The Topeka state journal., 1897-09-08
KINDLY FEELING.
More of it Should be Manifested
All Around.
100000 People.
TO MAKE THEM HAPPY
We Should Bend Every Energy
Festival Week.
Stop Local Quarrels at Once and
be Sensible.
TO MAKE THEM HAPPY
NO GENUINE TOPEKAN
Will Raise His Hand to Hurt
the Fall Festival.

One hundred thousand people are
coming to Topeka to be entertained
We have invited them. They will be
here the last week in this month. We
have promised them all kinds of de-
lightful spectacles and amusements.
They believe every word of the prom
ises we have made. Now, there is a
disposition among a few-fortunately
not a great number-to quibble and
back out of the obligations they have
entered into on account of the Fail
Festival. This is not the true Topeka
spirit.
Regardless of our views on religion,
politics. prohibition and other matters
Of public policy or public morals it is
our duty to entertain the 100000 people
we have invited here. We must sink
our local differences and not drag the
skeleton out of the closet to fill our
visitors with disgust. A great deal OF
leniency should be had for all peoples
views on various moral subjects and
matters of public policy when We have
100 600 people of divergent views in
town The free and easy class of peo-
pie should remember that the stricter
class have likes and dislikes that should
have consideration as well as theirs.
There is no use in insulting half our
visitors thousands of whom will be
women and children by permitting vice
to f1aunt itself wide OPEN" nor is
there any reason why the laxer element
should be held by Puritanical rules to
a rigid line of conduct. As in all ques-
tions affecting so many people there
should be more or less compromise;
there should be more iberality with
each other. We must never forget that
we are entertaining strangers-people.
them from other states and of many
opinions. 1t is the part of the host to
be as agreeable as possible to his guest
without overstepping the bounds of
prOpriety or Self-reSpect. Being agree
BILE consists just as much in keeping
unpleasant sights and actions in the
background as it does in letting every
body do just as he or she pleases.
1t isn't pleasant for good, respectable
people to come here and be staggered
against and spewed on by drunken
men, any more than it is pleasant for
a man who wishes to entertain his
friend in his own way to be estopped
from doing so. Both classes of people
must have it made as agreeable for
them as propriety will permit. We are
the host of 100, 900 people during FeSt-
val week and we want all these people
to enjoy themselves and we do not want
to be discount eOuS to anyone.
Many associations and organizations
have made arrangements to entertain
their fellow members during the week.
tainment is, there should be no critic
ism of it nor animadVersiOn as to the
character of it. On the other hand
there is no occasion for public resorts
run for the purpose of making money
and mostly by a class of people whom
we have to keep in Jail the rest of the
year, to ride roughshod over all decen-
cy and order. No self-respecting To-
pekan wants that class of people to
run things in this town. even one
week. 1t makes them insolent and i'm
To-
quent evils.
Above all things Topeka people
should rally together for the good of
the town. For too many years previous
to the Inauguration of the Fall Festival
we have bickered and quarreled about
one thing and another until the grass
grew in the streets. and business stag
mated. The Fall Festival walked us up.
We have gained 1000 in population in
one year, the first gain since 1890 This
summer more fine homes are being
built in Topeka than in all the five
years previous put together. People
like to make their homes in the FAN
Festival city.
There is something going on" to
keep one awake and interested. We
are alive again. Following the build
ing of hundreds of homes this year, will
come the building of handsome busi-
ness blocks next year. The oldtime
Topeka is coming back. We shall have
$4,000 or $4,000 people by 1900. Mer
chants will sell more goods, profession
al men win have a larger practice,
workingmen higher wages and more
work, clerical salaries will go up, prop
erty will rise, everybody will be bene-
fitted, fortunes will be made.
Now do Topeka people want to fall
out among themselves about anything
and let this golden opportunity slip
from their grasp? Does any Topeka
citizen want to be so mean and mig
gardly as to refuse to help in the Fall
Festival which is one of the great
agencies of our regeneration, because
some other citizen isn't doing exactly
what he approves of?
No, we do not believe it.
Every loyal Topekan is for Topeka
all the time even including Festival
week.
This is our town; we all expect to live in
it; let us make it and keep it the best
city in the best state in the Union.
Let us neither croak about the fu-
ture nor abuse our neighbors, but all
work together for the glorihcation of
Topeka