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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-20

largely UNEMPLOYED, and the discovery of
new areas of rubber-bearing vegetation
is not infrequent, and may continue for
many years.
Rubber was experimental with for
years in other countries before it's cultiva-
ton was undertaken in Mexico, and, ac-
States department of agriculture, the ex-
perimentS have always been failures.
There is yet no good reason to be-
lieye that its cultivation in Mexico will
prove any more successful than it has
been in other countries. 1t has been esti-
mated that 1000 different species of rub
Der trees contain rubber, though COM
mercial quantities have been obtained
from only 40 or So
1t has been found by experimenters in
other countries that a rubber-producing
tree which will flourish in any given To-
caIity will not necessarily yield rubber.
Para wild rubber is worth about so per
cent more on the market than the few
pounds of rubber from the cultivated
Castilloa elastica which have thus far
been marketed.-Orange Judd Farmer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-20
Rubber Plantations Not Practical.

In spite of repeated warnings from a
great variety. of sources, school teachers,
preachers and other persons working on
small salary in the United States con-
tinue to invest their savings in rubber
companies about which they know moth
ing. According to Vice Consul Conley of
Mexico, theoretically, rubber culture is d
alluring proposition, but thus far it has
not yielded any practical results.
The cultivation of rubber is based upo2
the supposition that the supply of wild
rubber will one day be exhausted or
greatly curtailed, but this hypothesis is
entirely uncertain. The regions from
which the supply now comes are still
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-20

because the people of San Francisco
were too grateful to them.
A story is told of Mr.. Mighels,
author of 'Bruvver Jim's Baby" who
met an importunate evangelist years
ago. when the author first visited the
eastern states. The man of divinity,
having learned that Mr.. Mighels came
from the wild west, was much con-
cerned for the writer's soul. MY dear
sir" he finally said. "Are you quite
prepared for the time when you must
die?' Mr. AIighels replied very cheer
fully, "Oh, I am fully insured" His
man was not confounded. but sir
he persisted. 81 refer to your spiritual
welfare. Are you prepared for what
may happen to your soul after your
bodily dissolution ?" Mr. Mighels
gravely answered, "Oh, yes, IS far as
possible. 1 have left instructions that
when they prepare me for the last sad
rites they are to let me go to the
funeral with a harp in one hand and
q fre-escape in the other"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-20
The Kansas Wesleyan Business College

lege west of the Mfssisssippi highest
standard, national reputation. Seventeen
professional teachers. Positions guaran-
teed to all competent stenographers and
bookkeepers from our school. Graduates
sent to all parts of the world. Tuition
low. Board cheap. For Journal address
Il. w. ROACH, Supt., Salina, Kans.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-20

remarked the observer of events and
wife requests him to 90 into the Kitchen
and repeat those words to the cook. he's
ready for the woods. '-Yonkers States
man
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-20

"A Judge Will sit on his bench all day
and say 50 times: You are discharged. !"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-20

miscreants were not caught, probably
because the people of San Francisco
were too grateful to them.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-20

Jesus had no sympathy for an easy
life and soft creeds. 1t is far easier IL
force the enemy than to bear the daily
burden with cheerfulness.-ReV. DR..
Taylor. Poughkeepsie, N. Y.
SPIRITUAL DEMOCRACY
We have improved, we have some
thing to show for our work, we started
out upon the principle of equality, and
we have never abandoned it yet.-ReV.
DR.. Patton, Presbyterian, Princeton, N.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-06-25
Bryan self-Convicted.
Chicago chronicle.


The Chronicle submits the speech of
William ]. Bryan at Cooper Union,
New York, reported in these columns
yesterday. as complete proof of all
that it has at any time alleged against
him.
Twenty years ago the leading
aspirants for the Democratic Presideh-
tial nomination were Grover Cleveland.
Thomas F. Bayard, Allen G. Thurman,
Samuel j. Randall and Joseph e. Nc
Donald. Governor Tilden, a former
Democratic candidate, was still living
Can anyone imagine Samuel ]. Tilden
going to Delaware, to Pennsylvania, to
Ohio or to Indiana and making ante
convention speeches against Bayard.
Randall, Thurman and Mcdonald. de-
nouncing them as dishonest, treacher-
GUS cowardly, straddling. weak, frau
dulent. negative and subservient to
Wall Street?
Can anyone imagine Bayard going to
New York in advance of the convention
for the purpose of assailing Cleveland
or Cleveland going to Ohio and India
ma for the purpose Of making speeches
and Mcdonald?
The reason why Bryan assumes this
attitude toward Judge Parker is to be
found in the fact that he is not and
never has been a Democrat. He is at
liberty to SANDER Judge Parker just as
he has always slandered Mr.. Cleveland
and other conspicuous Democrats be-
cause he is a populist.
The case against William ]. Bryan
appeared to be closed. He has con-
victed himself.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-06-25

