The Topeka state journal., 1903-05-29


vender that the nation may be regular
~ fed on that kind of food.
1T hides no virtue and it haunts no
It beats no drums to empty midnight
space.
It buys regardless of the crops or price,
The charts best seats TO view the
1t blinds no light that throws the fee
bleSt flame.
Both gan and nerve are forced to
yield it praise.
It loves to advertise its own good name
And always has on hand some start
ling craze.
It Institutes the very things SO queer
That shape the Nightmares of an
others dreams.
It wants no precedent in its career,
And takes its place at one of far ex-
tremes.
And did prophet now but dare to
speak.
His auguries Of yet unwritten fate,
He finds enough to blanch his brazen
cheek,
That ali is writ in text books of the
state.
It sees the stars that glisten overhead.
As here il stands upon the upturned
sod,
1t blazes paths for other feet to tread
And banks on destiny, itself and God"
Our people crib wheat for all lands
and granary Egypt's fat ears of corn
They started with little, dwarfed, or
phaned maverick, and 1t has grown
without the illegitimate use of the
branding iron, into vast herds Of short
horns and white faces, without peers as
to quality or number. It was our own
Buffalo Jones that grated the Pol1ed
Angus on to the Texas long horn and
produced the one antlered unicorn 1t
was the same man who consanguined
he hT4ff f<,f In, ~..-7 oh
tanned furred animal for which 1t was
not possible to find a proper climate.
Here grow the largest orchards in the
world; and the nursery stock grown in
Kansas has no competitor anywhere.
Our people dug and found an ancient
sea turned into salt, we know to be 103
per cent pure, and believe to be mex
haustible. Our gypsum beds can fur
nish the world with plaster until the end
of time We take first rank in zinc and
lead, and have vast beds of profitable
clay gas, coal and oil. 1t is the chosen
abode of alfalfa, and if we could get our
acres of alfalfa listed on the stock ex-
change. they would be current at $3.50
an acre. Alfalfa and hogs in Kansas
are better than any bank. The pig de-
VelopS into SOW, the SOW becomes
litter, the htters become. a drove, the
droves get in the way of agriculture and
they are hurried to a rising market to
make room for the pIow, go-devil and
planter. Our farmers sometimes rejoice
that the hog cholera thins them out,
for the price of the dead porker is added
to the live shoat
Il have not alluded to the women of
Kansas. There is a place where the
tongue halts, and the lips faIter. AS
am not up for office 1 can afford to be
modest. cannot gild refined gold. nor
add a hue TO the flower But I can say
that she is first in our hearts, first in
love- and first and last at the outside
of a bargain counter
g Oh woman in thy hours of ease,
Uncertain. coy and hard to please
But when in anguish wrings your
brow,
At some club caucus, you'll find
Jour frou.'
This is the array that stands outside
your counters to be waited on. knew
in a holy moment when you gave me
this subject that you meant Kansas.
AS you look into the meager mirrors on
the wall inside our counters and glimpse
the inceasing millions entrusted to your
wa tchful care, it is only the limited re-
Election of the tremendous resources
outside your doors.
I'VE have passed the experimental
stage. With the seasons will come seed
time and harvest. The granaries and
herds viii continue to flow into your
Golfers We have one industry, how
Z
asset as long as you had an expense
bill OF overdraft to take its place This
is politics as pursued here as hveli-
hood. You may have seen the newly
elected member introduce a series OF
anti-corporation acts; that, was sus-
picious You may have known when
he first got a leather dressing case and
first embarked in a new suit of cloth
ing; that. too, was only suspicious, but
in a financial way, you have not no
ticed questionable transactions ebb and
flow across your counters as they have
in blessed, but old Missouri. Sometimes
when the wind is right you may nave
gotten it up your nOStrilS as we DO the
odor from packing house chimneys
when they are disinfecting and purify
ing oIeo. lump jawed cattle and their
by-products, that like things occur
here; but no thousand dollar bills have
yet crossed your counters from pooo-
Ter to boodler.
wall Kansas in today and there is no
disaster that could PROSTATE the state
short of final sataclysm, and even that
would develop some hidden resource to
modify the disaster
II knew all along that Outside the
Counter meant only Kansas. Here is
Kansas, the very breast OF the contln-
fent; the mammary gland of the New
world flowing Jersey milk and God and
the. Bee made honey. The great arteries
of Commerce quicken its pulse. TO the
cas-. roars the loud Atlantic, to the west
murmurs the gentle Pacific. To the east
lies Europe and her thousand years of
civilization To the west is our own
archipelago and as Benton said, there is
India. The United States is the COM
merciaI missionary to civilize those an
cient people with our machinery and it
is the duty of Kansas to furnish the
bread and meat to do it; Russia. our
great anita gonist. is on either hand and
rises like a giant that has first found its
strength to battle with US for the su-
premacy in trade. It will come out of
the conflict defeated. No nation can bait
Jews and ply commerce.
..Hither and thither, across our bor-
ders. wings the worlds traffic and KAN
sas for once IS not ashamed to stand in
the very middle of the road and exact
willing commercial tribute of the far
sunrise and the farther sunset
Kansas IS outside your counter and
the world is its customer"
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