The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-27

gress will, in the end. authorize the sea
level plan.
One common expression used by op-
ponents of the sea level plan is that the
president has many times promised ITO
make dirt fly" and that 1t cannot fly
very much if a long, long time shall have
to be spent to dig down to sea levez
Culebra cut. that menace to the canal
second only to fever and climate. is
cited; with what is said to be its many
miles long and forty-foot-thick stratum
of solid rock.
There used to be old-fashioned people.
in Kansas who criticised the cunstruc-
ton of the Isthmian canal They said
it would never help Kansas But it is
now recalled by Kansas that the canal
Will affect rranScOntineEtal freight
rates, even if it does no more. Besides.
three Kansas roads, at least-the Atcil-
ison, Topeka & Santa F'e. Chicago.
Rock Island & Pacific, and Missouri.
Kansas & Texas, run quite to, or nearly
to the gulf of Mexico. Another road
which is fast building into Kansas, the
/ Denver, Enid & Gull and its Kansas
partner, the Denver, Kansas & Gulf.
will connect east and west trunk lines
with the gulf. The canal viii help to
divert products that Kansas raises
southwark to the gulf and possibly to a
better market.
The legislation that congress VIII en-
act for the benefit of the Philippine IS
lands viii be participated in BY mem
bers of the Kansas delegation There
will probably be legislation calculated
to bring about a reduction on rates on
sugar and tobacco from III Philippine
there will likely be legislation which
viii make it possible for capital 20 so
1 into the islands from this country with
greater ease, to aid in the development
/ of the insular possessions. When the IS
/ lands came to this country. congress
was exceedingly chary Of legislation
that might permit American capital to
seek investment untrammeled in the
not of graft, but that severe criticism
might be made if the Americans and
American capital went straight way 70
the islands and took possession Now
| It is seen that what the islands need To
develop them to their fullest extent
and at the same time furnish an object
lesson to the FilipinOs. is the stimulus
of American brains and capital So
while the bars viii not be let down. il
will be made more easy for American
investment to occur.
In this connection. al least three
members of the Kansas delegation VIII
participate actively in what is done in
the way of Philippine islands legisla-
ton. These are Senator Long. and Rep
reseutatives Curtis and Scott These
three were members last summer of the
congressional party Secretary Of War
Taft personally conducted to the Orient.
chiefly the Philippine islands. Each one
of the three came away with a keener
insight into affairs in the archipelago
and with new intelligence gained from
actual contact, of the crying need Of the
islands. 1t need not surprise Kansans
if these three members Of the Sunfiower
delegation are heard from repeatedly
| this coming winter in Philippine legis-
latiou.
Kansas practically made Oklahoma a
territory and it is taking q hand ia
the effort to make it a state. From all
over Kansas, more particularly from
| the southern border thereof. people
focked to the new territory in the orsgi-
nal Opening" of 1899, and later when
the strip came in, in 1893. This was
repeated in the new country in 1901.
/ Oklahoma and Indian Territory are
knocking at the door OF the union for
admission. They knocked last congress,
now 1t is quite likely the door VIII %
I opened some time the coming session
All the Kansas delegation are interest
ed in the statehood fight. and Senator
Long. as in the last congress, viii take
an active part.
So on the eve of the opening Of the
first session Of the Fifty-ninth con-
gress. with great and grave questions
will be in a position to participate 10
the fullest extent in the deliberations
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oh it's being so rich that You can
wear old clothes without being afraid
people will think you can't afford new
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