The Topeka state journal., 1922-07-29
MAN IS GOVERNOR
Tint Is Why Coal Is Mined and
Trains Run i'm Kansas.
(From the New York Heraid,)

1ETOIn InS new OTh 1CEda0sJ
Let all officers charged with the en-
forcement of the law. let all govern
ment authority, federal. state and To-
cal, take to heart the account which
Henry J. Allen, governor OF Kansas.
is able to give Of his state while the
coal strike and the railroad strike are
on. A summary Of his message to
The New York Herald. luminous in
the very simplicity of its words, heart
ening in its calm statement of fact,
inspiring in the example it sets, re-
veals what is the matter, and the only
thing that is the matter, in other parts
of the country where governors and
sheriffs and mayors and even grand
juries cringe under the threats OF mob
lawlessness and shut their eyes to red
handed crime. The matter. we re-
peat. and the only thing the matter.
with those clime-ridden and blood
stained communities is the craven or
the weakling in whose hands unfor-
tunately have been intrusted tho
preservation of law and the public
safety.
Governor Allen is a man. Governor
Allen does not conceive that he is in a
high public office to save his political
skin. Governor Allies moral integrity
tells him he is chief executive of Kan
sas to enforce the laws against strikers
or n1obS or anybody that challenges the
of that great state over
whatever stands within that sovereign
jurisdiction.
And SO. while ST. 4kes have been or
dered against the ccal mines in Kan.
sas, the coal mines are operating.
There are no HeIrin butcheries of
workers that want to dig coal,
and an ample quality of coal is be-
ing produced in Kansas, as its up
standing governor reports. to provide
for all Industrial and domestic needs
within the state
Strikes have been ordered against
the railroad shops in Kansas, but all
trains are running in Kansas. There
is no interference with the United
States mails in Kansas. There 10 no
Of interstate commerce in
Kansas. There is no obstruction of
any traffic anywhere. There is no
or terrorizing Of Kansas
workers anywhere.
The state of Kansas is guaranteeing
protection and coal and the move
ment of trains and the safety OF work.
ers on all Jobs, whether they are or
are not struck" Jobs, and the state of
Kansas is delivering every single
thing it guarantees. without help from
the federal government and without
wanting help fiom the federal gov
ernment.
If anybody says in respect OF this
contrast between Kansas and Illinois,
for one example. or Missouri. for an
other example, that Kansas arms Gov
ernor Allen with law and authority
against strikes that other states 10
not give their executives, the answer
is that there isn't a state in the Union,
there isn't a county in a state. there
isn't community in a county that
has not all the law and all the author
ity needed to suppress mob violence,
to protect men in the sacred right and
the legal right to work. There isn't
any law lacking anywhere in this
country to protect men from brutal
attack and unspeakable butchery.
There isn't governor in any state
of the Union that needs any more
laws than he now has to keep coal
mines operating when the miners want
to dig coal; to keep trains running
when frainmen want to run them; to
keep railroad shops working when
men want to work there. There isn't
sentence nor a word nor a syllable
of the Kansas Industrial laws needed
by any other state to maintain its
sovereignty an to defend human lib.
critics and rights.
That isn't the trouble where dis
order and violence and crime and
bestiality run amuck and ride rough
shod over law and authority. The
trouble is that in the high posts as in
the low posts of authority there are
mighty few Governor AllenG
And any public official. whether
federal. state or local. that wants to
crawl under the bed instead of stand
ing up like a man when his test comes
to suppress lawlessness and take care
of the public and all the rights of the
public may as yell put that in his pipe
and smoke it.
Salina Honors Sister Mary Rose.
Salina, Kan, July 29.-Sister Mary
Aan