The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-01-30

states and for the abolition of the
liquor traffic. That these measures
will be voted upon in the near future
We do not doubt and that it will be
accomplished through and by the Re-
publican party is an assured fact.
During the recent test of strength In
congress a majority of the Republicans
voted for national prohibition and wO-
man suffrage and a majority of the
democrats voted against them. This
shows how the matter stands as q ma
tional issue.
The Republican party. that gave
prohibition to Kansas will just as sure
~ submit these two propositions to the
people of the various states for ratift-
cation.
Try as we may to divorce moral
questions from politics or from align
ment with political parties-history
justifies the statement that the moral
sentiment of the people just the same
crystallized into law only when 1t be-
comes a vital political issue.
Linked with suffrage and prohibi-
ton there is third cause dear to
woman's heart; it is one that has to
do with worldwide peace. Upon this
tain and strong; her voice always po-
tent for peace; her influence that
knows no boundaries, no limitations, is
merged into d mighty sentiment in ia
vor of the settlement of all disputes.
international or otherwise, by arbi-
tratiOn.
Time to Get Together.
1t is time to come together-to re-
count old memories-tO live over the
past-to clasp hands in the present and
look to the future with renewed faith
and hope.
ance, settle difference in the family in
the true orthodox family fashion-give
little, take little and without any
great noise or display of pyrOtechnics.
go forth to grapple with political prob
lens. soundly and splendidly equipped.
standing together as a solid phalanx
and with no desire to emulate prece-
dents of unwholesOme discord.
The best acquired in schools is the
forming Of ideals, so in the school OF
politics. To lose sight of ideals is to
lose interest in the present and lose
hope and faith in the future.
Stiff back-boned Republican politics
is what Editor Harger calls it. and
guess that is what we need
1t is only short step from history
to prOphesy and, friends, what I see be-
fore me may not be the millennium but
it is a long stretch toward it. The fu-
ture is so brilliant that the past
achievements of the Republican party
seem dim by contrast.
There is yet a nearer vision. MY
eyes seem focused upon the geOgrapn-
ical center of the United States. 1 see
a great commonwealth, spreading over
81. 900 square miles of the most fertile
land ever kissed by the suns rays or
mOistened by the dew from heaven.
The affairs Of this commonwealth SO
wisely administered by one of her tru-
est and most worthy sons that his
dream Of efficiency in high places'-of
'loftier ideals''-for a wider and deep
er justice''-"a quickened sense of
public honor and public duty''-is be-
come a reality. And I behold Kansas.
beloved mother" whose name is
craven hard and deep on the core Of
every loyal heart the favored state
Of the Union-occupied by a contented
and prosperous people and the mecca
for homeseekers from all lands.
The prophetic vision simply reveals
the inevitable. for. LAS the sun ere II
is risen sometimes paints it's image in
the atmosphere. SO often do the spirit
of great events stride on before the
events and in today already walks to-
morrow"