The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-24

efforts of none are unyielding of re-
ward save the devil and the doctors.
Under the genial sunshine of this
sunny and Sunf1OWered state the mi
crobes that established homesteads in
the seductive regions of the corporal
person who is now writing to you
while at Washington are fast return
ing to their wives felix, and every
time l turn my face to that smiling
orb which leads and guides our plan
etary system to the constellation of
Andromeda 1 sneeze them away by
the million. In the history of evic-
tons my success is unequaled; the
brave Oyama never drove his enemy
from entertainments as I have done.
All, what fortune it is to be a Kan
sas man. But it is not of the china tic
glory of Kansas that set out to write,
ana nope you will pardon me for hav-
ing allowed my enthusiasm TO lead me
into byways. 1t is of Kansas patriotism
that L would speak
In the matter OF public service the
noble Roosevelt has set a pace t. at has
excited in Kansas a desire for emula-
ton that battles the man behind the
typewriter for words to describe. The
fever for serving the government defies
the capacity of ambition flowing east
ward from Kansas to serve the country
| that will prove dangerous unless it
IsmeetS wave of opportunity flowing
westward from Washington. In the db-
Sence of our congressman today / have
1Idu Two SplSnOlG volunteers Tor WGTk
with your Uncle Samuel. One of them
is Jack -- of -. Jack is a young
man, who seeks an humble share in the
glory of the administration. de does
not want to go to st. James or St.
Petersburg, nor to the Philippines, nor
| to Panama to pull his weight of the
| burden of national service. He is too
good a Kansas for that. aud its
charming environs have more attrac-
lions for him than the iVy-mantIed
! towers of 7 .On0nn tho and
minarets of the Muscovite capital, the
! cathedral dolnes Of Manila or the palm
shades of the isthmus- He deems it bet
/ ter to carry the mail over a rural route
bordering the Little Arkansas river, and
more romantic to steal an occasional
kiss from one of the rustic cornfed
maids of bleeding Kansas than to dine
on the vidnds of royalty or find glory
in swimming the Bag Bag, or dying
by the yellow fever route for mis- coun-
try.
| The other gentleman is Henry --
of -. Henry does not want to roam.
He seeks not to serve indoors among
the pillared and domed and colunnned
edifices of Washington. He is used to
| being summoned to work by the clarion
notes of the barnyard Geek and would
| be out of place among the 9-o'clock
riserS of the national capital He neither
| drinks whisky nor plays penny-ante.
| He has never worn a dress suit or an
| opera hat. He is a plain, homespun
man, who loves the fresh air and the
green fields and the sunshine and flow
| ers, and the lady he Loves is the god
| dess of simple rural cortenunent. He,
| too wants to carry the mail over a
rural route, and If you could once see
| the various manifestations OF the gen
| erosity of smiling nature in that section
of the corr belt you would not blame
him..
Neither of these gentlemen knew
ought of the Importance of congress
man before a civil service commission.
| They rightly estimated our representa-
tive III congress to be a great man, but
when they hold him to be omnipotent
1 grieve for their innocence-and envy
them, too. In a vague, dreary sort of
way the good people of Kansas have
a knowledge of the civil service COM
mission, but they do not suspect its
icy nature. 1t would take them long
time to really understand that the said
commission is not eager to be guided
by the wisdom of a county commits
SiOner a member of the legislature or
a congressman in the matter of APP
pointments, or that in its opinion a
mana dreary bookworm-who does
not know how to come in out OF the
rain, save by the principles of physi-
illogical deduction, is better qualified to
conduct q rural route than one who is
able to curry a horse or, in pinch
help q patron farmer to stack hay OF
tSpray his pigs, or preach an uplifting
and helpful sermon at the rural chapel
While the regular pastor is away or
his vacation.
II do not ask you to take up this
matter in an official sense, but If you
can in any way help these two gentle.
men to show the government what
they can do. and how well they can dc
ii, you will obIige me. At any rate,
will appreciate it if you will tell ms
whether vacancies exist and how neal
they are to the top of the eligible list
Very truly yours,