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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-11-10
A FTNANcIER,s VIEWS.

| Among the many analyses of the re-
! cent election, which are floating around
| these days, and the conclusions that
| are being drawn as to how 1t will re-
suit in the business worlds, none, per-
haps, are more interesting than those
of Henry Clews, the New York banker.
This is because Mr.. Clews' remarks
are generally conceded to represent
the views of the great conservative
financial interests which are centered
in this country's metropolis. Discuss
ing the election in the most recent of
his financial reviews, he says:
THE election is over. The country
has most empkaticalIy declared that it
wants peace; that it desires nothing so
much as a rest from threatened radical
ism, it needs a free chance to recover
from the inertia begotten of last years
panic. OF course, the result of the
election had been to considerable ex-
tent discounted in the stock market
hence there has been no such specula-
tive rebound since, as some very hope
fuI but inexperienced observers antici-
pated. This. however, should cause no
disappointment; for the defeat OF
radicalism has been so complete and
the demand for sane, sober and honest
government So SAupItdl4C that lar
reaching results to all business inter
ests must follow. These will not be
seen at a glance and will not come in
overnight. Weeks and months will be
requisite to bring out the full beneficent
results of the political tidal wave,
which swept the country on November
3, and left a lively realization of the
dangers escaped. So much for the sem
timental effect of the election which is
important. What of the practical eff
feet which is more important?
+ "A considerable amount of business
had been held in suspense for several
months, until the result was foreseen.
Many orders and many new enterprises
were temporarily pigeonholed. AS in
dications of Mr.. Taft's success became
more pronounced, activity was resumed
by the more venturesome spirits, hence
the event was discounted to a consider
able extent. Yet an important amount
of business was undoubtedly postponed
until the result was definitely settled.
Such orders and such enterprises will
from now on be undertaken more con-
fidently and add to the volume of bust
ness. And largely because of the new
and we'll founded cheerfulness there is
good reason to look for a steady recov-
cry towards the normal in business.
Nothing would be more unfortunate
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-11-10
QUAKER MEDITATIoNs.

LFrom the Philadelphia Record.I
Nothing is so universally initiated
as success.
1t doesn't take a contortionist to-
pat himself on the back.
When the wolf is at the door a
man doesn't need a watch dog.
Green may be becoming to a girl,
but not when she is green with envy.
When coal shoots upward in price
there isn't so much to chute down.
ward.
Just because a girl is pigeon-toed
you would hardly refer to her as a
bird.
If you are going to ask for a favor
ask for twice as much as you exnent
to get.
After all, there isn't great deal Of
difference between will power and
won't power.
A pretty woman doesn't always
wear well. In fact, beauty very often
rubs off.
Wigg-"What do you think of the
Newrich's family tree?" Wagg-'I
think it's rather shady"
When a fellow proposes a girl al
ways loses her head, but she generally
finds it on the young mans shoulder.
A man can't blame a woman for be-
ing afraid of a mouse when he is
afraid of little thing like microbe.
Blobbs-"I believe that kleptoma-
mia is a disease" Slobbs-'Is 1t con-
tagious?" Blobbs-''Well, it is taxi
ing"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-11-10
FRON OTHER PENS
CHANGES IN CONGRESS.

The result of Tuesdays election
will cause the retirement from con-
gress of relatively few really con-
spicuouS figures on either side by
the promotion of Mr.. sherman TO the
vice presidency the Craftsmanship OF
the house committee on Indian affairs
will become vacant. Hepburn, OF
Iowa chairman of the committee on
Interstate commerce, on which Sher-
man is also the ranking Republican
member, and Overstreet, of Indiana,
chairman of the postoffice and post
roads committee, were both defeated
for reelection.
Changes in the craftsmanship of two
other important house committees
will occur in the Sixty-f1rst congress
Jenkins, of Wisconsin, chairman of
the judiciary committee, was de-
feated for denomination and Cousins,
of Iowa, chairman of the committee
on foreign affairs, was not can
didate for reelection.
In Iowa, Governor Cummfns, by
defeating Representative Lacey, has
justified at the polls his claims to
Senator Allison's vacant seat In New
York a Republican legislature Will
select a. successor to Senator Platt.
In Indiana the Democrats have cap
tured the legislature, which insures
the retirement of Senator Hemenway.
The seat to which he succeeded on
the accession of Charles w. Fair
years ago he is likely to surrender
next March to John w. Kern, who
has Just been defeated for the vice
presidency. In Colorado the election
Of a. Democratic legislature ends SEN
ator Guggenheim's expectations of
Republican colleague, but the re-
election of Senator Teller, who first
took his seat in the senate from Colo
RADIO in 1876, is by no means certain.
New York World.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-11-10

