The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-03-09

being young man-for the state is bare
~ over forty years old-these ideas have
a peasant way of appearing in events,
sometimes exciting, but always interest
ing and generally to the point
hansans are not idle dreamers, not
mere theorists. From the time of John
Brown to Carrie Nation the Kausan has
been simple-minded man who took a
very snort and absolutely direct cut from
MS Ideals to the realization of them. If
civil or criminal statutes or constitutional
provisions happen to stand between the
HaIlsStn ana the realization of his ideals,
then God help the criminal statutes and
the constitutional limitations.
-, In the sisterhoOd of states Kansas is
the prophecies. Kansas is. 13rSt of all an
educated state. The percentages of liter
acy Is higher in Kansas than in any other
one must be a seer; to be a seer one must
be a scholar. The composite mind of
Kansas Is open to ideas Psychic waves
tR Oat'ic al tehQSncleS, economic movements
1-iaC are N the ar, lind a natural lOdg-
ment in the quick mind of Kansas and
there ma their first crude expressions in
ner deeds This first crude action. the re-
suit of impulse rather than Of reason yet
always of high impulse has given the
world the impression that Kansas is a
state of cranks- John Brown was a
crank IN that sense. yet he was voice
CRYING in the wilderness. He cast the
shadow Which foretold the impending -On-
Met. He was dead wrong in theory and
PESctlce. A great many men who are
"The PopuIists-Simpson, Mrs. Lease.
PeHer and all the rest-vOiced the bar
oar1c yawp which is certainly now finding
dlgnined expression in the same de-
mandS for antitrust laws for franchise
taxation. for municipal control of public
utllueS. for the restriction of corpora
LIOIls ana Tor dozen other reputable and
conservative movements which are clear
~ Socialistic in their tendencies
ror the last ten years there has been
1SeI1ng among business men, employers
OF labor and intelligent people generally
that whisky. or, to use the stock phrase.
mat incompetence is injurious to the best
deVeiopment of American minds and
handS- Hundreds of employers have re-
str1cted the use of liquor by their en-
pIoyees during working hours; dozens of
IanToads nave practically prohibited
rms restricting business legislation has
INDICATED or rather limited the presence
OF a general feeling all over the country
against liquor and the liquor traffic This
feeling has been in the ARA sort of
mental microbe. 1t has been indefinable.
liuslVe, incapable of analysis. And now
hatchet and chops the outward and visible
sign or this sentiment in big wood type
IeIteVs into the everlasting marble of his
tory Carrie Nation represents a uni
NerSal feeling of animosity toward LIQUOR
ana the liquor traffic. If she did not rem
resent this feeling she would not have so
many ernulators, She is probably a little
phophets. INC
IT is hard to imagine st. Paul or Daniel
or jeremiah sitting down, keeping a So
of books. running a great business or fol
lowing any Sedentary pursuit which re-
CURES exact habits and sane Iogica
orliih 3 only minds capable OF hysteria
are ahected by the impulse of the
psychic waves. SaVages must have felf
inns when their custom made them ven
crate the insane. They had DrcbabII sen
so many cranks turn out to be nroDhaf ;
that they wouldn't risk reviling them and
50 put az the crazy men in one poC and
with the rest q" PO'