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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-03-23
Tremendous Issue Forced Upon the
People.

New York Evening Post:
Herein lies the portentous importance
Of DR.. Crum 8 case. In him the preju-
dice of caste strikes at his whole race.
His rejection confirms Secretary Roots
description of the mighty question that
is soon to confront this republic. The
south, with an alarming amount of aid
and comfort from the north, is deter
mined to drive colored men from office,
and to rob them of the ballot. A mem
Der of a Republican cabinet stands up
before the veterans of the Union League
club and tells them that negro suffrage
is a failure No outcry follows, no pro-
tests are heard. No champion of the
black man arises in congress to make
a flaming appeal to the fundamental
principles of democracy, or to the mem
cries Of our heroic age. 1t is left for a
Catholic prelate to tell these cOuspira-
tors against the negroes political rights
this nation Yes and why ed
ucate him at all, if the natural fruits
of education are to be denied him2 DR..
Crum of Charleston is admitted to be
an educated gentleman. He stands
head and shoulders above the people of
his own race. He represents the color
ed man who has risen as the disfran-
chisers say they would like to see all
negroes rise But how can they be ex-
pected to want to rise when they see
the ordinary recognition and reward of
ability and character withheld from a
man who has risen simply on account
of the color of his skin? We involve
ourselves in all sorts Of embarrass-
ments and contradictions the moment
we depart from the plain democratic
principle of opportunity and a career
open to talent irrespective of the acct
dent of birth. If we viii not let men
freely rise, be they black or red, the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-03-23
RECEPTION TO FRANCIS.
Thousands of St. Louis Citizens Greet
Worlds Fair President.

St Louis. Mo. March 23.-President
David r. Francis of the Louisiana
Purchase Exposition company. who re-
turned last night from an extended Eu-
ropean trip on which he met with great
success in securing promises of repre-
sentation by the leading powers at the
coming Worlds fair was today tender
ed a reception on change, where he re-
ceived a Veritable ovation. The vast hall
was crowded With several thousand
persons, among them representatives of
every commercial body in St. Louis.
Addresses We're made by President Bal
lard of the Merchants exchange, Mayor
Wells, President Francis and former
Governor E. 0. Standard
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-03-23
AFRIoA's BUSINESS REVIVAL

South Africa is proving an important
commercial field. now that conditions in
that part of the world are returning to
normal state. Figures just received by
the treasury bureau of statistics show
that the imports into Natal in 1902
amounted TO IS million dollars, against
so millions in 1901; and those into Cape
Colony. 40 millions in 1902. against 12o
millions in 1901. This makes the total
imnortations into Natal and Cape
Colony in 1902. 245 million dollars, in
round terms. against 40 millions in 1901
This increase in the importations into
the South African colonies is not merely
a recovery from the depression of the
war period. but is an actual and large
gain over conditions which existed
prior to that time
These statements Of the rapid growth
eff tho importations into South Africa
are especially interesting in the United
States because of the rapid increase of
our own exports to that part of the
world Exports from the United States
TO Africa have grown from million
dollars in 1892 to 80 millions in 1902 and
in the seven months Of the fiscal year
1903 for which reports are available were
nearly 3 million dollars in excess Of
those of the corresponding months of
the fiscal year 1902.
Africa seems likely to prove. at no
distant day. a better field than South
America for the exporters Of the United
States. To South America our exports
grew from 80 million dollars in 1892 to
80 millions i'm 1902. an increase of 5 mil
lion dollars. while to Africa. our exports
grew from . millions in 1892 to 80 mil
lions in 1902, an increase of % million
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-03-23
Business Opportunities for All.

Locations in Iowa Illinois, Minnesota
and Missouri on the Chicago Great
Western railway. the very best agri-
cultural sections of the United States
where farmers are prosperous and busi-
ness men successful. We have de-
rnand for competent men with the nee
essary capital for all branches Of BUSH
ness. Some special opportunities for
creamery men and mlllers- Good loca-
tions for general merchandise, hard
ware. harness, hotels. banks and stock
buyers Correspondence solicited Write
for maps and Maple Leaflets W J.
Reed. Industrial agent, 6o4 Endicott
building St. Paul, MINI.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-03-23
Troubles of the McLaughIins.

