The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-10-17

farmer was getting fat and lazy. His
conscience hurt him. His mind re-
verted back to the days when he
reared up on his hind legs and had a,
good appetite and little to eat. Now
there is plenty to eat but the appetite
is lacking. Nothing like fight to de-
velop it. Stubs is a fighter. The
farmer kept close tab on the name and
hope grew in his heart The Stubs
style was pleasing.
Il viii give this fellow a boost just
to see what is in him. said the farmer
to himself with a smile. IF he shows
class and staying qualities, well. we
shall see what we shall see"
Now Stubs is the "fightingist
fighter that Kansas ever saw. The
Kansas farmer looked at his work and
saw that it was good and gave the red
headed one another boost. The yelp
from the towns was music as sweet
as the songs of other days. Stubs
kept on fighting and the farmer smiled
and added a few more papers and
magazines to his list and built larger
mail box.
The farmer was prosperous. He
had an automobile. Stubs was not
fighting for him, but rather for the old
principles that meant so much in the
| old days when the struggle was bit
ter and the outcome in doubt. The
pain and unease are gone but the scars
remain.
The second generation of farmer
| boys go to college and wear purple
and fine linen, but they were nourish-
ed on the prairies and the old stock
crops out in them in spots. The old
farmers are most of them for Stubs.
All the young farmers are for him.
/ When John Brown, a Kansas farmer
fought at Osawatomie, his sons fought
at his side.
Farmer Knows His Business
The Kansas farmer wants but little
! here below outside of his farm and
what it brings him. He can TRACE a
pig for an auto and a stack of alfalfa
! for a carload of farm machinery. A
| beef steer will bring him all the sugar
and coffee and jewelry he and his fam
lily need for year. The glean1ngs
| from an acre of wheat land will Suf-
flee to buy clothing store. So the
Stubs fight on the corporations Is not
a vital issue of the present. But il
stands for a principle, and principles
are eternal with men who have wres-
tied nightly with the problems OF
| Kansas for many years. With these
men the prosperity of the present does
not suffice for all things. Is Stubs
right or wrong? Is he sincere2 Has
! he the caIibre and staying qualities
These questions the Kansas farmer
asked in the beginning. That they
| have been satisfactorily answered the
election returns indicate beyond
doubt.
The Kansas farmer is a queer per
son. The Fasteners may call him
Pop and a Socialist and a lunatic ant
fool. But he gets there just the
same His outbursts are founded OF
the same principles that have marked
| the progress of the world. He reads
his newspapers and puts up his ha!
| and sends men to the front capable o
holding their own in any company. H
| is like Victor Hugo's men of the fau
bourgs of Paris: rs France in ques
ton he enlists; is liberty in question h
tears UP the pavement. Beware, hi
hair rising with rage is epic; his blous
Grapes itself into uniform about him
Take care, for when the tocsin sound
the dweller in the faubourgs viii
grow: this little man will arise. hi
look will be terrible. his breath vii
become a tempest, and a blast will g
forth from his fraH breath that nigh
shake a wrinkle out of the Alps
The Kansas farmer is factor in ma
tional affairs, more so now than at an.
other time in the history of the stat
since the Osawatomie fight. The farm
err, less affected by the tariff than tn
town man, was the first to place TIL
seal of his approval on the acts of tn
Insurgents. If Bristow was brave i
! was because he thought of the Kansa