The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-13
MORE TRUTH THAN SARCASM.

MORE TRUTH THAN SAINC<ASsN-
The Detroit News comes forward
with a Jolly" at the expense OF the
Kansas stories of Kansas thrift. The
News is somewhat sarcastic and the
editorial smacks of a hard winter in
Michigan ana a falling off in the buck
wheat pancake crop, buckwheat being
the staple product of the state next to
lumber, and it seems that the Michl-
ganders are jealous of bountiful Kan
sas. The News says:
! We have heard some tall stories OF
the prosperity of the people OF Kansas
lately. The tremendous crops OF corn,
wheat and pork have brought so much
money into their hands that the farm
ers no longer go to the fields at all, put
| leave all labor to the hired man ana
all superintendent to employed oVer.
seers, themselves remaining at home IN
| their Offices, studying out metnods OF
| investing their surplus capital, ana cut
| ting coupons off their bonds. the panks
are so full of money that the Nduils
| cannot hold it, and it is heaped up IN
| corners The farmers sons ana -dausn-
tiers spend their summers IN the Iasn-
ionabIe watering places OF the east OF
| in IuroDe the very servant girls ndSe
| nianos in their rooms and only work
a quarter of a day with Sundays ana
Thursdays off.
But these pictures OF aIIlu tl.i5a id the
picture which Bishop Hennessy' OF
| Wichita, suggests, rather IMAM e us
scribes, in his talk at the Catnoilc Ieu
Grafton the other night. He spoke OF
the persecution which the church Is
suffering at the hands or the govern
ment of France, and especially OF the
Icutting off of all diplomatic lntercouts,e
between that government and the Nali-
can. as something to be resented by an
good Catholics, and made the aWIui
| threat that the Catholic ladies OF wen
tia if further provoked, nlghl VII
| tbair afrOna0R from the OF6SS-
makers and milliners of Paris, untll
the French government came TO us
senses and restored it's embassy 10 tne
Vatican. Indeed, he called upon .1e
ladies to do so at once, without walt
ing for further provocation, ana leaves
I the French modistes to their mIseraple
, fate in ruin and bankruptcy ms IN
l dicates that in addition 10 tn ne o o.iet
SIGNS of prosperity in Kansas, the eng
l market for Paris gowns and hats is u
that state, and that every woman ,s II. u
Wichita especially provides herselL VIII Wiz
l costumes from the French caPltdI. w
! were hardly prepared for Information
like this But still, when you tnlnk e. "
If 100 900 900 bushels of wheat, Soo,VVO,
} mo bushels of corn, and endless mlllloili
1 of pounds of pork, every year mean
f good deal Let Paris tremDle.
;, PERTAINS the News editorial writel
9 never heard of the Kansas farmers wht
harvest a patch of alfalfa six times
, during a. season, on a patch OF only q
:, acres and then with the profts taxes
6 the family to Paris, or the hundreos
. farmers who have so much money the.
), don't know what to do but to buy lana
! so the money will be safe. Let som
!. Nrfcbieander come to Kansas and Wit
!, the profits of one good wheat crop es
tahIish himself and grow wealthy
e Tbere is more truth than sarcasm L
II the efforts of the News editorial writer