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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-09-07
REFORMING THE.TARIFF.

1.-THE late Senator Plumb says the
Wichita Eagle, held that the tariff
question should be taken out of party
politics and out of legislation, leaving
its revisions and adjustments to a
non-partisan committee Of ex-
perts-" The Times believes Senator
Plumb to have held exactly the right
attitude. When the tariff is made an
issue, there is always the danger that
the attacking side. should they be
placed in power, will slash it as the
fulfillment of the obligation they &C
cepted when they were elected, but to
the detriment of the country's indus
tries. A majority Of the panics OF
late years have been traced to the in
auguration of a Democratic admins
tration, the leaders of which were
committed to a tariff ripping policy.
The best possible solution would be to
delegate the task of keeping the tariff
schedules in conformity with trade
conditions to a non-partisan commits
sion of xperts.-Leavenwo Times
This idea has decidedly good points.
The chief danger would be that 1.-The
interests would in some way manage
to manipulate the commission. If,
however, 1t could be made up OF real
xperts-economists who had made a
thorough study Of the purposes and
results of a tariff, and men who have
the welfare of the entire country at
heart-this would be the ideal way Of
handling the tariff question.
The chief complaint OF the people
today is about the tariff on those
things that are controlled by the
trusts. 1t is asserted that many things
manufactured in America are shipped
abroad. the freight is paid on them,
and still they are sold to the consumer
considerably less than we have to pay
for them right here where they are
made. In such cases the tariff is sim
ply lever whereby these trust mag
mates are enabled to hold up the
American people for tremendous pro-
fits and thereby pile up tremendous
fortunes for themselves.
It is the trusts who are behind the
stand-patters. It is the trusts who are
interested in the election OF stand-pai
congressman. If the tariff were placed
in the hands of a commission. this one
incentive for the trusts to manipulate
politics would be taken away.
The tariff which actually protects
and fosters a new industry is not COM
planned of, but the one that enables an
overgrown industry to rob the people
who made it is a menace to the ma
/ ton.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-09-07
a Fool and Els NTonex-

The credulity of a multitude OF
mere or less thrifty people, who, IN
their mania for money, are ready to
believe that they can amass fortunes
overnight, makes them the easy prey
OF a swarm of parasites who infest the
financial districts The gospel of the
parasites, who build air castles for
their victims and real castles for them
selves, is terse:
I. "A fool is born every minute
IT, "A fool and his money are soon
parted"
Posing as bankers and brokers. the
financial parasites scour the country
for the fools and then exercise their
nimble wits in devising schemes to ac-
compl1sh the partition. How many
millions Of dollars are parted from the
fools every year NAV be conjectured
from the millions of dollars spent by
the pseudo-fnanciers in ADVERTISING.
me bulk of the financial advertising in
the leading newspapers of the country
is intended for the FOOLS Another in
dex of the richness of the harvest of
parting money from the fools is the
occasional exposure of. some particu-
larly glariug and bungled frnposture.
Wnen the calculable "swag'' runs into
the hundreds of thousands. if not into
the millions. But these frauds are
seldom exposed for the victims are
usually as anxious as the vfctfmizers TO
escape the limelight of publicity. Most
men prefer to lose their money rather
tnan hear their neighbors quote from
the parasites gospel, "a fool and his
money are soon parted Frank
Fayant in Success Magazine
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-09-07
JOURNAL ENTRIES

A Topeka girl has just been discov-
cred who IS so modest that she speaks
Of Topeka's pennart winners as the
white Hose
=
News note: The usual manifesto from
". R Stubs was not put forth yester-
day. Reason not known.
Governor Hocb says he has his hand
on the pulse Of the people, This be-
ing true, it is evident that the governor
does not consider Bent Murdoch one of
the people.
X
This department would once more
call the attention of the Democrats to
their great oversight in not claiming
that President Roosevelt's latest move
is simply another theft of Democratic
property 1t can be easily proven. If
his advocacy of simplified spelling is
not an encrOachment on Democratic
preserves, what is it? A large portion
OF the Democratic party has been US
ing simplif1ed spelling for years. and
for President Roosevelt to step in and
promulgate it as something OF his own
is far more of a theft of Democratic
property than is the regulation Of the
trusts.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-09-07
HUMOR or TIE Day

