The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-07-22
ON SECOND THOUGHT
BY JAY E. HOUSE.
(F5on Philadelphia Public LedgtrJ

(F5ou Philadelphia Public Ledgtr.)
Our own interest In the proceedings
of tbs third party convention was cas-
ual But We were SO intrigued by the
query of the delegate who asked
whether the convention had met to
follow a leader or to eliminate the
damned evils of our present rotten
system of government" that We made
note Of his name. 1t was Lefkowitz.
The country is in a bad way. AS
native of IL. We wish to see no man
detained in 1t against his will. We.
therefore ask that unanimous permits
sion be granted Mr.. LefkoWitz to re-
turn to the one in which he got his
name.
We feel this way about 1t: We have
grown accustomed to the present sys-
tenn of government. 1t does not great
ly annoy us. But it must crate harsh
ly upon one of the name OF LefkowitZ.
and we would not wish to see it's rigoFs
and its hardships imposed upon any
such.
We quarrel mildly with the contem-
porary writer who refers to the
French revolution as a surgical opera
ton. The French revolution was an
application of the absttoir motif to
government.
Recurring to the third party. which
we had no intention of doing again to-
day. it seems to us the most interest
ing comment upon its convention was
that of Arthur Brisbane. "Grasshop-
pers." writes Mr.. Brisbane, have in
Vaded town in Michigan, swarming
thru the city streets. doing a million
! dollars worth of damage to growing
crops. You read and pass on to the
next column. The grasshoppers now
are not important, but in the old days
they We're"
In view of the fact that Mr. Bris-
bane's friend, Mr.. Hearst, had been,
perhaps. the most insistent of these
who demanded third party, Mr..
Brisbane's comment on the conven-
ton is more than interesting. 1t is
! illuminating.
We suspect that NJ. H. A. who ap-
parently seeks to nettle us by the as
sertion that in Kansas it is necessary
60 buy glass of soda water In order
| to get a package of cigaret papers.
has not recently visited the state. The
operation of buying cigarets in KAN
sas. once a circuitous performance.
has become a direct transaction. Hav-
| ing passed a law forbidding the sale
of eigarets. Kansas lost interest in the
matter and proceeded to the suppress
sion of other glazing evils.
1t stili is necessary for those who
run for office to say they will enforce
the law; but that is about all that is
expected of them.
And Kansas we go on to say. was
the home of the kindly gentleman
God rest his souI=who. when the
| first Christmas of the war came round.
gave the battery from his home town
| $1,000. contingent upon the stipula-
ton that every penny OF the gift be
expended for cigarets.
| Doubtless those excellent and
worthy folk who protest because the
! allies continue to maintain a military
occupancy of Germany believe the al
lies should follow the precedent set by
GeFmany Mt the close of the FrRncn-
Prussian war Germany, YOU may re-
member. withdrew its troops FROM
France as soon as 1t had taken paris.
It Is true we do not remember any
such occurrence. But that. likely. is
due to the fact that we are not old
enough to have done so.
However. this may be said for the
people of this country: Feeling against
Germany has lasted much longer than
We expected it to last. No subscrip-
ton paper designed to raise a fund to
relieve the immediate necessities of the
i
western state has nominated the crown
prince for governor on progressive
| PLATFORM
/ Possibly you are disappointed be-
| cause of the columns neglect to dis
cuss the yacht race. 1t is our theory
that no gent no is unable to tell the
| difference between a catboat and a
yawl should engage In authoritative
/ discussion of marine sports.
L
! There are those however. who are
less retiring and self deprecatory. A
certain New York Exporter who. the
/ last time we saw him, now some ten
years ago. was ploving corn in CEN
! trail Illinois. furnished the readers OF
/ his paper with much expert comment
/ on the race
The rumor that the American Fed
I Grafton OF Labor will support the DEM
oeratic ticket pro',ably is well found
ed. 1t always o.