The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-16
KANSAS COMMENT
THAT HARMONY MEETING.

| THAT HARmON1 ME<rA 114N0.
So far as the Traveller is concerned
| it is opposed to Troutmans proposed
| harmony meeting.
1t is also true that the Traveller did
not receive a personal invitation 10 at
tend this har.-lony meeting out we are
going to express our opinion on the
| subject just the same.
The republican party owes no apol-
! ogy nor olive branch to the pro-
| gressives. If they want to come back
| to the Republican party they have
| that privilege. They went away OF
! their own accord Let them return the
same way and without importuning.
| Why dilute the substantial policies
! and principles of the Republican party
| by compromising them with the vision
airy theories of the progressive party?
| If Theodore Roosevelt, w. r. StubDs,
William Allen White, Henry Allen and
Joseph Brist w were recognized in
| harmony meeting their wild-eyed the
cries would soon disrupt it unless they
controlled.
| 1t is true. divided as it is now, the
Republican party cannot hope to get
many of the offices but party that
| cannot stay together because of its
principles should not have the offices.
! If this harmony meeting at Topeka,
| proposed by Troutman is a getting to-
| gether just for the sake of the offices
| you had better think twice before you
! join in it. 1t can't be for principle for
| the Republican party has already
enunciated it's principles and they
should not be temporized with in order
| to satisfy a bunch of political maleon-
! tent leaders, who are never satisfied
unless they are holding office.-,Arkan-
sas City Traveller.
SIMPLIFIED SPELLING.
The editor having read the Tecommen-
dations of the simplified spelling boafi'
and feeling that this subject would a.. az
FA~ trar fzin
| acerbities of politics, turned TO the inter-
ature of spelling reform.
He was am azs TO v ftha Sp personS" and
idiots" hurting through the cal n
academic arena. Apparently publishers
stock outiawed for some little time yet. -
If you assembled group of intellgent
Germans Italians or Frenchmen, and
| tongue containing lot of new words,
| they would all spell them about alike But
| if all the college presidents of the United
States were given such passage IN Eng
| lish no two would agree on one spelling
II 100 many hfy c ma S,o,,re neonIe get the
| idea that there is no such thing as a
single correct standing of good spelllnS
John Billings becomes as good as the presi--
| dent of Harvard. Anyone can excuse ms
lazness and inattention at school, by ire
excuse that he is a phonetic speller:
furthermore, wholesale changes Involve
| confusion and labor for grown-up people
who studied the old way, while the tune
1 of the children VINO are now ledihiAS "
spell is comparatively cheap.
| Nevertheless, the English language as
being simplited all the time. Twenty
years ago, everybody spelled 1t pro
gramme." Today probably the majority
| of newspapers cut off the words super
| fiuous petticoats.
When Americans spell "honor'' without
any "u' English cousins call 1t west
| ern Barbarian" When the letter tx
was left off "critics" and public MANY
| editors kept on using the 'k'' for a gen
| Grafton But these old spellings would
| look as grotesque today as knee breeches
and silver buckles.
| The pupils seem to understand simpli-
| fled spelling a good deal better than the
| . teachers.-Winfield Courier.