NOT YET STRAIGHT.

The virginIan- Pilot had. we fondly
imagined, almost reformed of its cranky
notions. but it hasn't. 1t takes excep-
5 tions to The Advertisers view of the
evils OF Organism. and says:
But what we do not understand is
that a newspaper of the capacity OF
The Advertiser should resolutely shut
its eyes to one important fact-that we
were licked in 1896, whatever platform
was made and whatever candidate was
named, before the convention met.
Unpleasant as 1t is to differ from an
esteemed. IL misguided. contemporary.
yet in the interests of truth and fair
ness we must tell 1t that 1t is slightly
of in its dates. We are perfectly will
ing to admit that when the convention
OF 1895 adjourned the Democratic Party
was defeated. All the noise and ex-
pense and effort that followed was a
sort OF ante-mortem wake, as it were,
the only effect of which was to render
the going out more impressive. and to
make the actual wind-up more notable.
The Democratic Party was not de-
feated before the convention. There
were traitors in 1t, beyond doubt. There
were ambitious and selfish politicians
who had been unable to use Cleveland
for their own purposes. and there were
misguided Democrats who firmly and
sincerely believed that the only saliva
ton for the country and the Party lay
in the free coinage of silver Never
theless, If the convention had possessed
the firmness and honesty to withstand
the alluring syren of free silver, and
had nominated a sound Democrat of
the Cleveland stripe on an unequiyocal
Democratic platform, we yet believe
that success was not only possible, but
probable. The country was not so
anxious to get back ~ Republican rnla
that 1t would have refused its support
10 safe Democrat.
But when the crown-of- thorns and
crogs-of-gold fustian had done its
work, and when the convention suffered
itself seduced from the safe harbor of
genuine Democracy and given over to
Populism and socialism, then the work
OF disintegratton began. Neither
chance nor genius nor effort was com
petent to guide the Party to victory nm
der such a leader and on such a plat
form. The Advertiser is not boastful
OF its capacity but 1t has enough OF
that accomplishment to understand that
the Party was defeated when the com
vention adjourned. but not before. We
know what happened but not what
might have been, but for all that we
are far from admitting that the Party
could not have been saved by the right
kind OF man and platform.
However We suppose all this is vast
ed on contemporary which has not vet
recovered from the wry-neck caused by
trying to follow Bryan in all his aber-
rations
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-06-25

