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The Topeka state journal., 1905-07-03
THE BEEF TRUST INDICTED.

The long expected indictments against
1.-The beef trust the big packing com
panies, have been made. Twenty-one Of
ficials of the five great packing COM
panies are indicted. The federal grand
jury in Chicago has been working 80
days on the examination of witnesses in
the beef trust cases. It has been discov-
cred that officers of the trust have been
tanpering witnesses, and incidental in
dictments have been returned for that.
Some of the witnesses have fed to Can
ada and others to Europe.
The indictments against four of the
big companies, the Armours, Cudahy,
Swift, and Nelson Morris, alIege con-
spiracy in restraint of trade, in-Viola ton
of the Sherman antitrust law. The
Schwarzschild & Sulzberger company is
indicted for conspiracy to secure rebates
from the railroads, but it escaped in
dictment for belonging to the trust.
Nelson Morris. the nominal president
of the Fairbanks company, and Michael
Cudahy, president of the Cudahy COM
pany, narrowly escaped personal indict-
ments. The former is an old man and
the latter is on the verge of physical
collapse. It is said that they have not
been in active control of affairs for a
gOOd Wnlle, ana TOT tndI reason tney
were not indicted.
Otherwise the big packers were per-
sonalIy indicted. ]. Ogden Armour, the
head OF the Armour interests, and his
brother C. W. Armour, Edward Morris.
Louis F. Swift, E. A. Cudahy and 9TH
ers are brought in. There are indicted
six officers of the Armours, eight of the
Swifts. the two younger members of
the Morris family, and Edward 4. Cud-
ahy, besides four officials of the
| Schwarzschild & Sulzberger company.
Tt has been a long, hard fight, but it
looks as though the antitrust laws are
now to be enforced in earnest. The
contest began in reality away back in
1902. when the beef trust was enjoined
from combining in restraint of trade.
This injunction has since been fought
through the United States supreme
court and upheld, so that much OF the
legal battle is already over. There will
doubtless be delays in bringing the law
breakers to final punishment, but they
will principally involve questions of fact.
It looks as though there is now 8
good prospect for breaking I'D this
The Topeka state journal., 1905-07-03
GLOBE SIGHTS.
[From the Atchison Globe.i

[From the Atchison G1obe.i
The people know enough; meanness is
their trouble.
Most any system of farming will
bring good results a season like this.
An Atchison man wants all the re-
bates coming to him, and then some.
The only words the average man ad-
dresses to his wife at a party are:
"Come on, let's go home.''
We are always expecting to see a
family where the children are SO noisy
their father has to talk to his wife at
meal time through a megaphone.
AS we grow older, we learn not to
expect good meal, If the hostess sits
down looking as unruff1ed as if she had
never seen kitchen.
When all the children at a house are
hurriediy sent over to a neighbors do
you know what that means? There is a
case in town today.
When a mosquito sees a girl with a
see-more waist on, he hurries back
home and invites all his family and the
neighbors to come to his party.
If a woman speaks her mind freely,
her husband learns that earning the
money to buy the necessities of life
isn't half the work of sewing and cook
ing them.
We imagine that when a successful
general comes home from the war be
carries himself very much as a girl
does the first time she appears in pub
lie, after the announcement of her en-
gagement.
At the next meeting of the Lancaster
Literary society, the men and women
will decide on a debate. The question
will be: Which requires more of a wo-
mans patience, her husband or the
baby?
A chaperon is an oldish girl who ac-
companies young things to picnics, and
who is supposed to wiring her hands
when a pair stroll off by themselves
but who in reality f1irts with any man
she can get to f1irt with.
When q woman living in Chicago goes
down town." it is like woman living
at Pennington coming to Atchison tc
trade: she leaves home at 8 in the morn
ing, and does not reach home until ir
the afternoon.
What is the best thing to do? A mar
approaches you, and is insolent I'm
less you resent his insolence, he will
walk all over you. If you resent his
insult, you engage in a jawing match
After that, possibly. you do not speak
to him. He hates you, and you hate
him If he can do you any harm, he
does it. If you can knife him you do it
If you do not resent his insolence, peo-
pie say you are a milk and water man
A man who is easy is picked out By
others for cutting remarks, to worI
! of Jokes" on.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-07-03
QUAKER REFLECTIONS.

