The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-09
KANSAS COMAENT
ALL RIGHT IN THE WASH.


one or the leading newspaper men
OF England, Valentine Chierol of the
London Times, visited this country re-
Gently and on his return wrote very
fair and friendly review OF conditions
IN America as they seemed to him.
The main criticism, was the discomfort
and dissatisfaction which he says he
found everywhere, especially in the
west He tried to find the cause and
he lays it to the sudden increase IN
wealth, or rather to the too rapid in
crease in wealth, resulting in extrava-
gance, display, envy and insurgency in
politics and business. He says the
new rich Haunt their money and do
not fee! the responsibility which goes
with long possession of wealth for
which the wealthy are educated, as they
are in England
Mr.. Caierol is partially correct in his
diagnosis. 1t is true that the farmer,
the merchant and the manufacturer
have made great profits in recent years
ana have frequently spent them in a
drunken sailor style that attracted the
general discomfort But condition
which produces wealth of that kind is
not TO be severely criticized. It is true
lhat many POOR man has become rich
and has not used his increased capital
Tor the general good or in such a way
as to benef1t co-workerS and comrades.
He has often been unable to stand
prosperity and has gone in fer high liv
LIS, 8utOulODl4SS, dlISnlpS anu CIlOEua
girls. But that is one of the attendant
evils in any country of the sudden ac-
QUESTION of fortunes. 1t Is a condition
which time Will take care of, for the
extravaSant newly rich will not last
into second generation and their
money will be dissipated without much
profit to themselves and to their final
degradation. A tariff law which makes
US prosperous is abused because it has
apparently made some more SO than
others, and there are plenty who I'LL
up with envy and would cut off their
nose to spite their face. But this is
another condition which viii right it
self, even if it takes little financial
Hood letting to do so. A revision of
the tariff against the workingman will
be followed by quick remorSe and
change. 1t always is.
So the Englishman is partially right
in his criticism and his statement of
cause, but he does not see the correct
ed condition which will come with tine
and experience Our country has
grown rich very rapidly, perhaps too
rapidly for the good of individuals, but
In the long run this will work out to
the glory Of America and the better
ment Of the Reople.-Hutchinson News.
GUESS AGAIN, MR.. RATTLE BRAIN
Some rattle-brain predicts that in
another century there will be no more
babies. OF course. no one will take
this idle VapOring seriously, for there
is no court that can put Mr.. Stork in
the hands of a receiver but just sup
pose this wild tale were to come true.
Earthquakes and plaques and fires
and volcanic eruptions every now and
then appal mankind as the shrieks and
groans of their dying victims are
heard, but heart-rending as these dis
asters are, they would not compare
with the calamity that would ensue
should babies cease to come. 1t would
be the crowning tragedy of the CEN
turtles
No more babies-no more mothers
1ullabies, no more chubby arms around
'Dada's" neck, no more wee ones
smiles, no more sleepy little eyes, no
more Now I lay me down to Sleep"
no more silvery laughter in the house,
no more rag dolls and broken toys, no
more hanging of stockings for old St
Nick, no more little sobs, no more
smiling baby dimpIes, no more trundle
beds. no more romping in the nursery
no more goodnight kiss. What a bleak
old world would be were this proph-
ecy a. true one?
No, Mr.. Rattle-Brain, you will have
to guess again. We could easily get
along without you. but as the human
race doesn't want to 20 stark, raving
mad, 1T will continue in the baby
business till the stars grow cold and
the leaves of the Judgment book
unfold.-Chanute Tribune.