The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1899-02-17
THE COMMONWEALTH CLUB.

The institute held last week, under
the auspices of the Kansas Common
wealth clu" in Topeka, was a very le-
markable gathering. Some of the fin
est talent, not only in the United States
but in the world, along certain lines
of thought, gave lectures and partici-
pated in the discussions.
The reputation of DR.. George D.
Heron is worldwide, as a thinker
and as a student of the times. The
six lectures he gave were indeed very
fine. He has had great advantages
of travel and study and these. combin-
ed with an analytical mind and loving
heart, have shown this great philoso-
pher lessons in the trend of industrial
and political events that are not seen
by the average selfish individual. No
one who heard DR.. Heron criticized
him. It was those who formed their
opinions of his reasoning from hear
say. OF all the privileges and bless
ings of lifetime. one of the greatest
is that of listening to the teaching of
George D. Heron.
Good and Evil in their Development"
by Prof. Edward Beemis. of the state
Agricultural college, was said to be
the most exhaustive and scientific
treatise o.. trusts ever listened to by
his hearers. He showed clearly that
trusts were a product of the age, and
the only thing lacking to make them a
benefcent influence instead of men
ace to the interests of the people, was
their admi nistration by the govern
ment. It is TO be hoped that this paper
will be published.
Prof. Frank Parsons, whose subject
was Municipal Ownership, It's Ethics
and Progress" is professor of History
and Political Science at Manhattan.
He spends half the year in the law
department of Boston University. He
is also president of the National
League for promoting public owner
ship of monopolies. His address was
one of the finest heard during the en-
tire week of the institute. There is no
reply to the philosophy of Prof. Par
sons reas soning. Opponents of his
theories do not attempt it. They only
! attempt to undermine it, by ridicule
and anathema, and great body of
relation of public ownership of public
| utilities to race progress, begin to
.alize that it at least merits dignified
discussion. So the battle is really won.
1.-The Disarmament of the World" !"
! by Governor STD ohm. was a daring
and powerful arraignment of those
who are SO far in the van of civiliza-
t on and Christianity(?) as to foster the
| martial spirit, and of the conducs of
the administration in the Spanish war
The governor in q fine orator, and his
portr val of the fighting in the Phil
ippines where mothers were found dead
t,ars TO the eyes of every one present.
| Even in our own Revolutionary
! struggle ior independence" said Gov.
st. J Ohm lit never became necessary
for our women to take up arms again
st our country's foes" One never
quite realized the pitifulness of their
struggte-nine million against our 10
miliiou-until after hearing the mag
uificent pleading of Gov. StJohn
The paper read before the Institute
ON Saturday by Carl Vrooman on
'rThe Progress of q Century, was q
fitting finale to the thought and work
of the week. Mr.. Vrooman is a man
of splendid education and besides his
study and analysis of political anu
industrial history in our own countr.
has spent some time and given much
time and thought to the same line oi
research in Europe. The progress OF
. century was analysed along the tn "
lines OF development Of self govern
ment as culminasinl: In the initiative
and referendum, and Of public owner
ship.
Mr.. Vrooman is an earneat, fOrcible
speaker and the optimism OF his paper
thrilled everyone who heard it with
desire to make the Commonwealth lire
. study help to bring. in the next
century, xcutminasion OF all the prna
isA of The mast