The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-21

natural gas the state is wonderfully en-
lowed In coal, in lead, in cement IN
brick clay in gypsum. and in many other
endowmerts of silbterranean wealth Kan
sas is highly favored. Its cattle on a
thousand hills, it's horses and sheep, an
swine, and other live stock ada seVeIai
hundred million dollars to its total as
sets, and in no state is wealth more equa!i-
~ distributed. and nowhere is solomon ;
IDEAL Give me neither poverty nor nor
riches" more fully realized. Only IN the
mints Of the United States is money more
easily made than in Kansas.
There is nothing the matter vii with o fa IN
teIligence is exceeded by only one stare
It's school system is ideal. It's common
school property aggregates S25,O0U,Uo0 IN
value: its common school houses NUMBER
10. 600. II. 009 teachers marshal an army u
900 children; 200 UNIVERSITIES, co II
and academies furnish n is nlgne1 eo i,Ie
ton. and it spends Sc. 600 900 per year upon
its common schools.
But. gentlemen, the real greatness of a
state is not measured by its geographical
location, by its territorial extent or by
its material resources. The real great
ness of a state is measured by the char-
acter OF its people. What do you raise
here?" once asked a pompous and oHen-
sive stranger to a citizen of Maine as the
two looked out upon the sterile fields OF
the Pine Tree state, and the proud citizen
Of that great commonwealth whicn mas
adorned the pages of American history
with flustrious names and glorious
achievements Strengthened himself up.
and shifting his bosom, said: we raise
men here. Ana the SdIuo ptOuO gOaSA
can be made by kansan.
Men whom the lust of office does not
Men en- whom the spells of Office can not
Men Who Who possess opinions and a will:
Men who have honor-men who will not
Men Who can stand before a demagogue
And damn his treacherous batteries
TAI mem suncrowned. who live above
IN ' public bic duty and In private thinking.
Owes Much to Kansas.
Gentlemen Of the Commercial club this
| great and growing city owes much owes
/ most. to Kansas. From this great state
40U miles long and 200 miles wide Kansas
| City reaps its richest harvest. It's live
stock makes your market one of the
| greatest in the world. Its oil lubricates
all of your machinery. Without this corn
/ ucopia einptying it's plenty into this great
| commercial metropolis. Kansas City
i would be a country town with no need OF
a new union depot Your tributary terri
i tory on the east is insignificant but the
| reach of your western tr2ds is almost
llmitless. Alice by the natural indus as
/ trial interests the commercial comfy be
| tween this great city and Kansas should
| be carefully cultivated, ana this, 1 under
stand, is one of the primary purposes Of
/ gar11y policy should characterize the con
/ duct of either toward the other. Kansas
i
| though it has a right to believe that tht
| city which it has made should be, ane
| some time will be, part of its territory
and help to bear it's bufaen of taxation
| The great railroads which center her'
should rot with your eonnivance or con
sent discriminate against Kansas ship
! Ders and Kansas towns. Your wholesale
dealers should adopt broad gauge. poll
| cy in relation to their Kansas patrons
| Your elevator and stock yard peopl
should not he too eager to enrich them
selves At the expense of their Kansas
customers In word, a broad gauge
liberal policy should be pursued by thos
Two peoples, for it is everlastingly tru
in business relations, gentlemen as vel
az in benevolence, that There is thd
scattereth and yet increaseth, and Their
is that withholdeth more than is meet
but fendeth to poverty And so. gen
tlemen. from the great, rich, prosperou
state OF Kansas bring you cordial greet
ia;g tonight. The state was never NOR
p1osperous than it is at this time. It Wi
put more money in its banks this yea
| Than any year in its history. and it al
ready has more than $50 per capita Il
/ these repositories.
Il Glorious Kansas Imperial STATED i
/ history romantic and honorable: in geo
graphical location ideals in scenic effects