The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-03
KANSAS COAAENT
DECLARATION OF INDEPEN,

a OEClAFeATION OF INDEPEN-
DENCE.
Inc boiler plate editors at all poll
teal headquarters are now anxious to
edat all the country papers, furnishing
plates and supplements free OF charge.
The time has come for country editors
to sit down on this kind of editorial
domination. Let the editorial express
sentiment of the home community,
giving that community its proper
weight and measure of influence in the
making of public sentiment, rather
than to make the country papers SIM
ply receptacle for cut-and-dried me-
tropolitan opinions which some set Of
men in some other state have decided
we ought to hold. The editorials in
this paper will not be half so smart
and able, and possibly not half so
orthodox, as the machine-made-to-o or
der matter rendered us by the po1tl-
cal managers; but they will repre-
sent the thought and independence of
at least one American citizen, and one
mans honest opinion always seems to
US to be more worthy of respect than
wagon load of ready-to-wear opln-
ions guaranteed to fit everybody and
to promote the harmony, welfare and
dominion of the political machine. The
banner we intend to enlist under is
this: Get rid of prejudice. Get your
own thinker on straight. Jewell
County Republican.
LEAVENWORTH'S COMPLAINT.
Leavenworth papers are complaining
about having to pay the court cost IN
the liquor prosecutions in that county
started by the state. The Post claims
that they will amount to sixty thou-
sand dollars by the time Assistant At
torney General Shuker gets through.
Violations of law come high even IN
Leavenworth county. The boose fight
ers in that county are pretty sore be-
cause they have the costs to pay ana
think the action of the attorney gen
eral is simply outrageous. They DO
not stop to think that the fault is sole
ly their own. They know the law is
on the statute book and of they do not
want to pay the expense OF enforcing
iftheyshould not tolerate and encourage
violations. AS soon as the people OF
Leavenworth learn to become law
abiding they will not have to pay any
court costs in liquor cases. About the
best way to bring the people to the
proper way of thinking is to touch
their pocketbook. - Arkansas City
Traveller.
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THE ANSWER IS mo"
Is there another state like Kansas?
We do not believe there is, but would
like to know for sure. A wet cold
spring terminating in an early summer
OF floods, destroyed many HeIOs VI WnSdI
entirely and damaged many others
from fifty to seventy-five per cent. 1t
was too wet to plant corn until July
and what little was planted earlier was
choked out with weeds. Handbags
like this would have ruined an ordinary
state. but here it is the last of August,
the wheat has been cut and most of IT
threshed, and Coburn, who doubtless
knows whereof he speaks, says that
Kansas has produced 100000 bushels
of wheat, a larger amount than in 1907
and that the corn promises to equal
that of last year. Besides wheat and
corn Kansas has had an abundant
fruit crop, in spite of injury by rain
and floods, and is also marketing
many hundred cars Of potatoes. Prices
are higher than usual, with the result
that Kansas farmers will be better off
this year than ever. We repeat the
question, us there another state like
Kansas ?''-Lawrence World.