The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-12
"ONLY A START"
Says Mr.. Capper Speaking of Progress
of Kansas.

I'VE have only made a start" This
is what Arthur Capper, a Topeka pub
Usher and member of the Real Estate
Mems association, said, speaking of
the future of Kansas at the last meet
ing of the two days session of the first
annual convention of the Kansas real
estate agents Wednesday afternoon, at
the Commercial club rooms. He also
spoke strongly in favor of an immi-
grafton bureau. Through it's means he
predicted great future for his native
state. His address. Kansas, Yester-
day, Today and Tomorrow, follows:
Il, of course, feel it a great honor to
be invited to make a few remarks to
you real estate men of Kansas, because
1 appreciate the fact that your COM
mittee fully realizes that 1 am not an
orator, and that I can not hope to
amuse you, to entertain you, or even
to tell you anything about Kansas
which you probably do not already
know.
Il take it that [ am invited here be-
cause 1 have demonstrated that 1 per-
sonally have an all pervading faith in
Kansas, and what you want is for me
to give you the reasons for the faith
that is in me.
Il believe in Kansas of today, and
believe more in the tomorrow of Kan
SaS. People who are not so fortunate
as to live within the confines of what
has well been called this 'parallelOgram
that we Kansans are unduly boastful
when we talk of our state, its possibili-
ties, and its future. Perhaps we are
boastful but L submit, gentlemen, that
II ever we do boast We have a good
reason for it.
What state in the entire nation has
made the remarkable progress in ma
terial wealth, in physical and moral
well being that Kansas has made IN
the past twenty years? / need not bore
you with statistics, nor recount this
wonderful story of progress so familiar
to you; you know what Kansas has ac-
compiShed in the past and we can
Judge the future only by what has
gone before. L want to say to you that
believe with my whole soul that Kan
sas has onlv be I'm to grow. We have
only made a start. We have just COM
menced to develop our marvellous re-
sources. We have room for growth; we
have the intelligence; we have the en-
terprise; in fact, We have everything
needful for making Kansas the great
est state in the Union.
Secretary Coburn's eloquent report
for the good year 1910 shows that the
farm products of the state exclusive of
the live stock retained on the farms,
amounted to considerably more than
three hundred million dollars-a sum
about three times that of the high wa
ter mark of twenty years ago. 1 con-
fidently expect, gentlemen. that in the
by three again. In the increase in
population; in assessed valuation of all
property of the state; in daily, weekly
and monthly newspapers and periodi-
Gals; in public and private schools; in
the number and output OF manufac-
tories-in all of these the increase dur
ing the past decade has been far in ex-
cess of all predictions-and what the
morrow may bring to this great state
in the way Of growth and development
along all these lines may be very safe
1y reckoned by these mile posts of the
past.
But the future Of Kansas does not
rest entirely upon her material re-
souces. Tt is men-high-minded men
that make state and Kansas has the
men.
II believe that as a whole a higher
grade of citizenship exists in Kansas
than in most other states.
s'I believe that we have one of the
best state governments in the world.
Il believe that our people now and
always will demand the enactment into
laws of those measures which make for
Justice and progress.
Il believe that the principle of pro-
hibition of the traffic in intoxicants in
corporated in our organic law has done
and will continue to do much for the
states material and moral well-being
and advancement.
Il believe the bank guaranty law OF