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The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-27

Western Sorosis club met Saturday,
March 81, with Mrs. Jno. NJ. Currier,
1925 Fillmore street. The paper of
the afternoon by Mrs. G. J. Evans,
Religious Education and the Public
Schools"
The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-27
SATURDAY.

things they go after. for their town we
further quote: 'The library commit
tee, Mrs. w. H. EIlet, Mrs. r. S. Miller
and Mrs. E. NJ. Tolle reported that
they had secured the required number
of names for the city library and it
would be presented to the council
through the clubs attorney. V. p.
Mooney"
The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-27

The Chalitso club met Thursday af-
ternoon with Mrs. J. @. Otis, and Mrs.
w. c. McCarter. at tie home of Mrs.
Otis on Adams street. Paper on 'sAIIs-
fortunes Of Kansas and How they
Were Overcome by Mrs. Theodore
Jessup A Review of Women and
Economics" by Mrs. Charles Perkins
Gilman.
The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-27

Mrs. Otis Hungate and Mrs. H. c.
Short will be the hostesses for the
Current Literature club on Tuesday
afternoon.
The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-27

The 18th annual banquet of the
Portia club will be given Wednesday
evening at the home of the clubs pres
ident, Mrs. Eli G. Foster. Mrs. w. NJ.
Davidson of Omaha and Rev. and
Mrs. E. A. Freidenhagen of Kansas
City, will be honor guests of the ban
Quet.
The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-27

The executive board of the City Fed
Grafton will meet with Mrs. F. w
Watson Tuesday morning at ten
o'clock.
The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-27

The Music Study club held its first
study meeting of Chopin on Saturday
afternoon with Mrs. Ralph Cav, 1921
Fillmore street.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-14

stitution could not overcome at the south, and that no treaty can obscure at the west. Two children Rebecca bore to Isaac, at one birth, and of them 1t is written Jacob have. 1 loved, but Esau have I hated" and yet from our lame preachments of human justice Esau was the better man of the two. But If that distinction was divinely made between two children, sprung from the same Joins, born of the same womb nourished at the same breast, at the same time, what must be the human re- pugnance, if not loathing, the superior has for the inferior, when Caucasian comes in contact with meaner folk?
 There is your issue in California, as it was in Mississippi, and it Is stark mad ness to say that 1t can be composed by a governor and speaker cringing to the orders of a president. There would have been nothing of it if, when the fleet reached the Pacific, the State depart ment had notified Japan that our ships would stay in the waters of that ocean until the Japs ceased to cross 1t except from our shores to theirs.
 The thing is not done with. The Jap is going to be denied the school by pub lie opinion, just as the negro is denied the ballot at the south by public opinion.
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him alone. Let him enjoy the society of the frogs if it gives him pleasure. Let him stay until in his imagination he sees ghosts and hobgoblins. Just let him alone, my boy.
 Ut looks to your old mother that you have a mistaken idea of life, that Is that your life began the very moment you were 21, and your mustache was budding and you began to talk about our busi- ness and my office and criticize the policy of the mayor-our own mayor who by his proclamation pronounced himself no respector of dog caste and that the daintiest French poodle and the common stray yaller purp must one and all make eyes through muzzle Cfor dogs were dogs).
 "Now, Thomas. listen. But of course you will say my views are just a bit antiquated, but anyhow I must have this little say out with you. If you don't get fun before you are 20 you might just as we'll join the Down-and-Out club. You can do world of things that will produce temporary, shallow pleasure. but the real care-free, jubilant, laughing, non -adulterated fun comes at 7 ime when a boy would not swap e gies to the Kentucky horsetrader, you please) a fishing pole and cal )ait, just these little ordinary worD all J. Pierpont Morgans vast VI and art treasures.
 'Why, Thomas, it is youth that does it. The sunshine Is just as bright now. The skies just as blue as they were in the olden days. The gentle breeze
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that sweeps over wonder old orchard is still laden with the same sweet per- fume and the wild flowers grow and blos- som in the woods just as riotously, even while you. my boy, toll at a desk and grow round-shouldered and gray and cross trying to make few per cent more than you did last year. You often won der if after all it is worth while. That is because your heart is not yet atro- phied.
 But there is a way to live over the good old days. There is the boy. Some- times when you are cross and say no and don't for no reason except your liver is not quite up to the standard of flyers, he wonders if you have forgot ten that once upon time you were as small as he and my own little boy, just as he is now yours.
 Let him have his fun, Let him dream his dreams. Make him \go fishing and swimming Let him fall in the creek kerplunk, and if he wants to sit on the banks or beside an old frog pond until the twilight shadows lengthen. the night birds shriek and the frogs croak and you are sure the air Is full of pneu- monia and mosquitona dementia, and you wonder why, yes why, lad should want to endure all sorts of hardships then call It bully fun-think just one mo- ment.
 For his days of sunshine are all too short, yea, verify. He will grow up and 20 out Into the world quickly. So give him as many good times as you can cram and pack in his childhood and some day, why Heaven bless you. you'll be glad"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-14

