The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-08


is no doubt that if it had not been for
the rain the picnic would have been a
grand success.
GOVERNOR BAILEY'S SPEECH
Following is an abstract of Governor
Baileys address:
Mr. Chairman. fellow citizens and
representatives of organized labor: 1
feel highly honored for the compliment
that has been payed me in being asked
to address you on this day and on this
occasion. l need not tell you that
sympathize and believe in organized
labor. In fact 1 sympathize with any
thing that is likely to better and i'm
prove the condition of Kansas and her
citizens. 1 think that anything which
will be of any assistance in improving
the condition of this great state of ours
is surely deserving of sympathy.
Manual labor is not new to me.
have had a great deal of experience in
that line of work 1 assure you that
your governor has worn hickory shirt
while he was laboring on the farm more
times than he has any other. And as
the result 1 believe in labor and the
right for labor to organize. That is, if
that right will bring you to do good
deeds and to better the condition of
your genera ton. And I assure you that
1 feel that such is the case. The great
est good to the greatest number will be
the guiding star that governs organized
labor.
And 1 wish to say to you in connec-
tion with this that you should ever
think of character and obligations OF
citizenship in carrying on the work OF
these great organizations. Character
and obligations of citizenship are great
er today in this country of ours than in
any other. The laboring men of this
country owe more to this country than
those of other countries do to theirs
Every man is a part of the great body
polite. His first duties are to his
country and to his family. I have
nd A.@fI
lie affairs Let me say to you that you
should do every thing that will better
your condition. and remember that the
standard of the community is measured
with the standard of individual life
Every promise you break, every obIlga-
ton you fail to fulfill. lowers just that
much the standard of the day in which
you live.
Young man and young woman if
there is a message that l can bring to
you it is this: Do your duty to your
country, yourself and your family Is
there anything more glorious, more no.
bic, than to have written upon your
tombstone after you have ended a life
that has been characterized by the full
fillment of your duties, My life has
been a success
Another thing. A mans life cannot
be measured by dollars and cents and
at the same time be what it should be.
If it were otherwise We would slip
backward instead of climbing upward.
often hear people say. Times are not
what they used TO be. A boy has not
the chance now that he used to have
Let me tell you / have no especial
sympathy for the boy whom 1 see
trudging along the street on his way
to his work dressed in overalls and
jumper and carrying a dinner bucket
on his arm. I have no sympat thy for
him when he is compelled to go to some
old board for a nail to take the place
of a button on his pants. I have no
sympathy for him because he has to
work for the chance of an education
No 1t is the dependent boy who needs
my sympathy. The boy who has never
had to wo-k, who has always had ev-