Show JOUX X N HAY DAY He lie Ic put lint Int l Kansas on the map And now It Is a pleasant little city of Ji Inh Inhabitants and anda a celebration Th The popular opinion of oC the tho Vest West VestI I will have to I be le e revised rc when Kansas Kansas town towns ran an give way to a week of jO Joy over half halfa a I century of history And this I i. i what the little Kansas city has been doing this week There were welo speeches speech speech- es a military review low and arni the general glorification of the thc fearless 1st who gave his life because lecause he lie had the courage of his convictions The one lesson leson In Browns Brown life Is the he fact that he hc real really believed i hat hat he hc professed to lo believe c All l over ver cr the time country county South as wel as North Norh wf vere r men and omen women who were opposed lo to sl slavery vry Man Mummy Many sla had ha be been n so utterly opposed to the system so convinced of Us its Is Injustice of It It harm both Loth to the Iho black and to the tho white race raco that the they had had given freedom to their slaves claves even en before the time rise of or John Brown And In the North there nl were wele thousands who believed as firmly firmly firm firm- ly even o en If they were not all able to JI JIo give so o substantial s a proof of their po 10 l- l lon lion But Bui lut this man Brown ln leUe believing that I the slaves sla should be le free Cree went about trying to free them Perhaps but lut for far that thai battle of oC which Js Is this week weel receiving Its Is half century celebration his sentiments may never have become so 0 Intensified as to drive him Into q t campaign of oC force fOe Hut lInt the smell mel of or powder when ruffians i came acro across the tho Missouri border barmier and uld sought to enforce with bloodshed their thel barbarous doctrine waked in the I breast of or John Brown Drown all al t the Lime e hero quality which whelm was vas needed for o D martyr And from rom that la day hs lie was an apostle of or force Of Or cour course e. e they hanged him But nut Butof Butof of course his cause went marching on 01 Wrong he ma may have been a as to method but bill lut It I does nol not lie le Jn In the tho mouth of oC an any lover lovel of oC the nation naton to today tola tolay to- to la lay day to so charge him Three yaH after aCer he was hanged half haC a n milli-m milli men were ere marching to the battlefields I which should KC settle Cor forever vr Ihn thu ii rina y r lon Ion of oC race slavery In this nation naton But Bui Buit I It t Is tho the way of great glent moral questions morl tU t to o bring after them bigger results t than han wa was In Inthe the begin beginning ning They start small smal to end large Mot More i Important infinitely Infinitely more moro l Important t than than tho time freeing of oC the slaves wa ns the ev everlasting establishment jf f C the tho unity of or the nation naton Emancipation was sure to come In time with wih tho time advance ad ad- vance of oC human thought thought England had imaI already abolished It I. I X Negro gro slavery slav slav- cry ery was going out of fashion It I oi d ouM have died died In half haI a century at nt th the very farthest and probably without ut uta a war But Dut no man living then or now can believe that the unity of the country could peaceably b be fixed that the doctrine of or a states state's right to I secede could be le laid eternally to rest real rett And without that there thero was no permanent per Iler- manent manemit life of the nation naton The smaller question brought on the settlement of ot that and of the tho far larger question as am m well wel And from flor tho time little seed planted I Iby by ly old John Drown Brown baptised with wih his hIm hi i blood grew a nation naton that can not miot b bo be boand and amid will wi not hot be le divided a nation naton that lint I will wIH wi not tolerate human slavery slaver n a I nation naton that will wi protect and can protect pro pro- eeL lect Its Js citizens wherever the they may be he and und a n nation naton that carries the time flag faE o oa of ofa a great republic triumphant Into ever every port lorL o of the thc world worl John Brown did much He lie better beter than he hc knew H He- He rather moro more than oth other r men started the tho train o or of events o which have culminated so Clor- Clor glor glor- And to him It I Is fitting that tha his little town In Kansas a a temper temper- temporary ary tU habitation for the man h by th the way way should should pay the lie homage of oC n a formal formal for for- formal mal celebration |