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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-05-30
REED DIMES IN COURT.
Ex-speaker Produces a Feast of Bis
cults and Chicken.

New York, May 3e.-Thomas Bracket
Reed qualified as an expert in electric
ity in the United States court yester-
day. Taking his lunch with him, stow
ed away in his Well-wOrn yellow grip
sack reminiscent of the days when he
used to campaign for congress up in
Maine. he sat all day long in a class in
higher electricity drinking in the tech
meal terms with much gusto. and
wound up by reading his essay from a
pink manuscript
The big ex-speaker was the m ost
earnest student of the profound mys-
teries Of electricity in the crowded
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-05-30

$40 and $3.50 Finest NJ Suits just in Styles tomorrow, SIS
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-09-05
IL Is Iime to Stop.

A decision rendered by the comp
troller of the treasury that navy funds
cannot be used to entertain congress
men or other officials invited by Sec
rotary Moody to witness the coming
maneuvers has doubtless spoiled a
pleasant outing for some distin-
guished statesmen. The comptroller
was once a congressman and there
fore knows a thing or two abeut
junkets, and the cold, distant manner
with which he intimates that he does
not see that any good will inure to
the navy from the presence of the
congressman gives rise to the sus-
picion that he is laughing in his
sleeve while he digs Mr.. Moody's
would-be guests in the ribs.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-09-05
No Surplus Needed.

We are actually country that has
more money than 1t knows what to do
with. In spite Of our lavish appro-
priations, the reduction OF the war
taxes and our heavy expenditures. the
treasury still groans under a surplus
of 5000, 100000 that will not down.
We do not want SO huge a surplus.
We have no use for it. But unless
we make a bonfire Of 1t there Is no
way to get rid of 1t except to lower
the tariffs. This would be treading
on the toes of the protected trusts
which now dominate Congress. Our
big surplus is simply growth engen-
dered by the protected interests. 1t
invites waste, is idle capital and In
every way demoralizing to the coun-
try. But the greedy trusts say
hands off," and the people submit
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-09-05
Fruits of Republican Policy.

The poor eating poorer meat and
less meat-many of them no meat at
all-because a Republican Congress
refused to take off the tariff duties
which protect the Food trust in it's
monopoly.
Americans are paying more for
American-made goods than the people
of foreign countries pay, because the
Republican Congress refused to re-
move or reduce the tariff duties which
enable the trusts to perpetrate this
swindle.
Farmers, workingmen, clerks and all
others who are not able to purchase
clothing made of imported cloth are
cheated into buying garments COM
posed in large part Of shredded rags,
because the Shoddy trust could rally
the protected interests" to it's de-
tense when it was proposed to the Re-
publican Congress to compel the
shoddy crooks, to label their counter
felt wares for what they really are,
instead of working them off on the de-
fnuded public as wooden goods.
Such are few of the fruits Of the
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-09-05
Demand for Tariff Reduction.

1t is evident that public sentiment.
as manifested through the press and
the platforms Of state conventions, Is
rapidly crystalizing into demand
upon congress to make a general re-
duction in the tariff schedule, more
particularly on protected goods that
are being sold abroad for less than is
exacted at home. The action OF the
Democratic congressional committee
in making tariff reduction, especially
as applied to the trusts, the paramount
issue of the coming canvass is very
significant. 1t forces upon the Repub-
licans the political expediency as we'll
as the economic necessity of giving
attention to the gross injustice Of high
protection as generally applied.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-09-05
Parties and Tariff Revision.

