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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-10
THE REMEDY.

The editor of the Lawrence World
does not believe that trusts can be
broken up by jail sentences and fines.
In speaking of E. J. Smiley, secretary
of the Kansas Grain Dealers assocfa-
ton, who has just completed his term
in the Rush county jail, the World in
Inmates that Mr.. Smiley is again back
at the trust business, and adds:
1.-THE World has before called atten-
ton to the fact that fines and i'm
prisonments are no way to reach trusts
and combinations. The only effectual
way is to take away their licenses to
do business. When a trust is proved
to exist. if the state will insist upon its
winding up its affairs, then and not
until then can we cope with the
trusts
How would the World lake away the
license of Mr.. Smiley's organization to
do business? The Kansas Grain Deal
ers' association is not an Incorporated
organization. In fact, technically it
was not even the association that was
the trust-it was a few members of the
association at Bison, Rush county, with
Mr.. Smiley as their executive officer
Smiley, in his capacity of secretary of
the grain dealers association, went
around over the state and arranged for
these local pools wherever the dealers
would go into them. No corporation
was involved, and there was nothing
from which a license to do business
could be taken.
Very likely it would be a good idea
to take away the charter or permission
to do business in the state of any COR
poration that violates the antitrust
lawn fact the law provides thatNhis
shall be done, and it is the duty of the
attorney general to see that it is done
But primarily few terms in jails
and liberal fines will go far towards
breaking up these illegal combina-
tons
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-10
sTUBBs' ASSURANCE.

A short time before the election last
fall W. r. Stubs, as chairman of the
Republican state committee, issued
statement to the voters of the state. in
which he touched on the charges
against State Treasurer Kelly. It was
just after Kelly had issued his "resig-
nation In escrow and after Governor
Hoch had promised that if the voters
would re-elect Kelly he would make
a ''non-factional" examination.
In discussing this matter here is one
OF the assurances that Mr.. Stubs gave
the people of the state:
IT know that under his [Hoch'sl
administration the betrayal of a trust
by any state official will be followed
by prompt prosecution and such
punishment as the facts warrant and
the law provides
Now there is no doubt that Tom
Kelly has betrayed his trust even since
Hoch has been governor. It cannot
be disputed that he deposited large
sums of money, not only in the First
National bank, but also in banks out
side Of Topeka, and the law absolute
ly says that this shall constitute en-
bezzlement- It is common knowledge
that Kelly has taken $4,000 from the
state treasury to reimburse himself for
his old surety bond, contrary to law.
These facts are all common knowl-
edge, yet GovepnoF> Hoch has done
nothing at all towards, prompt prose-
cution and punishment
These things do not have to wait on
the report of Mr.. Morris, the special
accountant. Even if the governor does
not wish to take cognizance of the old
shortage in the treasury and the
Comanche county bond outrage, why
should he not take action on these
other matters? Instead Kelly is allow
ed to remain in control of hundreds of
thousands of dollars of the state funds
and given every opportunity possible
to cover up his tracks in other mat
ters
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-10
KANSAS PROSPERITY.

One would scarcely expect anything
like accurate knowledge of Kansas to
come out of Wall street. And yet the
most accurate picture of conditions in
Kansas that has been published re-
Gently was an editorial in a late issue
Of the Wall Street Journal.
Few Kansas people realize the ex-
tent to which Kansas IS dwelling on
Easy street. A few years ago. the
farmers were using their money to
paq off their mortgages. 1t was near
ly all going east to Wall street and
other places where the mortgages
were held. When the debts were paid
the farmers began to fix up. They
built new barns, and additions to the
houses; they bought new buggies and
began breeding fine stock; they
bought piano and other things for
the house.
Now many of them are we'll fixed
in the way of comforts on their farms.
They have telephones, and the sons
and daughters are going away to
school. On top of that now comes
another big crop which will either
add to the big bank deposits or it
must be invested in some way Here
is the way the Wall Street Journal
looks at our prosperity:
when the value of the present
wheat and corn crops of Kansas is
turned into cash and into the hands
of the farmers, the prosperity of that
state will have reached its highest
point. Already the people have over
500, 100000 on deposit in the banks.
Two-thirds of this belongs to the
farmers This is a net surplus from
farm products which the farmers have
laid away for "rainy day. or a bad
season. 1t will not be used for the
paying of debts or lifting MORTGAGES
from the farms, for this has all been
done and is out of the way. 1t is not
needed for improvements on the
farms, for most of these are modern
and comfortable It will not be used
| for the purchase of farm machinery
carriages and other farm and house
hold effects, for all these things have
been provided in years past. Pianos
and other musical instruments cheer
the average Kansas home. hence the
surplus in the banks will not be de-
pleted in the purchase of these luxu-
ries. About the only use the farm.
ers will have for this nest egg would
be to buy automobiles-and many OF
them are indulging in these ma.
chimes.
with this big surplus on hand
with wheat crop that will yield So.
100000 bushels. with corn cror
coming that promises to be a record.
breaker, with other crops in abund
lance, and with free rural delivery o.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-10
POINTED PARAGRAPHS
[From the Chicago News. ]

