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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-28
THosE PACIFIC SUBSIDIES.

While there is considerable argu-
ment in favor of encouraging trade
with South America by giving govern
ment aid to new steamship lines to
run to that country, it is difficult to
see what legitimate argument there is
in favor of substituting the Hill and
Hartman trans-Pacific lines that are
already well established.
Secretary Root recommended giving
mail subsidies to South American
lires, but he did not recommend max
irg a gift of 100000 to each of the
t-ars-Pacific lines. The Salina Jour
nal whose editor made a study of ibis
question in connection with his in
vestiGation of the Panama Railway for
President Roosevelt, says these trans
Pacific subsidies are pure graft
1.-THE congressional committee hav-
ing this subject in charge, instead of
following out Secretary Roots plan,''
says the journal, has formulated a
ship subsidy bill on the lines of the old
Hanna Grosvenor bill, which favors
the transcontinental railroad lines. If
the bill passes it will give 10 the
steamship lines that are owned by
these railroads a large part of the
subsidy The Pacific Mail Steamship
company, owned by the Hartman
railway lines, will receive 100000 per
annum as a subsidy, and the Great
Northern steamship line, owned by ].
j. Hill, will receive the same amount
"These lines are operated in con-
nection with the railroads owned and
controlled by Hartman and Hill. The
railroad companies make continuous
rates from the interior of the United
States to Japan and China. These
rates cover both railway and steam
ship transportation. To illustrate:
The rate on baled cotton from points
in Texas to Canton, China, is $1.35 per
hundred. This covers cost of trans
fering from cars to ships at Seattle or
San Francisco. The railroads would
charge practically that amount for
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-28

7
from the bars as Colbrook moved into
the light 'sYou?" she gasped.
II was running to catch car" he
explained. ut was misty and this
thief slipped into a doorway and the
mob thought that since / was running
it must be l who was the culprit
Then the officer collared me and
brought me here"
I'm so sorry" she gasped.
I'm not he disagreed. Il see the
hand of fate. You see was running
to catch a car to Chester to see you.
You were in town and 1 should have
missed YOU
But why such haste ?" she asked.
81 am leaving this afternoon for
China" he explained. MY chance
has come at last and 1 wanted to ask
you to wait for me. dear. VIII you?'
81 think" she said, that we must
bow to fate; ran into town unex-
pectedly. and-suppose you had caught
the car and had gone out there. 1
should not have had chance to say
goodbye
Now we can say it over the lunch
table and there's still time for a trip
to the jeweIry store, too, If you will
explain to the officer that was not
tho thief"
That formality was quickly accom-
plishe5 and presently they were pass
ing the desk. CoIbrook leaned over
and shook the sergeants hand.
Goodbye, sergeant" he said heart
lily. Il am very much obliged" ~
Il wonder what he meant" unused
that official as he regarded the bill
that had been left in his palm. Sure
I thought he'd make trouble with the
chief. 1907, by Homer
Sprague.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-28
as no INfMIGRAT1oN.

That the present movement in con-
gress to restrict immigration is against
the interests of the Great West was
one of the strong contentious made by
DR.. Newell Dwight Hills in his lecture
Saturday night. And DR.. Hills makes
a good case in his argument, too.
The demand for restricting imnli-
grafton, he says, comes from the cities
of the two seaboards. He denies most
emphaticalIy that the immigrants are
responsible for slums. and he asserts
that they are readily made into good
American citizens by American insti-
tutions a statement which no one will
deny.
The strong point made by DR.. Hills
is that if the resources of the west
and of the Rocky mountain states are
to be developed it must be brought
about largely by immigration. At
present both ends of the nation are
playing against the middle. The east
may not want immigration but the
west does The west needs labor to
develop its resources and to use its
surplus products. If the west had a
big population much of its production
would not need to be hauled to the
seaboards to find a market, as is now
the case.
The thoughtful person will agree
that there is great weight in the ideas
advanced by DR.. Hills. Minnesota
and North Dakota have been de-
veloped in large measure by Scandi-
navian immigration, and their citizen
ship is of a high grade. As DR.. Hills
points out, it is the flower of Ireland,
Italy, Austria and other countries that
comes to America because of the call
of liberty and the opportunities of this
land of ours.
And if left alone the Immigration
question will settle itself. The tide will
be turned away from the Atlantic sea-
board and will seek the interior. AL
ready the South Atlantic states are
bringing in people from Europe to use
in building up their factories, and Mr..
John Sebastian, of the Rock Island,
has recently inaugurated a movement
that should ultimately be of great
benefit to the west. Mr.. Sebastian last
summer visited Europe to study con-
ditions with a view to turning immi-
grafton through the Galveston gate
way and from. there scattering 1t
through Texas and over the Rock
Island-Frisco system generally. When
this movement is once started, it
means the speedier development, not
only of the agricultural resources of
the west. but of manufacturing indus
tries also.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-28
QUAKER I.EFI.EC1ToNz-
tFrom the Philadelphia

