The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-04-15
KANSAS CONTENT
| SHOT AT CANNON.

representative Charles F. Scott, In
a letter TO the esteemed lola Register,
tries to put the Democrats in the hole
because they are trying honestly to
force the mossback Cannon Republi-
cans in the house to do something
The Gazette is fairly good Republi-
can paper, but here seems to be
chance to tell the truth and scorn the
ueVll ana the simple truth is that in
tne row In the national house of rep
resentat1ves. the Democrats who are
trying to do the things that Roose-
welt has asked congress to do, are
dead right and the Cannon obstruc-
ton Republicans are dead wrong.
They are trying to save their face at
the expense of their country. The
people know this. and as the time for
action Is not too late, plain speaking
may as well come here as after cleo
ton. The facts are that unless the
Republicans of the Kansas delegation
OF kansas at the first opportunity
will break away from the Kansas
congressman. Victor Murdoch is one
congressman in Kansas who seems to
have the courage of a gentleman.
The others, either bribed by places of
power or in the hope of being bribed
later. are splitting idly into the crater
Of a volcano.
Congressman Scott edited the peo-
pie of this state last year by the
statement Indt cannon was worth q
million dollars year to the people OF
the government. The grotesqueness
of this remark may some day appeal
to Scott's sense Of humor. As between
Emma Goldman and Joe Cannon, the
odds of good citizenship are all with
Emma Goldman. And the recent
eulogy Of Cannon in the house of rep
resentatives was as offensive to the
average man as is the reunion of the
Quantrel raiders. or the celebration
of the assassination of Mckinley by
the anarchists. Every anarchist in
this country is the get of some moss
back like Cannon. While we are de-
porting the anarchists in this country
we should begin on men like Cannon,
who throttle public sentiment, Sneer
Kansas gentlemen who burn incense
and ring bells for Cannon. for obvious
reasons should remember that Kan
sas will stand for a good deal, but
that Kansas draws the line some
place and right at the coat tails of
Joe Cannon where the bellringer
stands is the place. Get right. Turn.
sinner, turn!-Emporia Gazette.
WHERE THE JOKER LOSES.
According to Allan Wilson. a writer
in the Chicago Tribune, the one
thing that is likely to prove fatal to
a mans job, or to his rising in the
world, is his idea Of humor. Allan
Wilson says: 1.-THE worker in the
ranks has got to be cheerful. but
there his obligations in his line cease.
He mustn't be more than cheerful. He
mustn't, for instance, be humorous.
That's fatal" He tells as an example
Of a man who had charge of de-
partment in a big wholesale house in
Chicago. The man was perfect in
his line, was cheerful, pleased his
customers, and seemed to be going up
To- - "a death
on getting off jokes that made people
tired" but he was SO Industrious and
Square that his success seemed as
sured His friends were, therefore,
very much surprised to hear one day
that the man had lost his job, and it
developed that his "boss" had become
so wearied with his incessant 'jok-
ing" that when it. was necessary to
retrench, this merry Jester was dis
charged. Allan Wilson says there
is moral: eff you have an idea that
you are funny, kill it quick. "-Atchi-
son Globe.