The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-30

a free man; and why these men should
not have had the grace and kindness
to have given their women the right
Of suffrage, is to me a conundrum 1
cannot answer. Before John Brown
reached Osawatomie. the horde of
pro-slavery men had imprinted on the
virgin soil of Kansas, the first law de-
claring that any one who actively Op-
posed slavery should suffer death.
The struggle in Kansas was the
skirmish line of the rebellion; it bred
marrow for the fight. I think we all
see the far results of that struggle in
Kansas; we went to the assistance Of
Cuba. Who can ever forget the SPLEEN
did soldiers Kansas sent to that war ?
Who can forget their valor. and as a
soldier of the war of the rebellion. I
men to represent any cause or any
state, in battle and in peace. In the
war with Cuba, the Almighty touched
the prows of our ships and detoured
them to the Philippines, ard that arch
ipelago with its thousand islands, each
a cameo set in sapphire sea. ten
thousand miles away, in a sunset ocean
that shores the east. is free, as we I'M
derstand and administer the law OF
liberty.
These men took this arid. beaten
and deso1ate territory and transformed
it.
''Who would have dared, with brush or
AS this land is now. to paint it then?'
They found desert and left us an
Eden. They were of class of which
Kipling speaks; that men who have
smelt wood fires at twilight and heard
the birch log burning we're quick to
hear the voices of the night; and any
one might add. that the man who
stands in the center of the unobstruct-
ed sky in his bare feet, his gaze on
the stars, graduates in the high school
that best fits him for life's problems
and its humanities. Poverty, disaster
and affliction are many times the three
graces to develop in a nation or in
human conduct ought to be governed.
Nourished at Breast of War.
Conceived in struggle, turmoil and
poverty, rocked in a turbulent cradle,
nourished at the breast OF war. en-
countering all that Is adverse in ma
ture, the advancement of our people
has been proportionate to their imped-
iment. The spirit of Kansas holds us
in its meshes; it is the voice OF home,
and its clustering vines, of great events
and noble concerns. 1t has Dioomed
the flower of peace from the blood
stained nett1es of war: it measures its
might by the justice of it's cause and
NOT by the metal of it's guns or the
arrnor of it's fleet. 1t believes that
the great parliament of men is sched-
uled for the present century; and that,
in that federation. it will be taught
that the sword, the bayonet and the
massive battleship are useless for ag-
erosion, defense or threat. ana they
1inger only as savage, barbarian ana
head hunting mementoes OF a cruel
strong men, lovely women and beauti-
full children. In all matters OF vital
concern, the state of Kansas takes the
initiative and believes that precedent
has the smack of chewed victuals OF
| predigested food. By the life OF me,
| I know it chuckles over it's own mis-
| takes. 1t makes each home sover-
| eighty with as clear boundaries as any
political dynasty, with as staunch title
| to the women on the throne as ever
supported a crown or bolstered an en-
| nire. Tt endeavors to make this lovely
| and wonderful world the less desire
The children of Kansas are infatu-
! ated with the state and It's spirit
There is loco we eat at all seasons
! its effect is worse than hashish ever
| was to a Mame1uke. None of its chill
| dren shall ever lose this dominating
passion; away from the state. 1t be-
comes the absent sweetheart for whom
the lone wanderer signs; 1t bends over
/ him at his cares. it comes TO MN II
/ dream, he feels a rift of its halr Drusf
! his cheek as the gondola drifts ano
| the guitar murmurs some low love sons
| as he passes the shadow of the winged
| lion If st. Marks, her face haunts hin
| AT Naples. and fronting the Sphynx
| alone with the desert, it speaks to hin
! of Kansas.
TIE Call of Kansas.
! where in the wide world. amid ruiz
! or palace, or crag or cliff, under VIVA
| skies. on what seas. in what mart OF
| cline. will the heart of him fail t.
| answer its call?
| Forever will my love compel
/ An answer to thy plea;
/ do not know the mystic spell.
That binds my heart cart to- to th se-ss,,
| And when I roam with long 1areWeH,
Wherever may flee,
Thy cail I hear, my pulse to swell,
1 AS soft as soft can be-
i As dear as words all lovers tell
1t fills my soul with glee..
4 And like the siren. in the shell.
THAT murmurs of the sea,
. Sounds sweeter than Sabbath bell,
ssC,ofne back, Come back to me!'
Who can repeat the exquisite vers
of our own Carruth. written under
Kansas sky, about Kansas. without
Spasm of inconsistencies?
haze on the far horizon,
The infinite, tender sky,
The ripe. rich tint of the corn fields.
Il And the wild geese flying high,
And all over upland and lowland,
The charm of the golden rod
, Some of us call it Autumn
And others call 1t God
A Kansas Morning.
There is such thing distinetivel
: as a Kansas morning. ushered in b
. a myriad of singing birds, lifting itsel
, from a bed of pearl, shafting the SIX
| with its rainbow dyes and all the Will
the nostril. dilates with a dallyin
! breeze that has swept a thousan
, miles to greet one with its nectar an
! ozone. Who has not seen such da
depart on the prairies of Kansas. wit
, all the stately ceremonials of the SKY
; its cloudy Alps on cloudy Alps arise
z based by lakes of gold, a placid ocea
|. sweeping it's purpling tides afar, tn
, buttressed castles rising from tn
! phantom shore, and then. by som
supernal necromancy, the eolors Shit
: and fade. the mountains dissolve. tn
; ocean disappears and twilight, sombe
: hued and pensive. touches the cart
] with its shadows, and out of the firing
I of the night comes the dirge to tn