DO you think queries the anxious
candidate, that my opponent VIII take
.su tlrtst''' answered the political boss.
He has a. reputation for taking any old
thing that isn't nailed down Chicago
News.
..Alas!r confessed the penitent man, ''in
a moment of weakness stole carload OF
IN a moment Of weakness7'' exclaimed
the judge. Goodness, man, what would
you have taken IL you had yielded in a
moment when you felt strong 2''-Judge.
''I thought said Mrs. Oldcastle, that
you intended to have D'Auber. the great
mural painter, do some work for you.
I'VE did, replied her hostess, but 10
siah discharged him. He tried to cheat
US by paintin' on the walls. I s'pose
because he didn't want to spend any
money for canvas. Chicago Record-Her-
aald.
Surgeon Ito young recruit. who has no
desire TO serve his country. and also little
fnte1Iigence)-Have YOU any inhrmity
warranting your rel n tion2
Soldier@Yes. sir; am short-sighted.
Surgeon-Prove it to me.
soidier-Certairly You see that nail
there in the WALTZ Well, do not see it,
A11a1HG
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-09-07
ouAKER REFLEcTToNs

CFrom the Philadelphia Record.I
No girl is 50 beautiful that we want
her to be two-faced.
There is evidently no similarity be-
tween a hair-raising story and 3 bald
incident.
To make a hit fellow must strike
out for himself. unless he Is a baseball
player.
At any rate, a dog witt tin can
tied to his tail doesn't have an uneanHy
feeling.
All the world loves a lover, especial
~ the jeweler. the florist and the con-
fectioner.
To get along well together men must
like the same things; women must hate
the same people.
No, Maude, dear: talking machines
were unknown in the days Of Adam, but
still he had Eve.
Bartender-'Did you order q horses
neck?" Guzzler-''No; ordered a pony
of brandy" Bartender-'Ohl that's a
horse of another color"
Hubbubs-'Are you ever bothered
with tramps out here?' Subbubs-ssrIo.
I have a sign on the gate reading:
We are vegetarians. but our dog
isn't
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-09-07
The super1uous PiIot.

Among the passengers on an At
lantic liner when she left New York
recently was a charming young wo-
man from st. Louis, who was making
her first trip abroad. The vessel had
not proceeded far when the fair pas
senger approached the captain and
said:
1.-The ship appears to be stopping
captain Why should we stop here -
I'VE stop here to let the pilot off, .
was the reply
ITO let the pilot Off" exclaimed the
young woman, in a tone of polite in
credulity. do you mean to say that
the pilot doesn't cross the ocean with
us and direct the course?''
II mean just that" answered the
captain
The fair passenger pondered for a
bit Then smiling as If a bright idea
had occurred to her, she added: "Oh,
I suppose after he has set the rudder
pointing in the right direction that
there's nothing left for him to do, so
he goes.'-Woman's Home Compan-
ion.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-09-07
GLOBE SIGHTS.


