The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-06-23

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business management can be offered for
these wide discrepancies.
interest paid on paving and sewer bonds
and the annual special tax for these i'm
provements. and the per capita cost is
only $1O.s6. which is far below the average
of American cities. During the past IL
provements, inciuding interest, s. So, ss6 81.
and the total Indebtedness for this pur-
money that we have been sending abroad
will hereafter be kept moving through the
own midst. The bonded Indebtedness of
Topeka for general purposes is now only
mature September Is, 1915
The Topeka of today has better streets,
finer buildings and smaller debts than any
western city of similar size The Topeka
of the future will continue the suspicious
and viii present to the world a city in
which there is a greater diffusion of gem
eraI education and a smaller percentage of
illiteracy and crime than any other or
ganized community upon the face of the
In the formative years of city, bonds
may be necessary, but the Topeka of the
Should witness a clean Balance Sheet upon 19dGi
Here is a city Of $1,000 population that
doesn't owe a dollar and we will offer
ton"
"As We See Ourselves
To the toast LAS We See Ourselves" Mr..
style. He said:
Il am informed by the committee on
toasts that L am expected to act in a col
lective capacity on this occasion and pre-
sent to the attention of the assembled
guests the view that we take of ourselves
as whole: To one who has spent the
quiet pastoral pursuits or in short grass
village where the, sound of the coyotes
bark may be heard at eventide, bowling
centuries, and where but few brief years
annual banquets and III filled Il their interiors
with land terrapin and boiled dog, this
thing of imagining himself composite
representative of 10000 people of all ages,
sexes, compleXions and previous condi-
lions of servitude, is no easy task. feel,
indeed. that when attempt in my feeble
way to present picture of Topeka as she
plate mirror of inspection, 1 feel that I
have separated considerably more with
masticate with my intellectual molars.
"A detailed account of the features and
charms of Topeka as they present them
selves to the minds eye of the loyal citi-
zen who resides within her borders, would
of course occupy more time than it would
be possible to allot to any one speaker,
in view of the fact that everyone present
has other business that will occupy his
attention between now. and the ides of
November Some Of the he, guests of this
engage in a campaign for the purpose of
showing the plain, common people, who
will furnish the votes, that the eyes of the
world are focused on Kansas waiting to
see who will be chosen to issue notary
public commissions during the coming BIZ
ennial period-a campaign, gentlemen,
which the governor on another occasion
has we'll said will be Sunday school
picnic excursion. I am compelled, there
fore, to confine myself to a few salient
facts which 1 will endeavor to present
with that charming franknesS and mod
esty which is at once the most noticeable
and remarkable feature of Topeka char
acter. c,-,
club is to detail the advantages of the
place residence and
If sensible individual is looking for
vocational and business advantages am
see it ourselves, but to cite few facts
to establish the correctness of our vision.
supposed to be unconfined, I do not, speak
ing for Topeka propose to intrude an eX,
clearly establish our contention that To-
peka is astonishing for the average lon-
of mortality. Pestilence has never sta!ked
within her borders. and the microbe of
even in the lower levels of Smoky Row.
No sky-scraping buildings shut out the
necessary to inhibition your collar to
breath on her broad avenues Unless the
constitutional ailment when he strikes the
town he is almost certain to live to a phe-
bate court show that at the ripe age of
Jos citizen of Topeka embarked on the
of four score winters, but he is a wreck
mumbling with toothless gums of mem
cries of the past In Topeka, however,
heart turns lightly to thoughts of love
and the task of rearing an intelligent pos
80 far as society and culture are con-
cerned reStTaning m0desty Rrevens the he
knows the facts will warrant. 1 can give
an Illustration which shows in Feeble
way the true condition of affairs in this
A WORTHY citizen
nicipality had been called from the tolls of
the the Keeper Of the heavenly gate for ad-
mission. 'Ah,' said Saint Peter, as he
Coming from Topeka, you of course need
no certificate of character, but L regret to
up to the standard to which you have been
accustomed. We are endeavoring, how
New Jerusalem, and if there was some
way of securing from one of your physi-
clans, whose name has just now. escaped
would be a go
I'm a business way we are conservative
until we are satisfied thing is the right
rush forward with the impetuous speed Of
a glacier For example, years ago We
became satisfied that the Kaw should be
turning the spindles of trade. The man
Crowded " to eom rlI rei shows that we
brook no opposition and yield to no OBJ
sn a9torum OF TIE ~ arose
from expressed objection on the part
of many persons who came here to attend
conventions, to being stewed prior to the
expiration of their earthly pilgrimage
Once determined upon, the movement has
proceeded steadily toward its accompish-
ment. Auditorium has been a household
word in this city. Persons of middle age
can recollect how they talked that word
in their early childhood and wondered
what it meant. The word auditorium has
been handed down from father to son:
and. so help us. we promise that it shall
be handed down, if necessary, unto the
third and fourth generations.
Il have not time speak of the BUSH
ness enterprises of which we are proud; in
fact they are beginning to speak for them
selves. Topeka flour has crossed the con-