The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-15
KANS ASs cOMAENT
NOT CHARITY But JUSTICE.

NOT CHARITY BUT JUSTICE.
Inc rockefeller gift of thirty-two
PUBIC education that it may dazzle
MANY people by its size. If any ordi-
nary thief had given thirty-two dollars
70 the board of education. the moral
SHecl OF the mans character would
nave compelled it to turn the money
GOWN The government of the United
states has just published a carefully
weighed statement in which it shows
mat mat the Rockefeller money coming
from Standard Oil, was not earned,
put stolen. The government says that
standard Oil has lied and cheated and
nulldozed and used; all the methods of
me me n1gnwaymen. The government Of
the United States has stood ready to
prove this in court for some time; the
state or Ohio has stood ready to prove
TINS In court for some time; the state
OF Missouri has proved this in court.
ana Gil the time instead of disproving
the charges made by the government
and the states. the Standard has had
Two answers and only two: Legal
technicalities in the courts. and gifts
-bribes to SOP the conscience of the
people. 1t is all right for the board
or education of New York to receive
the stolen Eoods-not as fence,
but as a depository of justice. If
Rockefeller is to be praised for this
gift, those who praise him become ac-
cessories to crime-after the fact. 1t
is the peoples money. and it is entirely
proper that 1t should come back to
the people.-Emporia Gazette.
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A VOICE FROM THE FARM.
Kansas pays three dollars a day for
SO days to members of the legislature
and If they work over time they have
to do it without pay. The grind has
been on for 80 days and along about
the first of March school will be out.
to get weary of more or less well doing.
A Butler county farmer writes me that
he is not interested in Sunday baseball
laws or primary election bills, but he
Is greatly interested in having decent
slop for his hogs; and to that end he
instructs me to jump onto Benson,
Brandon and I4eydig and make them
get bill through which will prevent
pally shorts" He says he can't buy
a sack of shorts worth hauling home
and for this reason his hogs are starv-
ing. He closes his letter by declaring
that lot of noise will be heard unless
something is done.-Bent Murdoch.
HYPOCRISY.
Belleville's most popular drayman
is not what you would call a religious
crank but he has some pretty good
notions about what's what in religi-
Gus way He says that a certain
Belleville business man tells him that
he will not attend church or take part
in church affairs because there is so
much hypocrisy there. but this bust
ness man is quite active in party poll
tics; is there as much hypocrisy in the
church as there is in the party poll
tics ?-Belleville Freeman.
TOO OFTEN THE WAY,
1t looks as though Topeka would
have two dry candidates for mayor,
and one "wet' one. That is too often
the way the prohibitionists of Kansas
do things.-Burlingam Chronicle.
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PRAISE FOR VIC
Vic Murdoch has accomplished one
thing in congress- anyhow. He has
coupled his name inseparably with one
OF the greatest reforms of modern times
the reduction of a million month in
the cost OF transporting mails on the