The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-24
KANSAS cONNENT
SuFERAGErrEc

SUFFRAGETTES ON RAMPAGE.
Nobody who thirsts for scalplifting
and the scenes of the oldtime sklrTaish-
es with wild Indians needs lamenL the
ending of the American frontier so
long as the English suffragettes retain
their health and their nerve.
Just how long the staid Englishmen
intend to submit to the irrepressible
hlgh-browed Amazons without resort
ing to the ducking stool or the pi1lory
remains to be seen.
These cultured women, these women
who find themselves too cultured to fit
themselves into the established scheme
OF things, present one of the strangest
parodoxes of civilization. By their
roWdy performances, and their indie
corum they disqualify themselves as
capable of receiving what they ask.
A suffrag1St is female who thinks
she ought to be given the elective fran
chise, and should thereby share in
government. A suffragette is Wild
eyed suffragist, who goes her sister one
better, and intends to get what she
wants or else intends to "bust" some
body in the eye.
The suffragette scorns her sister who
merely wants to share in government
and does not raise rumpus about it.
The scrappy suffragette knows that the
mild kind will not get what they want,
but she does not know that neither
will she. The suffragettes fall down in
not realizing that they are not getting
ally where Dy their TOWQy1SIH.
1t is one thing to make Premier
AsQuith swear under his breath, and
do a quick hike for shelter, while the
police fight it out at the door with a
lot of fanatics armed with hatpins, and
it is entirely another matter lobbying a
bill through legislative body.
AS a matter of fact one titian-hair-
ed siren such as the big corporations
are said to maintain on their lobbying
staff can wheedle a bill through a leg
Ser1s1 ,3,,I-,
of high proved old hens can persuade
legislation by a disgraceful rough
house."
About all a suffragette rumpus is
good for Is a fattening of cable tolls,
and a harvest for the moving picture
comps Wichita Eagle.
THE VALUE OF GOOD ROADS.
The Telegram has tried to point out
frequently the value of good roads to
the farmer as an aid in transportation
of products to the town. The reason
why so many farmers ignore this prac-
teal and economic side of good roads
is because they do not keep any sort
of books as a rule; do not regard
horSef1eSh as an outlay; and do not
charge off anything for wear and tear
and their own time. A farm should be
run on just the same business-like
basis as a store.
B. F. Yoakum, president of the
Frisco railroad, and a good roadster
of renown, has this to say on the sub
ject:
There is not much new to be said
on the value of good roads to agri-
culture and commerce. Every farmer
knows that the necessity for country
roads is as old as farming itself.
ga good farm. away from a rail-
road or a public road is almost as
Improbable as without water. 1t is
| hard to understand why Americans,
In
other things, should be backward in
making good country roads.
There has been a disposition to
use bull strength and haul farm
products over bad roads regardless
| of expense.
"All talk and no work will not
make good roads. Go at it with the
same determination you would to
dig bitches or build fences.?'-Garden
| City Telegram.