(Fror1 the Philadelphia Record.)
Good resolutions don't always make
good
No man has more friends than he
needs.
An ounce of practice is worth a
pound of theory.
Most men are generous to fault, If
they happen to have one.
Some women make up for lost time
and some for lost beauty.
Don't hit a man when he is down.
He may get up and lick thunder out
of you.
A woman never seems surprised
when a man makes a fool Of himself
over her.
Hoax-s'Did you ever see an ostrich
hide his head? ?" Joax-"No. but
have seen a cowhide.
Do man an injury and he will
never forget it. Do him favor and
his memory viii not be so good.
Nell-'.I once told girl Il secret,
and it never leaked out" BelIe--"Poo
girl Was it the responsibility that
killed her?''
Wigg-stHe's the black sheep of the
family, isn't he % Wagg-'tYes, but
it's hardly noticeable now. The family
is in mourning"
Sillicus-'I wonder why most peo-
pie think women have no sense of lalI-
NOR ?" Cynicus-tBe Because they take
men seriously
Wigwag-"Ma cannot serve two
masters Henpeekke=sI don't know
about that. 1 live with my wife and
my mother-in-laW."
The Topeka state journal., 1905-07-03
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
(From the Chicago News.)

(From the Chicago News.)
An umbrella isn't particular as to
the company it keeps.
Opinions held by the average man
are of the second hand variety.
There would be more great poets if
there were fewer great critics.
AS a rule the greatness of man may
be measured by his small deeds of
kindness.
Nsny a weak man has good inten-
tions, but isn't strong enough to carry
them out.
The world owes no man living, but
it owes every man an opportunity to
make good.
Jolly man and he will forget it the
next Gay; criticise him and he'll re-
member it as long as he lives
That person who thinks no enc is
right but himself, should be locked UP
zyhero he can do no damage.
Some men are SO busy shouting at
baseball game that they are unable
to hear the whispered call of duty.
Yes, Alonzo, you may marry happily
on $6 a week. but the odds are very
much against your staying happily
married on that sum.
A bachelor never figures on marry
ing a widow. but when widow fig
ures on marrying bachelor, it's a
sure sign of a wedding.
Nothing makes man SO angry as
to have some fellow swipe an umbrella
that he has just borrowed from the
original owner when he wasn't look
ling.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-07-03
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Among the other things tomorrow,
remember to not pick it up and gaze
earnestly into the business end to see
if the fuse has gone out.
To anxious inquirer: No, Ewing
Herbert was not one of the characters
in the Hiawatfa played by the Has
kelT students recently. You are think
ing of Iago. They are somewhat
similar.
Another funny thing is that Harvard
feels proud over the boat race in spite
of the fact that Yale won, because
Harvard came within an oars length
of winning.
Now it has turned out that Jerry
Blacks name is not Jerry but Joseph
"Bil1 Doonttle drinks like a fish,, a
man said today. mo he DOESN'T" con-
tradicted Deacon Twogood with some
warmth. "a fish drinks water.''
The Topeka state journal., 1905-07-03

probably the greatest of all trusts. If
this prosecution is successful. other
concerns will be extremely careful not
to engage in illegal combinations here
after. The indictments allege both
combinations to prevent competition in
the purchase of cattle, and also in the
marketing of beef, so that it is likely
to help the cattlemen as well as the
beef consumers.
With prosecutions in progress
against the trusts for combining and
the railroads for rebating. there seems
to be a prospect that the t'big business
interests may be compelled to obey
the law, and that the people may have
justice done them.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-07-03
HES EAsITIY sATIsFIED.

may Have no great intellect,
No literary tastezaat all;
MY views may be quite incorrect
Confined and limited and small:
| may not have a legal mind,
know no rules of evidence,
But, while I've nothing of the kind,
l pride myself on common sense.
OF science I have nothing learned;
For art / do not care a snap;
For knowledge have never burned
I'm not at all that sort of chap.
On culture 1 am pretty shy
To. learning I make no pretense.
My ignorance don't deny
I pride myself on common sense.
I've never Travelled. I don't see
That travelling does any good.
My town is good enough for me;
| wouldn't leave it if / could.
With what I am I'm satisfied:
With fancy frills can dispense.
] only know one sort of pride:
I pride myself on common sense.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-07-03
WHAT THEY WERE FOR.