Our Republican friends are reapfng
the united consequences of difficulty,
danger and insincerity. The tariff
revision question is their difficulty.
The certainty that they cannot rem
,edy one of the inequalities of the tar
Tiff without depriving themselves Of
excuse for not remedying more Of
them, is their danger. The fact that
the managers of their party really
do not mean to remedy any of these
inequalities, but only mean to play at
seeming to remedy some of them, ad-
yertises their insincerity.
There is mo use" of toying with
the question as a commercial one. a
political one or an economic one,
merely. 1t is all that, and more. 1t
is a moral question and its essentially
moral character cannot be put out Of
view by verbal juggling or by empha-
sizing the minor phases of the mat
ter. On tariff propositions all history
teaches plainly this lesson: Pay no
attention whatever to anything any
Republican platform says, but watch
carefully what Republican Legislators
do.
Any law which gives to those who
make things an unfair advantage over
those who have to buy things cannot
escape protest when that quality in 1t
is found out. The American people
are just, brave, intelligent and up
right. Their sense of injustice is
aroused when they discover that man.
ufacturers here sell their products to
people abroad at lower prices than
they charge to home buyers. Their
courage rises in resentment at that
fact. Their ability to change it is
challenged. Their conviction is that
the reform of such conditions pre-
sents to them righteous cause.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-09-05
Republicans and Tariff Revision.

That the high protectionists who
control the Republican party mean to
prevent any revision of the tariff is
evident, but they are not likely to
make the political mistake of split.
ting the Republican party by a con-
test over the presidential nomination.
They will content themselves with
retaining control of the legislative
branch of the government, where they
can, by methods which proved so
effective in the case of the late Ia
mented Cuban reciprocity bill, throttle
all efforts at tariff revision. They
have not the nerve to come out and
fight President Roosevelt in the open,
but they will see that his promises
come to naught.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-09-05
Plea of the Beef Trust.

The beef trust practically asknowl-
edges the commission of all the in
EQUITIES charged against it by Attor-
ney General Knox, but it denies that
the law inhibits or restraints such ras-
calities. 1t is a plea of guilt as to the
fact, but a denial of legal RESPONSE
bility. The trust hopes to escape
through the open meshes of loose in
terstate commerce and antitrust leg
islation. If this result shall be &C.
complished 1t will be sore defeat for
the administration and new demon
stration of the inability of the Repub-
lican party to cope with the monster
combinations which it has nourished
into maleficent existence.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-09-05
Illinois Child Laborers

The last report of the Illinois fac
tory inspectors is instructive rather
than reassuring. 1t appears that the
number OF children at WORK. in ILL
nois is now about 10000. This means
an increase of 100 per cent over the
figures of five years ago. BY child"
is understood any person under 16
years of age. The law protects the
child until he is a. The factory in
spector's figures are concerned, there
fore, with children between IA and
16. The number of such children who
go to work instead of keeping at
school is proved by the report to be
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-09-05
NO BANK MONOPOLY
FOWLER BILL A MENACE TO ALL
SMALL INSTITUTIONS.
its Enactment Into Law Would Mean
That One Bank Would Dominate
the Entire country-Lesson Has
Been Learned from Experience.

The bankers of Wisconsin at their
annual convention pronounced against
the Fowler banking bill, with its
scheme for branch banks and circula-
ton secured only by general assets,
in no uncertain terms.
They adopted one resolution declar-
ing themselves opposed to the Fow-
Ter bill and all legislation tending to
the substitution of branch banks for
our present Independent system OF
banking" They adopted another one
declaring themselves opposed to any
law tending toward the substitution
of asset currency for the present ma
tional bank circulation"
One of the speakers against the
Fowler scheme, Banker Frentz of Osh-
kesh, declared that the establishment
of the proposed branch banking sys-
tenn meant the determination of every
small bank throughout the country.
do you know" said he, that the
100000, would dominate this country
if it had branch banks throughout
the country? Do you know it would
dictate the tariff, make or prevent
wars, own all the ships, the railroads,
the mines, and hold the whole coun,
try in the hollow of it's hand?"
Mr.. Frentz and others who spoke
in much the same strain must have
voiced substantially the Sc: timents of
the convention or the resolutions
above quoted would not have been
adopted.
The declaration by Mr.. Frentz
startling as it is, must be taken as an
admission not by himself alone, but
by the reputable bankers who voted
for the resolutions, of the tremendous
power of great central bank If it is
permitted to thrust thousands of ten
tacles out to all parts of the country
The experience of the country with
the old United States bank proves
that such an institution has the power
to crush independent banks, to build
up one town and pull down another
" udhc anu uhHdhC thC ioi tohOo
pecuniary and political, of individuals
and parties, to control public policy
domestic and foreign, and to shape
the legislation of states and the ma
ton to suit it's own purposes.
There is not much in recent expe
rience to show that human nature is
so different now from what it was in
the days of the United States bank
that an institution possessing such
enormous powers will fail to exercise
them so far as it may think necessary
to the accomplishment of its own pur
poses and the further extension of Its
power
1t is well that we hold check upon
financial monopoly.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-09-05
outranes in the PHILIPPINES.

