The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-01-13

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happier nation because of our sacrifices
and our stand for right and justice. No
American must ever have cause to feel
that Big Business or the politicians have
been the only beneficiaries of the Great
War.
n discussion of the details of our recon
struction. More than three and three !
quarter millions enlisted men and Officers
and other millions of workers in war in
dustries must speedily be reabsorbed into
our ordinary business and trade and pro-
fessions. And millions of women engaged
in unusual occupations at unusual wages
must be taken into the calculation New
trade relations must be established with
every nation. Tariffs and duties must be
adjusted. Unoccupied land whether held
by the government or by land spectators.
must be opened to settlement, improved
and occupied. Arid regions must be irri-
gated; and vast swamps and marshes
drained and reclaimed. The universal use
makes imperative a long delayed system of
highway construction. The public school,
ever regarded the bulwark of our liber-
ties the cheap defense of the nation must
be broadened and strengthened and made
more efficient: not only must iliiteracy be
wiped out, but the training given must be
carried to greater length and every youth
OF the land made fit for life OF useful
be made the basis of our education in both
public and private schools.
Protect Production-Smash the Profiteer.
The flotsam and jetsam of society, the
criminals and degenerates. the morally and
from one or two conditions or combina
ton of both; abject poverty or drunken
ness. l have unbounded faith in an early
Punishment of booze from the United
States: in the triumph of that fond dream
of Kansas, national prohibition. But i'm
measurably blessed as that contamination
will be, no sane prohibitionist thinks it
panacea for all the social and economic
ills of the nation. If the faces of the poor
pie" the hewers of wood and drawers of
water, is made unbearable thru greed and
injustice, poverty and slum-life will still
exist; and where there is hopeless, sodden
poverty with bad environment and squalid
living conditions. there is certain to be
crime. The wealth that America has pro-
duced in the last fifty years has excited
the wonder and envy of the world. But
our big enterprises have too often been
of the people. We have reared magnificent
palaces and surrounded them by novels.
Destructive. short-sighted. sordid, CON
scienceless greed for big profits and high
dividends has led to organized eXploita-
ton of this country which has resulted in
living conditions for vast masses of people
that could not fail to impair the physical,
mental and moral health of the nation.
This must stop|stop now lnsatiate greed
ticn must be given their full opportunity
for life, liberty and the pursuit of happi-
ness"
That my fellow citizens must be the
American program to which every one of
us must devote himself unselfishly or with
wiser farther seeing selfshness. 1t is
"a program of the sort of democracy for
which the world has paid SO great price.
1t can be bought no other way. And,
after all, there is nothing revolutionary
about it; it is simply plain, straight
forward, declaration neutrality-suspicious. Amer
is founded. That must be the test applied
from this day forward to every measure
for the future. If we hew to the line all
will go well.
The Problem of Reconstruction.
1t is new birth the nation will undergo !;
it is a new America that we shall create
In the next decade. And woe betide us
selfish partisanship, thru greed or class
interest, we fail to meet the issues in
way that benefits America and her destiny.
10 do. that will be to the wind and
reap the whirlwind.
The American people ready to make
tain it depends upon the vision, the cour-
age. the wisdom of the men to whom YOU
entrust the shaping of governmental poll
OF the Kansas people are in tune with
these living principles
closer contact with the people of my ma
tive state than ever before, 1 leave the
executive office today with greater pride
country and broader. deeper faith in
humanity. And now that you have sent
me TO 1.-The Ex-Governors Club" at the ma
tional capitol, I want to assure you that 1
shall endeavor with all my heart to help
shape such a program as will bring the
ever speak the Kansas language, and hold
| In which l he of greater service to my
| native state, to the nation and to my gen.
| Grafton.
1t is not out of place. indeed, I should
| be strangely lacking if 1 did not take this
! occasion, to express to the people of Kan
cause Of their generous enconra cement and
| the faith they have shown in and in
the principles have espoused. have en-
hnr n n IN nrc
| governor to stand for that which is best
and highest in the Kansas ideal of govern
| tive of the Kansas spirit: proving all
things, holding fast to that which is good,
| but ever looking ahead and moving for
ward to better things and happier condi-
| lions.
Bone-Dry Law Greatest Act.
| In its consequences. 1 consider the put
| ting thru of the bone-dry law the most
important achievement of this administra-
ton 1t virtually has exterminated every
form of th& liquor business sdna in int. kansas
it out. Therefore it is with the greatest
satisfaction that I find the country looks
movement, which before the end of the
year will forever Danish the liquor traffic
| from this land of freedom.
! l believe we have made some progress
| in those four years. We have not gone
| far. The distance traversed seems pitia-
bly, short when We contemplate all that is
| yet to be accomplished: but what prog
ress we have made is due to the alert spirit
| of the Kansas people: to their ready re-
| Spouse to the call of ideals and determine
| ton to realize them: to their basically
| sound sense, to their strong purpose to GO
forward. l count myself the most for
tunate of men that l have been in accord
i with n people so loyal to their ideals, Sc
! true to their faith.
/ And 1 am happy in my knowledge tina,
! my successor in this office is thoro
| a Jayhawker as l dare to be- With voice
the most eloquent in Kansas-and with
| pen that laughs at folly and scorches in
| justice, he has fought the good fight fol
| Kansas ideals. and comes to you with a
constructive program which l know viii
merit and receive your hearty support.
hope he may have at your hands the same
manifestation of faith. the same cooper.
alton, the same fair treatment that yoJ
have given me in such generous measure