The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-01-30

of yellow fever in the south cost this
country more than it would to give
Cuba any degree of reciprocity. 1t de-
mOralizes our trade and defeats the
purpose of our intervention If we
give them a reasonable degree of reel
proCity and insist on the maintenance
of a good and stable government there
is no doubt as to what the outcome win
be in Cuba The United States will
then stand before the world as q people
which have fulfilled not only in the
letter, but in the spirit, the obligation
which they assumed when they under
took to free Cuba and establish a sta
Bile government in that island. pro
longed cheers and applause.)
Kansas and Her Wealth.
F NJ Harris. of Ottawa, who respond
ed to the toast Kansas" said in part.
The history of Kansas has been
called the romance of the nations his
tory. 1t might as fittingly be called the
drama, OF the fairy tale. Of the nation s
history. Her knights and ladies. her
heroes and her villains. her fair women
and brave men, each held the stage. or
the plot of the story. for a little time.
and then passed from sight forever.
They each played their parts. Whetho~
for good or evil as best they knew, ana
then left to make room for others Fac
of them. however, left some little Of In
huence ugOn their state and its people.
and Just as the cause of freedom ano
honesty was triumphant in those early
Gays. so nave lEe teachings ana IN
fuence of the leaders in that struggle
for right been predominant ever since
that time. The saying is that as ire
twlg Is bent so the tree -acl5nes-' Inc
twig from which grew the mighty trunk
Of this state was early inclined towards
honesty and ma nhocd. and the tree
itself in its later years. has become (:
symbol Of these traits.
But it is not OF the history of Kan
sas about which [ wish to talk to yCn
tonight but it is Of the state itself, and
of its people, Of the Kansas of today, as
you know it and as I know it.
Many men have many minds But
/ care not what may be in . mans mind
I care not what pictures his fancy may
have painted Of the place where ne
should seek his fortunes, or the people
among whom he should live. Somewhere
within this state he will find that place
and those people.
Give me the poet or the dreamer;
that man in whose restless brain lie
unborn thoughts which await but the
touch of a magic wand to bring them
beauty. Give me such a man and I
will tale him to where perfect rest and
peace find perfect form-where Nature
seems to have called into action all Of
make one SPOT on earth more beautiful
than all the rest / win seat him among
swayiug grasses, beside q swiftly rum
ming stream beneath the shade Of shell
waters at his feet and the rustic of thu.
leaves overhead viii fill his ears with
a melody sweeter than heavenly music
He Will look around upon a nicfure of
perfect beauty Stretching far in front
of him are fields Of waving grass
studded here and there with Natures
jewels, her wild flowers, sparkling like
diamonds TuhieS and sapDhires in their
settings Of green. Here and there a field
of wheat ready for the harvest. yellow
as mlser's gold bending now this way
and now that under the kisses of q
summers wind And back of all rising
majestic in its height. fitting back
ground for such a scene. he will see a
mass or living green, a great field of
corn. like vast army of knights NOV
ing to battle. crowned with plurnes more
glorious than knight ever wore, with
long lauces towering above them and
great swords at their sides forming in
itself the very incarnation of strength
and beauty.
L viii show him all of this and
leave him. with his mind at rest. his
ears filled with the sound of Natures
symphony played by summers breezes
upon Natures harp, confident that
amid such surroundings, and under
such influences, those unborn thoughts
viii come to life, and keep alive his
name long after he and you and 1 are
dead.
Give me one of those mighty men of
finance, one of those captains of in
dustry, who like Alexander of old. are
signing for new worlds to conquer.
viii show hin where Nature has pour
ed out her treasures with a lavish
hand I viii take him to where great
stores of gas and oil have waited since
time began for the reckoning touch of
man TO come to mans assistance. 7
will show him where men have reached
/ these trea sures. and are making the
elements do their bidding and furnish
power for myriads of mills and fac
tories.
GIVE me the farmer. and I win lead
! him into our state from the east. and
show him there a land of we'll kept
fields and beautiful homes, in front OF
each house a mail box. and in each
home a telephone which connects the
owner with his friends and the world.
7 VIII show him land richer than the