THE large old fashion rooms had
 been pleasingly arranged, bowls
 4 of fragrant sweet peas and vases of beautiful roses adorned the tables and mantles, giving the entire place a most "companif1ed" air in anticipation of the weekend visit of Mrs. Els son Thomas and her only grandson, who was to have ripping good time down at the old country place, horseback riding fishing and doing other stunts that so delight the heart of boy of ten summers.
 It was in the twilight of the first days visit that Fred sneaked quietly away to the old frog pond after an adventurous day in which he with his pet dog Nero s assistance had kept Ned's grandmothers s house cat on a top limb in the old oak tree-had broken basket of choice Red Island Rhode eggs and spilled pail of milk, bringing 1t from the spring house.
 While he was amusing himself at the frog pond his grandmother and father sat on the cool front porch, the gracious old lady doing her utmost to interest her son, but he could not be interested his thought evidently were not on the conversation. for quite abruptly he in- terrupted her with:
 Where is Fred? He will sure to be sick playing on the banks of that damp frog pond at this hour of the night. He must come in immediately. I shall call him. But just as he arose to do this grandmother laid her hand soft ly on his arm, saying:
 Well. I guest not, Thomas. Just let
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-14

The ostraeism will accomplish that which the law failed to do, and if ostraeism fails, then the vigilance committee will come in and take a hand. We all know what took place when the Chinese threatened to overcome and possess the Pacific coast.
 There is a difference between your Chlnahan and your Jap. The Chinaman is honest and a coward, while your Jap Is brave and rascal. Nobody ever heard of a Chinaman standing before danger, but he never fled from an improvident bargain. Your Jap never stood to a losing contract and he never blanched before peril Is that how 1t came that we are insolent to China, and yielding to Japan? Is that 1t? The mores the pity the matter did not arise in New Orleans instead of in San Francisco
 How did we treat the Chinese some years ago, and what came of it? We excluded their coolies, and they did not complain, but we got to transporting some of her gentlemen, assuming they were coolies. China remonstrated and we paid no heed. Then China passed the word to all the guides of that won derful people to buy no more American goods, and invoice after Invoice of our merchandise routed on Chinese wharfs.
 Here was the devil to pay and we paid
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strikes 1t is without warning, mighty sudden, mighty hard, and at a vital place.
 There are varied opinions as to wheth- CT Japan is in good faith in her dealings with our State department, and conflict ing reports are abroad as to the number of Japanese arriving upon and departing from our shores. If the government of the Mikado is sincere the thing will soon be composed, for every Jap is at the or der of his rulers at home. At this mo- ment the Japs could take absolute pos- ession of Hawaii, between the setting Of one sun and the rising of its next suc cessor. That is not very comforting piece of reflection. How many Japs in this country nobody knows. but it is per sstently stated that they are swarming in through the British possessions at the north and Mexico at the south.
 But that Is not the thing; The DOT tentious fact is here-that the Federal government invaded the sovereign state of California and coerced that daughter of the republic to do the will of an alien power, in a matter over which California and California only had Jurisdiction That is what makes it tremendous | question, and not a threatened or e real
 war Is as dangerous. Is California state or satrapy?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-14