active development work being prose-
cuted throughout the State, particular
ly in the central and southern portions
TINS state will continue to increase in
relative Importance not only as a South
ern state, but among all the coal-pro-
ducing States of the Union. Today
West Virginia stands third among the
ai,producers of the country. and is
destined within a few years to rank
next TO pennsylvania. Active railroad
building by the Wabash interests and
ny the Coal and Coke Railroad Com
the northern and central portions nf
West Virginia, the construction OF mn
merous branch lines by the Norfolk
ana western and Chesapeake and Ohio
raliroads together A.th the completion
OF the Deepwater Railway. will witbin
snort time open up vast areas of val
uaple coal land and add several mil
iio MS. 10 the states annual production.
mere was more of this kind OF de-
Velopment work done in West virginia
IN 1913 than in any other coal-produc
ing region of the United States It is
I've 20 West Virginia and the adjoining
areas or Virginia and Kentucky thai
the larger and more president coal-con-
sumlng interests are looking for their
ddecoGe supplies. 1t can not be many
the exhaustion of the ConneIlsvjiIe re-
sloh as source of coke supply. In
our present knowledge of coke-makin9
Tue Tue only coal that will make good the
-. lllt Is tAaJ found in
the three States mentioned. III
IhuS II is that we see coal prospec-
-. takIng up all available territor,
m 1asteth Kentucky, in West Virginia
ana IN southwestern Georgia, and II is
~ ms region that we shall find the
sIettest mining activity in the near In
49, one OF the most prominent fea-
.1FtS OF the Kentucky mining exhibit
a. a. 'Ie louisiana Purchase ExpositIon
:" a sgGSitlph or coal eight feet high from
I .J%t ikeNllle Pike County, Kentucky
~ Mn ~ shoWs the Importance of a IarSe
~ IoW pSlng developed in that seq
IN; out winch must await the com
sph Ir,on VI railway connection before
But great and grovino. - .
S ~ ~ ftg industry in this centre II
az u ~ ~ ~ innate that comparatively M
e eTI " Ine product is consumed Iocaiiv
az al OF nearly all. being shipped to disf,
any points 70 supply manufacturinS ss-
"a @ eLts eastern Kentucky S0ntb-
w nr4 virginia and West ViTginIa
Prod a y tnlilons of tons of hiSbast
t, Soai annually, but are almost er,t
by manufactures. supported
IN ALABAMA, Georgia and Teppas-
see on the other hand. the coaI-n,iniIso,
IeeI0ns are surrounded by or s,rro,,rs
pustling hlves of iron making cotta Iu
InanulacturinSi or other industrial -
terprlses' which make the most dasdr-
9ble ana most permanent conornunItja.
The growth or the coal-mfning irS,,S-
try in these states has not show, ~
same notable increases as that OF vvest
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-06-25
A WEAK DEFENCE.


The Buffalo News is hard put to 1t
for arguments to defend the Presi-
dents course in the Tyner case and
says:
When the undisputed facts of the
Tyner case were first published no
newspapers were so herce IN ue,, ..nH "a e.,
demanding of the President an apology
for his characterization of the conduct IN
office of Tyner. Since a petit jury mas
seen fit to acquit the old man the same
journals demand of the Chief Magis-
trate expressions that they are not
honest enough to make for themselves,
These vociferous Tyner defenoers
T When they Thought it meant votes, to
v;iify him as a Republican oficeholder.
they vilified him cheerfully. NOW tnat
he Is acquitted the same democratic
the President and talk of putting him
IN a hole. The role of the hypocrlte is
never very attractive to the American
people. 1t wears its usual race IN TINS
instance.
In it's anxiety to defend its pet at the
White House The News really begs the
question. 1t is not question of the
guilt or innocence OF Tyner but of the
Presidents action in the premises. we
are aware that Tyner was criticised and
denounced by the press and the public
for his connection with the postal
frauds, but it was Roosevelt himself
who declared in n public document that
Tyner was the biggest rascal of the lot.
or words to that effect; but the man
was tried for his alleged crimes, and
so far as we are advised, the trial was
a full and fair one. At all events the
Jury, after a very short elaboration, re-
turned a verdict of not guilty. So far
as the law is concerned. he is innocent
of the crimes alleged against him.
Obviously the fair and just thing for
the President to have done was public
" to withdraw the charge he had made.
The charge. so definitely made and
coming from the President, was an Of
nciaI notice to the world that Tyner
was a criminal The law says he is in
nocent and the President should be as
open and public in withdrawing his
charge as he was in making 1t. So
far he has been too proud or too stub
born to do what was obviously the
proper thing to have done at once. 1t
is a weak defence that The News puts
up,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-06-25
LINCOLN AND THE so,rru

