The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-23
KANSAS CONNENT
AIRsHIPs. WAR AND TARIFFS.

AIRSa1PS, WAR AND TARIFFS.
War, q relic of times when nations
ana powers didn't know better. will
wake up some morning soon and find
itself in the discard. stored away on
a back lot with the weeds of ages
growing in profusion around it. There
was time when General Sherman
truly said that war is hell and what is
more fitting than that war should suf-
Ter the same fate that has befallen hell
IN the minds of intelligent men. War,
with airships circling through the air,
ike thousands of birds. will be moth
ing but memory. War, with big guns,
which won't shoot straight up in the
air, and with battleships too big to
float in anything but the deepest wa
tiers, will be old fashioned. left for saw
ages and out of the running for civil
lied persons
The coming of the aeroplane sees
the end of war. for the reason that it
has to be so. Suppose England, with
ner proud Dreadnoughts, were to come
floating into New York harbor today
and our land batteries were not strong
enough for our defense. Orville
Wright or Glenn Curtiss would load up
quantity of gun cotton, take his little
old biclane out over the harbor and
drop the explosive
A cablegram from the British war
office a little later would propose a
protocol and peace would come f1utter-
ing to town.
War, with airships that can follow a
| fleet or an army, that can smash forts
from their unprotected roofs, takes
| away half the help of any army or a
navy. One aeroplane, with a daring
navigator, could bring a proud city to
terms In an hour or put an army to
rout; it could sink a fleet and send
men by the thousands and money by
the millions to the bottom of the sea.
The air vessel will obliterate bound
airy lines and do away with customs
officials. 1t will make smuggling so
easy that laws will have to be made
over in regard to the collection of
duties. It will bring an end, some time,
to the operation of a tariff. for there
would be fmpossibilities in the way of
tho collection of duties. Then will
come the blessed day when an end will
come to the tariff talk and everybody
will be happy except the tariff wind
TANNERS, whose trade viii: be de-
| stroyed.-Hutchinson News.
THE CHARACTER ASSASSIN.
A young man who is admitted to the
parlors of the best homes of Wichita
gave expression on the street yeSter-
day to a remark which cast shadow
upon the reputation of a charming
young lady of his own social set. 1t
was only careless remark but it was
! heard by more than half a dozen 9TH
|
will hereafter regard the young lady
with more or less suspicion.
What is the young lady to do about
it?
The chances are that she will re-
main in complete ignorance that such
an estimate was ever placed upon her
| chara cter. If she does discover it, she
| must remain as helpless as a child to
| protect the name she has carefully
| guarded in her march through youth
] fu1 and Keen her Inns
| sealed against an unjust charge which
| will ruin her standing among those by
whom she had hoped to be admired.
| Here is a situation that is demand
| ing some attention from the home de-
| tenders of Wichita.
Are this and other cities so indif-
ferent to the purity of their woman
| hood that they Will license irresponsi-
BILE men to snatch away in a single
breath one of the promised rewards of
| pure living?
If society will not frown upon foul
| utterances regarding the character of
its women, much energy is being vast
| ed upon other social reforms.
There is something radically wrong
| with a social organization that will
! permit the minds of its members to be
| poisoned against pure life, and re-
| fuse to inf1ict a social brand upon the
| chara cter assassin so that others may
recognize and avoid him.
The sweetness of many charming
| life has been washed away by floods
| of bitterness which had their source
| in a malicious tongue Many eyes,
| once clear and bright with the conf
dence of a good reputation, are now
in tears because of false remarks of
unfriendly associates.
| Every community has its Judases,
and social isolation should be forced
! poison to destroy good regulations
| Wichita Beacon.