Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 13, Number 152, Decatur, Adams County, 26 June 1915 — Page 4

INDIANA PROUD OF ACHIEVEMENT Ralston Visits Panama-Pacific Exposition. REVIEWS STATE'S HISTORY In an Eloquent Address, Governor Ralston Gives Brief Resume of Indiana’s Progress and Achievements In History—Tribute to Pioneers. San Francisco, Cal., June 26. — The Panama - Pacific exposition marks an epoch in civilization. Not because it is a great world’s fair. There have been other record-break-ing world's fairs. Hut this event is epochal because the event behind it, the event is celebrates, is epochal—the construction of the Panama canal. The world of commerce, and science and art—the world of civilization—has recognized that accomplishment as one of the colossal achievements of the human race. Indiana, occupying as she does a proud position midway between the two great oceans —an Imperial domain in the very heart of the continent — has her share in the proper American pride in America’s most stupendous enterprise. And, as Indiana is proud of the achievement lying back of it, so she is proud to have an honored part in this inspiring event—this offspring of the greater event. In speaking for my state on this particular day, I have no disposition to close my eyes to the brilliant chapter she has written in the history of our country. She has not only achieved well for herself, but she has wrought mightily for the nation of which she is a part. But before further considering Indiana and her record, I desire to speak an earnest word of commendation of the honorable commissioners, representing our state at this exposition, for their able services and the efficiency they have shown in the discharge of their duties. At great sacrifices of time and labor, they have zealously and intelligently constructed this beautiful and spacious building, equipped with modern conveniences for use by Hoosiers and their friends visiting the exposition. Its architecture is suggestive of and is in keeping with the dignity of the state. I congratulate them upon their good taste and judgment and on the creditable showing they are making for the commonwealth. They have the thanks of the people back home. Some Indiana Achievements. The factors figuring most conspicuously in Indiana’s history and enabling her to make her contributions to society, have been her natural advantages and the character of her citizens and of her institutions. In size she is the thirty-fifth state of the union, hut. the gifts bestowed upon her out of the lavish hand of Nature rank her among the first. While she has none of the precious metais. she has long attracted attention as a mineral producing and manufacturing, as well as an agricultural state. As a coal producing state she ranks sixth. year the output of her coal mines was valued at $17,500,000. In stone production she ranks fifth with an output last year valued at $5,000,000. Her building stone finds a market in every civilized country. City halls and state capitals, royal homes and kingly palaces are constructed of it. Last year her clay- and clay products were valued at $8,500,000; from her own shale and limestone she made and marketed 10,000,000 barrels of cement, valued at $10,000,000; her petroleum made almost a million barrels, valued at $1,250,000; and her lime output was valued at $350,000. It is doubtful if any state in the union excels our own Indiana in transportation facilities. Eight thousand miles of steam railroads, not including sidings, and two thousand miles of electric roads stretch across her surface. Indianapolis, her capital city, is the. greatest steam railroad center in the world, as she is also the greatest interurban or electric traction road center in the world. But all our transportation does not have to be carried on by rail. White river, the Wabash river, and the Ohio river, and our lake fronts afford us practically a thousand miles of waterway. In this connection it is well to note that the four big dams the United States government is constructing on the Ohio—at Markland. Evans’ Landing, Tobinsport, and Evansville. —will connect us the year round by a nine-foot deep waterway with the Mississippi river. Travelers tell us our wide stretched plains and fertile soil; our landscapes overarched by blue skies and decorated by islands of forest; and our beautiful region of lakes aro unsurpassed for restful and quiet beauty by anything they have seen abroad; while in other sections of the state Nature’s rugged charm reminds them of Switzerland’s grander scenery. There are no manifestations of Nature, in India la that are awe inspiring, but here Nature’s voice and beauty are eloquent of Nature’s God and of his love and compassion for the children of kies. Indiana’s Pianeers. To this state, with these natural advantages and with possibilities yet

