The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-01-30
The STAR We Love
". Eugene Stanley Pays Flo
quent Tribute to Kansas.
Pictures Sunflower States
Beauties to Renquetters.
LIKE HENRY ". GRADY
Young Kansas Orator Has Gift
of Gliding Words.
And Sways His Audience "a
With Magic Wand.

One of the principal addresses ut
the Kansas Day club banquet last
night was that Of w. Eugene Stanley.
whose eloquent speech on '.Kansae''
made lasting impression on an who
heard it.
Passing over the political issues of
me oay' the young Henry Grady OF
Kansas confined himself to a vivid
WORD picture OF the Sunfiower state.
are ana will be in the ''Kansas'' that
we all love 80 well
M. stanley spoke in part ~ follow:
somewhere there runs this Indian
legend: Many. many generations ago,
oeIore the white man came. the north
wlno. roaring down from his home, met
the south wind ON these western plafns
Here he wooed and won her. To them n
cnfld was born. A child with the wild.
Tree impetuosity and bravery or her
tatner. and the beauty and sweetness OF
ner mother. A child with the shark OF
freedom In her breast: fun of ideals and
imagination; active, yet with q love for
peace and home. And the Indians
called her Kansa-child Of the WINDS.
l come to speak on this same Kansa.
flity-iour years ago Kansas was
welded into the union. Tonight we are
gathered here to pay our respects on
TINS. her anniversary. Among those
satnereo ound this board tonight /
see the faces OF men whom have hon.
ored and respected since childhood, who
nave played prominent part in shap-
ing the destinies OF this state, who can
look back on memories Of their own ex-
perlences and see there far more
vivid story OF Kansas than any which
might be conjured by the most fan
cru imagination. But whether old in
Kansas service or like others Of us
mere. taking first steps. we all love
Kansas.
The Thought Alchemist.
Kansas. the aichemist OF intellectual
ana political thought has taken ideas
from north and south and east and
west. has taken or created every ism
known to man. no matter how homely
and worthless. and has transmitted
them into pure gold. and given to the
world something of value. Her sons
like the spinners OF old, with the warn
plucked from this field of thought, and
the wool plucked from that, have
through their steady. efforts woven
them into a garment which tha state
may wear with dignity
Rut Kansas has another side which
strikes most deeply a chord OF our
emotions. When the call came from a
stricken country, a country with a DIFF
Ierent language. country with a diff
ierent people, that men were starving,
mat her people were dying for the want
OF the grain which has carpeted our
fields like cloth OF gold, she did moi
hesitate. and as II best able to sympa-
tn1xe because of those battle scars now
long since healed, she stretched forth
the hand OF comfort and with Christmas
ships, with her golden argosy, Offered
the support to a broken and helpless
belgium that will teach the world that
great principle which was a very part
OF her conception-the brotherhood Of
man and the lesson Of peace
Many times when as q boy, bare
rooted ana sunburned, I have strolled
along the bank of some shady stream
listening to the bullfrogs and the birds
and wondering in what shadows the
pearl CLAIMS hid themselves, Kansas
spoke language of contentment.
when on spring day with the all
damp with warm rains you have gazed
cut ON a green carpet Of growing
wheat. and seen the budding trees and
the tiny sprouts just creeping through
the sod and you knew that this was q
good place in which to live, you toe
have felt the touch Of Kansas. Wher
on a summer evening with the south
wind whispering a message Of comfort
you have sat alone with yo- thoughts
and the only sounds were the chirp OF
the cricket and rustic Of the cottonwood
shaking her shiny leaves, you too have
felt the touch OF Kansas. When at the
close of an autumn day with the fain1
odor Of burning leaves filling the ali
and blue haze curtaining the dis
lance you have gazed out past shock,
OF corn and stubbel, past granaries full
to bursting, into the glory and flash
Ing splendor NJ Kansas sunset-yo,
too have felt the touch of Kansas.
i Others to Feel It.
''As we gaze of into the future. W,
see that other peoples and other state
have like ourselves felt the touch O
i Kansas Her idealism and her imagi
nation have been grasped by others a
the north wind and the south wine
carry from us the secrets Of our sue
cess Others turn to Kansas as q pat
tern, and see there new state which
is the contamination OF the principles
Of the old. Her prisons are empty; hel
poorhouses gone. Strife IL silent. ant
each man lives at peace. All about the!
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