The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-05-17

No arraignment Of the evil attending
such gifts or the spirit by which they
are prompted was more completely
voiced in Topeka than by the rugged
governor of Indiana in his Tuesday
evenings lecture. The word painting
was both vivid and true and the best
portion of what was said during the two
hours and a quarter over which the
lecture was spread was contained in
the standardization OF the graft born by
wholesale acceptance of those privileges
from corporations by public OFFICIALS
The entire lecture was read. Both in
the first and latter portions of the ad-
dress the speaker kept close to his man
uscript He failed to get entirely away
until he reached that portion of the lee
ture outlined in the above Here he
gave free rein to his feelings and senti-
ments. He said:
There is no more practical set of
business men in the world than the
managers of these great railways. Their
every act is governed by a purpose and
cause Do you think for one moment
that they would give away annually
passes representing many thousands of
dollars if in return they did not secure
what they reDresented2 The high
courts of the land should come in and
put stop to this issuance of free
passes to government officials. Passes
make public official serviIe. What
would you think of juror who would
accept favors from an attorney oppos-
ing the states case? Yet our public
officials are exactly in that place. They
are our jurors and as such should hear
Unprejudiced the case which is tried be-
fore them"
Continuing on the subject of freight
rates the speaker said:
The distribution of the products of
our country is greater problem than
the raising Of them. The attitude Of
the railroads in fixing rates is to Mace
upon the traffic as high a rate
as it viii stand There should be a
tribunal created governing the question
of railroad rates"
Growth of Country.
Governor Hanly sketched the growth
Of the United States in the following
words: "One hundred and twenty-nine
years ago our fathers founded new
nation amid narrow and primitive sur
roundings. They builded at the peril
Of their lives, honor and property. But
they builded and faltered not. When
they formed the high resolve of form
ing a new nation the armies of Great
Britain We're encompassed about them
and the navfes of the mistress of the
sea were in sight of the shore. The war
was long and sore It must be always
so. nation cannot be born without
pain. Thus, they, our fathers founded
q country. a free nation encircled by
law. Then again there was war Their
children were at war for what their
fathers had founded Forty-fve years
later another race of sons were face tC
face in war. For a moment the north
Bhrunk from the horrors of such a war
But it had no alternative Scene after
scene passed with the rapidity of q
moving picture. There is Bull Run
BpOttsylvania, Antletam, CHATTANOOGA
Vicksburg and at last Appomattox
Thank God for Appomattox. This. al
this and for what? That this union es
I have brought this up to you. TIL
patriotism of war is inspiring an,
glorious. But there is a patriotism of
finer type. A patriotism without whicl
the country could not last single civi
year 1t is that which perpetuate
what the patriotism OF war has estab
lished Through the patriotism of wa
the American people were given a FIRE
country but in the patriotism of peac
we secured the constitution. War is a
abnormal state. 1t comes with the sud
denness of the cataclysm and is quick
~ passed. Peace is a normal condition
The dangers of peace are not, so i'm
minent but they are not one whit les
dangerous This nation is at the Io'
tide of the patriotism of peace. TIL
time has come, my friends, when in OF
der to save it its friends must figh
must vote and must work for it.
Urges Enforcement Of Law.
Speaking in a personal vein the goy
ernor said: When I took the oath {
Office as governor of the great state
Indiana I found that there were certai
powers which the governor possesse
with reference to civic affairs. The Law
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