greater than these, our fathers came in search of homes. They came down the hill slopes and up out of the valleys of Kentucky; from the plateaus of Tennessee; across the mountains from Virginia and up from the Carolinas and down the Ohio from Pennsylvania and the sea bound states. They came in search of wider liberty and larger opportunities. Many of them had fought for their country's freedom in the Revolutionary war and took up land granted to them as war bounties. Hither they traveled in frail boats, rudely constructed wagons and primitive ox carts; and their Journey to their new homes, through a virgin forest and a trackless country, was under conditions that severely tested their patience, strength and endurance. These early settlers of Indiana —our parents and our grandparents—were hardy, frugal and industrious. They were a rugged race and the strenuosity they had to assert In locating themselves anew only better qualified them for the sturdy citizenship so essential to the proper development of a new community; and for that mat ter, so indispenslble to a healthy and progressive civilization. Often the suffering endured and the heroism displayed in these forest exploits —in subduing wild Nature and wild men--surpassed anything wit nessed on the field of battle. In civilized war there are nurses to care for the sick and wounded, and the sense of duty and discipline and the excitement of the. engagements to urge the soldier forward. But a man and his wife, with their little family almost foodless, clothesless and penniless, burying all alone a child of their affection in the heart of the primitive forest, have little cheer or inspiration to urge them forward. They are wont to linger by the new made grave until, wounded in heart and broken in spirit, they are compelled to turn their backs upon this sacred spot to pursue their way to the little log homestead, to plod on wearily, in the midst of the silent forest that ever reminds them of the lonely grave of their little one. Who, by any eloquence of speech can tell pf the suffering they endured and the heroism they displayed? Home building in the new country —in Indiana, as in other states—was epoch making. It was the planting or the seed for the’cfvilization that was to follow. It was the building of the log cabin in the woods by one generation, that a later generation might enjoy the palace on the boulevard. It was the endurance by the farmer of the howling of the wolf and the screaming of the panther at the cabin door, that we might enjoy the strains of the orchestra in the park. We hear much of the strenuous life in these days, and yet neither the builder of a modern city nor the ruler of a state, displays the physical strenuosity our pioneer fathers and mothers did, in erecting their cabins and clearing their garden patches and bringing under their dominion enough of the earth to produce a few bushels of wheat and corn. Theirs also was the strenuous life. And we have made our progress by standing upon their shoulders. Much of our strength and capacity we have inherited from their virtues. Wha< they felt and what they believed they transmitted to their institutions and to us. They made it possible for us, their children, to participate in this world event, and cold indeed would be our hearts, if we could not pause long enough, amid the sounding of trumpets and the glare and dazzle of this occasion, to pay respect to their memory and acknowledge in reverence our obligations to them. Macauley spoke prophetically when he said: "A people which takes no pride in the noble achievements of their ancestors will never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by their remote descendants.” Ordinance of 1787.

The territory ■within the boundaries of Indiana was originally, as yon know, a part of the Northwest Territory, out of which five great states were afterwards carved. Over this domain the scepters of kings once held sway, but ultimately they were succeeded by republican institutions under Virginia, which state, by the marvelous Ordinance of 1787, dedicated it to the nation. I characterize this ordinance as a marvelous instrument of government advisedly. Os it Daniel Webster said: "I doubt whether one single law of any lawgiver, ancient or modern, has produced effects of more distinct, marked and lasting character than the Ordinance of 1787.” It is well to remember the words of Webster, in our search for the source of the ideals of those who builded our state for us. The Ordinance of 1787 provided a form of government for the Northwest Territory that will serve as a model as long as free government lasts. It guaranteed to the territory free soil. It specifically stated that "neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except in punishment of crime the party shall have been ?.v.!y convicted, shall ever exist in said territory.” It respected liberty of conscience. It specifically set forth that "no person demeaning himself in an orderly manner shall ever be disturbed or I molested on account of his mode of I worship or religious belief." It set a high value on education. I It specifically declared that "religion, morality and knowledge, being essential to good government and the hap-

