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search history other than that of our
own state for noble ideas.
The story of the foundation of our state
and its progress is like
a romance.
Well did Washington say in the dark days
of the Revolution
when he was questioned as to what he
would do if he met defeat,
that he would come out here and settle
in the valley of the Mus-
kingum. Several years ago a friend of
mine, a lady of Ohio,
met an English woman whose whole idea of
America was based
upon a winter spent on a ranch in
Colorado, and she said to this
lady: "What do you raise in
Oao?" "We call it Ohio, and we
raise chiefly great men and women."
And that was a very apt
reply, my friends, because that is what
we have done in this state
from its foundation. We have, from the
days of the passage of
the ordinance of 1787 down to the
present time, been in history.
It is useless for me to try to explain
to you what Ohio has done
for this Union; you already know. I
merely want to say that a
day like to-day marks a patriotic epoch;
and also, that it is par-
ticularly gratifying to me to see so
many children here, because
they learn by precept, and a day like
this is a wonderful object
lesson to the citizens of the future.
You know in former times
it used to be the custom when they
wanted to mark boundary
lines between two places they would take
the children out and
whip them and the children remembered
where they were whipped,
and in that way the record of the
boundaries was preserved. I
think this is on the same principle.
ADDRESS OF D. J.
RYAN.
I congratulate Morgan county and I
congratulate our society
on this occasion in doing honor to
itself and credit to the people
of this county in remembering in the
manner that they have the
noble pioneers who went before them, of
a century ago, and I
congratulate Mr. Brokaw on living to see
the day when his
judgment and patriotism inspired him to
contribute something
that will bear in the mind and keep the
memory green of the
younger generation, of those men and
women who laid the foun-
dation of this commonwealth. The
greatest thing that Ohio has
are its plain men and women who live
among the hills and on
the plains, and that consecrate their
lives to the dignity and