The impression is general about To-
peka that the supreme court will knock
out the state refinery law and now
comes the information that Senator
Smith made the statement before he
went to Europe that he believed his law
making pipe lines common carriers, is
unconstitutional These are the two
measures about which the most noise
and fuss were made last winter. They
were fathered and pressed by men who
readily admitted they were not only
the best lawyers in the senate but that
there were none more profound in the
state. It was claimed these measures
would cure about all the ills our people.
particularly those interested in oil, were
heir to. They are likely to serve no 9th
er or better purpose than that for
which they were intended at the time,
to distract attention from the general
demand for railroad egislation.-King
man Leader Courier.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-07-03
THE SEVEN AGES OF THE EGG.

The egg has seven ages, too,
As mankind counts the years.
For first upon the breakfast scene
As soft-boiled it appears.
Next age, though little older grown,
Old Time has yet encroached,
With white and gold, distinct and fair
It greets the table poached-
And should it outlfve both of these.
1t then may be inferred
That when the third stage comes around
Well doubtless see ii shirred.
Then fourth it starts to take on fat.
And If no worse bettde.
Tt chaperones the rosy ham,
Or else we see it fried.
Fifth age, the rapid rush of life
Has left it far from new,
So. slightly mixed and shaken up,
The scramble greets the view.
Sixth age, though still it's hard to beat
With n1incing rolled between,
Though somewhat leathery and tough,
An ome1et's on the scene.
Then seventh, we shall contemplate
The last and added age,
And at one throw 1t goes upon
And also quits the stage
New York Mall and Express.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-07-03
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR
LFrom the New York Press.l

From the New York PresS.1
Girls are awful nice things not to
marry.
If one would see his own faults, he
should borrow his neighbo--'s specta-
cies.
A woman's summer clothes are as
thin in themselves as they are thick
with ribbons run in them.
We call a man very agreeable when
he makes us think he is more impressed
with our opinion than his own.
1t is never, safe to let your wife think
you haven't any bad habits or she will
suspect you are leading a double life.
If you ask a girl what she is sewing
on and she bushes 1t is a sign that is
the way she planned to have 1t come
out.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-07-03

Morton AIbaugh makes the follow
ing pertinent comments in the last is
sue of the Kingman Leader-Courier:
ssWhy is it that Roosevelt, LaFolIette,
Hanly and Folk are the men who are
in demand these days when a, drawing
card to secure a crowd is wanted? 1t
Is not on account of their eloquence,
speakers. With the exception OF
Roosevelt. it cannot be credited t1
their prominence. It is because they
are talking that which the people
want to hear. This is - era of re-
form and these men are 7ers in the
The Topeka state journal., 1905-07-03

movement. They are opposed to cor
ruption in public life and to the doml-
mating influence of corporations in
public affairs. The people are think
ing about these things and are anxious
to hear them discussed by men in
hearty sympathy with the movement
These comparatively new leaders in
politics are, at least for the time be-
Ing, occupying the center of the stage
with the electric Iights all turned on.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-07-03
CHECKING THE DIVORCE EVIL.

Archbishop Farley voiced the opin-
ion of the American people when he
praised the attitude of President
Roosevelt toward divorce. There is
no question that the president, by his
views as well as by his domestic life,
has given a great stimulus to the
movement, against divorce. This
movement is growing, for it is plain
to everybody that the facility with
which divorces are granted in most
states is a great evil and one which is
bound to seriously affect American
home life. This home life has other
enemies, such as the desire to congre-
gate in hotels, flats or apartment
houses, but the main foe is divorce
San Francisco Chronicle.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-07-03
In the Wrong Place.

The tourist left the train at every
station and went ahead to the baggage
car to ask if his trunk was safe.
Are you quite sure he asked the
baggage officer for the sixth time,
''that my trunk is safe %
"Begorra, I wish the Lord had made
We an elephant instead of an ass,'' was
the exasperated reply, IAN then you'd
always have your trunk in front of
you.''=-Harper' Weekly.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-07-03

1t is hardly probable that the ex-
ample of the officers of the Equitable
in returning to the association the
profits they made by selling the asso-
citation bonds at a big profit to them
selves will become so contagious that
Secretary of State Burrow will
ra41F, IL
The Topeka state journal., 1905-07-03

Now that Mr.. Alexander has paid
back to the Equitable the $25,O0o or
more that he had wrongfu1Iy taken
from the company, Tom Cordry sug-
gests that perhaps an inquiry in that
direction might reveal the identity of
the mysterious "a. R. Brown who
paid back some money into the Kan
sas state treasury.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-07-03
wHEN MERCY rs TREASON.

