The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-16
Speaker Invades Kansas and
Cannonizes ROugh-Shod.
Says eve Have Had Season of
Hysteria Over Rules"
HITS AT HYBRID MOB.
Declares Insurgent Admission
of Revolution Is Strange.
Ayers Tariff Schedules Have
Been Misrepresented.

Winfield, Kan, July 16.-Speaker
Joseph G. Cannon today invaded Kan
sas, unfurled his tariff banner, talked
to the Winfield chautauqua. assembly
and touched upon economic policies
as connected with legislation.
In the course of his remarks he car
ried the fight on house rules back to
the time of Thomas Jefferson. And he
defended them as simply a code of
procedure to enable a large body of
men to transact business in an or
derly manner, protect each member
in his right, and at the same time not
permit a belligerent minority to block
the proceedings, nor merciless ma
jority to ride rough-shod over the
minority.
I'VE have had another season of
hysteria over the rules, abounding in
more ignorance than knowledge" he
said. "A small percentage of the po-
litical majority went over to the po-
litical minority and created a hybrid
majority. In doing this they admitted
it was revolution-a rather strange
admission for majority of a law
making body-to defy the law created
for its control while making laws for
the people to obey. If mob spirit is
invoked in making law it is difficult
to draw the line against mob spirit to
resist laws made by such a body
That excerpt was only one of a
number dealing with present day
questions in which "Uncle Joe.'' train
ed his Cannon on the insurgents and
the methods. His speech in part fol-
lows:
"A few years ago one of your dis
tinguished citizens declared that Kan
sas had been marked out on the des-
ert with the word aid written on the
first page of her history, and that she
had not been able to get rid of that
word since. That was written by Will
liam Allen White and published in an
eastern magazine, in March. 1897.
Whether he correctly represented con-
ditions in Kansas at that time Twill
not attempt to discuss. The date is
however, significant 1t was the month
and the year when William Mckinley
was inaugurated president of the
United States. Kansas had not given
her electoral vote to Mckinley, but
to Bryan, on an hyphenated ticket.
That was only fourteen years ago, but
that fourteen years has transformed
conditions in Kansas.
Congratulates Kansans.
THE same gentleman have quoted
as to conditions in 1897, who said you
had built your state with other peo-
pies money and then had forgotten
the debt, was in New York few
weeks ago, and told the newspaper re-
porters that Kansas was the most
prosperous state in the union and that
the high cost of corn and hogs had
come to stay, because Kansas land il
now worth 500 an acre. I congrat-
ulate the people of Kansas that this
change has come in SO short a time
and under an economic policy which
came in with Mckinley and is still in
force under Taft I am told that you
even buy your automobiles for cash
ana that your banks are overfIowing
with money while you are looking for
safe investments in the east
L am glad that the prosperitv
which you boast is not confined TO
Kansas but that it spreads over the
country and that it has come in great
er abundance to those sections that
did net aid to bring in the poIicv of
Mckinley than to those that did vote
for him in 1896; for the statistics of
the census office show that the great
est development under the Dingley law
was in the south and west, which then
insisted on bringing in high prices f,v
cheapening the money
The Creator gave us a great confi-
nent, nlIed with abundance of natural
resources, and we have developed the
energy and the intelligence to utilize
those resources to make the greatest
industrial nation on earth. We did
not do this all at once. We did NOT
discover these resources or know their
value for many years. 1t has been
said that the whole plains country was
peopled three times before there was
found population that had the pllIck +
and the intelligence to learn how to
utilize what nature had given for the
creatlon OF a great commonwealth. !.
Alabama since the creation of the con-
tinent, but only the present genera
ton has utilized it. have confidence
in the American people and in this
country, and / believe they have con-
hdence in themselves and in their gov
ernment. 1t does not require either
energy or intelligence to be a pessi-
mist. A lazy man is an ideal pessimist
He will not work, but spends his time
In envying the success of those who do.
1 believe that the great majority of
the people of this country-those who
are employing their energy in working
out their salvation-have confidence in
themselves, and in quietness are going
to the pessimist who is crying aloud to
create discomfort.
Refers to Pocket Nerve"
Discomfort of a people is not meas
ured by complaints in the press 1t is
measured in more significant man
ner and makes more indeIible i'm
preston than that of a penny paper
bought. perused. thrown away and for
gotten The pocket nerve is one of
the most sensitive nerves in our ciyili-
zation, and that nerve is always the
first affected by any general 5iscon-
tent or want of confidence. 1 have
seen no evidence of weakness in the
pocket nerve out here in Kansas
where you are reveling in high prices
for farm products and showing nc
sympathy for those In the east who
complain about the high prices of
beef and pork, of wheat and corn.
have seen no evidence of attack on the
pocket nerve anywhere in the west,
where business is moving with a push
rarely seen before There has not been
of a disturb rbauea of This r,erve