from the Atch1Son Giope-I
A rainy Saturday always makes
storekeeper mad.
Be careful this year: everybody IS
looking for a chance to get mad.
IF a woman is fat, that is enough for
the men; they say she has a fine fig
THOSE who never do wrong take a
wonderful satisfaction in the saying +.
Murder will OUT
If woman with children is popu-
lar in the neighborhood, she does not
need a nurse for the children.
Ever occur to you that there is as
much scandal in a little country town
as there is in little country city?
A boy hates to have visiting women
kiss him: it makes him ashamed, and
the other boys hear about 1t, and laugh
at him.
Here Of late the children seem to put
the dependence In fathers money that
they formerly nut In mothers prayers.
Saloon men say that when a man
buys a drink with a cherry and cracked
ice in It, his efforts to get the cherry
are very funny
If YOU had never heard or the habit
Of smoking, and should drop into a
crowd where all the men were smoking.
wouldn't 1t look funny?
There is a famous dirty man in Atch-
ison. Lately man said in his pres
ence: They say a man can't live q
year without taking bath Net a
word OF truth IN it." the dirty man
said.
Nearly every good looking boy in the
country finally comes TO town and
clerks in drygOods or clothing store
the country finally comes to town and
becomes q plumbers helper, or. II the
plumbing shops are crowded, he be-
comes q house painter.
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created diversion He made ready
second ume but stray steer haa fq
be dubbed away and 80 the river was
reached without recruit being added
to the army.
The cave contained three rooms and
was accounted a wonder. A torch
that had been prepared was lighted
and the couple entered the dark
mouth. but had hardly reached the
center of the first room when they
were saluted By such q growing ana
clawing and roaring az held them
speilbound for q moment Then, as e
monster bear came rushing at them
frome one Of the inner rooms the
doughty sergeant broke for daylight
and fed at his best pace. The calls
OF the girl were unheeded. he nadnsS
served twelve years in the army to be-
come bears meat. He wanted wife
and Company &c" wanted second
laundress, but he would try to ind the
woman in town. He covered the mile
to the house without a break, and then
mounted his gallant steed and set on
for the fort. He even forgot to leave
best wishes behind.
Meanwhile, Miss Rosa had stumbled
and fallen and tainted away. It was az
good a chance as a bear ever had, but
this particular animal failed to take
advantage Of the occasion.
In the first place he was muzzled, ana
in the next Joe Whitman was hanging
on to the end of a long rope fastened
to his collar. When he had fulfilled his
mission he was tied up and Joe went
out and shouldered the still unconscious
girl and had borne her nearly home
when she revived
As she opened her eyes and wondered
how she had tasted to the bear joe
pointed out the servant riding away. He
also displayed his bloody hunting knife
.'Oh, Joe, but the bear-the bearF'
gasped the girl on his arm.
It came along just in time to kill it.
Thank Heaven, you are not hurt. Here
you are at home. I am glad was OF
service to you, but I can't come in. Al
ter what was said the other day
You will come in, of course There
may be another bear around
There wasn't, but during the next
hour Joe had a talk with the colonel
and both of them shook hands at the
end Of it and said they were glad That
night when Joe led the bear back to the
town and his cage the owner gruElIy
queried:
well, did It worl?'
Beautifully
ssFhen hand over the ten. When you
want a second wife come to me and we
will put up some other job to get her
Copyright, 1906, by P. c. Eastment-3
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-09-07
T.ives Without Stomach.

DR.. Carl Beck, surgeon Of the North
Chicago hospital, in Illustrating re-
rnarkable theory that a man or woman
can live without a stomach. revealed
the fact that there is a Chicago wo-
man, in perfect health. who for SIX
years has lived without a stomach
The woman is a Mrs. Hausen, living
on Roscoe street. near North Clark
street, according to the surgeon
II removed her stomach six years ago.
and she is well and hearty today" said
DR.. Beck. 1T was necessary to make
Intestinal connections and give artificial
nourfshment for a time. The other in
ternal organ was sustained.
1.-THE woman's intestines were con-
nected and a uniform tissue has now
built itself until she is as well of,
virtually, as though she had her sten-
ac1. Chicago Correspondent OF New
York American
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-09-07
REFLECTIONS or A BACHELOR.
IRON the New York Press.1

Women can even forgive a mans
cussing like a pirate If he owns an au-
tomobile.
Scarcely anybody cares enough for
kissing to want to do It all the fine to
the same person.
Even when a man doesn't look at =
woman in a street car she Is sgl1sv9iciSs,e
that he is going to.
The devil &c. a lot Of helm IN VI.
work from people who insist on drfvine
you desperate with their good advice.
when ne is buying wine to celebrate
them than when he Is paying the 60
tors bills -
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-09-07

It is fine quality in a man when he
is punished to stand up and take the
whipping and refuse to- throw the
blame on any one else. 1t is a quality
that Banker Stensland lacks. In an
interview in Tangier today, he says
Cashier Herring is the real criminal.
He points himself as a lily-white child
whom Herring tempted and LED astray.
Had Stensland laid his own back bare
to the lash without a nurmur, there
would have been degree of admira-
ton for him, and perhaps even sympa-
thy. which he will lack, now that he
seeks to throw the blame onto others
=Atchison Globe.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-09-07

IN chllnnood days ere yet she knew
The worth of gifts she'd freely take
me presents-swee tmeats, toys and such
he offered her. for friendships sake
In later years, when older grown,
quite different things she took. like this:
his arm at parties; hat and stick
Whene'er he called perhaps a kiss.
In turn, she took his purse, his time.
His love. this thievish dame
Not then. it seems. was she content:
FOR last Of all, she took-his name.
edward L. Underwood in the Bohemian.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-09-07
KANSAS cOAAENT
VICTOR MURDOCH.

