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both for and against him. He will be the most successful who most 
skillfully combines to overcome opposing forces. We must not be 
satisfied with saying that farmers to-day are more intelligent than 
were those of fifty years ago. Every man may measure his intelli¬ 
gence in his business, by his success, and just in the proportion in 
which his intelligence increases, will his success increase. 
INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE STATE. 
BY GOVERNOR W. R. TAYLOR. 
Fellow Citizens: —It is with more than ordinary pleasure that 
I have responded to the invitation of this society and am here to¬ 
day to exchange congratulations with you on this interesting occa¬ 
sion, and to greet the friends of industrial progress with whom I 
have labored so pleasantly these many years. 
We look from here with pride upon a beautiful and growing me¬ 
tropolis, with steadily increasing population, commerce and manu¬ 
facturing industries, the largest primary wheat market in the 
world, in quantity and quality, and the center of a grand system of 
railway enterprise, reaching in its influence beyond the boundaries 
of our state—causes surely destined to give her a prosperity in the 
future which she has not hitherto anticipated. 
Reflecting upon all this, and upon the condition of this city and 
state and people, when our society was founded, and looking upon 
these grounds thronged with the enterprising representatives and 
choice productions of every section of this grand commonwealth, 
I have been forcibly reminded of the small beginnings from which 
all these results have sprung. Twenty-one times in twenty-four 
years of its corporate existence, this society has brought together 
the various products of Wisconsin industry and sought to make 
the lessons taught by these occasions fruitful to new progress and 
of large attainments on the part of our industrial population. 
Those of you here present, who were either workers or spectators 
at the exhibition in 1851, will need no reminder of the contrast 
between the first and twenty-first. 
About one-fifth of the whole intervening period felt the drain- 
