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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-02-18
CoMNaERCIAL CLUE ACTIoN.

This club is becoming famous for
adopting resolutions at one meeting
and then resembling them at the
next" said William Green at the Com
mercial club meeting on last Friday
night.
And that truth was forced home to
the indignation of a great many bust
ness men and members of the club on
Thursday night, when the small num-
Der of 26 men took down the flag
which the club has been flying for
years-better railroad legislation
and send broadcast the impression
that Topeka was a neutral quantity in
the fight henceforth.
Mr.. Green's point covers the mat
ter, so far as a preventive is con-
cerned. AS the rules and bylaws Of
the organization now exist, any mo-
ton can be sprung on the floor at a
meeting and passed at once, with
merely the spontaneous thought and
discussion which the members may
give it at the time.
What the Commercial club needs is
a reorganized, revamped. revised, re-
built constitution. 1t needs an iron
clad amendment which says that
every resolution presented shall first
De voted upon Dy proper committee,
before it can be voted upon by the
club as a whole.
That would prevent snap judgment
such as was taken on railroad legis-
lative matters on Thursday night. 1t
would prevent the hasty passing of
resolutions. 1t would give the mem
bers Of the club time to debate and
consider them as they should be con-
sidered.
The Commercial club got a lesson
on Thursday night which it should
never forget. When the "big meet
ing is held on Monday night. to get
back into the right saddle on rail-
road legislation. then and there should
be presented a resolution, which will
forever kill the privilege of voting on
a resolution of importance as quickly
as it is presented.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-02-18

pared with those of the adjoining
.'They. declared that freight rates in
Wisconsin We're just and reasonable;
shippers, and they denied the payment
OF rebates. The legislative lobby was
re-enforced by many large shippers
brought to the CAPITAL upon free trans
portation furnished bv the railway
companies. Some of these shippers
came willingly, because they were re-
cipients of rebates and transportation
favors denied to the public. Some
small shippers who favored state con-
troll OF railway rates came TO oppose
the bill before the legislative commit
tee, as they informed me, because they
did not dare refuse when called upon
by the railway companies In either
case their presence was the strongest
proof of the power which the railroads
exercise wherever they have absolute
control of transportation The oppo-
sit1on of the large shippers, Joined
with that of the regular railway lobby
employing its usual methods, secured
the defeat of the commission bill in
the legislature of 1903.
THE people of the state were too
much interested and too thoroughly
aroused to permit the matter to be dis
posed of in any such manner The
control of railway services and railway
The corporations were alarmed, and
although they had declared their rates
to be just and reasonable when be-
fore the legislature of 1908. in the
midst of the campaign which followed
they reduced Wisconsin rates from
time to time upon such commodities as
would best serve the exigencies of the
campaign.
THE average Wisconsin rates on
merchandise are now, however, nearly
thirty per cent higher than in Iowa
for the same service. The average
rates upon grain in Wisconsin are over
thirty per cent higher than in Iowa
and Illinois,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-02-18
JAYHAWKER Jors.

one Elk county community has the
mumps instead of the grippe.
Near Howard a covey of quail was
found under some bushes frozen stiff
Independence is to have masquer-
ade ball by the Elks. Everybody is
expected to wear horns.
No one this last week opened the
office of the Blue Rapids Times to ask
us this cold enough for you? -
Some Ottawa rogue is mean enough
to steal from a colored auntie S5 years
who gets along without city help.
Twenty-one years ago this week at
Garnett they had little snow but the
hog cholera was something awful.
A farmer missed his first visit to
Ellsworth on Saturday, for years, a
week ago. But can you blame him.
An Ellsworth man is going all the
way to Cork, Ireland, to marry a girl.
Its easy enough now to tell who will
run that household.
According to the Howard Courant
most of the old vets when they get
their pension checks, line up and Sc
cure c. o. d. packages.
The spinsters' party at Independence
took a sleigh ride without a gentleman
present. This might be all right until
1t came to settling the bills.
A Soloman man who saw his first
electric light at Salina the other night
slipped off the bulb to take home and
show his mother how lights worked.
Many of the best Republicans in To-
peka are taking to the middle of the
road these slippery days. This doesn't
indicate whatever that they nave pop
ulistic tendencies.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-02-18
TOPEKA,s GREAT ORGAN.