LFrom the Chicago News.1
Too often the board of directors fails
to direct.
A pretty girl is one who is handsome
and doesn't know it.
All women like good things-and
most men come under that head.
Though the moon looks best when it
is full, it's different with a man.
Perhaps more people would go to
heaven if there were Sunday ex-
cursionS.
Many reigning society belle doesn't
know enough to go in when 1t rains.
This world owes much to misers.
They accumulate wealth for others to
enjoy
Occasionally a man sheds tears at
the loss of his wife's pug dog-but
they are tears of joy.
Where there are two rivals for a
woman's hand one of them is apt to
win by losing.
When a man begins to shoot Off his
mouth at a social function his wife
proceeds to look daggers.
oh. no, CordeIia, boarding house
chickens are not Matched from hard
boiled eggs, even if they are tough.
Some spinsters spend lot of time
looking for husbands-and so do some
married women, according to all re-
ports.
while it is possible for a man to love
his neighbor as himself. it depends a
good deal upon the age and sex of the
neighbor aforesaid.
Many a man, after spending the best
years of his life in climbing the ladder,
suddenly lets go and reaches the bot
tom again in a few seconds.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-10
JAYHA WKER JOTS

The lola jointists are breathing much
easier now. Melvin is in Jail.
Dick Blue has at last been 'Hrecogniz-
ed" by the administration. Governor
Hoch has appointed him as a delegate
to the reciprocity convention at Chi
cago.
The Central Branch country again
hears that George Gould intends to take
off his coat and extend the Missouri
Pacific from Lenora to Denver.
Dr. T. B. Murdoch says that if we use
boiled water for year we will be dead
If we don't boil it we will have typhoid
fever, so what are we to do? The only
alternative is to follow the Wichita
style and drink no water.
The Concordia Empire announce that
it will soon begin the publication of a
serial from the pen of that gifted wri-
ter, the county treasurer. 1t will be en-
titled, THE Delinquent Tax List; or,
The Coin That Never Came"
A single Wellington druggist made $50
liquor sales in one month recently.
must have provided againstI One can
realize more what these figures mean
when it is known that the average To-
peka druggist thinks he is lucky to
make $50 sales in a month.
The Coffeyville Journal prints a pic
ture of Col Zach Mulhall," with the
announcement that the Mulhall outfit,
300 strong, will take part in the big ex-
position here September 8-10.' But will
'Col. Zach himself be there? Is not
Col. Zach serving a sentence in the
Missouri penitentiary for killing a man
at st. Louis a year ago?
Mabel Chilcott, the bright young wo-
man who has been playing the Louis
Vile Tyre for the last year, has become
Mrs M F. Amrine. Her husband is the
editor of the Council Grove Guard. If
he will let Mrs. Amrine do part of the
editing when they get back from their
wedding trip to Portland the editorial
fraternity won't take it amiss.
Most people have an idea that extreme
western Kansas is nothing but buffalo
grass prairie. Luther Nellis was up to
Cheyenne county the other day and he
drove from st. Francis up into Colorado
something over 80 miles to battlefield
of the famous Arickaree fight. He says
that nearly all the way was a continu-
Gus wheat field, with only here and
there an open section, and as far as one
could see on either side there was
wheat
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-10
The Rockefeller PhiIanthropy.