piaetss ot mankind, schools and the means of education shall be forever encouraged." It guaranteed civil liberty by providing for "free speech, free press, free assembly, free petition, free trial by jury and for the writ of habeas corpus.” In addition to these fundamental principles of free government, from which we should seek Instruction and Inspiration in these times of feverish excitement, this ordinance took cognizance of the fact, that material progress could not long be made, nor society long held together in peace, In the absence of a proper regard for property rights; and so ft stipulated against the impairment ot contract; and that "conviction of crime should not work corruption of blood nor forfeiture of estate." It repudiated primogeniture, feudal ism’s relic of tyranny, that gave to the eider son the whole ot his father’s lands and houses to the exclusion of his other children and made It impossible for nine-tenths of the people ever to have an interest in landed estates. If it be asked whether these settlers of Indiana had a projier appreciation of the manifold advantages afforded them in their new home, I submit these words of one of the pioneers as an answer to the question: “Lying directly across the track for all time of al! the great artificial improvements that can be made connecting the east and the great Pacific, over the valley of the Mississippi; coupled with the fact that she is so highly favored in climate, soil, mineral, wood, water and rock, we can see that Indiana combines all the ele- . ments of a great and growing state.” If it be asked, if our fathers had a proper appreciation of the principles and ideals embodied in the Ordinance of 1787, let me answer that these principles were set forth in Indiana's first Constitution, adopted in 1816; nnd as to whether or not these Ideals played a part in the-lives of Indiana's pioneers, I cite the fact that in Indiana’s first. Constitution there was tc he found most humaqe provisions for the treatment of the criminal. Im prisonment for debt was inhibited after the accused had surrendered his property. The penal code was to be founded on the principles of reforma tion, and not vindictive justice; and the legislature was charged with the duty of providing sufficient land whereon those persons who. by rea son of age, infirmity or other misfortunes have a claim upon society, may have employment and proper comfort and in the language of that Instrument ‘ lose by their usefulness the degrading sense of dependence." Public School System. Yes, these old settlers caught the ideals suggested by the great Ordinance, for in their first constitution they also said: "It shall be the duty of the general assembly as soon as circumstances will permit, to provide by law for a general system of education, ascending in a regular graduation from township schools to a state' university, wherein tuition shall be gratis, and equally open to all." Thus it is seen that those who gave us the. state we love, set for those following them an example which the citizenship of Indiana has always striven to emulate. Her schools are in truth the source of her greatest strength. They develop her moral fibre, as well as train the mind, and without moral fibre the state is with out enduring foundation. Across the threshhold of the free school all pupils pass upon a level. The public school is a levler, but it levels up ami not down. It is a sort of a melting pot, by means of which the best there is in a pupil is gotten out of him and under conditions whereby all those sharing the melting process will derive advantages not otherwise possible for them to get. The boy and girl who have not attended the common schools are handicapped; for they will never know howto interpret accurately that ever present and constantly assertive thing we call the life of the common people. The boy who touches elbows with his companions In the common schools will in the end, in the majority of Instances, have the clearest comprehen sion of these problems, because he is, in touch with the life of the common | people. Such a youth, upon attainin'the stature of manhood, will have a better understanding of the people’s needs. Indiana has long been widely reputed for her public school ys'em and the high efficiency of her schools. They are constantly enriching society with a well equipped citizenship. They have reduced the state’s illiteracy until it now represents but six-tenths of one per cent, of those ranging between the ages of ten and twenty years. Our schools are conducted on the theory that our state is secure Just in the degree she rests on a patriotic and intelligent democracy. Educational Legislation. Any one who will take the pains to make the examination, will discover the state has shown in recent years a progressive spirit and materially strengthened her school system, by providing uniform text books; by requiring medical inspection and sanitary school buildings and playgrounds; oy making fire drills compulsory; by enacting a teachers’ minimum wage law; by passing a compulsory educational law; by the erection of the office of high school Inspector; by treating consolidated schools, central-

