The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-04
FROM OTHER PENS
THE CAR sHoRTAGE.

The railroads are reaching out and
are attempting to keep pace with the
growing demands of the county, but
they are not doing it. This is evil
denced by the car shortage which has
been felt in the west for the past two
weeks and which is not being noticed
in the east. The expectation is that
the west is to experience one of the
worst car famines in it's history.
The business of the railroads in
several of the largest tonnage pro-
ducing lines has already reached the
high water mark of the last period of
unprecedented prosperity" This was
not expected by the railroad mana
gers and it is because Of this unpre-
pared condition that the car famine
exists. The managers did not believe
the 1907 level would be reached and
passed in many lines of business this
year, especially in the east, but it
seems the east is now keeping pace
with the west in the expansion of
trade and industry
There is no help for the car famine.
All that the people who want cars
can do is to wait until they can get
them. The railroads can't furnish
cars when they do not have them. But
when business reIaxes and the cry
for cars is finally met with 1t Is certain
some railroad president will come out
in an interview and declare that ev-
cry siding is covered with idle box
cars.-Wichita Eagle.
CANADA AND THE SOUTH.
Within a year $4,000 American farm
ers, most of them from the middle
west, have sought homes in Canada
where land is cheap. Now comes a be-
lated complaint, or inquiry, from the
south Of our country as to why these
$4,000 did not seek SUMMER climes. The
south has cheap lands, it announces
and needs eneroafic farmers fn fill
them.
There are, at least, two reasons why
Canada is given the preference. Canads
advertises judiciously and persistently
Canada hasn't a great deal to brag OF
in the way of climate. but its govern
ment governs. The south, on the othel
hand, advertises, but not in a way tt
| attract settlers. The average western
| farmer is a man of peace. He is also {
| man Of ideas and opinions. He wants
| to live in a land where he may enjo,
| one and express the other without be
coming pincushion for buckshot anS
other well known southern arguments
| Night Riders and feuds are worse thai
| billiards. It is better to raise wheat ii
| peace than cotton, tobacco, sugar cam
| and rice amidst an armed neutrality II
| which the armed part is more certain
| than the neutraL-Atchison Globe.
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TRADING ON FERRER.
| Inc unfortunate execution OF frOIeS
sor Ferrer is being used all over tn
world as an excuse for anarchistic out
breaks against government authority
and in some parts of Europe for riotini
and violence. These riots are the worl
OF anarchists and other enemies of so
ciety. who are always on the watch TO
opportunities to foment disorder. The
/ naturally receive some support from al
element which disapproved of the revo
lutionary ideas of the professor. but be
lieve that now is the time to make a.
emphatic protest against drumhea
court martials when lives are involved
Emma Goldman and Alexander Berk
man force themselves into the fore
ground In connection with Ferrer dem
constructions in this country That wa
| to have been expected It is exceedfngl
doubtful if either of them cares a stray
about the fate of poor Ferrer. but tn
occasion affords them an opportunit
l that they consider too good to Jose. ]
lis simply another case of trading on
dead mans reputation. - Rocheste
Democrat and Chronicle.