There is no doubt that his charities are
many of them personal and never
known outside of his immediate circle
There are three or four old ladies in
cleveland, friends of his youth,to whom
he gives monthly income. Unfortunate
Baptist ministers, worn-out teachers
and missionaries in great numbers are
helped by him, while the poor of all
grades receive much direct help. Of
course he gives much to his church,
but he has never made any church the
object of his affectionate and lavish
giving. He seems never to have been
willing to give more than what he con-
sidered his share. 1t has been
computed that Mr.. Rockefellers entire
gifts, public and private charities, have
amounted to about $36. 100000 1t would
be fair to call the aggregate SAC, 900, 900,
and that would probably do Mr.. Rookie
teller full justice. 1t is not a great
sum considering Mr.. RockefelIer's vast
income. Probably his dividends from
the Standard Oil company is only one
of Mr.. Rockefeller's dividend earners.
1t is quite probable, that the man
would give more money if he could give
1t, without doing, from his point of
view, more harm than good. He hates
seen long ago that money given freely
is more often than not administered
carelessly. He must have seen how
charity to individuals often engenders
dependence, ruins seff-reIiance. He
must have come to understand that
lavish giving is a terrible social menace,
injuring the self-respect of recipients,
fostering greed for more. He must have
learned that one of the most difficult
things in this world is to give so that
it will not corrupt and weaken. 1t is
generally said by Mr.. Rockefeller
friends that it is such con-
sideration as we'll as his
adherence of waste that has led him tic
establish the Charity Bureau" at &c
Broadway which investigates before
giving, and which in many cases audits
annually the accounts of institutions
which have taken his money If Mr.
Rockefeller thinks on these things ano
the care with which he scrutinizes his
gifts, would lead one to think he does
may he not come to realize finally the
utter impossibility of justifying by
charity the injustice which such an ac-
emulation as his has cost?-Ida M
Tarbell in McClure's Magazine.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-10
A ChiId's Prayer.

Little Helen was a firm believer in
prayer, says the Argonaut, and was al
was in attendance at family devotions.
During a season of drought her father
said to her one morning: do not let
me forget to have a special prayer for
rain tonight, as the want of it is caus-
ing much suffering and many deaths
among animals"
Her father had hardly left the house
when little Helen, thinking she would
do much good by anticipating her
fathers prayer for rain, ran upstairs,
and falling on her knees, prayed for
the much needed rain. That afternoon
the town in which she lived was visit
ed by a severe electric shower-barns
were unroofed and much damage done
Helen, with the ready faith of child
hood. thinking it was all in answer to
her prayer, again fell on her knees, ex-
claiming, Lord. what have / done?"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-10
JOURNAL ENTRIES

One of the things we refuse to get ex-
cited about is the raise in the price of
dance music by the fiddlers trust
Senator Depew says he can see no rea-
son why he should resign from the
Equitable. 1t was not known that the
Vanderbilt senator had lost his eye
sight during his trip to Europe.
The Topeka Capital Oem) says that
Kelly should resign. Well, he has: His
resignation in escrow was accepted by
the Capital last fall.
The dispatches say that feas drove
the workmen out of a factory in Mich
igan. Ever try to catch a flea? If you
have you can sympathize with the man
who, after pursuing a flea for half an
hour in vain, said he didn't mind so
much what the blamed thing ct as
what it tromped down.
Why are the imported sunf1owers spo-
ken Of as domestic" to distinguish
them from the homegrown Kan
sas sunfiower?
Who will protect us from invasion
now that Brigadier General John
Whiteside Frierson Hughes has gone
to New Jersey to shove the battleship
kansas in the water.
Our esteemed contemporary, the st.
Petersburg Novoe Vyema, beat us in
the announcement that the British en-
pire is about to be disrupted and that
Australia will declare its independence,
but it has not yet heard anything about
the Kniaz Potemkine or its mutiny.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-10
QUAKER REFLECTIONS.
[From the Philadelphia Record.l

