The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-22
TALKS OF KANSAS
Charles S. Treat, U. s. Treas
urer, at Auditorium.
Precedes His Talk on the Treas
ury Complimentary Words.
HE LIKES TOPEKA.
Impressed With Its Beauty and
Activity.
Comments on the Kansas Pros
perity Figures.

United States, delivered an address
"Glimpses of the United States Treas
ury," at the Auditorium last night TO
a large audience which began arriving
at 8 o'clock and struggled in Tor an
hour. Prior to the appearance OF ~ -
speaker a number of selections on the
nine organ were given by w. F. Roehr,
and a solo rendered by Miss May Reu-
dick. Following the address Mar
shaIT's band gave a short concert.
As a peroration Mr.. Treat PAID
high compliment to Topeka and Kan
sas in general and said: am heLe
tonight at the invitation of the bank
ers' association of your glorious STATE
states Treasury but 1 would rather
talk of Kansas and her people, many
of whom have met, and of the great
natural resources which L nave seen
for the first time.
beautiful city in which am the most
interested at this time and the people
and their way of tranSact1ng business;
I have read and known OF Kansas anu anu
its splendid resources but never betore
have I appreciated them as L 90 al
this time. Your people seem SO
broad-gauged and capable and SO
alive to the interests or themselves "ii0
Topeka is a beautiful city, so
charmingly located and so healthIul
and inviting alike to the natives OF tne
state and strangers. am imp s e., Gu
with its activities in worldly analrs
and the proud honor it bears OF Delns
the capital city of the glorious state
of Kansas 1t is not only a great state
but its memories are interlaceo VIII
the stirring scenes of the days Wneh
human freedom was at stake ana the
acts of her sons entities the name u
Kansas to a place in the dfadem OF lhe
crown of liberty. -
roster of valiant sons who defenoeo
her fair name during these sllrrlnS
times, for the list would not De CON- CON-
plete unless inscribed on the scroll
were the names of her heroes
heroines. statesmen and educators who
have added luster to the states name
when one meets a native or the
state he wonders what Will come next
for Kansas is not living In the past Dut
in the present and the future which 1t
has Great as are the accommodations
of the money in the United STATES
treasury I was deeply impressed WIN
the figures given out this afternoon Dy
the president of the Bankers associa-
ton when he spoke of the resources
of the state and said the products or
the farms and the live stock produc-
tions Of one year amounted TO 424 mil
lions of dollars or double what IL was
ten years ago.
''Those to me are mighty figures and
speak volumes for the undeveloped re-
sources of the state and the possibili-
mineral products and the output Of
your factories and the incidentals
which have not been included in the
list which has made this immense sum
of money.
taking these figures and consider
ing the resources of the state many of
which are undeveloped and in their in
fancy it seems to me that Kansas owns
more than her share of the 1860 mil
lions of dollars which I found in the
fro nf 10 xrha 7
took possession. of the money of the
government 90
ct most thoroughly enjoyed my visit
to your magnificent state house and
the pleasure of meeting the governor
of so great a state and not among the
least of my pleasures was the meeting
of your secretary of agriculture, Mr.. |
Coburn, of whom 1 have read so much
and known so little personally. He is
prince of mankind and 1 would have
liked to have spent hours in chatting
with him of the state which is so near
and dear to his heart.
His devotion to the office has earn
ed for him the title which is one of
the grandest which could have been
conferred upon him by an admiring
people. He has met the old time re-
quisite of fame as recorded in the
scriptures and has made two blades
of grass grow where but one grew be-
fore"
He has not only caused an ear of
corn to grow to its greatest splendor,
b. tt II 0ot the one roU which saw
taken as a sample, had he lived
in olden times he would have excited
the envy of kings. I have seen but
glimpses of the possibilities of your
great state, but perhaps 1 am Yearying
you for you are familiar with these J
things which have so impressed me.
II am impressed with the absence of
poverty and the fact that there are
0f mi To- ",
the poor house is an unknown feature
i am sorry that 1 cannot see more of
you in your comfortable homes which
are the envy of visitors from the east
ern sections of the United States, and
fain would l linger within the borders
or your state to feast my eyes and
soul on the good things I have seen
about me.
Kansas and her schools have become
proverbial as have your churches and
the high moral atmosphere of the state
where the youth of the land may grow
to manhood without the CONTAINING ting
states. 1 cannot pay to Kansas the
tribute which is justly due her, but I
would be manifestly unjust If did not
refer to the record for bravery and
patriotism so well earned and justly
due.
Your efforts to contribute to the
patriotic deeds whether in the fields of
the south, or later on the soil of Cuba,
in the far Off isles of the Philip
pines struck me in mute majesty as
gazed on the tattered standards which
chronicle the magnificent service of the
Twenty-third Kansas and stand today
as mute monuments in the archives of
your state capitol.
Grand as are all of your achieve
ments, there is nothing which reflects
such honor dpon you as your primal
desire to build human character to
serve the state, the family and your
God. That should make Of Kansas the
true home; the ideal of what a free re-
public should be.
But must return from the
gHmpses of Kansas to those of the
United States treasury, though 1 would
rather dwell upon those of the former"