The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-09-14
FROM OTHER PENS

GOVERNMENT NOT TO, BLAME
1t is quite true. as a. number O.?
more or less prominent Industrial lead
ers have said recently, that the pub
ne /, VII hoHt confidence in the security
market. But that lack of confidence
Is not Que to any government polio J.
1t Is mainly the result of the acts of
those who have played the high
finance game. who have used other
peoples money. and have manipulated
properties intrusted to their care for
their own gain. 1t is no argument at
all 10 say that the government has un-
covered these deals. Should they not
be uncovered? Moreover President
Roosevelt and his advisers had moth
ing whatever to do with lifting the lid
from the life insurance scandals. and
those revelations were a thousand
times more serious than anything
which the interstate commerce com
mission or the department of justice
has Observation-Disclosures Express.
A "HEAvEN-BORN DIVORCE"
We have no patience whatever with
the socfalistic. communistic free-love
ideas of poets and others who suddenly
discover that they have married the
wrong woman and seek to get q d.
vorce on the ground that they have
found new heaven-born affinity The
case arousins so much attention lust
now in the newspapers is one in point,
but the novel feature IS that the wife
is quite ready to get the divorce and
is on the best terms with her rival
who is to take her place SO soon as the
bonds are severed. All talk some
ballyrot about love being foreordained
from the beginning of the world and
matches being made in heaven and
that sort of thing. These folks are
either completely deceived or are try
Ing to deceive themselves, and there
VIII pretty soon be a rude awakening
and the sooner the better.-Phiiadel-
phia Inquirer
PUNISH THE BIG CRIMINALS.
The average American business man.
whether he deals in railroads or sa.t
nackerel. will agree with the attorney
general when he saws:
Business men ought to wish to have
the laws strictly and impartially en-
forced. If this is done everybody
knows what he can do and what he
can not and everybody has fair fell
ana no favor"
The. attorney general has an idea
that the surest way to impress the
public with the impartfality of the law
* to unish the big criminals who have
hitherto claimed immunity and VIII
notorious example has acted as a sub
tie poison in threatening every plane
of business life.-PhiladelDhi North
American.
VALUE OF ADVERTISING.
A Kansas man is convinced that ad-
vertising pays. He advertised for a
lost five dollar bill and a stranger,
G 10 had picked one up in the stree
read the advertisement and restored
the bill to the advertiser. A few days
later. while looking over a vest he
had laid off. the original lost bill was
found in a pocket. He says advertis-
lag pays 100 per cent.-Utica Press.
JUST SO!
We ere servants and not masters.
we who are or have been engaged IN
large business affairs" says John d.
Rockefeller. Now. John. that is just
what Uncle Sam has been trying 70
make You understand.-Los Angeles
Times.
HE CAN'T BE WRONG.
War between Japan and China?
Can 1t be that Richmond Pearson
Hobson got hold of the wrong horo-
scope ?-Indianapolis News.
ALSO NATURE FAKERS!
The president is working on six
speecnes. which means that certain
sllk-natted scoundrels will again seek
the cyclone cellar.-Detroit News.
ALWAYS THERE.
The revolver that IS not loaded con-