The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-08

man or child out of a dollar. Yet I
have done nothing which would hon
standard which my remedy will put in
force, to absolutely own over a million
dollars for my lifetime's work. I have
made five million dollars in single
months work, and as high as two mill
lions in a single day, and as the bust
ness of the country is now done, can
repeat the operation and honestly say
to my fellowman and to my God,
have not infringed any of the laws OF
the game in the making of it.
In saying this. and 1 assert it with
the utmost conviction, you have the
source of the whole evil before you.
1t is an evil not of men, but of meth
DDS. AS said in the foreword of my
story: 81 take no issue with men: II
is with a principle / am concerned.
The men are merely individuals; 1t is
the method that is at fault"
Kansas and the System.
Men and women of Kansas. the,
other day you, in keeping with your
traditions and your past, seeing the
situation of the American people and
recognizing that some one must step
from the ranks of the firing line and
cry to the system Halt! You can
go no furtherI" threw themselves into
the breach. Knowing that some one
must risk fortune and perhaps life
in pointing the way to the whole
American people, you. led by your
grand and fearless governor, hurled
yourselves against the poison pointed
bayonets and the stinkpots of the
Standard oil and the System" and
today the eyes of the entire world are
upon you.
1t is not only yoru own interests
which are at stake, your great oil in
dustTy, your beef, your corn, wheat all
of which are absolutely at the mercy
of this gigantic power through its con-
troll of the railroads and banking sys-
tenn of the country-not only your in
teFests which are at stake in this bat
tie, but the interests of the whole Amer
lean people They are falling into line,
state after state and city after city, and
as fearlessly and as bravely as you,
they are following you to the battle. but
you cannot alter or change the hard,
cold fact an iota that upon you depends
the battle.
Every eye in America is focused on
the banner of Kansas, for every man,
woman and child knows it has gone
forth to battle with this monster which
up to now has never met defeat, and If
your banner goes down and is trailed
in the dust-neyer mind whether 1t be
by treachery, corruption or the brutal
force of dollars-the American people
will surely cry as one man, What use
for us to try where bleeding. fearless
Kansas failed ?" $50 At
Gov. Hoch, let an old warrior of the
blood and crime-stained fields of fren-
zied finance lay his tribute at his feet
1t was that grand son Of Massachusetts,
that able son OF Kansas, he whom
Kansas honored with all the prizes In
her gift to the very highest, whom Kan
sas three times sent to seat in the SEN
ate of our country-it was that glorious
orator and that able statesman, John
| J. ingalls,, who sent bowling down the
corridors of time that grand inspiration,
| Opportunity
Master of human destinies am I.
Fame, love and fortune on my footsteps
Cities and fields walk: I penetrate
Deserts and seas remote; and, passing by
| I knock unbfdden. once at every gate.
| If sleeping wake; if feasting rise
Before turn away 1t is the hour OF tate
And those who follow me. gain every state
Mortals desire, and conquer every foe
Save Death, but those who doubt or hesi-
Condemned to failure, perjury and woe.
Seek me in vain; and uselessly tmplore'
1 answer not and 1 return no more.
Senator ingalls, prophetic eye must
| have pierced the misty vistas of the
| future-must have penetrated space
and rested on today; must have
focused you, Governor Hoch. for IL
ever Opportunity knocked, it knocks to-
day. The times are ripe; the people
are aroused, the country Is afiarne to
this great problem. There is today no
Republican, no Democratic party, no
| east no west, no north, no south,
/
frozen peaks of Labrador to the sum
scorched shores of the gulf of Mexico,
| from the vineyards of California to
Boston harbor; there is but one
thought, one cry, 1.-THE People, Down
with the dollar sign, and up with OLD
| Glory!"
| There are but one people, and they
are Americans. The election of Thee
dore Roosevelt has just proved 1t, and
he the honest, he the brave and grand,
has a great, strong right hand upon
the rudder of state. while in his left
he holds the sword of justice, as he IN
a voice which pierces the ears of all
the world, rings out "a square deal
for ALP Just then Opportunity
knocks, and impIore you. by ali the
traditions of the past, in behalf of the
suffering of the present, and for the
sake of unborn generations answer
the knock, open the door and show
the whole world that Kansas, if nee
essary, will again earn, and doubly
earn, her name of bleeding Kansas"