The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-06
THE CARRIERS.
Lively Times in the Circulation
Department.
Journal Delivery Department
Reaches Circular Stage.
Carriers Get Fabulous Price
Hence Value Privileges.
HIGH PRICED LABOR.
Many Carriers Earning Twenty
Five Dollars Monthly
And viii Continue to Do So
Under New Plan.
A BOON TO STUDENTS.
One Dollar and More An Hour
Paid for
A Little Work and Some Exer-
else Daily.
And viii Continue to Do So
Under New Plan.
A BOON TO STUDENTS.
One Dollar and More An Hour
Paid for
A Little Work and Some Exer-
else Daily.

Progressive people and progressive
papers always have obstacles thrown
in their way. Tt is the fast runner
who is i'm danger of being tripped; the
slow footed never reach the goal in
time.
In our efforts to give the people
of Topeka and the state of Kansas a
first class newspaper in every respect
for every day in the year, there are
naturally a few ties. bouIders and
other obstructions thrown on the
track of the "20-Page Limited"
In the 2O-page flying wedge which
was started into the city of Topeka
last Sunday morning there have been
a few people whose toes have been
slightly stepped upon, maybe, and who
have thrown out their feet in an effort
TO overthrow the center rush and the
various quarterbacks and halfbacks
who are pushing the State Journal
in all its various departments.
The carriers of the Topeka State Jour
nal probably constitute the highest Iaio
labor in the city Of Topeka.
Many OF these carriers. who are cir
culating petitions today, claiming tIat
they have in the past only made the
small profit of lass than four cents Ter
week on each subscriber" are making
more money than many a kindly dis
posed advertiser or subscriber who
signs the petition without knowing or
asking the State Journals side of the
controversy, because. naturally he
would not refuse to sign any such petit
ton.
Many carriers have been making from
six to ten dollars week, twenty-6 five
to forty dollers a month, for an average
of an hour or two in the evening after
school for pleasant exercise. How many
who signed this petition are making no
more working ten hours daily at haVd
labor.
The story is told that Rev Father
McCabe one of the best men who ever
lived In Topeka, once circulated a petit
tiOn on a wager asking that +. S. Nc
Cabe (himself) be hanged for high
crimes and misdemeanors, and thirty
people attached their names before they
discovered the Joke.
We presume a petition could be
circulated in this town, particularly
around the state house grounds, in the
treasury or attorney generals Office,
asking that the editor and proprietor
of this paper be hung, and probably
sixty or more people would sign it.
Some of them would mean it, too.
People have telephOned us that
they received a circular inserted in
the copy of the State Journal Gslfv-
cred to them, and which they pre-
sumed We had not authorized, and
have asked How aboet this carrier
business q"
In the first place. this insertion Of
this circular was q violation of one Of
the rules of this paper, that no cir
cular or matter of any kind shall be
inserted i'm a copy of the paper for
the delivery Of which we pay and pay
we'll.
If the carriers had asked us to print
this circular in the State Journal last
evening we would have done so with
out cost to them and it would have
been printed i'm every copy of the pa
per circulated in this city.
However, as this is a matter of spe-
cial Importance to the carriers. we
VIII waive any violation of the proprie-
ties in this particular instance
The forty-three carriers of the State
Journal are such nice lot of young
men that we really dislike to say any
thing rejecting upon them. There is
Certainly not q better lot of neWsDa-
Per carriers in Kansas than our own.
AS a rule, they are high-minded, hon
orable, faithful and Industrious and il
Is the rarest OF occasions that have
caused any friction between the car
rier service Of the paper and any other
department.
An Unlzind Circular.
Tt is human nature to represent
ones own side. Without apparent1v
realizing the gross injustice that the
carriers are doing the proprietor of
this paper and the injury that thev
are bringing upon themselves, they
nave scattered broadcast over this
town circular which has poisoned
the minds of some of our readers.
We presume hundreds of people
have signed some petition against the
plans of this paper and these people
have attached their signatures with
out hesitation at the solicitation
of carrier, and knowing but one
side of the controversy. We have
heard of it, People have signed ne
titions without thought and as a rule
merely to get rid of the solicitor.
Accordingly. petitions have little
weight.
Original Plans win Be Carried
Out.
So far as the State Journal is con-
cerned, We care not if 5000 people
sign petition of this character. We
VIII consider the matter but it win
have the same effect on us that ii
would have on you. the reader, when
you know absolutely that the signer
put his name there without being in
formed as to the situation except from
the carriers side, when he had NOT
heard our side.
Greatest Carrier Proposition in the
State
We might even forgive the carriers
eaT some Of their indiscredons. but we