The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-02-19

K to do with transportation? Where
| abouts does the question of electing
United States senator's impinge on rail-
way TRAFFIC. Rain makes corn. corn
makes whisky and whisky makes DEM
ocrats. I have got to veil my meaning
| with this thin gauze. Some superheat-
ed people have charged that the United
States senate is the executive commit
tee OF the banded railroads. and the
| knowledge is wide, that 1t takes the
recommendation OF the proper senator
| to obtain the appointment to any presi-
Dental office, and that the petition of
| our eighty-f1ve millions of common peo-
pie for different applicant, under the
| hard whin rock rules and procedure
governing the distribution of public
patronage, would be absolutely unavatl-
| ing. And this means as we'll the ap-
| pofntment of judges.
There must be a propinQuity some
where between the two subjects when 1t
is found to be apropos to the discus
sion Of proper railway treatment for
the speaker to inject into the argument
| the election of United States senator's
THE gentleman criticised state legis-
latures, but he roared it gently as a
sucking dove and the law officers of the
| state government came in for their
share in their onslaught on the railways
which he seemed to believe the ruling
passion of this mad hour. Twice in his
| speech he used the epithet of dema-
gogue, as illustrative of his own opinion
of those who ride the crest of this tidal
wave. The dictionary, however is open
to all. He deplored the want of back
bone in the newspapers in failing to
back-flre against the conf1agratfon and
in a dignified and stately way, he tried
to enthuse his assembled brethren with
his own afflatuS when he deplored their
apathy in not burning themselves to
death in an attempt to rescue the rail-
ways from the flames. He panegyrized
the United States courts, defended erner-
gency injunctions granted by United
States judges, gave high praise to the
juries who were drawn to serve in the
United States courts and deprecated
the hostility shown by legislatures and
litfgants to removals taken by the rail- |
ways to the United States courts. He |
advised moderated regulation of the |
railways and suggested when the rail- |
ways resisted a law they should have |
the right without punishment for the |
first offense to do SO. He declared that |
the lawyers should become the resilient |
buffers between the people and their |
attacks on the railways. to lessen or |
destroy the impact.
He quoted from the president in which |
the excepted language was a plea for |
moderation and 1t struck the observer
when he made use of the presidents |
words to drive home his nail, that he |
was applying the most adroit art of an |
old practitioner as he is, knowing the |
force of admissions from opposing |
counsel, and in making the most of a |
hostile witness, from whom, by the aid |
of a corkscrew that a steam derrick, a |
fragmentary morsel of favorable testi- |
mOny had been extra oted.
Upholds Common People
THE great common people are this |
government; they always stand hitched |
to it's needs and always stretch the |
trace in a pull uphill; they are it's sin |
ews in time of war; they are it's sure |
dependence in the observance of law /
and order in the equally perilous times |
of peace when prosperity, forgetting |
God, proud, and fyblown, nauseously |
blooms the rank flowers of luxury, idle
ness and extravaganza While he quot
ed Lincoln as his golden text on con-
servatism, he forgot one of his noblest |
sayings, that God Almighty must have
thought much of the common people, |
he made so many of Them In neither |
extreme of mendfcancy or millions will
be found the repose of the Union Our
gold flies in time Of panic; the mag
nate is oftener on the tax roll than a
muster roll, but the ordinary plain peo-
pie of the country are at their tasks, |
upholding government, building homes
and bowling at all times in obedience
to the law. The people will bear great |
amount of injustice, if it is not mixed
with larceny; they will tax themselves
alone imposes the burden, but when
coupled to the INSCRIPTIONS greed is
added disobedfence to law, become
inf1amed. The great beast bears the
bluebottle fly which punctures it's hide
and draws its blood only long as it |
keeps out OF reach of it's tail or q rub
bling post. And that is just where on
the animal the railways have hereto
fore believed themselves to have been
located.
Examples of Law Violation.
1.-The people have submitted to ex-
orbitant exactions long continued and
have never been the recipient of re-
auctions along general lines of trans
portation, unless it has been by drastic
measures, such as Spanish blister on
it's treasury chest. Their golden rule |
has been, Save secret rates unknown |
shall be our share If the railways had |
been measurably honest, the people |
would have been silent; the people are
counting no trouble, seeking no litiga-
ton, but these railways have not been
honest; while they have not been meas
ured by the warden nor the height ia
ken nor the thumb labyrinth matrixed
in wax, yet there have been convictions
and among such convictions, the GRIM
inal records show the great railway
represented by the esteemed and dis
t1nguished gentleman, and whose at
torney he was in that very case.
Ignored State Courts.
THE gentleman made an appeal |
for the rise OF some statesman, strong
visaged, broad minded, to halt the
fellows without breeches on the road |
to Versailles. He will find In this
conflict that his Vendeans have not
found a head. He should have con-
jured rather. a management which
would take the people into it's con-
fdence; working shoulder to shoulder
for the mutual good; lively in its in
terest for the good Of every station on
it's line; the first citizen in each place
through which it's lines run; the first
subscriber to its local enterprise, |
whether 1t be a mill or a brass band;
listening to complaints and settling