The Topeka state journal., 1903-05-29
Bankers State Meeting Ends
With a Banquet.
Capt. ]. 6. Waters and Henry
Allen, the Speakers.
M'KNIGHT PRESIDENT !.
Vice Presidents for the Six
Groups Chosen.
Selection of Next Meeting Place
Left to Committee.

we have had an exceedingly enjoy
able convention, and I am glad to no
tice that it is growing better right
along"
This was the comment made by Pres
ident Bradley at the banquet given last
evening in Security hall by the bank
ers of Topeka to the visitors in attend
ance at the bankers convention. And
it expressed the sentiment OF most of
the visitors 1t would be hard to inn
agine pleasanter feature than the
closing Of the sixteenth annual session
of the Kansas Bankers association
There were about 25O covers laid at
the banquet. Four long tables extend
ed the length of the floor of the hall,
and a fifth was spread across the plat
ceedingly attractive with a carnation
at each cover. The service was excel
lent. Unlike most Danquets of such
magnitude, there was no jar or delay
in the service
As soon as the gastronomieaI fea-
ture of the banquet was concluded Pges-
ident Bradley called for the report of
the committee on nominations, and the
following were reported and elected Tor
the coming year.
President, Senator G. w Mcknight
vice president. ]. B. Adams of Ell
Secretary. C. L. Brokaw of Kansas
Treasurer. ]. N. Mcdonald of Cha
mute.
Vice presidents for the various groups
First. A S. King of Chanutes second,
J. P Harris of Ottawa; third, James
Patmore of Pittsburg; fourth sidney
G. Cooke of Herington; fifth, f. T.
Moses of Great Bend; sixth. p. w Bol-
niger of Winfield.
The selection Of the place for the next
meeting of the association was left with
the executive committee NO oelisL @
town seemed ready to put in DID Ior
the association, but John r. MuiVane
invited it to return to Topeka. and the
matter was left with the executive COM
mittee.
Instead of a regular programme OF
+oasts Following the banquet. the pro
erarnnae committee arranged for TWO
addresses. one by Captain j. g. waters
and the other by H ]. Allen, Wnlch
were to be ~the features of the evening
Among the Visitors, however, was T. p
Kim secretary of the Missouri BANK
e,.s, association. and he was called on
for a short talk He threw nuHlpeI
of bououets at the Kansas bankers oe
MED that he was a Democrat, a1thouBH
fror, Missouri and closed by inviting
~, - r1ers.az bankers to attend the Mis-
so1,ri convention, which will propapAg
he held in St Louis next year curing
the worlds fair
senator Mcknight, the nncoilltns
rresident. had charge of the after am am
1,sT features. and Captain Waters was
introduced Captain waters was
scheduled to talk on the su6lect- 'u.- II
side the Bank Counter" Instead ne
seemed to talk chiefly about Kansas
ana its resources. but he made very
nrettv application of it to his suo1ecs
as Kansas lies outside the counteIs u
the bankers of Kansas and is bank OF
the resources of the Kansas pahAs. nc
ss''-z .s1vithin the life time of many per
sons here. our people took this terri
torial area, which is designated as
Kansas, simply, as desert As lnapPsu, L9ssS
so they found it on the ground. Inc
elements were the ghosts of all the
dead centuries: they gave the inquirer
no answer Torrential storms swept
their floods and then the not. oatpl-
tating air on its bosom all through long
davs and seasons until another fierce
outburst came; the wild coyote gave
voice to the sombre night; the rattle
snake. owl and gopher pract1clng the
economies of a united hOuSeholds tne
roaming bison. and the painted. preda-
tory Indian set the picture as our peo-
pie first saw it framed They moved.
and the horizon moved with them; pNt
round about them from rim to rim.
the desert. that had no history and
Welded no hope or prophecy Sullen
and stubborn and taciturn; 1t hugged
silence as a bulwark to preserve its
desolation: it summoned invading
armies of caterpiller. insect and drouths
it invoked the hot winds that had been
warmed in the hottest furnaces below.
Inveterate and implacable, it yielded to
persistent attack. the climate becans
yoked to cultivation; the untamed ele-
ments went down in the survival of the
fittest; the grass that held title by oc-
cupany for a thousand years, gave way
to the urbane and academy bred blue
stem; the fringe Of stunted cotton
wood that sought refuge below the
luxuriant and green. divided and sub =
divided. and hid the interminable reach
of plain, Symmetrically rOndured as if
the earth were a perfect ball The Wis
itor in our borders today, as June is
about to blossom the buds of May as
he sees gardens and planted fields, the
measured step OF the orchards to the
west, and unveils his eyes to the beauty
of the swarded prairies that rise, green
and billowy by imperceptible lift to
the Rockies, must simply imagine. az
his feet crush its tufted floors, that
they are the velvets of Paradise
4 do not believe in statistics in pub
lie addresses. If this country ever be-
comes free trade it will become so to
stop the tiresome monotone in the de-
forever inheres in all tariff discussions
I must allude- however. to a few facts
complied in the field. punched in ous
granaries and corralled in our cow
lots.
Kansas is unlike any other country
on the globe: and it would be very un-
happy If it We're otherwise It IS just
one of the kind; the moulds broken and
the inventor dead. It makes its own
history: is not stuck on any one partic-
ular star in the. galaxy. but loves and