The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-19

done in improving the state grain de-
partmcnt right here in this city
1T appears that the United States
Is to have the model government of
| the world. If this is true Kansas
should be the model state in this
| model nation. All over the state the
cities are adopting the commission
form of government. This is an en-
| couraging sign. 1t means that the
| cities will not be a corrupting in
| fiuence in the state as they are in so
| many other states.
Il am glad to see the citizens of the
state taking greater interest in Kan
sas City, Kan. If you follow out your
progressive plans this city will have a
| population of 100000 or " million
before many years are gone.
THE other speakers will give you
the peaches and cream and the cara
mel cake and the angel food cake. /
am giving you the corn bread and
hash. That is why I was asked to
speak first-to preserve the proper
order of things
Henry Aliens Talk.
To the enthusiasm of youth thus
painted, the prairies of Kansas with
their wealth of green and purple and
gold, Henry j. Allen, a favorite of all
Kansas word painters, added the phil
osophical reflections of middle age in
his address on Sunny Kansas"
II am happy to be here in this city
tonight" he said at the beginning,
because it gives me an opportunity
to congratulate the people of Kansas
City, Kan, on the splendid progress
they are making. And l want to
congratulate you upon the fact that
you have proved that a great city can
be both prosperous and respectable
at the same time. Here I find you
are now, at this late season of the
year. building three hundred and fifty
new homes, and every hammer in the
hand of workman on those homes
drives another nail into the lie that
a town can't be built without saloons.
We all love Kansas City, Kan, and
with every forward stride of the city
our love increases. It's because it is
our Kansas City, and in touch with
everything that makes our state so
dear to u.s."
Mr. Allen talked of "dimpling VAL
leys where rests the peaceful cities of
of broad acres that yield
of "autumnal landscapes
with deeper colors because of the |
of Kansas"
Kansas Citizenship.
But he added with a glow of en-
thusiasm, 1.-The greatest of all the |
of sunshine in Kansas
Is in the character and the quality of
our civilization. True, we are laughed |
at and are made the subject of jests, |
but when it comes to acute thinking |
we are not as dull as Rhode Island.
We are alive and thinking.every
man, woman, boy and girl in the
state is thinking. and acquiring a
wealth of ideas. We may not have
the highest degree of sanity. but we
have a high degree of mental activity.
We take leadership. Down in Wash
ngton there was a mild sort of in
surgency started, but it didn't amount
% much until Kansas took hand in
he business. Then Joe BristoW was
ike a big furniture van in a down
n
out of the way or get hurt"
"My friends" Mr.. Allen said in clos
ng his address, "the germ of our
Kansas citizenship is the love we have
,or our state, for the town he helps
% make, for the home he helps to
build, for the trees and grass and
lowers he plants. Teach the boys and
girls to love their homes, their city,
heir state and their nation, and Kan
;as will have the best civilization on
sarth.'-
Congressman Madison's Speech.
1--WE people out in Kansas are proud
f Kansas City, Kan" Edward H. Madi-
on, representative from the Seventh
f your magnificent development and
accomplishment. We only regret that
-ou did not retain the old and historic
.ame of Wyandotte."
vas kansas Under the Wyandotte
constitution"
There are some men here tonight,
Ir Madison continued. who ought to
eceive the homage of every man and /
oman in Kansas. Venerable men who
.elped write the constitution OF KAN
as liberty. It is a great thing to par
icipate in the building of a constitution
or a great commonwealth. This Kan
as constitution exists today practically |
= it was written in the old warehouse
t the side of the river in old Wyan-
otte They had the United States con-
titution for a model and when they
elected a constitution. they selected one
yhich ever since has stood for freedom
nd liberty.
They Were Progressive.
1.-THE constitution that these men
ramed had nothing of retrogression in
]. There was nothing in it that would
rider that the state might exist Like
he United States constitution it dealt
nth broad principles and was a con-
titution that will endure.
These men who assembled at Wyan-
Iotte formulated a magnificent charter
,f liberties. That constitution and the
avs that were framed under 1t were an
invitation to every God-fearing citizen,
wherever he might be, to come to Kan
as and make his home.
THE Kansas constitution and Kansas
avs have made it great state. A few
ears ago they were denouncing us all
,ver the country as a set Of cranks be-
ause we had adopted a prohibitory
aw Now every state in the Union is
GLOWING our example. Kansas es-
entially is, and always will be. state
f farmers. The great problems of this
tate are not settled in the cities but by
he farmers in the country. These men
ave declared against the saloon, just as
he men who assembled here fifty years