The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-07-16
FRON OTHER PENS
WHERE PEACE FINDS SCANT
SHELTER

Great civilized nations may inf1ict the
worlds most destructive wars upon
mankind, but they cannot truthfully
be accused of driving peace from one
brief shelter to another, after the FASH
ion of many barbarous lands or coun-
tries tagging behind the times. NOW
the worlds fighting is being done IN
Persia, and on the frontier. between the
northwestern part of the country ana
Turkey in Morocco, in Sumatra and In
Korea. The little effort at revolt In
Mexico is too slight and brief to be ia
ken account of seriously.
All these countries are backward MO
rocco is worst in that respect, and 1t
is in Morocco that the Generalization
is most complete. Persia Is waxing
from a state of long paralysis, In re-
spect to many vital elements OF me.
Turkey, especially in the part OF tne
sultan's Asiatic possessions adjacent TO
Persia, is much the same as the lesser
nation, in regard to Industrial ana
commercial development ana govern,
mental institutions. Sumatra anu
Korea are both backward lands, the
former savage, the latter clinging to an
out of date and stagnant CIVILIZATION.
and both disturbed by the resistance OF
part of their people to the power OF
great nations. The fighting is Ior IN
dependence. but not 1or cohn.or. "
progress, or the best chance OF pros
perity and safety against OUTSIDE per
lis as well as internal unrest. Ctviliza-
tion has grave faults, but 1t is the ser
want of peace and the most hopeiui
foe of war. Notwithstanding all SEEM
ing contradictions, the fact remains
that the civilization which the western
world knows affords the best hope ana
opportunity which man has yet vouno
for security in personal and property
rights and in the orderly enjoyment Oh
his natural life.-Cleveland Leader.
WOMEN IN POLITICS.
The women who are really in
auential in politics. however, are
hardly those who clamor for woman's
rights and demand the ballot This
is too nearly direct competition with
the sterner-not stronger-Sex, ana
a woman knows that there are much
better and surer ways Of getting what
YOU want than fighting for it. The
women who really make their in
fiuence felt in politics. and felt Tor the
most part for the good, are the quiet
home bodies, who. while attenoing 10
the duties that belong properly to
their sphere, also find time to study
governmental conditions and needs,
and who are able to discuss political
and sociological issues with their
husbands with intelligence and COM
prehension enough to interest ana,
perhaps, to move them
Inc composition u Jul SOSAdi iiAc
in America makes many opportunities
for the American wife. She has time
and generally the taste for reading;
she has her clubs, where many prob
lens are discussed, and it will gen.
orally be found. we think, that when
the women make up their minds on
matters such as education, or
prohibition, or sanitation. the con-
clusion at which they have arrived is
pretty likely to be common-sense
one.
And we are inclined strongly to the
belief that this tendency Of the
American women to take part in the
affairs of government. not directly.
but by furnishing the pAwer and
some of the brains behind the vote. Is
altogether desirable The opinions
they form on subjects which man, in
his scorn, sometimes chooses to think
are outside of a woman's concern,
are based on the. feminine inherent
ideas of what is right, and whether
we choose to acknowledge it or not, it
cannot successfully be denied that
their ideals are higher than mems
Warrington Post.