The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-16
KANSAS COMNENT


FROM BENT MURDOCH
Uncle Sam paid Sc, S00.40 for mineral
water lemons and sugar for members
OF the United States senate, ldSe 90
Mind you, this money did not come oue
of the senator's salaries, Dut OUT Oh llle
pockets of the people. me eeei tq.o
of the senate itemizeS some othel
things that the government paid Tor, as
follows: One skirt trunk, one olo MORSE
shoe, mouse traps, hair Vlgor, GolosIie'
hair tonic ($32.S7), sponges, prlllahtllie,
cosmetioue whiteWash brushes, gum
shoes, sewing sets, mustang snhlHlenl'
arnica, gloves, handkerchief sets' opera
bags, axle grease, rosln, TAR mahlcure
sets, hay, oats, bran, meal ana rock
salt over $500 was spent for sponges.
What senator bought a sklrt runk
at the expense of Uncle SAN! why
should the people of the Onlteo otates
buy skirt trunk for any OF our states
men? What senator is pertaining him
self at the expense of taxpayers! GIVE
the people his name and the names Oh
the other gallants VINO aholht tneL
mustaches with brilliantlne, VINO ruo
hair tonic on their scalps and make an
overtaxed people pay the bill. what
senatorial Adonis had enough nerve 10
buy "cosmetique'' and charge IL 10 IN
Gle Sam? Was he the same unabasheo
Scion who invested in Sewing sets" and
opera bags" and skirt TRUNKS! Is
the money of taxpayers TO pc 1rlttereu
away on the adornment OF senators
Who think their personal puichrlluoe
pense? When congress meets next De
cember senators who have not mace
frivolous and questionable purchases
and charged them to Uncle sam w" WI!
have an opportunity to fasten the odi.
UNI of skirt trunks cosmetfQues,
"brilliantine," hair tonics," hay, oats,
bran, corn meal, rock salt and the ike
upon the guilty statesmen.-El DORADO
HEAR! HEAR!
1t is predicted since the paper trust
was routed that within the next SIX
months the price of blank paper would
go up to six cents per pound Ever
since the trust was busted paper mas
been going up. The last SIX months
all kinds of paper, used IN pruning o.
fees, has gone up fully one-th1rd IN
price.-Arkansas City Traveller. Ana
yet the Traveller and the Times and
all the other foolish papers, exhaust
themselves bawling for the Republ1can
cause which SustainS a fool tarln on
paper pulp that brings no revenue to
the government; but which enables the
trusts to rob US every day In the week.
Surely there are more chumps in the
newspaper business than In any other.
Walnut Valley Times.
OF COURSE.
Sheffield Ingalls, is beginning to have
some of the experiences common to cd
itors He says: I'VE were amused to
see one of our prominent citizens who
refused to subscribe for the Champion
carefully reading Mondays issue in a
down town store last evening. He ap-
peared to be greatly absorbed and We
should be very much pleased If he
would change his mind and allow us
to put his name on our list at ten cents
the week" There's many man proud
.Iy asserts that he wouldn't take the rot
ten sheet who borrows it from his
Observation-Disclosures News.
CHILD LABOR IN KANSAS.
Is it a fact that 1000 children are
working in the mines of Kansas? We
have been syrnpathizing at long range
with the children penalized for youth in
the sweat shops of, the east and have
forgotten our own backwards. If the
children are working in the mines, for
Gods sake get them out, get them out
quickly.-Lawrence Journal.