The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-30
KANSAS COMNENT
ANOTHER ILLUsTRATION,

me dispatches state that great land
FRAUDS nave been developed in the
west ana that the United States has
peen defrauded cut of millions of dol
lar 1ars worth of timber and mineral lands.
rms viii not surprise the public Sec
retary Hitchcock, while at the head of
the department of the interior, render
ed ms country invaluable service in
prosecuting frauds and bringing to
nsnt the system of graft and plumber
thdI had been going on through the
.hat number of government officials
nave been involved in these frauds.
-hemperS OF congress and United States
senators have been convicted and the
names OF many others have been asso-
ciated with the fraudulent proceedings.
II IS SAID that recent developments will
PROBABLY result in criminal proceedings
against one United States senator and
also one OF the richest men in the west.
The editor of the Journal was advised
some time since from absolutely
reIlaDle source that one of the high
oncers or transcontinental railroad
company was receiving net income of
$4,000 per day from his timber lands.
BENG connected with the road over
which all the lumber had to be trans
ported from that region and owning
large tracts of land himself, he was
able to control the price of all the
products of a vast timber region in the
state OF California. This again brings
10 the attention of the public the cr1m1-
ted every day by transportation COM
panfes in rebates and determinations
IN freight rates by which certain IN
dividuals are enriched beyond the
poverished-this simply to satisfy the
Unsuitable greed of certain men for
money and the power that great wealth
brings to them. They are as selfish
and as tyrannieal in business and fin
ancial matters as any set of men that
have lived in the history of the race
They are not so cruel. they nave not
the power over the bodies of men, but
they have unlimited power over their
business fortunes and the commercial
affairs of the .country.-Salina Journal.
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A GOOD REVIVAL.
Seneca is having revival which has
torn the town from cellar to dome
While it is a civic revival, it Is none
the less religious. The revival will do
as much practical good as big re
ligious revival; perhaps more; You
know cleanliness is next to Goodness.
Seneca is being cleaned up and pro
fessional revivalist is engineering the
job. The revivalist is hired, like a gos-
pei revivalist. He was IN seneca an
last week preaching cleaner streets,
better lawns, painted houses, and
more slightly town generally He oe-
livered lectures in the theater, went TO
the farmers on the streets ana TAXED
with them and stirred things up gen
orally. The Seneca Commercial cluD
paid him, and he was worth all ne got.
There is a rich field for this kind of
evangelist. There ought to be few
of them living in each town. The
Seneca papers have been full OF the
revival for weeks. The Seneca civic
movement league edited the matter,
and wrote some pretty hot shots at
people who did not clean up. and did
not hesitate to mention their names. A
report got out that certain clerk IN
Seneca was taking orders for a mail
order house committee waited on
the clerk at once. The movement is
the best thing Seneca has done for
Herald.