[From the Philadelphia Record1
The fellow with corkscrew always has
a pull.
The annual failure of the peach crop
fails tn fail
There are four letters in the alzhabet
that are always in vain.
A story about string of fish isn't all
ways as straight a string.
No, Maude. dear; over-eating doesn't
necessarily make a person overrated
Willie-"My pop give me new kite -
Bobby-"Huhi My pop wouldn't give me
nothin' that had a strin= to it,.
"A marriage fee says the Cynical
Bachelor. demonstrates that even the
clergyman may profit by the mistakes, of
others
Muggins-"That boy of mine won't take
his medicine. He's stubborn as a mule
Buggins-@ssvhy don't you call him vet
erinariaa?"
Wouldn't You like to be one of the four
hundred" asked the little boy with social
aspirations. Nav replied the baseball
kid, I'D RAIDER be one O. de nine"
That fishes can not dance is true,
They can not dance at all;
Yet oft get Invitations to
Attend the Goldfish ball
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-10
To ROSE.

Thy name is Rose, yet sweeter far
Than any rose art thou;
The wilderness of yon evening star
No whittier than thy brow.
And softer than blushing rose
Thy pouting lips unclose.
Thy hair is like to threads of gold,
With twining strands of silk;
Thy throat is whites than the fold
OF lace, 4as white as milk.
That decorates thy samite dress,
AS soft as some caress.
Thy name is Rose, yet sweeter thou
Than any rose. L ween;
Before thy loveliness 1 bow,
Thou flower. fair. serene:
No fairer bloom the garden knows
Than thou whose name is Rose.
Chicago Chronicle.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-10
GLOBE SIGHTS.

[From the Atchison Globe.1
Few people can get fat without getting
preacher suspects every one who does
not go to church.
We never knew any one who did not
talk shop too much.
The most agreeable actor is the actor
who does not seem to act.
What sorry spectacle a spoiled child
is when away from its mother!
How you admire the man who catches
you doing a good deed on the sly!
Some men are washed of their sins so
much that they finally have faded look.
The best man in the world is bore
when he appears at the wrong time.
How happy the young married couple;
and how soon they get into trouble.
whipping never hurts so much as the
thought that you are being whipped
Tell a bad story without names. and
every one will have an enemy to attribute
4 never knew a man so mean L was
Irvine.
When a woman isn't talking about her
wrongs, she is usually talking about her
when we shake hands with some wo-
men, we feel that we have committed an
indiscretton-
What a serviIe creature a rich man is
when he meets a man who has more mon
ey than he has
When two friends quarrel you find out
how much there was in their friendship
originally.
When man buns around at night and
does not take care of himself, he begins
saying he is overworked-
man thinks a woman may be free and
easy with him; but she must be dreadful
" particular with other men.
Equal suffrage will never accomplish
what its advocates desire until it gives a
woman tie right to ask a man to marry
her
When a woman makes money 1T a
church fair she is glad. of course, for the
axe of her church. but it pleases her still
more to go home and say to her husband:
sSee what we women can do when we
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-10
Lay OF THE sCoRCHER.

whizz upon the city street.
Along the asphalt humming;
IN rough on people that meet
If they don't see me coming
chug adown the boulevard
TIN speed but few can match mel
At such a gait it's pretty hard =
For any one to catch me.
If any one gets in my way
He through the air goes flying
really have no time to stay
For wounded or for dying.
A mile q minute l can make
Ger level. hill and hollow.
And meantime trailing in my wake
The ambulanceS follow.
There's nothing beats the sport for speeds
The earth, j fairly skim it.
1 can not see that there's a need
For any sort of limit.
And if they think 1 would comply
With limits they're in error.
A hooting, scooting scorcher, 1,
A crimson-tinted terror.
-ChicaSo News.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-10

Senator Elhins is busy circulating
with his senatorial frank the reasons
given by the railroad presidents why
congress should not pass rate regu-
lation bill. Some people are making
a fuss because he does not also cir
eulate some of the literature giving
the peoples side, but then some peo-
pie are mighty stupid. It would give
the public printer too much work to
do to print both sides. so only the
railroads side can be given-and cir
culated free.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-10
REFLECTIONS OF = BACHELOR
(From the New York Pre-

fFrom the New York Press.1
The hand that fills the coal bin robs the
world.
When a girl has pretty teeth it is a sign
she will let everybody see them.
1t is mighty hard for man not to like
the rich father of a girl as much as he
likes her.
A man thinks he is mighty charitable
when he gets somebody else to give $40 to
his favorite charity
womans idea of a good figure Is one
her own husband couldn't recognise It.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-10

