“...  What the state needs is a business man in the executive chair.  We are all stockholders in common, yet the ship of state seems adrift, without chart or compass, pilot or captain.  In casting about for a governor who would fully meet all requirements, one name stands alone.  Joel Wells can give M——­ a business administration.  Educated in the rough school of experience, he has fought his way up from a poor boy on the plains to an enviable leadership in the many industries of the state.  He could bring to the executive office every requirement of the successful business man, and impart to his administration that mastery which marks every enterprise of Wells Brothers....”

The golden age is always with us.  If a moral were necessary to adorn this story, it would be that no poor boy need despair of his chance in life.  The future holds as many prizes as the past.  Material nature is prodigal in its bounty, and whether in the grass under our feet, or in harnessing the waterfall, we make or mar our success.