The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-09-01

tive thing 1 know. Three-fours of our
public life is simply business-hke ad-
simply keeping down
waste and enforcing the statutes, as
they were intended to be enforced
and having American government
realize it's ideals and not simply
government on paper, not govern
ment for the benefit of favorites or
to pay political debts; but government
according to our institutions, realiz-
ing the ends of free government,
which must be efficient government.
IF we do not have in this country
a proper regard for our rights as
American citizens, we will enter upon
a period of decadence. We cannot
have prosperity if we do not safe
guard our industry and enterprise.
Every one of the nations of the world
is going to safe guard its resources
and it's interests. If we do not have
efficiency and economy in every de-
partment of our government, we shall
enter upon a period of dscadence, for
every other nation in the world will
have them. If we cannot rise in this
time to the conditions of rivalry which
will be brought to the fore because
of the new conditions created after
the war, we shall inevitably enter up
on a period of decadence; for we must
go forward; we cannot afford to stand
still.
You remember the conditions
which existed after the passage of the
Democratic party tariff bill a short
time ago. You remember in almost
every city-in fact in every city-of
the country the unemployed were
walking the streets in search of work.
1t was impossible for enterprise to go
ahead-it was palSied, it halted, and
there was contraction, and there W
a condition thruOut the country which
made every one fearful of the future
ENITrn n
its extraordinary demand for our
product Now, the people of this
country have not got short memories.
The Democratic party is not going to
be saved by the European war; and
if it were not for the European war
there would be little patience with the
policies which have been enforced
L desire to see an answering 10y
atty thruout this nation, without re-
gard to race or creed, which will give
us the driving power necessary to at
tain our ends. We must have every
body strong with the feeling of what
l call applied Americanism. and in
tense desire to have our government,
in it's efficiency and all that goes to
make up the strength and prosperity
of our nation, equal to its great task
and its past.
Sturdy Americanism in Kansas.
Il know that in Kansas you have
a sturdy AmericaniSm that does not
need in any way to be fostered to a
degree that has not been heretofore
manifested You are all patriotic in
Kansas, and have an answering 10y
atty to the flag; and ] have felt as I
have gone thruout the country that
this is the dominant sense of the coun-
try-a consciousness of our national
unity and an appreciation of our ma
tional opportunity, and the great de-
sire that in this critical period in our
history we should do all we can to
achieve American ideals.
Il want to see respect for American
citizens, and have the American name
honored throughout the world. There
is not the slightest reason why Amer
ican citizens should be murdered and
their property destroyed simply be-
cause of failure to afford protection.
All we need is fiTmness and persist
ence and have it understood that the
American name is to be respected and
American rights enforced That
means peace and security-not war
and strife. because peace ultimately
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