Victor Murdoch is one Kansas con-
gresham that pays his railroad fare
And he is in position to secure trans
portation through his fathers news
paper, too. But then Vic's district IS
small. Besides, he proposes 10 make
his campaign in an automobile.-kan-
sas City Journal.
And besides everything else, Victor
Murdoch is honest. he made the most
complete report ever made by any
clerk of the old court Of appeals, ana
made it promptly. He was the only
man in the Kansas congressional dele
CATION who did not dodge when the
vote on the antf-pass measure hrst
came up in the house. The others
every man-jaok of them-either voted
in favor of passes or ducked. Before
the anti-pass agitation appeared, Vic
tor Murdoch was paying his way on the
railroads and he has not accepted any
transportation for any member OF his
family, not because he thought 1t was
smooth politics, but because he be-
lieved pass-giving and taking are dis
honest. He knows that the Ivlss- givers
expect faVors from public officials
which the officials should not give
Victor Murdoch is clean, efficient,
brave and just, and the time is coming
when Kansas is going to promote him.
Gazette.
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It appears that Mr.. Rockefeller won't
have to give up his railroad passes after
all. The Hepburn law makes the Stand
ard Oil company common carrier. It
also provides that common carriers may
exchange transportation for their Off
GERS, agents and employees, and their
families. Therefore Mr.. Rockefeller has
only to put himself on the pay roll of
the Standard as an employe-and,
presto. his passes are safe.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-09-07

A Louisiana man claims to have dis
covered that whisky will kill the cotton
boil weevil, and that a little of it
sprayed on a cotton field viii cause the
weevil to take his family and move
over into the next county. It's up to
the boil weeTl to join the prohibi-
ffonfsts
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discovered it sent one of its men. ac-
companying Assistant States Attorney
Olsen, to effect the defauIter's capture.
Newspapers are frequently instru-
mental in the capture of criminals
great and small, but in this instance
the Tribune did it of its own motion.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-09-07
sTENsLAND.s CRIME.

Paul 0. Stensland, the Chicago
banker, who wrecked the Milwaukee
Avenue State bank, has been captured.
He Will be brought back and tried,
probably on the charge of violation
of the banking laws or embezzlement
or forgery at the worst. But this does
not cover the fullest measure of his
crimes. To these should be added the
crime of murder, for in the wreck he
left behind are three suicides, while
perhaps other deaths can be traced
either directly or indirectly to him and
his misdeeds. There is no crime so
black as that of the man who invites
and secures the4 confidence of his as
|sociates and then enriches himself at
their expense. The thief and the muir
derer is a saint compared to such a
man. and it does not detract from the
offense of such a man if by some
scheme be evades the full measure of
his guilt and lives in riches and af-
fluence in a home overshadowing the
more humble homes of his victims. If
anything he is the more to be despised,
Stensland behind prison bars is the
superior of the man who following his
methods evades the punishment due
him and haunts his criminally gotten
wealth in the face of his victims
Parsons Sun.
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General

While Assistant Attorney General
Jackson is asking questions about the
International Harvester company, how
would II do for him to ind out for GER
that is alleged to have been sent to
Kansas during the legislature of 1903
to convince the investigating commit
tee that the harvester trust wasn't a
trust and to sidetrack the bill intended
TO prohibits exclusive contracts?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-09-07


