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The daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1906-1907, 1907-02-08
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February End. It will be something
worth going to.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-07
THE CONFLICT.

A great responsibility rests on the
legislature that VIII convene in the
Kansas state house tomorrow noon.
The entire nation is now in the throes
of struggle between corporate wealth
and greed on the one hand and the in
forests Of the people on the other; and
on the outcome of this struggle de-
ponds the success of a republican form
OF government.
One great battle in this struggle was
fought in Washington last spring and
the people won under the leadership
of Theodore Roosevelt The battle
will be continued there, however, for
the corporation interests are so
strongly tntrenched in the United
States senate that it is impossible to
dislodge them at once.
Other battles will be fought in va
rious states this winter, and some OF
them will be of great importance. And
one of these states is Kansas.
Kansas wishes to be fair to all in
terests. Kansas people do not desire
to Cypress the corporations any more
than they themselves wish to be OPP
pressed, but it is a question as to
whether the people or the corpor-
ations-through certain political in
terests and combines-shall rule.
The first thing to be done is to elect
a United States senator who will stand
for the interests of the people in
Washington and not for the corpora
tons. That done there is certain leg
islation to be accomplished to put po-
liticaI power back into the hands of
the people instead of leaving it to the
manipulation of political interests that
are in league with corporate wealth.
Which side will win the fight in this
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-07
LEST WE EnRGEr

In the excitement over the speaker
ship and senatorial contests, it is to be
hoped that the members of the legIs-
lature will not forget about that prop
osition to give the justices of the SUI
preme court a little better wages.
Along with our prosperity and the
increased prices of everything that a
man on a salary must buy. it is only
just that salaries should be raised at
least a little, especially when the ma
ture of the officials work is such as 70
prohibit him from accepting any out
side employment, as is the case with
judges. Besides it is only affording
proper protection to the state to pay
just salaries. 1t is sometimes argued
that there are plenty of men who
would be willing to serve the state on
the supreme bench for the $4,000 a
year now paid. Which is true. 1t is
also true that there are men who
would gladly accept the presidency Of
big railroad for $500 year-al-
though the place now probably pays
$4,000 a year-but it would be los
ing proposition for both the railroad
and the public.
Unless the bill raising the salaries
of the supreme justices is passed this
week, some of these justices will have
to serve six years at their present sal
aries. Don't forget, gentlemen of the
legislature.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-07


are not even pretty. dear. Forgive me
If l speak plainly, but you asked for
| truth between u.s."
"Uh-huh," acquiesced Cynthia, bit.
ing her scarlet under lip and tugging
slightly at the lace of her rolling coll
lar: you took all the beauty there was
In the family, Frances. Buff you
give me permission to try, maybe
can take him from YOU"
TRY. by all means" granted Fran
ces indulgently.
The next night at the opera Frances
made remark to her fiance that was
more than usually caustic. From their
box she had seen a face in one OF the
orchestra chairs-a vigorous, hand
some, youthful face-tyhich had re-
called some one long absent. Just as
the recollection was shooting through
her with exquisite pain, Gates CHANGED
to lay his hand on her bare arm to
call her attention to bit of stage bust
ness.
DON'T" she cried. shrinking. "For
heavens sake, don't!"
"Oh, Frances, Frances!" Cynthia's
low, rich voice shook with emotion.
Birney Gates turned his head in her
direction and met her eyes. Curious
gold-green eyes they were, Swallowed
by long, black lashes-langUorous and
enticing. For one moment he gazed
as If under a sudden spell. Later the
girl dropped her fan and he stopped
to pick 1T up for her. As he handed
contact thrilled him strangely.
AS Frances manner grew more and
more hooking, Cynthia'S grew more
and more tender, uAtil Gates found
himself turning to her for comfort az
ter every rebuff from his promised
bride.
'Of course, know she doesn't love
me-" Gates explained to Cynthia one
day. How could she? I am growing
old. I am homely. But I am rich
and want the best for my money,
and so I want her-and I'm going to
have her" Cynthia's little hand on his
arm quieted him.
And is beauty the best?" she ques-
toned softly.
He looked at the delicate face.
alight with childish eagerness. The
mutinous red mouth was quivering,
the mysterious eyes were abiaze.
Cynthia, not you'll" he cried, his
heart leaping. Then he opened his
arms to her. Sweetheart, you little
witch, I don't know how it has come
about; but 1t is you who are filling my
days and nights-not Frances. Come"
"Oh, no." she warned. gliding away
from him, mot until Frances has
written giving you your freedom. But
I'll tell her tonight, and then you can
come openly to father and claim my
hand"
On the day of Cynthia's wedding.
guests seeing the alteration in the
eyes of Mr.. Birney Gates, could not
doubt the verify of her conquest, and
she beamed with a pretty importance.
Frances, robed in soft, shimmering
White, was radiant. Her dark eyes
were suffused with a mysterious soft
ness, as Of a joy newheralded.
And on her left hand once more
she wore her little ruby ring.-(Copy-
right 1907. by Homer Sprague.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-07
POINTED PARAGRAPHs-
[From the Chicago News.I

