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Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1905-06-23
STARTLING REPORTS OF INVESTIGATORS
The United States Being Made Penal Colony
for Hungary The white Slave" Trade
Brings Thousands of immoral Wom-
en- to Our Shores-Forged I'm.
spection Papers q Grave
Danger to U.s.

Washington. The United States q
penal colony of the Baltic states.
The United States a dumping ground
sor the paupers of southern Europe.
The United States the Mecca of
thousands of immoral Hungarian
women
There are in the desks of govern
ment officials in Washington reports
containing evidence to prove the above
statements that are so strongly word
ed that they dare not be published
until the government is ready to act
Tor the reports are but an arrangement
OF the governments Of southern Europe
for completely in wholesale schemes for
the violation of United States immi-
grafton laws.
These reports are received from the
most trustworthy sources, one of
which is from a government agent,
paid to investigate the conditions
abroad, and whose persistency in that
direction has so aroused at least one
European nation that it's paid spies
have followed him all over Europe;
whose mail has been rified, and who
was arrested and fined in the city of
Buda-Pesth when he violently objected
10 this procedure.
Out of this later incident will grow
a vigorous effort on the part of the
government to so change the immigra-
ton laws as to put stop to the dump
ing of Europe's undesirable classes
upon our shores.
An Investigator Selected.
Marcus Braun, born in Hungary,
though now a citizen of the United
States was selected by President
Roosevelt to act as a special agent
of the United States in investigating
the wholesale violations of our immi-
grafton laws. The request for such
an appointment came through the
anti-vice societies of Philadelphia
which were anxious to put a stop to
the white slave" traffic by which
thousands of>Hungarian women were
being sent to the United States fol-
immoral purposes. Mr.. Braun's in
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1905-06-23
Perhaps.

"I wonder why the photographer told
me to put my hands behind me? Do
you suppose he thought they would
look too large in front of me?"
perhaps he merely wished to util-
ize them as a background, Houston
Post
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1905-06-23

not get 1t the letter writing beggars
had their houses broken open, were
dragged out and beaten until they did
divide. At last one Of them secured
a citizenship paper from his brother
in Chicago and on the next occasion
OF police visit he appealed to the
consul, DR.. Merrill, and the police were
set back, Immediately the demand for
American citizenship papers raised the
market as high as 500 per certificate,
and now the colony is enjoying the full
privileges of American protection.
though many of them have never seen
.ne Atlantic.
Caught in the Act.
Perhaps the most sensational thing
Ia the suppressed portion of the last
report was Mr.. Braun's presentation
Of true copies of the secret agreement
between the Hungarian government
and the Cunard line, in which the
Hungarian government agreed to de-
liver to the Cunard line at the port
of Fiune all the emigrants from Hun
gary at a fixed price.
THE agreement read that no other
line should be allowed to compete and
that there should be a minimum of
10000 the first year 1t is presumed
that that agreement is at present op-
erative and il remember correctly
next year the minimum is to he 100,-
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1905-06-23
Agnoticisn at Home.

pa what's an agnostic?"
zone who doesn't know"
"Jimminy! The way ma talks yon
must be about 46 different kinds Of an
aguosti6. Chicago Record Herald,
Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1905-06-23

refilleA to their utmost capacity by
the criminals sent to this country by
the official brooms of European gov
ernments.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-12
THE MAIN ISSUE.

