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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-29
THE PRESIDENTS VIEWS

The Topeka Journal in discussing a
recent editorial in the Reflector says:
President Roosevelt has set forth his
ideas and it is well known that the
railroad leaders will formulate some
other plan of regulation Will the
Journal kindly "set forth" the presi-
dents ideas on a definite plan for rate
regulation? No generalitIes-exact state
ments.-Abilene Reflector.
All right. Here they are:
In his speech at Raleigh, N c., on
October 19. the president devoted most
Of his speech to his ideas on railroad
regulation, and he set forth these ideas
in very specific language:
/. The railroads must be regulated.
2. Present laws are not sufficient.
8. An administrative body ought to
be given the power to prevent combina-
lions and Determinations
4. This matter must not be left to the
department of justice-that is, to the
prosecuting officers and the federal
courts.
5. The administrative body should be
given authority over private cars, ter
minals and other means of indirect re-
batting.
8. The administrative body should
have the power to fix what it finds to
be a just rate and put it into immed-
late effect, to remain in effect perma-
nentIy unless reversed by the courts.
Z. The administrative body should
have the power to investigate the books
of railroad companies on suspicion, to
ascertain if they are violating the law.
the same as the comptroller of the cur
rency now investigates national banks.
Are these statements exact enough. or
does the Reflector consider them gen
/ eralities?"
The president does not specify wheth-
er the administrative body" shall be
/ the Interstate Commerce commission or
some other commission created specially
/ for the purpose. That is a detail for
/ congress to work out.
The railroad educational bureaus
started out some time ago by contend
/ ing that there is no need OF further
/ legislation in order to regulate the rail-
/ roads-that all that is needed is to en-
force present laws. Little has been said
along that line, however, since the presi-
dents Raleigh speech. Now they are
protesting against giving the rate-regu-
4 lating- power to a political commits
sion" and various schemes are being
discussed to head of the presidents
ideas. The fight in the senate is to be
between President Roosevelts ideas and
the something else" to be framed by
the railroad influences.
The people are for the Roosevelt ideas
ana that is why they are asking theh
representatives and senators to line Ut
J for those ideas.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-29
GLOBE SIGHTS.
TFrom the Atchison Globe.I


Some people are simply acting
natural when they are kicking
A good many people who call them
selves critics are mere kickers.
Give any man who has paid a COM
pliInent time enough, and he Will
qualify it.
About the most expensive experience
the average man can have is to accept
gifts.
A sign a thin woman is popular: If
her friends call her fragile" instead
of skinny"
When the members of family
quarrel, some very clever things are
said which no one present applauds or
repeats.
It is becoming new fad to put hard
little Jumps of putty in the dressing
in the turkey, and tell the guests that
they are chestnuts-
If turkeys are as delicate as a farm
er's wife always claims. when a woman
has turkeys to raise, she is really IN
training to become a nurse.
Perhaps one reason a man never
hears the voice of his conscience, IS
that his wife and children make so
much noice it can't be heard above
them.
If you buy yourself a luxury. half of
your friends say: He couldn't afford
that If you don't buy it. the other
half say: why doesn't he? He can
afford it
An Atchison woman was being criti-
eised lately. and it was said of her
s'She is such a wretched manager that
she never gets the dishes borrowed for
a party until after the guests have ar
rived
They tell this on an Atehison wom-
an: She went to a neighboring town
to attend a church convention and was
entertained" at the house of a church
member there. When she wanted to
put her hair in curl paper before retir-
ing she found there wasn't any paper
in the room so she tore five pages out
OF her Bible; two for curls on each
side. and one for her scolding locks on
the neck.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-29
JAYHAWKER JOTS

