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He said..! i . •: ' :»• ■ v -losswhile material pro*is pursuedat the cost of the loss of ideals which moved the: founders of theHov. \ ictor Wa.-. Won4 iW e Amcricans boa•• t, me*town1, Lawrence will have lost rath-in the exchange.One * f the great t!ii n g s ah nr Law-than gainerbeenour government neverdefeated. ‘We've neverrence, he said, was that fromhegmnm ~the2d,’ is a popular slogan.But the government was ‘licked,’ and Lawrence ‘licked’ it. For these* *other purposes than material ad van*-omen t had had a lead-* tejfKrs -A- ife- :o ■' 1men had the government ( United States to fight. It was a wonderful thing they did. They did rot win t.ueir tight b\ di -the!inmg p acetown.Ire clo?e association of the Freethe policies of the.»mmci* • r■-i * •• V; d-gto early Kansas history was pre-i on ted in a detailed hist ■ ricaf r- -William E. Connel-view given _________1*5% secretary of the Kansas State Historical society. Mr. Connelkvthe relationtlwelt particularly onofV 'achievementtate hotel to theas the headquartersof liberty in Kansasa n a«anctuary of the free state believers dur-mg tneclemen4da} when the pro-slaveryi3wasseeking tof1 awrrr: m. Mr. C addrcr*’appfgr--, v; *'■!' r vheve in theJ ourn aI-Wor 11! todav.* • *Extolls Pioneer SpiritA warning fnrI. a rcinee cInzer.!t1*11 *mr present prosperity*not to forget the olea n dpioneersAm -p • a ’ i * : *'i‘ig ;f ‘A* lt;■• ive.’-.-uns 1 visounded-by Fred Trigg of the Kansas C11 vStartheSin an a»Vress,substance of which follows:“I congratulate the people of Lawrence upon the fact that they ere to have this tine new hotel, hutthat sentiment I s] eak ns theof therepresentat ivo*ravelingpublic—for i am a traveling man. A newspaper traveling man.“Bit as a citizen who loves Kan -and •* - hmmrv I am hear*s a sbroken in the thought of this oldlandmark of lm t-rvKansas being' o dt nr toi*destroyed.Asafriend and natron of Landlord Bil-I am re »o iced that he isto have a new hotel. But as a citizen I am here to protest againstthe destructh n of this historic cddbuilding, /the FJdridge House,“If we were appreciative of ourobedience to patriotism.the laws—butT h e vserved tne law?—out they stood against the government until they obtained the great victory. Themele great victory, is nothing in American historytocompare with“ Downatit.Osawatomiethe reisamonument to JohnBrown andJohn Brownaand Kansas ?pars, cmaintained hv theIhedofsta*eam glad f f it. I am glad Kansas has erected that one memorial, at least,“But where is Charles RobinsonLawrence.par* in*‘Where is there a Jim l.anwmem : .a; in all Kai-asTopeka, in the thereat“In the state house groundsstate house it If, is not a tablet to preservethe memory of those old Kansasbuilders themen who ledfight to make Kansasra e n v. h o• i *Kan • a.free;itsi h •1theflhi-gave aauNM ing spirit; the men who mapped out the path through the wilderness that led Kansas to all its; glory—nothing to show that wereveretheir gr names or appreciate ‘eatwork.”R.Following Mr. Trigg's addressC. Rankin, presidentcommented briefly Anof thetne gratiti-jLawrence Chamber of Commerce,cation of the city with the new.structure and expressed the( hope |that the city will find a place in the new hotel to perpetuate the memory of the pioneer heroes of a w ren c aIn his felicitations on the lay-;mg of the corners*one, Mayor Holliday sa; i.Mayor Holliday's Address1 he progres, i n of ever;, community hashistorv as Kansas men and womensome outstanding events v. hich mark its evolution into cycles.we would say to Air- Hutson: “0oFrom the founding of our historic city down to the present
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Lawrence Daily Journal World
Lawrence, Kansas, US
Sat, Aug 22, 1925
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