The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-12-16
KANSAS COMMENT
THE KANSAS CITY TRAGEDY.

IAG- KANSAS CITY f1flAGEO4-
This is a country of religious freedom.
ana as result several people are dead
AT Kansas City. Adam God" a bias
phemous fanatie. caused a riot in de-
Iense OF his so-called liberty, and the
pretending man of God-this self-styled
Elijah IP'-had a handy revolver at
ms side to enforce his rights. Imagine
the GanIeean having a gun strapped
about him in his wanderings along the
shores of the sacred lake during his
ministry among the fishermen!
This Adam Cod should have been
shut up in mad house long ago in
stead OF being allowed to preach in pub
lie places with a troop of fanatics as
such liberation under the claim of re-
ligious liberty.
One of the fundamentals of this
crazy exhorter's religion was the print
tive idea that people should go about
naked, as the first man of Eden did.
That, In itself, ought to be SUFFICIENT TO
Justify his Incarceration and treatment
Tor lunacy. Adam went naked not from
choice, but from necessity, and we ind
it recorded that among the first things
he and his giddy wife did, when their
eyes were opened, was to weave some
leaves into a garment to cover their
nakedness. This proves that the IN
stinct of modesty was implanted In
them, and the fools who would run
naked through the streets in this age
of human development have no more
they, in all likelihood, evolved.
And this Adam seemed to have an
Eve" with him, too, sort OF t1gress
who was as bad as himself She be-
result an innocent little child beside her
lost her life without responsible Of
Tense.
There is only one sensible way of
dealing with religionists OF this sort
who give up the backwoods for the
town, and that is to put them into an
asylum and try to restore them to their
senses.-Wichita Eagle.
THE FASCINATING STREETS.
The time-honored conundrum of
the farm papers has reference to the
desire of the boys to leave the farm.
There is a question of equal interest
to the towns; why do the boys like TO
be on the streets at night?
What is the fascination of the
streets?
Most of the boys you see after
dark. tramping the sidewalks, or
hanging around corners. fooling away
time that might be pleasantly and
usefully employed, have comfortable
homes, where there are books, and
music and all the things necessary to
who are morally and physically
healthy, and these things have no
charm for them. Better to hang
around a livery stable, or a pool hall,
or listen TO the SQudWklnS Oh d WOHA-
out monograph in q cigar store, than
put in the evening at home.
Why SO many boys evince this pref
erence is a more interesting and more
puzzling conundrum than the old
one touching the farmer lads and
their ambition to get to town.-Em-
poria Gazette.
A MYSTERIOUS MESSAGE.
When Admiral Evans was setting
forth upon his voyage around the
world, President Roosevelt took him
to one side upon the deck of his
flagship, and Whispered something to
him. $50 z5gt
Ever since that time the people have
been impatient to know what he said.
Thousands of guesses have been made,
but there is no way to determine which
was correct. ..
The Gazette is at last able to pub
lish the mysterious communication IN
full At that time it was not sup
posed that the admiral would fall sick,
and be unable to continue his cruise;
it was supposed that he might be at
the antipodes now, and the president
said to him:
do your Christmas shopping early"
-Emporia Gazette.