In the recrimination and discussion
of what might have been" regarding
the state treasury situation, let it not
be forgotten that T. T. Kelly is the
real culprit at the bottom of all the
trouble. It is true that Governor Hoch
ought to have made the monthly ex-
aminations of the treasury; that he
ought to have given some attention to
the Rowett report; and that he ought
to have done various other things to
protect the treasury, and he is deserv-
ing of a certain amount of cenSure for
not doing so. It is also true that At
torney General Coleman ought to have
prosecuted Kelly long ago, both on
the strength of the Rowett report and
on account of Kelly's embezzlement in
connection with the Comanche county
bond deal, and he is deserving of
severe censure on that score, inasmuch
as Governor Bailey instructed him to
act on the Rowett report last fall, and
his friends promised that he would act
Immediately after election.
But it should not be forgotten that
Kelly is the real criminal. There is
not shrewder man in the state gov
eminent than Tom Kelly, and he will
slip out of punishment for his en-
bezzlements if the slightest loophole is
afforded him. He has always done it
in the past, and he hopes to sufficiently
hoodwink the officers and the people
to enable him to do so in the future.
Kelly's shrewdness is indicated by
the agility with which he took advan-
tage of the suggestion that Governor
Hoch had not obeyed the law regard
ing the monthly treasury examina-
tons. Kelly will keep that before
Hoch's eyes if possible. Here is what
Kelly virtually told the governor in a
recent interview:
you are to blame for it all. for if
you had obeyed the law and examined
the treasury you wouldn't have let me
get the state into this fix. You are a
law-breaker yourself, so you have no
license to throw stones at me-
This is what Kelly's defiance of Gov
ernor Hoeh amounts to. He proposes
to stir up all the dust possible in order
to hide his own crimes.
Governor Hoch has been somewhat
negligent in the past, but if he will
accumulate a fresh supply of nerve
and see that Kelly is punished, much
can be forgiven him. Governor Hoch
doubtless regrets that he did not ad-
here more closely to the law with
reference to treasury matters. Kelly
regrets only that he has been caught.
The main issue is to punish the chief
criminal and furnish an object lesson
that others entrusted with public
funds may remember.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-12

for your action in the First and Second
district contest cases. No court in the
land, no man of judgment, would do
that. There the court merely decided
that it had no authority.
AS a school fund commissioner you
have distinctly not appeared to any ad-
vantage.
AS member of the board of railway
assessors-well, the people will recall
how after the flood assessments of prop
erty owned by corporations in Eastern
Kansas were reduced, making small
property owners pay a proportionately
greater amount of tax.
When the Rowett report was placed
in your hands. you promised to take
immediate action. There were allega-
lions in that report that you could not
reasonably have ignored, but still you
did ignore them.
The fact is, we cannot see one redeem
ing act, one praiseworthy action in your
whole official career. If your open let
ter included us in your appeal, we regret
to say, but we must say 1t firmly and
finally, that we are compelled to decide
against you. sf
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-12
FROM OTHER PENS
THE AMERICAN WAY.

President Roosevelts bold manner
of taking hold of delicate question
dumfounds the slow-moving rulers and
diplomats of the old world. But there
should be no marvelling about it. 1t
is the way of the American people.
When they want to do a thing or say
a thing they do not hesitate. That is
why they are now, in many respects
leading all the balance of the world
In taking hold of the Russo-Japanese
question President Roosevelt but en-
phasizes the American spirit. If old
world rulers and chancellories were as
prompt in dealing with International
questions-and as honest-the whole
world would be Infinitely better off.
But the example set by American
presidents and American diplomats in
the past two decades is having a
world wide influence. 1t is teaching
other countries that the way to do a
thing is to do 1t promptly, fairly and
honestly.-Nashville American.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-12
THE DEATH VALLEY SPECIAL.

The run of the Death Valley Special
two-thirds of the way across the
American continent will go down in
history as a great achievement. The
time will very likely come when it will
be surpassed, but not until there has
been a considerable advance in railroad
equipment and methods. Up to the
present time it is undoubtedly the
most remarkable run that has ever
been made on any railroad.
1t is true that both the New York
Central and the Pennsylvania have
made faster time between New York
and Chicago, but it has been for only
a third OF the distance from Los An
geles to Chicago. and over a com
paratively easy track. The Santa Fe's
run crossed four mountain ranges and
the speed was maintained almost three
times as long as or the older eastern
roads.
1t is a source of satisfaction to KAN
sas that it was a Kansas road. man
aged by Kansas men, that accomplish
ed this remarkable feat. Incidentally,
it is a great thing for the Santa Fe.
The advertising which it gets from
this run is worth many times the price
paid by Millionaire Scott for his spe-
cial train. And the fact that it was
made without a semblance of an acct
dent adds to the feat.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-12
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

