The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-05-13
KANSAS, THE TENTH MUSE.

Makes as Much Noise as a "Moon
Full of MeteOrs ON Tin Roof"
William Allen White. in the St. Louis
Mirror.
There is a foolish English question or
conundrurI which runs, ''Why is a
mouse when it spinG?'' There is no ansW-
er to it, 1t is only a silly combination of
words, and in this same spirit and By
the same token one might ASK why is
Carrie Nation when she smashes?"
Why is she?
Heaven knows!
Why does all the world stop it's bus
ness and stand agape while this fat little
old woman who until ten weeks ago had
lived sixty eminently respectable years
goes about waving her hatchet and talk
ing in loud and excited tones?
AS the world has rolled along any
number of ladies and gentlemen have
risen with axes or AIDES or clubs and
have damned the daylights out of people
who disagree with them Saloon smash
ing has been DONE ana III recent years,
by women who have been prosecuted Nv
the rum fend. The matter has caused
some neichborhood comment 1t has
even got into the days dispatches. But
the story was unimportant and trivial
and really of no consequence"
But here comes this Kansas woman
from Medicine Lodge, Kan, the home of
Jerry Simpson, and also of Congressman
Chester I. Long, whose speech on the
Porto Rican tariff was used more than
any other speech on the subject by the
Republican national committee last year
here comes this little old Kansas wom-
an and throws a rock hard around the
world
Why does 1t resound?
Would it have crushed through the
glass doors of the House of Fame if
Mrs. Nation had thrown that rock at
Springfield, Mo- or Wheeling, w. Va,
or Charleston, S. c., or Walla Walla,
Wash, or Laramie. Wyo-. or Ilion, N.
Y?
mol" as the Fourth OF July orator
would say, mo, ten thousand times nor
The rock that Carrie Nation aimed at
the rum fiend's Stats ratified around the
world like a moon full of meteors falling
on tin roof solely and only because
Carrie Nation threw the rock in Kansas.
Kansas is the tenth muse-the muse of
advertising.
There have been socialists in America
for century, but until the Kansas Pop
ulists appeared the socialists were with
out force or effect There have been
cyclones in the world since the morning
stars sang together, but was without
distinction of influence. God mace
grasshoppers before he made man, but
until the grasshopper became hyphen-
ated with Kansas he was lowly bug.
less known than the bedbug or the flea
Kansas refuses to allow her wares to
become shopworn She advertises. 1t is
in the blood. When she found she had
in Ingalls, the best living American styI-
list, what did she do? Did she hide him
in a college, as Massachusetts would
have done? Did she start a magazine
with him, as New York would have
done? Did she send him to the court
of ST. James, as Ohio would have
done? No, gentle reader. Kansas found
the best billboard on earth, and put
John ]. ingalls, TO writing advertising
on Kansas there. Kansas sent ingalls,
to the senate.
Kansas gets advertising out Of every
thing. Good fortune and calamity, riches
or adversely famine or feast-all times
and seasons are reserved in the contract
for top-of-column-neXt-t -reading-matte
advertising for Kansas.
Kansas is wonderful state If some
night an earthquake should drop the
whole ever blooming state into the bot
tomless pit, before morning the Enclosure
would be fenced up with billboard ten
miles high, covered with the story of the
glory Of Kansas, and every night from
the crater of the pit the same enlivening
end diverting. witllal profitable Kansas
tale would be wigwagged from the blaze
below upon the dome of the eternal
stars.