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Show A LESSON FKOM N K B II ASK A. The people o Nebraska celebrated yesterday yester-day the silver Wedding of their statehood. It was a most appropriate, observance, because be-cause it marks a milestone in the progress of that lusty commonwealth. Twenty-five years ago Nebraska was considered con-sidered a part of the great American desert. Prophets aud wiseacres agreed that it would never amount to anything; that it would be impossible to raise cither fruits or grains anywhere except In the easter-most easter-most portion and when the capital cap-ital was Irnusfcrred from Omaha to Lincoln, a distance of about sixty-five miles, it was supposed that that would locate lo-cate it about the center of the habitable part of the. state. Such was the beginning of Nebraska as a state twenty-five years ago. To wonder her people meet today to celebrate the I achievements of a quarter century, and they meet in a city which, though not the largest in the state, still contains more inhabitants than the whole territory had at the time of admission. The erstwhile desert laud produces pro-duces now the best corn i rops in the world aud the enterprise of the people tias built up a town where the com fed hog is made king. There is a lesson in nil this for the people of Utah. Nebraska, after all is said, has few resources, and they are mainly agricultural. No precious ore, or coal, is found within her bordsrs. The climate is har6h and the tornado frequent and rain is irregular. irre-gular. The country is prairie and j unsightly. No lakes adorn the state. Trees are still scarce, and in the I northwest the "bad lands" form a consider-i consider-i able part of the area. But the pluck and unity of the people, overcome aii these drawbacks. What, with none of these to overcome, should Utah be? |