aster instead of victory at New Orleans, there never would have been a state Of Arkansas.'
 "This. of course, interested me and I asked. Why do you say that. General?'
 "Then he said: If Paekenham had taken New Orleans the British would have claimed that the treaty of Ghent which had been signed 15 days before the battle, provided for the restoration of all territory, places and possessions taken by either nation from the other during the war, with certain unimportant exeep- tions
 Yes. of course l replied. But the minutes of the conference at Ghent as kept by Nfr. Gallatin represent the British commissioners as declaring in exact words: We do not admit Bonaparte's construction of the law of nations. We cannot accept it in relation to any sub ject-matter before us."
 At that moment pursued General Jackson, none of our commissioners knew what the real meaning of these words was. But when they were uttered the British commissioners knew that Packen- hams expedition Sailing from the West
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-14

him like a man to the uttermost farth- ing. Her treaty rights we had treated with contempt, when China appealed to them and to our sense of right; but when she fought us with the boycott. the only way she can fight, we awarded to Nam mon what we had denied to justice. And had Japan been as helpless, physically, as is old China, doubtless the thing would have been composed after the same fashion. We would have forced her to keep her laborers out. and she would have forced us, as China did, and by the same methods, to let her gentry in.
 But Japan is a fighting nation, flushed with glorious and bloody victory. No body outside of Japan dreamed she can contend against the United States. She Is in poor and in debt and they all say that she has no money to fight with. Neither did Revolutionary France have money for war. Suppose Japan thinks she can lick us as easily as she did Rus sia? If she does the war Is as certain as tomorrow's sunrise, for she will make the war as business venture, hoping to get a couple of billions as an indem- nifty, and this forcing of California to kiss her rod will only fix her in the opin- ion that she can lick us. The fleet is out of the Pacific, and when Japan
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-14

that right is not prohibited to the states in that instrument. But MT. Roosevelt says that by a treaty our government has made with Japan, California has forfeited the right to regulate her com mon schools, and that treaty operates to repeal vital principle of the Constitu tion of the United States To support this monstrous heresy Clause of Article VI of the Constitution Is invoked, which declares that "all treaties made, or which shall be made, under the authority of the United States, shall be the su- preme law of the land.
 Then the sole question is, has the United States "authority'' to make a treaty that repeals a part of the Con stitution of the United States? If so, the federal establishment may make a treaty that repeals all the Constitution of the United States. If one right of a state can be nullified by a treaty with an alien people, all the rights of the states can, in like manner, be destroyed by treaty negotiation. Absurdl
 But there is something in this Japanese question that is stronger than presidents, than armies, than navies, and that is, that almighty element we call caste. The white race will not descend to an equality with the brown, or the black. There is a stubborn fact that the Con-
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we not heaped all sorts of calumny upon China, and more humiliating than the segregation of Japs from white children in the schools? Was there any protest from Washington A Chinese is not a first class fighting man like your Jap. Can that be the reason we are insolent to the one and sycophantic to the other? Are we a nation of Sir Andrew Ague- cheeks?
 Be that as it may, we have abjectly surrendered the rights of a sovereign state of this union to Japan, and the legislature of that state has been CO., creed into ratification of the thing; but what will the people of California do? There is the rub What if they take a notion to settle the race question by wig ilance committee? What if they forbid Japs to enter school with their children What if they string up few of the brown men?
 There is your war, that dozen plain words from the state department at To- kyo would have made impossible, if spok- en when the question was first preached, at the time when the President of the United States forced the mayor of San Francisco to knuckle to the Japs.
 The right to regulate their common schools is not surrendered by the states in the Constitution, and the exercise of
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-14

