The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-10
KANSAS COMMENT
a CoNTRAsT.

4 a, CONTRAST.
/ Do you envy the enormously rich 2
i Wen, don t. A Sabetha woman was in
/ New York visiting at the time of Con-
! suelo Vanderbilt's marriage to the,
! Duke of Marlborough. The Sabethai
| woman CHANGED to be visiting WITHIN
a few doors of where the marriage oc-
| CURED. She was very young, and to-
| gether with the rest of the household
she lay on the floor and peeked out the
| windows to watch the n1agn1hcent
| bridal party. She was filled with envy
of what she didn't have and others
did. The Sabetha woman now has
plenty with which to- supply her ev-
cry need and many little luxuries. She
has a happy home. growing, thriving,
loving children and enough healthful
work to keep her mind and fingers en-
gagged: Consuelo Vanderbilt, the Ouch
ess of Marlborough, the wealthy en-
We'd bride of fifteen or less years ago
has separated from her dfssolute nus
band. She has to live in England in
order to keep her two beloved sons.
And finally the queen of England has
induced her to go into slum work in
London in order to keep her from be-
coming insane. A particularly pa
thetic part in the story is the slum
work will consist of the erection and
supervision of a home for the wives
and children of worthless, dissolute,
criminal men. This kind OF an 1nst1-
tuition will be erected by the former
mired favorite of the two greatest
countries in the world: Consuelo Van
derbilt, herself the divorced wife OF
the Duke of Marlborough, worthless,
dfssolute, criminal NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Herald.
THE FARMERS TRUST.
The farmer has as much right to or
ganiZe himself into a union as any one
else The present effort he is making |
Is brave whether he accom- |
plishes anything at it or not. He has
slightly misnamed his effort but that
doesn't matter. While he calls 1t a
union it is in reality a trust and its |
present effort is to hold the price of /
wheat at s1.00 per bushel. Every item
the farmer buys is controlled by |
trust. The Oil with which he lubr1- |
Gates his machinery comes from a |
trust: his harness is made from the |
product of the leather trust, his dishes /
and his kitchen utensils are in the |
trust. Every garment he wears comes |
from the trust; every nail he drives, |
every board he drives it into, every |
single with which he patches the
roof, every yard Of wire he puts |
around his fence, every windmill, ev- |
cry pillow, every reaper, every binder, |
every harrow is produced by the trust |
Why shouldn't he make a monopoly in |
wheat if he can? He raised it, and he's |
a right to his day in the trust business
if he can get it.-Wichita Beacon.
NEWSPAPER PRICES.
Many newspaper men throughout
Kansas have raised the price of their
weekly publications from 81 to $3.50 !
per year on account of the increase in
price of white paper. Many of the big
daily papers have also raised the |
price, the last being w. r. Hearst's
Sunday publications. He has raised |
the price from five to seven cents per
copy. AS a rulel the newspaper men
are the biggest fools on earth, any
way. When groceries, dry goods,
lumber, coal any other article
raises in price on the wholesale mar
ket the home. dealer shoots up the
price in accoEdanee and. no one
blames him. For more than two years
paper of all binds has advanced in
price from ten to forty per. cent and
still we are charging the same price
for printing as We did two years ago.
Newspaper men dfe~poor because they
like to be good fellows.--Beloit Ga
zette,