The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-11-30
KANSAS COMMENT
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| Governor Hoch has pardoned W. H.
We presume most people in Sumner
county have forgotten all about Bill
racket, whdse. family used to live In
Palest1ne townshtp.. in the point be-
tween the Arkansas and Ninnescah
| rivers. More than twenty-five years
ago the editor of the Mail was called
| upon to defend Tackett in justice
| court. the trial being presided over by
J. >. whitman and Geo. I. Walton as
| justices, on a charge of stealing sad
die and other property from a neigh
Dor.
After the Jury cleared Tackett he
remarked: ct stole them just the
same In consequence of this Incl
dent we have kept trace of Tackett
since: Most of his life has been spent
In prison, his last sentence being from
wichita some eight years ago. but he
has wonderful faculty for bambooz-
ing prison officials. probably due to
extended experience, and this time his
pardon is due to the credulity of E. B.
levitt, ex-warden of the state peni-
Tertiary but it is dead moral cinch
that it is only a question of time until
Tackett is behind the bars again.
Wellington Daily Mail.
THUS 1T ALWAYS HAS BEEN.
One of the anomalies of the tariff
question Is, that all the free traders
This was plainly illustrated by resolu-
lions passed by the Texas Sheep Rails
ers association which is composed al
most entirely of Democratic free
traders. This association resolved
against any reduction in the tariff on
wool and hides. OF course, because
these are local products in which they
are interested, but they are rampant
for free trade on everything else. The
southern sugar planter wants protec-
ton for his Sugar and the rice planter
for his rice while they are strong free
traders upon everything else.-New
ton Kansan Republican.
LAND FRAUDS
Senator Curtis who is a member of
the senate committee which has been
investigating the alleged land frauds
perpetrated by land grafters against
the kickapoo Indians, says the frauds
have been enormous. Men who were
supposed to be honest citizens with
good regulations were found to have
been guilty of perjury and bribery to
get lands of the Indians for song.
If there had never been examples of
men in high places perpetrating gratis
to secure cheap lands and defraud the
government and people who have es-
capped the just penalty for their
crimes, there would be less of it done
by others. They see these men escape
the tolls of the law and take chances
themselves-Salina Union.
HOW THEY LOVE EACH OTHER.
Col. Marsh Murdoch reproduces
Congressman Murdocks interview on
the money question from the Ell Do
RADIO Republican and wonders where
the Republican got authority for it.
We have thought for some time that
the venerable editor of The Eagle is
not quite up to date in his reading.
The Ell Dorado paper got the inter
view from The, Beacon, which pub
tt, r,1r iaI,l r.
Beacon.
PAPERS AND PAPER TRUST.
The newspapers claim to have pow
err and yet the second greatest trust
on earth, the paper trust, controls
their supply Of paper. One would
think that the trust makers would
fear the power of the press but they
do not Next to the meat trust the
paper trust leads them all.-Lawrence
Journal.