The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-12-27

mankind back to Eden as we now eonjec-
ture and remember it. You have taught
business has its set limitations and Ihat
You have valued the flag above the cargo,
mankind above its livery, humanity above
If Great Britain is to have an end, and
it is 50 talked. if like Venice, it becomes
stranded in its own lagoons, if the sea
weed chokes its Grand Canal
"a thousand years their cloudy wings
Around i'i1I me and a dying glory smiles
Ger the far times, when many subject
Looked to the Winged Lions marble
When Venice sat in. state throned on
her hundred isles
or Athens, where a ruin crowns its hill,
or Rome, whose golden mile post no long
er measures distance, and whose magni-
than the page that chronicles the gilded
story of its ancient prime; if that mighty
Of nafions. 70 it iiy VIII not be the Tictory Of
Boer nor the death of Victoria. but it will
| can remember when England refused
to reinforce her crushed battalions around
thai the eSDenses of The exnedition WonId
increase the price of ale sure as there
doors are commercial disaster Too keen
an edge on commerce may be its weak
ness To condition traffic TO such superb
it a rind that holds nothing but ashes.
On every line of advance, honorable
and great to the human race, the United
states occupies the sl1trrntshers. front. 1t
ment that shall fix the naVigators gaze
| the coming century. 1t is the one seed
plucked hve hundred millions of dollars
and ten THOUSAND brave lives and given
Calvary
There, has never been in the. souls of
| questionable step taken by the flag. A
politician may not say it, but l can. In
| Of the thunderbolts of the Almighty It's
| divinely appointed course is clear the
| Bethlehem. The apparently devious path
| to Cuba by the Philippines, was over an
where Jehovah shifted the rudder and set
the trembling needle to HIS compass OF
power and conquest may traverse wide
| find defeat on other Majuba Hills, the
United states for no such groVel1ng pur-
pose. without loss Of ship OF: defeat Of
4 to an outraged people and finds the very
market and port and door the mighty
/ BritOn may yet lose; and commerce and
| trade like ripened fruit shaken from the
| tree tumble into its basket from the or
| chards of the world.
| At the very head. far in advance,
| sweeps the flag: no other or different from
| that which graces each school house of
| the state. And Kansas in the lead; this
| There is always an opportunity to view
| the landscape between Kansas and her
| we are in the race from the start Scoring
/ a O T1ROT.
| or state who loses his vitality IN repeated
| eH0rts to start stops at the distance pole
and never come in under the wire. In
| this great commonwealth every impulse
| Is subordinate and in subsection to the
| our bone The Puritan boasts Of Ply
! mouth Rock Our fame is Harper's Fer
| Cygnes and an undying devotion to free
| qodni I iFee sou, Lree speech free men; II
| State would hold him as a. trust fund. If
| the little black brother can growi at our
/ eri 60 0ip1 tha
| man grumble that Saint Peter chased.
ever man anq beaTe6 hd R5f fbe United
| States was good thing and Kansas still
/ Ossa, and Continuing the Slang Of the
| race course, I am that huckleberry. I
| believe that our schools are cultivating
| higher and nobler motives to the dignity
| of a fine art believe we are the chosen
| tribe; that we have the best people on all
| the round world, if it is round. The state
| has eXhumed the Christian religion Hog,
| homlnY ana the help1ul nen are not the
| chief end of man. nor riches his greatest
| for we have need OF you the coming CEN
| duty in the days to come as they have in
| the past; it viii be a long time before
| they will call out to Kansas as in apo
| Plexy and baseball that we have had
three strokes and are out.
| No one in this audience has ever seen a
! feet as they shuttle on the threshold now.
| its attendant train will be science, art
| philosophy, invention mechanics and
| not careful. we may find labor. saving
| and trust accOutered a AminidOb Sleeks
| assuming to be humanity
To the new century lift a cup of pure
| cold hydrant water, taken out of the Kaw
| health! I congratulate it, We're I a Chris
| tian it should have my prayers
Only OmnipOtence can know what its
| ter. what despots fall: what wars: what
holOcausts; what tears; what years of
Every man shall eat in safety under
| his own vine, what he plants: and sing,
| The merry songs of peace to all his neigh
| There is nothing sinister in its ap-
| proach that should chill the blood or
| mingle an apprehension a doubt in
iberfy sha fame Ifs m Ares at home home and
| on cape and headland of thousand green
of the farfhesf ees "fFST b11a 'hg shores res
| torches of blood and havoc may be in
! verted; and that war and all its tupend-
| Gus armament may clamor and thunder
], hope that in the next hundred years
| pOlygamE in the Sulu lands may become
| alike lawful in all the states or tnat the
| public mind shall believe it to be in course
| of ultimate extinction; for this union can
J not endure part harem and part mono
| gamOus-
| I hope to see in the next hundred years
| great republic in South Africa. under
! no suzerainty but Gods. and embracing
| liberty. 1 want an Anglican erican al
| lance after the Beers have defeated the
| power OF english arms so that we can
| dictate its terms from the rnOdus vfvandi
| OF Catchlng Alaskan seals, on to the
| complete rights of American citizenship.
| For fellow citizens, can dictate terms
| to that power, the world can commence
| to put on its Sunday clothes for a Sab
| bath of a thousand years of peace.
| hope when a hundred years have gone
| and the speaker on an anniversary night
| like this. as he addresses an assemblage
representing a hundred thousand school
! teachers in this metropolis of q million
| souls. will say then. as I say now. that
| in all our advance the high lines Of
| education. patriotism and mankind the
most efficient factor has been the school
| teacher.