The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-09
PUBLIC SENTIMENT AGAINST IT.
FRON O7EER PENS
GOVERNMENT BY PHYSICAL EN-
A NIFrTH

| GOVERNMENT BY PHYSICAL En-
DURANGO.
| The trainers of the constitution were
anxious that the senate should be a
Counterweight upon the house. They
supposed that by establishing differ
| ent basis for elections to the upper
| branch, by choosing 1T indirectly
| through legislatures and by making II
representative of the states rather than
| numerical units. they had sufficiently
provided against the enactment OF
hasty and ill-considered laws. They
argued that if any bill passed both OF
| these differently constituted houses of
| congress it would in all likelihood be
reasonably safe and proper measure;
and yet they did not anticipate the
| flibustering tactics to which the SEN
ate habitually lends itself in the al
legged interest Of the ck-and-balance
| system. They did not foresee the ad-
vantage that now saccrues to a young
and vigorous senator, as opposed to a
decrepit veteran, in the last hours of
| a session nor is it probable that, If
they had foreseen it, they would have
relished such a travesty upon the 5u-
dicial attitude of a high deliberative
assembly.
| There ought to be "check" and "bal-
ance" enough in the senate without re-
sort to the crude physical methods at
present in vogue. Some apolog1sts for
| the upper house say that the snort SEES
sion is much too short, and possibly
| is wasted between the first Monday in
| December and the 4th day of March
in early adjournments, the prolonged
| Christmas recess, padded speeches Tor
home consumption, partisan recrlm1-
nations and, toward the close of the
session, the violent use of the hllbus-
ter. Theoretically the failure of the
senate to provide itself with cloture
rule may be defended; but practically
it blocks a vote on important meas
ures, enables timid senators. to avoid
going on record, and nullifies the pop
ular will.-Providence Journal.
A FRESH CONSERVATIVE FORCE?
Woman, say the sociologists. repre-
lsentS the principle of continuity, man
the principle of variation. In other
words, woman is the conservative, man
the progressive, sex. This was declared
in Norway, when women were enfran-
chised after the separation from
| Sweden The first use they made of
their power was to vote out of office
the party that had enfranchised them.
1t enfranchised them because to do so
was a radical thing, and it was the
radical party. They voted it out of
power because to do so was a conserv-
alive thing, and they were the con-
Servative sex. The subsequent course
of Norwegian politics shows some
slowing up in the rate of democratic
progress.
| Paradoxica1? Yes, if you accept the
arguments of suffragist leaders here
that certain unfinished reforms need
the votes of women to carry them out
Not however, if you accept the conclu-
sions of sociology, or heed the lesson
of every monarchy in Europe. notably
the British. The British throne, above
all others, rests on the shoulders OF
the women, who like the customs. the
ceremonial. the traditions of court. If
there were no feminine public opinion,
Great Britain would be a republic
Feminism and militarisn explain that
the medievalism of monarchy survives
in modern world Every throne has
two props-skirts and bayonets.-New
York Mail.
BREAKFAST FOOD FOR THE HORSE
| The bureau of animal industry has
devised what appears to be a breakfast
! food for horses, with the purpose to re-
duce the high cost of their living. This
substitute for oats is composed Of CO.
coanut and peanut meals, and 1t can
be produced for sis less ton than
whole oats cost. It appears that the
horses experimental with did not take
eagerly to the new ration at first; quite
as human beings used to find their
breakfast foods cloggy until taste
was expressly cultivated. The horses
had to get the habit without the en-
/ ton Of cream and sugar affords the
bipeds. In due time, however. the an
finals recovered their form on the novel
diet The ration must be unquestion-
ably justified, nevertheless, before IL
| can be commended to those who truly
love horse. 1t is not the animals
fault that oats have become a luxury
Human beings have been induced to
eat its natural fodder in enormous
quantities and that is the reason It
would be in the way of retributive jus
tice if now horses became SO addicted
to the substitute mixture that the hui
frr cf1r "a
lcocoanuts and peanuts.-Providence
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