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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-24
THE HARTMAN SCHOOL.

Not all the speeches that William J.
Bryan could deliver in his lifetime
would make as many converts to his
latest theory as have been made by E.
H. Hartman and others of his kidney
able, too, that Mr. Bryan's prolonged
silence on this subject has been due
to his belief that his dearest foes are
playing his game better than he could
himself If such is the fact, he is not
mistaken. The Hartman school of
finance is breeding Socialists to ex-
tent appreciated by nearly all Ameri-
cans except its own heads.-Cleveland
Plain Dealer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-24
KANSAS COMAENT
ONE VIEW.


The biennial bill to prohibit base
oalI games and theatrical perform
ances on Sunday is up in the legisla-
ture again. This bill ought to pass,
ana to pass speedily. Such a bill has
gpeen joke and a football for one or
both houses of every legislature since
1t was discovered that the present law
does not cover those offenses against
the Sabbath. 1t is now time for the
legislature to quit playing horse and
pass the bill. There is no possible
moral defense of the offenses which
this bill would prescribe. The think
ing, moral people of the state are
overwhelmingly for this measure. The
statute ought to be amended exactly
as proposed in the amended bill. The
theatr1caI and professional baseball
interests have always been, and al
ways will be, against such a law. Some
OF them are emfnently respectable
men, and it is one of the regrettable
features of legislation that any point
which touches upon moral matters
must divide the thinking classes. But
this bill divides them so unevenly,
those who favor the bill being SO far
in the majority. that this objection is
not important enough to have much
weight. The sooner the bill passes
and becomes effective, the better for
the morals and manhood and woman
hood of the state of Kansas.-Law-
renee World
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-24

do you print serious poetry by anna
teurs?" Only in the humorous column. ="
Cleveland Plaian Dealer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-24

Patience-How do you know Peggy is
alone? Patrice.,Because I hear her sing
ing But that's no sign" Yes, 1t Is.
If there was anyone with her she'd be
talking. '-Yonkers Statesman.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-24
Value of Fish Skins.

Fish skins are popularity regarded
lis about the most useless thing on
earth, not good to eat, and only valu-
able to hold together the good fish
meat inside them,'' said man who
had caught fish or worked in fish
packing houses all his life. But just
wait until we begin to pay more for
our glue and then we'll sit up and
think about the fish skins. The mar
lSet value of this commodity has adj
vanced rapidly the past few years, and
in another year it is going to take
decided leap upward.
1T was only few years ago that
fish skins were thrown away as
worthless and the fish packing COM
panies were seriously concerned as to
how to get rid of them. In one place
where I worked there was a hole in
the fish skinning loft which was con-
nected with a runway into the water
beneath the wharf. Even then We
would fill UP the hole quicker than the
skins could be carried away.
Some firms used to go to the expense
of having the skins carted away to
some dumping ground.
But one day some one woke up to
the fact that the skins had certain ad-
hesive qualities and fish glue began to
be manufactured. Then fish skins
took on a commercial value. Since
then the price has advanced steadily.
The demand now is so large that it is
probable the price will be doubled
within a year."-New York Press.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-24
A LEMON.

If the railroads supported Speaker
Simmons with the idea that he would
allow them to name the railroad COM
mittee of the house they have suffered
shock. 1t was case of misplaced
conf1dence.-Salina Journal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-24

The Waiter-I can recommend that wine
list. sir. We've got some very old wine
in our cellar. The Lady-Oh. we don't
want any old stuff. We're rich enough to
have the newest you've got.-Pick-Me-Up.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-24
WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE.

If man receives a bride of $50 in
money to vote for a candidate. people
are shocked, but if he votes for a can
paying $4,000 a year, they look upon
him as a very wise manager.-Atchi
son Globe.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-24

First Card Sharp-How did you happen
to let that greenhorn skin you? Second
Ditto-He told me he was going from De-
troit to Chicago, so let him win as far
as Ypsilanti. He got of there.-Detroit
Free Press.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-24

Some men insist that woman has no
business brains, but there is a young
woman who conducts large business
and it calls for head work all the time"
who is she?" MY wife's milliner"-
Cleveland Press.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-24
Greatest Foe to Physical Beauty.