Anderson. Ind, March 23.-Thomas F.
Mclaughlin. of St. Louis. who was ar
rested here last night, returned to Mar
ion today with an officer to answer To
the charge of kidnapping his own child.
He was discharged Mclaughlin stated
that he went to Marion yesterday 10
visit his child and learned that his wife
had left Marion. Ind. and Joined an
opera company at KOkOmo- McLaugh-
lin and his wife are well known on the
stage. The child is now with the wife-s
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-03-23
WORSE THAN EVER.
La SOufriere Has Been Cannon
aiding All Day.

Kingston, Island Of St Vincent, $50
p. M, March 23.-Tha eruption of the
SOufrierre continues. The volcano has
been cannonading ala day and the guam
tity of election is apparently greater
than at the time II either OF the pre-
vious eruptions, but stormy winds are
driving the clouds northward. There
has been a heavy fall Of ashes and
black sand in the northern districts,
which caused 1 few casualties The in
habitants are merging southwark in
great excitement
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-03-23
Does Monroe Doctrine Make Peace ?

LesIle7s weary.
The Monroe doctrine in its present
application to the situation in South
America received clear. forcible and
eloquent Interpretation by ex-Postmas-
ter General Smith in his recent speech
at the annual dinner of the Albany So
ciety Of New York at Delmonico's THE
Monroe doctrine he said, is far more
an American necessity today than when
il was proclaimed eighty years ago.
Then it was the joint movement OF
England and the United States against
the Holy Alliance. Insistence upon it
now insures US from being complicated
in the expansive and imperialistic de-
signs of the great world powers over
the sea. and is our best guarantee of
peace" These words are true, and we
shall gain and not lose in the respect
of our European neighbors if we reso-
lutely uphold the doctrine as thus de
fined
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-03-23
EDITORIAL oommENr.

Electing Senators by Popular Vote.
Philadelphia InQuirer-
One Of the changes that are bound to
come sooner or later in the constitution
Of the United States is i'm the manner
OF electing senators.
As the years have worn on the plan Of
permitting legislatures to make the
choice has been criticised more and
more Legislatures are usually more
easily handled than the people can ba
The result has been scandals innumer-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-03-23
TAKEN BY LaDRONES.
Town in Northeastern Part Of
MindanaO Is Captured.

Manila. March 23-The town of Surf
ago, in the northeastern part Of the ISL
and Of Mindanao. was captured yester-
day by LadrOnes, who killed Constabu-
larry Inspector Clarke and several 9TH
ers. A detachment of thirty men be-
longing to the Tenth infantry under
the command of Iieutenants Patterson
and Brown is hurrying from Iolgan on
the northwest coast of Mindanao to
Suriago on the transport Kelley with
orders to recapture that place.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-03-23

People who were surprised st the sud-
dcnness with which the beet sugar men
ceased opposition to the Cuban reciproc-
Cry treaty can now understand it, 1t was
so amended as to deprive it Of effective
ness for a long time If not permanently.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-03-23
Kennedy Is Freed.

New York. March 23.-The Indictment
of murder in the first degree against
Dr. Samuel J. Kennedy was dismissed
today DR. Kennedy was charged with
the murder of Dollie Reynolds in the
Grand hotel, on August S, 1899 Ken
nedy was convicted and was in the
death house a Sing Sing for p months.
until new trial was ordered. on the
new trial the jury disagreed and he was
released on bail.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-03-23

The long silence of Mary MacLane is
regarded as ominous 1t is feared that
there is something doing in the~way of
recording emotions for publication, in
Mary's vicinity.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-03-23
Power to Regulate Commerce.