The dedication last evening of the
new pipe organ at the Auditorium
marks the beginning of a wider recog-
milton of Topeka as a musical center
The evidence presented in the history
of the musical offerings and accom-
plishments of recent years indicates
that Topeka will soon take first rank
and keep the position as the musical
center of the middle west
Now that the new pipe organ has
been installed, however, a new problem
presents itself. The problem is that
Of the use to which it viii be put.
The organ is essentially an organ of
the people of Topeka. That being so.
it is likewise essential that the use Of
II shall be such as TO give the masses
of the population of the city the BEN
eft.
There are many people in Topeka
who are possessed of the highest must-
cal education. Many more have more
or less education in that direction. and
still others whose tastes for the high
est in music have not been cultivated.
The latter class of course is by far the
largest. To satisfy these, as well as the
musicians who appreciate high class
music, should be the aim OF the Pipe
Organ association management.
The public should be given oppor-
tunities to hear the organ at popular
prices; prices that are within reach of
all And after the admission is placed
where it is right, the public should be
given programmes OF popular music.
BY this it should not be inferred that
the organ should be used to exploit
rag-time music. or anything embraced
in the lower field of music. Neither
should it be given over entirely to the
exploitation Of the highest class of
technical music.
A happy medium should be found. In
the literature for the organ there is
much which will come well within the
confines of a middle position. Its use
will prove popular and beneficial alike.
There may be no better means of ed
ucating the large class OF citizens of no
musical education, or those with only
limited education, than by giving them
popular music which at the same time
IS dignifed and harmonious, appealing
to heart and sentiment alike.
1t is agreed that to use the organ to
exploit certain classes of music would
be undignifed and beneath the station
Of so grand an organ as that which
Topeka finds herself in possession OF.
Therefore. let a happy medium be
found, and let the public be given a
class of music which viii prove popular
and which viii always attract large at
upon the occasions that the
'rgan is open to the public.
It has been said that music hath
power to soothe the savage breast" 1t
5 true that music has power to form
me of the strongest appeals to both
nan and brute. For which reason |
Tariety should be afforded in order that |
he whole people may appreciate and |
owe the new organ.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-02-18
ST. KANSAS AND THE DRAGON.

CHenery Allen in the Ottawa Herald !
There was once a very great dragon
that lived in the country and con-
stantly put the lives of the people in
peril So swift and ferocious were its
movements that none might escape
its clutches. and the fear of it was
everywhere OF those who went out
against the dragon none came ever
back alive, so that at length valor
gave place to great terror. and there
was none to give the dragon battle
But there came presently a new cham
pion the which cared nothing for the
prowess of the dragon. but rode forth
gaily and well composed to fight the
dragon, for that the dragon was a
thing of great evil and well deserved
destruction. And the dragon roarcd
hercely and so nightly that the earth
was shaken. but the dragon saw that
the new knight was not affrighted but
rather rode the more steadily and
thrust yet the more savagely, so that
the dragon was at last in great peril
for its life. and much alarm
The vote by which the refinery bill
passed the house at Topeka yesterday
may without stretch of the magma
ton be regarded as the Opening gun"
of a determined engagement against
trust extortion-an engagement in
which Kansas will keep the lead she
has taken, and in which the country
will follow valfant1y.
There was sound argument against
the oil refinery bill at Topeka yester-
day. Business reasons argued against
1t and honest, conservative opinion
pronounced it repugnant to the the
cries of democratic government. But
the vote for the refinery was a three
to one vote, and the sentiment for
the refinery, viewing it solely as an
expression of the states opposition to
the Standard Oil company, was-with
perhaps one or two exceptions-prac-
tically a unanimous sentiment.
1t can easily be imagined by those
who were not present to witness the
conflict that the debate furnished one
Of the most tumultuous scenes ever
in the legislature. move
ment as significant as that inaugurated
by Kansas against the trust evil is not
taken quietly.
The Herald has believed and still be-
lieves that the refinery of itself is of
small Importance as an opposition to
the Standard, but the Capitalization of
all our ferocious talk and honest senti-
ment against trusts into a definite ac-
ton where the issue of trust hostility is
clearly drawn is a most important
thing. The subject about which the
world is talking today--en which news
papers are commenting and which hon
est men are turning over seriously in
their minds is not that Kansas has vo-
ted to build a state refinery, but that
Kansas has taken a firm decided stand
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and Argentine are reported as having
taken steps which are likely to for
ward it in no small degree, the latter
haMing set aside not less than ten
million dollars for lengthening its rail-
road communications northward;
while at the other end Of the pro-
posed line of communication work is
described as progressing at rate
which in three years will make it pos
sible to go from Tehuantapec to Guate-
mala City. These are only links in
a chain which may not be finished in
several years. But Aif Latin America
is not disturbed by too frequent revo-
lutions or foreign aggression, it does
not appear improbable that the joint
action Of it's governments, assisted by
capital. may eventually ac-
complish the undertaking.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-02-18
ouAKER REFLECTIoNs.

