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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-29
WHERE THE TROUBLE LIES.

A few days ago the Garden City
TeIepram- published at the metropolis
of the Kansas beet sugar belt, printed
lengthy editorial on the beet sugar
question, in which it stated that while
the beet sugar plant at Garden City
was turning out 100000 pounds of the
best granulated sugar daily the local
merchants in Garden City were out OF
sugar and unable to secure any; that
with the sugar refinery located at Gar
den City producing this enormous
amount every pound of sugar that Is
consumed in the vicinity is imported
and the price is higher in Garden City
for graduated sugar than it Is in Kan
sas City or Denver. The selling price
of the sugar is fixed by the trusts and
the beet sugar people claim that If
they sell for any other price or in any
other way than that prescribed by the
trust it would deprive them of a mar
ket for the products of their factory,
just as the Standard Oil company
would refuse to buy oil from an oil
producer who did something that did
not please it In the end the appear
of the Telegram is that the tariff be
not taken off of sugar so that it could
be brought free of duty to the United
States from the Philippines and
Europe, claiming that the sugar trust
would so reduce the price to meet this
competition that the factory at Gar
den City would be compelled to close.
Joseph L. Bristow asserts that the
Telegram Is looking in the wrong di-
rection for the solution of the trouble.
TT complains" says Mr.. Bristow,
that the local merchants of Garden
City must pay the freight on sugar to
Kansas City and return before they
can use it. The source of the evil is
the combination between the sugar
trust and the transportation compan-
les. If the Garden City plant had a
freight rate on sugar that was the
same per ton per mile as the sugar
trust has, then it could defy all COM
binations that exist outside of a ZOO
mile radius of Garden City. The peo-
pie within a radius of 200 miles of
Garden City consume more sugar ev-
cry year than the plant can make, but
when the price OF sugar is fixed by. a
board in New York for every COM
munity in the United States and a sim
liar board fixes the freight rate on
sugar and so arranges it that the
sugar trust can crush any enterprise,
so long will the people suffer outrag-
eous injustice in regard to sugar as
well as other commodities and neces-
sities.''
Exactly. But the railroads within
the radius referred to are not entirely
to blame. For instance, 1t would be
greatly to the interest of the Santa Fe
to give the beet sugar factory at Gar
den City and others in the Arkansas
Valley such rates as would build up a
big sugar industry In that locality. But
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-29
A SATURDAY SERMON.


THE GAME OF THE GRAFTERS.
| They that forsal1e the law praise the
| wicked, but such as keep the law con-
| tend with them.-Proverbs 2S:4.
1t is an old game of the pickpocket
! to start the cry of "Stop theft" and
pretend that he is chasing the culprit
when he is pursued. 1t directs atten-
ton from himself and makes people
| believe that somebody else is the trans
| gressor.
| It is also an old game of the wrong
doer generally, when caught, to make
/ counter accusations against his ac-
| cusers and try to create confusion in
which he can make good his escape.
This is what is happening now in
California. Patrick Calhoun, million
aire head of the United Railways, one
of 1.-The men higher up against whom
| evidences of bribery have piled up and
who are under Indictment. is paving
| the earth and filling the atmosphere
with dust in an attempt to obscure the
issues and divert attention from him
self He asserts that Rudolph
Spreckels. the man who made the graft
investigation possible by backing
Langdon and Heney with his wealth,
is simply trying to get control OF San
Francisco's municipal governm ent
himself.
In these charges Calhoun has the
backing of some California newspa-
pers. more especially the corporation
defenders. AS long as Prosecutor
Heney kept on the trail of lesser Of
tenders, these organs that are now try
ing to divert attention from Calhoun,
encouraged the chase of the grafters
and cried "Stop, theft but as soon
as the heads of certain rich corpora
lions were brought to bay, they began
to throw mud at Heney and Spreckels.
This is what happens when every
influential CRATER is cornered. Kansas
saw it done three years ago when the
state treasury investigation was start
ed. Governor Bailey was made the
victim of just such an attack because
he insisted on going to the bottom of
the state treasury charge
1t is really to the credit of Rudolph
Spreckels that Calhoun and his yellow
dog supporters are attacking him. 1t
emphasizes the fact that much of the
credit for the housecleaning that is in
progress in San Francisco belongs to |
him. Little credence ought to be
given to the assertions of grafters
brought to bay when they are so pal
pably for the purpose of directing at
tention away from themselves. Even
were their charges true, it would make
Calhoun and his associates in graft
none the less guilty; but such counter
accusations ought to have no weight
when directed against such patriots as
Heney and Spreckels appear to be. 1t
is the same old game that wrongdoers
have been working since time imme-
mortal.
The San Francisco case is only one
out of many. This game of counter
is being continually work
ed. Don't be fooled by 1t. 1t is at
tempted in politics and in all the walks
of life. Look out for 1T.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-29
A Homeless Case.

