Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1886-09-25

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for school buildings and the support Of pub
lie schools, intending our Institutions 70
higher education, fully S35, OOJ,OOO.
Churches have multiplied with proper
uOnate rapidity. In 1860 we had only 9
church buildings costing an aggregate Q
only S143, $50; in 1885 we had over 1900, val
ued at more tran s., O0O, OOO
In 1850 only y newspapers were publlshe,
in Kansas; we now have over go, of Whicl
fully 40 are da1l1ess and their aggregate CIR
culatlou exceeds 400, GOO copies. Every count
IN the state, organized OK unOrganizsd, nov
has one or more newspapers; and no Othe
state in the union can boast Of more enter
prlslng and Intelligently conducted pres
than that Of Kansas.
The provisions made for the unfOrtunat,
have been most generous. Two asylumE To-
the insane have been erected; and the insti
/ 5uuOns for the blind and for the deaf anC
/ dumb are among the largest and best in the
| United States. An asylum for feeble mind
[ ed children has been provided. The Sol
/ diers' Orphans home, noble charity, Illus
] tratlng the grateful loyalty OF our people
| VIII soon be completed. A reform school
| for wayWard boys Is in successful operation
/ and the state, following the example of the
/ most advanced commemorative Is now
| erecting an industrial r6rOEmaUOry Tor the
| confinement Of law breakers who are not
| hardened criminals, thus removing this
| class, who may possibly be reclaimed by
| wholesome discipline, from the degradation
| of the penitentiary.
| KANSAS, THE CHILD OF THE REPUBLICAN
PARTY.
! In citing these facts and figures showing
/ the marvellous growth of Kansas / am not
| asserting or Intimatiug that our fellow citi-
| Zens Of other political organizations have
| not contributed their full share of the reVe-
nues necessary TO build and maintain the
| institutions enumerated. NOR do l claim
| that to republicans alone are due all credit
would be folly OF which L hope L
am not capable But IL Is true
that this wonderful development could
not and would not have occurred if the
| government Of the state had been what our
political opponents assert it has beeu-COE-
rupt tyranicaI, weak and bad. / appeal to
the average common sense OF any good cltI-
zen, to make answer whether Kansas could
possibly be what 1t Is to-day, one Of the
greatest and most prosperous states of the
union, if its government had been the weak
and wicked thing democratic orators and
newspapers assert that II has De6nE i ap-
peal from Philip, drunk with partisan pre-
Judice, to Philip, sober enough to realize the
wonderful growth and to be proud of the
splendid state we inhablr. Here Is the Kan
sas of our love and our faIth-lOOk around
you and see 1t. Every citizen of the state,
no matter what his political opinion may be,
is proud of Kansas. And yet Kansas, more
than any other region under the shining
stars, Is the product, the child of the repub-
hcan party. Republicans have guided and
directed its growth and Development from
manhood. Republican intelligence. repub-
ucau policy, republican courage, enterprise
and sagaCity, have inspired It's laws, estab-
lshed and moulded It's Institutions, and
controlled every step and stage Of its
marvellous development. There Is
no state in the American union where there
are, IN proportion TO population, so many
happy and prosperous homes as are found
in the state of Kansas and are comfortably
clad. There Is no people anywhere on the
earth where so many wives and children sit
down. every day to substantial meals nor
where so large a proportion are sober, intel
ligeut, and contended with their lot, as here
in Kansas. And this great state, as / have
said, is the child of the republican party
bone of its bone, and flesh of Its flesh. 1t
has grown great and powerful aud pros
porous because 1t has grown up under re
publican laws and republican direction. Its
schools, It's churches, It's charities, It's lnstl-
tutlOns, It's industries have been planted
nurtured and promoted under the en-
cOuragement of republican intelligence.
Kansas is a shining illustration of the bsnsfi-
cencs of republican policy and principles.
It's growth has surpassed that Of any other
American state, because Kansas has always
been a republican state. The people know
this. The most bitterly preiudicsd demo
crat IN the land realizes it, wonders at It,
and in his secret heart rejOices over it.
THE TWO PLATFORMS.
Our democratic opponents, however, chal-
lenge the right of the republican. party to a
grounds Read their platform, and you
viii see that the first and principal plank Is
general and very bitter remuneration OF
''al sumptuary laws, state or national and
an emphatic demand for a return to the
license system. They are opposed, the plat
form declares, $50 the principle Of cOnstItu-
tiOnal prohibition" They regard 1t as an
invasion of ''the individual liberty and man
hood of the citizen" And they favor, Gin
stead of constitutional or statutory prohlbi-
ton, a well regulated and just license sys-
tenn"
The republican platform, on the other
hand, declares that ''the people of Kansas
have adopted prohibition as the settled
policy Of the state, and have declared that
the saloon, with Its CORFU t and d6mOFaIZlng
influences, must co. The republicans are,
therefore, the platform declares, sin favor
of carry govt this verdict OF the people,
by enacting laws to enforce 1t, and by faith
fully executing those laws, so that the sale
of Intoxicating liquors, except for the pur-
poses specified in the constitution, may be
made impossible"
On this question, as you viii see, the two
parties radically disagree. The republicans
take their stand fairly on the constitution of
the state-On the action of the sovereign
people of the state who by their votes, have
placed the liquor traffic and the saloon un-
der the ban of their organic law. The dem
Ocrats denOunc5 the constitution and laws of
the state and favor a return TO the license
system.
Prohibition, it should aforementioned, was
not originally a party or partisan policy.
Neither the republican nor the democratic
party is responsible for the fact that the
prohibition amendment to the constitution
was adopted. That was the act of the SOW
ersign people of Kansas, acting IN their in
dividual capacity, without partisan or party
endorsement or direction.
HISTORIC PARALLELS.
Bat in another sense, the republican party
is responsible for prohibition. 1t was always
and is everywhere the party OF law and good
government. IL stood for the constitution
and laws during the dark and desOlate days
OF 1851, and grew to manhood amid the
perlls and trials OF q mOustrOus rebellion
against the peoples government and the
peoples verdict that the aggr5sslons of hui
man slavery must cease. When the people
Of Kansas adopted the constitutional amend
ment of 1880, and decEeed that the saloon,
with It's corrupt and demoralzlng Influences
must 60 the republican party accepted this
decision, and a republican legislature enacted
laws to enforce 1t. The democratic party,
from that day to this, has constantly ana
perslstently endeayOred to nuLlIty the con
5tltunOnal amendment and the people
verdict against the saloon. History, it is
said repeats ITSELF and certainly the history
Of the democratic refusal TO accept the de-
eisiOn of the people of Kansas on the ques-
ton of prohibition, and the democratic re-
fusal TO accept the result of the election of
1880 afford striking parallels. In 1850
slavery CrOuched behind armed rebellion; in
1886 the saloon CrOuches behind democratic
notification. The republican party was
the party of the constitution and the laws in
1861; it is the party of the constitution and
the laws to-day. In 1861 the democratic
party advocated and defended that sum of
all vlllainiess human slavery it is to-day az
vocating and defending that fruitful source /
Of vice, poverty and crime, the liquor
traffic. The republican party was right in
1861; it is right now. In 1863 it made every
man beneath the flag free and equal, and
to-day it Is striving to make every home in
Kansas a happier home. it has Loyalty and
honestly accepted the solemn duty de-