The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-09-01
SCHOOL BOOK TRUST.

SCHOOL BOOK TRUST.
The windpipe of the average Pop j:
punctured with bowling against
trusts" but parents of this state are
going to learn within the next month
that the meaneSt and most far reaching
trust ever saddled ON a people is the
school book trust gotten up by the
boodling majority of last winters Pop
legislature. The facts given on the edi-
torial page Of last Sundays Eagle will
be found to be true. The law not being
exactly 10 the hand of Stryker and the
commission, they have issued an order
for the guidance of school book sellers
TO which everybody will be forced to
submit. School boards should get to-
gether and not only repudiate the order
but ignore the law, otherwise this Pop
combine VIII have the people by the
throat to the tune of hundreds of thou
sands Of dollars. - will hit every pa
rent in the state who has child old
enough to go to school. The Lawrence
Journal in speaking Of the exchange
scheme and the arbitrary rule under
which the exchange is to be made. saws:
"Oid school books which were to be
exchanged, are refused unless wholly
new and unblemished. OF course that
means virtually no exchange. and that
the old books will have to be thrown
away and new ones purchased for cash.
This was, of course, a part of the
scheme, although the public was not in
formed of it until they went TO ex
change books. a Schol book trust, of
the kind established by the late Popu-
list legislature. is worse than any oil
trust or sugar trust. or coal trust that
ever existed, and this one law is going
TO cost the school patrons of Kansas
more this year than the other trusts
combined have cost them during all
their lifetime. This may seem an ex-
aSgeration, but if you are the head OF
a family see how far the Journal misses
II "hen you go TO purchase the books"
All this time John Wannamak or Is as 81
lent as the graveyard Of a deaf and dumb
asylum.
If the Afridis keep monkeying. England
Will soon be under the painful necessity
of slapping them cross-eyed.
If Mrs. Luetguert is alive, she certainly
has large adult dramatic situation at
her command if he cares to use it.
After fiuctuating violently Chilkoot Pass
has dropped off six points, while Skasuay
Pass is booming up sixteen points and a
quarter.
The president might also call special
session of congress for the purpose OF de-
term.n-ng what is the matter with wheat
and silver.
We are over-populated War is cruel.
You do not have to be shot at In the
Klondke. Go TO Klondike and relieve US
other fellows.
If it should turn out that Luetguert is
innocent, the scientists who have made so
many conv:cting experiments Will surely
repr,mand the court
The man who waits 10 go to Klondike
in a Pullman sleeper may be discreet but
il IS OF his kind thar the usless part of
humanity is made up.
While We may never expect to see Star
Pointers time reduced,in future years We
VIII be watching horseless carriages re-
ducing the one-miuute record.
One bank in Kansas has failed this week
and the despairing Populists have got
their toes stuck in a hole in the sheer
precipice OF political existence.
Mr. O'Nenl OF Missouri arose az the 81.
Louis labor conference and talked for
revolution. Mr.. O'Nein should return to
Ireland. England Will revolute him to his
hearts content
Some day this nation VIII 20 to ruin
And in the smoke. dust. shr.eks. curses.
wreck some one viii arise and say: Sin
gle tax viii remedy this"
Mcmillan river. in British America. is
supposed 10 be richer than Klondike. But
the whole territory VIII become Klondike
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