yes" said the business man, II have
given up trying to collect that little bill
from Bilkins. You see, he is big, mus
cular fellow, and he used to throw my
collectors out"
Then why didn't you employ a wo-
man collector" inquired a fellow
tradesman. He couldn't do that to a
woman"
That's what I thought, so I got one
and sent her round, but she never came
back
why not?"
HE married hcr.'-Spare Moments.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-29

the election of 1892. He says: "Repub-
licans in Kingman county will remem-
Der the conditions and circumstances of
fifteen years ago when the cry Of tariff
re1orm and a demand for impractical
things led Kansas to cast her electoral
vote for Grover Cleveland" AS a mat
ter OF fact, Kansas cast her electoral
vote that year for James B. Weaver.
There was not even Cleveland electoral
ticket in Kansas
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-29

IL the Santa Fe did so, eastern roads
and the sugar trust would Immediate
ly start costly fight on the Santa Fe.
This Is another potent argument in
favor of government regulation of
rates. If the government establishes
rates for the Garden City factory.
eastern roads and the sugar trust viii
have no grounds for fighting the San
ia Fe, and if they tried it, 1t would do
them no good.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-29
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
HOME NEWS WHILE AWAY.

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State Journal will be to you like
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Advance payment Is requested on
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-29
OBSERVATIONS.

Vex not your soul with DER much thought,
For thus yon conjure woe:
Life is unpleasant, hence, be taught,
Its suffering to know"
Unless you labor all day long
You can't afford enjoyment
And If you do-here's something wrong
You spend life in employment.
To gain the more In heaven we
On earth must have the less,
Which makes life, as you plainly see,
A bowling SUGGEST
st. Louis Globe-Democrat.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-29
BRYAN AND THE TARIFF.

Mr.. Bryan challenging Secretary
Taft to say what he thinks about the
tariff, cuts queer figure. All that
Mr. Taft had to do was to say, as he
did in Kansas yesterday, that he had
already expressed himself clearly on
that subject. He believes thoroughly
in cutting down the Dingley rates. His
blunt speech to that effect in Maine
last year brought upon his head the
(stage) lightnings of the Protective
Tariff League. 1t has declared him
not a good enough protectionist to be
in the White House. So the secre-
tary's tariff record is straight. But
how about Mr.. Bryan's own? Upon
that winning issue for his party he has
persistently turned his back.-New
York Evening Post.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-29
GIVE HIM A SQUARE DEAL

The assistant attorney general says
that probate judge can revoke per
NIT without a hearing. This would be
arbitrary and it is doubtful if it would
be expedient. The public believes in a
square deal and it would hardly be
square to revoke a permit arbitrarily.
The druggist who is accused of violating
the law is entitled to a hearing and a
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Journal
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-29

The postmasters of Kansas have an
organization. but it is not thought that
they Will be prosecuted under the
antitrust law. Notwithstanding the
fact that there is absolutely no COM
petition among them in the sale of
postage stamps.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-29
REFLECTIoNs OF A BACHELOR
[From the New York Press.]

[From the New York Press.1
The average woman can call walk
around the block a foreign tour.
A man can make a lot of money by
getting other people to do It for him.
Complimenting a girl on how pretty
she is is the best policy, especially If
she isn't.
An unhappy marriage is like climb
ing through a barb-wire fence with
out getting through.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-29
A KANSAS OPINION.

While Bill Whites sermon to the
Oberlin college graduates was a good
one, still we agree with Colonel Alpha
betical Morrison that Bill is a better
story writer than a prea cher.- There are
plenty Of good sermonizers but mighty
few good story writer's. Bill ought to
confine himself to the latter speciality
Hutchinson News.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-29
KANSAS COMNENT
LEARN FRoM rHE cHIGGER