charges Of murder in the first degree.
No one was particularly Interested as
to what Mr.. Thornton had to say about
it. And the publication of this inter-
view with Thornton Hams makes it
evident that even If the campaign and
election news had become tiresome 1t
served the one good purpose of keeping
such slush as this out of the newspa-
pers. They did not have room for it
when the campaign times were brisk
and it would be better for all If the
newspapers never could find much
space for this sort of rot, good deal
of which is disgusting, to say the least.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-11-10

Evidently having a few spare mo-
meDts on its hands the Baltimore Sun
engaged recently in an interesting and
learned dissertation on sauerkraut. 1t
calls attention to the fact that at the
head Of the Observation-Disclosures in
Munich there is noble statue, raised
by grateful Bavaria to the memory of
st. Herman Of Pilsen, inventor and pro-
tagontst Of sauerlxraut. And after
telling how this delicacy CD is peo-
psrly manufactured, the Sun, rather
POLITICALLY constitutes: "Sauerkraut thus
prepared is a pale Vandyke brown in
color and utterly indescribable in
aroma and flavor. Once eaten by a
man of true refinement it will haunt
the dim corridors of his memory so
long as breath animates his senseless
clay
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-11-10

A number OF business men Of Kan
sas City. Kan, are apparently under
the impression that James r. Getty was
defeated for reelection to the state
senate through gross frauds in the
counting of the ballots. Is such is the
case it is to be hoped that Mr.. Getty
Will formally contest the election. He
may be classed as one of the most
able legislators who has even had a
seat in the legislative halls of this
state. If there were only few more
men Ike MI Getty in the legislature
there would be fewer mistakes made in
the framing of the laws, laws that
will stand the tests of the courts and
laws that are conceived with honesty
of purpose and written with effective
ness.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-11-10
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Among those who seem to get a good
deal of fun out Of motor cars are the
country constables.
4 4 n
A youngster who is seldom IL ever
whipped Is apt to get a wrong idea or
the wisdom of his parents.
X
1t often is most diplomatic not to OBJ
ject to some folks delivering recttattons
at a party for they might sing.
X X
A man may be said to have enjoyed
good luck at fishing if he can find
number of persons who will believe the
tales he has to tell.
x
If the summer engagements of some
young men were taken into account
they certainly would be worthy of
wearing the title of colonel"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-11-10
A WORD FOR MRS. HADLEY.

The World has taken a special inter
est in the advancement of Herbert
Hadley, of Missouri, not alone for his
splendid manhood. but also on account
of his excellent wife, who was formerly
Miss Agnes Lee. Miss Lee attended the
university and for two years was So
ciety reporter for the World, where
she did such good work that shortly
before she graduated she was offered
and declined a good position on the
Kansas City Times, and after gradual
ing took a position as exchange editor
on the Star which position she held
until her marriage with Mr.. Hadley.-
Lawrence World.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-11-10

That a beehive is "a perfect exam
pie of the equalitarian product of state
socialism" is the opinion of Professor
Castor BONNER. of the University of
Paris, expressed in an article contri-
buted to a recent number of The In
dependent. Professor Bonnier's anec-
dotes OF bees and accounts of expert
ments that he himself has tried upon
them, are interesting. comments the
Literary Digest, but not as original as
the conclusions that he states in his
closing paragraphs. Professor BONNER
regards the beehive as the ideal social
istic community. where is neither love,
nor self-devotion, neither pity nor
charity, where everything is sacrificed
to society,"" And his study of socialism
among the bees leads him to hope that
the system will not be adopted widely
An human society.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-11-10