If I were asked what was the great
est foe to beauty in both man and wo-
man, I would say, not errors in diet,
not lack of exercise, not overwork, not
corsets, not any one of these, but bad
mental habits. If we observe closely
the faces of the people we meet at ran
dom on the street, at the theater or in
the great shops, we will observe that
nearly all Of them are characterized
by the lined mouth, the drawn brows
and other facial disf1gurements which
accompany bad mental states.
What do 1 mean by bad mental
states? L mean anger. fear, worry,
anxiety, irritability, regret, envy, jeal-
ousy, lack of trust in oneself and in the
Great Good-all these are bad mental
states; and all these destroy beauty.
not only by interfering with the action
Of the vital organs. but by directly dis
figuring the expression of the face.
Unless the beauty-seeking young wo-
man is prepared to deliberately culti-
vate good nature, kindness, calmness,
cheerfulness even to hilarity-unless
she is prepared to deliberately conquer
all tendencies to the bad mental states
above mentioned, there will be little
or no results from her efforts to de-
velop in herself that most divine gift
of beauty.-Dr. w. r. c. Latson, in
Outing Magazine.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-24

I.aird-Weel, Macalister, and have you
found any of those strayed sheep YETI
Macalister-'Yes. But 1 was finding them
all again sir, whatever. And / did find
two by itself and one together, and three
among one of Macpherson s.-Punch.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-24
Chandler Christx,s Disappointment.


when I was in Howard Chandler
Christy's illustrating class at the Coop
er Institute" said young grocer,
Mr.. Christy told us that it paid to
make ultra-fashionable pictures,
though sometimes such work had its
Disadvantages. He said that in the
days before he had arrived he had
some things once in New York ex-
hibftion-some rejected magazine of
ferings that he hoped to get a few dol
lars for. They were fashion pictures,
the same kind he does now. and one
day, as he was lounging near them, he
saw a well-dressed woman stop and
level her lorgnette. Then, to his de-
light, she said:
"'Ah, If 1 only knew this artist per-
sonallyH"
Mr.. Christy came forward.
(" Permit me, madam, he said, to
Introduce myself as the artist
What luck!' the woman exclaim-
ed. Now you'll tell me, won't you, the
name of the dressmaker who made
that tall girls frock p Exchange.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-24

IT had such a beautiful dream last
night" said Mrs. Gettinrich. Il dreamed
that 1 had died and gone to heaven"
And was it anything like the poets and
painters have pictured it?" Not a bit.
1t was Just like New York, with endless
rows of theaters and restaurants."-Chi-
cago Record-Herald.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-24
HUMoR OF THE Day

Harold" she exclaimed after she had
rested for moment against his manly
breast, II believe you have heart trou- :
ble'' ''Calmn yourself darling,2 he
piled; i've agreed to help Prof. Light
ringer with his sleIght-of- nand perform
ance tonight That's rabbit."-Chicago
Record Herald.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-24
BRISTOW.


The figure that comes out of this
late senatorial contest much stronger
than it went in is that of ]. L. Bristow
of Salina. At the close of the ballot
ing he was second man, and he held
his men admirably. He had organiza-
ton. He had personal force, and he is
the power in state politics that the ma
chine and the railroads will center
their fight upon. He is a big, broad
gagged man-strong, forecful, honest.
efficient. The door of hope may not
be closed upon that kind of a man
while he is alive.-Emporia Gazette.
WHOSE HOUSE?
One of the Curtis strikers took
Brierley over to North Topeka. so he
says, and showed him a cheap-looking
residence as the home of Curtis and he
said he made up his mind that a man
who lived in that humble home could
not possibly be bad-and that settled
1t. Wonder whose house Brierley
saw.--ConcOrdia Kansan.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-24

Senator. I presume 1t requires a good
bit of practice to make a speech and have
every sentence in 1t say something,
doesn't it?'' 1T does replied Senator
Badger but it requires more to be able
to talk for an hour and say nothing. -
Milwaukee Sentinel.
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1907-05-23

directly in the matter were present:
an inquest conspicuous for the
questions that were not asked:
where no witnesses were called
who could or would incIiminate the
company, and when a witness did
accidently get ON dangerous ground
he was carefully steered away
from that point. A mine map was
brought in evidence and showed to
a jury, not one of whom had ever
mad days experience in mining,
and who would not have known a
mine map from Chinese laundry
bill. The verdict was, of course,
all that the company desired
no one responsible-one of those
unavoidable accidents that will
occur in the mining of coal. We
have no doubt the Whipple verdict
will be the same.
The Fayette Journal, the mouth
piece of the White Oak Fuel Com
pany, has stated the cause un-
known. 1t further added that the
damage to the mine was slight and
the all-important information that
the hosting of coal could be re-
sumed in few days. The
Journals representative was at the
scene of the accident n few hours
after it occurred, where Mr.. Sam
Dixon took him in hand and gave
him the s'items" for publication in
the issue of the following day.
The representative of the Fayette-
vile Sum was also on the ground,
but as the publishers of that paper
have not mortgaged their souls to
the coal company, he received but
scant courtesy from the company
officials and police and was ordered
outside the ropes which were
stretched to keep the curious at "a
respectable distance,
People are leaving this field by
the dozens. 1t looks now as
though the question of mine dis
asters in Sam Dixon's works will
make its own solution and that
their occurrence will be rendered
impossible for the want of victims.
Well so be it, possibly those men
Will get into organized fields,
where the right of free speech will
not be denied. Possibly if they
should return at some future date
they will inoculate this section
with the needs of unionism and the
coming organizer will talk to
listening ears.
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1907-05-23
TO
ROOSEVELT
Debs Characterizes the President
AS Being Either "Fa1se or
Forgetfu1."

