The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-31

81; and E. P. Bridgeman. 70 years. of
Madison, Wis. With Veterans Bridge
man were two of his sons
Immediately after the exercises at
the park are concluded the party will
return to the station and the start for
Lawrence VIII be made about o'clock
Governor Stubbs' Introduction.
Following is the speech of Governor
Stubbs of Kansas, introducing Theo-
dore Roosevelt:
For centuries and ages men have
dreamed of government that woul1
restrain the strong and protect the
rights of the weak. Our forefathecs
laid the foundation for such a govern
ment Their conception was broad
clear and strong. Their plans have
proven wise and practical during more
than 100 years of severe trial The
most serious problem that has arisen
during our national life was the quez-
tion of the power of the federal govern
ment to maintain the union. The slave
traffic precipitated this question and
the blood of martyrs who gave their
lives for the cause of liberty makes the
soil of this battle field. where we now
stand. sacred and the name of Kansas
immortal
/ 1--WE are, indeed, fortunate to have IN
our presence man whose name is
known and loved by every class and
nationality of persons throughout the
and for the people; a man whose name
is synonymous for liberty, justice and
righteousness in private and public life
and whose power for influence and
good is greater than any king, poten-
tate or ruler in the world today
The Roosevelt Speech.
Colonel RooseveIt's speech follows: ::
There have been two great crises in
our countrys history; first when it was
formed and then again when it was
perpetuated. The formative period in
c1uded not merely the Revolutionary
war, but the creation and adoption of
the constitution and the first dozen
years of work under it. Then came
sixty years during which we spread
across the cOntinent-years OF vital
growth but of growth without rather
| than growth within. Then came the
| time of stress and strain which cul-
| minated in the Civil war. the period
! of terrible struggle upon the issue of
! which depended the justification of all
| that we had done earlier. and which
| marked the second great period OF
growth and development within. The
| name of John Brown will be forever
| associated with this second period OF
the nations history; and Kansas was
| the theater upon which the first act
| of the second of our great national
| life dramas was played. 1t was the
result of the struggle in Kansas which
determined that our country should be
| in deed as we'll as in name devoted to
both union and freedom, that the great
| exneriment of democratic government
| on a national scale should succeed and
not fail. 1t was a heroic struggle; and
! as is inevitable with all such strug-
| gles it had also dark and terrible
! side. Very much was done OF good
and much also of evil; and. as was in
evitable in such period of revolution
often the same man did both good and
evil. For our great good fortune as g
nation, we. the people of the United
States as whole can now afford te
| forget the evil, or at least to remem-
her it without bitterness, and to .fi1
our ewes with pride on the good thai
| was accomplished.
Even in ordinary times there are
very few of us who do not see the
| nrohlerns of life as through a glass
darkiy: and when the glass is cloudet
| bv the murk of furious popular passion
| the vision of the best and the braves
is dimmed. Looking back, we are al
of us now able to do justice to the
Y 1or and the disinterestedness anC
the love of the right. as to each it wa!
| given to see the right, shown both b.
the men of the north and the men o.
the south in that contest which wa!
finally decided by the attitude of th'
west We can admire the heroic valor
the sincerity, the self devotion showr
alike by the men who wore the blu'
and the men who wore the gray; ant
our sadness that such men should hav'
had to fight one another Is tempered
by the glad knowledge that ever here
y after their descendants shall be fount
fighting side by side, struggling il
peace as we'll as in war for the uplif
Of their common country. all a1ik
resolute to raise to the highest pitcl
: of honor and usefulness the nation t
, which they all belong. AS for tn
veterans of the Grand Army of the Re
public, they deserve honor and recog
, milton such as is paid to no other citi
zens of the republic; for to them tn
republic owes its all, for to them
owes its very existence
struggle of the Past.
do not speak of this struggle o
the past merely from the histori
standpoint Our interest is primaril
in the application of today of the les
, isons taught by the contest of half
, century ago. 1t is of little use for u
to pay lip loyalty to the mighty me
, of the past unless we sincerely en-