The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-05-13
Mr.. REED ON KANSAS.
Tho Noted Divine breaches q
Sermon on Kansas.
Kansas Zephyrs Account for
John Brown and Simpson.
College, Cratory and CompoSis9
Thoueht-Things Men Are Talk
ing About on Trains

ing About on Trains
The following extract is taken i -
sermon bv Rev. AIyron Heeu "a ~,
sas.a published in the Denver I-5p
can and delivered immealAl7is
his return from Topeka
..Es,,+ n was encouraged by my Atlle
+-fr into Kansas Kansas is TOT ol-~9
~+ WEI and green-emerald green
r-te~a ~ the promise of an enormous
crop Of wheat and corn The corn is up
and the wheat is beginning 70 wave
1f+t1a But -he faces Of the FARMERS
have no assured look. They reIneIiloel
the hot wind Of last summer ll'te
wind is Matched down In Ckiaioiiie
and comes a whitening flame and IN q
day the toll and sweat q months H
not even good straw
"A wind blows now. 1t is q heavy,
bunetfng wind that threatens e PIC"
YOUR coat Off ana your jack H1lll1@ open
The tails and names OF lhe 1o57 ~
the fields dare- and the rims OF ltle GIG
--efs- hatsara blown backward ana Lh9ll
faces are painted a dark. teatnHis, -A-
dastructibIa tan. A Kansas JOURNALIST
accounts for the stormy history or ms
soon III June and a blizzard In January
and no still day in q year
.tIt works ON the mind and parity ac-
counts for old OssaWaromle Brown
Jerry Simpson. Senator Ingalls, ana
Mrs. Lease. There is plenty Of pQiilles
making at Topeka There were men III II,
the lobby Of the hotel with q great deal
-There was great deal Of going
apart into quiet corners and whisper
ing.
.E'en q child would understand
The dell had business on his hand
kansas agrees with some people;
Nrr
sight To a tree that is not wrenched
ia two and smashed to the earth Dy H.
a cyclone is q good thing. IL exercises
the roots and they run deep and reach
wide and take q terrible grip ON the an
chored rocks. one must admire Kan
sas.
OF all the states but three wiz live in
story.
Ola Massachusetts with her Plymouth
And Old Virginia with her noble stock.
And sunny Kansas with her woes and
These three wiz live in song and ora
white an the others with their idle
WIN only be remembered as mere
names.
This audaCiOus poem was written by
a Kansas poet and is not destitute Of
The social science women Of Kansas
were met at Topeka In convention
looked at them, they looked like the
daughters of the men who made kan
sas a free state by bullets and bellOts-
They looked TO me as If they would
vote # they wanted to vote f should
not feel like saying anything against it
unless I had distance and swift horse
and my foot in the sirrup- One must
have sympathy with these people our
oeignbors' they pillow and reap and
gather into stocks They know the cost
Of their wheat but the price of il is
fixed in Liverpool But they go right
on plowing the longest furrow ever
saw and not voting as wisely as they
might and Will.
stuck into a Kansas hillside far away.
Is cabin built Of sod. and built to
stay
Through the window like embrazure
Fours the mingled gold and azure
81 ne morning Of q gorgeous Kansas
As around his neck the arms of chill
dren Irvine
Says the father: COURAGE children +
never pine
Though the skies around you blacIzen
ne not yield the gale VIII slacken
altn and forurude viii win, children .
minel'
The cause of nv seeing Kansas last
week was the annual meet Of the inter-
state oratorfa1 association In +bfe
league ten states are reurespned and I
over 10 colleges and uni -ersftfes There {
n-A--lei lnen mas 20 compete with the
other winners Of the state and fl ha
WINS again he represents his state ana /
e-t-peles with the winners of the nine f
4tAsf state contests IF he wins AGAIN +
--1 mas ln Ihe opinion OF the Judges {
proved himself the best in thought
com pOslIlOn and delivery of the field
accepted the invitation to be q ftl,7 - +
--e--7H wanted to know what rAa I
s9-As men OF today are thinking. and +
ai7o -o know ~ they are thinking ~ f
@9-li14- nave great confidence ia 4ba +
power OF associated thought When Two !
81 three are met together. then one /
When all the people saw Amen +
earth 1- = me-" +
THAT win be the signal for the end
OF Inls world of prejudice bfrofrv f.
A9lance and conventions The faShf1r, j
81 TINS world VIII pass away / wanted +
t9 know or what the young men were +
programme -ii7
The subjects are these.
e., l5sl- The Twentieth Century Poll /
seeond-'rhe LawIessness of MA
1nird-.Ihe Philosophy of PROGRESS
lItn-.Ihe Mob and the Law
al 49,. ~. Inc Evolution Of the Frarer- I
nth-'The American Ideal,
h-ls aln-. Has Industrial Society At /
~a5Iea IT'S Ultimate Form o.
--t--eLl- Inc Policy Of Aetternich
.-,4s-,--s- ~ 81 only one break In the +
-i1s OF ehe programme, and that I
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