The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-04-01
KANSAS C0ANENT
ART WON'T REACH 1T.

ART WONT REACH 1T.
The Herald Is in receipt of publi--
cation done on beautiful straw-tinted
stock and tied with a whang string
1t is about the Standard Oil company.
and it is written by Elbert Hubbard
and it is a shining example of Mr..
Hubbard'S Roycroft class of publica-
tions, enclosing love and kisses on
handmade paper. Ala Bahia and the
Era have combined their best eftortS
in this work of art.
Mr.. Hubbard could write the census
reports as full Of throbs as Ella Wheel
er wilcox could make a reflection on
love In the dog-day season, so there
is nothing about the Standard OH bus
mess that throws any serious obStac-
les in the way IF his production or i've
and Hubbardesaue rea ding matter. 'Efe
only difficulty in the situation is that
dun colored stock and a dynamic Jug
Cling with words do not reach the spot
in the Standard Oil case, and do nor
attain the end which the scholarly
heads of the Standard Oil sought IN
enlisting fine writing in their cause
The Standard Oil company IS charg-
ed in proceeding which now awaits
Judgment before the supreme court OF
the United States with having operated
a hide-bound trust. destructive of COM
petition and in violation of the law OF
the land.
Now. there has been no denial or
the showing thatf the Standard Oil IS
a beautifully organized thing. for what
It is, that its system works to perlsc-
ton. As success means getting Whas
a man or an institution starts out te
get, the Standard Oil is 100 per cent
successful. and no one disputes ths
fact With much yof the philosophy or
Mr.. Hubbard in reference to Standaro
Oil the public is, therefore, IN com pl t3.e
harmony. The difficulty, from the
Standard Oil standpoint, is that AFTER
these points are admitted, something
else remains. And this something elsT
would remain if Mr.. Hubbard Wrote
poem about the Standard OIL. or pant
ed a picture of it. with Mr.. Eockefellec
lowering in the background in the torn
of an angel or chiseled it in imarple
to represent achievement. All THESE
things make lovely art. but they az
not explain why the Standard OIL mas
violated the law and choked us conn
petitors out of business
Mr. Hubbard. who has written many
| illuminating Little journeys to the
| homes of the great and talented, anc
50 added 10 the worlds pleasure am
| information, has in this Instance
| made Il journey that has no return,
| trip ticket, but ends in a Jumping on
| place.-Ottawa Herald.
! d
INGLIS AT IT AGAIN.
| The Kansas wheat crop annually
meets with many vicissitudes. Apoul
| the time it is planted certain persons
begin to worry lest the Hesslan n. ny
shall get in his deadly work. Iher
comes the cold weather and II the
winter is not positively ideal tns
tcroakers are dead sure it has "bulged
and will be winter killed II tnere L
snow, fear is expressed that the lct
will get in its fatal work. when thu
snow meltS and freezes again. Ate
the winter is past, the foreDoo1hs
comes that March winds Will ploW !
all out of the ground. Ihere Is ~
| If nd
that it is dying for lack OF moisture
i A downpour comes and it is sure u
be drowned out. Next the green pui
threatens and the ever present chlncl
bug comes apace; But aesplte be q,
! crop usually arrives all right, seVera
million bushels to the good.
However, there is one afflictlon 81
; waya hard to sustain-JOhn 1ngHS
whether Inglis is a real or merely
, fictitious person has never been as
, | certained but he is supposed to De a
individual who tours the countf
about this time of year. he cans am /
self a wheat expert. He is said t
! draw real money from Chicago specu
! lators for riding around in Pullma
( cars and looking out the Wlhuows
the wheat fields. 1t is nice JOB,
Won don't mind railroad travel, an
+ apparently Mr.. Inglis does not \
one wishes to disturb him in 1t; lea;
: of all the wheat crop, which usuall
a comes out all right, despite ME: II
! giis' direst forebodings. So this
+ not a knock. But it is trial to th
4 flesh just the same. when the marx.
dope begins to bring the 1IIo OF I
|, ton that John 1nglis is aproad IN u
a land. The wheat stands it all rlgn
. but it is fierce on the market edItC
? and the proof reader. Inglis NJ
|, never vet killed a wheat crop. out
: editors and proofreaders he mas slal
d his thousands n,
Il He is abroad again this year II
q wheat crop is smiling but Apas II
: pIis'' shrek the editor and the proc
: Observation-Disclosures News.