The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-08-19
ON SECOND THOUGHT
BIZ JAY E, HOUSE
(Fron Philadelphia Public LedEerJ

Governor Cox refers to Mr., Harding
as "the puppet of a senate cabal-" We
don't know what a cabal is, but If
we get his idea, Governor Cox's tocsin
does not greatly impress u.s. 1t is old
stuff projected at an unpropitious mo-
ment. There are some wise birds in
the United States senate. Their ad-
vice may be. very well worth having.
Senator Harding does very well, we
think, to consult them
| We reach this conclusion thru hav-
ing observed. for the six or seven
years last past, the indiscretions of a
! gentleman who consulted nobody. The
! country is about TO let a four-year
/ contract for cleaning up the mess he
! is going to leave.
A correspondent expresses surprise
| that the column pays SO little atten-
/ ton to European affairs. There are
! two or three reasons for the note of
restraint which marks our attitude.
| One OF them is that we know very lit
/ tie about European affairs. Not only
that. but we admit it Another rea-
son is that America keeps US busy. AS
soon as We get this country running
on an even keel we shall be in posi-
! ton to take over the affairs of Eu-
rope and administer them.
! We hope our explanation touching
the matter at issue will be satisfa Glory.
The thought that, as 1t is. we may be
tinually assails us.
While they do not come right out
and say so. the Democrats are not
averse to having the country believe
they nominated Theodore Roosevelt
/ for vice president.
five are to sit in judgment on the
matter, and We have been urged to do
so. the Hon Mr.. McGraw energies
small credit to himself. He admits
the party of three persons with which
he spent the evening drank four
quarts of 'hooch.' With the most
parlous situation in history confront
| ing the human race, we hold that the
man who drinks a quart of 'hooch"
at sitting is an enemy to his fellow
man.
No man needs a quart of liquor to
put him in a frame of mind to spend
a million dollars. And we claim when
a man has reached the stage of in
ltoxication at which he is willing to
spend a million dollars. he has had
all liquor can really give him. There
fore, when man achieves that mood
he should hay off the visible supply
and give his poor and worthy neigh
bors their chance to spending money.
More than that if man really
wishes to engage in an orgy of spend
/ ing he should drink Jamaica ginger.
No other liquid induces so great a dis
regard of money. We have known
Andy Redmond. better known as
/ 'Muskogee Red" when under the in
fluence of lick" to spend and give
away $4,000. 100000 in the course of a
single evening.
1t has occurred to US that law re-
stricting lavish spenders to lick
would. to some degree, relieve the
Isituation, and we put the thought in
doubt that anybody win take it seri-
ously.
1t is not our purpose 10 write in
mitigation of Ponzis offense. He is
the type OF malefactor that induces
taken it away from them.
Ponzi seems to be the common or
chatterihg type of "simp." When it
money. no man is so effective over
short distances as the chattering
"simp."
We have a proposition from a read
er to take up and abolish the useless
in Philadelphia. Special stress is laid
| upon those who run motorcars with
the muffler open. We doubt that we
should take on further work in public
relief at this time. The fountain in
tRittenhouse Square and the matter of
Inducing Mr.. Mitten to stop his street
cars at Thirty-seventh and Chestnut
streets still engross US.
And there is another reason. Tha
hfrd y1O n p hi f1rr-
open cannot be reached by moral
! suasion. He is too far gone to yield
| to anything save the more drastic
measures.
So far as we have observed. those
who make business of drawing them
| found no moral lesson in the incident
of the bolt of lightning which struck
in Illinois a tent in which a revival
meeting was being conducted and