The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-21
KANSAS COMMEUT
PHLosoPHY or HYPOCRISY.

PHILOSOPHY OF HYPOCRISY.
Don't be too ready to call man
nypocrite- Years ago when the Good
Iemplar movement was al its height,
an Emporia man used to lecture the
GOOD Templars of the town, the coun-
| ty and tho state on temperance, and
his best lectures were given under
the inspiration of three or four drinks
OF whisky. When it was found out on
him men called him a hypocrite. He
was not The man was trying with all
MS neart to quit whisky; he was ally
ing himself with the Good Templars
10 get away from the influence of men
VINO drank whisky, and the drinks he
took were taken in his Weakness
weakness that filled him with shame
just as 1t would any honest man. The
world is full of weakness and weak
ness fails; and the world is full of
vanity which pretends that it does not
fall, because it is ashamed of the
truth. And so we cry hypocrites. 1t
is SO easy TO cry hypocrite, and SO hard
TO know the human heart-the self
Justifying human heart that with all
the years upon it, is after all a child.s
heart in its secret places.
In politics mem are given to calling
each other hypocrites merely because
no man can understand another. No
heart knoweth another's sorrow, says
the wise book. And it is so easy to
out being mushy.
For instance three years ago Edward
wesley Hoch was ramping and
champing over the state denouncing
the office boodling that elected Sena-
tor Long, and the editor OF the Ga
zette was defending it. Today Gov
ernor Hoch is silent at the office hood
fng-that is to say, trading public Of
flee for votes that elected Senator Cur
tis-which was carried out just as
brazenly, but no more SO than the
trading that elected Long, and the
editor of the Gazette, while it was go
ing on. was ramping and champing
and making noise like Ed Hoch
indignant at the way the railroads
elected Long, and at the way Long
traded offices to help the job along.
But Curtis did the same thing.
Now we are not all hypocrites; we
do not consciously do the wrong thing
as hypocrites do. But it is queer old
world, and good one, and there is
much more good than bad in the aver
piest is the man who believes most
kindly in his fellows and lets it go at
that.-Emporia Gazette.
HOCH ON PROHIBITION.
Governor Hoch's remarks on prohi-
bition in his message are quite
lengthy, and constitute one of the best
either spoken or written. 1t fully jus
titles the prediction made by the Re
corder-Tribune at the beginning of
the last campaign, namely. that If
Hoch was reelected and could serve a
second term unhandicapped by politi
cal conditions, he would do more for
the enforcement of prohibition than
Harris or any other man would or
could serving his first term. OF course
his remarks on the subject in his mes
sage is not enforcing the law, but his
recommendations ito the legislature
and his defense of the principle of
prohibition are so strong and emphatic
that he could hardly help acting in a
very effective way on this line during
his second term. They indicate that
he made no promises and will tolerate
no political, or, other influences that |
will handicap him IN the performance
Of his duty in the future,-Holton Re
corder.
CARR TAYLOR.
The railroad people want Carr Tay- |
lor's scalp. Taylor is the attorney of |
the board of railroad commissioners, |
employed by the state in looking after |
the interests of the people in Transport
tation matters The railroads COM
plain that Taylor is incompetent and |
unable to compete with their attor-
neys and for that reason they want |
him bounced. Quite likely.-Holton