The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-02-23

tees who believe in government of the
people and for the people, but they
do not believe in government by the
people They are perfectly willing to
serve the people if they be the ser
wants, but they do not think it safe to
trust anybody else than these trustees
to 10 the serving.
Now I am a Democrat because alb
solutely dissent from that theory I
believe, because ] have read history,
that the only strength of a people comes
out of the body of it; that it is fed
from the bottom and not from the top;
that it is renewed out of the ranks of
other men; that its sap does not run
down from the flower to the root but
up from the root to the flower do not
trust the judgment of the men at the
top because they are at the top If you
want to know what is going on in
America. ask the men who are in the
thick of the struggle and who have
not yet made their place in the world
of economic rivalry. They know what
the defects are, they know the strength
of the stream because they are swim
ming against it. Don't ask the man who
who has run the stream into his sluice
and is sitting comfortably in the Office
of the mill which it drives. Don't ask
the man who has the captatncy of the
great forces that are making America
Country About to Make Choice;
1T is true that this country has
ceased trusting the Republican party,
but it is not true that it has yet made
up its mind very certainly that it can
trust the Democratic party. 1 believe
we are going to show cause why II
should. but we have got to show cause.
Men vince when you touch them on
the raw, they don't Vince when You
touch them where the flesh is sound,
and if you want to know, if what you
are saying is true, just wait and see
them vince
Il want to say in my judgment, there
is one man who has Won the undying
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formed that great service ard that man
is Mr. Bryan. His greatness and infiu-
ence does not consist merely or the
fact that men believe in him, but con-
sists in the fact that men love MN
and trust him because he has kept his
own life untainted by improper inf1a-
ences and his own heart absolutely true
10 Democratic interests. That is the
reason no man can displace him.
'When l think of the great questions
of conservation. that face this country,
know that the cheap thing IS, we
have got to conserve When I know
that manufacturers will dismiss man
who overdrives a machine of steel !
forcing more work on it than it can
bear, and that he will not dismiss a
superintendent because he oVerdrives
a man, 1 know that the fundamentals
of liberty and conservation are not I'M !
derstOod in America by those men. and |
] condemn more than the selhshness |
of it. the utter and inexcusable stu
OIL II.
Humanity to Man.
If you will make your mills sanitary. |
if YOU will make your conditions such |
as human hearts and nerves and brain |
can stand, if you will make your men |
realize that you regard them as your |
partners and not as your tools. then !
most of your products will be firsts and |
not seconds: then the stuff YOU produce
will have such quality that you can
sell 1t as never before: then for The
first time you will realize that the high |
est priced labor is the cheapest labor !
that you can employ.
For the difference between America |
and the rest of the world is really this |
America has seen visions. not visions of
material wealth, but spiritual instinct !
visions of men who know that higher |
than wealth, higher than the profits of
private opportunities the distinctions
OF common service, so that they can see
In the loving eyes of their fellow men
more force, not by any fear that power
can create; that 1t is more powerful to
lead than to drive, that 1T is more influ-
entail to persuade than to compel and
that at the same time you capture the
hearts of men, you realize that by re-
storing hope to the common man in |
America, you will have restored the vigor |
and youth of the nation"
Burt f. BrOwn-DemOcracy of Kansas
1T is not necessary to rumrnaee
through ancient volumes to study the |
history and life of Kansas Democracy. |
There are no myths concerning the |
early history of our party in Kansas.
There are many battle-Scarred veterans !
of Kansas Democracy within the hear /
ing of my voice, and present upon this /
occasion this evening who could tell you
a sad but truthful story of the many /
hard fought battles that the heroes of 1
the Democracy of this great state have !.
waged in tie interest of the greate.sS
political principles that the world has
ever known.
To you old warriors and gladiators /
of the Democracy of Kansas who have /
put up a valiant fight, who have al /
ways voted a losing ticket and played /
a losing game, want to say that your I
efforts have not been in vain. In yoll- !
der eastern sky, peeping above the hori- |
zOn, is the Democratic sun of success /
which will soon burst forth In all of |
its glory, spreading it's rays of truth |
and justice upon people awaiting and !
anxious to enjoy it's light, its warmth,
It's power, its comfort and its prosperity /
Let me say to you old scrappers in the /
army of Democracy, we shall transfer
part of the burdens that have been a |
load upon you, to the stalwart shoulders
Of the youth of Kansas Democracy. We
ask you to let us do the hard work
which properly belongs to, us, but we
want your assistance. we want your
Judgment and we want your moral en-
cOurag ement-
The Democracy of Kansas has u
1uty to perform and the year 1912 will
De one long remembered. We have 4
greater responsibility before US this