nished the money. The Kansas City and Southern railroad was built.
 Stillwells dream came true.
 To be sure, he was cheated out of his hard earned share in the road. but the road is there, the direct fulfillment of Stillwell's dream.
 Then Stlwell dreamed another dream.
 Again the fnancers of the country pronounced his dream baseless fabric. They said 1t was impractical and absurd.
 Stilwell wanted to build a railroad from Kansas City through old Mexico to the gulf. It was the old dream from a new point of view. Stillwells vision has always been the benign one of con- meeting the great granaries of the west with tidewater, thus saving to the farm CTS the Hong haul' transportation.
 Stillwell got the money somehow, and the Kansas City and Orient road is be- ing built
 Your dreamer is oftentimes the best utilitarian. His vision makes things come to pass.
 Most of us go with the current because
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-14

Indies for New orleans1 had been de- eided on. Our commissioners did not know 1t. Now. since I have been chief magistrate I have learned from dlplo- matic sources of the most unquestionable authority that the British ministry did not intend the treaty of Ghent to apply to the Louisiana purchase at all. The whole corporation of them from 1903 to 1s15-Pitt, the Duke of Portland, Green vile. Perceval, Lord Liverpool and Cath reagh-denied the legal right of Napoleon to sell Louisiana to us. and they held
 therefore, we had no right to that terri tory. So you sec Allen. that the words of Mir Goulborn on behalf of the British commissioners, which l have quoted to you from MT. Gal1atins minutes of the conference, had a far deeper significance than our commissioners could penetrate. These words were intended to lay the foundation for a claim on the Louisiana purchase entirely external to the treaty of Ghent And in that way the British government was signing a treaty with one hand while with the other behind its
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gently. Therefore none ever understood why Great Britain delayed surrender of certain posts she had acquired by war In the upper Mississippi valley
 I copy here, second hand, from "Bu- els Life of Jackson The author vouches for the truth of his story, saying it was repeated to him by United States Senator Allen of Ohio, one of the really great men of his day. who at one time was also governor of that state:
 The senator said: Near the end of General Jaclsson's second administration, and shortly after the admission of Arxan- sas to the union, l. being senator-elect from Ohio, went to take the seat on March f.
 General Jackson-he always preferred to be called General rather than MT. President and so we always addressed him by his military title-General Jack son invited me to lunch with him. No sooner were we seated than he said, Mir Allen let me take little drink to the new star in the ndg-Arkansas Tine ceremony being duly observed, the Gen eral said, Allen, if there had been dis
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IKE Esau the state of California
 parted with her birthright, and, A--A unlike Esau, she did not get even a mess of pottage for 1t. The first week of this good month California was ruled from Tokyo, and under the lash of the President of the United States, Califor- mia surrendered to Japan the rights guaranteed to every state of our repub- lie under the Tenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States.
 The inducement is that if California will be good, polite, humble. subservi- ent. sycophantic, Japan will do her a favor, and we have the spectacle of Call ifornia being required ny the administra- ton at Washington to submit her laws to the Mikado of Japan for approval or disapproval
 Now I don't care whether there is danger of war or not, but 1 do say that it is better to have a war to the finish with Japan, of any other people, than to throw the Tenth amendment of the Fed eral Constitution to the dogs, and that is what California has done. What a pity 1t was not one of our southern states that had to deal with that condi- tioni
 And then how humiliatng 1t Is! Have
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-14

it is easier to drift than to take up the oars and pull up stream.
 Be somebody
 Most of us lack individualism, or, as we usually put it, Individuality.
 Most of us are prone to be content with things as they are. We are con- tent to be like other people. Conven- tionality gets in the. way of individual ity. What others do determines what we do.
 The person with individuality stands out, looms large. There are so few of him.
 To cultivate your personality and make 1t a force you must assert it.
 You cannot do that by going along the line of least resistance. You must often go along the line of most ress- tance. And that helps some. because resistance overcome makes for forceful character.
 The tendency today is toward making men alike, turning them out as if by mods-all of pattern.
 Generalization of industry, combination. puts them into herds-and controls the herds. -~s The mere unit of society-the you
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-14