The Richmond News-Leader takes A.
sue with The Advertiser on our con-
tention that IL Lincoln had lived N.
South would have been spared the hor-
rors of the reconstruction era. Our
contemporary is fully in accord with
us as to Lincoln's intentions. but th;pks
he would have been powerless. and
says:
The south-haters and the malignants
Were In the saddle and they would have
ridden oyer him rough-shod. They were
bent on humilfating and plundering the
south and putting her neck under the
means NEE, OF 70 tne negro, hoping by that
initely. Nothing could have STAYED
their tyrannical and vtndictive hand.
some years ago an intimate friend
ana party associate of Mr.. Lincoln--a
quit the Republican party when the
reconstruction measures were nut on
the South-was asked whether 1t would
have been better for the South II Mr..
Lincoln had lived. His reply was that
1t could not have been: for, although.
as he personally knew. Mr.. LincoIn's
earnest hope and ambition was to bring
ABOUT speedy reunion and save the
South from the pangs of the CONQUERED
no man could have successfully resist.
ed that Internal gang of heliions at
washington.
AS we have frequently remarked. dis
cussing what might have been is all
ways speculative. History and expe-
rience teach US what has been. but
nothing short OF infinite wisdom knows
what would have been under different
circumstances.
Nevertheless, we do not fully agree
with The NewsLeader in its premises
and arguments. We admit all 1t says
about the South-haters and the malig-
nants," but do not believe they would
have had their own way. Under An
drew Johnson they were at liberty to
ruin and Cypress the South at will, and
it was little better under Grant, but 1t
would have been different under Lin
coin. No President since Washington
would have occupied a more secure
place in the estimation of his country
men than Lincoln would have occupied
with the people of the North, and Ne
believe he would have rallied about
him enough honest and conservative
men to control the situation and the
South would have been saved. But 1t
is all speculation, at last.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-06-25

fairs Of Philadelphia that was interest,"
ing and among other things he declared
that "the honest citizen In Phiiadelphia
today is held in bondage as complete as
that of the negro of the Southern
States in 1861" That is the deliber-
ately and publicly expressed opinion of
an Intelligent and observant citizen
who is presumably fully Informed Of
the conditions existing there. He
shows elsewhere in ms address that
the language quoted is not too strong
for he gives instances of the methods
by which the boodlers and grafters ana
Republican bosses control the politics
as well as the government of the CITY.
and how the really honest citizens are
unable to exert any influence. It IL not
pleasing picture that he draws. bur
we have no doubt of its accuracy.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-06-25
SEES ONLY CLEVELAND.
Nebraska PopuIist Predicts Not Only
His Nomination, but Election.
Lincoln. Neb., Special.


Lincoln. Neb., Special.
Elk Senator W. v. Allen, who domi-
mated the Populist State delegate con-
vention at Fremont. predicted in a
speech that Cleveland would be nomi-
mated at st. Louis and that the Bryan
Democrats would join with the Popu-
of a resolution declaring it the sense of
the convention that the Populists
should not fuse with the Democrats,
but nominate their candidate for Pres
ident and Vice President. The resolu-
ton against fusion was adopted by a
vote of 270 TO 81.
Mr.. Allen consumed thirty minutes in
stating his position. No one. he said
had a kindlier feeling toward Mr. Bry-
an than he had. He had voted for him
twice and would do 1t again through
state pride and in his belief that Bryan
Is an honest and great man. but Mr.
Bryan was not to prevail in the coming
convention at st. Louis. Neither Hearst
nor Parker would be nominated. Cleve-
land would not only get the nominal
ton, but he would be elected.
1t was not visionary. he declared, to
his chances would be better than Roose-
velt's. The PopulIst Party had no hope
in either Cleveland or Roosevelt. 1t
must stand alone. Let the Democratic
Party fight its own battles and the
Populist the same. The defeat of the
Bryan element at st. Louis would mean
It's support of the Populist nominee at
Springfield. Nebraska Populists with
Bryan had stood in the way of other
Populist States Now 1t was free from
BRYAN and could act independently.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-06-25

New YORK World.
Like all his intellectual efforts the
speech of Elihu Root at Chicago yes
terday was able, adroit, finished per
suasive. The essence of his plea was
the old one OF the party in power: Let
well enough alone"
But this is begging the question. Is
a worse than war tariff, which as the
untrammelled Iowa Republicans Of
three years ago said. Shelters mono
poly" well enough? Is the postal cor
ruption, not half revealed and made
quately punished well enough? Is
the clustering flourish of President
Roosevelt's big stick" over the heads
of smaller American republics wei
enough? Are hundred illegal trusts
undisturbed in their robberies well
enough? Is reckless extravaganza in
appropriations well enough?
Mr.. Root is an able special pleader
but even he cannot make a case stand
on assertions and assumptions.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-06-25
Secretaries are the Fashion.

