The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-05-22
KANSAS CONNENT
LIFE INSURANCE AND PROS

reports come in that the life insur-
ance companies are giving their agents
sRsclai instructions to work the rural
districts and spend most of their time
with the farmers as tn csc people are
lhe ones who are now buying life in
surance as well as the other Injuries,
y IL sucn life insurance may be called.
rms speaks wen for the farmers be-
cause the life insurance people keep g.
close tab on prosperity. They know
that II Is difficult to sell life insurance
20 people who are not prosperous and
tney work the prosperous classes of
people 1t is evidence in itself that the
hansas farmers are prosperous and
are buying not. only life insurance but
other things they have wanted at
various times but did not purchase
Recent rains indicate that Kansas
IS TO nave another year of great pros
perlty There may be, and probably
are, few small districts where the
crop Will be short. This is nearly al
ways the case. But these districts will
be few and far between. The crop
pc. Like the poor, they are with us
always. Some of them come. from the
east ana are now sending out tele-
grams that Kansas wheat will not
tale is unh eeded by the Kansas farmer.
who has had experience with them in
the past. Their wall will not be given
credence west of the Chicago grain
their hard luck stories they can not
prevent Kansas from raising more
wheat than any other state when she
tries. and the indications are that Kan
sas is going to make great try this
year.
The Kansas farmer has attained a
fame which extends from one end of
the country to the other. in the last
few years. Mention the Kansas farmer
outside his state and people have
visions n yuh a a
competence, are we'll satisfied with the
world, who haul their produce to town
In automobiles, and who are content
to sit back and raise record breaking
wheat crops each year. Formerly peo-
pie Imagined the Kansas farmer to be
a dried up individual with the whis-
kers Of an anarchist and using a gar-
Ing gun to kill the hordes Of grass
hoppers.
There is every indication that the
Kansas farmer will continue as he is
now, his name bespeaking prosperity.
The crop killers can't prevent it
Salina Journal.
ENGLISH AND AMERICAN WOMEN
When one reads about the exploits Of
the militant suffragettes of England,
who block the streets, pull the prime
minister's door bell, interrupt political
ticians attempt to speak, and go to jail
martyrs to the cause-when one reads
all this and perceives the martial
spirit which animates these women
abroad, it becomes evident that they
are made of sterner stuff than their
sisters here at home. Our American
women do not storm the capitol of the
nation or the capitol of the state with
the same spirit of violence that has
characterized the English suffragettes
when they have sought to obtain recog
milton from parliament. All this is, of
course, matter for sincere congratu-
lation, but it is also worthy of investi-
CATION from psychological stand
point. Only the other evening a mass
meeting in Harlem was disturbed by
the invasion of poor, innocent little
mouse We feel confident that mouse
could never have broken up a suf-
fragist meeting in England.-Leaven-
worth Times. ~ y