[F'rom the Philadelphia Record.]
He who fights and runs away may
win in the long run.
An old maid is simply a woman who
has been engaged once too seldom.
Good boys are really a drug on thu
market, If we are to believe the moth
ers.
The orator who is full of his sub
ject to the brim may merely be talking
through his hat.
A pessimist is merely a man who ex-
poets to get the worst of it sooner than
the rest of US.
The eyes of the CRATER are turned
on washington because that is where
the national capital is
A man convinced against his will will
have to be convinced all over again the
next time you meet him.
At any rate. the black sheep may
avoid being slaughtered to tickle the
human palate as spring lamb.
She-"Kiss me again, Clarence. He
Are you sure no one is looking?
She-"Well, I've got my eyes closed
I'VE are too apt to put the dollar
before the MANI" remarked the Wise
Guy. well, in these grabbing days we
have the satisfaction of knowing that
it won't stay there long" murmured
the Simple Mug.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-28
GLOBE SIGHTS.
TFrom the Atchison Globe

IFrom the Atchfson Globe.
1t is an unusual father who will
whip his son for fighting if the son
happens to be victorious.
Some people look for faults in every
one they meet as if they believed
nothing else was worth finding.
Children are natural, but their
elders seem to be ashamed of them
selves and their natural instincts.
Hardly any girl puts up a resistance
that causes q man to miss her mouth
and land a kiss on the back of her
neck.
AS soon as a child learns to write.
it feels that safety demands It's name
on all its possessions from tops to
overcoats.
No man looks forward with joyfui
anticipation to the fame he will win
If he ever happens to be the Oldest
man in the state.
When it has been thoroughly DEM
onstrated that a thing hurts, Various
men appear who offor to do it without
pain. but they cannot.
Owing to the popularity of the
Teddy bear, dolls are receiving so IT.
tie attention they must feel as il Santa
Claus left them with stepmothers.
About the only procession 'iFatber''
ever heads is when the members of
his family think they hear a burglar.
in the dead of night, and push the
poor little old man at the head of the
procession that looks for the burglar.
When two old friends have not met
fer a great many years about the first
thing they say to each other is: How
ness, you are much thinner than Won
We're" unless they happen to be extra
polite and then they say: you have
not changed a bit"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-28
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
[From the Chicago News

[From the Chicago Newsl
Fool questions usually begt fool
answers.
Most OF the old saws have lost their
teeth.
The man who lives up to his ideals
usually remains poor.
Money talks, and it usually gets the
best of an argument.
Better swallow your Indignation
when you thirst for revenge.
Face powder has put more men
down and out than gun powder.
A woman can keep u secret told to
her If she i= told to tell it.
No man will criticise your singing
as long as you sing his praise.
There are quarrels and Quarrels, but
family quarrels are the worst.
No woman with a diamond necklace
is afraid of getting a sore throat.
Lack of push and self-confldence
keeps many a mans nose to the
grindstone.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-28
REFLECTIONS OF a BACHELOR
I From the New York Press

from the New York Press.
The reason a girl likes to have you
squeeze her hand is because she says
she doesn't.
man has got to be a hero about
something If it's only a boil his grand
father once had.
Hardly anybody is such a fool as to
imagine girls like him because he
goes to Sunday school.
Women aren't going to enjoy
heaven SO much IL they can't wear 9
pink kimono once in a while.
There is hardly enough money in the
world to make 1T up to some men for
the names their parents gave them.
The greatest pride to a woman in
being married is being able to braR
about having lot of things she hasn't
got.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-28
HUMOR or THE DAY

