Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1900-02-10

the dinner bucket brigade from its
long enforced idleneSS, rekindled our
furnaces. set our spindleS agoing, fill
ed the land with the hum of industry,
put every willing laborer to work at
republican wageS-and clad the cOntl-
nent in the brilliant garb of General
Prosperity.
The issues of the coming campaign
will open a brand new volume of
American history. The chance of
war, or more properly, the providen-
tial hand of God. has thrust upon us
the trusteeship of some millions of
half civilized and barbarous people.
Those who would shrink from this
part of the white mans burden would
turn those islands back TO Spain, to
suffer and groan under her lash for
four hundred years more, or abandon
them to the greater woes of internal
diSSention and anarchy, or ask some
stronger. manlier ration to relieve us
of a burden too great for our valor,
our pocket-hookS. and our ignoble anX-
iety for peace at any sacrifice. There
are advocates of all these alternatives
in this country. that there is besides
Il grand armv of eight million repuh-
lican free men, led by the 'grandest
patriot since Lincoln, and the great
est statesman of his age, William Nc
kinley, who says that wherever the
banner of the stars has once been
planted and the soil bene, til .,e n
consecrated by the blood of Amer can
soldiers, there that flag must IL.
forever. And that flag with all the
countless noble ideas for which will
make Philippine Island the Eden OF
the seas, and millions of Malay Ieu-
Pile yet unborn will rise and bless the
memory of William Mckinley, and
sing the glory of the Twentieth Kan
sas and the song will never end.
| think that this toast voices The
spirit of the times. The young Re
publicans who compose this club a.
preciate the fact that the young men
who are to-day winning name and
fame are those who have caught its
spirits. Rudyard Kipling tells it in
story and song. Reveridge and Curtis
champion it i'm the halls of 'Ongr. S.,
Fred Funston displays it on the field
of battle, Perry and Dyche manifest
it in silence and under the aurora uf
northern skies, Edison pur-ueS it>in
the workshop, and Roosevelt prose-
cuteS in Statecraft, wisely djScrimi-
mating between the machine politi-
clan on the one hand and the fool
former on the other: and the sO"ng
Republican who fails to catch its
spirit will never get into the band
wagon and would better join the
Democratic party and he done with
it.
There will always be a demand for
a party which has tide courage to do
right, which has the sagacity to
build for the future as our father
built for US. which will grapple with
the constant stream of problems
which are ever arising in the path of
national progress The Republican
party has feen such party in the
past, and over this festive beard we
pledge our sacred determination that
New occasions teach new duties,
time makes ancient good un"outh.
They must upward still and onward,
who would keep abreast OF truth
We shall earn for our party n
wholesale fear by the b ggist trust
that ever gambled in the products
of human EMPLOY; we shall maintain
the integrity of our judicial tribu-
mails, and we shall see to it that hen
est toll is ever aXalted as the founda-
tion of our national veal. Above all
we shall devote ourselves to maintain
clean and respectable municipal gov
ernment within our own borders. and
we will train the heads and hearts
and hands of every ward of the ma
tion which Providence may place un-
der our care. he they Spaniards. Ha-
waiianS or Filipins S. Nor shall we
cease our endeavorS until the negro
cotton picker of the Bourbon ridden
south can cast as Tree blllOt as he
can in Kansas. nor until the torch
and faggot and hempon cord shall give
place to the procedure of civilized
tribunals according to the laws of the
land.
America is heir of all the ages and
the Republican party is administra-
tor for the estate We want all the
rugged manhood of the Lacedemoni-
an. all the scholarship of the Atlleni-
an, all the respect for law which was
the glory of Rome, all the purity of
the home which is the crowning yir-
tue of the German. all the CONNER
ciai and maritime spirit of Great Rri- |
tain. all the inventive genius of the |
Yankee. and thus shall we perpetuate
n government which shall stand for |
all time. combining the stability of a /
with the freedom and OPP
of republic.
-.T:ake rp the white mans burGen-llave [
done with r'lilai<h days
The lightly Droffered laurel the easy m |
grrd-ed praise:
Come TO Searfu yOTlr manhood thrOu gh /
all The thankle~s years
Cold edged with dear bought wisdom the J
judgment of your peers