The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-11
FROM OTHER PENS
PERSONAL DEMONSTRATIONS


Rising in the "house of governors
when the question before the house
was of how governors, senators and
presidents are made, Ernest Lister said
that he was elected governor of Wash
ington, lin spite of the opposition of
every newspaper in the state but ONE
out OF his own experience, he denied
tnat newspaper support is the first es-
sent1al of success in American public
life. In the state of Washington and
| everywhere else. the first essential sue
cess In the service of the public ought
to be fitness for it. The man who
demonstrates it ought to win success.
even IL every newspaper were against
him. And We believe that whenever
and wherever ouch a man appears he
VIII win, with all newspapers which
deserve success helping him to win all
the success he deserves. But first OF
all, the country needs men who are
personal demonstrators of their own
merits. The sole political function of
the newspaper is to inform the public
Ihe newspaper which attempts to die
tate, to govern. to dominate, to boss
becomes the worst of all political
bosses. No such newspaper can long
survive. Nor ought any man SURVIVE
long in politics who relies on any news
paper or combination of newspapers as
part OF his own machinery as politi-
cal boss Our compliments to the
house of governors for the help it has
given in the calculation of this impor-
tant matter. Such of its members as
are intending to become senator's and
presidents may rely confidently on
| their own personally demonstrated
| merits as far as they demonstrate
them. They may rely not less conf
IDENTIFY on the impossibility of keeping
| their personally demonstrated merits
out of the newspapers.-St. Louis
Post-Dispatch.
AN UNLOVED GOVERNMENT.
Austria-Hungary is considerably
disturbed, we hear, because SO many
of its young men have emigrated to
America that there are not enough
left to fill up the ranks of the army.
The scarcity of material is increasing
all the time. This is doubtless a sad
state of affairs and particularly so for
the dual monarchy, which is never
without an iron or two in the fire
and may get into war at any moment.
But the government-we do not say
the nation, for there is no Austro-
Hungarian nation-has brought it's
trouble upon itself. The internal
condition of the empire is almost i'm
possible. The Austrians and the Hun
gar1ans quarrel among themselves and
discriminate against one another.
They combine only when they turn
their attention to the persecution and
abuse of the subject races which make
up the majority of the population
The average peasant has no incentive
TO love or to fight for government
which permits such conduct, and
which maintains itself only by play
ing its enemies off against one an
other. 1t is small wonder that those
VINO are young and wideawake clear
out as soon as they are able to do so,
and flock to this side of the Atlantic.
1t is said that 10000 emigrants liable
for military duty are now in Canada
and that none responded to the re-
cent summons sent to them to rejoin
the army. The contrast between their
conduct and the conduct of the
Greeks, Servians, Bulgarians q and
Montenegrins, and even Turks at the
outbreak of the Balkan war furnishes
an eloquent commentary on the
warmth with which the subjects of
Franz Josef do not love the Austro-
Hungarian empire.-Detroit Free
Press.