The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-11-10
TINE NEW SCHOOL READER.
Some Current History for Growing
Boys.

James, do you see the man sitting
with his feet OF the windowsiu?"
Yes, I see him.. His face is wreathed
in a balmy smile. Why is it?'
1T is because a sudden thought has
occurred to him. You have read the
Constitution of the United States.
James? ?"
Hundreds of times. teacher. Laura
Jean Libby and Bertha Clay can't hold
a candle to it."
Then you know that there is moth
ing In that sacred old document to pro-
hibit an American from having a sud
within his legal right hen h sudden
thought m to him to be a presiden-
tial nominee in 1903"
And will he be2"
H thinks he will. and that's about
the same thing. That's OF the bene-
fits of living in a glorious republic.
Every man in it can decide to run for
the presidency any time the fit k
him. It does no particular harm, and
it sometimes prevents a bad, ambitious
man from running for alderman INK
clawing arOun for DOODLE"
What have we here. Henry"
There are -four house painters at
work on a house. barr and fence
And who is that sitting on a log
and whiting as he watches them ?"
THAT is the owner of the place
can YOU tell me why he smiles and
RulEieS as the DdlllllS goes Oh p
II can. He was a member of the
legislature last winter. He was elected
as a reform member. He did his duty.
He smiles and gurgles because he did
it,
And having done his duty. Henry?"
Painting and general repairs to the
amount of several hundred dollars nat
uralIy follows. If he can get mother
term he Will be fixed to buy the farm
next to his, and his gurgle WILDE loud
II. oraT h{- -nofI0 7nro ha7n7x-H
tics p,
T get the other fellow out and
yourself in"
And the interest of the taxpayer"
"Oh. he has no interest. He is sim
ply the chap who puts up the dough-
Teacher, here in this magazine are
the pictures of q number of men com
posing the Interstate Railroad commits
sion. What is the commission p
Let me seq Let me see? It is one
of those things ounded away back
about the time Of Bunker Hill. and it is
hard to recall it at Il seconds notice.
! If I remember Alright. the object was to
regulate railroad rates from state to
state. prevent railroads from favoring
particular shippers and giving railroad
companies in general a hint that they
did not own the earth"
err"
1T has been a bully thing. Harry.
When there was no circus or minstrel
show to laugh at, we have all laughed
at the Interstate commission
But for what r~eason2"
Because its work was ike a chick
adee trying to turn an eagle out Of its
nest"
Won't the railroads submit to be
regulated ,"
That's where one of the laughs
comes in. The railroads of this coun-
try are perfectly competent to u the
government, but when it ome to the
government running the railroads -
that's different"
But won't the government in time
get strong enough to enforce its raj
road legislation %
That's one of the questions before
the house. After thirty or forty more
earthquakes and shakings up, either
the railroads or the government VIII
be on TOP. and the bookmakers are not
giving odds either way"
Teacher. here is a dignifed looking
man walking along the street with a
cane. Is he some great man that
have read of in the papers,"
"0h. no, David That is simply Il