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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-04-21
THE STREET FAIR.

The street fair of 1900 is the rroluct
of evolution. A half dozen years ago it
was unheralded and unsung. But the
old county fair had been on the wane
for a number of years, and something
must be devised to take its place. A
little town in Indiana sprung the idea
of each merchant building a booth in
front of his store in which to display
his wares; a. few free shows were fur
nished to attract the public; the town
was decorated; the result was called a
street fair
For several years St Louis and two
or three other large cities have an
nually given an exposition, under roof,
wherein manufacturers displayed their
products and merchants their goods.
But an exposition of this character was
of such proportions and SO great was
the expense for a building in which to
hold it, that only the large manufac-
turers and the princes among merchants
could participate.
The Indiana street fair idea has been
improved from time to time by other
towns, and within the past year fer
tile minds have combined the features
of the street fair with those of the in
door exposition. Now a certain space
on the street is set aside and enclosed
to answer the purpose of an exposition
building. The booths are made rain
proof, so that the exhibits can be made
just as fine as though within doors.
The midway, the music, and the va
rious amusements form combina
ton OF the attractions Of fair and ex-
position.
A good feature of the street fair spe-
cies Of exhibition is the giving to the
small manufacturer and merchant al
most an equal chance with the larger
one, except in the amount of ground
covered, and it is not always spa ce
that counts. A small booth filled with
a novel exhibit will attract more at
tention than five times the same space
of bare walls. There are probably very
few Kansas industries that are great
enough to afford an exhibit at one of
the great expositions, but they can ex-
hibit at a street exposition and serve a
better purpose, for their exhibits are
there seen by people who are their i'm
mediate prospective customers.
There are hundreds of thousands
probably milIions-of dollars sent out of
Kansas every year for manufactured
goods which might just as well be kept
at home if Kansas people knew of Kan
sas industries. The street exposition
affords these small industries an oppor-
tunity to call the attention of the pub
lie to them, and should be supplemented
by newspaper publicity. The street
fair is, in fact, an education in the line
of home industries, and home products,
as well as place of amusement for all
the people.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-04-21
THE PRIMARY

Topeka people now believe that there
is something radically wrong with our
system Of primary elections. They do
not know exactly what is wrong. but
they are ready to condemn the system
without stopping to find out the par
ticular points Of weakness.
There are few counties in Kansas in
which the conditions are similar to
those that exist in Topeka. Here the
nomination Of Republican candidates
generally virtually means thef rejection,
80 that many voters realize that il they
are to have anything to say about the
men who are to fill the offices OF the
county they must have a vote at the
primaries.
This has something to do with the
desire Of Democrats to vote. The right
Of franchise is highly priced by almost
every one, but it is discouraging TO walk
alp to the ballot box year after year
with the knowledge that the vote is
practically thrown away.
The element Of corruption is a differ
emit thing. In every city of any size
there are, shame be it, large classes
ready to barter away their votes and
influence to the highest bidder. They
win violate the law or go to any ex-
IRENE to serve the men who pay them
NO conscience troubles them. When
they ride from one polling place to
another casting ballots wherever they
are allowed to do so, it does not occur
to them that they are violating any
law, and they would not care if it
should They are earning their money.
and know that the politicians will take
care OF them, no matter what happens.
Some Of the lowest characters in To-
pelsa enjoy a practical Immunity from
punishment no matter what their crime
may be, because they have influence TO
cell
A system Of registration for primary
elections would do much to put a stop
to this kind Of corruption. This has its
drawbacks. This brings up the thought
why not abolish the primary system al
together and let all who care to be-
come candidates enter the contest for
the election. BY this means the trouble
some question about whether Demo
Gratis and Populists voted would be
avoided, for they would have as much
right to vote as any one Party strife
in municipalities is working serious
evils to the public service.
This would be a blow to the ward
heeler, to be sure. but Topeka could
worry along somehow without the
shadow OF his presence. He might Il
the primary elections were abolished
70 to work and earn an honest liveli.
hood
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-04-21
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

[From the Chicago News.1
The infant industry never grows old.
Any actress can paint but only a few
can draw.
A lawyer says water resembles equity
when it is Justice.
The outsider who speculates in oil is
pretty sure to slip up.
A mean man always attributes the
dislike of his neighbors to envy.
An actor says he avoids the coast
towns because of the light houses.
If a man has a true sense of humor
he knows when not to get funny.
Ladies who make their own dresses
should have some knowledge of figures.
Tears, idle tears says the poet. Yet
all men know that tears work in many
ways.
The man who marries a widow usual
ly finds that he is the successor of her
ideal husband.
Washington may have been the first
in the hearts of his countrymen, but the
confidence man wants to be first in
their pockets.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-04-21
QUAKER REFLECTIONS.

