The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-01-30

young men came running. ''It is so dis
| tressing," they said, but captain neither
Would you mind firing another gun?"
~, Then e,t that captain drew himself up to
with great determine ton:
the general resurrection?' ''''f- ms =
Men of the Kansas Day club, and espe-
cially members of the. legislature, there
is very brief application for that story.
Some of the Populists may come around
legislation-by some little innocent bill
! to recover just one of the late departed
Be careful lest by firing a gun you bring
you may bring up two more. Don't fire
rection &c of Pop 5 With It's spectre of
! hate and sectionaIsm-the thing which, as
dreadful wrong.
KIPLING'S PROFESSIONAL HYMN.
Gentlemen. the man who by common con-
sent seems to be regarded as the greatest
living constructive master of the English
tongue recently wrote a few simple lines
historical event, the diamond jubilee of
press all that the writer felt and he is
said to have tossed them aside They
his wife, an American girl from the hills
of Vermont, and they were given to the
Broad, so reveTenfiaI " and so majestic in
sentiment that not only Englands peo-
everywhere took up their refrain and Kip
ling's Recessiona1 Hymn has become
national prayer girting the globe in pa
triouc applications:
Lord God of Hosts! Be with us vet
Lest we forget; lest we forget
Surely in these days of good feeling be-
tween us and Great Britain, we violate
no proprieties and do no wrong to the pur-
poses of their distinguished author, if. en-
larging the scope of these words, ap-
propriate their spirit and apply them to
our own nation We, too, may say in fer
vent earneStness:
Lord God of Hosts, Be with us yet,
Lest we forget; lest we forget.
Yes. lest we forget our history. our ira
ditions our duties. our opportunities; lest
thought of the generations that are to
come; lest we forget our heroes and our
martyrs; lest We forget the Pilgrims of
sas: lest we forget Franklin and Wash
days. and Lincoln and Seward and Stan
ton of later days; lest we forget Paul
Bainbridge and Farragut and Cushing and
others of the navy that are gone. and
main: lest we forget Greene and Putnam
and Gates and Jackson and Taylor and
others of the army that are gone. and
Miles and Merritt and Roosevelt that
necticut and John Brown of Kansas: lest
we forget our long line of statesmen and
multitude of public spirited citizens; lest
we forget our mistakes and our escapes;
lest we forget that ever have our poor
lives and that always have our rich
matched this devotion with their treasure
things that the man who would sow dis
cord among is not blood of blood
and flesh of our flesh. and that we are one
people, one nation, now and forever; aye,
in truth we may exclaim:
Lord God OF Hostsi Be with US yet,
Lest we forget; lest we forget
1.-The Right Use of Political Power
was the subject of the address delivered
by John H Order, of Fort Scott
He said it was matter of congratu-
lation that both state and nation are
now under Republican rule, for the Re-
publicanS always used their power
Alright, and it was only because of some
intellectual freak that the people oc-
casionalIy wander away from Repub-
lican standards. The right use of politi-
cal power, he said, is to advance the