Josephus Daniels, editor of the News
and Observer of Raleigh. N. c., must
be little sore over the results of the
election or for some other cause. He
was asked his opinion regarding the
possible selection of President Roose-
Welt as the successor to DR.. Eliot as
president of Harvard university and
replied: Roosevelt should be elected
president; Rockefeller. cursor; and
Root, professor of political economy,
af Harvard is to teach absolutism,
greed and usurpation." Those are
strong sentiments. to say the least.
But what can be expected from a man
who has had to struggle through life
with "Josephus' for a front name,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-11-10
THE NAVY Is INDICATED.

/ After months of tedious and exacting
! efforts a board Of practical experts il
naval structure have declared that the
modern ships in the United States SER
vice are built correctly. Thus are moi
only the much maligned fighting craft
of Uncle Sans navy vindicated but
also are the heads of the construction
bureaus of the navy department who
had charge of the preparation of the
plans for the ships and for their build
ing.
This is certainly as sad blow as it is
severe to the navy critics, including
certain of the younger officers in the
service and also most particularly to
Mr.. Reuterdahl. the artist, who has
painted a few marine pictures and who
really brought on the investigation be-
cause of his caustic criticisms of the
construction of the newest Of this
country's ships of war, and which criti-
cisms were given much notoriety
throughout the country. Mr.. Reuter-
dahl, and his exacting allies, in heaptng
odium on the American men-of-war,
went so far as to declare that the naval
vessels were unfit for battle for a
variety of reasons and especially be-
cause the armor was not rightly placed
upon them. All of these contentious
are disproved by the Investigations of
the experts and Mr.. Reuterdahl and his
friends have been given a much de-
served setback.
This vindication that the vessels OF
the navy have been given was expect
ed by osethroughout the country who
are interested in the navy and who do
not so much as even claim to be theo-
reticaI experts in naval construction.
Certainly the new and modern bat
tleships, if they were the least bit
faulty in construction could not
have accomplished the unprecedent-
ed feat which has been worked
out by sixteen of these ships in
their tour around the world. They
have withstood storms of all sorts, in
GLIDING typhoons, and have come out
of them without scratches and as
fit as they ever were. They
have undergone the rigors of and hard
est kind of target practice, which has
been an incident to this trip. They
have withstood every possible test to
which they would be subjected in
battle except as to their resisting pow
err to shells from an enemy, and Amer
that the armor plate ON their ships is
as correctly placed and as strong as is
the armor plate used by any nation.
They have been in constant service OF
the most trying sort for nearly a year
now and are in practically as good
shape as they ever were. In fact some
of them are said to be all the better
for their experience. This is really all
the vindicaton that the ships of the
United States navy have needed as to
the worthiness of their construction |
And this is all the vindication that the |
men who built them have needed. But |
Of course it is most gratifying to have |
his supplemented in an official way by |
experts. If every department of the |
government was quite as efficient as IS /
he navy, nobody in the land would |
nave any reason to IVORY about the con
luct of it's internal affairs, nor its ex-
ernaI ones, either.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-11-10
DIANA or TILE DIRECToIRE.


BRING me my new fall hat, mamma, for
want to put it on
IL is wider than the widest hats we wore
IN years agone,
1t is three feet wide and the brim is thick
and it has lot of weight,
ana II makes me wear three heads of hair
Just to keep it sitting straight.
My shoes? All. yes. I have put them on,
and the heels are good and high.
ana Iney press against my tender 1eet till
feel that must die;
I ct wear them SO as 1 come and go and
L force pleasant smile
For one has TO be in style, mamma, one
has to be in style.
And now my directoire gown, mamma:
I've managed to don my stays;
I GU VIII have to slip me into it, for my
arms L cannot raise,
ana m WllloWY as you may see, with
the Willowiness of steel
IL viii De tonight ere l take a bite, for
cannot hold a meal!
And now I go for a little stroll. and 1
go to make call
And l shall not sit upon a chair, but
snail lean against the wall,
For L can't sit down in my nice new
49, gown, for know that if 1 do
pc certain to break in two, mamma,
LII certainly break in two!
Chicago Evening oSf
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-11-10
Eat Fryers,. in England.