[From the Philadelphia Press.1
If money talks women ought to make
good bank tellers
Some people are so aristocratic that
they don't even have common sense.
If beauty were even skin deep the
cosmetic manufacturers would be forced
to shut up shop.
Willie-''why did they call 'em the
Dark Ages?" Bobby-'I s'pose because
there were so many knights
Nell-"so they went off and got
married, did they?'' BELIEVES, and
they were always such good friends,
too
Muggins-"No man knows what the
morrow may bring forth. Buggins-"I
knew yesterday that today would bring
April 4th."
No, Maude. dear, the people who are
born with silver spoons in their mouths
are not usually the ones who eat with
their knives.
Cynicus-'B jones is an optimist. .
Sillicus-"Why so?" Cynicus-s He's al
ways hoping to get the things he knows
very well he won't get"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-04-21
quently a more bitter protest from the

quently more bitter protest from the
corporations:
Wires Of course should so far as prac-
teal be buried in the alleys. In the
outlying districts poles should be set in
alleys instead of the parks of the
streets. Many Of the poles placed years
ago are rotting and become unsafe. As
stretches Of these branches and leaf
less trunks grow toward decay they
should be shifted to the rear, beneath
the surface or to the alley.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-04-21

rhetorical distortion and with entire nm
feeling for one OF the most beautifl,I
instruments ever made BY rsaar,---,s-.
English speech.. The scholar ans a.
artist are evident in the writing Of this
book-in its simplicity, vigor, dignity
and cadence. The Language Of the WI
ume reflects the marvellous beauty Of
the Scrlptural English, and shows uuon
what the authors boyhood was fed and
his temperament appreciation of the
best sources of our tongue.
KATE STEPHENS
New York April II 1900
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-04-21

Not in many years has anything given
70 general pleasure in Europe as has
the prospect Of a clash between the
United States and Turkey. Probably
there is not a nation on the continent
that would not take delight in giving
the sick man" a drubbing, but none
dare undertake it owing to the jealousy
prevailing among her neighbors. If
only Uncle Sam will step in and give
the sultan what he so richly deserves,
he will have the approval and sym
pathy of that gentleman's neighbors
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-04-21

After extended conferences the house
committee on invalid pensions has
finally determined to report to the
house senate bill 1477, which is known
as "the Grand Army bill" The final
draft Of the bill agrees to the disabii-
ties under which application may be
made for pension under the act of June
q, 1890. The other radical change in
existing law is the changing of the
rate Of income Of a soldiers widow from
the present rate Of 500 per year to an
actual net income of $3.50, per year,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-04-21

BY purchasing a tract Of land ten
smiles wide through Central America,
1.-THE United States will not only become
absolute master Of the canal situation,
but VIII be in a position to stop the
quarrels between Nicaragua and Costa
Rica-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-04-21

General Miles bluff about running for
president has won, and the senate COM
mittee will report in favor of making
him a lieutenant general. Now what
IS proposed for Dewey?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-04-21

Japanese are pouring into the Pacific
states by thousands, but exclusion of
the people Of a country that can muster
sixty war ships is hardly to be thought
Of
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-04-21

European countries may see the day
when they will regret that they ever
) encouraged the United States to invade
any part Of that continent
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-04-21

Admiral Dewey is rapidly becoming a
full-hedged candidate. He has begun
to deny stories that are printed about
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-04-21

It isn't fair to measure other people
in your half bushel, but you probably
do it.
Be careful about quarreling with
friends over a trifie. Some people never
make up a quarrel: no one ever entirely
forgets a quarrel. Friends are rare
enough to be worth preserving.
An Atchison young man who started
out to be president, is now a private
soldier, at $13 a month.
Lots of women call themselves worms
in their prayers whose honest opinion
is that they are birds.
You know how freely and recklessly
you talk about other people? Well
that's the way they talk about you.
There is always a good deal of
sympathy for a horse that is tied in
front of a joint, and that wants to get
away.
A boy can't understand why his
mother is so pleasant when a. guest
breaks a dish. and spanks him for even
cracking one.
When a woman sees a handsome
park in city, she thinks what a pity
it is to waste the grass when it would
support a COW.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-04-21

A stopping place of our own in the
Mediterranean would come handy for
vessels going east to the Philippines.
Has the sultan thought Of this?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-04-21

