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

must devote our attention to its COM
merciaI and manufacturing interests.
our people will gladly extend a helping
hand but there must be strong central
organization to direct their energies eX-
tended in a practical and effective way.
I'VE now have manufacturing inter-
ests here that have shown remarkable
results. They have pushed to the front
until Topeka made goods are known all
over the land and our millers send the
products of Kansas wheat to the people
our genial friend, Mr. Charles Wolff,
whose guest I have the honor to be this
evening, links the name of Topeka with
that OF his company on thousands OF
cases, cans and other packages, until
both have become household terms in
countless American families.
In this connection we must not for
get that retiring and unassuming pub
lie benefactor, Otto Kuehne, who ad-
Vertises in practical ways the name of
Topeka on the best goods of their kind
made in this country.
And I could continue this list, but it
is sufficient to say that Topeka flour,
Topeka meats, Topeka canned goods,
Topeka pickles, Topeka boilers, Topeka
engines and many other Topeka pro-
ducts are equal to those made in any
city
Topeka is the favorite convention
city of a vast area and especially SO
with Kansas gatherings. Build the
Auditorium and they will all come.
Manufacturers who will locate with us
in the future will be welcomed, encour-
aged and patrOnized.
In connection with your Commercial
club, organize a home industry club,
teach our people to buy of home mer-
chants. You as a Commercial Climb can
add TO Topeka's Importance by persist
ent work Make your dues moderate,
eXtend your organization until it in
cIudes every industry, every business
ana every calling in the city. Make your
club compact union. and it will be
come necessity. Act in harmony and
IN earnest. Proclaim the advantages of
IOpeka in all directions. You need not
eXaggerate-the truth is enough. That
reads like page of romance. Stand by
your city and your home"
one OF the greatest hits of the even
ing was the toast of c. H. Patterson of
the Kansas Creamery company to THE
Kansas Cow. Among the good things
he said are the following:
THE west must learn to reIv 11Dou
herself rather than be deIuded by this
quadrennial delusiOn of platform nr,Orr7-
ises as the hope of her delusive specu-
iatlon-these great upheavals of popu-
lar motion, generated by partisan de-
sign DO not eventuate in tidal waves of
prosperity, they are only sub-lunar
tides, Spluttering white cans foam
crowned with political froth. which on
~ blind poets designate silver waves
on golden sands
dependence on them is neither sci
entlhc nor philosophic; we must create
our capital, develop our resources
conserve our native substance and spec
ulate only upon our surplus"
After showing what the COW can do
TOT Kansas Mr. Patterson said:
In short, the Kansas COW is the
grandest transmuter of earth. air and
water into silver and gold into health
wealth and wisdom, that has ever
been discovered or invented.
NO wonder she was above law in
israel, IS sacred in India, sleeps in the
tent of the Arab and occupies the mar
hac
hOnOrS honestly
She is the universal godmother to
everybody from children to pigs Civ
iHzatiOn would wane without crean m for
Strawberries. Love would run into IL
centOusness in hot weather if it was
not for ice cream at 10 cents a dish
and the soothing mill1-shake for a
nickel
Hungry legislatures may get fat on
Oleomarga airline, but human beings want
butter and milk ana cheese to sustain
CIVILIZATION and by high order of life
and business, by full fed children and
hearty men, create and sustain perma-
nent commercial prosperity.
I drink from the Kansas COW to the
Commercial club; may the one be as
great a success as the other already is
and both work together for the pros
perity of Kansas"
Eugene f. Ware, who talked about
The New and Greater Topeka" made
an address satirical in it's tone. He
said in part:
We have in Topeka beautiful little
city of 10000, including the suburbs; a
splendid class of inhabitants: the
brightest lot of women on earth, and no
saloons. By appropriate constitutional
methods We have been deprived of any
impulse to drink anything stronger than
hydrant water as may be seen by the
banquet table before us, and we have
taken the legislative Kelley cure for
vice and crime. We have now become
by statutory enactment the highest and
most perfect type OF moral people on
earth, and we are living here in that
unmistakable bliss that Buddha speaks
of and are being absorbed into the
transcendental by a continual cOntem-
platton of our own goodness and ex-
cellence
The prohibition law prohibits. There
is nothing to prevent il. We are all for
it. 1t is our creed. Spirituous liquors
are of the past. They are a rancid rem
iniscence. We do not keep them in our
houses. To this picture there are no col
Ors that are not bright, no recOlIectiOns
that are not happy, except one, and that
is, that in a financial sense,in an earth
" and groVeling sense, in a low, bassO
prOfundo sense, We're hard up. Our
rate of taxation is four and a half per
cent. Under it manufactures languish
and without manufacturers Topeka
cannot grow, and more bonds are being
issued.
I'VE gained last year 800 population,