Junction City is preparing to show
the central Kansas school ma ans a
good time this week. Abilene expected
to have that pleasure, but somebody
got up a diphtheria scare at Abilene
and the school na'arns concluded to go
to Junction
Tom Wagstaff has convicted so
many jointists in Montgomery county
that the authorities have borrowed the
Labette county jail at Oswego to store
their surplus prisoners in. The joint
business has become exceedingly I'M
popular in Montgomery county.
A single pumpkin raised by c. W.
Shoopman, a Montgomery county far
mer, brought eighteen dollars. 1t was
done this way: The pumpkin weighed
man gave it to the women of the Pres
byterian church They made it into
pies-sixty of them-and the pies sold
for eighteen dollars.
A reporter who had never seen a
football game wrote up a game be-
tween the Atchison high school and
the county high school at bingham,
and here is what he said: 1.-THE county
school won in walk, the score being
10 to O. It was like taking candy
from children. They are big husky
boys from the farms while the city
chaps only recently took on long
pants. They padded their uniforms
in an attempt to fool people into the
their thin shanks gave them away.
And those Ef1nghams were the mean
est things. Every single time a city
boy got the ball, and tried to show
that he could run, if he had a chance
that fellow, Ed Cahiu who played
center field for bingham, ran into
and knocked him down. 1t didn't look
fair, as the city boys didn't modest
Ralph Allison. of the visitors, When he
ran across the field with the pigskin
But the joke was on Allison. When
he got down between the big sticks
at the lower end of the field he fell
down and Just stayed there. In the
second half Allison ran up to the posts
on the other side OF the field, and
again fell down on the ball. II he
could only keep from falling down
back of the goal posts, he would be-
come a great player. He seemed on
of patience himself, and taking tht
bali back into the field. kicked it
and the Atchison boys yelled some
thing about his missing it.. Didn.
seem to the writer that he missed it
because it rolled out near the sids
lines"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-29
THAT DRESSED BEEF RATE.

A reader Of the state Journal at
Coneordia writes as follows: II notice
your editorial on The Beef Trusts
Advantage. 1t also might bear the
title Kansas Cattlemen's Advantage,
because the price of killing cattle in
Kansas City as compared with the
standard market in Chicago has adj
vaneed since the lower rates on
dressed beef went into effect. It was
Chicago live stock exchange and the
Chicago commission men who wanted
higher rates on dressed beef from
Kansas City. The nearer cattle can be
slaughtered to the place of production
the more money for the cattle grower,
the more beef for the consumer. and I
suppose the more profit for the packer
the railroad. Kansas catt1emen
can wei let Chicago kick"
The writer Of this communication is
Walter Darlington, one of the biggest
cattle feeders in northern Kansas, and
his statements of fact concerning the
advance in price on the Kansas city
market must be taken as correct, but
not necessarily his conclusions.
Just follow this matter out logically:
The railroads lowered the rates on
dressed beef east from Kansas City,
thereby discriminating in favor Of
dressed beef and against live cattle.
This enabled the packers in Kansas
City and Omaha to advance prices a
little. just enough to keep cattle from
going to Chicago and further east.
Buyers in the east who wished live cat
tie could not meet the beef trusts
prices because of the discrimination
against live cattle, and they asked the
interstate commerce commission for a
reduction Of the live stock rate to meet
the dressed beef reduction. The COM
mission investigated and ordered a re-
duetion on live cattle, but the courts
/ decided that the commission has no
power to enforce the order.
Surprising the order had been en-
forced, what would have been the re-
sult7 Eastern buyers would have
/ been able to meet the raise in the price
Of live cattle, and the price would
have advanced still higher. because
there would have been open competi-
ton between Kansas City and other
markets. Consequently the producer
would have benefited.
Mr.. Darlington's statement that 1t is
to the interest of producers to have a
market as near home as possible is
/ SCA 4 CT as a general pIOpOSlI1OHs DuL II
will not hold good when the home
market is in the control of a trust. For
instance: Suppose a grain dealer at
/ Concordia had a monopoly on the local
grain market and refused to pay more
than sixty cents for wheat, although it
was worth seventy cents elsewhere. 1t
is to the interest of the farmers around
! ConeOrdia to build up the local mar
ket as much as possible, but not at the
cost Of strengthening a monopoly and
contributing ten cents a bushel to that
monopoly.
So it is to the interest of Kansas
cattlemen to have a good cattle mar
let at Kansas City, but not at the cost
of more firmly intrenching the beef
trust there by means of discriminate
ing freight rates against competitors
The important thing is to have q
square deal and no special favors for
anyone. Let there be square and
open competition and let good bust
ness Judgment and hard work be the
things that will bring success.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-29
A MODERN CAsABTAECA.