TF'rom the Philadelphia Record.I
Even work is a matter of habit.
A hot head doesn't always indicate
a warm heart.
The girl who is a belle should have
appealing ways.
There isn't anything much more
crooked than a dollar mark.
A man is judged by the company he
keeps; also by the cigars he gives
away.
The man who always says just what
he means is a most unpleasant sort of
person.
When a man buys a trombone he is
either melomaniac or else he doesn't
like his neighbors.
Never tell a woman she reminds
you of an old friend. She might en-
barrass you by asking how old.
The cynical bachelor rises to re-
mark that no man should commit
bigamy unless he can afford it.
The lilies of the field may be ar
rayed in splendor, but the salad
doesn't worry about how it is going
to be dressed for dinner.
Deeds are better than words. re-
marked the Wise Guy. That's right.
agreed the Simple Mug, especially If
they are deeds to real estate"
Her love for him was very strong,
And yet she did not yoke him.
In fact, he found e'er very long
It was so strong it broke him.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-02-18
GLOBE SIGHTS.
[From the Atchison Globe. ]

ltrom the Atch1Son Gtobe.I
We wish piano players were born
not made.
Real sensible people do not carry
on" at a funeral.
A man who can manage a woman
can manage anything.
1t is one sign of years If you don't
care how you look on a cold day.
A cigar mingled with friendship
has bought more than one man.
Many of our rich men take up a
profession as an excuse for loafing.
No matter what you want done, the
doctor will tell you it will not hurt.
We wouldn't be bit surprised to
hear that the bad place is frozen over.
When you hate a woman. it is a
comfort to see her appear in an ugly
dress.
Don't get blue over small matters:
the large ones take care of them
selves.
who hatters you the most. the poll
tician or the man who owes you
money?
A woman lodge organizer is not far
removed from a woman suffrage
The old fashioned insulting valen-
tines are giving way before the senti-
mental kind.
Poor relations never look so poor as
they do when they ride in a carriage
belonging to rich kin.
We judge a man by his works, q
woman by her beauty, and mules and
onions by their strength.
When woman knows that she is
homely, any one can make her very
mad by looking hard at her.
Whenever we see very sharp
nosed woman in body of women
lodge workers, we always pick her
out for the leader.
Men miss a great deal out of life
when they get so wise they no longer
believe the fortune a pretty girl tells
with cards.
An Atchfson woman is such a per-
feet lady that, although she is madly
jealous of her husband. she will not
mention it to him.
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in opposition to the Standard Oil mon
opoly and is expressing sincere pur-
pose to declare war on all harmful
trusts.
1t is perhaps impossible that any
other state should inaugurate this
movement; it IS at least fitting and
pTbper that Kansas should start it and
leSd it, with the fire and the vigor that
have given her the peculiar place she
holds in the country's history.
There will be mistakes, and the state
refinery may perhaps be one of them,
but If the purpose Is honest and the
courage is firm. the issue of the con-
fiict cannot be in doubt
1t has been a Kansas affair so far,
but the conditions are ripe for making
it national affair. It has been a
Standard Oil affair so far. but the con-
ditions are ripe for making it an affair
against all monopolists which defy law
and rob the public.
The dragon has had bully time of it
with the country till now, but this new
cloud of dust up the road spells trou-
h1e
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done, to make light OF its advocates
The people are in earnest and are in
no mood to be trifed with. The at
titude of President Roosevelt indicates
that the government of the United
states does not regard the attitude Of
the people of Kansas as a joke There
fore there viii probably come time
when Mr.. Young of Wilson and few
other members of the legislature who
attempted to laugh the refinery advo-
Gates out of the house, viii wish that
they had at least been more discreet
Governor Hoch accepts the situation
as he hnds it and he deserves the COM
mendation of the public.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-02-18
MR. BIRDS QUEER STAND.

