

 cial situation, we easily have the advantage 

 of them all. And we will never admit that 

 we lack the sense or the wits to act together 

 and make the most of what nature and situ- 

 ation have done for us. 



We have much to demoralize our think- 

 ing, but we may well remember that the 

 things in the life of a people which are of 

 utmost and enduring worth invariably go 



