The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-11-03

as I was starting out in life. the secret
of success is in knowing your felloW-n1en
Study them ard learn to know them.
That looked like good advice, but II did
not turn out that way just as I thought
had got man sized UP he would break
out in new spot If found him liberal
toward the heather of Africa. / found
him asking fifty cents too much for a hoe
or shovel at home. If he heaped up the
measure one day he would scrinp it the
next What was his weakness at one
time was his strength at another As
matter of fact. after living for over sixty
years and studying my fellowman every
day. I can't say that know what my
own brOther-in-iaw would do under GER
tain circumstances.
don't wish to seem conceited when
say that started out TO speak the
truth to all men about all things l think
most Of us make that mistake. Truth is
mighty and must prevail, is a watch
about Ave years to find out that my
standing was generally regarded as worse
than that of fhe liar. The world wants
. iiftlo truth ard 81 great deal of deceD-
ton. It's like taking FIVE drops Of medi-
cine in half glass Of water. In sticking
to the truth I raised UP enemies on every
hand and finally came TO know that I
must make a change
am not seeking to discourage you
from speaking the truth now and then.
my son, but YOU must understand that
truth is like a flaxseed poultice-for use
only on occasions. During the rest Of the
time YOU must either keep your mouth
shut or claim that YOU are a little deaf.
When we ask abort a certain man we
asks YOU about Us We expect you to re-
ply that you haven't got fairly ac-
I have not been able with all my read
ing and questioning to get what may be
called the law puzzle through my head.
We send lawyers to the legislature and
to congress to make laws to be enforced.
Those same lawyers come home to do
their very best to break those laws. We
print the laws in plain English language,
and for twenty years they stand uHques-
toned and in force Then arises a judge
who puts a different Interpretation on
them and upsets the applicant. law is
made to protect the people and yet the
lawyer who has the acumen to find loop
holes in il is praised by the masses
hadn't seen great deal wrong with
politics when old WheelhOrse sat down
with me and satisfied me that the country
was In danger, and that unless a change
was speedily effected the Republic OF
America would be busted higher n Gil
deroy's kite and sixteen different kinds
of anarchy prevail. What he wanted. and
what he wanted me 20 want, was reform.
It was about the first time I had heard
OF it. Ny eucumbers had come along and
my potatoes had ripened without any spe-
cfa1 effort on the parf OF reform. and I
was dwelling in blissful ignorance OF the
danger to the bulwarks Of liberty when
this old wheeIhorse opened. mi. eyes.
took of my coat apd got others TO do
the same, and We reformed politics and
to Albany, and he was such a hustler and
such wise old Wheelhorse that he made
ten thousand dollars out Of 1t and never
treated one OF Us TO glass OF lemon
There lent tha slightest doubt that this
country Is in the greatest danger today.
and that unless we have reform in poll
tics right away we are going TO bust UP
with a roar that will be heard all over
Europe, but you can count me out I'm
not going to do thing to check the i'm
pending disaster. I shall sit on my YER
anda and count my chickens in tha yard
and hear my hogs grunt in the pen and
never sweat a hair. / know that before
If is too late some Moses viii rise up He
Will ven for reform in politics. aud he
win set others TO yelling and q great
wave viii sweep over the country and
purify and save 1t.
their faces washed and their hair c0mbed