The members of the city council and
other citizens of Topeka fail to under
stand the logic of Representative Birds
stand on his bill providing for the con-
troll and mana cement of municipal wa
terworks plants. AS will be remember
ed Representative Stone introduced
bill in which a board of trustees was
given practically the supreme control,
with the city council acting in advisory
capacity. This was the idea which met
the approval of the city council of To-
pelSa with but one dissenting opinion.
The Stone bill was the first one intro
duced before the legislature. But after
the lapse of a couple of weeks Repre-
sentative Bird, also Of Shawnee county,
and the city of Topeka, came along with
a second bill of similar character but
constructed on entirely different lines,
vesting the control entirely in the hands
of the council and making the board of
trustees a subsidiary body. The city
council fail to see why Mr. Bird should
come in with a second bill Numerically
opposed to the wishes of the city of To-
peka, a portion of which he represents
is unexplainable A compromise has
been effected to certain degree in
Birds measure in which the responsible
ity is somewhat more divided and a
little more authority granted to the
board of trustees. This, however, fails
to clear UP the matters to any great
degree as it makes it necessary for both
the city council and the board Of trus-
tees to act together on every action
which is brought up, a factor which
tends towards anything like an ex-
peditious and business management of
waterworlxs plant. Birds position on
the matter has been anything but sat
isfaetory to the members of the city
council who have investigated into the
merits Of the situation.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-02-18

A member of the Colorado Iegisla-
ture named Townsend has introduced
into the house of representatives of
that body a limited marriage bill. The
measure provides that parties may
enter into a marriage contract to con-
dnue not less than three nor more
than ten years. It further provides
that after the expiration of six months
of welded life the parties may enter
into a life contract. There are other
provisions to the effect that the con-
tract may specify who shall be the
head of the family and how the prop
erty of the parties is to be held. ''This
is business
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-02-18

Judge Thomas, who presides over
most Of the federal criminal trials in
New York. has one rule which is said
TO be peculiar to himself. He never
permits a jury to stay out over night,
and has not deviated from the rule in
the long period of his service on the
bench. He says: "The jurors in my
cases are men of a high average of
intelligence and observation has con-
WINGED me that men of good general
knowledge, who follow all the evidence
in a case. are capable of reaching a
verdict within a few hours at the most.
believe it an injustice to subject to
discomfort men who are giving up
much of their time to the public I
consider it a bad principle in any event
to coerce a jury into bringing in a
verdict
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-02-18
GOVERNOR HOCH's coon

GOVERNOR HOCH'S GOOD SENSE.
The signing Of the oil refinery bill
by Governor Hoch was not unexpected
though there might have been reason
to suppose that he would veto the
measure, for he openly announced that
he was not in favor Of the bill before
its passage.
Governor Koch took a common
sense view of the situation and his let
ter to the legislature was characterized
by good, sound sense. He was ready
to admit that the people of Kansas
wanted an oil refinery bill as a pro-
test against the tyrannical methods of
the Standard OIL company and he was
willing to add his word Of approval as
an earnest that he is the governor Of
all the people.
1t is foolish to laugh at the oil re-
hnery proposition or to attempt, as a
few members Of the legislature have
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-02-18
, POINTED PARAGRAPHS,
From the Chicago News


