The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-18
FRON OTHER PENS
WEAKNESS OF EMERGENCY


One of the poorest of the pleas in de-
tense of the income tax amendment is
oftered by those who admit that they
are not in favor of an income lax as a
general proposition but think that the
United States should have the poNes
TO levy such a tax in an emergency
Nov IL Is Just IN an emergency--in
ment-that precise constitutional Umi-
tations are most important
The United States has never had any
dlfhculty in finding sources of revenue
In an emergency. There were plenty
or emergency measures employed sue
cessfully in 1898 that have not been so
much as suggested in congress at the
emergency Of the 49, referred to thai
this amendment is proposed 1t is sole
Iy for a present political emergency, to
gain votes for the pending tariff bill
ment, or what Justice Brewer calls q
hue and cry'' against capital
Congress is not even waiting to have,
the constitution amended before trying
a tax upon some kinds of incomes, and
If 1t can do this under the constitution
as 1t is, it would be hard to set limits
upon It's taxing activities under the
vague authority 1T is proposed to confer
on it.-Philade1phia Ledger.
LOVE AND MARRIAGE.
There is nothing to prove that mar
rlageS contracted because of love are
dly happier OF more lasting than 9TH
ers.., If we wish to see some of the
fruits of love between the sexes, we
have only to visit the police courts.
Betrayals, quarrelSt and even murder
are among its results. Couples who
began their married life in a violent
passion of love are fully as common in
the divorce courts as those who mar
ried for convenience or money. Ma
ture has taken care that passion shall
exist. but matrimony is a human in
stitution and ought to be under the
regulation of human reason. 1t is not
safe to leave a matter so important
wholly to undirected instinct. Love
arises between men and women at a
period of their lives when Judgment is
weak and romance abundant. To per-
nit young people to stake their entire
futures upon the impulse of a moment
or the heated fancy of a week is not
sensible Their preference for each
other may be lasting or transient No
body can tell how it will turn out at
the beginning. In any case, 1t should
not be the only factor considered in
deciding upon an arrangement which
Is to endure till death. The dean of
Bryn Mawr once said that more mar
riages were wrecked by difference of
tastes about bathing and brushing the
teeth than by most other causes. She
was right. In forming marriages we
must attend to education, habits.
tastes and especially to physical fit
ness.-Portland Oregonian.
MEXICAN RIOTS.
Except an occasional labor riot,
Mexico has been a very orderly coun-
try for a good many years. Such po-
litical disturbances as have occurred
have usually been brought about by
filibustering parties organized in the
United States. and these have been of
very small consequence. 1t was hoped
that the long rule of Diaz had taught
the people habits of order and self |
control and that Mexico never again !
would suffer the reproach of being |
republic which cannot conduct cleo |
lions peacefully
The riot at Guadalajara tends to |
unsettle this opinion. The present |
campaign in Mexico differs from 9TH |
ers in recent years in being real
contest for power. 1t is recognized |
that whoever is elected vice president |
probably Will succeed Diaz as presi- |
dent within a short time, and Diaz
himself has been disposed to allow the !
people a reasonably free choice 1t is /
significant fact that while the peo-
pie have submitted cheerfully to the
dictatfon of elections by the govern
ment and have allowed Diaz to remain /
master Of the country without pro-
test, the moment power is restored to
them popular passions are aroused
and disorder begfns.-Buffalo Ex-
press