There is one phase of our presiden-
tlal campaign which has been es-
peclaIly commented on in England,
as regards both Taft and BRYAN. and
that is the position which they took
concerning campaign funds The
use OF money in English politics when
general parliamentary campaign is
on has long been productive of many
eVlIs, and the extent of these may
be judged by the provisions which
were inserted in the corrupt practices
act.
The bestowal of titles and other
honors of an official character upon
Fat fryers," as we would call them.
and on the rich men from whom the
tat. is drawn is quite equal in it's
sord1dness to anything that has been
charged against the Americans in the
financial department of politics. The
fact that the presidential candidates
IN TINS country announced that the
names of all contributors to campaign
FUNDS shall be published has been
clted Dy several English critics and
mofaIlStS as an example which their
own parties need badly to follow
The sale of peerages and decora-
IlonS 10 men who have been wholly
unworthy of consideration, save for
their l1berality in contributing to party
funds, has become a scandaIous prac-
tice. 1t is common for IMPARTIAL and
hlgh-minded critics to charge that a
peerage may be more easily had for
virtual purchase than for public ser
wee or eminent merit, and that the
talnt is as deep in one party as in
the other.
On this subject noticed in the Au-
gust National Review, which is an or
gan of the conservative unionist party,
some strong words of praise for the
position which Mr.. Taft and Mr.. BRYAN
have taken. The Review admits that
in this respect England has something
to learn from Corrupt" America, and
declares that the reform cannot fail
to exercise a purifying effect by dis
peIiing the dark clouds of suspicion as
to the source of party funds.-Phila-
delphia Bulletin.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-11-10
THE REPUBLICANS TASK.

The Republicans will make mistakes
the coming two years but they will
earnestly strive to enact their party
platform into law. There will be no
disposition for radicalism but rather a
determined effort to have a square deal
towards all interests. The lack of a
square deal is what has caused most of
the trouble in this country. The pro-
gressive wing of the party stands for a
square deal. 1t will not stultify the
party by violating any of its campaign
pledges. 1t will not be unfair to the
railroads but it will insist upon them
being controlled the same as any other
nterest.-LaWrence Journal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-11-10

The great majority of the voters of
Tennessee have proven themselves to
be. Just what every body had reason to
lieve that they were, law-abiding citi-
gems of the first water They placed
their stamp of disapprovaI upon the &C
tivities of the might riders" in their
state by re-electing Governor Patter-
son, who left his campaign to take care
of itself and personally took charge of
the running down of the murderers and
f1reDrands who have irradicably stained
the fair name Of that state.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-11-10
LOWERING STEEL PRICES.

Now that the political phase of the
question has been eliminated atten-
ton may be called to the fact that
even the steel trust. which Demo
cratic editors and speakers have held
up as the greatest of the Industrial
monopolies is not able to control the
output or prices in it's special line, in
face of competition and a reduced
demand.
Early in the era of depression
which began last October, the man
agement of the steel trust made an
effort to establish policy of price
maintenance. 1t was declared by
Chairman Gary that the company
could not make any reductions, even
if raw material and labor had been
reduced in price, because any change
of the schedules would simply result
in unsettling business conditions and
preventing buyers from making pur-
chases except for immediate de-
mands The independent concerns
however refused to accept this view
of the situation and have been pros
pering by increased business at re-
duced prices. They decided to meet
the demand for a lowering of prices
rather than remain in Improbable
idlcness and the sales reports show
that these Independent concerns have
been doing an exceptionally good
business, so much so, in fact, that the
Dig company has been compelled to
make price concessions in nearly all
lines of building and structure steel
work.-Omaha Bee.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-11-10
REFLECTIONS OF a BACHELOR
IFrom the New York Pr