IFrom the Chicago News.1
The family tree of the CRATER is a
plum tree.
Some beauty is skin deep and some
Is only enamel deep.
A boy in the school room is worth a
dozen in the pool room.
An awkward man in a ball room is
apt to be a train wrecker.
All our thoughts are original-eith-
err with ourselves or others.
Where ignorance Is bliss compul-
sorry education is apt to blister.
If some artists see things as they
paint them they should quit drinking.
A man doesn't notice the expense SO
much at the time If he pays with a
check.
Some times woman doesn't meet
her ideal until she is too old for him
to recognize her.
Secrets she can't tell worry a wo-
man as much as the money he can't
spend worries a man.
Genius is said to be a certain form
OF madness, but the madness OF most
people is more or less uncertain.
Don't sit down and think about
what you would do IL you could live
your life over. Get busy and improve
the rest of it.
And when you hear a man boast of
his ancestors it's a safe bet that his
descendants will have no occasion to
boast of theirs.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-07
AYHAWKER JOTS

In noting that Rush Center, with 400
inhabitants, boasts of nine secret socie-
ties, the Kingman Leader points out
that the sewing society is not included
among these nine, because a. sewing
society never keeps a secret
Story told by the Holton Recorder of
1.-The last week of the old year." at
is said when one day last week con-
ductor entered a crowded Topeka
bound train, he facetiously called out:
when he was through found only five
cash paid fares in the car.
A Sabetha literary aspirant, says the
Herald. claims to have gone to bed and
to have lain in exactly the same posi-
ton as that shown by Mark Twain
while writing his stories, but the Sa-
betha aspirant complains that he was
unable to compose anything but
few personals for the Sabetha papers.
Lincoln Republican: Kansas farm
ers have cattle and horses and hogs
galore; the elevators of Kansas are
filled to the top with wheat and burst
ing from the over-crowding of their
capacity; hay is no object and corn is
grown III abundance. Money is hid
away in all the old clothes or left ly-
ing around loose, as 1T is too common
to tempt anyone to carry it off. Yet
Kansas has a grief When the "sov
ereign squat goes to his coal bin and
sees only a few lonesome Jumps shin
ing back at him and is told by the
coal barons that a further supply can
not be supplied because of shortage of
cars, he begins to reflect and then 1t
is that grief good and plenty settles
down upon him. Coal can scarcely be
bought at all: and if wood is burned,
that must be chopped. We have been
watching the corn shelters the last
three months trying to get a load of
cobs--they are in shape to burn with
out chopping. But, money won't buy
cobs any more than will delinquent
subscription accounts. Farmers bring
in their corn to have 1t shelled. but to
be sure that they get the cobs, will
stand guard while the corn is being
shelled. leave it in town until some
convenient time, but haul the cobs
homo at Onea
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-07
REvILLNG THE DEAD.

