Excerpt from Corn Is King Corn: Its Origin, History, Uses, and Abuses, Being the Substance of Addresses
As most of you are aware, I enjoyed the distinguished honor of representing the young agricultural giant, Ne braska, at the World’s Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition, New Orleans, La., 1884 - 5. When I ac cepted the position tendered me by the president of the United States, as commissioner, I determined to make a point on the great staple product of Nebraska, corn. The first banner I flung to the breeze in government building, had inscribed on its folds, Corn is King. To’go south and claim king for any other soil product than cotton, especially at the Cotton Centennial, was deemed an in tolerable bit of impudence, in nowise orthodox - a broad gauge departure. Cotton, sugar, and tobacco, all elevated their nasal protuberances, saying by actions, which are said to Speak louder than words, How dare you Min mesota, the state with boundless wheat fields glinted our next door neighbor at the exposition, was to arms in the twinkling of an eye, pressing the superiority of wheat and’ invoking the muses to aid her in obliterating our banner inscription. Colorado, Kansas, Illinois, and Dakota set themselves to work manufacturing huge artifi cial ears to eclipse our natural growth of Chester County Mammoth. For a time outsiders entertained doubts as’
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