The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-01-16
FARMERS RIGHTS
They Can Always Get Them in
the Law
Says Associate Justice Benson
in an Address.
COMPLIMENTS COBURN
COMPLIMENTS COBURN
Refused Senate to Teach World
of Kansas Farming"
Mrs. KedZie-JOneS Talks for the
Sons and Daughters.

Associate Justice A. w. Benson of
the Kansas supreme court. was one
of the speakers at the closing session
of the state board of agriculture last
night. Justice Benson took for his
subject, 1.-THE Farmer as Seen From
the Bench The address was very
interesting and the audience very at
tentive. He spent considerable time
in relating some of his early Kansas
experiences with both lawyers and
farmers. Mr.. Benson came to Kan
sas in 1860, year before Kansas be-
came state. Some of the incidents
which were mentioned in this connec-
ton were unique and typical only of
new community
Mr.. Benson said that he had seen
almost every class of farmers. dur
ing his career of almost half cen
tury as a lawyer and jurist. He had
at first regarded them as a class
lower than the average but with the
added years and the improvement of
the Kansas farms, his opinion has
greatly changed and now the Kansas
farmers are looked up to not only by
himself but by every other lawyer I'D
the state.
In Kansas. Mr.. Benson asserted the
farmers can always get their rights at
law He considers the district court
a most important office and agrees
with Presid ent-elect Taft that a large
number of cases end there. He
showed the efficiency of the Kansas
district court by noting the small
of reversals of district court
decisions by the higher tribunals.
Mr.. Benson made a humorous
the agricultural profession. ''In this
country there are five million far
mers,'' he said 'but there are only
twelve of them in congress, while !
there are 262 lawyers. You can see
the people trust lawyers"
Before he concluded Mr.. Benson |
to pay the customary COM |
pliment to Secretary Coburn. He
referred to Mr.. Coburn as "a man
who turned down a seat in the United |
States senate in order TO teach the |
world of Kansas farming"
Another interesting address was
that of Mrs. Nellie Kedzie-Jones of
Mich, who was at the /
head of the domestic science of the
Kansas Agricultural college until a
few years ago. Her subject, 1.-THE
Great Granddaughters of Kansas
Pioneers" was a plea for better edu-
cation facilities for the girls of Kan
sas, and her many suggestions found |
ready listeners in the person of every /
member of the audience.
Mrs. Kedzie-Jones' Address.
Her address follows in part:
"A few days ago went through the |
5000 building at Manhattan where |
Kansas girls are to be taught some |
hings that will make life easier and |
appier for them, and my Kansas pride
rev even greater because she is the
rst state in the Union to give SO good |
building for girls alone.
Many a building has been erected
or training and educating the boys,
nd as a mark of special favor the girls
ave been allowed to share many of
hese buildings. But Kansas has set a
ace the other states may do well to
oIIow, in giving one building for the
pecial training of home-makers.
kansas is 200 miles wide and 400
niles long, and one building won't go
cry far toward providing for all her
aughters but as the grain of mustard
eed, this one building will increase
nd multiply till all Kansas shall be
Ding her duty by all her daughters.
us Kansas doing all she can for her
ons and daughters? She is doing Well
know, but I believe that well is not
nough; for after all we have heard
bout the corn and the cattle, the soil
nd the alfalfa, no crop means so much
} the Kansas farmer as the crop or
oys and girls. Give them then, all the
dvantages you can. Send out from
our centres to the borders of the state
II the help for the young people you
an and in the next generation you will
&c not only individuals that will give
.ansas her full rank among the states,
ut such homes as shall make her the
avied of all nations.
ut pays Kansas to do much for those
reat granddaughter. The debt the
ate owes to the pioneers will never
E entirely paid; but as a payment of
lterest, the care of these girls of today,
Iay be kept up. The more Kansas does
lie more she will receive in return.
Someone has asked how long must
e be doing for these girls, and want ;
, answer in the words of Kansas men 1
no were one day standing in Philip
me river, holding a position, with the
alter to their waists, with their am
unition in their caps, the word came
own the line, How long can you hold {
le river? how long? how long? and the {
" came back, as from one man. TIN ]
e are mustered out.
keep on then, men of Kansas, do {
81 for these granddaughter of your I
oneers, and they will pay you back {
= making such homes that Kansas will
ot only be 200 miles wide, 400 miles I
ng, a thousand miles deep, but will
uly reach to the stars"
During the evening Charles e. SUIT
m of Lawrence, the newly elected 7
resident of the board was introduced