The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-28

and together share life'ss burdens and in
fluences in this country Wherever amer
ing Of women. Woman 5 position is high
est in this country. than It Is IN any coun-
Mr. Bryan said that labor was higher
esteemed in this country than in any
other he had visited. He said that II was
an affliction of the orient tnat an lnapas-
sable gulf existed between the laDorer,
position and education. He said that the
same conditions maintained in the coun-
tries OF Europe. although 10 a lesser oe-
gree, but he added, the glory or our ma
ton is that there is no position IN busl-
ness, in political professional me 10
which the humblest laborer may NOT as
pire- We recognize the dignity or LABOR
But we have some things yet to learn
The young man who by brain and muscle
more praise than the man who passes
life in idleness and spends what his
name the one great need OF the Worio,
I would say that 1t is necessary to learn
that labor is honorable.
"A great need in the world today" Mr.
Bryan went on, lis sympathy mere IS
that cannot be solved if we symDathize
with each other, for sympathy is reaily
nothing but the keynote of brotherly
love-
Mr. Bryan said that he had sometimes
been classed' as a pesslInlst Dut Ihat ne
had always been an optimist he SAID
that his trip had proven to him that gen
eral education for all classes of men. wo-
men and children was growing. Even
China was awakening and that in proper
ton as education spreads there and Amer
lean customs spread, just so will China
years He said that his visit to the Phil
P Td the was 596hing 6f nos at nhe
worlds fair at St. Louis he had formed
the opinion that the people OF those is
lands were little less than savages. When
he got there he found many cultured and
Intelligent people, and those those who
in hordes There were over 400, 600 Fill
pinos in the schools there now, he said
spreading throughout the orient. Mr..
Bryan said, and that many many OF Inese
the efforts Of Americans.
.sThere are american schools all over
Asia he said. and each one Of them Is
a center of civilization. and the influences
going out from them cannot be reckoned
while we cannot boast that the sun
never set on our possessions, We can
boast that the sun never sets on amer
MT BRYAN said that throughout the
countries of the old world the sentiment
was growing among the people for a
similar to that which prevails in this
country and that it was sentiment
of the word He told of the creation of
the Douma in Russia by Car Nicholas as
was finally organized there was not
man in 1t who belonged to the CZars
party. He told of it's dissolution, Before
this occurred. representatives from the
BODY had been sent to the International
Peace conference, 1T which Mr.. Bryan
was a representative from this country.
They did not arrive at the conference I'M
til after the DOuma had been dissolved.
The delegates were welcomed, however,
Mr. Bryan said. in a stirring speech by
the premier of Great Britain. in which he
used the stirring phrase. The Douma is
dead long live the Douma.' and Mr..
BRYAN said that the delegates rose as one
man, although they represented all the
nations Of the earth. including the mon
arches of the world. and cheered the sen
timents expressed by England's premier
II was Mr.. Bryan's expressed opinion
is ba sed will spread throughout the world
and will take root and grow. The idea
eminent has no just powers unless they
are derived from the consent of the gov
erned"
ing that he believed that the religion of
This country would spread over the world
ours Is the religion of life" he said.
and in the orient theirs is the religion Of
AZ fina1 tho1fgf1t. ne said that service
would be Judged lYotsby what they got out
Of the world but by what they put in It.
Mr. BRYAN was applauded heartily at the /
conclusion of his lecture.
Prior to the lecture a fine and all too
brief musical programme was given by
he school of fine arts of Washburn col !
ege. of which Professor ALT Fingenberg |
s dean. The musical programme was as
Angels Song ........................G ounod
Misses Page and Miss Sims
The Nightingale's Song NeXln
Wake I'd. Thou Pretty Maiden. . &c ei
Mdme- Lunde Souther.
indian Love Song Observation-Disclosures. Finden |
- - mrs Florence Fox Thatcher.
winsn M,s ssag Page and Miss Sims. '7fhOS
Miss Allabelle Troutman at the piano) |