.Knicker-How long did the new cook
Mrs; Knicker-I COULDN'T, say exactly.
What do you expect to do when then
day OF Judgment comes? inquired the
Mrs De styie.HEouis1i vile" e coirier- SJsniy
nal.
:, What =, are your prospects. young
am neither an English duke nor French
eount."-Cleveland Press.
Miss wisely.I suppose that was your
valet I saw with you yesterday?
Reggy-My deah, don't say valet"
d dnat word' you know is not used now,
Miss wisely-wen. then. your keeper"
Jones has. given up Scotch and drinks
rye instead"
What for?"
He said he could stand snakes. but not
plaid ones.'-Harper's Weekly.
ference between a statesman and a poiIti-
cian? PA statesman. my son. is
tician lies without deceiving. "NChicago
Skinner as "a bad egg before Barnes?
Don't goyg realize how sensitive Barnes
,Dubley-why so? Is Barnes related to
Wise-Oh. it isn't that; but Barnes is an
actor.-Philadelphia Press.
Senator Tillman had just described him
self as a cornfield lawyer.
Haydeld man. hay interrupted a
voice from the gallery. You don't use a
pitchfork in cornfeld."
As gently as possible they thrust the
farmer forth.-Phfladelpf1ia Ledger
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-28
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Governor Swettenham was evident
ly picked off of the ham tree.
y y
There will be more persimmons in
this legislature than in any previous
one in many years. In fact, every bill
that becomes a law will have to be
signed per Simmons"
A woman can find more interesting
things in a paper a month old that
she is putting on the pantry shelf than
she can in one the carrier has just
brought.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-28
WISHING,

I wish I was a little boy,
With tangled yellow curfs,
To be kissed like used to be
BY all the pretty girls.
They used to grab me from my ma
And often raise a row
To see which one would kiss me first
They never do it now.
I'm safe to go where'er 1 choose;
hear no maiden sing
AS she swoops down and grabs me,
''Oh, you lovely, darling thing!'
did not used to like it,
L kicked and raised a row;
If they would only try again
I would not struggle now.
j. w. Lewis in the Houston Post.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-28

This paper" says the Salina Journal.
declared a few days ago that there
Appeared to be no bug under the chip
In the railroad bills introduced by Sen
ator Fred Dumont Smith, and the SEN
ator took serious offense at the sug-
Eestion. But even at that the Journal
It1ll stands by its original statement. There
appears to be no bug under the chip
10 far as we can see.''
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-28

S. S. Ashbaugh, who has been appoint
ed attorney to the state railway board,
IS said to be the best Shakespearean stu
dent in the state. 1t is to be hoped.
however. that there will be no theatre
cal business in enforcing the state rail-
road laws
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-28

Senator Dryden is having more trou-
BILE than Senator Bailey. and even in
little old Rhode Island 1.-The interests
are having hard shedding in landing
their man. Perhaps Kansas and Texas
end wyoming have no occasion to
snake remarks about New Jersey and
Rhode Island after all.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-28

Fate sometimes plays cruel jests. The
world at large would never have known
that such person as Governor
Ewettenham existed had it not been
for the Kingston earthquake. That ca
lamity made him famous but it also
brought him the opportunity to show
what sort of a four cylindered chump
he could be-and he took advantage of
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-28

The Leavenworth Times character
ICES the increase in the wages of con-
gressmen as a salary grab But does
the editor of the Times consent to
draw only $4,000 year in case he
goes to congress about two months
hence?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-28

Son-fn-law Longworth says he doesn't
believe President Roosevelt will be a
candidate for another term. AS Presi-
dent Roosevelt himself has said en-
phatically the same thing. Mr.. Long
worth's statement is no very great sur
prise.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-28