We think the record shows that
Secretary Root kept matters good
deal to himself. 1t should be re-
membered that the outrages which
have been proved all took place a
year or more before whisper was
heard of them in this country. And
it is true that at the time Mr.. Root
said that the war had been humanely
conducted there were papers in Mr..
Roots possession that proved that
there were exceptions.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-09-05
For the Eight-Hour Day

George E. Mcneil of Boston, known
from one end of this country to the
other as the father of the eight-hour
movement, has been chosen by Gov.
Crane as the labor representative on
the Massachusetts, commission au-
thorized by the recent legislature to
urge upon all the other states in the
country the adoption of uniform eight
hour laws. The commission is to con-
sist of five members and its duties
are to Examine the subject and pro-
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-09-05
Hanna's Idea of Trusts.

Senator Hanna's declaration that
there are no monopolies save those
which are protected by parents in
vites research. Possibly he does not
include the beef packing industry
among monopolies, and perhaps, again,
the proprietors of the slaughter
houses have found some means OF
copyrighting the COW. Senator Han
mas expressions of opinion on this
subject have been frequent and con-
sisteht and no doubt are the result
of investigations which go beyond the
popular Interpretation of the word
trust"
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-09-05
A Deathbed Story.

Here is a deathbed story. given,
as far as l can recollect, in the words
of a Roman Catholic Chaplain. The
dying man asked his neighbor
whether he thought he (the dying
mani would go to Heaven. mo, lad,
you won't" was the reply: you'll go
to hell. and you ought to be glad there
is a hell to go to-" Hearing that, the
patient turned over. and died quite
peacefully.-Pall Mall Magazine.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-09-05
A JERSEY Feat.

It was facetiously said years ago
that at fire in Boston hotel some
of the guests made their escape on a
sentence uttered by Senator Evarts.
The senator probably was no match
for Secretary Payne of the New Jer-
sey board Of riparian commissioners,
who, in granting conditional permit
for a 200-foot extension, wrote two
sentences, one of which contained 288
words. That was somewhat more
than word per foot.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-09-05
Mot Remunerative.

Baldwin's failure to reach the pole
again recalls Bill Nye's famous maya
zine article, entitled, as Polar Re-
search Remunerative?" Up to date no
polar explorer has made as much out
of his perilous trade as Bill received
for writing his clever skit.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-09-05
Miniature Court In Paris.

The Due d'Orleans, not being able
to enter France and carry on the roy
alist propaganda himself, Is doing 1t
by deputy. The Duchesse d'Crleans
has been spending some time In Paris
and holding kind Of diminutive court
at Hotel Continental. Deputations Of
various kinds we're received, but the
Indifference with which the whole at
fair was regarded proves how harm
less the move really was.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-09-05
Only tn,y Years Auo.

1t is fifty years since the John
Bowes, the first iron.screw steamer
ever built, was launched at Jarrow-
on-Tyne by Messrs. Palmer Brothers.
The vessel was 465 tons register, and
was calculated to carry thirty keels
of coal and to make thirty trips per
annum between Newcastle and Lon
don.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-09-05
Houses for Employees

The Carmichaels Weaving & Spin
ming company of France. with their
central office in Paris, employ some
1000 people, of which 80 are men, 600
women and 600 children. In order to
provide healthy and economical homes
for their people they have constructed
an industrial colony, comprising nine
ty-three houses. The houses, eXclu-
sive of the land, cost about 5000 each.
They contain a dining room, three
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-09-05
Balfour At Work.