ly located, with necessary equipment good teachers and a course better planned to meet the needs of pupils; by increasing the tax rate for the three state educational institutions, Indiana university, Purdue university, and the State Norma! school; thereby enabling them to do with greater efficiency the work they are designed to accomplish, without having to practice the questionable tactics of the professional lobbyist; and finally nnd more recently by placing upon her statute books a vocational educational law. This latter law marks an epoch in popular education. It is a masterpiece of legislation. One of the greatest tragedies of this nation—and Indiana has had her part in it—has been the turning of boys and girls out of school, without proper qualification by the vast majority of them to do their life work. Teachers and schools have taught them nothing of the plane and the mill; nothing of th« forge and the factory. in her vocational legi dation, Indiana has set about to make reparation, as far as she can, tor her neglect of her youth in the past. The truth Is now pressing upon her, as it never has before, that not more than fifty per cent, of her pupils complete the work of the grades; that only a small per cent completes the high school course; artd that a very small part of high school graduates ever receive a college course. The multitude has been permitted to take up the thread of life without having a well fixed viewpoint of life. And the fault has been with the state. Under this law the elements of agricurture, mechanics and domestic science will be taught in the district school. And it is fair to assume that hereafter a keener interest will be felt in those subjects. We are looking al things differently from what we formerlly did. We now know that do mestlc science serves society to a better purpose than does either the science of the stars or the thin polish of the finishing school. We appreciate that the kitchen is more of a factor in the family than it is possible for an observatory to be. The philosopher "who siteth on the circle of the heavens” does not contribute in the same degree to the public welfare as does the man who develops a great industry in a manner so as to dignify labor and humanize capital. Indiana’s vocational educational law Is a long step forward. It is a law adapted alike to the little Davids with their flocks of goats and sheep and the ambitious Jonathans with a thirst for power. It will afford opportunities alike to the boy of the cottage and the boy of the mansion, to train their minds and skill their j hands in equipping themselves to doi the things they are best adapted to do.

Woman's Part In Education. In our efforts to increase our educational facilities and diffuse knowl- 1 edge the fact should not escape us that Indiana women have wielded a most potent influence. They have! been tireless and wise in their efforts* to build up and extend libraries, through the state. They have been' constant in urging civic improvement.They have favored the creation of a' juvenile court. They have demanded pure food laws. They have long been 1 abreast of all movements looking to! the care of children; to the promotion ; of public morals;'and to the extension' of literary work. The Minerva Society organized in New Harmony in 1859 was the first. woman’s club in the United States. I This is a distinction for our state, of i which Indiana women are Justly * proud. This organization was as, much interested in educational mat ters, as it was in behalf of its own ’members; and as it was. 1 have no doubt, in the kindergarten of New ■ Harmony the first school or the kina in the United States and the second in the world. Indiana’s Noted Men. Our state has produced many able men. They are too numerous to undertake to name them, or even to de-, slgnate those in any particular field of distinction. Often have they been called into the public service by the nation, and invariably they have shed luster upon their state. Indianians 1 take pride in the fact, that the pres- ; ent vice-president of the United States, the scholarly and brilliant , Thomas R. Marshall, is a native born ' Hoosier, and that one of the Indiana commissioners to this exposition, the , well poised and conservative Charles W. Fairbanks, occupied that office not long before him. We have indeed produced statesmen, who ranked among the foremost of the nation. The fame of our scient Isis have long since excited favorable comment in other lands and they have been credited many times with Slaving spoken the final word in their respective lines of research. In literature our writers have charmed, entertained and spoken with the weight of authority. Our poets have sung in , raptuous strains of the innocence of ' childhood, the romance of youth, the ' strength and glory of middle life, and the sweet and solemn tenderness of age. They have plucked the earliest and fairest flowers of the human heart, and attuned the souls of men with the immortal music of the stars. 1 Our soldiers have always brought honor to the state and their sacrifices and heroism have exalted our citi zenship. Agriculture and Manufacturing. The Hoosier farmer has taken his stand near the head In the agricultural column. He has come to know the value of scientific farming. Ho

