The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-11-24

before the last session ought to feel
grateful to the prospective speaker pc,
cause it was his strong plea that secured
the passage of these claims. Speaking
with special reference to the Indiana
claim, which was under conslderatlon
he said in that convincing way OF MS
It is right in Gods chancery, 1t Is
right In mans chancery, and L ask 1or
vote on the amendment
That from Cannon was enough ana
the claims went through.
One day there was under consluera-
ton a bill to sell some Indian LANDS up
in the northwest Cannon did not like
the looks of it and this is the way ne
expressed himself:
In the light OF. things that have been
done, not to speak discourteOuSly OF
anyone personally. 1 will remind my
friend of the old saying that we heard
when we were boys-that hell is paved
with good Intentions
Cannon lost one battle in the last
house. He set his foot down good ana
hard against the proposal to appropriate
$oUU,O0O to reimburse contractors at tne
Buffalo exposition. The house voted
the money. On that occasion he pre-
dicted that after the st. Louis exposi-
ton there would be another demand on
congress to make good a deficiency
st. Louis is preparing to hold an ex-
position said he I trust it will be a
success. Are we to say to her that If
1t is not success we will underwrite
the venture? South Carolina, estopped
this session of congress from asking
anything more, is here applying for
$16O,000 more, another case of under
writing. And on this question of ex-
positions, if we do not call a halt it will
run to state fairs and to county fairs;
the United States will go regularly into
the show business. And a little later
we shall be buying some Buffalo Bill
wild west show. There is no time to
begin to refrain from SHINING as the
time before you have sinned-
Inn Hot. fc-1r
priation had been agreed upon Charles
tons request for $4,000 came up. Can
non made this observation. seeing that
the appropriation would be made:
What is the constitutions an emf
nent son of New York who is now out
of congress, said-what is the constitu-
ton betwixt friends?''
Pages might be consumed with ex-
tracts from the sayings of the speaker
to-be tending to show him to be he
rough and ready man that he is, but he
is seen at his best in the address he
delivered one Sunday last June at the
funeral services over the body of Amos
j. Cummings, held in the house of rep
resentatiVes. The speech was impromptu
and all who listened to it felt that the
Illinois man was speaking from the
heart.
This man." said he, "a moving ambi-
tious man. achieved his place-printer,
journalist. soldier, statesman, and all
comprehended in the word man. A
hundred years from now, Yes, so years
from now, as men pass back in the lob
by and see the portraits of ex-speakers
and point out one after another. say:
Where did he come frOm?' as we do
some of the portraits now; in so years,
and no man can mention the names OF
the members of this congress. Then
some one may say: Why do we strive
to perform out duty?' Because we are
a part and parcel of the sovereign force
of free people We believe in our
race. The product of those races of
people that have eVOluted. worked out
their own salvation. each generation
achieving an advance and the next gen.
Grafton holding that advance and going
days march further on. 1 think Mr..
Cummings, from conversations with him
but more particularly from his action,
realized what 1 have spoken of. He had
pride that he belonged to that race and
made his contribution to the general
good and was content, as l think we all
are, to depart in peace, feeling that
while we Will be swallowed up by the
great ajority and Our individuality be
forgotten, yet we have contributed our
respective mites to the advancement
and achievement to that race to which
we belong.
but what of the other side of the river ?
Revelation and faith tell US that we will
not cease to exist We enjoy the universal
desire that is to be found in each human
unit from the beginning of the race to the
present time for the life beyond this life.
! The universal protest against extinction
is the strongest kind of evidence that our
respective individuals not to be
wiped out And without repeating the
words or recollecting the poet. but some
where in my reading here OIL. there I recol-
lect some poem I think entitled Night,
and the central thought beautifully ex-
pressed, that as the sun disappears
behind the horizon the stars and the
glories of the heavens appear; and we all
have the faith that with death the indi-
| viduality remains and the glOries of space
/ appear; and all hope and believe some
where in the great beyond. under uni
| versal law. as it has been from the be-
ginning, We will each one continue to
/ achieve the place in the infinite existence
that we are entitled to occupy.
Il trust that when I shall cross the
dark river l may arrive at that place in
space or condition where 1 will meet such
men as Amos j. Cummings, and mer
with whom l served who crossed the river
/ Samuel ]. Randall William d. Kelley
Benjamin Butterworth, S. S. Cox ana
many others that I could name-and in
such condition l shall be glad and con-
tent"
It would be difficult to find a better
description of Joseph G. Cannon thar
Cannon applied to Amos ]. Cummings in
the address just quoted from. With the
tense changed it reads:
God gave him much courage. He is
intellectually honest. He will give good
hard knocks. but there is no treachery
in his makeup. His communications
are yea. yea, and nay, nay"
Cannon has a first-cIass newspaper
mans nose for seeming crookedness, and
no one will ever know how often he stood
between the treasury and would-be raid
ers. He never posed as the watch dog
of the treasury" but he was always on
! guard.
CIGAR TRUST
Follows the Example Set by Railway