The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1898-02-11
Kansas and Kansas City.

SUM fA1nOpiRNiOh W 't'N
Kansas City Com mercial Club, the
editor of this paper was called on to
respond on behalf of the editors and
spoke substantially as follows:
The city of Kansas City made the
Commercial club. The State OF KAN
sas made the city OF Kansas CITY.
The editors made the state of Kan
sas. Hence applying the old rule OF
the syllogism and striking out the
unnecessary middle terms, wereach
the conclusion, which | trust is
mutually agreeable, that the editors
of Kansas made the Kansas City
Commercial club The members Oi
this Association congratulate them
selves that they did 80 good a JOB.
And | doubt not that the Commercial
Club appreciates the great honor con-
ferred upon IL in being allowed the
privilege of entertaining its creator.
It IL not often that 80 great privi-
lege Is granted to any Missouri insti-
tuition.
We trust, however, that the thought
of the august relationship we sustain
toward you will not lead you to take
our visit or ourselves too seriously.
The profession in which we are en-.
gagged Is one of the most arduous and
exacting of any of the trades that are
followed by the cons of men. We are
not journalists. If we were, il would
be different. But we are newspaper
men and women and that means that
every one of us Is entitled to member
ship in the Ancient OTder of Ever
lasting Diggers. Every day, for some
of us, and every week, for Others of
us, the task of Sisyphus is ours. AS
that ancient worthy was condemned
to roll huge stone up high hill
only to have it escape him just as the
summit was reached and plunge to
the bottom whence he must follow 1t
to begin again the endless round of
weary toll which was to be his lot
through all eternity, so we toll all
day or all week, as the case may be,
building structure which as soon
as completed must be demolished
and another one begun only to be
torn down in its turn, and so from
day to day and week to week the
"demntion hOrrid grind" goes on.
But there Is Que week that Is ours.
One week when we step out of the
treadmill and take our turn in Vanity
Fair. And that is the week of the
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