The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-05-29

If you care to leave it to us. today's
column is almost a total loss.
Motto: Let the People Rave.
Naturally" writes ]. c. T Jr., who
is ever Quarreling with us about poll
tics honor (of a certain BRANDY and
secretiveness are as essential to sue
cessful work among politicians as
among those banded together for le-
Ultimate purposes Apparently. fidel-
ity to the community which pays their
wages is a matter of so little con-
cernment as to be unworthy of men
ton in the discussion"
Our experience and observation
amount to this: An honest man is as
honest in politics as he is in bust
ness. A dishonest man is honest no
where Government is a matter of
men and not of statutes and measures.
From honest men the country gets
as good government as is humanity
possible. From dishonest, inefficient
men it gets poor government. That's
all there is to it,
The politicians we have known
graded higher than the average of
their communities. They were more
honest, more Intelligent and more
deeply concerned with just admin
istration of affairs and with the public
welfare. A politician is entirely hu-
man in the respect that he chiefly is
concerned with his own glory If he
is smart enough to achieve a little
enough to know his road to glory lies
thru a fair and honest administration
of affairs. In comparing the poll
tician with his community we are
merely striking an average. There are
corrupt and dishonest men in politics
plenty of them. And such men, we
believe, are not unknown outside of
politics.
J. c. T., Jr., expresses the Bromi-
dian view. 1t is the general and wide
spread view of politics, and is ac-
cepted by everybody who knows MOTH
ing about politics In combating it
We court the scorn and derision of
every Bromidian in the world
In Which a Door Knob Is Mistaken
for a Bread Knife.
Sir-Me an you sometimes agree;
I'm afraid you haven't got to the
fundam entails, as the pink Bolshies
say. OF course, nobody loves Mr..
Wilson; nor does the mob really love
get that good-natured goof con-
tributes little or nothing to the i'm
portant affairs of the world.
V.E. M.
We suggest that V. E. NJ. come back
and get his hat before continuing on
his journey. In his hurry to get away
he left it on the hall tree. We were
discussing the lack in Mr.. Wilson of a
certain human quality. 1t is the
quality which impels a man to burn
his last shirt for its possessor Nobody
ever burned shirt for Mr.. Wilson;
nobody will. In that sense Mr.. Wilson
has no friends. In all his public
or four and, apparently, he has lost
them. What the mob thinks of him
or whether he is an important person
were not points at issue in our casual
analysis.
On the other hand Mr.. Harding has
the quality to which we referred. He
has constituents without number who
would burn a last shirt for him. He
may not be as great man as Mr.. Will
son. We don't pretend to know about
that. But no matter what happens, he
will always have a million friends The
spell Mr.. Harding weaves over those
VINO come in contact with him was ap-
parent at the Gridiron dinner. The
Washington correspondent is a not
particularly impressionable bit of
human clay When it comes to public
heroes, he is hard boiled" But the
kindly. gracious feeling which exists
toward Mr.. Harding was apparent in
every detail of the Gridiron Clubs
semi-annual public gesture. And be-
cause he possesses that alluring quail
-SS' pa l.Sehi SOli eHI On MI 11dTulHS
never will be as biting as partisan
comment on Mr.. Wilson.
1t isn't a fact that the mob never
loves a really important man. 1t is
sure to love him if he has the quality
to which we have referred It goes
further: it smothers him with kisses
The south has been deeply humili-
ated again, this time by the Georgia
mob which permitted the colored man
it had set out to hang to get away
from it.