Lincoln dreamed of a nation saved and saved it.
 It must be so.
 The dream must be a vision of greater things. It must lure to brighter worlds and point the way. And then the dream CT must go out and make his dream come true
 The great dreamer writes the great book, builds the impossible bridge over the chasm. lays path Tor thought on the bottom of the sea, sends the mes sage through the viewless air.
 There was a man of Kansas City whose name was Srillwell.
 Stillwell dreamed dream of an air line of steel from the grainfields of the middle west direct to the gulf. They called 1t ''Stillwells dream" The mon eycrats of Wall street laughed at 1t.
 But
 When the fnanciers of this country turned their backs on Stillwelrs vision of direct communication with the gulf he went to Holland and told his dream to the Dutch capitalists. They fur
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compel the treaty of Ghent. The mili- tary operations of the United States in the west and the east had been calami- tous. The government was driven out of Washington The enemy was arrogant and confident. In that time we had a peace commission in Europe of which Speaker Henry Clay was chairman and Chief Justice John Marshall was mem- Der. The British sent a commission to Ghent to meet the Americans. but only to rideule their pretensioas. The peace con- ference took a recess. Mir Clay went to London and was humiliated on the pub lie streets by Englismen who laughed at the audacity of his country proposing peace. Now England heard of the battle of the Horseshoe, and seeing that her allies, the Indians. were destroyed and she could not hold the southwest without their support she reconvened the con ference at Ghent.
 At Ghent a treaty of peace was signed December 24, 1874. Our histories all have 1t that this treaty of Ghent was intended to terminate the Second War of lnde- pendence, bona fide, by the British Sig nateur.
 All of us believed that account until re-
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i, for a minute. At one instant he would | be down in the seat or under it, and the next his nose would be flattened against the window pane.
 He was vigorous and curious.
 He saw everything and everybody and asked questions almost with the ra- pidity of a Gatling gun. The mother, trying to read, paid little attention to his queries He poked his fingers into everything in reach. He wanted to know how things are made and why. The boy couldn't keep still
 The little fellow wasn't built that way. The journey grew tiresome, and he was cooped in the seat, which effectually barred any wide voyage of discovery. He must have some sort of safety valve
 Do you hear me, John? Keep still!"
 The restless kid paused for the fraction of a minute, and then all the pent up forces of his nature broke over, like the accumulated waters above dam Again he was in perpetual motion. He poised on the verge of the seat back and tum- bled over into the lap of a grouchy old maid.
 The mother threw down her book, re- covered her offspring, who was delighted with his feat, and shook him until he cried.
 What was the matter with the child?
 Nothing, probably, except superabun- dant vitality. His mind was growing; his sturdy little body was growing. It was inevitable that he should be on the move. He was a bundle of vital, whole some activity.
 If when he grew very restless the mother had romped with her fine little son he would have landed in sleep much sooner and without the tears that gemmed the long eyelashes and the oc- caslonal sobs that interrupted the slum- Der.
 The boy just couldn't keep quiet save when he was asleep
 Of course there are children who are "born fidgets because there is some thing the matter with the little stom- achs or the delicate nerves. They are order.
 That is a case for the doctor. But if the healthy child is to grow and thrive 1t must have plenty of exer- else. It cannot sit supinely. And 1t should not be punished for what 1t can not help.
 To admonish a child to ''sit still'' when it's every fiber aches for activity is to commit a crime against childhood
 Our modern poet exhorts: Do noble things, not dream them all day long"
 But it is always the dreamer who does great things. His dream Is necessary to the progress of the world, to make the wheels go round.
 Columbus dreamed of the land on the other side and found it. Napoleon dreamed of empire and won 1t. Savona- rola dreamed of reform and died for 1t.