The boy stood on the football field,
With carnage round him spread.
" lille lifting dust-clouds oft revealed
The bodies of the dead
Young. bright and beautiful he stood,
A cover on hts nose:
Around his head padded hood
10 match his padded clothes.
The battle ragged; he would not go
And let a sub" come in:
The rooters' shouts rang to and fro,
Above the battles din
He called aloud: Say captain. say,
When viii my task be done2'f
he knew not that his captain lay
knocked out Of future fun.
Speak, cap" again the '.freshie'' cried
II must guard the goa1?'
Naught but the rooters' whoops replied
Despair was in his soul
Upon his brow the sweat stood out,
While in his waving hair
Long fingers wound themselves about
ana caused disaster there.
Again he shouted: Captain. say.
W men VIII the game be done2''
W ME faster ragged the furious play.
And men fell one by one.
Then came a burst of thunder sound
Inc boy, oh, where was he?
ASK of the ones who crowded round
AND mangled him with gleeI
And minus ears and nose and hair,
with teeth kicked far apart
ne noblest thing that perished there
" as that young faithful heart
E A. Brininstool in the Los Anegele,
Express
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-29

While the public must accept the
verdict OF the jury in the trial of Cal
Heck as rendered in good faith, it
cannot be denied that it is something
of a shock to the popular faith in our
jury system. The jury, of course, was
sworn to try the case, and the public
was not, but it is difficult for the ma
jority of those who followed the evil
dence to see how the jury reached its
verdict-exeept on the ground of senti-
ment
It is a terrible thing for an inno-
cent man to be convicted of a crime,
and for that reason the courts pre-
scribe that the accused must be given
the benefit of a reasonable doubt
but this does not mean any doubt that
a juryman may have. It means that
there must be a good and valid rea-
son for entertaining the doubt.
While it is q terrible thing for an
innocent man to be unjustly convicted
of a crime, it is also terrible that the
perpetrator of a murderous assault
should go unpublished. It is the mis-
carriage of justice that causes mobs.
It is the escape of criminals from
punishment that encourages them to
again commit crimes when tempted;
that causes others with criminal ten
denotes to take the chances of commits
ting crimes. Only few days ago a
terrible murder was committed pre-
meditatedIy at Hill City for a little
money. The murderer evidently hard
iy thought Of the punishment that
might overtake him. The escape of
one murderer is quite likely to result
in another murder at some time.
Courts and juries cannot be too
careful in protecting the rights of the
innocent unjustly accused, but at the
same time juries should consider the
tricks of the trade and the appeals to
sentiment in which sharp criminal
lawyers indulge. Most of US have a
large streak of human sympathy in
our natures and although we may be
convinced that an accused person is
guilty when we are brought face to
face with those Intimately connected
with him we cannot avoid a feeling
of sympathy for their suffering. and
because of that leniency is extended
toward the guilty criminal.
A tremendous responsibility rests
upon juror sitting in a grave Grim
inal case. While he should be fair
towards the accused, it is also incum-
bent upon him to be fair towards the
community and state. The escape
from justice of a guilty criminal Gre
ates bad influence among evil
disposed persons in a community, and
/ it does not increase the respect of the
law-abiding for the courts, both OF
which facts are much to be deplored.
The members of the jury which
tried Cal Hech doubtless tried to do
their duty. and the public must acqui-
esce in their verdict although it is
difficult to escape the belief that SEN
timent had much to do with their
findings.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-29
PoINTED PARAGRApHs.
Iron the chioago News.I

