The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-06-01

Paul Jones, We have not yet COM
menced to hight :"
Then Governor Richard Manning Of
South Carolina came to the rostrum
and said that in his judgment the
mere use of the word peace" as part
| of the name of the league is a
| matter of regret suggesting to former
| President William howard Taft, pres
ident of the organization, that the BODY
! be renamed The League to Prevent
| Tyranny"
Il think the whole country has come
to realize that there is no more tnsidi-
Gus word in the English language than
peace" said Governor Manning. on
my way up here many people asked
me whether we stood for Teace. told
them we crystallized the sentiment or
the country and shall endorse no
peace until there is the right kind
a permanent peace.
Speakers at the conference pledged
| uni altering service and faith TO the
country and the president, until such a
peace is obtained. They translate9
the vision of democracy into Worio
| terms with the Monroe Doctrine ex-
tended to International dimensions.
And having decided upon the ultl-
mate issues, they dismissed all peace
talk from present consideration, be-
cause, as United States Senator John
Sharp Williams of Mississippi, ex-
pressed it, peace talk by the kaiser
means nothing because we cannot be-
Iieve him; his very breath is poison
| Gus gas, and his thoughts are insane
obsessions."
| Governor Ernest Lister. of Washing
| ton, showed how the lumber industries
! of the northwest are contributing TO
the war with shipments that break
records for quantity and speed. how
| 40 per cent of the steel ships turned
| over to the government had been
completed in the northwest; how
| wooden ships were launched in that
| territory at the rate of one day and
| how enough lumber for $1,000 air
planes has been delivered this year to
| the federal government.
Governor Carl Milliken. of Maine,
| told how his state as a shipbuildlng
| center had foreseen the need of boats
| early in the war and prepared for It.
Governor James M. Cox, of Ohio,
representing the middle west, which
predicted that flying machine would
| cross the Atlantic before fall, to aid
the navy in the destruction of Ger
many's warfare at sea. Governor Cox
publishes the Daily News at DAYTON,
the home OF the Wrights of aircraft
fame He characterized the 80 per
| cent of Ohio citizens who are German
| descent as Intensely loyal, but ad-
| vocated that the vote be taken from
aliens who are granted the franchise
in five states.
After the war this country will still
be the refuge of the aliens" Governor
Cox said. but If they do not become
citizens within given time, send them
back where they came from. New
| York harbors should be kept full OF
ships from now on. and to every man
| who loves another land better than
this, we should say: Go back TO
Germany. We will pay the 1relgnt.
| Governor Cox said he hoped that
President Wilson and former Presi-
dent Taft will both sit at the final
peace conference in Berlin"
Taft was in a happy mood, no
unusual one, at this conference and
the oratorical bouquets from the gov
ernors and ex-governors showered
from the platform ON the former pres
lident caused the meeting to become
pronounced personal ovation. as well
as a serious, effectual. momentous
gathering to aid in the vigorous pros
ecution of the war as the only way
\ to bring about permanent peace
| The continuation of this series COW
ering what befeH THE Kansan in New
York" who was several days in Phil
adelphia, will appear for some time
in the future, day by day, regularly as
usual, and on Monday under the cap
ton Chapter XXI, confirming the fol-
lowing announcement from Pip"
Daniels in kansas Notes. in Fridays
Kansas City Star with the heading, as
given below:
ITO Be Continued
Of. P. NJ, the dilettante writer
of "A Kansan in New York now be-
ing published in the Topeka State
Journal has safely got out of the
home town and is travelling rapidly
toward AN Atlantic Port In the six
teenth chapter, printed this week, the
writer has reached Philadelphia, and
he gives a delightful account in two
columns of his experiences, with the
conversational details"
| F. p NJ
ITO Be Continued.)