Cleveland Leader:
The power to regulate commerce
among the several states. which is con-
ferred upon congress by the federal
constitution, appears, in the light OF the
decision OF the supreme court in lot
terry case to be broad and plenary. If
that decision has been interpreted cor
Tectly. congress may not only regulate
commerce among the states. but it may
by law prohibit such commerce when it
shall be deemed injurious to public in
terest.
This decision is important. for it gives
new force and effect to the Sherman
antitrust law, which has been held by
some good lawyers to be ineffective as
complete remedy for the trust evil. It
VIII place in the hands of the attorney
general a powerful weapon with which
TO combat the big industrial cOmbina-
tions that are operated in restraint Of
Interstate commerce and with a view to
destroying competition in the exchange
of products among the states. The de-
cision further renders unnecessary the
adoption of a constitutional amend
ment, which was insisted upon by the
Republicans of the last congress, con
ferring additional powers upon con-
gress.
There appears to be full justification
for this decision. if the provision Of the
constitution, in section of article 1,
amounts to anything. The giving of
power to congress to regulate commerce
with foreign nations, among the several
states, and with the Indians, could not
have been without meaning. Nobody
has heretofore questioned the right Of
congress to prohibit commerce with a
foreign nation or with the Indians when
such commerce was held to be injuri-
Gus Why should there be question as
to the right of congress to exercise the
same power In the regulation of COM
TnerCe among the several SfafaS9
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-03-23

London. March 23.-Earth shocks were.
reported from the continent yesterday
and today. At CunO. northern italy.
there was a slight shock this morning
while various points between LANDAU.
and WOerth. South Bavaria. yesterda y
experienced shocks which frightened
the Inhabitants but caused no damags.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-03-23
LOW COLORIST RATES TO THE
NORTHWEST AND CALIFORNIA.

From February 10 until April so. tbs
Burlington makes greatly reduced one
way rates for settlers going to Call
fornia, Montana. Big Horn Baslns
Idaho. Washington. Oregon. Puget
Sound County and British Column ola-
Generally speaking, the reduction =
from 25 to 30 ner cent.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-03-23
It Is Erie R. R. All the wav.

Travel via the Erie railroad from Chi
cago to New York Every mile pic
turesque and every mile protected by
safety block signals. Through service
to New York. Boston and Columbus.
Stopover of ten days allowed or all
through tickets at Cambridge Springs
and Niagara Falls Lowest rates. A
w Moore. travelling passenger agent,
Kansas City Missouri
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-03-23
LIMITED is WRECKED.

The east bound Rock Island Golden State
Limited was wrecked at Lawrence this
forenoon by colliding with a freight train.
No one was injured.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-03-23

Why not Hearst OF Shepard. says th'
Omaha World-Herald. if New York in
slsts on furnishing the Democratic can
dfdate in 1904
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-03-23

only alternative is to keep them in
slavery, or to thrust them back into it
If they have temporarily escaped from
its miseries.
1t is a tremendous issue that is forced
upon Us IN this new oppression or the
negro. It is big with the fate of parties
and Of the nation itself. We can only
allude to it today, but it looms large
on the horizon as the question which,
in the next few months, will be a SUI
preme test of the Republican party,
and viii show whether it has indeed
turned its back upon its founders and
martyrs.
Point of View of Negro Himself
The Worlds Work:
In most Of the discussion of the race
problem little IS said Of the Negroes own
point of view. He is the chief figure OF
it all. He is at once the innocent cause
of it and the chief factor in its solution.
There has not been time enough nor
work enough nor money enough nor OPP
portunity for great masses Of them to
be built up to responsible citizenship,
but the leaders of the race-the real
leaders-shoW a steady growth in thrift.
in reSDOnsl biItY and good citizenship.
A study of the result of the work done
at any of the great schools where they
are properly trained viii give the most
Respondent man high hope In &act, the
record OF the best men and women who
have gone out from Hampton and Tus-
kegee and other such training places
make one OF the most remarkable chap
tiers in human progress The negro con-
ferences that are held at Tuskegee show
year after year growth of character and
Of economic efficiency among large
masses Of them, and the reports of the
Negro business Mems league and other
such bodies tell Of reInarlra BILE progress
The negroes children, too. will be wiser
than he is; and. after all this whole
problem IS not one that we who are now
living shall see the end Of If we pass it
than we found it-that is all we can
hope to do. And no man who knows
southern life can for q moment doubt
that it is now in very much better shape
than it was twenty years ago. So much
better is 1t that the aspects it now pre-
sents are not Encouraging to those who
know what has been done.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-03-23
The WAY 10 GO.