I Sas ceased to exhaust his soil before I renewing Its strength by approved i areans of fertilization. And he applies the same up-to-date spirit in the growing and development ot live 1 stock. The result is our farms are among the most productive anywhere to be found and our breeds of horses, 'cattle, sheep and hogs are always In demand at paying prices. The farmer, always dependable in his citizenship. Is now 14 the most thrifty class. As a manufacturing state, Indiana has displayed wonderful genius, industry and progress. She makes all kinds of farm machinery and other labor saving devices. Her plows are known everywhere. She has the largest wagon Industry in the world, a like claim can be made for one of her furniture factories, and she makes more lawn mowers than any other state or nation. She is beyond doubt the second state in the union in the automobile industry. Her business men are energetic and progressive and conduct their great enterprises along safe lines. The result is that, as a rule there are no violent shocks or serious disasters in the commercial life of the state. But the citizens of Indiana have not thought solely of their natural advantages and material progress. It Is their philosophy that the grandeur of a state depends upon moral quail- ! ties. Superior numbers do not necessarily mean superior virtues. Territory is not always synonymous with honesty, nor wealth with patriotism; hut love of country, supported by sacrifice, is a people's highest ethical expression. Back In Indiana we have learned that material progress is safe progress so long as wealth dpes its part in suppressing vice, eradicating disease, and maintaining an enlightened democracy, properly safeguardied by law and order. Lawlessness, vice, disease, and Ignorance unbridled do not exist where society Is sound and democracy sane. Oi< Benevolent Institutions. Holding these views, our citizens have quite naturally given some time to doing the things suggested by the better impulses of the heart. They have not neglected to cultivate sympathy for those of their fellows, who have been bereft of reason or in some other manner rendered dependent upon public favor. Therefore, out of hearts of love and in recognition of their duty to society, the people of Indiana are providing most generously for their insane, criminal and dependent classes. How to deal with these unfortunates properly is one ot the most perplexing problems the state is called upon to solve. The rate at which they are increasing is appalling, and clearly indicates that improved methods must be adopted for dealing with the public wards of the state. Beyond doubt Indiana has taken advanced grounds in the construction and management of her penal farm, reformatory and benevolent Institutions; and yet, as one interested in the inhabitants of these institutions and in those who may become inmates thereof. I have not the courage and the knowledge to assert that we have always taken the wisest course in the management of these institutions, or to prophesy as to what the future demands upon us will be In dealing with 'these objects of public care. The State's Defectives. Indiana is giving practical proof of her enlightened interest and public spirit by adopting or creating new methods and instrumentalities for the care and cure of her afflicted and defective population. She is now developing the colony plan for her chronic insane, that they may have the advantage of outdoor life, with its sunshine and fresh air; and that they may in a measure contribute to their own support by invigorating work —by gardening, working in truck patches, and taking a part in the activities of farm life—calculated to improve both their mental and physical condition. Indiana has gotten away from her former custom of trying to reform law violators by sending them to jail. Jails are no longer recognized as cures for crime. They are degrading rather than regenerating in their nature and effects. Nine out of ten of those sentenced to jail come out more strongly bent upon mischief than they were when they entered upon their sentences. This class of law violators will therefore be hereafter sentenced to hard work on the penal farm, where they will be kindly treated and given time to see the error of their ways and an opportunity to make compensation to society, by labor on the farm and by making lime and crushing stone for commercial purposes. It is believed that a stone pile will do more toward giving this class of individuals a proper conception of the duty they owe to themselves and to the state, than will a privilege afforded them to swap stories over a deck of cards in a jail cell. Indiana's March Forward. Indiana moves forward. Our state was among the first states of the union to create a board of state charities, laying upon it the duty to investigate the whole system of public charities and correctional institutions and to review the management of any institution, whenever the board believed the same should be done, with the view of having errors corrected and new and modern methods adopted therein. The duties of this board are diversified, perplexing and arduous; but its work has been performed most efficiently and in a manner that has attracted attention and won approval throughout the country. The Rev.