David B. Hill says there is perfect
harmony in the ranks Of the New York
Democracy, and David is a Democrat.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-04-21

If Turkey gets into a row with the
United States it viii cost her more than
sec. 900 to get out.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-04-21

How would it do to send a war shiI
on a friendly call to Constantinople, as
we did to Havana?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-04-21

Canned beef is to be tried on the
army in the Philippines. It can't be
charged to Alger this time.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-04-21
GLOBE SIGHTS

LFrom the Atchison Globel
If it's good butter we don't care
it is Jersey or Holstein.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-04-21

A vice regent in Porto Rico and
Viceroy's wife in India What airs we
are assuming.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-04-21

It isn't fair to measure other people
in your half bushel, but you probably
do it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-04-21

An Atchison young man who started
soldier, at $13 a month.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-04-21

Lots of women call themselves worms
in their prayers whose honest opinion
is that they are birds.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-04-21

You know how freely and recklessly
you talk about other people? Well,
that's the way they talk about you.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-04-21

Child Verse: Poems Grave and
Cay" by John B. Tabb, may please
some of the children that see it, but is
more apt to appeal to older readers, be-
ing composed largely of puns and other
verbal conceits. Small, Maynard &
Co.. 81
New-York tribune., 1900-11-03
HILLIIu L &TRONG

New-York has lost good citizen. who served
this city faithfully and we'll and earned its last
ingy grateful remembrance His three years
administration Of the Mayors office is looked
back 10 hy all honest men with regret and
with longing for the day when similar good
government may once more be their happy lot.
behlhd II Is seen the long stretch of Tammany
mlslule and corruption eliminating in the
ioathSome conditions which finally aroused
NeW-I"rk To the need of reform This side of
II the rammany government of unbridled Ii
Gems" and Unsuitable greed is an ntiction of
present everyday experience which makes even
the politicians who found Mayor Strong a block
III their path and the irrec0ncabe utoDianS
who had no patience with him because he did
not al once Introduce The millennium agree OH
thc merits Of his work and the purify of his
motives
William l.. Strong was an honest man and
an able man, who by his own efforts made all
honorable and influential place for himself rs
successful merchant and man of affairs. He
was IA business man rather than a politician
and even II he had never held office would
have ranked among the leading citizens Yet
II L. principally because of his not long and
somewhat amateurish career in active politics
that New-I"rkers Will remember him best and
h0hor nm most. Mayor Strong entered the
CITY Hall in 1879 10 take up almost ilnpossi-
oie task He was 10 bc the non partisan Mayor
ele ted by and under the Influence of half :,
dozen different sets of partiSans. each intent
on getting aS much AZ il could of the spoils of
once me result was not n0n-partisanship Dut
HuIli-Jariisanship. Friction and dlsapp0int-
ment were inevitable. Cliques were fighting
against cliqueS within the administration circle
NoOody secured aS much he wanted. while
each secured enough 10 anger rival DartiSanS
ana non-partisan reformers over his success
Probably the greatest mistake which Mavor
Strong made while in office was this early al
tempt TO satisfy the various ranks of his sun-
poflers. Dut II was a perfectly natural mistake
lie dld what almost everybody expected lin
TO do. and his failure 10 secure hormnni ,us
work is TO he remembered not as a bIemish ON
his record. but as a lesson in the science of
municipal government which his cxneriment
furnished. He himself learned It, and after his
experience with Mr.. Platt on the one hand and
the Parkers and OBriens on the other he gave
up trying TO satisfy the spoilsmen and went
on his way with their enmity. Unfortunately
they had already intrenched themselves in too
many places where they could block reforms
and they did their best in the latter part or
his term TO bring his administration into dis
credit. And at its end Mr.. Platt in his efforts
To defeat Seth Low and return Tammany to
power, also sought to vilify him and cover him
with ridicule.
nevertheless. Mayor Strong went ont of office
with the respect and gratitude OF the great BODY
OF his fellow citizens That feeling has only
deepened as minor points of criticism fade in
'he distance and as time shows the real and
New-York tribune., 1900-11-03
Nrw2lprk DAILY 0ribm,ts
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 3. 1900.
THE NEWS THIS MORNfNG.

