The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-28

being advanced by various associations
Of editors throughout the country for
an amendment to the new rate provis-
Ions of the interstate commerce law
which would permit railroads to ex-
change transportation with newspaper
and periodicals in return for value re-
ceived in advertising. He was asked if
he considered the general proposition
an equitable one.
LAS a matter of fact" he replied, Il
have not looked into the proposition suf-
fciently to form an opinion of my own
on it. There are two sides to this ques-
ton. Certainly nothing should be done
which would hamper and retard in any
way the development of the neWspa-
pers of the country, for they are the
medium through which the thoughts
and actions of the people of their re-
spective communities gain publicity,
and publicity in all things works for a
healthy progress.
However. there is the question as to
whether the advertising given for
transportation is really adequate to
cash. In many papers. as a matter OF
fact, two or three inches more of space
for railroad advertising really means
nothing as far as the editors pocket is
concerned. Unless he is crowded for
space for other advertising and news
which is not generally the case with
great many of the newspapers of the
country, IL is certain it is not taking
actual money out of his pocket com
mensurate with what he may receive
in the way of transportation.
7 have no reason to believe. nor do
think that it is so, that the exchange
of advertising for railroad transporta-
ton by newspapers has, or won'd. in
huence the policy of the editors in one
way or another. But as I said, I have
not given this proposition any thought
at all and am not prepared to express
o. f.-r~ g.
changing the new rate law so as to
make an exchange of advertising for
transportation possible. On the gen
eral proposition of free transporta ton.
however, my position IS well known, I
guess I am strongly opposed to the IS
suance Of passes. and favor strongly
the provisions of the new rate law to
that end"
Mr.. Bryan's Lecture.
More than three thousand persons
greeted Mr.. Bryan at the Auditorium
to listen to his lecture on The Old
World and It's Ways
OF course the great majority of his
audience were the teachers who are at
tending the annual meeting of the State
Ieachers' association, and the audience
was most enthusiastic. From the apprec-
iation evidenced by the applause given
II IS safe to say that Mr. Bryan's lee
ture was a great educational treat to
them all, even to the most learned and
Travelled of them.
Mr. Bryans lecture was a comnen-
dunn of his observations on the recent
trip he made with his wife and chil-
dren around the world together with
MS conclusions from these observa-
tons and all of these conclusions were
to the effect that the United States lead
tne whole world in almost every par
tlcuiar and that some of the staenant
nations of the orient and of EuroDe as
wen We're waking UP finally to a new
era through the adoption of the ideas
which has made this country what il
Mr.. Bryan. the lecturer. is far diff
terent from the Mr. BRYAN of the no
litical arena. in which field his abil-
ties have been exercised for so long
ana IN which field the people of the
whole country know him best on
the lecture platform that fire and en-
thuslasm; that even acrimonious at
utude he was wont to assume in no
litica2 strife, is absent. He has a story
TO tell OF the his trip around the world
ana he tells it in a straightforward.
simple fashion, and in a fashion which
makes his deductions most convfncine-
once or twice during the course of his
lecture last night, he approached some
CT the oratorical flights for which he
IS famous, but they were few and far
between. As a rule his lecture was A
sort Of q heart to heart talk with his
audience on the things he had seen
and heard while wandering over a
greater part of the surface Of the
earth, and all his conclusions were
that the United States is Gods coun-
try and that the races of the earth.
in its darkest and brightest corners
are progressing towards a better civil
ization as they are adopting the ideas
prevalent in the United States con-
corning government according to the
viii of the people; universal education.
the elevation of woman to her proper
sphere; and last but not least the
spread Of the religion Of this country
throughout the world particularly
throughout the orient
He characterized the religion Of this
country as the religion of life while
the prevailing religions in many of the