Some eastern papers cannot get over
their antipathy to the PopuIist party
that used to live, move and have its
being in Kansas ten years ago. They
are still reviling it. in spite of the fact
that it is practically deceased. One Of
these papers is the Washington Post
In recent editorial it said:
1T seems that Mr.. Hanna, COM
mander OF the Kansas department of the
Populist party, called together the var
ious chieftains of the Kansas contfn-
gent and proposed to them a dissolution
of the organization, making the G. o.
P. the heir at law and residuary lega-
tee. This was logical proposition-in
Kansas-for the Republican party fur
nished most of the PopuIists in that
batliwick in the grand old period of
1S9S-97
But If this Mr.. Hanna is the Popu-
list boss Of Kansas. a Mr.. William Jen-
nings Bryan is the Populist boss of
the Union, and we are told that Mr.
Bryan writ words for the Kansas Pops
to stand pat, or words of that import
which they accordingly did byrepudiat-
ing Mr. Hanna's proposition to dis
solve and turn Republican.
And what a party 1t was-this Pop
ulist! Its paramount doctrine was ca
lamity. Among it's cardinal principles
were these: Pops for office: money for
debtors. infamy for creditors. Nobody
DQl WAS ldDOTer, or
patriot, or a statesman, or an honest
man. Only the farmer was fit to run
the government.
There was not a crossroads in Kan
sas that was not swarming with men,
full of drug store whisky chewing
sweet fiat tobacco whiting dry goods
boxes, and cussing the government,
and every mothers son of them was
sincere in the belief that he was mas
ter of more and sounder statecraft
than Henry Clay, John C. Calhoun, and
Daniel Webster combined"
Yet the Populist party was the fore
runner of the present wave of reforma-
ton and good government that is
sweeping over the country 1t is true
that it was party Of discontent-con-
ditions at that time warranted diseon-
tent-but it had a mission to perform
and it performed it. 1t brought new
ideas to the front, some of which have
been adopted by both the old parties.
The men who composed the Populist
party are, many of them, prominent In
Kansas affairs today. Some are OFFICE
holders under a Republican admins
tration. Others stand high in the coun-
ellis of Democracy. The dry goods box
whittier no more predominated in the
Populist party than he did in other
parties. and the good, hard sense that
finally emanated from the Populist
dreams did the state of Kansas good
E. en- the Washington Pest had moth
ing but the highest encomiums to offer
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-07
JOURNAL ENTRIES


There is this about Schuyler Crum-
mer, Governor Hoch's present secre-
tary: When he trcts up to the house or
senate with "a message from the gov
ernor in writing he can run over any
doorkeeper that tries to obstruct mis-
entrance.
This department would like to have
the United States senator chosen by the
whole legislature instead of by the Re-
publican caucus, in order to get pic
ture of Bale Waggener voting for
Stubs.
Nineteen hundred and seven is a week
old, and the wheat crop hasn't been
saved" once this year.
The operator at Takoma is blamed
for the Terra Gotta wreck. How about
the biscuit?
At any rate, Mrs. Nations Washing
ton lecture was different from the
speeches that are usually heard there.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-07
QUAKER REFLECTIONS
[From the Philadelphia Record.I

Football colors-black and blue.
A woman can make it hot for a man
without being the sunshine OF his life.
The fellow who is looking for light la
Dor might get job in the gas works.
A girl may be said to be vergfng on
womanhood when she begins to worry
about her complexion.
Blobbs...T tell you, that horse is a
racer" Slobbs-"I beg your pardon. he's
an eraser He wiped me OUT
Health Is wealth." quoted the Wise
Guy You can't make the doctors be-
lieve that" said the Simple Mug.
Aunt Dinah-"Ah don't know what am
de mattah wifi nah ole man. He am sort
er melancholic." Aunt Mandy-"Foh de
lam sakesi Melon cholic? Wha' dat Mig
gah git melons dis time O. yeah?''
Mrs. Henpeckke-"Here's an article in
the paper about a man who didn't appear
mindedness- Mr.. Henpeckke (meekly)
Are you sure 1t was absent mindedness
my dear?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-07
GLOBE SIGHTS.
[From the Atchison Globe