GFrom the Chicago News.l
Street car tourists are personally
conductored.
Better a temperance pledge than a
pawnbrOker's.
Too many men are looking for trou-
BILE instead of work.
Greatest of all great things is love
if it's the real thing.
Some men find It easier to acquire a
reputation than to earn a living
a sensible man neither depreciates
himself nor makes light Of his abilities
It's as easy for a woman to talk az
it is difficult for her to say something.
About the easiest way to hurt a
woman is to say something mean about
the man she loves.
There are times when the voltage
of a wasp seemingly exceeds that Of d
ten horse power dynamo.
No sensible man is willing to swear
to the fool things he says during court
ship. and no sensible woman would
want him to.
What most of the jewellers In apart
ment houses would appreciate IS a cur
few law for suppressing piano play
ing after 8 p. m.
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q
A tall man-the sort who smokes
large, black cigars and seems to have
an air of ownership in blast furnaces
or insurance company stock, thrust
several persons aside at the Nixon
theater yesterday afternoon. To the
ticket Office man he almost yelled:
"Give me two seats
For fSunday?'" asked the man
whose head slightly protruded from
the box office window.
Certain not; I am opposed to the
atrica1 performances on the sabbath
also baseball games want two tick
cts for Miss Barrymore's perform
For Sunday? again asked the
mo, for next weeks performance;
for Monday, not Sunday" he hotly re-
piled.
.FWeu. you must want them for
Sunday Let me explain--
BE quick about it
what you desire is two seats for
the week beginning Monday for Sun
day'-for what night did you say you
wanted them ?''
Next Tuesday night" explained the
saThen." again said the ticket seller,
you want two seats for the perform
ance beginning Monday for Sunday
for Tuesday night
It was not until after the man had
bought the tickets that he was made
to understand that Sunday" is the
title of Miss Barrymore's play-Pitts-
burg Dispatch.
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FROM OTHER PENS
LEE IN TIE STARS.

That human beings exist and have
worlds of their own up among the stars
is the conviction of Prof. W w Camp
hell director of the Lick observatory in
California. ut is conceivable to me, "
he said, in speaking of the theory that
Mars or other planets are inhabited,
that only one planet or one star should
have intelligent life and that the earth
is that one. The doctrine of probable
ity is dead against it and there is the
highest degree of probability that there
are inhabited worlds above US. AS to
human beings on Mars it is entirely
possible, though we do not know that
the human animal as we know him,
would live in the atmosphere of that
planet, which is not as dense as that on
the tops of our highest mountains. 1t
is not difficult to believe. however, that
human beings on Mars might be crea-
ted in our own image and still have
lungs capable of sustaining life there
San Francisco Call.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-29
JOURNAL ENTRIES

A careful scrutiny of Secretary VIII
sons report reveals nothing on the sub
Ject Of the ''semi-arid region"
Where is Frank Grimes? Why hasn't
he interviewed himself to prove that
Judge Van Devanter and the Jury were
prejudiced against Burton?
Parks close at ten o'clock. That
looks dark for spoons" says the Los
Angeles Express. Well, what does the
Express suppose the spoons want?
It is to be hoped that the president
won't run any of those Gaelic poems
in his message. If he does John Mac
Donald viii be kept buster than a gas
meter reading them.
The young man in love ought to as
sure himself that he has the genuine
wn-in-the-bo brand, the real
thing, the kind that won't rip, ravel. or
shrink All others are only base irni-
tations.
AS long as there is no tariff on canals.
why not import one from Mars?
Michigan defeated Oberlin by score
Of IS to o. tits suspected that Michigan
was playing horse with Oberlin instead
Of football.
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THE BRIGHT SIDE.

Notwithstanding the great amount of
graft, corruption and selhshness that
has recently been exposed by a few
fearless officials and the independent
press of the country. there is more good
in the world than there is bad. There
are thousands of men who have acquired
their wealth honestly and legitimately
who scorn to take advantage of their
position to Cypress their fellow man, but
on the contrary do all in their power to
alleviate suffering regardless of the cost
to themselves. They put humanity
above the dollar. We cannot have too
many of this class of men and they
should be encouraged and respected for
the good they do. In condemning the
evil we should not forget to encourage
the good deeds. Wealth that IS used for
the good of mankind is blessing. and
the more we have of it the better
Kfngman Journal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-29

