The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-10-18
KANSAS COMAENT
WHERE HONOR Is DUE.


Woman, lovely woman has been at
tracing a great deal of attention from
the public recently because of her cam
paigns for the ballot, through her
prowess as an official and by her
militant stand 70: political rights Of
various sorts and the public will vel
come the chance to lay a few AInerl-
can Beauties at the feet OF one OF the
gentler sex, who has not attracted at
tentiOn as a politician but who in fol-
lowing out her own ideas and methods,
has added materially to the world S
happiness and winter supply Of meat
Mrs. Harry AFFORD is the name OF the
heroine and she deserves a place with
the class of patriots who have made
two blades of grass TO grow where one
grew BEFORE for to her belongs the
credit for having conserved a large
herd of choice porl1ers and for hay-
ing pointed out the way for checking
the hog raisers' greatest menace, the
cholera.
Mrs. AFFORD belongs to that whole
some tyre of fenininity that relies on
taking the children through the Wlntor
and she applied her medical lore to the
herd of hogs when the ravageS OF
cholera swept the neighborS' pens ana
threatened the AFFORD porkers- Around
the neckS of the granting meat supply
she tied bags of assafoetida, Ia school
days of the long ago, and While me
squeals of the herd may not have IT.
dicated a rising vote of thanks to the
donor of the neck decorations, yet the
fact remains that the cholera did not
touch a single shote and the AFFORDS
will market a nice bunch of pigs at
good prices.
All honor to Mrs AFFORD, also money
for a new hat with a willow plume,
from the hog receipts.-Salina Journal.
HONESTY AS A POLICY.
The truth that honesty is the best
policy" is taught everywhere, in q
way; but most people regard such
teaching as perfunctory duty, and
really believe that the way to succeed
is to make a big hauf' by means of
a trick.
Humanity is rotten with this dam
gerous idea; dangerous because any
one who accepts that false doctrine is
liable to become a thief, and ruin him
self for life. Millions of people cannot
be trusted when your back is turned,
and justify themselves by means of
arguments they know won't stand in
court of fairness and reason
How greedy we all become when
dollar is in sight! We all pretend to
hate money, yet how we all love II!
You are tired of hearing that Hon
esty is the best policy" yet it is the
greatest doctrine in the world; the
nearer you come to accepting the doc
trine the better your chances Tor sue
cess will be. Accept that short simple
statement of five words, and you neeo
no other moral teaching. All our
troubles are due to the fact that so
many of the people believe the saying,
Honesty is the best policy" is a say
ing of old women; it is a carefully con-
sidered maxim of the wisest and best
men of the past and present; men who
have had the ripest experience VITA
life in all it's phases
The great reform work before the
world today is to induce people to real
ize the truth of the saying, Honesty
is the best policy as unreservedly as
they realize that it hurts to have teeth
pulled More men flirt with dishonesty
than with women, believing it safe
when well managed; yet every little
while a man is sent the penitentiary
for flirting, and every little while
man is shot for iti -OttaWa Republic.