IFrom the Atchison Globe.1
Some men are SO sour that a pin
has been invented for them; a small
pin representing a lemon, to give peo-
pie an idea of their disposition.
A man who would scorn to lie about
his neighbors, will cheerfully lie about
his country, and regard himself as
something of a reformer for doing it.
The main street of small town on
a half holiday can make the saddeSt
funeral procession look like a gala af-
fair when 1t comes to cheerfulness.
About six months after a man has
married, he begins to discover that he
has to get twice as mad as formerly to
have his wrath count for half as
much.
Girls think a great deal of their
love affairs, but they should be wise
enough to know that telling of the old
ones is mighty poor way to boost a
new one.
1t seems to us that nearly every
man in this country is insisting on a
panic. Good times result in as much
restlessness among the people as hard
times, we sometimes think.
Every woman wants a candelabrum.
If she has one, she wants more. If
you want to spend money on woman.
it is always safe to give her a can
delabrum. And, by the way, few of
them pronounce the word correctly.
An Atchison girl of twenty is in love
with a young man Of twenty The girl
was talking with the young mans moth
er the other day, and said: II understand
easily imagine that the mother was very
Indignant
Happy New Year" that makes a man
feel like saying. MY fingers are
crossed" They act as though they
had caught him. Others say Happy
even-if-you-have-no express
sion.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-07
OF A BACHELOR.
Iron the New

IFTOm the New York Press
Most people think they would be rich
If they had been born with different
colored hair.
1t seems as If bathrooms would be
freezing If they were right in the mid
die of the furnace.
A mans wife is mighty proud of him
for having so much brains that he can
not understand her.
Riches may not bring their possessors
happiness, but they seem to get along
comfortably without even sympathy.
If there were marked down bargain
rates in doctors charges would women
want the whole family sick so as to get
the benefit Of them?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-07
HUMOR OF THE DIP

Colored Cadger-"Will you please
gil me something to eat?' Housewife
Overwhelmingly TIL fetch my
usband if-!' Colored Cadger-
Madam, pray do not trouble. NY
race has given up cannibalism for
generations!' -Punch.
What business are you IMP" asked
the jovial drummer. "I?" replied Mr..
Pompous, I'm a gentleman, sir; T."
on don't say? Haven't been workin'
at it long, have e?"-Philadelphia
Press.
He (after the refusal)-"Had
been rich perhaps your answer would
have been quite different" She
Perhaps" He-'But poverty is no
crime" She-"Oh, yes. 1t is-and the
punishment is hard labor."-Chicago
Daily News.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-07
FIGHTING THE TRUSTS.

Congressman Miller is receiving de-
served applause for attacking the
lumber trust 1t is right and proper
to attack the lumber, flour, grain,
beef, coal, Steel butter, sugar and 9TH
er trusts too numerous to mention. 1t
amuses the people and perhaps wor-
ries the trust magnates Are there
any other desirable results? The sec
rotary of the Kansas Grain Dealers
association took a jail vacation for vi
olating the Kansas Antitrust law.
Has any one observed any substantial
difference in the manner in which the
grain dealers arrive at prices which
they can afford to pay the farmer for
his grain ?-Leavenworth Post.
From which the inference is to be
drawn that it does no good to oppose
the trusts and that the people might
as well submit to being robbed ana
stop making a fuss about it,
Still, if the Post will look about a
little it will note that things might be
worse. The trusts have been given a
number of scares-sufficient to make
some of them begin to think about be-
ing good. In fact. a few of them have
been dissolved, and a man in the
White House is after others with a Big
Stick. If we can get the right kind OF
legislators and executive officers
men who will stand for the interests
of the people instead of being subser-
Went to the corporation interests
there will be still more results and lots
of 'em.
Incidentally 1t might be stated that
the Kansas Grain Dealers association
isn't arranging pools and sitting COM
petition in handling grain to the ex-
tent that it did before it's secretary
was punished under the antitrust law.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-07

United States senate. the Parsons Sun
finds horrible feeling of uncertainty
around the Copeland lobby that Mr..
Curtis Is only waiting for the right
moment when he will produce letters
from King Edward. the sultan of
turkey, ratah of Bong and other
rulers besides Speaker Cannon who
demand the election of Mr.. Curtis.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-07

RESOLVED.