IFrom the Chicago News.l
An empty head contains many sur
prises.
A woman who confides in another
woman is lost.
There is nothing so painful as some
mems efforts to be funny.
The more nerve man has the less
money he loses when he fails in busi-
ness.
Always speak well of yourself.
Your friends will attend to the other
side of it.
A girls idea of trust is to have a
monopoly on young mans affec-
lions.
After a woman discovers that her
husband has lied to her he never
hears the last of it.
A married man shouldn't talk in his
sleep unless he is sure of what he is
going to say.
What a man likes about the Fourth
of July is the way he can cuss the
things he did when he was a boy.
If a man is right he can't be too
radical, and if he's wrong he can't be
too conservative.
Never strike a man when he's
dowil-unless you are sure he will
never be able to get up again.
Successful men have plenty of con-
6dence in themselves and but little in
a mules heels or woman'S tongue.
A scientist asserts that rocking
chairs make people deaf and near
sighted. He has evidently observed
two young people occupying the same
rocker.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-12
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Wonder if Mr.. Coleman is still busy
respecting the rights of Tom Kelly"
In transferring the construction of
the Panama canal from the war de-
partment to the state department, does
President Roosevelt intend that the
secretary of the latter shall Root it
out?
Isn't the esteemed Capital fearful
of prosecuting Tom Kelly in sug-
costing that he ought to resign his
job as state treasurer?
Tom ,McNeal is probably too busy
kicking the states job press to have
time to say anything about the treas
ury situation.
It is announced that the National
Reciprocity conference will meet in
Chicago August 5 to recipross around
d little.
Tom Kelly will have to wait some
time for his next "vindication:" The
election is still sixteen months off.
You will notice that there has been
no pun in this department about the
Devlin and the deep sea, nor about
Tom Kelly devlin with the state funds.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-12
THE BRADY FRANCHISE.

1t will be bad business for Topeka if
the city council should now for any
reason hesitate to promptly grant the
Edison company the franchise general
ly agreed upon, and to as peremptoriIy
refuse the insulent demand of Million
aire Brady for another franchise in
this town.
It looks as though on these two
points hinged the welfare and con-
tinued progress and improvement of
Topeka's new street railway system,
and upon the vital interests of the city
in general on the light and power
propositions.
Mr.. Brady has been given the fran
chise for manufactured gas. He has
been given the franchise for natural
gas. He has unfortunately possessed
himself of both of them at higher
maximum rates than the city should
pay now. to say nothing of ten, twenty
or thirty years hence, the length of the
franchise.
If the city gives Mr. Brady the cleo
trio light, heat and power franchise, we
will have no competition might. Elec-
tricity, natural gas and manufactured
gas will all be in the hands of one New
Yorker, and at the same time we will
cripple local institutions in which our
own people are largely interested. fin
ancially and materially; especially in
the Edison company and in the street
railway enterprise.
Don't make any mistake, gentlemen.
Help the people who have helped us.
Follow the interests of your own people
and your own constituents. rather than
the advices. instructions and kilograms
of nonresident seeking to own the
town through franchises.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-12
oUAKER REFLECTIONS.

TFron the Philadelphia Record.1
The social climber prefers family
tree.
The egotist thinks he's great, but it's
all in his I.
It's the man who sticks to water
that drinks like a fish.
Many a girls ideal Is shattered
when he goes broke.
1t doesn't take a particularly sharp
fellow to cut up capers.
IT is human nature to swallow fat
terv and gag over the truth.
IT sometimes happens that the bone
of contention isn't worth picking.
Some fellows do lot of running
around without making much prog
ress.
Some people get religion with as
little forethought as child gets
measles.
1t would be interesting to know how
old a woman should be before she de-
yelops into a new woman
low al all He's a queer chap. regu-
lar poser Wagg-"Yes. he's pro-
fessional model
This chap. of course. you all have met;
He's broke, yet wants the earth.
He travels on his uppers. yet
He wants lower berth.
1t isn't every girl who knows
How husbands go astray.
The best of men, like fish. are those
That always get away
A woman is seldom as good as she pre-
tends to be or as wicked as other women
think her.
The man who fights and runs away
May fee the foe.
But he may also live to say,
II told you so.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-12
Ups and Downs.

