The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-12

| Kansas, considered as protective bust
ness measure to be one of the best laws
ever placed on the statute books. This
law provides the sort of security which
| should attract lage investmeI is to the
state, and should bring about decided
| increase in property value as the real
protective value Of the law is fully re-
allied.
ct believe that Kansas will continue
in the future to lead in the study and
the solution of the great social and
economic questions upon which all flu
ture progress rests.
I'm speaking before this particular
body of men, it is needless and inappro-
pirate for me to go into details on the
whereforeS and why fores of the up
building of this truly wonderful state
of ours.
You are the men who know best
| these reasons why'-because you are
the men who have fought in the ranks.
You are the men who have fought and
won. You know the joys of achieve
ment-because achievements has been
yours. Like Robert Louis Stevenson,
you can say, I know what pleasure is;
1 have done good work.
You men are empire builders; you
| are creators of cities and towns. You
| are dreamers who materialize on your
| dreams; you build castles in the air
and then you bring them down to
earth.
And for all this the world owes you
much-and Kansas owes you more than
i any other part of it.
LAS 1 look now upon the work you
| have done in the past, and anticipate
the greater things you will accomplish
i in the tomorrow of Kansas 1 can think
! of but one unsupplied need.
This one unsupplied need-and it is
| a very serious need, you'll agree-is the
creation of a state bureau of immigra-
ton. Just why this most urgent need
! has for all these years been a minus
! quantity is a question I can't answer.
| But it is question which must be an
| swered, and the only satisfactory an
| SWer is the Immediate supplying of the
need. Your plan for a state immigra-
| ton bureau meets with my hearty ap-
| prevail and 1 assure you 1 will do ev.
| erything in my power to assist you in
securing favorable action from the leg
| islature that is now in session.
| Throughout America the one most i'm
! pelling call of today is, Back to the soil.
And the call is being answered daily
by thousands of thrifty people in every
| corner of every state.
THE farm lands of America are being
| peopled and developed as they never were
before. Across the bount1ful plains OF
| Kansas, long train loads of the land
hungry are passing every day. They
our borders on the east and cross to the
| south, the west and the north without
once setting foot on Kansas soil.
! I'VE want these people in KanSaS-an6
we need them, too-but we're not getting
them. The reason is very simple and very
apparent: They haven't been called tC
| Kansas and they do not know that we
| want them-they. do not know the won
derful opportunities, the health, thE
wealth and happiness thai are awaiting
| them here.
kansas, the agricultural wonderland
| of America, is one of the very few state:
| in the whole Union that has left undont
| the important work that should be an(
could be accomplished by a properly
organized and capably managed bureau
of immigration.
1.-The past twenty years have witnessed
| a wonderful development in the upbuiid
ing of agriculture in KansaS-the StOf.
| of these twenty years, properly writer
and sent out to the waiting world b!
means of the printed word, will bring re
ment during the next few years by com
pariSon with which all of the past will
pale into insignificance.
1.-The supplying of this one missing linl
is the move that will make your worl
complete. 1t is the sort of assistance an,
cooperation which you need and SHOULD
have.
For whatever measure of success
which has come to me owe everything
to the progressive spirit possessed by tn
people of this great state-and to no on
body of men do I feel under greater oh
legations than to you'who are ASSEMBLIES
here.
to me-always has been and always vii
be. Whatever I can do for the better
, | ment of my state and my brother Kan
sans I shall at all times be willing an
anxious to do.
But whether am able 70 do little o
| much-whether or not you get the sup
port + that is due you IN the matter briefl
viduals win or lose on the battlefield
, of business-there's one question on whicl
Wen vote solidly in the affirmative:
Kansas"