This year I'm thinking
will do
A swear-off that will
Be quite new;
The man that dares
But in on me
When / am busy
AS can be,
And sit and talk and
Talk and chew
Until the air around
Turns blue,
And still sit still and
Still talk on
Until my working
Day is gone.
VIII find that I've
Prepared myself
To lay him gently
On the shelf:
I'll get all kinds
of warlike gear,
Axes and clubs
And hide them here,
And when the sitstill
Draweth nigh
Ill rise and Smite him
Hip and thigh,
Fall like an earthquake
Onto him
And simply rend him
Limb from limb!
They may arrest and
Shut me tight
In jail, but I'll
Get out all right
When tried: I'll have
My jury then
Composed of busy
Business men.
j. NJ. Lewis in the Houston Post.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-07

James ]. Hill. who is himself a rail-
road president, is getting a little bit
"skeery" about riding on the railroads.
He says there is too much traffic. But
perhaps there won't be SO much now
that passes have been cut Oft.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-07

1t is stated that the Curtis people
have promised to make d. r. Anthony
congressman from the First district If
Anthony will help send Curtis to the
senate Does Mr.. Anthony remember
the Horton agreement?"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-07

Judge Linn Bruce says many young
men are growing up without knowing
what the Republican party stands for"
The Judge must be mistaken. There is
hardly young man in the land who
does not know that the AIdFi4h- Foraker
wing stands for the trusts and eth.
interests" while the RooseveIt-Ia
Toilette wing stands for the people.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-07

Down at Wichita a protest has been
filed with the mayor against permit
ting 1.-THE Clansman" to be played
there. Which is. Of course. just what
the management of Thomas Dixon's
play desires. Probably the best way
to kill off 1.-THE Clansman'' is to pay
no attention to 1t. 1t will die a nat
ural death If it is not advertised by
its enemies who are making an effort
10 have it suppressed.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-07

al the grave Of Jerry Simpson when the
body OF that brilliant Populist was
borne to its last resting place.
The Populist party has passed into
history. but many of the men who COM
posed 1t are still on earth, and a pretty
good set of men they are
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-07

OF course many an older man
might have made the same error
that the boy operator at Volland made.
but that is no reason why boys should
be employed in such responsible posi-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-07
Hugoton woman,

"a Hugoton woman" says the
Hermes. hung up her stocking on
Christmas eve and on awakening the
next morning was agreeably surprised
to find it filled with coal" "And then -
says Walter Johnson. 1.-The paper cuts
it short without telling what DISPOSE
ton she made of her fortune"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-07

The Salina Journal prints long
editorial under the heading, Stirring
Times in Zion." but it is somewhat
careful in what it says about the stir
ring times in Topeka.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-07

Now that Mr.. Curtis has en-
phatically denied that he is the rail-
road candidate for senator, T. A
Cordry thinks suspicion will probably
be directed towards Senator Benson,
inasmuch as the latter has always re-
fused to ride on passes put has in
sisted on helping the railroads by pay
ing his fare.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-07

Mrs. Nation severely criticises Presi-
dent Roosevelt. Perhaps she can
form a combination with Senator
Foraker and Senator Raynor on this
mutual ground.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-07

A water tank fell of of wagon on
to a man over In Missouri the other
day and killed him. Which proves that
the man ought to have been on the
water wagon himself
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-07

The Hutchinson News has started a
new sort of a guessing contest: Where
will tomorrow's wreck happen? 1t
doesn't cost anything to guess
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-07

We Judge that being grand duke
or a police project in Russia is just
about as fatal as ever. The Russian
doctors have not been able to combat
the disease.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-07
ERON OTHER PENS
NEW LEGAL ETHICS.

In explaining his withdrawal from
the defense of a man accused of MUIR
der, Los Angeles lawyer has set a
new standard of professional ethics.
He said his wife was convinced of the
accused mans guilt and urged him to
do no more toward saving the defend
ant from punishment for the crime. 1t
always has been a moot question
whether a conscientious lawyer can.
honestly. defend a prisoner of whose
guilt he is convinced Attorneys of
highest standing have put themselves
on record as justifying the defense of
a confessed criminal. But this matter
may properly be left to the individual
conscience of the attorney. But here is
a new phase of the question. The at
torney's wife has made up her mind
that the accused man is guilty and her
husbands efforts in behalf of the al
legged wife slayer distress her. The
matter is more than merely a domestic
episode because of the effect it might
have upon a jury. Professional breth
rem will differ in opinions as to wheth-
er the attorney should have taken the
step.-Los Angeles Express.