Mr.. Balfour, the new British pre-.
mier, nearly always stands while writ
ing or studying. For many years he
has worked at a tall desk. on which
he keeps two candles. 80 as to be
ready for the dark days so common
n London.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-09-05

The Los Angeles, Cal, County Coun-
Gil of Labor has issued circular
which says: Advertisements are be-
ing run in hundreds of eastern news
papers for the purpose of inducing
carpenters, bench hands, millmen, ma
chine men, fathers, plasterers, hodcar-
riers, and, in fact, mechanics of all
kinds, to come to Los Angeles, where
they are promised steady work at big
pay. In conjunction with these adver-
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-09-05

protective tariff, for which The Repub-
lican party is responsible and which
1t does not dare to reform.
The trusts want the tariff to remain
as 1t is, and 1t will so remain while
the Republican party is In power.
The Republican party is owned by
the trusts.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-09-05
Strikes in the United States.

Fools do not strike" remarks Car
roll D. Wright, national labor commits
sioner, in the North American Re-
view. ut is only men who have in
telligence enough to recognize their
condition that make use of this last
resort" He advocates boards of arbi-
tration based on the successful ones
in operation in Great Britain. Labor
conflicts, in his opinion, grow out OF
increased intelligence. The strike per-
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-09-05
EIeetrle,ty in Agriculture.

An effort is being made in Sweden
to use electricity In agriculture. A
seed field Is covered by a network Of
wire and a strong electric current is
turned on during nights and chilly
days, but cut of during sunny and
warm weather. The system was in
vented by Prof. Lemstrom Of Helsings-
TORS, Finland.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-09-05
An lnulorious Policy.

The paramount issue is the issue
of "the tariff-nurtured trusts" The
oppression of our own people first
calls for relief. Reform, like charity,
begins at home. But the oppression
of foreign people by the republican
party is not to be ignored. 1t is
profitless-nay, more, it is costly. Il
is not only not glorious, it is I'm.
American.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-09-05
Genesis of a Word.

Bug originally meant goblin. The
Welsh word bug means ghost The
Hebrew word which, in Psalms, xc.,
s, is represented by terror" was in
the early translations rendered bug,
the verse being, Thou shalt not need
to be afraid of any bugs by night"
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-09-05
Cause Of steamp,pe explosions.

Many steampipe explosions are due
to water-hammer action. A plug OF
water only six inches long propelled
by only two feet, under pressure OF
fifteen pounds can exert a pressure OF
S,4OO pounds on being suddenly.
stopped.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-09-05

He knew the first sweet wood note OF
the thrush,
The first pale wind-flower hidden In the
grass;
The little shrines where fireflles saying
Swing low their censers through the
marshland's bush:
The quickened sound before the poignant
hush
Which preludes charges at old earths
curass-
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-09-05
A Sure Test.

Words, money, all things else. are
comparatively easy to give away. but
when a man makes a gift of his daily
life and practice. 1t Is plain that the
truth. whatever It may be, has taken
possession Of him.-Lowell.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-09-05
4aBoR5el@esz
A CHILD OF THE WOODS.

That magic moment when the seasons
pass
And all live things a newer promise rush.
He loved the bobolink's familiar call,
The friendly clover nodding to the bees;
The tiger-lilies Haunting, gay and tall.
Their motley coats Of spotted harmonies;
And when the night lay ON the forest
grim,
He heard the tree-tops Groom song for
him.
Charlotte Becker. in Outing.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-09-05
GOOD use for aiexcle.Mets..

A bicycle thief was caught In Lon
don lately. and his theft proved by
the meter registering the exact dis
lance between the place from which
the bicycle was stolen and that where
1t was found In his possession.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-09-05

Musical Composer made Much OF.
Father Hartmann, the young Aus
trian monk, who composed in his mon
astery cell an Grafton which European
critics pronounce masterpiece, has
been feted in Rome and St. Peters
burg, and is now the lion Of the hour
in Vienna
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-09-05
Got Paid for His Autoaraphs.

