The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1904-01-30


oath as president There is not a market
| that we have now, that we did not secure
Immediately on the enactment of the
Dingley law. / ought to correct myself
by saying that the only market we have
now. which we did not have then, is the
American market, which. in a great
degree, we have surrendered OF course,
we have little Porto Rico. hardly worth
counting. We have reduced the trades
on some things from Cuba and from the
Philippines, but these things have not
materially changed the condition. The
condition of America during the patst
seven years is bets vouched for by the
immigration of one million people every
year, seeking homes in America II our
people were not in the midst of prosperity
would the foreigners be coming to get
part OF it? If the foreigner were making
our goods in the old world, he would
be likely to stay there. The democratic
party has never been able to make this
country so attractive thta all the people
of the earth wanted to come here. a
friend of mine said that, If he were TO
take a sleep for twenty years and, upon
awakening, should look at a market re-
port, he could tell which party was in
power: certainly if he looed at a public
debt statement.
PRAISES ROOSEVELT.
Are you going back on Roosevelt?
What has he done that you should forsake
him? Is it public offense TO enforce the
laws? And should a man be discarded for
doing 1t? Is it an outrage to be a patriot?
Is it wrong to be candid and open-handed?
Roosevelt is a square man and has at
tempted to do as nearly right as pos
sile. Even Lincoln was moved by no
better purpose or impulses. Since the
close of the civil war thre young men
have introduced the most prominent new
thoughts that have attracted American
attention. The first was Henry w. Grady,
a divinely gifted son of a confederate
soldier. who. from his great heart, pointed
the way by which the surviving confede
rate could mourn Tor his dead and devere
their memories and yet become loyal to
the old flag. The second was Booker 7.
Washington, the greatest man of his race,
who has told the negroes that they must,
in a great measure, be the architects Of
their own fortune, and to them has recon-
mended industry and thrift as means
Of all recognition which they could desire.
He gave the true philosophy TO his race
and it applies equally to the whites. The
third was Theodore Roosevelt, who told
the rich and the poor that the laws were
made for all and not for the few; that
all must pay their taxes alike. He has
done more than any man Of his time
toward making manhood and character
the test of mas responsibility.
The new south became a. fact under the
leadership Of Grady. The black man
began his career as a money saver and
a home maker under the lead of Booker
T. Washington and the country is enter
ing upon greater area of equality and
a better recognition of stalwart, manly
qualities of honesty and strength of cha
racter under the leadership of Theodore
Roosevelt"
Congressman Victor Mur6ock, president
of the club, also made an address. He
spoke as follows:
lone of the ninety-nne who attended
twelve years ago tonight the first Kansas
Day Club dinner, l remember distinctly,
some of the ideas of that initial occasion,
ideas that were only family reflected in
the addresses then made, and some of
which escaped all records.
The club, organized in 1892, was born
in the disorder of defeat, and adjourned
and went home to campaign which
ended in disaster.
But the club lived-lived largely because
of the vitality of young repubIicanism in
Kansas, which 1 distinctly remember was
twelve years ago tonight. evidenced, but
Do Of hot ax-i1a
the consensus of opinion that night. not
of record, that the old crowd of control
ling republicans in Kansas had by dis
play of various political disabilities dem
onstrated their lack of capacity to meet
the powerful movement, then known as
the Alliance More evidence. not of
record, was profound impression around
this table that the Alliance contagion
would spread westward and engulf Hi
nois, Indiana and Ohio. unless it was
overcome in Kansas. republican Kansas,
of SO.00e republican plurality, with the
prestige of a powerful congressional dele
cation, a state of complete republican
antecedents first-born of the party, but
now suddenly turned topsy and contorted
politically, in day, out of all identity
It was felt that night but political dis
erection forSdding. not expressed, that if
republican Kansas was not safe, no re-
publican state was.
So this organization took its stand.
1t opposed whelming. frenzied move
ment movement which offered a fas-
cinating proposition in national politics
the union of the west and the south.
through the creation of new party. OPP
posed, professedly, to democratic and re-
publican parties alike. 1t was explained
that, as the old federal party had passed
and the Wing, so the republican party
with thirty years of existence. had
reached the day of natural dissolution
and was now to give way TO a new
organization.
Every man present at this table twelve
years ago tonight knew this movement in
all its intensity. an intensity never COM
pretended by the states untouched by
populism. So intense il was that it Slapped
the foundat ions not only of the political
but also the commercial life of the state.
produced new newspapers in every county
with long lists of devoted subscribers
trading only with merchants who adver-
tised therein: so intense that neighbor-
hoods conspired 10 stay away from the
country school house republican meetings
-.,tle whole townships. TO man. woman
and child. devoted days 20 listening to
orators imported from the south preach
ing the new doctrin; so intense that it
invaded the mercantile field. started gen
eral stores. insurance companies. banks
and even projected railroads; so intense
that IL overturned Kansan the state had
idolized, a man apparently as permanent
IN Kansas as Blaine in Maine or Sherman
in Ohio; sweps out the congressman. caps-
ured the state house and took possession