The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-05-19
HAND OF WELCOME.
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cares nave come to you by the light
ming express.
A we come hither from the east,
we recognize that you are playing the
game of civilization with some great ad-
Yantages which we nave not shared.
Dwelling by the sad sea waves, We sift
out for YOU the best of the human
grain which drifts to our shores when
cast by Europe and Asia upon the wa
tiers, as scripture enjoins. We retain
for ourselves, or for return to the east
ern hemisphere, afteS many lays the
blind and the deaf, the insane and the
pauper, allowing you, to be sure, you
fair proportion of the criminals whom
other countries -benignantIy confer on
US. We send you capital to invest and
set you examples to avoid. And when
We recall our own slow growth, extend
ing over two centuries and a half, We
marvel at what you have achieved in
half a century.
In 1850, as I had occasion to say in
Washington last week, there were in
all three of the states of Kansas, Colo
RADIO and Nebraska hardly 100 white in
habitants and not many thousands of
rowing Indians, but millions of buffalo
and wolves, now almost as extinct as
'dOdOs, Webster Wing and Abraham
Lincoln Republicans. Today you show
US in these three enormous states mil
lions of free, educated and prosperous
citizens, metamorphosing the desert and
the bison into the granary of nations
and the Democratic nursery of these
United States"
After meeting in Representative hall
the guests were entertained in the SEN
ate chamber. A social session was en-
livened by music and made more sub
stantial by the ice cream and cake and
lemonade which were served by the To-
peka women.
PRESIDENT FAULKNER'S AD-
DRESS.
In his annual address President Chas.
E. Faulkner sale to the conference dele
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1T is fitting that as we gather for
the opening of our conference we should
lay aside all of difference in religious,
social and political thought, all hope of
preferment, or fear of ensur which
may hinder righteous Judgment, and
take upon our consciences the distress
of mind and body, which scares away
the happiness of our fellows, and builds
wailing places where courts of joy
should abound. Let us remem-
Der that the charity which pre-
vents human suffering is kinder than
the charity which relieves it, and that
hill the noble institutions created by
society for the benefit of its weaker
memberS,a are testimonials to benevOlence
and wise craftsmanship, they are in a
larger sense the sad witnesses OF the
neglect of the wiser charity which would
in the fulfllmeAt of Gods purpOs rem
der their existence unnecessary.
must grasp in all its mighty sig
nificance the truth that the family is
the unit of social order, and lend effort
to the alignment of every helpful infiu-
ence to insure blessing and protection
to society through its family life.
Hearthstones will become affairs of
praise to the goodness and glory of an
infinite Creator, and the salvation of
mankind, when they are butlded in the
integrity of respect for the laws of Gre
alton, and intelligent association. The
preservation and ~eXaltation of high
ideals in family life. depend in large
measure upon the education of the
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ception of religious urpo which seeks
the moral improvement of individuals
through necessary plans for their physi-
cal Improvement
THE home training of children in the
knowledge of important physiological
truths under the discerning tact and
: patience of maternal and paternal love
is a charity of prevention worthy of al
praise.
Whatever encouragement may come
from the opening of college courses for
the study of social problems, and from
the Introduction of new text books il
the Ommon schools, there should be nc
neglect of the use of passing oppOrtun-
tiles to teach the vital truths of life ir
a simple gospel to the comfort of peo-
| pie who are hungry for knowledge, and
i. willing to profit by the b~enevolence Of
wisdom. Thus while the schools are
? discovering methods for the advance
ment of social order through education
and the scholarship of the universities
is altering its way downward to the
!, needs of the masses as fast as the door:
? of understanding are opened, let there
i be al alignment of religious organiza-
lions in a cooperating ministry for the
betterment of family life. Let there bt
: a Sunday for the home. as well as {
i Sunday for the prison. when lecture;
general, and special, may be given upoI
e subjects suited to the needs of familJ
. life, and the very unity of religious eff,
/ fort to improve the home, be made tt
stir the current of social thought to {
purpose of action.
1.-THE e~xigencies of need for the co
h operation of religious, social and politi
cal organizations. to improve the condi
! lions of marriage, lessen the Disaster
! of divorce, and abandonment, and con
serve the values of integrity and indus
try, appeal with great force for thei
' alignment upon such a platform as ma.
be offered by the national and stat,
{ conferences of charities and correction
= Mr.. Faulkner emphasized the need 0
l a conference chool of charities and cor
rection within each municipality. H
e then said:
e The membership of such a confer
: ence should comprise those who by rea
: son of official position are resi- onsibl
= for the administration of measures o
relief or prevention, and also the &C
credited representative from all re
d ligious and secular organizations whicl
are to be depended upon for cooper
K ton in effort to attain the benafit
e sought. Thus without becoming I'm
Wleldly, Sucn a conference WOuiC De
representative body, equipped for tn
n fair study of the ailments set before
e in the statistical returns presented. I'm
e der favoring circumstances, whic
n would inspire confidence in the result
a of its deliberations. The delegate
commissioned by the cooperating also
! Citations would report their observa
/ ion to their respective societies., an
thus there would be developed an in
= teligent and effective sympathy whic
- would find substantial and helpful ex
- preston.
= Wise public policy requires that fo
unfortunateS uniform and suitable Gus
- todial care or restraint should be pro
vided by the state. The destitute bin