LEARN FROM THE CHIGGER.
Ihere are times, you will agree, when
everything seems to go awry, when any
expense of energy seems a waste, when
you feel inclined to chuck it all and ex-
claim, What's the usei 1t isn't given to
mere man, perhaps, to be satisfied for
any extended period. The fact is that
your average individual is a gutter.
Possibly his quitting is only short. oc-
caslonal interruption in a course of gen.
eral application, but nevertheless, he
quits now and then, and in that respect
he has gotten away from nature.
There is much that the human race
might learn from the lower orders of
animals over which we claim to exist in
supremacy. There is the chigger, the
North Esplanade chigger, for instance.
Does the chtgger ever quit? Study his
habits and his haunts and you will find
him continually on the move. His loco
motive faculties or facilities are not of
the Twentieth century kind, for he may
be tomorrow only a short distance from
where he is today; but he is indefatiga-
bler always busy, always alert. The
chigger never sits down to await an OPP
portunity, he gets out and hunts for it
and sooner or later he finds what he
seeks. In all # your experience with
chiggers, did you ever know one of them
to scorn an opportunity? Don't they set
tic right down beside it, digging and
delvi- g to create a rosy landscape of
which they never weary? Nor does the
chigger after he has secured for him
self a sustenance and a reliable source
of supply ever turn away to test tickle
fortune in new fields. And his work is
his monument beside which he has
wrapped the drapery ofhis coach about
him and lain down to pleasant dreams"
Condemn the chigger as you will, you
can not scorn his performance. He gets
there Not frequently, but in every
instance. Learn from the chigger!-
Leavenworth Times.
INVESTIGATING THE PRIMARY.
Grant Hornaday. who has come out
so frankly in favor of the primary cleo
ton law is in Oklahoma investigating
the Democratic primary about which so
much has been said. Hornaday and Roy
Hoffman, the defeated candidate for
United States senator, are close friends,
having been roommates at school. The
Democratic primary, which lacked all
legal restraints and was the only one
held on the day, is subject to consider
able criticism because of alleged irreg-
ularities and the expense connected with
it. But the Kansas candidates will find
out all about how it worked. There have
been a good many primary elections
held in Kansas in recent years. These
have not been attacked, by the defeated
candidates, nor by the newspapers, any
thing like as severely as the Oklahoma
primary. Perhaps the contests were not
City Traveller.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-29

State Auditor Nation is quoted as
saying on returning from the east
with the governors party: "a gov
ernor is about as important in Wash
ington as third assistant janitor
about the state house." Then how
important ara other state officers in
Washington7
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-29

If japan is thinking of demanding
an apology from President Roosevelt
for those San Francisco outrages, 1t
might do well to confer first with
Nature Writer Long.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-29

H. L. Resting, for several years
prominent in Kansas as a railroad
batter, is to become a railroad mag
nate himself He will be right-of-way
man for road that proposes to build
from Yankton. S. D.. to the Gulf of
Mexico
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-29

The Hutchinson News, which is ac-
customed to talking the baseball Ian
guage, notes that the hit which Taft
made in Kansas last week was
three-bagger. Next year, the News
might have added. Taft will make
homo RIM
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-29
TRUTH TELLING.

The test of a civilization is its re-
gard for truth. Truth is nothing more
than honesty. The habit of telling the
truth begets accuracy of statement,
and the habit among a people of hear
ing and expecting the truth produces
the truth. Honest men who have no
intent to deceive are called truthful
but if they are lax and careless and
have been habituated to loose state
ments, and themselves place no great
value upon truth for it's own sake,
they are pretty sure to be inaccurate,
and, therefore, Enthusiastically. For
this reason. perhaps, Sir Walter Scott
declared that the right education for a
young man was to learn to fish and to
tell the truth.-Philadelphi Ledger.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-29

Now some OF the Jap-haters in San
Francisco want to get rid of General
Funston, but if the Japs should come
over and try to swipe the Golden Gate
Off its hinges. the Jap-haters would
suddenly discover that they have use
for the little general in their business.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-29

Der historian vich hat discofered a
mistake in der names uf der signers uf
der Declaration uf Independence, may
tink he ISIS a lot uf a much, but he
would nod be docs high NIT der Teller
vich ISIS going to discofer a cure fer
late spring chiggerS.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-29

Does Hutchinson call it hospitabIe
TO make the White Sox work hard for
sixteen innings and then take the
game away from them in the end2
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-29

Uf der hundreds uf victims vich hat
peen sendt oudt by der umploymendt
achencies to safe der vheadt crobp'
could gedt to gedder und surroundt der
umploymendt achendt, id ISIS a safe
bedt dot dey would nod ledt him gedt
away es eassy es der Wichita gang did
Umper Eckman.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-29

You really cannot wonder that ex-
Senator PETER giggles every time he
thinks about how the country has
come around to some of his theories.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-29
PATJENCFJ

Job may have been a patient man as
patience was rated in those days. but
did he ever have to stand in front of a
postoffice window until the fellow in
front of him got a money order made
out?-Wichita Beacon.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-29

San Francisco might call Funston
down by whipping the mob. Then it
could assert that since it has no "un-
whipped mob" the general is wrong.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-29

over in Russia the undesirable citi-
zens" are the newspaper editors who
print the truth about government af-
fairs At least the car has given the
governors of eight provinces power to
Danish such editors
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-29

1--WE must take the initiative re-
marked Mr.. Roosevelt recently, in dis
cussing a certain matter. and the
Washington Star thinks this may
cause Mr.. Bryan to spike down the
referendum
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-29

