The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-05

affection of her husband and family.
My message is one for principles
rather than for the offices. for 1 am
the of the few newspaper men in
Kansas who hold no public office
You. league hae heard, I believe.
per. Lieutenant Governor W. Y. Nor
gan, of the Sunflower state. all of
ShoTli are in the officeholding class
and all orators. so If you want office,
I am not in position to offer the best
advice for I have neither obtained,
nor sought. those gifts. II you would
have office. invite one of these Kan
sans to show you the way. But then
' hrfifv~ - - = more genuine salts
faction in following a calling than pu
SUNG or nC4u4IIS AN office. and to help
good men and women to office to serve
the public we'll. Then, too, the great
masses cannot hold nor expect to hold
sinecures. AS Lincoln. the, great Re-
publican. said there are more of the
common people; and he loved them
most.
-.They say that at an afternoon tea,
L omen talk most, and give more in
formation about everything except the
one thing they know best, their age;
gathering. for you are all too young
in both politics and in life As young
Republicans. hope you will avo
political fads. by Nhicn 1 mean such
innovations as the Initiative, Re1eren-
DUN and the Recall.
THE Referendum means too many
unstudied measures to be haatily voted
upon, creating confusion and play
full sort of battle-dore and shuttle
cock, rather than serious and careful
siaWmaking. 1 note that your last regu-
lar session OF the legislature passed a
registration law which the Referen-
dunn repudiated in part, so mixing
things that a special session was re-
CURED The act is now not clear and
a new Referendum is proposed.
Referendum costs California $500. 600
Your speaker today. Representative
Chamberlain. may yet find himself in
continuous special session to correct
ills he wots not of. For the RecaiI
YOU may have the shorter term: and
concerning the Recall of judicial de-
cisions, there should be none. for there
must be some authority of final resort
and that should lie IN the courts
The broad principles of Repubn-
canism. and the vital one is protection
to American labor and American IN
dustries. are good enough to study and
to follow. and to unite all Republican
factions-the progressive is now pure
" factional-and sufficient with which
to win for principle. party and offlce-
For a protective policy eleVates labor
and we all should be laborers, but not
as the laborers of Japan and China
and the foreigners generally, many OF
whom can by work maintain only
mere existence, instead of enjoying lie
with its service and comforts and even
Iuxuries due to the workman as Wen
az to the capital employing him. The
Underwood tariff for revenue has not
even produced that, and II has closed
the beet-Sugar factories of Kansas and
California and but for the unnatural
and unholy war, would nave kept them
closed.
The Republican women of Kansas,
let me say to you. helped to abolish
he saloon. and the Republican women
of California VIII help TO put it out
Of politics and out of business in the
Golden state and turn your vineyards
to the production OF grape-juzce which
invigoratez. 9n6 degrades not, nor IN
t1Aicatss-'
Mr.. Daniel A Miller viii present
some of his pupils in recital tonight
at the, Central :. AZ. c. A The con-
cert was postponed from January %
The. pupils who VIII play are Miss
Ann Myers, Miss Esther Payne, Miss
Alice Rice. Miss Anna Woster, Miss
Marjorie Petro, Miss Josephine Gil
more, Miss Nreda Birch and Mr. c
Clark. The program will be as fol-
lows:
Two pianos-Miss Birch and
Miss Payne.
:
Adagio-
Allegretto.
Miss Petro.
Etude. -op- 10, No IL. Chopin
Mr. Clarke.
La SeviIlane, op. 10 -. -Chanlinade
Two piSnos-Miss Rice and
Miss Payne q
End valse ..-,.s. -.s-.-.... GODDARD
Miss Gilmore.
Rhapsodie No. Is. 49, .--.-. List
Miss Payne
Ballade. op. 47..--.5.. Chopin
Miss Foster.
Concerto in A minor. op- is So
49, - EdN. GTe4s
Allegro Motto Moderate
Adagio
Allegro Moderate Molte Marcato.
Quasi presto.
Two pianos-Miss Payne and
Miss Myers
r
Miss nellie Kouns, who Is studying
in Chicago, has returned to Topeka 10
sing in the Jubilee cantata TO be given
Sunday afternoon at 4:30 O'Clock, at
Grace Cathedral
The cantata is one of the older mas
terpieces of sacred music, having been
composed by Weber in 1915 for the
fiftieth anniversary celebration of
Z i'll a 7 L.