The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-15

years de club has been q power in de
land.
1T has sought to elevate de Guild
man, politically and socially.
ut has sought to restrain his nat
ural extravaganza and teach him
economy.
1T has turned his attenshun from de
game of craps to all de great political
queshuns of de day.
ut has taken him off de tOp-ran of
de fence whar' he sot in de sun and
made a worker Of him.
''It has proved to him dat rentin'
: postofice box and wearin diamun
pin am but holler mockeries in de case
of a Guild man.
cit has taken his wife away from de
front gate and her gossip and put her
at de washtub and added to de income
of de ly.
doahs and sent his chillen to school.
1T has settled thousands of ques-
huns of social etikette, and it has made
de standin' of thousands of Guild folks
secure.
"Au desc things has de Lirne-Kiln
club accomplished, and yet its work am
not done. 1t am gwine ford to new
pinnacles, and it am gwine to accom-
plish new victories.
mo dan ever befo it viii be de
head center for the cuIrd people Of
America to look up to and consult wild
and be guided by.
EVERYTHING MUST CHANGE
"Cities. states and kentries change
DER form of government for sunthin'
new and better When butter gifts too
old it must be worked ober and made
new. For de last year I have been
realizinf dat dis Iime-Kiln club was
libin' in de past and should be worked
ober to correspond wild de progress of
de times. Ten years ago am an old
date wild dis kentry. We have new
men, new laws, new circumstances. /
oil Cd fad dofa p1r11id
must keep up wild de purceshun or go
under De man who falls down am
gwine to git stepped on.
''I now call your attenshun to sartin
changes have made in de constitu-
shut and bylaws of dis club, and later
on shall ask you to ratify dem:
Under de old constitushun
member of the de club found guilty of
political graft could be bounced out
and fined one thousand dollars. Under
de new nuthin' tail kin be done wild
him 'cept to call him sharp feller and
ak him TO whack up wild US.
Ode old constitushun says dat any
member found guilty of embezzlin
public or private funds shall be drap-
ped from de rolls and prosecuted into
state prison. De new constitushun says
dat if he kin settle for half he will be
considered an honest man and be re-
elected to Office.
'i3-Article of de old constitushun
says dat any member Of dis club who
takes office at a GALAXY of $500 a year
and makes 1000 within eighteen
months shall be deemed an object of
suspishun Dat has been changed to
read: Unless de said member shall con-
tribute at least $500 toward d church
bell or some Sunday skule library.
Article 38 speaks Of a trust as a
swindle-a combinashun of rascaIs-a
band of robbers. Dat has been changed
to read dat a trust is a body Of high
minded men engaged in developin' de
resources of de kentry at a small profit
"5-Article So reads dat If any Guild
man am 'lected to congress by de people
it shall be deemed a misdemeanor for
him to take a salary from trust or
railroad at de Same time. and to work
agin de people who 'lected him. Dis
hisself to whoever wants to buy, but
must take keeF not to be found out in
it.
"6-Article 70 says dat any member of
dis club who may be 'lected to de legis-
lachure and be suspected Of takin a
bribe from a gas company shall be put
on trial forthwith, and # found guilty
shall be expelled and fined 81, O00- Dat
article was adopted ten years ago, when
people regarded de sellin of a mans
official influence as a crime. Under de
changed condishun Of things. it has
been changed to read dat If he uses his
bride money to forward de interests of
some college or hospital. he are to be
looked upon as humanitarian and
philanthropist instead Of a scoundrel
"7-Article Is reads dat any Guild
pusson found wild a water mii1yon or
tcouple of chickens in his possession a
] mile from home on a dark night shell