An interesting story of Andrew Car
negie was narrated the other day by
one of the American visitors to Skibo
castle.
MIR. Carnegie he began, was en-
tertaining a party from London, and
among his guests was single woman
of about 50-a woman who had been
one of Queen Victoria's adies-in-wait-
ing.
'iShe wore a mannish monocle, carried
stick, smoked cigarettes, drank and
swore Yet she belonged to one of the
most ancient English families and,
though poor herself, she numbered
among her relations the richest peers
of the realm.
.She said at dinner one night that she
was a Tory, an old-school Tory, and
that she placed family above everything
else in the world.
Nov 1 can understand, madam,
said an American clergyman, how you
might place family above wealth, but
to place it above everything-that sure
ly is carrying the matter too far
mot a bit too far said the woman
calmly.
"eYou don't place family above gen
ius?" said the clergyman. The late
Marquis of Anglesey, for instance, you
wouldn't place him above the poet
Swinburne, eh?'
s.'Surely, surely the lady answered
" And you place family above achieve
ment?' said the clergyman.
TIC. be sure I do she answered =
am so proud of the fact that [ am g
De la Peer that-that'-she looked al
Mr.. Carnegie-that I would not change
places with our host himself
You, madam he said, are proud
of your descent. /. on the opposite tack
am proud of my ascent. New Orlean:
States
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-12
BOGUS MIR. COLEMAN.
From the Leavenworth Times. (Rep.)
July III

July Il.
In an open letter to the Topeka Jour-
nal. C. C. Coleman maintains that he is
the best attorney general Kansas ever
had. At last Coleman has a defender,
The attorney general declares that the
supreme court has supported more of
his opinions than of any other attorney
general. Here, too, is some refreshing
assurance. 1t had never been previously
noted that Attorney General Coleman
ever had an opinion for sure. No, Mr..
Coleman, much as we should like to say
words of encoura cement for your Off
cial career, we could not be guilty of a
piece of such maudlin fattery.
The Wyandotte county Doodle cases
were disgracefully neglected.
For your share of the school bond
deals you deserve condemnation of the
severest order.
If the supreme court was technically
right about the maintenance fund mat
ter, you were technically wrong.
The supreme court did not sustain you
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-12
JAYHA WKER JOTS

Newton is now testing crude oil for
fuel, just as though it hasn't been
tested two or three dozen times al
ready.
Hutchinson is having very little
trouble with the dust nowadays, since
Cow Creek has taken to running down
Main street.
There are still a number of con-
gressional~ aspirants in the Seventh
district besides Judge Madison who
haven't withdrawn.
Out at Salina bright red snake has
been seen, closely following taran-
lula seven inches in circumference-or
was it diameter. And yet Salina is
now a prohibition town,
Brotherly item from the Wichita
Eagle: His breakfast food came up
and the editor of the Ell Dorado Re
adulterated food concerns and the
United States senate.
The Belleville Telescope brings for.
ward the youngest old soldier in Kan
sas' again, Robert T. Ellison, who en-
listed August IS, 1862, at the age of IA.
Now is the time for Judge Moore of
Abilene, Harry Richter and the rest of
the youngest old soldiers in Kansas to
come forward and assert their claims.
Whitewater and Potwin. down in
Butler county, played game of base
ball the other day, and at the end OF
TO l for Whitewater. By that time
the Whitewater team had worn out
the path around the diamond and
either new field had to be secured
or the game stopped, so it stopped.
w. Y. Morgan in Paris: 1 saw a
little scene which seemed to show up
Partisan character. A cab collided
slightly with another. Immediately
both drivers were off their vehicles
gesticulating and talking about 800
words a minute. AS they shook their
fists and grew red in the face with the
words that came SO fast they inter-
fered with each other, I thought
somebody would surely be killed. No
body noticed them. No one paid any
attention. And finally the two ex-
hausted men climbed back to their
places and drove on. I know they
used French words to each other thai
in America would have insured q
police court trial for disturbance OF
| the peace.
Stockton Record: The State Journals
estimate of the wheat yield of Kansas
is "a. 434, 645 bushels. Rocks is placed III
near the top of the list with 1,707, SO.
bushels and Ellis /, 57S, $50 bushels. Many
| think that the crop of Rocks will reach
| the 1900, 900 mark, as the yield is turning
| out better than was expected in nearly
every field. The price of the new croI
| wilt start off at from 20 to 20 cents pc
| bushel. AT the lower figure it will b.
| worth in the aggregate more than on
million dollars. The corn crop of Rook
] county will be worth more than anothe
| million. Old Rocks is certainly getting
| there some.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-12
a BOY AND a GIRL.

