The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-25
FROM OTHER PENS
AFRAID-oF CHOLERA.

The people were more easily scared
about disease in the olden time than
now. Fifty Years ago cholera 1urked
in peas, green corn, new potatoes, Gu
cumbers and about everything else
there was plenty of. Eating these
things was regarded as dangerous as
taking balloon trip. No boy ever
ate dish of peas, before the war, I'M
less he was cautioned concerning the
great risk he ran.
There was cholera in those days. It
invaded Ohio with great deal of fe-
grew it lived on. 1t was supposed to
pick out. as its favorite victim, the boy
who had eaten two roasting ears; and
as for the girl who had absorbed a
massive slice of watermelon. there was
no hope for her. oh, that old cho1-
era, how it did brandsh the tomahawk
of death among the boys and girls be-
fore the war.
The youth of today ought to be ex-
treme1y thankful that the old chol-
and that they can eat all the peas they
want-one, two. three, four dishes of
them-the darlingest vegetables that
ever grew in the sunlight of Eden. It
is a great thing to be a boy again
Ohio State Journal.
ENACTMENT AND ENFORCEMENT
''The greatest service ''to the
nation. to every state and city, would
be the substitution for a term of years
of law enforcement for law max
ing"
These are the words of President J.
J. Hill. AS capitalist and corporation
builder, he knows the hazard to bust
ness of incessant legislation either by
city council. state legislature or ma
tiona1 congress.
Many men elected to legislative
ho6ioS SaaO1 RI think that their 1Yh-
lie career, and their standing in pub
lie life are to be determined absolute
ly by the quantity of new laws they
propose and succeed in having enacted
and entered upon our statute books.
So they bob UP. with bill on almost
every conceivable topic. AS a result
our statute books are burdened with
many useless laws and many good
laws are forgotten and not enforced.
Certain legislation. of course, is nee
essary to meet conditions that change
with the passing years But the bust
ness world is getting tired of legis-
lation solely for the sake of legisla
| ting and would welcome the change
for which President Hill pleads. "A
| just and equitable enforcement of law
| would be better for business than an
avalanche of new laws that only tend
to confuse and demoralize business and
| Observation-Disclosures Sentinel.
FEAR OF UNITED STATES.
| Conjuring up sentiment against the
United States is the plan which
J one candidate for the Mexican
vice presidency hopes will
/ land him in office It is
| fore-ordained that Diaz will be chosen
president again if he lives until cleo
| ton time, buts'he is getting old, and
/ the vice presidency may be step
Eping stone to the succession.
1t is unfortunate that anyone should
attempt to cultivate in Mexico a senti-
ment of distrust against neighboring
/ nation to feed a political ambition.
3, Sounding a warning would be a
patriotic act, if there were any founda-
| ton for fear, but there is none. There
| is not even an inconsequentia1 number
| among our citizens who entertain such
designs, much less potential one. and
the same is true as to all South and
Central American countries. The only
| purpose the United States has is to
see those countries grow and prosper,
for their growth and prosperity adds
to our own. If territorial aggrandize-
ment were contemplated we would not
have let go OF Cuba and. set that is
Hand country enaits feet.-Omaha Bee