The Evening standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1910-1913, 1910-08-30
JOHN BROWN
AND KANSAS
SunnowerState CeIebrat-
ing in Honor of One of
Its Great Characters

Osawatomie. Kan. Arg. 30.-Not
since that time. 40 years ago today.
when John Browns mon withstood
ten times their number OF Missouri
guerrilas in the woods at the edge
of town. has Osawatomie ben so ex-
cited Today the celebration OF the
anniversary began. The town
stretched itself end Is holding thou
sands of visitors from all barts OF the
state. perhaps half Of the crowd of at
least 2j,000 persons expected here to-
morrow at the second day OF the cele
bration when Theodore Roosevelt will
make the address dedicatIng 20 the
state as a park the wooded hillside
whore the battle was fought
The battlefield for hall a century.
peaceful pasture where cattle Craze.
was tramped today to the hardness OF
pavement by loyal Kansans who filed
the maze OF new benches under the
trees and heard the speakers tell a
state to GLORY and praise its first
hero"
So much enthusiasm Tor John
Brown has been awakened that
movement for statue OF the western
abolItionist I'm the hall OF fame at
Washington was started by resolution
at the morning session.
From boulevards o'erlookiDg both
Nyanzas.
The statued bronze shall glitter In
the sun.
With rugged lettering, John Brown OF
Kansas.
He dared begin he lost. but losing.
won"
This was the last stanza OF a
poem. John Brown" by Eugene War.
rec,ted this morning. The prophetic
inscription probably viii be placed on
the base of the statue, which II is now
proposed shall glitter in the hail OF
fame II was here that the inciplent
conditions which precipitated the civil
war began. II was here that Jonn
Brown came out from the east. settled
and built his cabin. organized his
forces and began his tight for free.
dom
That Kansas since that time. when
she struggled with herself as to which
side she should take In the fight
which almost rent the Union. always
has been a turbulent state. unmlstake-
able in her Views and ready TO take
national question. was the principal
point emphasized by Joseph G Wa
ters OF Topeka. the speaker of the
day. Mr. Waters even went so far
as to say that it was Mr. Roosevelts
serious handicap that he was not born
in Kansas
Summing up the career of John
Brown, Mr.. Waters said,
Measured by little things he may
have been insane. but in the aveng-
ing purposes OF heaven he was the
chosen instrument to right n great
wrong. With the torch OF liberty held
In his implncable and unre-
lenting hand he was Gods
own incendiary TO purge the land with
fire John Brown sleeps shadowed by
a great rock at North Flba His
grave is 4 shrine. Misunderstood, re-
viled and despised he lived life
apart from man. beyond their touch.
possessed OF one purpose and died
martyr TO It's fulhllment"
y drIll by the troops of the Kansas
National Guard opened todays pro-
gram
Theodore Roosevelt is expected to
arrive here at $50 o'clock tomorrow
morning. First he VIII be tal-en to
visit the old cabin Of John Brown.
then Will take part in q parade with
q military escort At about 2:S0
o'clock in the afternoon he will he in
troduced by Governor w r. Stubhs
of Kansas ana will make n speech
dedicating the park.
During the day from the same plat
form addresses are to be made by
Clifford Pincbot and James r. Car
field. AZ o'clock the eX-president
will board a special train for Law
renee, where. ss the Fnest OF Governor
Stubbs he will spend the night