The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-09-02


they will probably be ffoated at less.
This will mean 81, 400 interest to raise
each year. We have an assessed valua-
ton of So 000, 900, which represents an
1t will take an assessment of a little
more than one-fOurth of a mill to meet
this interest. A man with an assessed
valuation of 81, 600 will have to pay 70
cents a year more tax, if the city hall
is built Surprising man has a valua-
ton of $500 after his exemption is taken
out, he pays only Is cents a year. If
the average laboring man should get
quarter of a days more work as the
result of the erection of the city hall it
would pay his tax for years to come.
You may not get a job on the city
building yourself, ShoVellng dirt or
laying brick, but it will give other men
work and they will not be keeping you
out Of other jobs
There is another reason why this
hall should be built that has not been
touched on very much, and that is that
it would enable the people of Topeka to
have high-class entertainments at a
nominal cost. At present one can not
get-into an entertainment for less than
rs cents or a dollar and few people can
afford it, but with a large hall that
is free to the people this would be diff
ferent. High class entertainments can
be secured for 800 or $500, and with a
hall that would seat 5000 or 1000 peo-
pie and no rent to pay, the price of ad-
mission could be made very small.
ut is intimated by the opposition that
the city council paid a large sum for
the site which it has selected. dom
know that I would have voted for that
site, but a comparison with the others
offered will show that it was the cheap
est site offered to the city. I have no
doubt that if the people will turn out to
the election the result this time will
be about as it was before-three to one.
1t is such a vote as that that we need
to send out over the state to show the
people of the state that Topeka is not
selfish
L. T. Yount, who represented the
American Labor union, spoke on 1.-THE
Importance to the Laborers and Me-
chanics of Topeka of Promoting Public
improvements. He said:
1.-The laborers of the city who carry
the tin bucket have a greater interest
in the growth and development of the
city than all others, because they not
the greater portion of the municipal
improvements when made.
THE proposition now submitted to
the vote of this people is of greater in
terest to the laborers than to any other
class, for the reason that it gives them
a municipal home where the poorest
and most humble of our citizens have
the same interest and rights as accord
ed to the most prominent.
e I'VE are anxious to have some one
spot or building given over to all the
| people where they may meet without
restraint and without charge or fee of
any kind. The best and most noted
! speakers and lecturers of the land can
be invited to speak in the Auditorium,
where all the people may gather from
time to time to hear without charge.
| The man working for one dollar per
day will enjoy the same privilege en-
| joyed by the discoverer of gold in
| Trego, or the balanced ration for the
| Kansas steer.
I'VE are moving forward. Let US
attune our hearts and lives to the spirit
of progress and development.
THE laborers of Topeka are especial
| ~ interested in the city's growth. This
| will not end with the expenditure of
| eighty or one hundred thousand dol
| lars, but thousands upon thousands of
| good dollars will be invested here, be-
| cause of the good seeds sown in the
| Auditorium garden. Build a city. Keep
i step to the music: look forward %
! years; build and beautify a home for
| your children and your chi1dren's child
/ rem. The labOrerS of Topeka are inter
| ested more than others, as all progress
| depends upon them.
| Capitalists never accomplish things
| it takes Drawn and muscle, directed
| by brain to build a city. Capital, So
| called, may be lost in the shuttle, but
| brain and muscsle die only with the
man.
Look at those who have stood before
| us as capitalists within the last 25
| years. Where are they? We see their
names cut in marble and granite on
East HILL and on buildings scattered
]
! laborer and the mechanic remains for
/ ever.
| 1.-The man who made the excavation:
! the mechanics who laid brick upon
| brick; the man who carries the hod !;
! those who hung the doors and set the
| windows left a monument of their
| skill, but the man who paid the bill
! left fight over his estate when he
/ passed away.
Topeka is the most beautiful city in
| the land; the best people on earth live
| within her borders; the sweetest
| brightest children coast down our hills;
| the most Independent thinkers, the most
| intelligent laborers the world ever saw
| have built, are now building and will
| build the queen of all cities of the
/ plain.
] Don't be a kicker. Don't stand in
! the way of progress.
J Don't line up with the fellow who is
| satisfied with things as they are. Help
| push the car along. Defeat the whole
| comes if you want to, but help the To-
| peka laborer get a job; help his wife
| and daughter get q new dress and the
| children fix up for school; and stand up
| bravely for your town and your fellow
| laborers by voting for the Auditorium
| and city building.
Look upward and not downward; be
| open hearted and generous by helping
| Topeka labOrers and their families, and
| great shall be your reward.
| I'VE stand today in the very morning
of our time with glints of the sunrise
| enveloping US. with larger hopes pos
| sessing us: why should we not hitch
our wagon to the stars and make To-
| peka the shrine for all the worshipers
| of the greatest state in the Union"
! Oscar SwayZe was called on to speak
| for the Flambeau club.
f'There is not a kicker among u.s." he
| said. I'VE have dropped politics for the
| present and are going after the Audi
forum, and we viii keep it up until
| o'clOclz a week from tomorrow night -
| Mr. Swayze also dwelt on the point
| that the city hall will bring high class
| entertainments within the reach of the
| poorer classes.
| ..If We had big Auditorium. "he CON