Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-01-25


elected state officers were inangurated.
Governor Martin, in opening the ceremO-
MES Of the occasion, made a brief address,
in which he said he was grateful to the citi-
zens Of Kansas for twice honoIIng him, but
that he surrendered his honOrs and authority
without regret, to resume his old station
among them with satisfaction and pride.
In introducing his successor he used well
framed eulOgistie sentences.
GOVERNOR HUMPHREYS uSAUGURAz-
Mr.. Chairman. and Lladi and Gentleman
In the presence of these Witnesses, one
public servanJ, after duty done, but ''putteth
OF the harness and IN the same presence,
''glrdeth 1t on"
With the Just approval of a people one has
served so long and we'll, he here suErendets
up 10 them the seals Of his official trust,
which IN turn, by the voice OF that same
people, recently expressed through the
forms of law, are cOnhded to me. AS by
the livery of Eelzens under the Ieudat law,
the transfer OF possession essential 70 the
complete lnVesU1tur5 or an estate IN lands
was publicly evidenced by the delivery of
the tWig Of q tree or patch of the TURF so
this ceremony here Is but sort OF livery OF
seizen, testifying the mere change IN pos
session Of pub ic Otice-the office Itself be-
ing perpetuity, the InCUmbenCy changing
from time to t1mes according to the popular
WILL as lawfully expressed and a6cer6alned
q
public trust, the very contemplation Of It's
responsibilities quickens a keen sense of
duty into feeling OF self-COusecratIOn to
the measured task lying before me.
In estimating the Importance Of the eI-
ecutiYe Office, as one of the CO. ordinate
branches Of government, the growing great
ness of our OmmonWealth cannon be ex-
Guided from view, so r.ch IN the halLoWeO
memories that hang over and about her early
days; IN the marvellous strides that have car
rled her forward, whereby she has oYertaken
eighteen Of her sisters and Vaulted into the
fifteenth place IN rank among the states;
and still richer in the bOundless possibilities
of the years thas shall round out the period
of the nineteenth century.
Kansas, in her career thus far, covers
what has been aptly characterized focal
period IN history, toward which the lines
of progress have cOnVerged, and beautl-
fully exemplities, IN her present cOndl-
tlOnss the philosophy OF DE IOcqueYllie,
that the growth of states bears some
marks OF their origin that the c1rcum-
stances of their birth and rise AFFECT the
whole term of their being. In Kansas this
may be observed in the liberal spirit of her
laws and in the genius of her institutions;
likewise in the prevailing ideas that have
dominated and prOpe led her with the gath
erlng momentum OF falling body. In
word, the high social and moral planes and
the intelligent aspirations OF her people, are
tr8Ceable, in a marked degree, to the law de-
ClRred by the great Frenchmen, having Its
root in the influence of the early history and
settlement of the state-an influence and
force that runs like golden thread through
out our later experience, at once charming,
fascinating and yet powerful, TO which
Kansas owes more than has ever been duly
acknowledged. For free Kansas was but the
first born child of the republican supre-
macy on American soil; the triumph of an
idea; tn idea Of the Pilgrim as against that
OF the Cavalier; the idea Of the founders OF
Lawrence over the idea Of the settlers Of Lee
compton. 1t was this conflict OF ideas that
made bleeding Kansas" seem like the last
effort of Divine Providence IN behalf of hu-
man liberty, the history or which mas De-
come classic, and reads like an epic pOems
and in which the early settlers OF Kansas,
brave men and heroic women, dared and en-
dured for great principle. With !ofEy
courage and sublime unsenshnesss mule
dreaming that they were thereby TO make
/ the name of Kansas luminous. synonym
for liberty and progress; or laying the IOun-
datiOns of g commonwealth whose subse-
| quent career and history should bear the i'm
press of their character and courageous
| struggles, so clearly reflected IN every
monument Of the Kansas of to-day.
But so it was, and the idea which thus
| triumpheGed in a free Kansas, and the in1u-
| ences going out from our early settlement,
are a living, eneTgiZing force IN all our
! moral, social and material progress. It has
! beaten back the buffalo and the Indian IN
/ blazing the pathway for a better clVlIlza-
/ ton; is has reclaimed Il barren waste and
made the great American desert fugitive
! and V6gabOnd on the face or the 6arCn
! a just rebuke to those geOgraphers, OF whom
/ gvgn Plutarch speaks, who ''croWd into the
/ edges of their maps parts of the world they
] know nothing about, adding notes IN the
/ margin that beyond lies nothing but dreary
! Wastes-sandy deserts"
/ By this force. of which speak, have We
/ even reversed Buckles law that great wealth
! must precede the highest civilization; for IN
/ all that constitutes true civilization the
| liberty and education of the masses as
| against the classes, IN the elevation or Wo-
! man by the enlargement OF her legal ana
I -
/ dignity of honest labor, in legislation
/ guarding the sancity Of the home the puF-
/ ity of the ballot, the health and morals Of
/ the people, IN the application OF the rule OF
( sfthe greatest good to the greatest number, y
/ which Priestly declares to be the Iounda-
! tiOn Of morals aud legislation In all these
! Kansas presents the highest type OF c1VIllza-
ton ever seen IN any 5LaL95 among any pSO-
/ pie, since civil government was instituted
/ among the sons OF men. 1t is clVIliza
/ zion at once unique and Ia advance Of
! great wealth among our people. Ot Its own
! kind It boast not OF a splendid state where
/ wealth accommodates and meo decay" but OF
| happy state where laws restrain cupIdity
| and greed; a civilization that breeds neither
bRrons nor beggars, nor luxury nor destItu-
/ ton; whose prime factors are the railroad,
/ the school house, the church and the press;
I liberty within the law; wherein happy
homes, cOnteuted GFegideE, intelligent indie
| pendent, honest men and women are the
chief end and glory Of the state. For after
all the state Of which We speak and are so
proud is not the soil We tread upons nor the
air we breathe, but the people, as they go
about their daily walk aud assemble nightly
in their homes, by the sacred hearth-stOnes,
the pillars Of society the affairs Of the re-
public.
1t is to this Kansas, of whose early infiu-
snCss have briefly spoken that millions
have been attracted from various quarters,
giving as a population at once heterogeneous
and homogeneous, through the alchemy Of
fEess co npUlsOry education, the assimiiat-
ing pow Of the railroad, the telegraph and
the press, and the influence Of OuF early set
Element. OF immigration Kansas gets q
generous share and the best, due somewhat
20 our location ca the highway to the other
So. 70 thu inrnnan.aElh Of cham Enmaa. a