The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-13
ID. III. Hamilton of Santa Fe
Discusses Situation.
HARMONY MUST COME
Prosperity of Country Depends
on Industrial Growth.
Speech Of Mr.. Hamilton Before
Pittsburgh Rail Men.

Fittsburg. Pa, Jan. 13.-J. D. M
: 44o,,iI+on claims attorney for the
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe ran
way system delivered an address De-
fore the Pittsburg Railway Passenger
Mems club here at a dinner given py
the association. He said:
Mr.. Toastmaster and Gentlemen:
It was with qualification L rec7l .,'.I
vour invitation to be present on Inns
occasion. and join you in the pleas
antries of this annual meeting, arouil' u
this festal board, and hailed II Hot
only as a personal compliment put a.
evideucing that good fellowship Whlch
renetrates the hearts of all railway
men. - 81
come here as a stranger to many OF
you. but bear a message or Ir1eIus l'.
and a letter of Introduction dtteStille
as I GO in common with YOU my 10y
aItv and fidelity to the interest we ar
serving daily. and striving for It's pct
torment protection, and advancement
in the industrial and commercial aFen-
ues of our government
am not a stranger or alien In your
midst. but returning to this iron city,
with it's industrial flames llluInlnd liils
the heavens-bespeaking IN louuer
terms than words. or voice, the ma
terial prosperity of its people.
This city is the place of my blrtn anu
zovhood days. and it enjoys the distlnc-
+fo, Of being the largest manufacturing
and commercial municipality, not onIy
of this continent, but on the GLOBE MY
hopes are therefore your hopes. ~
prosperity of this government u tii0
nrosperitv of all it's people, It's ran
xz-a1-s and its diversified commercial
4,11rs11its The success of one Should De
the success of all To stifle either
means the taking away or one oA lil9
pillars not only of our national GOV
eminent but the weakening OF It's ouSl-
pr7f therefore
divest our minds of any political PREF
erence and plant ourselves Oh the
broad and eIevating plane OF American can
citizenship. and object to the methoos
of those who seek to weaken or de-
stroy the prosperity of our people as d
whole. or any of its Industrial pursuits
that have been here so successfully eS-
tablished, and from which mas eiilah-
ated the glory of all our citizens, placed
On, government first in the liberty OF
s+S neon1e. and second without peer
among the nations of this earth
Kansas Homo of Santa F'e.
7 come as an adopted son of the state
of Kansas. nestled as it IS beyond tne
great Mississippi valley. with ITS iertlie
Falds broad and expansive plains, It's
million and more of happy and con-
tented people. with a producing ca
pacity of more than any other state IN
This uniOn where the soil gives forth
its annual harvest of agricultural pro
ducts
the gold and silver mines of Colorado,
New Mexico and Arizona, and where
lies the greater portion of the mileage
of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa F'e
railway one of the most important
transcontinentaI lines in our govern
1nent; a state that rightfully boasts of
mora school houses, churches. and less
filiteracy, than any state in this union.
and where nature creates the best
looking women. the finest breed OF
OF, 4r,r-r7
who can raise more political cain than
any spot on earth And, while PennSyl-
vania gives us our rails. and manufac-
tured articles, we in turn raise products
of the soil sufficient in quantity to feed
and care for all the people in the New
England states This is the tocsin I am
so proud to proclaim
But. my coming here is not to fatter
my state. but to say a few words on a
subject that at this time is agitating
the minds of our people to such an ex-
tent. the like of which has never been
known. until we must stop and ponder
what will be the outcome of this poll
teal maelstrOm that now vibrates and
disturbs the business of our country
from one end to the other. Let US
calmly consider what will be the har-
vest and outgrowth of this disturbance
What. If any good will be derived from
the onslaught now being made in the
legislative halls angrafted into the
platforms of political parties and daily
injected into the minds of the people
prejudicing them against railway cor
porations
Disturbance Affects the People.
Questions of this character. strik-
ing they do at the heart and weak
ening the pulsation Of business inter
ests, must certainly not only affect
our citizens individually, but collec-
lively, and as good citizens the solu-
ton of this question must be ap-
preached with a degree of conserva-
tism. It is the thoughtful and careful
men who aid materially in building up
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