The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-21
KANSAS CONNENT
BUT ILoyED HIM"


Arthur was bad boy, but I loved
him.
rms was what a Hutchinson mother
SAID as she stood by the side OF her
boy who had committed suicide after
a. week of debauch in which he had
abused her because she refused to give
nlm money to continue his spree. 1t
is the old, old story that has been
told since first the angel with the
flaming sword was placed to guard the
gates or the Garden of Eden, and the
niother OF the human race received the
sea- OF maternity. 1t IS the same story
tnat VIII be told until the end Of time,
and the mother love has been trans
planted In that divine love of Him
who SO loved the world that He gave
His only Begotten Son, that whose
ever believed in Him might live.
The love of mother is as immortal
as the soul Of which it is a part
walking along the path where the red
light burn until he reaches the end,
which is death, through the crimson
lights OF sin and shame, the derelict
son can look back and see the tender
glow of the light that comes from the
eyes OF the mother who loved him.
But there is no past tense in the moth
er's love. From the time 1t is first
awakened with the first throb of life
intensified VIII l she first feels the
warm touch of baby flesh beside her
own, the love of mother grows until
she sleeps in eternity. There have been
cases where it seemed that this moth
er love was forgotten; when unhallow-
ed passions usurped the throne and
re1gned in a kigdom of lasc1vious lust;
With no scepter save that Of debauch-
cry. But even to those unnatural
mothers, few though they are, there
comes time when the flame of pas
sion has burned out and in the filth
and squalor of a debauched life she
looks back to the deserted hearthstone,
ana as she sees again through the haze
of the present the memory of the past
she realizes that "a sorrows crown of
sorrow is remembering happier things
TO this love of mother there is a
debt due from the son and the daugh-
ter A debt that can never be paid in
full even though she receive the ten
derest care humanity knows. To her
is due all the loyalty, care and love of
Which the son and daughter are ca
pable, and it is a debt which each
should pay in love and tenderest care,
and to him who obeys the command
ment, Honor thy father and mother"
there is promised long life lin the
land which thy God giveth thee. Par
sons Sun.
NO LIMIT TO UNDERTAKING.
The muckraker knows no limit
Woman's honesty is now being attack
ed. Her honesty, says cold blood
ed psychological muckraker, "espe-
! cially in financial matters, is very near
ly case of fiction Bring out the
hot oil and dump this slanderer in,
and parboil him until the flesh cleaves
from the bones. If this smearing of
our ideals is further tolerated, it won't
be long until some vile wretch will
even dare to attempt to drag Mother
and her prayers and lullabies and
eternal love from their high pedestals.
.-Chanute Tribune.
What has been proved against Bal
linger? Honestly, now, what has been
proved? Don't go up in the air and
declare he was caught trying to snug
gle Alaska to the Guggenheims, but
get down to brass tacks. What has
zen proved? The witnesses against
him have been cracked by the muck
rake crusade. Ballinger may not be
a lovable man, but he has not been
proven either dishonest or stupid
Lawrence Journal.