The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-01-14

The amount is increasing every year.
so that this year it is 81, 900 greater
than two years ago and s., 900 more
than last. Most of this money is scent
here. I mention this to show that
Washburn is a good institution for To-
peka and that pushing the school
means pushing the town.
John r. Mulvane was one of those
to contribute a liberal measure of I'M
solicited praise to the college. He said:
I'VE have one institution particularly
for which I speak good word wher-
ever I go. That is Washburn a good
Christian college that's going to grow
and be an honor to Topeka. We want
to help it. I have watched the school
in it's development through many years
and know its value to the town. By
speaking a good word for it as we come
and we will be able to help it. liked
DR.. Plass' talk and know that what he
said was true
c. G. Blakely was another member
of the club to say good word for
Washburn.
1T is my idea he said, that To-
peka is to become a town of homes,
churches and schools. think we can
make it a place where men who have
accumulated fortunes in business in
other parts of the state will want to
come and live and send their children
to school For the last ten years I
have been watching the progress of
Washburn college and I want to say
afford to give our strongest support. I
think that many of our young men
make q mistake in going away from
home to other schools no better equip
ped than this one. In some instances
fperhaps it is necessary for them to go
away but I want to have my boy go
| to Washburn and to know that he is
surrounded by the good social and
moral influences which can be found
there.
I'm this connection I should like to
mention the movement that is now in
progress for the establishment of
theological seminary under the auspices
| of the Methodist church. think To-
peka is amply big enough for two
schools, particularly where the interests
of the two do not conflict. The estab-
| lishment of the new university of To
peka ought to be supported by the
| After one or two other members had
risen to remark favorably upon the
progress of Washburn, e. B. Cowgirl,
| editor of the Kansas Farmer, said:
Every effort we make at promoting
| WaShburn is an effort for the promo
ton of Topeka. In assisting this school
we are not aiding struggling institu-
ton, but enc that has attained an as
sured position among the schools of the
country and is every year becoming
better and more widely recognized"
All Of the Washburn speeches had
been warmly applauded. and at the
/
dent J. E. Frost called for a rising
vote by all those who were in favor of
| the unanimous support Of the institu-
ton by the Commercial club. Every
| body stood 10.
But the informal two-minute talks
| covered a variety of subjects, of which
| Washburn college was only one to be
given more prominence than others. In
the course of his speech John R. Null
vane said:
'Scme of these days, if I live and
prosper, hope to be able to lay before
the business men of Topeka a propo-
/ sition for the establishment here Of a
cotton mill, on which several Of us hay e
been working for some time. Do you
know that this is almost an ideal loca-
| tiolIN for a cotton mill? Nearly One-haIf
the CROP is raised west of the MiSstS-
sippl river and it is being given more
attention every year. At the prosa1t
time Kersas is largely an agricultural
state, and a failure. of the wheat croI
/ or the corn crop is likely to Drecip'tate
! a season of hard times. We want more
manufacturing industries. and this is
one of the best ADAPTED for our loca-
| ton. Whether Japan and Russia gel
into war with each other or not, there
will be ar increasing market in the fal
east for the product of American cotton
mills 1t seems to me that 1t will be ar
unfortul ate thing for the progress Of
the far east if. in the event of war.
They are the Yankees of the Orient
and will do more toward civilizing that
portion of the world and opening mar
kets than the rest of the civilized world
can accomplish. Kansas wants to get
in line for the increased demand for
manufactured goods. and believe that
the oppoI tunity for developing an insti-
tuition OF this sort should not be neg
lected.'
Representative J. B. Belts spoke OF
the past accomplishments of the Com
mercial club, among them the securing
of the present city hall. He made
people of North Topeka toward each
other and toward the rest of the town
brought about by the common loss in
the flood of last year. He closed by
saying:
Il believe North Topeka is a bigger
and better place to live in than ever
The people have been brought to feel
that they belong tdA each other, the
factions have forgotten their differences
and all have Joined hands to make it a
good place to live in. for one am glad
that I live in North Topeka, even if we
did get washed out by the flood"
FREIGHT RATE HANDICAP.
F. P. MacLennan was called upon for
remarks and said:
Il don't know of much that this club
needs to be told further than to con-
tinue in well doing. The showing made
in the address given by President Frost
/ is a remarkable one. In spite of the
terrible losses to the town caused by the
flood of the Kansas river there has been
evidenced a greater spirit of progress
than ever before. We have acquired
new institutions and have improved oul
old ones. Attention has been called to
the change in North Topeka. The
wreckage of the flood has been cleared
away, new buildings have replaced the
ones destroyed, the streets have beer
repaired and almost every evidence Of
the disaster is now removed. The peo-
pie of that part have been brought
into a closer union that promises much
for its further growth. North Topeka
seems to have been baptized into peace
and harmony and progress and is now
bigger and better than ever before.
TT was probably owing to a feeling
of modesty that the president overlook
ed reference to the relief work done
during the flood by the Commercial club