Take Burlington trains at St Louis.
Kansas City, St. Joseph. Omaha, Den
yer or Chicago. With its close connec-
ffons the Great Northern. and North
ern Pacific roads, and with its through
train service the Burlington offers more
to the settler than any other line OF
com bfnation of lines into the North
west.
The "Burlington-No Northern Pacthc
Express" is the great daily train with
through chair cars, coaches and through
tourist siaeners This Is the only
through train into the Northwest joint
IL with the Nnrthern PACIFIC road
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-03-23

What is Topeka doing and what viii
she do toward growing bigger this year2
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-03-23

Antiseptic is a mighty word but Il
stands for a mightier suggestion and
prophecy If only the clements Of IN
vigoration were sought cut and used
mans dreams have scarcely measures
the health held in Gods laboratory. our
world.-Rev. A. r. Tilinghast. Trniver-
saIist, Waterloo. Ia.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-03-23

Companionship with God produces
holiness Of character and brings us in
to possession Of heavenly graces that
flow 9rom the divine presence.-Fsev
W. +. Mykoff. Methodist Akron- Is
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-03-23
Receivers to Continue Business.

Trenton. n. J., March 23.-Judge Kirk.
patrick today made an order allowing
the receivers for the Pacific Packing
and Navigating company TO issue GER
tif1cates to the amount OF S1,250,0 900 u
continue the business.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-03-23
RevoIution in san pominro-

Washington, March 2s.-United states
Consul General Maxwell at San Do
mingo has cabled the state department
that a revolution has broken out ia
that city and at the hour he sent the
caDlegram heaVy nring was in progress
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-03-23

4 thing of beauty may remain a sov
forever if you let the other fellow marry
her.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-03-23

Singers and public speakers viii find Pi-
SOS Cure for Consumption an effectual
cure for hoarseness-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-03-23

city Ticket once. Union Pacific
Railroad. SIS Kansas avenue.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-03-23
I0 CALIf0RNIA.

Join the BurIngtOn's personally con-
Quoted California excursions in through
tourist sIeepers which are run on ire
quent dates each week via Denver.
Scenic Colorado and Salt Lake City
MAIN TRAVELLED ROAD:
One makes no mistake in calling for
tickets over the Burlington with its 5000
miles Of main Travelled trunk lines lead
ing to practically all the great cities and
diverging points of the West.
Describe to us your proposed trip and
let US advise you the least cost and send
you free reading matter.
L. J. BHIcKER, L-W. WAKELET.
j. I. A.. SIS Main st.. Oen'i Pass'r Ass1s
Kansas City Mo- 81 Louis. No
T. C. SHARON
D, w. P. A. sea Main St.
Kansas City. Mo.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-03-23

General Industrial
and immigration Agent.
Louisville & Nashville R. r.
LOUISVILLE. KY.
Arizona republican., 1903-06-25

Porto Rico a branch of the democratic party in the United States, with club in every town on the island. He said today:
 T have just returned from trip on the south side of the island in the in terest of the democratic national cen tral committee for the purpose Of establishing centers of it's influence and forming a democratic party on the is land under the guidance of its executive officers. have received a list of names and individual applications for enrolment at the rate of nearly 100 a day since my call for enrolment ten days ago.
 'The object now is to organize and later to hold a convention to elect six delegates to the national democratic convention, who will asN edmittance On the basis of rights due to any terri tory under the flag. Porto Rico can claim sufficient years of political ma turity so that the custom of wearing territorial swaddling clothes will not be required of her. There is ample in- telligence. wealth and morality here to be trusted with st1tehood under the special act 10 suit the conditions eX- isting."
Arizona republican., 1903-06-25
IRA (. HARTZELL HOME
But Like FIannisan He'll Be "GOne
 Asin" Very Soon.