Eugene V. Debs has given out
the following statement i'll reply to
President Roosevelt's letter to
Honor JaNon:
"After many days President
Roosevelt concluded to revise his
public announced determination to
treat the communication of organ
lied labor with silent contempt.
He changed his mind only when
he saw the representatives of the
working class preparing to move
on the White House. In the vol
uble and vague explanation just
issued the President is guilty of a
most extraordinary lapse of mem
ory or deliberate falsehold. In
defense of his unenviable position
he now claims that he never said
anything concerning the guilt of
Mover and Haywood / answered
by quoting the exact words
he used in his speech on the
occasion of the laying of the corner
stone of the Office building of the
house of representatives, April Ia,
1905. as follows:
s.The wealthy man who eXults
because there is failure of justice
in the effort to bring some trust
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1907-05-23

magnate to an account for his mis-
deeds, IS as bad as and no worse
enan the so-called labor leader
VINO clamorously strives to excite a
foul class feeling on behalf of some
other labor leader who is impli-
Gated in murder.
'Moyer and Haywood had been
arrested and had made what was
called sensational appeal in their
behalf, but a short time before this
speech was delivered. Roosevelt's
words were clearly meant for
Moyer, Haywood and myself.
Ihey could by no possibility apply
to any one else.
81 challenge President Roose-
velt to name any persons except
Meyer, Haywood and myself to
whom his words could by any
stretch of possibility apply. If he
Will not name them he must stand
branded from his own mouth with
calumny and mendacity.
"The explanation of President
Roosevelt is the first decisive VIC
tory for organized labor in the
kidnapping battle of the class war
In the United States.''
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1907-05-23
CHIEF PAUL'S
TESTIMONY
Before the Coroner's Jury in the
WhippIe Mine Disaster
Investigation.

The following is the testimony
of Chief Mine Inspector Paul given
before the coroner's jury investi-
eating the cause of the Whipple
mine disaster:
"He has visited the mine after
the explosion and found that the
explosion was probably caused from
shot in the solid. He found on
the Hfirst right" standing gas, and
gas generating on "first Ieft'' of
Thurmond entry. All the force of
the explosion seems to have radi-
ated from that section. When the
shots blew out, it ignited the dust
in suspension in that section, com.
municating to other parts and in
tensifying the explosion. Dust is
known to explode when subjected
to high temperature. An ordin-
ary testing lamp will detect two
per cent. of the gas which will not
explode, but in the presence of
coal dust, explodes with great yio-
lence. The blowout shots COM
municating to dust which became
infiamed, stirred up other dust
from the floor and sides and caused
the explosion.
Mr.. Paul could only infer that
there was gas in other sections be-
cause of the fact that gas was be-
ing generated during his visit after
the explosion. He believes that
the effected part was not watered
often enough No evidence taken
indicates that the mine was not in
proper working order, but he bases
his belief on what he saw in mine
after explosion
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1907-05-23

and children all turning out. and
was quite success. A motion
was unanimously adopted to meet
and organize the local union on
wednesday night, and help to
mold up the banner of United
Mine Workers of America.
District Vice President James
Craigo met the local union at
Nuckolls on Wednesday evening.
The Paint Greek Colliery Co. claim
the men at their mines ON Paint
Creek are not working as steady ms
they should, and the officials are
investigating to find where the
fault lays: They will visit all the
locals on Paint Caeek this week.
The officers will see that the men
live up to their agreement and in
vestigate all complaints to the
contrary.
Deputy Inspectors of Mines John
1. Absalom, of the fifth mining
district, has had to resign. The
district includes the counties of
Raleigh and Fayette, and the
resignation of the inspector wis
asked for because of recent ex-
piosions in tho district, it is said.
Chief Mine inspector Paul, who
has been over the territory often of
late months, decided that the
deputy inspectorship could be in
better hands, and he requested the
resignation forthwith.
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1907-05-23
Mitchell For Publicity.