Salina Journal: Tom Kelly met
Steve Hayden, the well known Mis-
souri, Pacific conductor, at Wichita
last Sunday and naturally they drifted
into politics. do you know a more
unpopular man in Kansas today than
Governor Hoch?" asked Kelly. YES, -
said Hayden. ct know one who is
it?'' asked Kelly Yourself" said
Hayden. as he swung onto the rear
platform Of his train.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-10

Los Angeles is preparing to bring its
water supply nearly three hundred
miles from the Owens river. east of
the Sierras in central California. 1t
must be brought through tunnels and
over long aqueducts, but it will make
fertile a great amount of land Yet
some oil dtopers will doubtless regard
this as great waste of money-just
to get water.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-10
A Misft officer.

Admiral Voelkersam of the Russian
navy. who was killed in the battle of
Korea strait, was put in command of a
TORPEDO boat when a junior officer. He
was q big. fat man, SO large that he
couldn't GET down the companionway
of the tiny craft he commanded. He
talegraphed regarding his difficulty to
the naval authorities at St petersburg.
but they thought it was a joke He
had to sleep on the deck of his vessel
until his friends convinced the ad-
rniraity that Voelkersam was misht
in torpedo boat.-New York Tribune.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-10
RoOsEvELTS DIPLOMACY.

President Roosevelt never fails to
measure UP to any occasion and no
where has his wonderful abilities
shown to better advantage than in the
difficult task of bringing the Russian
and Japanese peace plenipotentiaries
together. The toast that he proposed
on that occasion will go down in his
tory as model speech in the dis
charge of difficult diplomatic etiquette.
Hutchinson News
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-10

DR.. Sven Hedin suggests that the
Swedish people of the United States
chip in and buy 100000 worth of
warships for the old country to fight
Norway with. The Kansas Swedes
could put up the money by them
selves-but they won't.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-10
MIR. sTUBBs' LATE DISCOVERY.

1t is as well to be candid-even in
politics. Mr.. Stubs is performing an
abrupt and none too graceful somer-
sault in his present denunciation of
State Treasurer Kelly and the kelly
Burton ulvane crowd" The denun-
citation of this crowd may be held to
be one of those things that are better
to be done late than never-but is it :?
Stubs had it absolutely in his power
to defeat Kelly at Wichita. He had it
in his power, by saying a word, to re-
Duke the fraudulent delegations
brought to Wichita by the Kelly-Bur-
the crowd then. Instead of opposing,
he endorsed. When many Kansas
Herald among them
denounced the crowd and in ex-
planning why used practically the same
form of indictment as that now used
by Mr.. Stubs, none opposed the argu-
ment stronger than Stubs. No one
man is as much responsible for the
position of the Burton-M ulvane
crowd in state affairs under this ad-
lninistration as Stubs. 1t is a fine
thing to see dishonesty and petty graft
rebuked, even at the expense of party
harmony. The Herald has always con-
tended that the best service to the
worthy men and condemning their
faults. The things Mr.. Stubs is say
ing about the 'tkelly-Burton-M ulvane
crowd would have done a world of
good year ago. A small part of
these things, officially expressed at
Wichita, would have saved the party
and the state a great deal of embar-
| rassment. A little of this spirit mani
tested at the time when the party or
ganization passed judgment on the
rump proceedings by which the crowd
got its representation in the party con-
ventions would have been vastly more
beneficial than a series of official
proclamations at this time. Mr.. Stubbs
is not to be criticised for his denuncia-
ton of evil He is to be censured for
having had his arm around it when it
walked out for public inspection-and
for waiting till the eleventh hour to re-
pent-Ottawa Herald.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-10

Bishop Hill, ILL.,, and Galesburg,
Mich, each claim to be the champion
widow" town of the country. The
former has thirty-two widows in
population of $50. and the latter has
hfty-three widows in a population of
zoo, and no grass-widows counted.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-10

Mr.. Edison claims to have invented
motor that will 90 away with the
odor of gasoline in automobiles. Now
II he will just invent a machine that
will do away with the dust the things
kick up, we will all try to be very
happy