A Republican officeholder IN PhiIa-
delphia has just been discharged from
the federal service because of his con-
nection with an election fraud case.
Twelve Democrats-some of them
officeholders-have just been forced to
plead guilty to election frauds in
Cambridge, Mass. Whether Repub-
lican or Democrat, whether in Phila-
delphia or in Cambridge, the falsifier
of the ballot deserves no quarter. He
should be hunted down as one of the
worst enemies OF popular govern
ment.-NeW York Tribune.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-07-03

''The statement of Paul Morton"
comments the Parsons Sun, ''that he is
going after the Equitable thieves and
that he will get the money that they
have stolen must cause Tom Kelly to
feel mighty glad that Governor Hoch
didn't place Mr.. Morton in charge of
that investigation of the state treas
1Jrer's Office
The Topeka state journal., 1905-07-03

Justice Brewer says it is not neces-
sary to hold Office in order to serve
the nation. Justice Brewer, however,
was speaking theoretically and not
from the standpoint of practical ex-
perience
The Topeka state journal., 1905-07-03
THE sTANDARD,s PROFIT.

The Standards oil pipe line to Whit
ing, Ind, has been opened for business,
and has begun to run oil. Its working
capacity will be IS, 900 barrels day, and
John D. will keep it going to its full
capacity filling up his eastern tank
age with the cheap oil from the Kan
sas territory Later on, when the rise
comes. the Standards profit will be dou-
bied.-Sterling Bulletin.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-07-03

Now we know why there was no
row between T. B. Gerow and D. W.
Blaine this year. They merged, and
Mr.. Gerow appointed Mr.. Blaine as his
agent in Pratt county.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-07-03

Isn't it about time for someone to
claim the Santa Fe's offer of $4,000
reward for the train-wrecking fends ?
Train wrecking is crime which merits
the severest punishment.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-07-03
EULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.
HOME NEWS Willie away.

Subscribers of the State Journal
away during the summer may has g
the paper mailed regularly each day
30 any address at the rate of thirty
cents month. Address changed as
often as desired. While out Of town
e11e State journal will be to you like
= daily letter from home
The Topeka state journal., 1905-07-03

Since Chicago heard that there were
2,01f births in New York last week
1t is becoming frightened for fear it
will not overtaHe New Yorl1's popula-
tton for a year or two more.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-07-03

''Even a First ward alderman ought
TO be able to have a gorgeous time in
Europe on $10,0o0," says the Chicago
Tribune. Then how much ought it to
take for a Kansas state senator?
The Topeka state journal., 1905-07-03
A DIFFICULT TASK.

Superintendent Hendricks of the
New York insurance department
would seem to intimate that even a
man of Mr.. CleveIand's bulk is hardly
equal to the task of keeping the
Equitable lid on straight.-Indianap-
oils News.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-07-03
WASN'T uP-To-DATE.

When the old time poet wrote: 'Oh,
for a lodge in some vast wilderness!"
he did not suppose the dues would be
raised year after year until they got so
high nobody could afford to belong
Yates Center News.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-07-03

The worst slam the farmers elevator
movement has yet received is an en-
dorsement from Governor Jeff Davis
of Arkansas.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-07-03
YET NOT THE SAME.

Yet this is the same Russia that
gave four allied powers, including
tussle in the Crimea fifty years ago
Chicago Tribune.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-07-03

The Swedish riksdag is very anxious
to fight Norway. The riksdag would
do the fighting by proxy, you under.
stand
The Topeka state journal., 1905-07-03

The trouble about taking sides in
this Morocco row is that both sides
are wrong and tt is difficult to de-
termine which side is the more wrong.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-07-03

William Alien White says it is bet
ter to be a one-termer than a poly
foxer. Before we concur we wish to
know exactly what a poly-foxer il.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-07-03

Some of the soldiers at LODI re-
fused to fire on defenseless people. AS
a result they will probably be fred
themselves.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-07-03

If the Japs won't agree to an ar
1nistice, perhaps the Russians can get
Oyama to fight constructively Here
tofore he has been fighting destruc-
fiveJv
The Topeka state journal., 1905-07-03
A LITTLE SLOW.

Canada is little slow about deport-
ing the kind of Americans this coun-
try wants deported and that Canada
ought to be glad to get rid of.-Mil-
waukee Sentinel.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-07-03
The Respectable Franchise CRATER.

