Omaha daily bee., 1910-07-17

representative. spoke At the chautauqua
here today. He said:
six months ago accepted an invitation 1
extended 70 me through your rspresenta-
tive in congress. Mr.. Campbell, % address
the Winfield Chaufauaua association touch K
ing economic policies as connected with \
legislation or. In other words to make a /
political speech. greet you
few years ago one Of your distinguished i
citizens declared that Kansas had been /
marked out on the desert with the word I
aid written on the first page. Of It's his- /
tory, and that Il had not ben able 70 get
rid OF that word since. That was written !
BY William Allen White and published in
an eastern magazine. IN March. 1877
Whether he correctly represented conditions
in Kansas at that time 1 will not attempt
"a discuss. The date IL. however. signifi-
cant. Il was the month and the year when
William Mckinley was inaugurated presi-
dent Of the United States. Kansas had not
given its electoral vote to Mckinley. but to
Bryan. on hyphenatsd ticket That was
only fourteen years ago. but that fourteen
years has transformed conditions in Kansas
The same gentleman I have quoted as 10
conditions In 1897 who said you had built
your state with other peoples money and
then had forgotten the debt waA In New
York a few weeks ago and told the news
paper reporters that Kansas was the most
prosperous state in the union and that the
high cost Of corn and hogs had come 10
stay, because Kansas land Is now worth
500 an acre. I congratulate the people OF
Kansas that this great change has come in
so short a time and under an economic
policy which came In win Mckinley and
Is still In force under Taft am told that
you even buy your automobiles for cash
and that your banks are overlooking with
money while you are looking for safe in
vestments In the east
am glad that the prosperity which YOU
boaat is not confined to Kansas. but thar
IL spreads over the country and that IL
has come IN greater abundance to those
sections that did not aid 70 bring in the
policy Of Mckinley than 70 those hat did
vote for him in 1906. for the statistics OF
the census office show that the greatest
development under the Dingiey law was In
the south and west. which then insisted on
bringing in high prices by cheApening the
money
Energy and InteIligence.
The creator gave as a great continent,
filled with abundance OF natural resources.
and we have developed the energy and the
a Intelligence "a utilize those resources 20
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. II has been
said that the whole plains country was
peopled three times before there was found
population that had the pluck and the
intelligence to learn how to utilize whai
nature had given for the creation OF a
great commonwealth. The coal and lror
ore has been in Alabama since the creation
of the continent. but only the present gen.
GRAFTON has utilized il. have confidence
in the American people and in this countr,
and believe they have confidence in them
selves and in their government 1t does no
require either energy or intelligence to b,
a pessimist. A lazy man is an ideal pessi
mist He viii not work. but spends hi
time in envying the success OF those VIII,
do. I believe that the great majority o
the people OF this country-those who ar
employing their energy in working ou
their salvation-havs confidence in them
selves and in quietness are going abou
-rhNir tasks too busy to hearken to tn
pessinist who Is crying aloud to Great
discomfort
Touchfng the Pocket Nerve.
Discomfort OF a people Ia not measure
by complaints in the press. II is measure
a more indelible impression than that OF
penny paper bought. perused. thrown ava
and forgotten. The pocket nerve is on
Of the most sensitive nerves IN our civiIiza
ton, and that nerve Is always the fir.
affected By any general discomfort or war
OF condolences. have seen no evidence
weakness in the pocket nerve" out hel
in Kansas. where you are reveling In hig
prices for farm products and showing Q
y sympathy for those in the east who con
4 plain about the high prices OF beef an
pork. OF wheat and corn. 1 have seer
evidences Of attack on the pocket ner'
anywhere tn the west. where business
ncving with a push rarely seen betor
There has not been enough OF disturban'
Of this nerve even to brighten Wall stre
for more than an hour or two At a tim
and then the scare has bean produced
some fake report OF supposed calamiS
such as the false report OF the administer
ton running amuck Among the corporation
- or the rImor OF the death OF some financi
y nsgnate
The pocket nerve was never in be
ter condition than il is today, and that
the real evidences Of confidence on the pa
OF the American people in the econon
policies OF the government That nsr
= showed after me democratic party car
INTO power and enacted the Wilson-G
mar tariff act There was an experien
that shattered the pocket nerve and
OTHER nerves in our business organizatic
Take Tariff Out Of PoIfties-
Take the tariff out OF politics. is
advice OF some; but I have noticed n
this advice usually comes from those "
are opposed to the protective tariff uns
which this country has bad its great
development We have several tin
thought We had the tariff out OF pOnt
by the demonstration OF the success a
the necessity for the protective tariff pr
cipie.
We thought this principle of tariff tai
ton had been firmly established when
produced the revenue 70 pay or the de
u the civil war and. Al the same III
5uilr up our Industries. not only in
aorth, bun in the south. which had b
laid waste BY the ravaEes Of that "
But our opponents would not have IL
Every four years they met in national c
vention and declared that a tz&sff for :
lection was demonstrations, and a syst
u robbery They made their campai
an that issue. refusing 20 allow the :