I Francis H GavUk. flue 8^ e _ J 0““ that he U, has ls=g been a member of this board, quite recently brought honor to h . state by being elected pre->den of jr National Conference of Cbaiitiek C ’X te . B move. forward. O«r peoP-e are a practical people. IH<> J that the 1-ord helps those who .help themselves. They believe therefore that It is better to prevent illnes than ft is to take chances on curi b illness. For this reason they are b coming more and more watchful o sanitary conditions— they are champions of the public health. The typhoid germ was discorerei in 1881. That same year Indiana inaugurated her public health work. In 1899 our pure food statute was enac ■ ed. and we ure proud of the fact that, when congress came to legislate on that subject in 1905. it had the sound Judgment to appropriate much of our law. But 1 cannot now undertake to mention the progressive laws enacted in the interest of the public health. They are numerous, of course. That they are wise may be Inferred from the fact that health authorities of other states and of the federal government rank the work of our stat' board of health second to none. Disease Prevention Work. I know I shall be pardoned for sug gesting in this connection, thaX I have the honor of having issued, as governor, the first proclamation issued in this country asking the people of a state to observe a day as Disease Prevention Day. In my proclamation I said: "Health is the greatest of blessings and the source of efficiency and power. The enjoyment of life, and the achievement of liberty and happiness are impossible without it. There is nothing strikingly glorious in a civilization not founded upon intellectual ana moral as well as physical strength; for physical health is the surest foundation of mental and moral health." This proclamation attracted favorable attention throughout the nation. It was discussed in pulpits and by publicists: and in newspapers and magazines. The public spirited Nathan Straus of New York, in urging other governors to favor a disease prevention day said in part: “The governor of Indiana has proposed a plan that will pay dividends to the state and its people. The idea is one of the best that ever has been originated in this country. It is so good that I want to pass it along to you in the hope that you will adopt it in your state." As an evidence of the humane and progressive spirit of the people of Indiana. I cite the fact that no day, set apart by statute to be observed as a holiday, was ever as generally and as enthusiastically observed in Indiana as was Disease Prevention Day. Indiana moves forward. Indiana's Centennial. And now let me say to you. former sons and daughters of Indiana, those who have moved away from your old Hoosier home —the home where you were first loved and where you first reciprocated love —that next year your mother state will celebrate the hundredth anniversary of her admission into the Union of States. I know you will be interested in that historic event. Some of you will want to return on that occasion, because near the old home rest the remains of father and mother; and hallowed is the spot where their ashes lie. Some of you will want to return, because there you can regale yourselves anew with the stories and experiences you enjoyed in the flower of your youth, before you knew of the bitterness that comes with the breaking of family ties. Some of you will want to return to see how we, who have remained, have kept the old homestead—and the faith. You will find in many instances, that the walks about and the hearthstone in the old house have been worn out by the heel of time and replaced in modern stvle to meet our demands. The old well, with its moss covered bucket. Is no more to be seen. The winding pathway down to the spring Is no longer visible. And while these things will bring to you a touch of pathos and sorrow, on all hands the evidence of a happy peo-1 pie and a normal life—industrious? thrifty and cultured—will bring glad ness to your hearts. You will discover that we have been farsighted enough to know that we had to make our own fortunes and cannot rely upon other persons or the state to make them for us Having individually progressed through our own endeavor, we are now ambitious to make a creditable showing of our state’s greatness; and you are asked, because of the ties that bind us together, not to fail to witness this display of Indiana’s glorv. But you will also discover that your mother state, in her first century, has not lived for herself alone Her vision is world-wide and under the bow o promise of her patriotism a patriotism resting upon Justicewill be seen the manifestations of her fraternal spirlt-her affection tor all mankind. Just now Indiana t» solicitous for universal peace A ’ her moral strength is back of Pre. ' dent Edison, In his tireless efforts to heal the bleeding wounds of civlH zaUon and re-establish the golden rule and the open door between the n» Jons 01 the earth. Indiana would love her neighbors as herself and .h would find her neighbor wherever Je can serve in promoting civic ousness among men. w

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