Led uss now go indo der commiddee
uf der whole und frame cop a obening
speech fer I. d. Young ven he goes to
congress He should be allowed some
voice in der madden, derefore 1 moot
dot We stardt id like dis: I'D seems to
me-like-that-thuh - pee-pul-ah sent
me HYER by a migh-tee small margin
Der infectiOning und cheneral make
oop uf dis effordt will fit hiss delifery,-
und der prevailing circumstances uf
der occassion,-mighty veil.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-29

We hear a great deal these days
about the spots on the suns face.
Such things are quite common, how
ever At this time of year you can
ind spots on every healthy sons face.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-29

If Fairbanks should be Taft's prin-
cipal opponent in the presidential
race, it would be another case of the
Fats VS.. the Leans on a big scale.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-29

Possibly that dark horse presi.
dental candidate that Colonel Henry
Watterson is grooming is a famou.
Kentucky editor.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-29

The wonder is why a bomb and
murder expert like Harry Orchard die
not emigrate to Russia long ago.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-29
SITNSPOTS

The world is coming rapidly to the
conclusion that the main use and pur-
pose of sunspots is to give astrono-
mers something to form theories
abcut.-Philade1phi Inquirer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-29

It i5n't often that the editor of the
Kingman Lea der-Courier falls down in
political history, but his memory ap-
parently needs refreshing concerning
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-29

And now Portugal is talking of
turning itself into republic and hir-
ing a president. Some people had
forgotten that Portugal was on the
map.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-29

The prohibitory law is now enforced
even on the dining cars that pass
through Kansas.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-29
HOUSEHOLD CARES.

AS soon as a woman finishes clean
ing house she begins to put up pre-
serves, and then it'll be time to clean
house again.-Baltimore Sun.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-29

This is the last call for the June
bride
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-29

LAT no obchections to Goferncti
Hoch safing hiss salary. Ali / am
Kicking aboudt ISIS dot he vondt gate me
der resi-pee.
"Proonss." sayss Gus Gobblestein-
hauser zwei times. und den egspector-
push Topeka Der only way he would
efer push Topeka would be toward der
Missory line. in range uf der x. c. beer
wagons, yeti
Und now dot Misder Zook hat PROCEED
dot he vas not killed lasd Suntay, let
us began ad der commencement und
find a noder name fer der remainss.
Und yet, dot umper vich chased der
Wichita bonch vas nod such a much
ness es a prisefiter. From vich We may
gadder dose sveedly solum fought dot
gall und a larche voice ISIS more might
Ter den ellum club.
Be i'd opserfed,--dot vile der Stats
TEMPERANCE Onion iss fighting der two
percendt boos ad Pittsburg, der yoosers
uf ninedy-sefen per cendt ISIS sdill find
ing DER daily oxcoos FER a fine In der
Topeka bolice courdt.
Won may gadder dot der prosecuting
addorney vich ISIS alder Chudge Loving,
uf Verginny, fer shooting a should-be
son-in-law, thinks dot pecaus der Chudgs
vas drunk fer sefen years. he vas nod
Untitled 20 a shot ad any near relatif.
But his contention ISIS a poor von,-in
Verginny. In dot coundry. drunk fer
sefen years. ISIS recognitioned es a nat
ural condition, und near-relatifs ISIS
considered froot fer der feirsd picker.
Derefore, rouse NIT der prosecution und
score sigs runs fer der defense.
In Moo York burgolier sviped swell
fiddless valuationed ad $1,000. Unless
dot Sdory ISIS a Jessiechames, 1 will
readily testify dot dose fiddles vas in
no way relationed to der Won yoosed BY a
neighpor uf mine.
Misder Bello, der Dagotallian chendle-
man vich vendt to sleebp on a train
und woke oop schooling sefen er nine,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-29

passengers, should be pudt to sleebp
again, in such way dot he will nod
wake oop-er-shooding passengers.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-29

Time to cut your weeds.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-29

Der town uf Brewster, Thomas coun-
dy, adfertises fer a drug store, also
bedder train serfice. Der train serfice
pardt uf dot ISIS easy to understood.
but Brewster, Thomas coundy, should
specify vedder id wants ids drug sdore
init er mit-Oudt.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-29

Und now dot Misder Zook hat PROCEED
dot he vas not killed lasd Suntay, let
us began ad der comm encemendt und
find noder name fer der remainss.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-29

JJf Secretary Wilson really ISIS alder
Our Misder Coburn, he shows a lack
uf iptellichendt informationing. But
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-29

THE GAME OF THE GRAFTERS.
They that forsalSe the law praise the
wicked, but such as keep the law con-
tend with them.-Proverbs 28:4.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-29

Misder Bello. der Dagotallian chendle-
man vich vendt to sleebp on a train
und woke oop schooling sefen er Mines
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-29
.El4ltlCII3l1

LAT no obchections to Cofernctl
Hoch safing hiss salary. Ali / ann
kicking aboudt ISIS dot he vondt gafe me
der resi-pee.