In the operation of a city govern
ment graft appears in four great
forms; police graft, or the profit de-
rived through the police department
from law breakers and criminals; pay
roll graft; contract graft, or the il
legal profit on public contracts, and
franchise graft. Police, pay roll and
contract gratis are disreputable, vile
and loathsome. They are commonly
and generally so considered. They are
usually the work of small, cheap,
mean men. Those who engage in such
undertakings are for the most part OF
the viler sort. They do not make in
f1uential friends. What they are doing
is plain stealing and it is SO regarded
by everybody. They cannot become
men of real standing in the conmuni-
ty. They steadily and naturally sink
into social insignificance.
Franchise graft is connected with
the grant, extension, regulation and
control of franchises for public utili-
ties. In the United States franchise
graft is respectable. The money made
by it is not tainted. The franchise
boodler, if skillful and intelligent, be-
comes a leading citizen and respected
member of the community, supporter
of charities and not infrequently a
the ladder of social, financial and po-
litical distinction. Dozens of Chicago
and Illinois men who have made for
tunes out of the public utilities, or
who are commonly believed to have
been franchise grafters, or who have
been openly charged with it, now oc-
cupy conspicuous positions, appointive
or elective, in the national, state and
city governments, and it is probably
the same with other states and cities
Francis w. Parker, in The World To-
day, for July.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-07-03

Walter WelIman's enthusiastic en-
dorsement of Mr.. Morton is one thing
that will not add greatly to Mr.. Nor
TONS standing
The Topeka state journal., 1905-07-03

a few more good harvest days and
the most valuable crop of wheat Kan
sAs ever harvested will be practically
The Topeka state journal., 1905-07-03
on A WHOLE PACE

We are told the Russian fleet tsad-
vanced in two columns That was
well enough as far as it went, but
evidently the japanese advanced in
seven co1umns.-Philadelp North
American.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-07-03

If China persists in boycottfng us,
we might retaIiate on Haviland and
Dresden.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-07-03
NOT A GOOD REASON.

The czar has fired his old Uncle
Alexis the high admiral. There
wasn't much left to be admiral of, but
the salary was running right on
Minneapolis Journal.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-07-03
ERON OTHER PENS
SAME THING.

Roosevelt has got Russia and
Japan together" says an exchange.
We thought he had got them apart
Buffalo Times.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-07-03

Mr.. Wallace now knows how the
lid feels: Taft sat on him too.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-07-03
Japan,s Rising Credit.

In the Worlds Work for July is an IL
Illuminating analysis of the effects of the
war on the finances of Japan and Rus
sia. We quote:
Five days after Togo's victory the
japanese per cent bonds and Russian
per cent bonds sold at the same price
on the London market, closing the day
at a quotation of 87A. These quotations
tell the whole story of the financial
standing of the warning nations. The
bond fluctuations and the violent
changes in the foreign credit of the
two nations cannot be better illustra-
ted than by the following table, show
ing prices at various dates:
PRICES OF RUSSIAN AND JAPANESE
The Topeka state journal., 1905-07-03

Three weeks before the outbreak of
the war the Russian bonds were worth
$Z15 per bond more than the japanese.
When war broke out the difference was
$240. The great victory at Port Arthur
cut down the difference to $128 and
Rojestvenskys defeat wiped out the
difference.
The table shows that the foreign
credit of Japan has been immensely
enhanced by the present war and that
the foreign credit of Russia has been
immensely deteriorated by the same
events. A japanese bond that was
worth only $40 before the war is now
worth 1915. On the other hand, a Rus
sian bond that was worth before the
war 1886 is now worth only $875.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-07-03
MORT ALBAUGH,s VIEW.

The Leader-Courier still believes Pres
ident Roosevelt will be his on success
sor There are too many vital questions
before the country for settlement with
which his name is linked for the people
to permit him to drop QUE no difference
how determined he himself may be in
his desire to do so.-Kingn1an Leader
Courier.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-07-03
KANSAS CONAENT'

MAY BELIEVE LIKE GOV. HocH
In Maine town only one child was
found who know who Togo was or could
tell anything about his victory. A
special meeting was called at once and
$500 was raised to build a school house.
It strikes us that they should subscribe
for some ewspapers.-HoltonR Recorder.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-07-03
GOOD PRESCRIPTION.

A reader OF this column wants to
know how to remove puffs from under
the eyes. Bunco suggests that he stop
putting high balls under the belt
"Bunco" in the Yates Center News.