He learned to play at tennis,
He had won full many match:
On the ball ground he was famous.
He could pitch and bat and catch;
He could box and throw the hammer,
And at wrestling he was good;
He was thoroughly athletic
But his father chopped the wood.
She was well informed on ethics,
She could formulate a plan
Which would show US all our duty
To our struggling fellow man.
She could write on household TOPICS
In manner hard to beat.
She embroidered fancy pillows
But her mother cooked the meat,
Washington Star.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-12

that would move the Journal nightly;
The supreme court of Missouri reversed
nearly all of Mr.. Folks cousdctions. In
his case the Journal praises the lawyers
and blames the court. In my case he
praises the court and bIames the lawyer
But then Folk is a Democrat. If the state
fails to win a case, / have lost IT, II the
state wins it, it is my associate counsel
that have won I think no further COM
ment is necessary to show his utter dlsre-
gard for truth and fairness.
In explanation of the above it may be
said that the reference to the CALLED
jade wincing and the unbridled tongue"
is understood generally to be a turf ex-
preston referring to "a horse on Cole
man"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-12
KANSAS COMMENT
AT LEAVENWORTH

BIGELOW AT LEAVENWORTH.
With the addition of Mr.. RigeIou tn
the national banking colony at the fed
eral penitentiary at Fort Leavenworth
the colony now numbers six, all of
Wnom have been assigned to clerkships
II is SAID that Bigelow will be assigned
70 cierkship in the hospital-which is
hardly to be construed as shard labor
according to the accepted definition of
mat term, although it may be hard for
Bigeiow. The Milwaukee bank wreck
er was given the maximum penalty of
Ten years on the one count in the in
dfctment OF ten upon which he was
trleo. He was sentenced by Judge
2uarles, lifelong friend.-Barber
County Index.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-12
AN ENDLESS CHAIN

is not for us to question the sin
certify of the governor in his desire to
see the prohibitory law enforced, but
II ne considers that he has done his
full duty by giving written Instructions
10 the county attorneys to enforce the
law ne has mighty easy way of easing
ms conscience and in so doing falls
opllgation his oath of office imposes
upon him. We notice that in several
counties the county attorneys are also
easing their conscience" by giving
notice in writing to the sheriff to en-
force the law. BY the same token the
sheriff can ease his conscience by
directing similar notice to his depu-
tes. thus establishing sort of an end
less chain system of law enforcement.
But once stretched to this length the
cha1n' is liable to break and the en-
tlre conscience easing business be-
among the violators and evaders of
the law.-Stafford Republican.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-12
HOCHs ACTION.

The governor, in connection with
the loss of a half million dollars of
the states money, and the rascality
and impudence of Acting State Treas
urer Kelly, has risen to the emergency
and has taken the following pro-
nounced and vigorous action:
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-12
HOME NEWS WHILE AWAY.

Subscribers of the State Journal
away during the summer may have
eae paper mailed regularly each day
70 any address ut the ratio of thirty
SCENTS a month. Address changed as
often as desired. While out Of town
me State journal viii be to you like
. daily letter from home
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-12

When the First National bank first
collapsed State Treasurer Kelly was
confident" that the state would be
a preferred depositor, but you will
notice that you don't hear any more
suggestions along that line.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-12

Hoke Smith, who is running for gov
ernor of Georgia, ought to be able to
line up the Smith vote for himself. and
af the Smith are as numerous in Georgia
as they are in Kansas they can proba-
bly, elect him