The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-13
KANSAS COMAENT

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Are you crank? Do you always
register roar whether you have one
coming or not? You may be a crank
and not know it. Do you growl at the
postmaster and bill collector and at
everybody else when things don't go
exactly your way? You may not growl
at your wife, but it Is because you are
| afraid of her If you are a crank you
s want 70 get ous of the habit It is go
ing 70 De as hard for a crank to enter
the Kingdom of heaven as for a rich
man to pass through the eye of a
needle No crank gets along we'll They
always get the worst of 1t. Hotel
clerks lay for them, and the operator
will never -ell them how late the train
Is II you are a crank. the thing for
you 20 do is to consult your family
occtof. Your liver is out of whack or
you stomach is not working on sched-
ule tire. All the kids in town make
fHn OF the crank. They watch their
chance and hit him in the back of the
neck With a SNOWFALL a crank has
no fun. He is always looking for
solrething to kick about The rest of
the community shuns his company and
ne finally finds himself alone in the
world The crank is always looking
for SC N ething to make him happy but
never finds it. He never will. either.
as lcng as he remains a crank. Nature
diont TX uo this world as a dwelling
pace Tor a crank There is place
ton it. 1t is the only place they could
DC happy- They Will have plenty to
roar about there Things are fixed
that.-Osborne Farmer.
SOME GOOD ADVICE.
The members of the next Kansas leg
stature are going to be watched;
watched by the people who sent them
member of that law making body is
going to be scrutinized. 1t is not going
to be question of party or fractional
politics; It Is going to be a question OF
what each senator and representative
stands for The election Of the next
United states senator is going to carry
direct responsibility on each member of
the legislature. It is a straight ques-
ton Of what candidate will best serve
Kansas. There must be no payment CT
political debts. There must be no
methods employed to overthrow natur-
al selection. There must be no ''Hor-
ton agreement" You who are mem
bers of the Kansas legislature are go
Ing to be watched. If you are con-
nected with any deal to thwart the In
terests of the people, the honest news
papers are going to print it, and the
voters are going to remember it. No
one is going to make a fight on YOU.
The newspapers and voters. being dis
appointed In you, Will simply let you
alone. and at the next election they will
vote for another man. This Will mean
Democratic legislature. The Repubh-
can voters of Kansas want to be rro11d
of their party and to support it and
they beg Of you. the Kansas Legislators.
TO remember them and their interests
during the next session of the legisla-
ture.-Sabe Herald
AN INHERITANCE TAX.
The editor man of this paper has
not had time to read all of the presi-
dents message, but there is one thing
in 1t that we are heartily in favor of
that is the income tax and the taxing
OF inheritances, good and strong At
the time of Jay Gould's death Judge
John Martin, now several years
dead, wrote an article for the Atchi-
son Daily Champion in which he adj
vocated the legal distribution of i'm
mense fortunes. for the benefit of the
state, after paying reasonable
amount to the heirs OF deceased mil
lionaires. He Seemed to think that If
George Gould had been started out in
life with one million of his fathers
wealth at the time of his death, it
would have been a pretty fair start for
George, and the rest should go to i'm
proving the roads and schools of the
country Kansan.