The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-15


not fail to. remember that it has also
been here demonstrated in that manner
good citizenship can protect against
them. As in the municipality, so IN our
nation our veal OF woe, is made de-
pendent upon the sdisinterested partici-
patton, or the neglect, of good men in
public affairs. 1t is time that there
should be an end of self satisfied graf
ification, or pretense of virtue, in the
phrase, Il am not a politician" and 1t
is time to forbid the prostitution of the
word to a sinister use. Every citizen
should be politician enough to bring
himself within the true meaning OF the
term, as one who concerns himself
with 1.-The regulation or government OF
1 a nation or state for the preservation OF
| it's safety, peace and prosperity rms
/ is politics in its best sense, ana TINS -
good citizenship.
! If good men are to interfere to make
political action what it should be, they
must not suppose they will come upon
an open field unoccuDied by an oppos-
ing force On the ground they nave
I neglected they will find a host of those
who engage in >politics for personal
ends and selfish purposes, and TINS
ground cannot be taken without
! hand-to-hand conflict The attack
must be made under the banner of dis
! interested good citizenship. by soldiers
drilled in lessons of patriotism They
must be enlisted for life and constantly
on duty. AS Crusaders fought cen
turtles ago for the recovery of the Holy
/ Land from infidel possession, so with
/ the same stubborn zeal must to2ay's
4 Crusaders in the cause of good govern,
ment fight to recover their Holy Land
/ from the infidels who would degrade
and de6Ie it,
/ Their creed should bind together in
! generous CO. operation all who are Will
ing to fight to make our government
what the fathers intended it to be-a
depository of benefits which, in equal
current and volume. should flow out to
+ all the people. This creed should teach
the WickedneSS of attempting to make
/ free opportunity the occasion of Selling
/ especial advantages; and should warn
against the danger of ruthless rapacity.
/ 1t should deprecate ostentation and ex-
traVagance in the life of our people
and demand in the mana cement of
public affairs simplicity and strict
economy. 1t should teach liberation in
all things. save dishonesty and infdel-
| ity to public trusts. 1t should uphold
the interests of labor and advocate its
fair treatment. but should sternly for
bid its interference with those Aeon-
tented with their toll. and its attenpt
to force compliance with its demands
/ by violent disturbances of peace and
good order. It should recognize in the
wide distribution of capital and indus
trial enterprise the best assurance of
intelligent, WhoIesomely interested po-
/ litical conduct, and should condemn
unnecessary. unnatural and speculative
com binations in trade or enterprise. as
putting our consumers at their mercy.
! 1t should insist that our finances and
currency concern not alone the large
/ trad ars. merchants and bankers of our
land. but that they are intimately and
every day related to the wellbeing of
our people in all conditions of life: and
! that therefore if any adjustments are
necessary they should be made in such
manner as shall certainly maintain the
! soundness of our peoples earnings and
the security of their savings. 1t should
eniOin respect for the law as the quail
/ ity that cements the fabric of organized
! society and makes possible a govern
ment by the people. And in every SEN
tence and every line of this creed of
good citizenship the lesson should be
taught that cur country is a beautiful
and productive field to be cultivated by
loyal Americans, who with weapons
near at hand, whether they SOW and
reap or whether they rest, will always
be prepared to resist those who at
tempt TO despoil by day or pilfer in the
night.
l am by no means unmindful of the ex-
tent to which the American people are in
a certain sense governed by parties, and l
am quite willing to confess a strong party
allegiance speak tonight of something
broader and loftier than party-of a high
er law under whose sanction all parties
should exist and by whose DEGREES IL par
ties should be judged. | would have the
mass of our voters so constantly impress
ed by this law and inSiStant upon it's
observance as to force upon the mana gers
OF party organizations the necessity and
expediency of its recognition. Within the
limits of this law of patriotic American
good citizenship there is abundant room
for intelligent party activity; but this ac-
! tiVity must be clean and interrupted
sincere in it's intentions, frank in the dec
lara1on of its purposes and honest in the
fSafairs of the people.
4 It is clear as MONDAY that if the
pa triotism of our people is to ye aggress-
lively vigorous and equal to our national
preservation, and If politics is to subserve
q nigh purpose instead Of degenerating 20
tine level of a cunning game. our good
men in every walk of life must arouse
themselves to consciousness that the safe
ty and best interests of their country in
VOlVe every other interest, and that by
service in the field of good citizenship thew
way save for themselves the share of ben
efits due them from our free institutions
! If our business men in their hard strug
! giles for accumulation will remember these
things and admit their countrys veal to
q share in their struggles, if our scholars
ana educators VIII not only teach pa
| triotism. but will emerge from theoretical
contemplation and give proof by their
! examples that their lessons mean pFae-.
/ teal care for their country. and if in
every way possible our people are re-
| they hold for themselves and In trust for
| their children. and are stimulated to in
I telligent activity in its protection, we
may confidently look for the conditions
and results treasured up in divine pur-
pose and prophesied through faith in God,
at our nations birth.
/ In the day when all shadows shall have
passed away and when good citizenship
shall have made sure the safety perma-
nence and happiness of our nation. how
small will appear the strifes of se1fishness
ir civil life and how petty will seem
the Vaccinations of degraded politics2
! There shall be set over against them IN
that time a reverent sense of cooperation
| in Heavens plans for our peoples great
ness and the joyous pride of standing
| among those who in the comradeship of
American Good Citizenship have so pro-
| tected and defended our heritage of self
government. that our treasures are safe
| in the citadel of Patriotism. where neither
moth nor rust doth corrupt and where
! thieves do not break through nor steal.
Chicago 80; Rush College o.
Chicago Oct. 15.-The University of
| zeal college team at Marshall field by
a score of 80 to 0. The latter school is