From the New 1oTk FrSSS-I
The reason a man belongs to po-
IticaI party is so he can damn every
thing about all the others.
The thing that makes man sure
he understands a public question 10
nobody else thinks he does.
one of the most enjoyable things
about travelling is how you can say you
went to all the places you didn't.
A woman's notion of an ideal man
is the kind that would make his own
father rather have him a train robber.
Sometimes a woman can keep with
in the allowance her husband gives
her If she can charge everything she
buys to his account.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-11-10

H. Clay Pierce's friends declare that
the oil magnate was never afraid to
30 to Texas to face the criminal court
proceedings against him there. But he
certainly acted an awful lot like it and
he did not start until after the United
States supreme court declared that he
must Perhaps, though. the climate of
Texas does not agree with him.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-11-10
TAFT AND THE SOUTH.

Republicanism as represented by
Judge Taft is stronger and more
vigorous in the southern states today
than it has been since the Republican
party was founded. AS a Democratic
newspaper looks out upon the pros
pect, the danger of the birth and
growth of a healthy Republican party
south of the Mason and Dixon line
is real (though not great) for the first
time. The day is probably more
than four years distant when the Re
publican candidate will gain the cleo
toral votes of southern states that
are not border states, but the coming
into being of a Republican party, in
Guiding representative men of
character and intelligence in such
states as South Carolina, Georgia,
Alabama and Louisiana would be an
event of much greater significance
and one by no means out of the pale
of reasonable calculation. The time
has come when many worthy South
ern men who stand for something in
their communities have ceased to look
upon a Republican president with
repugnance because he is Re-
publican, and there are influential
groups of Southern men here and
there in sympathy with Republican
policies who are now bold enough to
speak their opinions openly
Charleston News and Courier.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-11-10
Danger in Aerial Travel.

ut takes lots of sand to go through
the first experience of a balloon as
cension," observed Prof. Samuel King,
philadelphia veteran aeronaut, who
holds the worlds record in the num-
Der of air trips accomplished. The
seasoned skipper of many a voyage in
the clouds was not referring to the
bags of sand that are attached to the
basket as ballast, though he quickly
realized that he had unconsciously
perpetrated a little joke 1T would
mean absolute suicide for some per-
sons, courageous enough in other mat
ters, to participate in an ascension. 1
refer to persons who the minute they
reach a great height are seized with
the inclination to hurl themselves into
space. We have read of numerous in
stances of this sort at Niagara Falls
where men and women of high-strung
Compartments have have thrown
themselves over the brink into the
Whirlpool, without generalization. AS
for myself, a balloon ascension has
about the same effect on my nerves a.
a trolley ride. Though 1 have had
many thrilling experiences, 1 have
never lost my head. 1 would like to
crown my career as aeronaut with a
successful flight across the Atlantic.
Risky? Well, wasn't it Sir Humphrey
Gilbert that remarked, as the storm
Iashed his doomed ship, Heaven is as
near by water as by land!' '-Phila-
delphia Record.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-11-10

Governor Hoch seems to be playing
In his usual good luck. He has a good
Job In view on his retirement from the
governorship of the state. Naturally,
there is likely to be wonder, If it is
such good job that he can have the
whole summer to himself for the pur-
pose of travelling around the Chautau-
qua circuits.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-11-10

One of the greatest of the dramatists
of the age is no more. Victorien Sar-
dou, the dean of the French masters
of the drama, died on Sunday. Many
of his plays are masterpieces of stage
craft and will keep his memory green
for ages
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-11-10

in thought. Then he turned about and
went slowly up the lane.
"GeeH he muttered, wouldn't that
cook yer2 This amt the way they
done it in the book"
He was still lost in his own musings
as, whoopless, he passed again the
grazing cattle and the huddled sheep.
1908 by Associated
Literary Press.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-11-10
FTLL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The State Journal Is n member of the
Associated Press ard receives the full day
ganizatfon for the exclusive afternoon
publication in Topeka
The news is received IN The State Jour-
nal building over wires for this sole pur-
pOSA