An epftaph often perpetuates an
unmade reputation
Beauty as viewed through a micro
scope isn't even skin deep.
Matrimony is the postgraduate
course of a woman'S education.
Astronomers should use globe sights
when hunting for new worlds.
Practical wisdom often takes a
hard fall out of theoretical knowI-
edge.
A fnancier is a man who earns his
money by the sweat of other mems
broWs
A little learning is dangerous
thing. It enables women to compile
cook books.
Many a young man gets down on
his knees because he thinks the girls
father will set him on his feet.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-02-18
Fraud Exposed.

- counterfefters have lately been
,-,al1t,sg and trying to sell limitations Of
Dr. Kings New PlsG9yer snd for otS S9n5 mea-
.toia, Stba7ehv defraudtng the public This
IS s'i to warn you to beware Of such people,
who seek to profit, through stealing the
poccessfI,llv curing disease for over s.
S-esTs a sure protection to you IS our
+ Kings and Bucklen's remedies. as ali
others are mere limitations H. E. BuC1-
LEN & Co, Chicago, H., and Wlndsor'
Eanada Arnold Drug Co., 821 North KAN
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-02-18

The committee appointed by congress
to investigate the affairs of the Panama
railroad has fled its report 1t finds
that the Panama Railway company is
capitalized at S, 100000. Its gross as
sets are $15.S5O, 900. of which s12, 62s, 600
IS the value of the road, real estate.
equipment terminals and steamships.
the balance being cash and treasury as
sets. The bonded Indebtedness of the
property is IS, 159, OO0 of which the com
pany owns 1857. 900. The gross earnings
of the company for the past IL months
were $2.Ss1, 1858. The expense Of opera
ton was s1.S4o.ss4 fixed charges which
includes $3.50. 900. the annual payment to
Colombo, interest OF mortgage s792. 600
acquisition OF bonds by the company
$40, 900. leaving balance Of $5ss,S74 to
be applied to dividends
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REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
rFron the New york Press.I

from the NeW Z OIh 7 S5S'I
Nearly every man would like to
pass judgment on trusts from the in
side.
Some Of a woman's clothes tell the
truth about her figure, ana some a
lot more than the truth
A girl is very clever to act as II
she didn't have such things when any
body happens to mention leg
There is something very deceptive
about the way a girl can make you
think she is looking the other way
when she almost Winks at you.
Men get as excited over whether
t1,e Flag has been fnsulted by mop
in Central Africa as women DO over
whether the new minister ougnt 20
wear red neckties-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-02-18

Comment is again aroused regard
ing the Pan-American railroad pro
ject, by which a passenger shall be
able to take train in the northern
portion OF the United States and make
the journey to the lower end of
south America This scheme seems
70 be making real. If slow and inter-
nittent progress. Mexico. Bolivia. Chile
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-02-18

How remarkable, says the Pittsburg
Dispatch. some of these cases of
hereditary talent areI The Senator's
son who is able to study at Harvard
and act as clerk to the Senator's COM
mittee at the same time must grace
fully recognize how much he owes to
the paterna1 talent
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-02-18

It Is suggested that hereafter,
United States senators be elected by
the grand juries instead of by the
legislature
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-02-18

When Congressman 'PhiI" Camp
bell awolSe yesterday morning he
eound himself famous.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-02-18

Among the other opponents of a
state oil refinery, President Harper of
Chicago university may be safely
Teckoned.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-02-18

Washington POST If you saved
any of the Democratic campaign liter
ature, you can have a lot of fun now
by reading the descriptions therein
contained OF Theodore Roosevelt, the
pet OF the trusts
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-02-18

The story that the circuses have
given UP street parades now appears
annually at about the same time as
the one about the killing of the peach
crop.