The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-03
KANSAS COMMENT


The COURAGE OF BUSINESS.
| "noIi+ioai VI the fact that this is a
| Po.s.ltlSai year" and that a great deal
OF political noise" has 49, .s ueai
SINCE its first day and IS still eoinsr r,'
has hed generally over the co1ntry
| 4 l1s mao put little Interference DeSnite
tales of the ELECTROMAGNETIC - P l,,se
| sue ana the extreme radicaIisno of az
other, played against each other hnsio
Ii';sS mas managed to go along its way
/ U,aaiee ~ lucn scare and with little
Mteakenlng. And all of this is becanse
| BUSINESS is cleaner than it fornnerIS,
mas had the reputation of being II
mas less or crookedness in it than on
S3 80 other years, when the least show
" enforcement of the Icws threw, Nj,
Inlngs into a panic and Frightened tbe
IItIe fellows because the big fellows
were scared. Business is getting en- n
n ~ Iounoatlon than it has been in
past years. 1t is more honest ara ~
Iears the light of publicity ana The
eNenness of law enforcement less II
Is prepared to go on with an even keel
~ ~ mater VINO is chosen president and
no matter what sort of rrafforr1 iz
made The American peopie are 18th
er IeVel headed after all. They NAV
snout unusually loud at times and
s n11he great pretense of worrying
low may do if he gets in power but n
IS OFTEN for show. The people believe
IN each other. They believe the conn
e.y Is honest and that every one is to
get so nearly a square deal that b1,si
ness is not to suffer- And as lopo a.
business is honest and is running ss n
should run there is small darSer in
any any great movement. behind which is
the majority of the people of the conn
'AS' AHJurlng lt--Parsons Sun.
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GOOD METHODS ESSENTIAL.
ClVllzation is but savagerv silver
g1lt- The iron ring of human nature
may be bent, but its total circnn,faro
ence can never change. Flowing in
inoiten mass from the craters of civil
lzatlon the pioneers came upon the
saVages and took their land. Com
science was eased by their better use
or the land-the tillage of divine COM
mainland the aboriginal shadow
aims. Logic always remains, and the
man who robs his soil, refuses its
hungry cry for sustenance, denies it
the resting of crop rotation wastes his
profits in careless methods and will
have no live stock but mules for mo-
tors and dogs for decorations is not
making the better use of his land. AS
true success lies in bringing our
neighbors up to a higher level. so the
farmers success is attained only
through community success. The ex-
ample of good methods and good live
stock breaches with forty-parson
power to the man who most needs
help. Good tools belong to him who
best can use them.-I. d. G. in the
Kansas Farmer.
BOARDING
There are times when purse strings
are frightened when there is a propo-
sition of a public nature calling for
contributions. Men will talk of their
past contributions, of the failure of
this and the other project and will
refuse to pay money ror further plans
which they say will not bring money
to their pockets. There are some
of these men to be found in every
community, just as there are small
potatoes in every hill. But when this
condition becomes general, when men
to whom the community has a right to
look for a slight return for the benefit
and the prosperity which they enjoyed
refuse thus to discharge one of their
plainest duties and when the number
OF such men becomes so great as to
threaten the success of movements in
the public interest that condition is
an evidence of species of dry rot
which if not speedily removed will land
the community in the commercial
graVeyard.-Sumner County Republi-
can.