The Topeka state journal., 1911-09-08
KAMxAS COAAENT
A SAD. SAD CASE.

A SAD. SAD CASE.
a lew weeks ago the temperature,
uay aIter day, ranged from 100 in the
shade to the top Of the Thermometer,
Lhe not Winds blew and blew, and dust
ana pebbles and tin cans scared and
sWooped in the sunshine like joyous
LtocKs or happy, tuneful birds The
early cucumhers numbered not the
ground, the corn blades curled, the cot
tonwoods and willows dropped their
leaves and all was vanity and vexation
of spirit
The farmers came to town of Sat
urday afternoon and when interviewed
on the crop prospect and the depth of
the water in the old swinmin' hole,
they nuttered through set teeth that it
was the driest time in hundred
years; that there would be no corn, nor
would there be hay or other provender
for the beasts of the field; that cattle
would not come through the winter
aiiFe unless, perchance, a man were
lucky enough to own a COW that sucked
herself. And then came ST. Swithin's
Day-which is on July Is in this lati-
tude, and upon this parched, blistered
and wind-swept desert the clouds open
ed and the rains fell.
And the necromancy of rain and sun
shine conjured the dead corn into life
and brought color again to the hay
fields and spread a carpet of green upon
the everlasting hills. The old swimmin
hole down by the ford was full up to
LnC lOp EOOl OF LIle OAQ SyCdI4lOAS
joy chased the glowing hours with
flying feet while August was ushered
in. August that came like a rare rare
June with a prodigality OF prair14
grass and cantaloupes and roasting
ears and fragrant t-blossomtng alfalfa
fields
In the face of all this, the Honorable
I'm. a. Croker came in Monday, claw
ed a cockle-burr out of his whiskers,
and forthwith proceeded to depose and
say as follows:
He has acres and acres of prairie hay
ready for the sickle and the bull rake
hay that would make ton to the acre
and is of such prime quality that II is
worth SO a ton; and his fourth crop OF
alfalfa is waist high and beginning to
bloom and will have to be harvested;
and his field of corn that he tried 10
sell for dollar an acre in July Will
make not less than 60 bushels to the
acre, and has reached the ripening
stage, and to make good fodder should
be cut up within the next ten days.
And his cattle on a thousand hills are
in fine shape for shipping but he can
get time to take them to Kansas City;
and his hogs are about ready for mar
ket and the price higher than it has
been in a long while, and life is just
one blamed thing after another; and
the Hon. Croker stood on his head and
kicked the air and exclaimed, "Ai, Al!'
IIic fabula docet that for some men
some men would not be happy at their
own hanging. Republican.
CONSTITUTION MUST BE KING.
There is no such thing as a govern
ment founded upon the immediate will
Of the majority. The forefatherS un-
derstood this when they took America
from under the rule of King George
the Third and placed it under the dom
lnation of a. studiously planned consi-
tuition.
Even the executive and the judiciary
we're circumscribed because history of
all governments had taught that the
very best and wisest were not to be /
trusted with unlimited power.
There is too much argument in
vogue relative to the rights of the !
The majority has absolute |
right to elect officers. to make laws. |
and even to amend the constitution |
under prescribed procedure, but the |
great danger today lies in the specious |
plea that the will of the majority is
The law.
lority at Purcell yesterday that the |
of the law should be locked in |
ail and that a captured criminal |
should be burned at the stake. The |
statute makes the men who did this |
hing murderers and their brutality |
vas as pronounced as that of their |
7ictin. It may be said that the mob |
vas not the majority in the legal sense
IF the term, but it ruled and the
are ten to one that no penalty |
Will follow this unspeakable crime.
The will of the people should not
De effective until it is expressed at the
polls and in most matters until it is
plainly written in the statute book in
with the constitution
Wichita Rnaonn