The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-10
KANSAS CONNENT
THE sNoR AND THE MAN.

A Harvard professor, Barrett Wendell
by name. Is cultivating the good graces
OF high society by delivering IN elegant
drawing rooms lecture entitled Inc
privileged Classes in which ne depicts
the workingman as the privileged one
and the gilded butterflies OF fashion as
the downtrodden ones. The upper
classes, he says, are the cream OF So
cfety. The people Of wealth and FASH
lon in this country, he says, are s1ngu-
larry unobstrusive.
Often without polished manners, and
sometimes with uncouth dress and mo-
tons, our laborfng men are nevertheless
quick to give up their seat to women.
ready to give the helping hand to one
in distress, wholly strangers to that
supercilious stare of Indifference or
scorn with which the exquisite of our
high society delights to regard his sup
posed interiors in the social scale.
Are the so-called upper classes the
cream of our society? In drawing
rooms, perhaps but not In the achieve
ments of the world. Not the children
of Fifth avenue or Commonwealth ave.
nue. will be the powerful figures Of to-
morrow, but the boys of workingmen,
brought up to honest toll and the home
ly courtesy of factory and farm. When
we want president we do not look for
him along Broadway or Beacon street.
Where was our high society when Abra-
main l<iACOll was splitting oils anu
Henry Clay was plodding barefoot to
the mill and Garfield was guiding his
mule along the towpath and Stanton
was helping run ferry boat and Grant
was trying to learn the tanners trade?
Indianapolis Star.
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THE COAL STRIKE.
According to letters now being sent
out by the various coal companies, it
seems that the strike is to come with
the opening Of spring instead OF the
difficulty being settled, as most people
had hoped. Either that or the coal
companies are making Advertising of
the proposed strike by the miners in
case their demand is not met by the OPP
orators.
One company which is sending out
circulars just now advises it's patrons
that shut down of the mines is posi-
BILE and advises them to file their orders
early, etc, etc.
Such affairs as these are an argu-
ment in favor of some legislation where
by these strikes may be averted.
The coal miners usually strike dur
ing the summer months, when there is
little demand for coal, and they man
age to reach an agreement with the
mine operators before the ensuing fall
By this means they are enabled to
strike during warm weather, when the
cost of living Is less, and are practically
insured of their old jobs by the return
Of cold weather.-Salina Journal.
BOUQUET FOR MR.. RYAN.
1t is now regarded IS unlikely that
the members Of the state railway board
will have any opposition for reelection
This Of course will make 1t absolutely
certain that Leavenworth county &
member will have a second term though
he would have secured it in any event
which az heOiyninc ri
Governor Hoch's second term predicted
that Ryan would not prove a satisfac-
tory commissioner have since been COM
PEELED to admit that he has performed
his duties exceptionally well, and that
to him is due chiefly the reforms for
the benefit of the people whidh the
board has authorized. Ryan's course
has been such that 1t has won him
friends all over the state, and made
him the strongest possible candidate
for railroad commissioner that the par
ty could worth Times.