It is related that Prince Metternich
once asked Jules Janin for his auto
graph. Janin took a sheet of paper
and wrote over his signature: Good
for hundred bottles Of Johannisberg,
to be placed in my cellar" The prince
sent them.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-09-05
Strike Wins Nine-HoUr Day

The nine-hour day was won by the
metal polishers, buffers, platers, brass
molders and brass finishers of Cleve-
land, o. Eighteen manufacturing con-
Germs gave in to the demand. The
settlement made by President E. j.
Lynch was ratified in meeting which
was attended by $50 members. Some
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-09-05
Had the Same Complaint.

Meredith, the novelist. has been in
bad health for some time and now is
unable to take the long country walks
of which he is so fond. The convicts
in Sing Sing prison Issue weekly
paper, the editor Of which feelingly
comments on Mr.. Meredith's condition,
adding: I'VE have been afflicted in the
same way for several years"
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-09-05

The first born of parents have a
much longer life than their brothers
and sisters who come after them This
fact is demonstrated by statistics col
lected by life insurance companies.
Longevity is also SAID to be hereditary.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-09-05
Effect Of Fire on Diamonds.

None can tell where the diamond
goes to in combustion. Burn it, and
1t leaves no ash; the flame is exterior,
like that of a cork, and when 1t has
blazed itself out there remains not
even so much as would dust the an
tennR of a butterfly.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-09-05
Sacredness of Property

We contend for the sacredness OF
property and property rights. Prop
erty is, and should be held. sacred.
Property rights are inherent. But
we must recognize the fact that the
claim of sacredness becomes per-
nicious absurdity unless we restrict
our claims to actual property, i'd est,
real, produced wealth, and unless we
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-09-05
Not an Unmixed Evil

The fight against the consolidation
of railroads and other large interests
seems to be about as effectual as an
attempted trip up Niagara falls In
flatboat would be. The merging OF
all similar productive and other ener-
gies under one management must
eventually bring about the complete
organization of those engaged therein.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-09-05

VIII Erect Monument to CASTELAR,.
A committee Of prominent Span
iards has been selected to raise fund
to erect a monument at Madrid to the
late Emilio CASTELAR,. The subscription
has already reached 100000 pesetas.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-09-05
WllIIno 70 Take chsncss.

A little girl wanted more buttsred
toast. but was told that she'd had
enough and that more would make her
III. WELL" said she. give me anuz-
ger piece and send for the doctor"
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-09-05

True bravery is shown by perform
ing without witness what one might
be capable of doing before the world.
-Rochefoucauld.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-09-05

MilIionth Visitor In Luck.
When the millionth visitor passed
through the turnstile at the Dusssl-
dorf exhibition he was presented by
valuable gold watch a-d chain.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-09-05

Liberal MASSACHUSETTS Man.
Frederick Tanning Aver, of Lowell,
Mass, has just given 100000 to four
charitable institutions in that city.
OF this sum $4,000 goes to the Old
Ladies' Home
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-09-05

iod in industry is one of development,
and when laborers shall have &C.
commodated themselves to the new
conditions and when employers shall
have recognized the increased intelli-
gence of their employees, these mat
tiers will be handled in such way as
to prevent in the future repetition
of incidents like those which are
chronicled in the statistical history OF
the strikes of the last 20 years"
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-09-05

growing larger. That such tendency
is desirable no one will now try to
maintain. The boy or girl under 16
has not yet had either the mental or
the physical development which the
stress Of modern industrial conditions
demands. Now and then 1t may be
well for the boy to 60 to work early.
In most cases, however, as Mrs. Flor
ence Kelley and all other persons who
have given the subject their atten-
ton are willing to testify, early work
means reduced vitality and impaired
efficiency. Child labor is a waste as
we'll as a crime.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1902-09-05
An Astronomical Problem.

To find the relative distance of the
sun and stars suppose the earth and
sun but one inch apart. At the same
relative distance the nearest fixed star
would be just eleven miles away.