The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-21
KAMSAS CONMENT
DON'T WORRY YET.

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DON'T WORRY YET.
There is some disposition to criticise
! the slow progress being made by the
! legislature with some of the more i'm
portant bills, and the fear is expressed
| in some quarters that the legislature
will adjourn without enacting some of
the admittedly needed legislation. To
! such as are making such complaint 1t
/ is perhaps not improper to give the adj
monition, Don't worry yet" Perhaps
1T does seem to you that the legislature
is making haste slowly, but remember
! that the ground must be made ready,
the seed planted, the growing grain Gull
| tivated, and matured before the harvest
can be reaped. The first several weeks
I of every legislative session are neceS-
sarily occupied with the introduction of
bills, their reference to committees, the
whipping them into shape in commit
tees, their reference back to the house
and the explanation and perfection of
them there, before they can be passed
Hutchinson News.
RUB THE FUR RIGHT WAY.
Rub the fur on a cats back the
right way and she will purr, but rub
it the wrong way, and she will scratch
This trait is not only found in cats, out
in people. The editor of the Democrat
is a good deal of a Thomas cat in this
respect. He doesn't prowl around at
nights. however, and he can be coax
ed to do any reasonable thing but you
can't force him to do anything he be-
lieves to be wrong We can't please
everybody, don't want to, and besides
we can't carry water on both should
ers. We are going to have our say on
questions of public interest, and II
anyone wants to get hot and rush in
and stop the paper, we don't care, for
we know that he will borrow his
neighbours or steal one out OF a livery
stable to read.-Kansas Democrat.
CIIADTrrU DErTNTc At HOME
The argument used in favor of the
big judges salaries is that it is neces-
sary in order to obtain the best talent.
This argument could not be applied
with better effect than IN the state
legislature. These men now receive
the pa1try sum of $500 per day for
the regular session of fifty days, while
the congressman receive $500 per
year. 1t is a fact that many good men
refuse a nomination for the legislature
because they can not afford it, as the
salary attached to the office does not
pay expenses A salary raise along
this line would meet with universal
approval.-Rice County Eagle.
HAS ANOTHER LOOK COMING.
By the way, where did the bare
headed fad originate? In the small
country towns the ladies are going
bareheaded in all kinds of weather in |
Wiling rheumatism, neuralgia and kim |
dred ills. In the larger cities which we
have visited within the year just pass |
ed we have looked In vain for bare |
headed woman on the streets. The la
dies of the cities either know better, |
or it isn't in style there.-Lindsborg |
News.
WHO KNOWS?
The courts are a. guess, as a mat
ter of fact they must be. Each side !
tries to present good case. Not always |
a truthful case but one that will let |
them out. What is. the result? The |
jury guesses, the judge guesses and |
pie have two sides. the accused has
friends and they guess. The prosecu-
tor has friends and they guess. Time |
makes guess after a while and the
wrong. That is about all there is to a
court. The supreme court of the Uni
ted States guessed once and they were
mistaken. then they guessed again and
God only knows the result.-Republic
County Democrat.
TROUBLE AHEAD.
The people of Kansas are aroused |
now as they never have been. Go out
the people right here in this
and hear what they say. They
see now how they were tricked in the
last campaign and they are prepared
to resent it. There is trouble ahead
for omebody.-Lawrence Journal.
A BIRD OF PASSAGE"
Representative Bird, of Shawnee, has
introduced a bill entitled: AN act to
protect hired girls and absentminded
men," Now if he would change the
word land" to from and make the
subject matter conform to the text
half the married women in the state
would pronounce the Shawnee repre-
sentative true to name, Bird" but +
the bill provides that all gasoline shall