Future automobile legislation is like
" to take a new direction. Heretofore
it has developed largely along the line
of speed limitations and increasing pen
altfes for violations. despite which ac-
cidents are growing in number. Almost
every day has its list of collisions or
upsets and casualties. more or less seri-
Gus. Many of these are undoubtedly
due to excessive speed, but as many, or
probably more, are brought about by
incompetent and irresponsible drivers.
Penalties for speed excesses, almost ex-
clusively fines, are collected everywhere
every day IN the week. They amount.
in the aggregate, to a very large sum of
money but the individual fines, in many
cases pretty high. are paid with
pronptness, and the offender drives
away to break the law again and again.
Newark Advocate.
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An UncharttahIe snirit.

Dr. B. A. Booth declares that Pitts
burg, the city he lives in, is a deplor-
able example of race suicide.
On that count" he said recently.
accuse my town, to be sure; but on
All other counts, 1 praise her Pitts
purg Is beautiful, rich, a desirable
Il particularly like here our polite
ness. visited another city not long
since, and the irnpoliteness I found
there seemed strange. Such a spirit
seldom lifts its ugly head in Pfttsburg.
And one piece of nastiness I saw
on my visit almost made me a con-
vert to race suicide.
1t was a lovely autumn day, and I
was making river excursion on a
steamboat.
The decks were rather crowded.
we cut our way smoothly through the
clear, deep water. On either side rose
mountains af1ame with the red and
gold Of the autumnal foliage.
And it was all very nice, but sud
denly child, seated on its mothers
lap, began to cry.
crowns were at once directed to-
ward this child. They had no effect,
though The bawling became louder.
It annoyed you, like a toothache.
And the passengers all showed
their annoyance. Certain audible
growls began to reach the mother:
bring kids for
IT needs spanking. That is what
it needs
'Confound the little brat
1.-THE mother sat with stony face,
gazing straight ahead and jumping
the child up and down nervously on
her knee.
All eyes. all thoughts, were now
turned to her and to her bowling
youngster. The scenery was forgotten
Suggestions fioated in the air for her
to catch.
s. Maybe it's sick
q She ought to take It below
Tt must have the collie to Shrek
like that
LAS their suggestions became louder
and holder, the woman became
angrier.
"And all of a sudden she seized the
child and shook it violently.
." Cry as loud as you like. Mile,
she exclaimed. I've paid for your
fare Los Angeles Times.
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from it a leather case. He caught it
from her hands
My pictured" - cried. You have
carried it right ~ Even after you
said You no longer loved me-
That was because I was Jealous.
she explained. But l would have gone
to jail rather than have let you see that
I still cared. I knew you would see ii
if she searched me-
Il am glad 1 didn't he smiled. Il
should have been tempted to kiss you
right then and there
We are almost home" she said. am
biguously.
Copyright, 1905. by Beatrix Reade.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-29
QUAKER REFLECTIONS.

EFrem the Philadelphia Record.l
FIattery should always be diluted
with tact.
A rose by any other name would
have its thorn.
No man is a fool who knows enough
to keep his mouth shut
It is generally the smallest men who
have the most colossal nerve
Even the football player must be
headstrong if ne would butt in
Occasionally you hear of a good
fellow who has developed into a
model husband.
The people who never find time TO
do things can always be depended
upon to find fault.
The man who is trying TO keep his
head above water realizes that a float
ing debt is a poor life preserver-
A man with cowardice imbued
Would even strike an attitude
And feel quite safe II the attack
An attitude cannot strike back.
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A MERITED ROAST.

There is a gray-headed old reprobate
proving about the streets of South
MeAlester the last few days who would
crawl hack into the rear chamber of
the cavern of oblivion and curl up if
he could by any means realize what a
consummate old ass ne is. He is over
30 years of age. He has faithful.
eilver-haired wife, who has shared his
jovs and sorrows for IS years and raised
a family of children to maturity Now
he wants to divorce her-and for what.
do you suppose? So he can marry an
Indian-an Indian maiden, ne says, in
the poetic language Of J. Fenimore
Cooper. whose books he has been read
ing-A1uscogee Phoenix.