The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-19
KANSAS COMNENT
EDUCATION IN KANsAs

EDUCATION IN KANSAS.
twenty-five years ago when the
writer entered the State Agricultural
college II had about 400 students, the
state university had 500 or 600, the
state normal about 900, other colleges
scattered over the state the same num-
per proper tionately. In these % years
Kansas has not increased very much
IN population but look at the schools.
Ioday the State Agricultural college
mas 1000 students, the university $500,
inc normal 1900, while Baker, Wash
purn, the Kansas Wesleyan and others
nave increased their school population
equally as much, to say nothing of the
numerous small colleges, Academies and
normal schools which have been estab-
l1shed in the last few years. These
figures tell the tale of what Kansas
is dclng Tor the education of her boys
ana girls and shows why Kansas is be-
f6o o an an unhealthy place for the
tfcian and the all round bad man.
Scandia Journal.
THE OLD SOLDIER LAW
A press dispatch says that attorneys
over the state are questioning the val
idlty OF the old soldiers preference
law: While it should make a great
zeal OF difference as to whether the
law Is valid or not, in reality it prob
ably does not We noticed last winter
when an old soldier-and one extreme
ly well qualifed-was asking for the
United States senatorship, the old SOL
dlerS in the legislature were not falling
over themselves to get in a vote for
him, and if the old soldiers themselves
are Indifferent to this kind of thing,
they can not complain very much if
other people show the same spirit of
indifference. AS matter of fact,
there shouldn't be anything in this
country too good for the men who
stood by the flag in the days when
friendship was proved by more than
words; but consistency, like charity,
might well begin at home.-Bur-
lingame Chronicle.
UNIONS
Some very short sighted persons are
claiming that the disclosures made in
the Haywood trial constitute a power
ful argument against all labor unions.
Wh1ie they may put the unions into
d1SfaVor for a time 1T should always
be borne in mind that a union is ex-
actly what its members make it. The
to more or less violence, but while that
may be true there are hundreds of
unions-the printers for instance
where conservatism and intelligence in
union that abuses it's power there are
hundreds that only fight for their
rights and do it without employing
anything unlawful or undesirable. rne
all to share in the countrys present
prosperity without union to back up
his demands for an equitable division
of the profits.-Parsons Sun.
HELPING ALONG.
The supreme court has upheld At
torney General jackson in his suits
against the brewers. And the whisky
sellers are also behind Jackson. That
attack on two prohibition preachers,
down in Crawford county, is the best
law enforcement help that has trans
PRED for years. And this, too, is the
county which made Hoch's reelection
possible. -Beloit Gazette.
A Def
The lumber. trust is certainly going
right out in the opening and calling
Come and get me" The price of
Ii mber is outrageously high, out of
all proport 'on to other things There
is only one thing to do and that is to
take the tariff off of lumber. The
quicker congress does this the better
Lawrence Journal.
THE TROUBLE.
One trouble is that the dollars arrive
by slow freight and depart on the
overland limited.-Mack Gretchen.
THE RIGHT WAY.
An editor who has had some expert
ence writes: IF you have anything to
say to a mule. say it to his face
Yates Center News.