Congressman Scott says the govern
ment might as we'll give away free
pencils and jaclxknives as free seeds. OF
course. And if Mr. Scott would just
as lief he can substitute a jack
knife for the turnips and onions and
sweet corn and asparagus and parsnips
In our package.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-28

Next time the "wets" in Topeka will
be a little surer of their candidate be-
fore they elect him. It's a grievous dis
appointment to them to discover that
they have elected a man who has re-
gard for his oath of office.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-28

After considerable fear and much
trembling, congress finally raised its
salaries from 5000 a year to $500.
'eThat," says the Osborne Farmer. will
enable Bill Reeder to save an even
$1,000 instead of only $4,5OO.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-28
KANSAS COHlHENT
SOME GOOD MEAsUREs.

w. Y. Morgan. who is chairman of
the house committee on railroads, in
writing home to his paper, the Hutch
inson News. speaking as to railroad
Here are some of the measures
which I will do my best to help make
laws:
4 bill prohibiting free passes:
A reciprocal demurrage bill that
VIII prevent determinations between
shippers and, SO far as possible, secure
cars t
More power to the railroad commits
sion and more money for the enforce
ment of railroad laws
Definite power to the commission
ana money to back it, which will en-
able our board to take up the COM
plalnts OF Kansas shippers before the
interstate commerce commission and
push them at the expense of the state.
Inc requirement of reports of rail-
road business in Kansas so as to have
basis for future legislation.
The reduction of freight rates on
corn, wheat and coal.
The reduction of passenger fares
And other similar measures which
are interviewer with these general pro-
positions.
1t will probably be impossible for
me often to give in advance reasons
Tor this or that action. There will be
night on every one of these PROPOSE
tons, and it will not be wise to exhibit
the plans of battle to the enemy. But
am gong TO do the very best I can.
II Mr.. Morgan can succeed in get
ting through the legislature effective
laws on the subject suggested he will
have rendered his state greater service
than has been rendered by any senator
or member of congress for twenty-five
years. How gratifying it would be if
Kansas representatives at the nationaf
capital would come out frankly and
stand for something the people want.
victor Murdock promises to make
such a representative and Ed Madison
Will be a valuable addition to our con-
gressional delegation when his term
begins.-Salina Journal.
WHERE WAS LONG?
The splendid fight made by Senator
Warner against the anti Roosevelt
caucus, compels the admiration of
every American who loves fair play.
That cabal was manufactured to di-
vert the peoples attention to the ne
gro question and away from the
economic questions that are stirring
this country. Senator Warmers atti-
tude resulted in a presidential victory,
and will enable the senate to get back
to the discussion of more vital issues.
The people not merely of Missouri.
but of the whole nation will be CRATE
full to Senator Warner for what he
has done. He is a new member and it
took a fine order of courage for him
to do what he did. In this connection
it may be we'll to ask-where was
Senator Long in that fight? Was he
with the interests and the Bourbons
who were afraid of the real economic
battle ahead-or was he in the tall
timber when the people needed him
of course he won't answer; he is too
much of a statesman for that; but at
least the worms rof the dust who do
themselves the honor to groveI before
him as constituents. may breathe the
silent question in their secret hearts
without danger of, arrest and impris-
onmentl--Emporfa Gazette.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-28

People who have paid out good
money to hear Senator Ti11man lecture
will feel like they have something
coming to them when they hear of the
shumor'' the pitchfork senator sprung
on the senate this week.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-28

, Governor Swettenham apologies in
about the same tone of voice that the
boy uses in saying he is sorry when
his mother stands over him with
peach switch.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-28

South Carolina has elected Tillman
for another term, so the minstrel show
in the senate will probably continue.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-28

The baseball people evidently failed
in their fielding, on the home plate and
behind the bat, when the baseball bill
was up in the house. Their game with
the senate will be awaited with inter-
-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-28

Then again, perhaps the directors of
the Metropolitan opera house wished to
give Director Conreid's new opera some
extra attractive advertising.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-28

If the railroad pass is only a 'cour-
tesy'' and carries with it no obligation
on the part of the legislator who re-
ceives it, why are some railroads anx-
ious to keep on giving passes?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-28

: AS Fred Trigg understands 1t, the
state Of Texas has Endorsed Senator
Bailey's note for money borrowed Of
the Standard Oil.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-28

It is keeping the Aldrich-Foraker
crowd so busy hazing the president
that they have had no time to haze
LAFolIette.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-28

, Mr. Hartman denies that he con-
trolls any railroads. OF course not. He
only controls the people who do con-
troll the railroads.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-28
FROM, OTHER PENS
THEr LUMRER MoNoPoLY.