NV YORK sun.
The prevalence of the companion or
private secretary. who now seems in
dispensable to women of fashion, is en-
plIasized by the sight OF the parties
leaving daily for Newport from the
QtBnd Central Station. In every one
companion, who. in charge of the
maids. seem TO exact from them the
same Difference they show to their mis-
tress. The place Of this woman. com
panion is that OF a friendly equal, who
stands between her employer and the
rest of the world. and she appears TO
enjoy most OF the pleasure OF wealth.
With nona of Its responsibilities.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-06-25

The indianapolis Sentinel speaks of
the late ratification meeting as "a
cuckoo convention" and that expresses
1t very nicely. for we doubt If there
has ever been a national convention so
thoroughly dominated by one man as
that one was dominated by Roosevelt.
The delegates knew It. and no doubt
many of them resented 1t in their
hearts. but they had no means of help
ing themselves.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-06-25

Virginia, but it has been accompanied
by other factors which have made the
results more profitable to the cities and
the States.
The steady and healthful progress
of coal-mining In Arkansas, Texas and
the IndIan Territory, growing from
about 100000 tons in 1885 to over 81
500. 900 in 1902, Is a reliable indication
of the growth in population and Of
the transportation facilities in the great
South west ="
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-06-25
REUNION OF ONE.
A Paris, Ill, Veteran Celebrates All by II
LONESOME.

A Paris, ILL.,, Veteran Celebrates All by His
Lonesome.
A dispatch to the Chicago Tribune from
Paris. H.. says:
Daniel G. Burr. aged 81, a survivor OF
Company H. Fourth Regiment, recruited at
Paris, ILL.,, June 4, 1916, for the war with
Mexico. has held reunion by himself in
the fair grounds here. AS he had done an
nualy for forty years, he called the roll of
his company from the original roll he had
written with a quill pen, and which he had
in custody as orderly sergeant of the COM
pany. Several times IN recent years he has
held a reunion by himself owing to the en-
forced absence of other survivors He spent
the day in meditation, eating his picnic din
ner alone, and in the evening a friend drove
to the fair grounds and brought him back
to town.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-06-25

The only coIored delegate in the Chi
cago convention who can at all be
credited to the North was from Balti-
more. That isn't much Northern. II is
true, but it was as near as Republican
sentiment could allow recognition of
the colored voter. A negro delegate
from real Northern State would have
been offensive to the olfaetories OF the
fastidious Republican politicians of
that section.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-06-25

II must be awfully CALLING to the
self-respecting members of the Repub-
lican party to find themselves com
PEELED to submit to the domination Of
one man. Never in the history of the
country has any party been so thor
ougly controlled by President as the
Republican party is controlled by
Roosevelt. and they know it and re-
sent it, but are powerless to help
themselves. They are hardly entitled
ito commiseration, for they brought it
on themselves.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-06-25

Bishop Turner thinks his colored
brethren should change the words of
the old song so as to make it read:
Wash me and l shall be black as a
crow" He has the satisfaction of
knowing that some of them do not re-
quire much washing to bring them to
the required color
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-06-25
Rules for PoIItIcinnn-

There are, said Thomas Tageart.
the Democratic leader in Indiana.
three rules OF department which
should be the guiding stars of all mol
iticians: First, never take a drink
for fear of prompting intemperance:
second, never refuse a drink. for fear
of making bad friends; third. never
worry about what happens-unless it
happens to YOU
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-06-25

The Raleigh Post notes that the Jap
anese generals are also silent men, but
they do things. 1t is much the same
in civil life and politics. The men who
make the most noise are not always
most successful. Witness Bryan and
Hearst.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-06-25

John G. Carlisle declares that the
undeserved abuse heaped on Parker by
Bryan and Hearst has had the effect
not anticipated by them of adding to
the Judges strength, and we see no
reason to doubt the correctness of the
view taken by the eminent Kentuck-
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-06-25

They claim that Cortelyou was once a
Democrat. but The Memphis News
thinks he must have been a sham. for
it doubts If any real Democrat could
have descended 10 become a Roosevelt
Republican.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-06-25
THE TARIFF PLANK.

1t Was a Compromise Between the
East and West.
Walter Wellman in Chicago Record
Herald.
Quite natural it is that many per-
sons should have difficulty in under
standing the true significance of this
event. The surroundings are confus-