The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-27
KANSAS CONAENT
FORECAST.

| Il think" said Cardinal Gibbons the
other day, I'VE are closely approach
ing the age OF extravaganza and in
ordinate pleasure enjoyed by Rome
just before her fall" 1t is indeed well
TO pull on to the side of the road
once In while, slow up and watch
the procession. We are truly going
some. There are q great many of
our people who are not making more
tnan bare living wages and they are en-
| tilted TO more so that they may be
supplied with at least every necessity.
But the man who is making three
dollars day wants four. not that he
may lay up the differece, but that he
can accelerate his speed a little. The
man who now hasn't any more money
than ne possessed ten years ago, and
TO whom T-bone steak was then an
almost unheard of luxury, today is
dickering for an automobile. We've
grown to hold any house unworthy
which doesn't offer bath, gas and a
southern exposure, and a lot of times
we can't afford to do it.
some OF these days there is going
to be a shake-up, followed with a
headache that will last long time.
The republic will not totter, but we
will come out of the clouds and the
air-castles built fifty years or more
ago.
Cardinal Gibbons is a prophet
Leavenworth Times.
HE FORGOT.
A conductor forgot his orders the
other day and when the wrecking
train had moved the debris it was
found that thirteen had been killed
and as many more injured.
In a case of this kind it is considered
criminal to forget, but the ordinary
man or woman considers 81 forgot to
be sufficient answer to cover most
any shortening.
Forgetfulness appears to be a natur-
al sin. Perhaps the parents are to
blame for not training their young to
realize the Importance of remember
ing.
Every business man is occasioned
worry and loss by the inability of his
employees to remember. Hire man
to do certain work and nine times out
of ten it will be necessary for you to
do the remembering yourself or else
have things undone.
Professional men are caused grief
and loss by the same general forget
fitness. Patients may be put aside on
account of appointments which have
been made, and then the hour goes by
and the only excuse is 81 forgot"
We do not presume to know what
the All-wise Judge may do when the
day of final judgment arrives, but
some way we cannot help hoping that
the man who forgot will get what is
coming 10 MIN IN Oruer 10 even up
for the trouble he has caused in this
world.-LaWrence World.
TO INCREASE LEGISLATORS PAY.
In this issue appears the amendment
to the constitution to be voted on in
November, increasing the compensa-
ton to senators and representatives TO
$500 each for a regular session and 800
for each special session, with mileage
cents per mile. We know of no good
reason why it should not pass. There
has not been more than two or three
representatives in the past who could
or did pay their expenses out of the
pittance of $3.50 for a regular session. If
they board and lodge among the mem
bers who do things, the pay is insult
ficient When men are elected eff
ficient or nonefficient-they represent
a district, and the people should not
ask them to live niggardly while serv-
ing a rich constituency-they are not
representing themselves but a great,
rich people, and the people should not
graudgingly compel them to pay their
actual expenses.-South Kansas Tri-
bune.