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

But with the responsibility comes
duty. It took nerve and self-sa crifice to
rid Kansas of PoDulism; it viii take
more nerve and more self-sa crifce TO
control ourselves so that we will not be
q stencil in the nOstrilS of decency. We
who have conquered fanaticism should
not get drunk with power and forget
TO mold ourselves to the strict account
ing to which we held the enemy. If we
cannot CONQUER the devil of political
greed in ourselves. if we cannot be gen
tlemen as we'll as partisans in our vic
tory then it has been a vain victory
and viii pass as the shadow of a dream.
We who were the young crowd ten years
ago are now passing into our thirties
and forties and ffties There is Il
younger crowd a t our heels 1t has hish
ideals-the kind we won with in ths
fight against PODulism; this young
crowd that IS following US is as anxious
to set into the fray as we were ten years
ago And if we lower our standard. K
we are not just as high-minded, just as
loyal to party ahead of self IS we were
when we were out Of power. the younger
crowd will push us out again We are
here tonight representing the survival
of the fittest. But the battle is not over.
I The great test Of this young crowd of
the n1neties IS to come If We are clean,
I If We live decent, honorable lives at
/ home and in public, If We are brave. il
we are generous, and if above every
thing else we are sincere and true and
( square. man with man, one to another.
we VIII hold the fort. If not-weH, do
/ you remember what became of the
/ double dealers, the 'fxers,' the smooth
politicians, the whisperers. the old scar
faced political cOurtesans who walked
these streets ten years ago2 Gentlemen
( of the Kansas Day club, it is for US to
say by our conduct in public during
the next few years whether our last
/ years will be spent sitting around the
stove IN the shoemaker's shop with the
little group of old men who always meet
there in every country town, splitting in
he T4rfI n at he in
gratitude of reDublicsl
L have for many years hoped for the
honor I have tonight. because have
felt deeply that / had much to say to
the boys whom [ started with ten years
ago. But now that the time has come
7 find myself dumb. I am as one who
has come long way to see a dear
/ friend. dreaming on his journey of the
joy of meeting, of the fine things he will
say, and then when the reality comes It
is stale and commonplace; under the
rules of our club. which are good. MAY
never address you again, and the things
I have dreamed of saying now I cannot
speak My words are ashes in my
mouth, and I feel like Riley's old man.
who SAYS
Jes looking at him.
! An likin him all to himself-see2
Cause he was jes' wrapped up, in him,
An over an over I mind the day
The old man come an stood round In the
While we was a-drilin', a watching jim.
And down at the depot a hearin him say
Goodbye, Jim, take care yerself-'
Following the address of the presi-
dent came the speech of Fred NJ Harris,
the native son, whose subject was
/ kansas"
Next came the address by the guesr
of the evening. Gen. Leonard Wood who
spoke on Reasons for Reciprocity" Gen.
Wood is not an orator, he is not a fluent
/ after dinner talker but he is earnest,
straigh htforward and convincing and the
closest attention was given his state
ments. What he said was delivered
more in the manner of a military man.
returned from an investiga ton, report
ing without f1Ourishes or ado. what he
had learned. Gen Wood reviewed the
work carried on in Cuba and led up to
the question of sugar and reciprocity
Gen Woods Address.
General Wood said in concluding his
scholarly address
The cost of sugar has exceeded for
the last two years its sale price in the
United States, and the cultivation of it
has been kent up Just by these means
I have been telling about, by the people
who have had so much money in that
they have been borrowing 1nd begging
more. hoping for the rise in prize 0f
sugar. The present price OF sugar Just
about meets the price of production
We have in Cuba an island for which
we have sacrificed several hundred mil
lions OF dollars and several hundre1
thousand lives We have built I'D their
property and done that which no coun-
try ever did before. We have captured
a people and turned them loose after
spending a good many thousands Of
lives and several hundred millions Of
dollars in putting them on thair feet
and have established a government al
most a copy of our own The question
now comes. are we going to le- that
government be failure for the lack of
little more assistance. or are we GO
ing to give them another boost and let
them 90 on successfully? There : very
little doubt about the outcome Of Cubs.
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