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


found to be unreasonable. unjust or
discriminative.
To my mind the above proposition
seems eminently fair, just and reason
able.
Need OF Rate Revision.
The railroad companies now have
practically absolute, unlimited, IN
questionable authority in fixing inter
state rates in so far as the average
shipper is concerned. That these rates
are IN many cases unjust and discrimi-
native no one has the audacity to denv.
The people have q constitutional right
TO sure and safe remedy. Win they
exercise that right? There can be but
table.
The extreme opposition of the rail-
road companies may cause the provis-
ions of the bill to be more drastic than
they ought to be when it becomes a
law.
No man has ever encountered opposf-
ton equal in vigor, strength, organiza-
ton and power to the combined rail-
road interests of America, representing
as they do thirteen thousand million
dollars worth of railway property as
sisted and aided by all the great cor
porations of wealth and protected in
teFests.
The success that has attended Presi-
0CAAN LAOC6CNE1l S1IOILS TINS mann
moth, gigantic undertaking has been the
source Of much surprise and gratifica-
ton to his friends.
The wholesome effect and influence OF
his strong, aggressive leadership has
been manifest in the remotest parts of
the nation, and in nearly every state and
city IN the union the work Of political
renovation is being pushed forward in
vigorous, determined, successful way.
Kansas Ahead in Reforms.
In the matter of actual work done and
accomplished facts Kansas stands at
the head Of the procession today. We
have made more progress in the direction
which Roosevelt methods lead than any
other state in the union during the last
two years.
Our new railroad law is a better law
and gives our board of railway commits
dent is asking for the interstate COM
merce commission. Our board of con-
troll law has more than justified every
statement and claim that was ever made
in its favor and win prove to the people
of Kansas the value of disinterested
legislation on fundamental, important
questions.
The state school fund of Kansas has
been juggled and manipulated in the
interests of a few men who have grown
rich at the expense of the state. The
new school fund commission law, passed
last winter fully protects this fund by
the greatest publicity possible and other
necessary safeguards. The state printer
law reduces the income of the state
printer from Approximately twenty-five
thousand dollars q year to twenty-five
hundred, and what is more important
it eliminates one of the most fruitful
sources of graft and corruption thai
has ever existed in Kansas.
The depository law, that really caused
the practical politicians" more pain thar
any reform measure during the last SEES
sion of the legislature, fully protects the
state funds, leaves the money in tbs
county until required for state use, and
provides that the state and counties
shall receive the interest on all deposits
The juvenile court law, the uniform
bank instrument law the amended bal
lot law and the saving of Approximately
fifty thousand dollars in legislative ex-
penses, together with more than a score
of other good, wholesome, useful laws
along right lines, and in the proper gen
| eraI direction, indicate the meaning anc
tendency of the reform movement II
| Kansas This is what denominate tbs
/ New Republicanism of the Roosevelt
| type. It is fearless and aggressive ane
stands for decency, the square deaf
and no special favors to any person, in
! terest or class. What we need in pub
/ lie life above all things is the honest
| capable, fearless man to supplant TIT
! political hucksters, machine puppet:
and professional grafters who grow ricl
and corrupt at public expense.
Cancer on the Nation.
Under present conditions a man o