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

gage indebtedness $50, OOo, 600. In the
same period she sold s12 600 900 more of
live stock than in the year before and
increased the value of live stock on
hand SO, 600, 000 making a total increase
of $31 600, 600, or 80 per cent in this one
industry alone. Talk about the poverty
of Kansas There is more gold in her
fertile soil than in all those mountains
yonder. Her farmers, who have been
here long enough to know the state,
have found it out, and instead of trying
to work the government mints for mon
ey, with better sense and better success
are working Kansas soil. The sturdy,
independent farmer of Kansas has dis
covered the practical alchemy. He has
disenchanted the Klondike. He has put
Aladdin'S lamp to shame. He has
found in the fattening steer a veritable
mint that coins all the litter and waste
of the field and farm-every spear of
grass, every blade of fodder, every ker-
mel of corn-into glittering gold. And
with this mint he is paying off his debts
a great deal faster than he would have
done under the free and unlimited COIN
age of silver-on the ratio of 16 to l.
without waiting for the aid or consent
of any other nation-and in honest dol
lars worth 100 cents. Down in my coun-
ty (Butler) a dozen farmers came to
town one day last summer and bought
a national bank. Talk about the pluto
cracyi We are not only paying our
debts but inside of ten years the ma
hobs of Wall street will be borrowing
money from the farmers OF Kansas.
In introducing the second speaker,
Wiley Aues Keve, of Baker university,
Mr.. Troutman referred to the fact that
two recent Kansas governors have cho-
sen private secretaries from those who
have attended Baker. J. L. Bristow and
H. J. Allen both came from that insti-
tuition.
Il want to call attention." said Mr..
Troutman, ''to the brand of private
secretaries that Baker university turns
out. 1 promised Henry Allen L would
work in something about the private
secretary and don't know of any bet
ter place than this
Mr.. Keve's subject was "Our National
Joke" as he termed the Democratic
party.
THE fondness for appealing to the
constitution he said, has never de-
serted the Democratic party. 1t has
scarcely been known to oppose any Civ
en- policy solely because of intrinsic I'M
wOrthineSS. 1t is always because the
policy is unconstitutional It has been
so with the policy of protection; the
free silver heresy assumed dignified and
majestic proportions in the mind of the
average Democrat because Mr.. Bryan
spoke learnedly of Silver'S being the
money of the constitution Opposition
to expansion and imperialism is placed
upon the same ground and the old IA
miliar cry of unconstitutional comes
up from the ranks of wailing DemOc-
racy. Unconstitutional is the first
word a Democratic baby learns to lisp.
lie DrdCIleS 1t IN CnllQnOOQ. III youth he
finds it a term to conjure with; when he
has reached manhOOd'S estate he has
learned that it is the very word which
voices best his grumblings and gloomy
forebodings; and when he wings his
flight to the pearly gate and the good
Saint Peter perchance consigns him to
Democratic headquarters outside the
city walls he probably turns away NUT
tering unconstitutional, unconstitution-
al
Nations are like individuals, they
have their times Of alteration They
can not always be serious. They must
needs laugh The Democratic party is
Americas national joke
What Should Be the Mission of a
Political Party?" was the question an
swered by VIM H. Carpenter of Marion.
He said:
1T should be. and it is. the mission.
not of a political party in Kansas but
recurring convention, to declare its in
tentiOn to crush every organization in
this state, social or political, having for
its aim the destruction of our present
form of government and substituting for
it a scheme of government which means
the destruction Of the handspring of
human progress and the enveloping the
nation in a gloom which would attend
such a disaster.
THAT there is, or rather has been, in
the state of Kansas, a party that has,
with affected pretension for the good of
the common people, yelled IT'S real pur-
pose to destroy our free institutions, no
we'll informed person can longer doubt.
The real purpose of the PopuliSts was
revealed in the last campaign by their
party organ and boldly proclaimed
from the stump by some OF the real
leaders. They have taken from the
wrecks of nations that discarded doc
trine of socialism, offered it as a pana-
cea for all the ills from which the body
polite was suffering: a doctrine that
appeals to the lowest instincts of man,
a doctrine that would involve every in
maintain himself but in an ignoble eff
fort to get the government to compel
someone to do it for him..
Prof. J. E. PEARS of Lawrence spoke
of Loyalty in Time of Peace He made
one of the best addresses of the evening.
Il was pleased he said, with a re-
mark made by Commodore Schley at
the close of the late war: There is
Kansas now. There may not be offices
enough to go around, but there is glory
enough for US all.
mo matter what his political wounds
may be, the business of every loyal Re
publican is to assist Governor Stanley
and his executive family to make this
administration one which shall reflect
great credit upon the Republican party
and bring lasting honor to our state"
John d. Myers, who is the youngest
man present in the legislature, told of
THE Young Man in Politics. He said:
Age is the refuse of youth and lives
in the land of memory. Old men are
relics of yesterday. There is, however, |
a tribute due the infirmities of age. 1t |
is certainly becoming to pay a tribute
to the heroic virtues of the old crowd of |
Kansas. They were once the pluck of |
the eastern shore. Nowhere on GODS |
footstool have men laid the foundation |
Of a higher civilization than these old, |
decrepit politicians have rooted upon |
the prairies of this hopeful state. The |
hard blows of their service, however. |
were struck when new and hot blood |
washed their veins. But time has de- |
creased the velocity of their coursing |
blood; time has played havoc with their |
old ambitions. These old men are cum |