The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-07-02

(ands by the way said mayor lived in the
snitten Fart of town. can we doubt the
IGs..aA.ltsy Icing SWIFT vengeance from God?
BUT some viii say why should SO many
good people have suffered Many. might
say mos', of those good people held their
peace or openly advocated the election of
the wolf in sleeps clothing. the men who
work and vote with the bum rum ele-
ment of society. who are the teeth. so to
speak, while THEY are the muscles that
work the jaws of the wolf that is tear
pie. will We LOVE Simplicity How long
VIII ye accept promises from a party that
mas continually broken them?
The paper through which this cruel
utterance was made is the official organ
of the Kansas Prohibition party, and
doubtless voices the sentiments of tha-
organization; in view of which l con-
graduate the other political parties OF
Kansas that these heartleSs maIcoli>
tents have gone out of them into =
party of their own When this afro
ciouS editorial was penned the people
of the whole country had their human
/ their Christian, sympathieS aroused and
were doing all in their power to stem
the tide of misery. The very probate
judge and county attorney this edi-
torial PIRATES of had been for week
/ at the river working day and night to
/ help rescue women and children cling
ing to trees. People permitted politicaf
i dogmas to be forgotten. In the pres
ence of appalling disaster partisanshir
was dumb. Even the political econo-
mist forgot for the moment that calam-
tiles which destroy human life are
benehcent means of preventing popula-
ton from outstripping subsistence, and
Herbert SpencerS followers forgot in
their excitement the beautiful doctrine
of the survival of the fttest.
All who had money, or clothes, or
food, or shelter FASTENED in a frenzy of
humanity to offer what they had to the
v1ctims-al but the devout members of
the Prohibition party. These gave
nothing To have given aught to re-
heve the misery would have been sinful
an interference with the efforts of an
offended Deity to punish North Topeka
for permitting Governor Bailey to make
Hayden probate judge and Judge Hazen
10 make Otis Hungate county attorney
When loving God is drowning babies
in North Topeka because Governor Bal
ley, who lives on high ground on the
south side, has appointed probate judge
man who also lives on high ground on
the south side, and because Judge Ha-
zen, safe from the flood, has appointed
another sinner also safe from the
flood, county attorney, it would be a
crime almost equivalent to the police
court crime of resisting an officer to
inter the little bodies or even to COM
fort the bereaved parents who have sur
vived- That poor girl who worked long
and hard in the Wooden mill and was
drowned while seeking to reach her
humble home, with only the pitiless
black heavens to appeal to in her terror
and agony, was destroyed by an aveng-
Ing 1Ou because Judge f1dZen naQ dD-
pointed Hungate instead of Dumenil
county attorney This being so, it were
blasphemy to shed tear while gazing
upon her upturned pallid face. Tom Nc
Neal, Harold Chase, the Larimers, VIII
lis Gleed-did these vote for Emerson?
Yet they escaped unframed. Gods
vengeance was reserved for helpless
women and babes.
If it be really true that the universe
harborS such a god as these Prohibition
fanatics adore, what need have we of
Satan? What fiendish work remains
for him to do?
This editorial does but indicate the
real malevoIence of what these people
are pleased to call christian temper
ance" or sometimes THE love of God
shed abroad in the heart" I imagine
that when He contemplates such wor-
shippers, atheism becomes popular with
the Almighty.
Let every flood sufferer hasten to sub
scribe for the Kansas Prohibitionist
and when next time Brother Emerson
comes around, turn out to his meetings.
At the next election shall we not all
with pride and swelling gratitude vote
the Prohibition ticket?
l might remark that I think the AL
mighty began His flood a. good ways up
country, and that He carried the joke
too far when He drowned Kansas City
and East St. Louis because Shawnee
county had been given a brace of Off
GERS who do not drink cordwood as a
regular beverage; but I refrain.
G. c. CLEMENS
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