John Mitchell, President of the
United Mine Workers of America,
has come out as an advocate of the
broadest kind of compulsory pub
Hcity for trusts in a statement of
his position made public recently
He practically indorses the publ
ity measure which Senator Beve-
ridge has announced he will intro
duce in the next Congress to COM
pei publication by companies with
business of more than $4,000, 900
which place stock on the market of
every item regarding their business
which might influence purchasers.
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1907-05-23
CENTURY ANNIVERSARY
OF TRADE UNIONISM
Movement Has Upset the Theories of Those
Economists Who Adapted Philosophy to
Unjust Prevalent Conditions,

The labor movement has been
slower in taking hold of our Amer
ican life than of English life. Our
astonishing natural advantages
have served to reduce its motives
and hide its necessity. When it
came to us, it came with the vigor
and intensity which our eager pur-
suit of wealth and our unscrupu-
lous appropriation of advantages
made necessary.
The center and substance of this
movement are trades unions-the
combined action of workmen in
planning in planning and pursuing
their own prosperity. Without
this center of effort and source of
impulse the labor movement would
have had no existence. Its neces-
sity and success rest back in justi-
fication on trades unions. The
trade union stands for the thought
full, concurrent action of Q
class of workmen in measuring
the possibilities of life and provid-
ing for them. No philanthropic
mind can look otherwise than with
satisfaction on such an effort to.
ward betterment. The great
trouble with all the charities of the
world has been that they were try
ing to meet imitless wants with
meagec gifts; that they were filling
in a quicksand that swallowed uI
and overhowed the material thai
was dumped in it. The trade un
ion expresses that which must al
ways lie at the center of progress
the desire to improve. When a
class wakes up to the need of ac
ton, and enters upon it, success:
may still be remote, but the roat
. is before it.
. The trade union, in striving Il
put a well devised rock foundation
under the economic structure
thereby prepares the way for tru,
democracy. Few men really be
/ lieve in democracy. They accep
it when their own interests are me
by it, but when it diverges from
{ those social relations with which
| they are familiar, they shy init
} some doctrine of a diversity o
: powers and of positions. The Ia
r Dor movement is a long stride to
2 ward democracy. Workmen as
sert and secure true power. The.
are no longer negligible factors t.
5 the pressure upon them. There i
E a development of advantages il
f reference to themselves and in ref
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1907-05-23

erence to others in which they are
to be partaksrs.
The movement helps also to de-
fine and to beget true religious
temper. There has been thought
to be hostility between current
Christianity and the temper of
workmen. 1t arises from the fact
that the conventional religious
temper has not sustained the claims
OF workmen, and has had no
sufficient sympathy with their ef-
forts. In the measure in which
the labor movement rests ON a
broad, sound philanthropy, and
makes itself felt as a means of re-
fining and harmoning human effort
1tls religious. When this purpose
is conceived in its highest form and
is pushed with the amplest mo-
tives, it becomes intensely relig-
ious, no matter what religious peo-
pie may think of it. 1t puts up
the petition, ssThe Kingdom
Come" and aids its coming in all
ways. When the religious temper
is shaped to the religious work of
the world, it will be seen that the
labor movement is possessed of it
in a fresh and most forceful form
This movement puts in a plea
for more life. The workman has
had a narrow inheritance in life.
He feels this poverty and wishes to
remove it. Life is well worth liv-
ing, but it must be life. 1t must
see the open spaces before it, and
be prepared to pursue them.
We do not mean to affirm that
all these gains are at once develop.
ed in the labor movement, but that
the germs are contained therein
and that as its spirit deepens and
its methods improve they will de
clare themselves.
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1907-05-23
This Peculiar World.

This is peculiar world. One
is struggling for Justice and an.
other is fleeing from it. One man
is saving to build a house and an
other is trying to sell his for less
than cost to get rid of it. One
man is spending all the money he
can make in taking girl to the
theater and sending her flowers,
with the hope of making her his
wife, while his neighbor is spend
ing what gold he has in getting a
divorce. One man escapes nll tho
diseases that flesh is heir to and
gets killed on railroad. An
other escapes with scratch and
dies with the whooping cough.
One man stands off his creditors
and goes travelling while another
pays his debts and stays at home.
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1907-05-23
Bartenders Not to Meet.

There will be no international
convention of the Bartenders' In
ternational union this year. The
recent referendum vote was deci-
sively against holding a conven-
ton, but the 1908 gathering, if one
is held, will be at Toledo, O.,
which place was selected for this
years meeting.
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1907-05-23

The miners at Elkridge held an
open air meeting Sunday which
was addressed by acting President
Craigo and National Organizer
Chappelle, of Indiana. 1t was
well attended, the men, women
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1907-05-23

The Labor Argus, published in
the interest of the 1aboring people
of West Virginia, 81 per year, so
cents for six months.
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1907-05-23
SAME OLD STORY.

I'VE the jury, find that John Thomp-
son and others whose names are hereto
attached. came to their death by an ex-
Plosion in the Whipp1e Mine on May L,
1907 caused by an overcharged shot. fired
from the solid. causing a dust explosion
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1907-05-23

Be consistent; don't help the
gang of money chasers by finding
fault. DON'T knock; do something.