Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1886-02-18
ian to write a card" he SMILES I. ~

than to write card" he smiles N ~
dreams.
We can get along withon: rniA and Gu
Joy it; make fun over the rain. say It don't
amount to much; but Kansas cannot gel
along without newspapers. and lots Of them.
The press is the iron, the editor the blood;
they are the first things on every town
site. The editor il harmless; sometimes
instructive and amusing. He invents
words and phrases for US and fills the place
of the Homeric balladist and the middle
age tuubadours. The euitor is usually In
solent, but his paper is the universal sol
vent; thaws the ice and dissolves, not d.
YOURS, the fluids in all societies which hs
enters. 1t is the good-natured man who
makes every person teel at ea-e ~ ssec a
he comes into the room. Jack Downing.
Geo. Isbell, Eugene Ware. Noble Prentis.
Bill Hutchinson. George McIane. S~l. Mil
. Ter, Jim Steele. Henry King. Ed. Howe.
Aleck Butts-kansas has never passed an
instant without the wit. humor, original
ity. quaintness, of these peculiar men of
genius. 1t was thought that prohibition
would be fatal to them. but they are its
most taking and attractive friends. They
take that dry drink and turn it into .
healthful and sparkling champagne. We
have prohibition because We want to save
the boys-want to save the bovs-they
are too good to lose. The best
society is lover there" called
up because they are the
brightest; but We who have Kansas 10 live
in find such earthly attractions around u
that there is one processio that we Do not
join with unseem,y alacrity. We believe
in the procession, have pass. and like
the layout up there-but Kansas il going
to be very lively in the spring. 1t il diff
ferent IN Texas. Whisky is remedial
measure down there, in that climate, and
with that citizenship.
Suppose Alabama should ait down TO
the game with US now! The old lady
would not know what cards were out;
would not know what to lead. Bless her
old soul, she never will know! 1t 10 too
late for her to take hand in the game.
1t is short whist now; two hands a. one,
with Kansas heads behind them. Many
year is in its grave, Alabama, since your
long-haired son came up here and tried to
turn these prairies into slave and lash
plantation-years of decay and death to
you, OF life and growth for us. The books
were closed at Montgomery, FIVE and TWEEN
ty years ago. The rebel government was
formed in your town just ten dave after
the day we celebrate-af after Kansas marched
into the union and made the stars and
stripes the banner of the free.
The editor sometimes closes his remarks,
but he never takes his seat. Rising with
the sun and following the hours. bis lead
pencil encircles the earth with cantinu-
Gus column of notes and news. Kansas,
at %, has as many papers as the county,
starting in 1907, had in 1925, after two
CENTURIES. That is the time 1t took the
colonies and the United States to catch up
With Kansas We don't blow, brig or
!uster. but that is the cold fact. Kansas
las only made a beginning. A thousand
Years scarce serve to form state. Her
papers have been brave. true, hopeful
helpful, like the people they represent. Al
the years 60 by. they will be ADLER, richer,
but never more representative of the peo-
pie than they have been in the pioneer pc
Rod. Let u hope that the big and rich
papers Of the future will make as brave a
fight for equal rights. for sound morals,
for manly men and noble wol,en.
The New York Tribune of Tuesday,
January %, 1861, copied from the Rome,
Georgia, Courier poem beginning In
this way:
Come Mr.. Greeley, come to the south
The land You have lied and relied on.
You can lower your chm, and open your nsOaeh,
When your neck strains the rope you are tied On.
Bring old Granny Giddings. and clustering Hale,
Fred. Douglass and Henry Ward Beechrr,
And N.groth-f Hy att, fro N WashinxtuA j.x
And Sumner, the Devils own preacher.
The Tribune of that morning, our 1rs-
bune, our Greeley, contained the following
editorial paragraph:
1.-The house yesterday passed the senate
bill for the admission of Kansas, which
thus becomes the thirty-fourth state Of the
union, and the nineteenth free state This
act not only Opportunely adds to the
confederation a sound and loyal member,
untainted by the pestiferous blight Of sla-
very. but does rightful though tardy JUS
tice to state which has suffered for Eve
years greater wrongs and outrages from
federal authority than all the slave states
together have endured since the Begin
ming of the government, even if their own
clamor about imaginary oppression be sd-
mitted as well founded.
The present generation Is too Bear b
these events to see them in their true pro-
portions, but in the future, in i'm partial
history, the attempt to force slavery upon
Kansas. and the violations of law. of or
der and of personal and political rights,
that were perpetrated In that attempt
will rank among the most outrageous and
fragrant acts of tyranny in the annals Of
Uankiod."
The Reflected Constitutions