Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-01-18
GOV. sTANLEY's ADDRESS.
Delivered ut His InauguratfOns
as Governor at Noon.

The following is Governor Stanley's S
inaugural address:
"The whole world is getting ready
for the advent of the new century.
The gears are filled with the spirit OF
fraternity.
lone of the greatest nations of the
Old World is advocating a general
disarmament in anticipation of the
time wien armies shall beat their
swords into plow shares, and their
spears into pruning hooks
The greatest nation Of the New
World, in the midst of unequalled
commercial victories has turned aside
from business pursuits long enough
to do for humanity the most unselfish
act that has been done since the man
of Gallilee gave himself for others.
A new song is bursting forth on the
air. Every note is a sound of joy
and its chorus is a pean of good will .
Each line is freighted with senti
ments of good fellowship and the
accompaniment is touched with the
fingers of love on the great key board
of human sympathy. 1t had its be-
ginning more than eighteen hundred
years ago on old Judea's plains, when
wondering shepherds listened to the
heavenly chorus of peace and good
will to men.
"It will have it's end when the sun
light of peace shall flood the earth
with its glory, and when the sons Of
men shall meet upon the plane of a
universal brotherhood.
"Kansas is in touch with all the
hope the present brings, and will
strike no discordant note in the song
of triumph and is getting ready to
greet the new century with a shout
of welcome.
''Its toilers-on the farms-in the
workshop-at the bench-on the rail
road-behind the counter-and in the
mines are prosperous, contented and
happy.
Discord is giving way to harmony.
We are leaving our flowns with the
l9tn century so we can greet the Goth
with smiles. Some of us
have burdened the old years with
censure, but we are getting ready to
greet the new years with praise.
"It's a great thing to be Kansan
Greater yet to be representative of
Kansas thought and purpose and
sentiment, and greatest of all to rep
resent that thought and purpose and
sentiment successfully.
THE people do. not require bril-
liant leadership. They do not re-
quire leadership at all, but they have
a right to and do assist on faithful
service.
Kansas demands a good. admins
tration of her represent ntatives-that
is upquestioned; the difficulty arises
to know what their idea of a good
is. Some would build
On the foundation of conservatism,
and would build so strongly in this
direction that in their judgment the
structure they would build would be
as strong as the everlasting hills.
rsssSome would build on tie founda-
tion of radicalism, and make an edi-
fee so~secure that the gates OF hell
could not prevail againstit.
THE growing spirit of fraternity
mist bring these different elements
together, and public servants must
serve all alike.
Friendship will bridge chasms,
remove obstacles and heal differences,
and we must all be friends. Differ
ences will exist. but they must not
lead to arrangements.
''Out of all colors and tongues and
trades and creeds Kansas is forming
strong citizenship, and if the union
is characterized by kindness and for
bearance, it will be as prosperous as
it is strong.
I'VE are fast learning that in poll
tics as in geometry, the straight line
is the shortest distance between two
points, and that the best way is the
right, way and with words of praise
for all that.is good in the past, con-
gratulating the outgoing administra-
ton for much of good that it. has
done, the incoming administration
asks.for the support aud encourage
meat that has been given those who
have gone before, and with this sup
port it turns to the work before it
with confidence and hope"
Possibilities I'm Corn Improve
ment.
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Experiment Station, Manhattan, Kansas
) That corn is the king of American