Ira C. HartZell is in town. He came yesterday but he don't intsnd to stay long for ne is going shortly to 'Chili. South America, to sec an old friend
 When the Spanish American war broke out Mir. Hartzell was 9 tall yer dant farmer boy from the Glendale neighborhood and has brother living out there now. He heard his country's call and reported at the rough riders recruiting office in this city as quick ly as possible and was enrolled by Captain McClintock. When the boys left here for Prescott the captain went through the train but couldn't find him and thought he had been overcome with faint heart. But when the train drew into Glendale he climbed aboard and got to Prescott as soon as anybody To make a long story short he served with B troop clear through it's Cuban campaign and when dis charged came home with @ good record. Shortly after there was another call for troops for service in the Philip pines and Mir Hartzell was ore of the first men in this town to put his name down. He was sent to Colorado, joined the Thirty fourth ard served his full time in the islands being discharged there.
 By that time he had begun to feel like d soldier and was making good success Of the business. He re-enlist- ed as a scout and while thus employed the Boxers ribbed up new job for him over in China whither he went ia government employ as secret service man.
 After the closing of that incident he decided that in justice to himself he ought to see the rest of the Orient while he was over that way for the manner in which international affairs were moving along indicated that he might have to go to some other part of the world before long as the Hague tri bunal didn't seem to hold the key to the situation. So he went to Australia and put in some time studying English methods in the Orient.
 When he got through there. there seemed to be nothing special going on and nobody around to start anything so he thought he would come home and -see the folks. He is here now and while not busy visiting is laying out his South American campaign. There's always something doing down there.
Arizona republican., 1903-06-25
FORMER ARIzONiAN Trying to Organize a Democratic Party
 in Porto Rico.

IL will be remembered that Arizona once had a legislator by the name of .. M. Field. He was d democratic rep resentstive from Yuma county in the Eighteenth legislative assembly. He is now engaged in organizing d demo- cratic party in-Porto Rico. A late dis patch from San Juan says:
 D. NJ. Field of Guayama is leader in an active movement to organize in
Arizona republican., 1903-06-25

The rolled barley of the Capitol Mills is the best in town.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1903-02-18
Tendency OF the Times.

The tendency of medical science Is to.
ward preventive measures. The best
thought of the world ia being given to
the subject. Itis easier and better to
prevent than to cure. 1t has been fully
demonstrated that pneumonia, one OF
the most dangerous diseases that medi-
cal mon have to contend with, can be
prevented by the use of Cbamberlain's
Cough Remedy. Pneumonia always re-
suits from cold or from an attack of
influenza (grip), and IL has been observed
that this remedy counteracts any ten
dency of these diseases toward pncumo-
mia. This has been fully proven in many
thousands of cases in which this remedy
has been used during the great preva-
lence of colds and grip in recent years,
and can be rolled upon with implicit con-
fidence. Pneumonia often results from
q slight cold when no danger is appre-
hended until 1t is suddenly discovered
that there is fever and difficulty in
breathing and pains in the chest, then it
is announced that the patient has pneu-
monia. Bo on the safe side and take
Chamberlain's Cough Remedy as soon as
the cold is contracted. 1t always cures.
For sale by j. w. Bell, druggist.
Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1903-02-18
Hall Rates Over The Southern.

On account of the Mardi Gras, TO be
held at New Orleans, La, Mobile, Ala,
way will sell roand-trip tickets from all
points at rate of one fare for the round
trip. Tickets on sale February 18th to
23d, inclusive, and for trains arriving at
above points on the morning of Fsbru-
ary IA, limited for return until February
28, except that by deposit OF ticket by
the original purchaser, perst nally. with
the Joint agent, not earlier IL a. Febru-
airy 18th and not later than February
at the time the ticket is deposited, an
extension can be had until March i4th,
1903. Apply to any agent of the Souths
ern Railway, or to II. w. Hunt, Division
Passenger Agent, Charleston, s.. c., or
w. III. Tayloe, Assistant General Pas
senger Agent, Atlanta, Ga.