FoREIGN-The foreign Ministers at Peking
continue their discussions of peace terms. pdt
final note to China is likely TO ne oeId!e go IL
several weeks: the allies destroying FlllaseS
that harbcr the Boxers French detaciliient @
has occupied the Imperial tombs at 5; ol-I-iIs;
the allies have as prisoners about one huhui ca
of the members Of the Imperial harem, anu .ney
have recovered the body of the faVorlte vie , on
Emperor Kwang- Su who was drowned by oraer @
Of the Empress Dowager. ---- MI. bIou M N 80
appointment British Secretary OF W ar hde
been well received by the social ana millldiS
classes Of London, but it is believed 10 mean @
that there will he no genuine REFORM ol lle SSs
tom -- Russia is taking further steps 10 de-
Nelop the industrial resources OF Norm ferSld.
DOMESTIC.-Ciovernor Roosevelt ended ms
political tour at OWegJ his campaigning pelns
the most remarkable performance in the ms
tor,- Of noItics --- Senator BeVeTidge made
an emphatic denial of the published statement
that he feared landslide TO Bryan. ana re-
iterated his prediction that Indiana would give
Mckinley 40 600 ma jority. -==-- The Naval Con
struction Board adopted programme for l:'ol
which contemplatcs the building OF thlrty-t"o
vessels-three hattleships. two armored CRUISERS
TWENTY-FIVE gunboats and five auxiliary vessels
- The Powers. il is said in Washington. VIII
demand the retirement of the Empress Dow
aser crea ton Of indemnity fund and aholi-
tion of the TsunE-li- Yamen- ------ Bryan con-
tinue1 his campaign in Chicago, delivering
dozen speeches: he issued statement. in which
he declared the Republican campaign fail
Ire All the hig college football teams play
important games to-day.
CITY.-Stocks were dull and firm =---=- Win
the Empire City Track: Flaunt. Car
Funcie. Mesaba, Belle Of Troy. Pigeon Post st.
FInian. --= Ex-Mayor Strong died ther sud
denly al his home. from heart disease. brought
OF by his long illness. - Assistant District
Attorney Osborne made statement partly inn
plicatng the witnesses to William Marsh Rces
signature in the conspiracy with Patrick and
Jones --- Cornelius /. AlNCrd. jT.. the First
National Bank defauter. was held for trial in
Sl50,HO bail by United States Commissioner
Shields. = a shipping clerk who kneeling
on the sidewalk was shot by pedestrian. and
may die. - Further plans for the big Sound
Money Parade TODAY made
THE WEATHER.-Forecas for to-day: Fair.
The temperature yesterday: Highest. 20 de-
erees lowest. IS; average. t:Ia.
New-York tribune., 1900-11-03
TRUSTS AND CENSUS FIGURES.

Tie census will show. 1t is said. that the
number of manufacturing establishments IN
the United States has increased from about 3d.
900 in 1890 to about 600. 900 in 1900. That is
an increase of more than II per cent. or about
three and half times great rs the increase
in population.
The fact is interesting and highly gratifying
in itself. 1t is particularly significant as COM
ment upon much of the current clamor about
trusts their prevalence and their ruinous effects
upon the industrial world. We have been ;Old
time without number that the industries of the
Nation are being consolidated in the hands of
great corporations. and that in consequence
many factories are being closed and abolished
and hosts OF men are being thrown out of en-
pIoyment That would be deplorable state
Of affairs If II existed. According to the census
it does not exist On the contrary. the number
Of individual manufacturing establishments in
the country is rapidly increasing. three and
half times as rapidly the population. OF
course. the number Of men and the proper
tiOnatP number of men thus employed must
also he increasing. These are conditions px-
acty the reverse of those which Bryanite spell
binders and calamity howlers would have us
believe.
And how about trusts: Well the census GER
Either the trusts are not decreasing but are
increasing, the number of factories and en-
pOyes or else the trusts do not after ALL con-
troll more than small fraction of the indus
tries of the country. Either of these conclu-
siOns must be highly disturbing to the personal
comfort Of the octopus hunter
New-York tribune., 1900-11-03

dealing with the currency question. Men are
too much i'll earnest. Suppose he should de-
clare himself in favor of paying Government
obligations in silver No reassuring wink Eor
whispered aside would reconcile the friends
of the gold standard. Or If he announced his
intention TO pay in gold and TO maintain the
gold standard no secret tips that II was just a
kid would for moment appease the wrath
of fhe silverites st such apostasy from the i'm
mutable creed of Chicago. 1896. No; the Amer
ican people are too much in earncst on this
subject to permit the success of any such bunco
game. Like the Fallen Angel the False Prophet
of Popocracy is driven to exclaim. which way
turn is hellr' From such dread alternatives
he seeks refuge in silence. But in such Cx-
tremty silence as Webster said OF suicide is
itself confession. and It is confession OF 'he
worst.