The speech of the Hon. Alfred
BEARD Kittredge, eof South Dakota, In
the senate last Friday is but cumula-
tive vindication of the position taken
by General Hancock in 1880. that the
tariff is a local question everywhere,
except in the state of Kentucky
where John G. Carlisle, Henry Wat
terson. William Lindsay, W. C. p
Breckenridge j. Proctor Knott,
"Quinine Jim Mckenzie, and John
Young Brown, doctors OF political
economy, taught the people that it
was dishonest and immoral to de-
mand free pig iron and at the same
time exact protective tariff on hemp,
and SO it came that the Kentucky
Democrats in congress not only refus-
ed to ask a hemp tariff, but actually
voted against it when it was propos-
ed, mainly to put them in hole.
Mr.. Kittredge is a Republican of the
straightest sect and a protectionist of
the stanchest sort. He is from a prai-
RE state, and it is 500 miles from his
domicile to the nearest sawmill. Lum-
prairie country, and, according to the
Senator from South Dakota, the vilesr
and the cruelest trust of them all has
the entire lumber product of the Unit
ed States cornered and monopolized,
and by reason of the inSatiate greed
of this remorseless monopoly the price
of lumber has been advanced to the
prairie farmer. from 100 per cent to
500 per cent within the last three or
four years.
The remedy the South Dakota
statesman proposes is to take the duty
off lumber in, order that the limitless
stores of that product with which the
markets of Canada are glutted may be
imported to compete with the trust
and put the monopoly to flight. 1t will
be recalled that Uncle Pete Hepburn's
maiden speech in the American con-
gress was demand for free lumber
for the prairie farmers of Iowa. But
Uncle Pete got bravely over that, and
Is now in the front rank of the elite, Of
the stand-pat squad
The Democrats put lumber on the
free list in the Wilson bill. The Re-
publicans no more intend to give
South Dakota free lumber than they
purpose to give South Carolina free
trace chains. Suppose lumber was
put on the free list? Every owner OF
sawmill or a sawlog in Michigan
Wisconsin, Minnesota, Washington
and Oregon would turn free trader
and join the Democratic party.
For the tariff is local question, and
the lumber men will not help protect
the iron men unless the iron men see to
it that the lumber men are protected.
We have nothing to say as to the
wisdom or the ethics of the thing. We
merely state a fact and record his
tory.-Washington Post.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-28
No Need to Run.


Ms. Clews-Parsons, whose daring
book on marriage has created SO much
excitement, said at dinner in New
York:
They who are happily married are
shocked at the idea of trial marriages,
but they who are unhappily linked to-
gether, and are yet too proud and sem
in my idea that is of value How
many marriages would be dissolved If
the dissolution could be accomplished
without shamei How many married
people feel toward each other like a
husband 1 heard of the other day.
He said to his wife al breakfast.
crustf1y:
az dreamed about you last night,
"'what did you dream?' she asked.
"'I dreamed 1 caught chap running
away with you.
land what did you say to hfm?' She
inquired listlessly.
4 asked him what he was running
for Los Angeles Times.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-28
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.

The State Journal is a member of the
Associated Press and receives the full day
telegraph report of that great news or
ganlzation for the exclusive afternoon
publication in Topeka.
The news is received in The State Jour
nal building ever wires for this sole pur-
pose.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-28
WOMAN AT THE BEST.

finest about 40. A woman has gained
everything at 40 and lost nothing: she
is at the full vigor of her intellectual
powers, she has acquired experience and
Judgment, and is not far enough away
from youth to have became unsympa-
thetic even to it's widest vagaries.-The
Eystsn Cer