The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-05-13

q HlIfc. BuI the races OF Inc IdTI1STS
have no assured look They remember
the hot winds of last summer That
wind is Matched down in Oklahoma and
comes a whitening flame and in a day
the toll and sweat of months is net
even good straw.
"a wind blows now. It is a heavy
buffeting wind that threatens to bow
your coat of and your iackknife open
The tails and names of the horses in
the fields fare and the rims OF the dri-
vers' hate are blown backward and their
faces are painted dark. lesthery, IN
destructable tam A Kansas journalist
accounts Cor the stormy history of his
state by the wind; A cyclone or mon
soon in June and a blizzard in January
and no still day In a year.
1T works on the mind and partly &C
counts for old Ossawatomie Brown, Jer-
ry Simpson, Senator Ingalls, and Mrs.
Lease. There is plenty of politics max
ing at Topeka There were men in the
lobby of the hotel with a great deal on
their minds.
There vas a great deal of going
apart into quiet corners and whisper
ing:
Zen chiel would understand
The dell had business on mis- hand"
Kansas agrees with some people,
there are too many tall and big men in
sight. To tree that is not wrenched
in two and smashed to the earth by IL
a cyclone is good thing. 1t exercises
the roots and they run deep and reach
wide and take a terrible grip on the
anchored rocks. One must admire
Kansas.
OF all tie states but three will live in
story.
Old Massachusetts, with her Plymouth
Rock
And Old Virginia with her noble stock,
And Suuoy Kansas with her woes and
glory;
These three will live in song and or
atory.
While all the others with their idle
climes,
Will only be remembered as mere
names.
This audacious poem was written
by Kansas poet and IS not destitute of
gall.
The social science women of Kansas
were met at Topeka in convention. 1
looked at them; they looked like the
daughters Of the men who made Kan
saS a free state by bullets and ballots.
They looked to me as IL they would
vote If they wanted to vote. l should
not feel like saying anything against
it,unless had distance and,swift horse
and my foot in the stirrup. One must
have syrpat thy with these people, our
neighbors; they plough and reap and
gather into stocks, They know the cost
Of their wheat, but the price of 1t is
fixed in Liverpool. But they go right
on ploughIng the longest furrow ever
saw and not voting as wisely as they
might and will.
Stuck into Kansas hillside, far away,
Is a cabin built of sod and built to stay;
Through the windowlike embrazure,
Pours the mingled gold and azure
OF the morning of gorgeous Kansas
day.
As around his neck the arms of chill
dren twine,
Says the father: Courage, children,
never pine,
Though the skies around you blacl1en
DO not yield, the gale will slacken,
Faith and fortitude will win, children
minei
1.-THE cause of my seeing Kansas last
week was the annual meeting of the In
terstate Oratorical association. In
this league ten states are represented,
and over seventy colleges and universe
ties. There Is a college contest at the
first, and the winner then has to ccm-
pete with the other winners Of the state
and If he wins again he represents his
state and competes with the winners
Of the nine other state contests. IF he
wins again, he has. in the opinion of
the judges, proved himself the best in
thought. composition and delivery of
the field.
az accepted the invitation to be judg
because 1 wanted to know what the
young men of today are thinking, and
also TO know If they were thinking to-
gether. l have great confidence in the
power of associated thought When
two or three are met together, then
One more.
when all the people say Amen there
will be a new heaven and a new earth.
That Y i'll be the signal for the end of
this world Of prejudice, bigotry. ignor-
ance and conventions. The fashion OF
this world will pass away. I wanted
to know of what the young men were
thinking. 1t Is a significant thing
the program:
THE subjects are these:
"First-'The Twentieth Gentry Polit-
ical Idea
'sSecond-'The Lawlessness OF Materi-
alism.'
''Third-'The Philosophy of Progress
''Fifth-'The Mob and the Law
''Sixth-'The Evolution of the Frater-
nal Spirit
'sSeventh-'The American IDEAL
''Eighth-'Has Industrial Society At
tanned Its Ultimate Form
There was only one break in the con-
tinufty OF the program, and that was
the fourth. which was an analysis and
a good ore OF the life and work of Jim |
Lane. Otherwise these orations might
be woven IN a book entitled The TWEEN
tieth Century and the book might 60 !
in as chapters. The book might he |
called TIE Burial OF Cain and the Res |
direction of Christ
'Tt would seem that one wave Of |
thought lad rolled over ten states and |
seventy colleges This common thought |
was so marked that there were repeu |
tons.
''Tennyson's prophesy II the day when |
The war drums throo no longer
And tire battieflags are furled
In the parliament of ma n
The federation of a world
was repsote ted in effect FIVE times
The wrestling Of Magma Charta from |
King Join the first Won the battle for |
the people. was mentioned in four ora !
tiors.
IF these young men had been in con- |
sultation months before as how 70 say 1
the same thing nine times in nine Diff 1
ferent WIS. they could not have been /
more successful. OF course there were 1
faults. boy under a teacher that he 1
likes vii, be disposed 20 copy his de- 1
feczs. Three years IN a theological \
sernfue-y ! listened once a day 20 q 4