The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1910-08-30
RESOLUTIONS PRESENTED
AT 0SAWATOMIE GATHEHING
Will Request Kansas lsgIs-
latuTe 10 Appropriate Suitl-
Cient Funds
(By Associated press)

Osawatomie, Kas., Aug. 30---A move.
ment for 4 John Brown Statue In the
Hall OF Fame at Washington was
started here today A resolution,
drawn mp by George 7 Moorehouse,
of Topeka, and others and presented
hy Major ] b. Remington, asks FOR
the appointment of Ave old soldiers
as legislative committee, which
shall urge the legislature to make an
appropriation to pay for the statue,
The resolution follows:
LET THE STATUE or JOHN
BROWN AS PROVIDED by LAW,
COMPLETE THE REPRESENTA-
T1ON or KANSAS IN THE STATu-
AIRY HALL OF FAME AT WASH
lNGTON. y. G.
states are not great
Except as men may make them:
Ven are not great except they do and
dare
But states, like men
Have destinies that take them
That bear them on, not knowing why
or where
WHEREAS, Every nation has a
few great characters who become us
heroes. almost its idols in public es-
tmatlon, the Colonial aud Revon.
tionary period with It's prophetic orn'
tor patrick Henry. its capable states
man Thomas JEFFERSON, its heroic
soldier ana Father of His Country.
George Washington. and,
WHEREAS. ~ the heroic age OF
Inn own
period. with its many noble characters
and patriots, there We're taree bright,
particular stars--the mstre OF which
win increase with the years.-JOHN
BROWN. ABRAHAM LINCOLN aud
IL. S. GRANT--names which viii new
or die, but every soldier and patriot
who marched IN that historic crusade
for freedoms cause. "as his soul went
marching on every lover OF liberty
win always remember and honor him,
."Who sounded forth the trumpet, that
never called retreat" the pioneer
patriot for the emancipation of the
slave and the martyr prophet OF the
Abolition period 1.-The hero we honor
today. BROWN OF OSAWA.
TOME.
Whose faith, whose hgat, whose fall
ing,
Fame shall placard upon the walls on
Time.
lie dared begin
Despite the nnayailing,
He dared begin, when falling was q
crime" and.
WHEREAS, Over half century
has passed since he struck those priln
tive blows for human freedom. lone
on Kansas soil, at this sacred spot
ol Osawatomie, and the other at Har-
pers Ferry. Virginia, places eyer TO
be renowned in American history
and now, that the state Of Virginia
has recently placed In the National
Siatuary Hall of Fame, the statue of
the leader of the Confederate army,
General Robert r. Lees-who, as q
military officer, took part tn tle tras-
edy OF the martyrdom OF John Brown,
when the Virginia troops were cruelty
paraded around. while the victim
stood in long and painful suspense
awaiting his murderous execution,
and
WHEREAS, The Legislature Of Kan
sas In 1885 adopted proper resoln'
ton authorizing the Lincoln Soldiers
and Sailors National Monument as
soeIation 10 place the statue OF the
immortal John Brown IN said Hall ~
Fame AT Washington ID. G.. as one of
the TWO representatives Of Kansas;
aud while It appears, that for some
reason, lack OF money or otherwise.
the statue has never been placed as
thus authorized and.
WHEREAS. The Kansas legislature
by resolution and ample appropriation
since that time. provided the autherl'
" and means for statue for her or
aior statesman. John J ingalls,, which
has been duly placed IN the otter
reservation for Kansas; and that the
statues Of no more fitting pair Of IA.
nous Kansans could be placed side
lby side to represent both the heroic
and TIE more finished periods OF or
state. John Brown OF Osawatomle
the rugged abolitlonIst here OF terri
t0rjaI days. whose zeal and MARTYR
dom for liberty blazed the way for
lthe liberation OF ensiased millions and
the permanent establishment of our nd
ltional union. ingalls,, the famous
orator etateaman aud man ~ lefters
I OF later period, the eomrade and
lconstant friend Of the solder; and
WHEREAS. We have met upon this
historic battlefield OF Osawatonlie
'Ithoughtfully secured az park for the
public forever b the Womans Re