The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-01-01
RAISE UP
YOUR VOICE.
A Glorious State Wide CeIebra-
tiOn Of Kansas Day
Proposed as a Defiance of East
ern SIanderS.
Let Every Flag Be Flung to the
Breeze,
CANNONS BE FIRED.
All the Bells Rung and Steam
Whistle Blown.
Public Meetings In Every Town
and City In Kansas.
10 Adopt Patriotic Resolutions
For Our State
Public Meetings In Every TOwr
and City In Kansas.
TO Adopt Patriotic Resolutions
For Our State
y JANUARY 18th NEXT
The Birthday of the Best State
In the Union.
The Gem of the Entire Sister.
hood of States.

has maQe al
proposition which ought to meet with
instant response from every corner of
Tue state The Times proposes that
January ~, Kansas day. be made a
general holiday to glOrify our state and
HlnS back in the faces of the eastern de-
tractors our defiance of their abuse and
malignant Misrepresentation Let every
nag in the state be hung out everv
Dell rung, every whistle blown and
every gun fired. Let Kansas make of
the occasion a midwinter Fourth of
July Public meetings should be held
ana resolutions breathing of patriotism
and love for our own state shouId he
adopted The cry stand up for Kan
saS should be taken up by every man
woman and child of the 1900 900 in
Kansas. Houses should be decorated
and flags and badges worn 1t is time
our people stood together shoulder to
shoulder for their own state. The State
journal believes that this demonstra-
ton Will be taken hold Of with an en-
thusiasm such as Kansas alone is ca
pable of Remember January 29.
The Kansas defamers shall hear of
Kansas IN no uncertain tones
The IeavenWorth Times editorial on
this subject says:
''Unwarranted libel of the state from
within is an intOlerable offense From
without it is not so surprising.
Ever since the election of last No
Vember the name of Kansas has been
traduced and abused without reason or
moderation. Every yelping dog has
Wrinlled, hardened sinner has thrown
a stone al Kansas. Every cesspooi of
ignorance, Squalor and iniquity in the
east has gasped a curse at Kansas
We believe that Kansas is too strong
and white and pure to be spotted by
these vile assaults. She will hold her
own by her own intrinsic worth The
armor of her Spotless character is i'm
pregnable. The vitality, the sinew, the
wealth of the state will be untouched
and unretarded by puny and dastardIy
ISLANDERS.
mot to rebut these ISLANDERS. and not
to advertise the state-but just for
sheer love and patriotism-it would be
a hitting thing to have a real Kansas
celebration on Kansas Day. It would
be nOta bic occasion to express the
faith and affection which the people of
Kan as feel in their own great state
anuary 29 is the anniversary of the
admission of Kansas into the Union.
That is Kansas Day, and it has been
celebrated annually by a banquet at
which some of the flower of Kansas
young manhood have sounded her
praises and uplifted her standard in
oratOry and song.
But the approaching Kansas Day
might we'll be endowed with wider
scope and a wider significance, and
celebrated generally throughout the
state by public decorations, meetings
and banquets.
THE birthday of the state is an oc-
casion which the loyalty and love of the
tees should be formed to organize
proper celebrations.
The people will not be backward in
giving the movement a vigorous sup
port. They will stand up for Kansas.
They have reason to be proud of their |
state.
In this broad union and sisterhood
of free commonwealth no more ster- !
ling Americanism can be found than
that which constitutes the manhood
and WomanhOod of Kansas. No pursr !
sense Of honor, no truer moral fibre, no |
juster integrity, no fairer ideal OF lib |
erty and glory can be found in any |
commonwealth on this continent on
this globe.
Though the state is yet in its youth, |
it has not only triumphed in its con- |
quest of nature and developed a match |
less material wealth, transforming a |
vast wilderness into a garden, titled |
and planted and mined, interested with |
roads and railways, but it has built |
churches, asylunls, hospitals proper
tionally far superior to the achieve |
ments of older states.
kansas has contributed to the cul-
ture, the ideas, the high sentiments and |
aspira tions of the world. Her record |
of patriotism is written in a history
resplendent with heroism- She was
first and foremost in the battle for hu-
man freedom and American unity.
What son of Kansas has reason to
feel ashamed of her2 Who is he that |
will charge her with disgrace and dis
honor? Who so blinded with partisan
ship as to turn against this glorious
state which has not yet and is never
likely TO have one blot upon its es-
,utcheon2 Obliterate his name as that |
Of traitor. however distinguished il
night be
We snail march prospering-not
through his presence;
Songs may inspfrit us-not from his
-S,.. s,-i.l he, 7c,,5a-x.,t,ila ~. bo,s+s hi
quiescence,
stin bidding crouch whom the rest
bade aspire.
Let US have Kansas Day celebra-
ion which will make the fires of pa
rioism glow with intenser ardor-'