The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-31
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August 81 1901
State of Kansas.
Executive Department.

August 81, 1901
State of Kansas.
Executive Department.
PROCLAMATION.t
= N the annals of human progress-in all
ot me history of mans effort to Self-uplift
aatnere is nothing more interesting than
me tragical story of Labor.
snat mans sweat must be the source
and price of his bread the son of toll
mas Peen fighting, brayely for a just share
The first brigand upon the face of the
edTtn made the workingman a slave. The
llrst idier denied him soul The two to-
setner nave remained his most persistent
enemies under different forms and various
names nan They have robbed him at every
shining sun, and what is most inexplicable
OF all is this. that the civilization which he
mas rounded and conserved has stood by
IN mute indifference and gave its sanction
to the unholy theft
me iaborer has been the first hero of
an the ages of man. The great epics of
me world do not praise him nor does
lne history OF human valor do him honor,
and yet me is the man who has kept
armies in the field. maintained navies
upon the. face of the mighty waters and
supported statesmen in the parliaments
ana cnancellories of the world. Every en-
pire from Babylon to Berlin was founded
and built upon his brain or his Drawn and
without him civil government could not
Without his ingenuity we could not have
those delicate mechanisms that guide our
eyes into distant infinitudes where we dis
cover new worlds, calculate their density,
weigh their mass, measure their orbits
and come to an orderly realization of the
WONDERFUL wisdom Of God.
He has made those delicate instruments
that warn the farmer of storms and give
temper and the disposition of the ele-
ments he has gone up into the heavens
and harnessed those mysterious forces OF
ably in our service. He has bridled tur-
bulent rivers, and cataracts, and hitched
them up to the looms and wheels and en-
R1HeS of the industrial n c
efaced the forest, cut out the highways
of commerce and builded the towns and
has made the affairs of God and the
thrones of. kings. He has bored his way
INTO the dark chambers of the earth and
brought therefrOm the treasures of the
mineral world, including those proud and
gilttering metals that now claim to be his
master His ordering brain and willing
hand have made his brothers royal over
all living things. He has printed and
bound for US the. useful knowledge of all
the ages including those volumes of
science and philosophy that give us the
key to all secrets in physical nature and
all but reveal to US the solemn mystery
of creation. Although the most useful
citizen of the world he has ever been first
to shoulder the burden of his own race,
and last to eat at his own loaf.
Therefore, 1, w. r. Stubbs, Governor of
the State of Kansas, fully cognizant of
the influence of his toll upon the comfort
and the prosperity of the world do hereby
ordain and proclaim, under the authority
Of the. laws, that Monday, September 9TH.
1910, shall be a full and. complete holiday
dedicated to Labor and that all men and
women shall abstain from unnecessary
work on that day; and recommend that
the people generally shall lend their pres
ence and their encouragement to all those
worthy entertainments and programs that
organizations of labor shall devise for the
uplift and advancement of their estate.
Given under my hand and the Great
Seal of the state, in my office
ISeal at the Capitol, on this the
1910. >
w. r. STUBBS, Governor.
BY. the Governor:
c. E. DENTON, Secretary of State.
]. L. BOTKIN,
Assistant Secretary of State.