oeHSationai journalists have an
nounced that the king of Spain was ex-
tremely eccentric, if not deficient in in
reject; but exactly the opposite is true
he IS exceedingly clever, though too i'm
patent OF restraint to be much of a
STUDENT He bids fair, as his character
develops with experience, to show his
mother's diplomatic tact, mingled with
an engaging impulsiveness all his own.
winch wins hearts as she never could.
ne IS quick to make decisions. is really
interested in the welfare of his people.
and his selhshness is merely the selfish
ness of high-spirited youth. eager to do
everything that is really worth doing.
he IS easily moved through his affec-
lions though it is all but impossible to
influence him in any other way except
through his sense Of justice. The king
has a boyish fashion of imposing his
own VIII on every one around him. He
does this SO gaily, so smilingly (if not
in one of his ''somber moods of pride")
that even people who have decided to
oppose him find themselves pleased that
he should do as he likes
What, marry her nose to my Haps-
burg mouth. 1t would be a crime,'' was
his remark to an intimate friend, con :
corning an Austrian princess No other
on the list pleased him better: and the
two or three possible German candi
dates were crossed off in the same way.
I want to be happy, and then I shall
know how to make others happy he
said to the same friend Of his youth
From "A Royal Romance by c. N.
and A. N. Williamson in McClures.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-09-07

Banker stensland's statement that
not he but the cashier of the looted
Chicago bank committed the forgeries
and therefore the former should be
given the lighter penalty, reminds the
Leavenworth Times of the story Of a
negro who said he was business man.
Yes, sub, he declared. eBlistah John
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-09-07

SO Tar as heard from the Repub-
Iicana did not even ''also ram in Ar
kamaas this year, but no great amount
OF surprise has been turned loose at
the result
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ONLY A FEW BOLTERs.

r the people of the country shall
stand pat" on spelling as their
mothers did, President Roosevelt's fol-
lowing in the new method which he has
50 suddenly espoused Will, outside the
of1icerholders, be small indeed Phila-
deiphia Record. ISL
TIE NEW SPELLING IN GEORGIA.
BY the reformed spelling, the word
unanimous" should be written 'h-o-k-e-
Smith = = Charleston News and
Courier.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-09-07

The way Henry Allen interprets Bank
err stensland's story is that the thing
stensiand is guilty OF is not screaming
for help when the cashier forced him
to rob the bank.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-09-07

Spain" says the Washington Star.
IS exhibiting commendable self-con-
troll IN not offering any advice as to
how Cuban insurgents should be dealt
with" But could not Spain offer bet
ter advice as to how Cuban Insurgents
should not be dealt with?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-09-07

The trial Of those New York ice trust
men, recently indicted, has been post
ponsd until cold weather. Which is a
good thing for the ice men. Very likely
their idea Of seasonableness is to be
tried as ice men in January and as coal
men IN T1lv
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-09-07

one Of the greatest feats performed
recently by a newspaper was the cap
ture of Stensland which was accom-
pIfshed chiefly through the efforts of
the Chicago Tribune. The Tribune
undertook the task Of locating the
fugitive banker and when his trail was
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-09-07

At last a good point has been discov-
cred for the Central Branch. It is said
to charge cireuses such high rate that
they cannot show out on the western
end Of the road
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sUncle Jim" Hill evidently believes
the presidents anti-race suicide re-
form isn't a winner, inasmuch as he
says the population of the United
gtatas will be auadruplsd By 1850.
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eoldaeId is evidently bound to keep
u8 its record for swiftness. For a
el1zae-ysar-oId town 1t has secured a.
remarkable line Of advertising lately.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-09-07

Isn't New York getting more than
its snare of the big things? First there
was the Bryan reception, then the
naval review. and pretty soon the
Thaw case will be pulled off.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-09-07

Those Russian oficials change so
eften that when a revolutionist starts
to shoot one he isn't sure whether he is
killing a present official or an ex-
omciai. But in either event he usually
gets the innocent bystander.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-09-07

81r. Bryan Is discovering that govern
naent ownership is almost as unpopular
in some circles as IS Mr.. Roosevelt's
reformed spelling,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-09-07

Lincoln. Neb.. has an idea that some
time In the future. It may become as
popular in the dispatches during the
summer months as oyster Bay. Well.
We shall see-we shall see.
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Anyway. we will have to admit that
1fr. Carnegie's reformed spelling sys-
tern is better than the spelling that is
used in the golf tongue, which he
might have urged on US