The Topeka state journal., 1910-04-07
NOW FOR A PULL!
Topeka Injects Life into Fair
Proposition.
Rousing Meeting of Commercial
Club Held.
MUST BE ON THE MAP.
People Will Prove Where Capt.
tai City Stands.
Need 100000 and We Must
Have 1t.
ON WHIRLWIND ORDER
Will Be No Hanging Back When
Fight Starts.
A Business Proposition That
Can Not Be Ignored.
ON WHIRLWIND ORDER
A Business Proposition That
Can Not Be Ignored.
Topeka Kan, Topeka Will.

Kan what? Why become the state
fair center and have thousands Of Wis
itors here every year.
Will what? Raise 100000 to make
this possible and set the pace in do
ing it.
The Commercial club will push the
fight for the big state show to the
limit. Ginger of the hottest kind will
be injected into the campaign foI
funds. Business men of all classes
will give their time and money to es-
tablish the fair here and put Topeka
among the front rank of state fair
cities of the United States.
The fight to place this city on the
map in a state fair way will begin
Monday.
Every business man should help.
The opening gun in the battle was
fired today at a banquet held at the
Commercial club. Prominent business
men pointed out the advantages of this
city in a business way and paid a
glowing tribute to its future. The
powers of a state fair as a business
magnet were plainly and positively
shown, its pulling power as a city
builder in the matter of population
was demonstrated.
The real fight for the fair begins
Monday morning next. Members IF
the Commercial club will start a store
to store, office to office, house to house
canvass to raise 100000 for the fair.
They decided to make this move at the
meeting and luncheon today. They
want the fair. They propose to fight
for it Their battle cry will be Sue
cess for Topeka" They'll make every
business man and citizen hear and
harken to their call.
It's a call for Topeka. They are 60
ing to work hard for the city. They
are looking to you.
They ask you this question, DO you
like this town and are you willing to
help make it bigger and better?"
They will put the question squarely up
to you The example of Kansas City in
raising not a beggarly 100000, but
over 81, 100000 in less than thirty days.
for river transportation will be cited.
They expect you to help them.
If you are young man they'll work
on you with greater pains. John r.
man and banker of this city. made
little talk at the banquet today It
wasn't long. 1t was to the point. It
was a call, call to duty. A call to
vane spoke plainly. He impressed the
young business men present with the
fact that upon their shoulders rests the
burden, in the main, of the work in
raising this money for the state fair.
Why? Because the old fellows have
done their duty. Topeka, Mr.. Mulvane
pointed out, is a mecca for young men.
They will reap many rewards from the
locating of the state fair here and it is
up to them, he said, to put their shoul-
ders to the wheel.
It is needless to say that the cam
paign will be a whirlwind one. Every
effort Will be Put forward to secure the
money. The fact that the state fair
is not charity but a business propo-
eition will be impressed upon all.
The men who will call upon you
will not ask you to give them any
thing. They will request you to put as
much money AS you can into a business
which has made and is making thous-
ands and thousands of dollars in other
parts of the country and which they
propose to make a paying proposition
here.
A committee or member from the
Commercial club will sure call on
you Monday. It's up to you.
If the enthusiasm at today's meeting |
can be turned into cash. the money !
will be Forthcoming.
What Was Said.
ut is now the purpose to enlist the |
cooperation of every man, woman !
and child in Topeka in the interests
of a great state fair in Topeka" said
J. W. Going, president of the Kansas !
State Fair association who presided /
over the big meeting of business men |
this noon. I'VE expect to have the !
greatest fair west of the Missouri riv-
er.
]. Will Kelley, vice president of the
Commercial club was the first to be
called upon to express himself in re-
gard to the s>ate fair in Topeka He
said:
''The move to have in the city of
Topeka a state fair is a most worthy
and should be encour-
aged by every citizen of Topeka,
Shawnee county, and state of Kansas
Work of building up a great state
fair has been hard. You know how
Impossible it has been to get the sup
port of the legislature! The progress
sive citizens of Topeka have under
taken to build great fair. They not
only expect to have the greatest fair
west of the Missouri river, but in |
the United States.
THE people of Topeka must get
back of the enterprise. The city of
Topeka, the capital of the state,
should respond to any call as deserv-
ing as the state fair proposition. Ev-
Bry citizen in the state would be bene-
ated by the fair directly or Indirect
y, and the people of Topeka would
specially benefit.
Stones Address
ct hope the Commercial club will
axe such action as will assure the
Iuccess Of al enterprise that will ad-