The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-06-23
KANSAS CONTENT
WmL~EARNED FAME.

Pointing with pride, the Emporia
Gazette calls attention to Neosho Rap
all the fame the esteemed Gazette can
give II, and more. 1t has lately put
the klbosh and moving sign on a tent
evangelist who arrived i'll that town to
save the souls of the inhabitants from
he'll, than which Neosho Rapids is no
better, according to the evangelist who
felt called upon to do the saving at
large profit to himself. He began his
brief and stormy career in Neosho
Rapids by describing the town as a.
place Of sin and gilded enough to
make it very attractive Port Said
had nothing on Neosho Rapids in the
way of wickedness always on the job.
AS result, it became necessary for
him to fold his tent and steal away
in violation of the speed ordinance.
Neosho Rapids, a decent village in
habited by people given t. attending
to their own business. aud the duties
OF good citizenship, wouldn't stand
for it.
It is a pity there are not more
towns and cities OF the Neosho Rapids
stripe. Sincerely religious people
should be the first to deprecate the
abusive tactics of men who go grating
about in the name of the Lord, heap
ing abuse on those who don't happen
to agree with them. And religion of
the type dispensed doesn't help par
tAC04cSA ~ anu Ger Utility II QOSSl1 ldSt
Fright may influence and emotion sway
sufficiently to make the lips prayerfuI
and the head bowed but neither will
make lasting impression.
The Rev. Bill Sunday has made more
in the ministry than he could in the
big league, which he eraced before
being handed the call to preach. And
he has made it chiefly or such tactics
as incensed the people of Neosho Rap
IDS. Nor are he and the tent man of
Neosho the only ones in their line.
The smallest hamlet entertains them
occasionally, and the largest cities.
Ubiquitous in the extreme, they are,
and their influence for good negligible
as compared with that of the regular
pastor who gets considerably less from
his labors. Probably, however, the
evangelists who resort to tactics which
Neosho Rapids became famous by re-
senting in emphatic fasnlon, are less
numerous now than formerly. With
more towns of that kind on the map,
they would be driven out of business,
and religion benefited by the change
to safe and sane methods.-Atchison
Globe.
WHY NOT PUNISH PERJURBRS?
A Judge down at lola set very bad
precedent the other day. IT'S not the
first bad precedent that has come from
court. Not by a long shot But this
one is peculiar. The Judge called
man liar who perjured himself. Now
if judges should make a practice of
calling all men liars who perjure
themselves in court they will not be
able to attend to any other business.
Wouldn't it be q good idea to have in
formation made against a few of the
perjurers and send them to the peni-
tertiary? AS it is it is often safer to
commit perjury than it is to tell the
truth. A humorous lawyer in an east
ern state used to say that there were
a dozen men in every township who
would perjure themselves in a suit
about a peck of potatoes when they
had no interest in the potatoes. There
is nothing more common than perjury
and the courts are largely to blame.
and obnoxious.-Leayen Times.
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