The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-08-29

care now, where it is built 1t is like
a mans money, when you make
financial deal with him, you never ask
him how he got it, nor where he got it;
all you want to know is that he has
The 'kickers' Il will call them p
their right name) are kicking eause
the city officials would not locate the
auditorium building out of town down
in the city park, at the mouth of the
sewer. When was a boy used to
try to swim up stream against a swift
current in my grandfatherS s mill race.
I would kick, scratch and struggle. and
look at an object on the bank and see
that I was crawfshing. So you see I
have been kicker but 1 am not a
Kicker now against progress. When
people living outside of Topeka came
to the capital of their state they would
hardly expect to find our auditorium
away from the business center of the
city is like trying to swim up stream.
suppose the mayor and council fully
realize this fact.
The city park can be used for a much
better purpose. AS North Topeka and
vicinity is the great agricultural coun-
try tributary to the city would sug-
gest that the park be used for a city
market place. This would benefit the
farmer who sells his produce in To-
peka and knock out the commission
trust and enable every consumer to live
cheaper and at the same time pay the
he has to sell.
I would suggest to the CONNER
cial club that in view of the fact that
Omaha, St. Louis, St. Joe, Atchison,
LeavenWorth and Kansas City all have
union depOts, they might take up the
question of locating one in Topeka, at
or near where the Rock Island depot
now stands. This ought to satisfy the
most enthusiastic ''knocker' in North
Topeka. All these things and more
will come along with the tide of pros
perity and good times the enormous,
crops will bring for the next two or
three years. Farmers will be money
loaners and merchants discounters, all
over the state They will invest their
money in home bonds, if given an op-
portunity. 1t seems to me that now
is a good time for us to go ahead with
public improvements and let up on the
old abolition and prohibition legisla-
ton and past craftsmanship. We have
eight million dollars more money on
reserve in our banks in Kansas now
than New York has. This money is
seeking profitable investments. We
want our full share of it in Topeka.
We can not stand still and get it. 2 An
auditorium, a public market and a un-
ion depot, would distribute millions of
dollars in our city, and advance every
dollars worth of real estate within the
next two years twenty-five per cent
or n ore. J. A. DAVIS.
Vote for progress!
A 4.
To the Editor of the State Journal:
1 have been reading good deal of late
ton about its taxing the poor man, dis
honesty in city officials, and many other
woes too numerous to mention at this
time. A stranger reading these direful
tales of woe would naturally conclude
that the whole population of our beauti-
full city was made up of the worst kind
of pickpOckets, thugs and thieves. I do
not believe that. Topeka is my home and
years it has been my misfortune to travel
and earn a living for myself and family
away from home, but never for a moment
nave L lost my interests IN Topeka and
her success. All that have on earth is
there and now see no reason for
change.
and upbuilding of Topeka as any man.
and being away from home most of the
time gives me at least a fair chance to
form an unbiased opinion without preiU-
lieve that when an honest man is elected
or appointed to office he Immediately be-
pathy and not much patience with the
cry of dishonesty and raScality that some
of our people would attach to the mon who
are laboring day and night for Topeka
and her best interests.
I pay some taxes in Topeka I wish I
paid more and if the city hall proposition
makes 1t necessary to pay 25 or so per
cent, even double my taxes, I assure
you there would be no kick coming from
me. I, like others on the road, am inter-
ested in this city hall fight, and we are
progress are afflicted with a genuine case
of stomach ache or only a slight attack
of wind collie.
This is Sunday morning and the above
will be at home in time to vote for Pro-
gress and Greater Topeka.
AN INTERESTED CITIZEN.
Vote for Progress!