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Title: Annals of Iowa
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Howe, Samuel Storrs, 1808-1888 Parvin, Theodore Sutton, 1817-1901 Lloyd, Frederick Huff, Sanford W Aldrich, Charles, 1828-1908 Harlan, Edgar Rubey, 1869-1941 Iowa. Division of Historical Museum and Archives State Historical Society of Iowa Iowa. Historical Dept Iowa. Historical, Memorial, and Art Dept
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Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
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ere the legal owners of every acreof it by virtue of a previous purchase from its former national owners.Our government has never robbed them of anything. Nor will it ever robthe Cubans or Philippinos of anything that is theirs. Everybody may resteasy on that point. And we merit congratulation for being the first nation, ancient or mod-ern, to prosecute a great war, at our own expense, avowedly and in fact,*for the benefit of humanity, without a desire or expectation of aggran-dizement! Certainly in all that relates to domestic comfort, mental and moral cul-ture, stern honesty and unbending probity, public and private honor, andunyielding courage coupled with ample generosity, the people of the UnitedStates have achieved marvelous results, and established a glorious record;in all of which the people of Iowa have contributed their full proportion.There is, I think, no other community of two and a quarter millions ofpeople anywhere on earth, whose masses are as well provided with physi-
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IOWA HISTOKIOAL BUILDING. 89 cal comforts, or possessing more ample opportunities for intellectual,moral and social culture, coupled with the conveniences and even luxuries,which make this epoch a marvel in the worlds history, than the people ofIowa. But in the collection and preservation of emblems and memorials ofour own activities in the settlement and development of our own belovedState—in the erection of monuments allegorically representing our ownachievements, and in the creation of specimens of what is sometimesstyled the Fine Arts, arising from a clear perception of the beautiful, welowans have less cause for congratulation. In this respect we fall behindsome of our sister states even in the Northwest. Our curator, who has hap-pily inaugurated this work, and pushed it forward with a vigor and successthat has created a necessity for more ample repositories, informs us thathe has found at the capital of Wisconsin a much better collection ofmemorials of Iowa than we have at the

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