The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-22

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above deaths. We have the infants
here, our schools are crowded, but
adults have gone.
"Of course heaven and cash have no
absolute or even recognized relation
ship, and the rapturOuS contemplation
Of our beatitudes is rarely marred by
thoughts of money. But still, how can
there be golden harps without gold,
and we must think of the gold when we
think of the harp-the harp that our
spiritual perfection in a municipal way
entities US in the near future to play.
I take the position that prohibition
is gigantic success; that the joint and
the bOOtlegger in Topeka are myths,
like Perseus and the Gorgon. That by
many years of prohibition the diabOli-
cal and disastrous appetite for cold
beer has been absolutely paralyzed;
and that hypoderInic injections of stat
utOry law have brought the people of
Topeka to the moral climax which l
have so accurat ely depicted. And 1 say
fearlessly that any person might as
well start in Topeka now to sell whales
as cold beer. Neither would fill a long
felt want because a mild solution of
Abilene and Manhattan as it gIides
gently down the KaW is good enough
for US.
A. A. GODDARD spoke on the subject,
THE Auditorium" He said:
VIII the auditorium be built? 1t
will. Why? Topeka needs it. Topeka
is the best residence city in the United
States. It's schools, churches, libraries.
handsome streets, ample dwellings and
excellent public institutions bespeak
the high character of its citizens L
venture to say that there is no city in
the United States of its size upon whose
streets can be seen so few human
wrecks. Other cities may point to their
magnificent palaces which OvershadOW
ours, but they do not show US the pow
erty and degradation there to be found.
1t is the of human conditions in
this city making up the aggregate of
our social condition which is something
of which we should be proud
1.-The auditorium is greatly needed.
Topeka is the natural convention city
of this state, a fact which it is unneces-
sary for me to mention at this time
The principal reason usually given for
the building of an auditorium is that it
will bring conventions here and that
these conventions will DrIng money to
US. There are other strong reasons why
we should build auditorium besides
that of bringing conventions, and there
are other reasons why We desire con-
VentiOns held here, aside from the mon
ey brought to our city thereby
In closing Mr.. GODDARD said:
And now in conclusion, allow me to
say that I expect before a 12-month has
passed away we shall have within our
city a handsome, substantial auditori-
UNI building which shall be a monument
to the public spirit and patriotism of
our citizens. l hope and trust that
when another season has rolled around
there will gather within our city and
within that building. a delegate cOnven-
ton representing the best citizens of the
state, RWhO Will, with views IN harmony
with their clean surroundings, there
place in nomination q state ticket COM
posed of able, honorable and fearless
men who Will, when elected, take their
positions in our capitol building free
from any political ENHANCEMENT that
might embarrass or harass them in the
discharge of their duty, actuated by
sterling integrity, and give US an ad-
ministratiOn of which every honest cit
izen in the state OF Kansas shall be
proud
The last speech of the evening was
by Maj J. K. Hudson on What the
Newspapers Contributed to the Build
ing of a City"
Among other things Major Hudson
said:
The newspapers are as necessary to-
day in building q city as carpenters are
in building a house. They are like the
carpenters-they do not own the struc-
tUre when built, they do not furnish the
capital with which to build it, and like
the carpenters, they generally see the
architects and owners get all the credit
when the city has grown to a success. /
The bankers, doctors, capitalists, build
ers, newspaper men and promoters of
towns remind US of the many wheels of
a watch, each useless without the 9th
ers and all essential to the perfect time
piece. In the years not long past. when
you and were boys. Mr.. TOaStmaSteT,
before the COnestOga wagon and the
tallOw candle We're memories, cities and
towns grew in a slow and natural way,
and churches, school houses and news
papers came along in due time. the le-
ultimate products and necessities of a
population. Today steam and electric
ity and boom methods have changed all
that. We now build the city around
the depot and telegraph office, the
school houses, the churches and the
newspaper Offices"