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

THE WANDERER FROM KANSAS.
Occasionally a good man grows dis
satisfied with Kansas The milk 5 too
yellow or the honey too sweet, and he
00esn. I like them TO flow over his land
anyway So he parts with his farm
sells his live stock and "other things
TOO numerous to mention, and moves
70 Oklahoma There he takes his good
tssusaS money and buys a farm which
! today Is and tomorrow is not, because
/ the wind has blown It away. Or he
tries Colorado and slushes around n
the mud irrIgating a strip of bottom so
narrow that a COW can't jump in the
field because she jumps over it, Then
ne hears OF Texas and goes down to
nunL Inc bag of gold at the rainbow,
In the daytime he scra tches sandburs
out OF MS flesh and at night the taran-
tulas nlbble at his feet and centipedes
crawl over his face. When his money
IS all gone he begins to feel like he did
the nfSt night he ever stayed away
from nome. He yearns for good old
hansas and the yearn sticks in his
throat and chokeS him until tears
come in his eyes. He would give a
month work to see the cows standing
az the bars on his old Kansas farm and
near the norm blow for supper. Mem
DRY IS a marvellous painter and paints
best the things we love best. It pic
lures to the traveller the corn silkfng
IN the neld he once owned, the wheat
yelloWlng for the harvest, the clover
stretchlng away in a carpet of red and
green, richer than the rugs of Persians.
II SHOWS MIN the elms as they whisper
ca TO his children at play beneath
them, points to the roses in the corner
OF the old rail fence, and in infinite de-
Tan, pants thousand things that
touches the heart and proves its whinl-
slcai power. Happy is the man who
wakes from sleep to ind that he has
wandered from Kansas only in his
Renaissance Tribune.
RIPLEY WRONG.
PRESIDENT Ripley, of the Santa Fe. in
MS speech at Los Angeles Thursday
night. SHOWS that h has a very enron
eous ldea OF majority of the American
people he gave it as his opinion that
not one person in a hundred cared
anything about rate legislation. The
people OF the United States have conf
denre in their government and they are
aol given to great excitement until they
become convinced that there is some
thing radically wrong. The people of
this country We're not very much
wrought UP over the slavery question
in 1850, but just as soon as they We're
given to understand that slavery pro-
posed to endanger the gcv eminent the
cry came back from the people: I'VE
are coming, Father Abraham 500, 600
strong. 1t is perhaps true that more
than one person in a hundred is alarm
ed over the railroad situation, because
they have confidence 9lat the govern
ment will do the fair thing by the rail-
roads and compel the railroads to give
the people justice. But If the people
become convinced that the power of
the railroads is debating terms in the
United States senate. Mr.. Ripley viii
be astounded at the burning indigna-
ton that will be shown by the other
ninety-nine fellows in the enc hundred
The ninety-nine are not calm because
they are ignorant. hut because tRsy
have an abiding faith in President
Roosevelt and congI ess to correct err
rors and put a stopste freight rate dis
criminations.-W ichita Eagle.
BUT HOCH WON'T
Every time that Governor Hoch takes
a satfnt at Tom Kelly It seems -. give
him the Buck fever. But hunters CTR
erall,- s,af over that in tine.-BeIleyille