The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-04
KANSAS COMAIENT
STATE SENATORS.

oAA4 4 SfLlNA1OhS.
Some papers are laboring earnestly
to prove that@the last Kansas legisla-
ture did some good. We think so, too.
One of the best things it did was to
teach the people of Kansas that the
things they want to see accomplished
can never be accomplished till more
interest is taken in the nomination of
state senators. The average man has
almost no voice in making these NOM
nations Two or three counties are
generally hooked up together in a SEN
atorial district. The politicians agree
that the nomination shall be passed
around among the counties, and at
convention time fifteen or twenty dele
gates, all likely to be politicians, meet
and make the nomination for a four
years term. Every railroad striker
and corporation lawyer in the county
is watching that convention, and is
probably on the delegations. 1t is in
fact one of the most important meet
ings in the state, but business men,
farmers and mechanics and the Ordi-
nary run of citizens scarcely know
there Is such meeting in town. When
the legislature convenes, however, they
find that nothing can get through that
does not have the o. K. of the rail-
ROADS. Then the people cusS the SEN
ate and wish there was some way of
getting at it-Jewell Republican.
WEALTH DOES NOT SATISFY.
w. A. Proctor, head of the great
soap-making. establishment of Proctor
& Gamble in Cincinnati, who is said to
be worth $10,OOO.0OO, committed sui
eide yesterday. He was tired of life.
This illustrates how unsatisfactory
great wealth is as source of COM
plete happiness. When the human
mind is relieved of the responsibility
of acquiring means for mans physical
and mental necessities it must find
some other vocation. The man as a
rule who is surfeited with wealth is
101-ra = 49,
labor for a living. Money brings many
comforts and enjoyable luxuries but
its use brings more comfort and pleas
ure to the man of limited means than
1t does to the man of great wealth.
Harry Thaw, if he had been brought
up poor and had been required to ex-
erclse his talents in acquiring means
FOR his support, would have been a
FAR happier man than he has been.
wealth offers great opportunities,
but it takes a strong character to get
happiness out of 1t. One without means
thinks that a man with great bust
ness and millions at his disposal, who
could secure any luxury for the graft
fication of his desire or to contribute to
his pleasure, would have no occasion
10 take his own life because of des-
pondency. But he who does not know
the Inconvenience Of poverty has no
means OF judging as to the value of
wealth. To him money is like the air
that he breathes and the water that
he drinks-it comes without effort The
contented mind that is occupied in do
ing good things is the greatest prize
that comes to human life; and. without
such. wealth brings little satisfaction
-Salina Journal
HOW TO SAVE. THE COUNTRY. .
We passed by a place the other day
owned by a man who spends much of
his leisure time in town talking politics
and Saving the country and noticed
that the road in front of his home had
never been dragged" If that man
really has the welfare of his country
at heart he can do more good in two
hours with aoroad drag than he can
with his chin in a lifetime. Troy Chief
A GOOD WORD.
The Sabetha Herald points with
pride to the fact that the late but not