The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-02-17

life, he's going to f0ller the natural ten
dency of human nature unless some
old dOzer like me sits down with a
single and a jackknife and whites
bit, and talks a bit. and points out the
dangers in his path. The watered
stock of corporations that we hear so
much about and which is one OF the
great evils of the kentry, is but a natu-
raj sequence. Each and every one Of
us is inclined to overdo things In other
words, we swell up. We swell up with
out figgering that We may bust after
going a bout so far.
Take any one of those old Roman
and Greek warriors you will, and you
will find that he started out with steam
at high pressure. He was backed by a
pun and good luck hung to his coat
tails till he got the idea that ne was
the earth itself. He didn't swell up TO
a certain limit. like bari OF new
cider. mad then stop and buy him a
chicken farm and begin to ENJOY lfe,
but he kept right on swelling, until
one day an explosion was due, ana ne
was blown sky high. If Caesar had
stopped at a certain pint he could nave
retired to some pleasant SPOT in the
country and had a cider mill, flock
of Jersey COWS and hshpond, ana
been the boss Of the county; but ne
hung on and busted.
What did NaDOleOn dO2 gu Know
that he went at it and upset govern
ments and licked the earth. and
swelled around until nature had to ask
his permission to have Thunderstorm
or to grow huckleberries. A month
before WatelCo he could have started
out with a Buffalo Bill show and taken
in money by the barrel and every boy
baby born that year would have been
named after him. He'd been sWellln
uD year after year, like yaller
pumpkin left behind the cookstove,
and it never occurred to him that there
would be a bust up. No one dared sit
down and white and talk with him
He was left to go his own road, and ne
went it. and when the explosion came
1t was heard all over the world.
You've read all about Christopher
Columbus of course. When the KING
of Spain grub-staked him to go on
voyage of discovery, Christopher nat
urafly swelled up. He couldn' help IL
Things had come his way, and ne was
boss When he STUN bied across Amer
lea he sweIled some more lie been
called fool for saying that SPAN
didn't include all the land on the face
of the globe. and. having proved his
case he was naturally on the sven.
When he returned home and received
a roval welcome, and all the theaters
1vara sending him deadhead tickets ne
was pretty near ripe for bursting Do
he go ahead until the calamity came :
No. sirt He sat down with himself one
/ dav and said
aSee here Chris. this thing has
. gone 2 bout LdE enough lSFt4 81
GOOD thing into the ground You are
2 devil of o fellow and don't put any
further strain on your suspenders
I You've found America, got money
enough to pay up all your PACK REM
and % into garden truck, and now
Won let right go. If any one else
wants to discover a hunk of land tc
1 the westward let him 90 ahead
That's the way Columbus fggered
nv son. and the result was that he
didn't bust On the contrary. he lived
I to a good old age. had brands Of
! cigars and condensed milk named
after him. and when he died every
/ farmers wangon for ten miles around
wanted a place in the funeral process
| sion.
Bring the case down to our George
washington. Lord. but how thing
( did hapen to cause him to swell up
From the time he cut down tina
cherry tree hos course was onward
and upward. Drouths nor floods MOI