The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-02

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En- one I'D think his doctor had
Jus told him he was gone a-die.
En- peevish! My you dassent make
Out. loud without pa looi s ''1 up oa''
| AT you as if it was your fault
En- scowl! By Joe. you'd think at ma
IN, was playin, short for our side en-
| Ihey knocked one to her en- she muffed
En- let in twenty-seven men.
! st. Louis Post-Dispatch.
State or Federal District
! The District of Columbia is stirred
every now and then with an uneasy
ambition to achieve political autonomy
and to be represented as a state in the
two houses of congress. At a dinner
gwen on saturday evening in honor of
President Taft by the Board of Trade
and the Chamber of Commerce of the
city OF washington a plea for the con-
version of the federal district into a
state was made by Justice Stafford, of
the District supreme court. He adyo-
Gated the passage of an amendment to
the constitution diveSting the federal
government of its proprietary interest
IN and control of the seat of govern
ment, the re-establishment of local
sovereignty and manhood suffrage. and
! the recognition of the transformed ter
rltory as a state entitled to the repre-
sentatlon in congress now enjoyed by
the existing states. Justice Stafford's
|
District residents who listened to him
| and who agreed with him that the
present system of taxation without rep
resentation and Of citizenship without
| the suffrage is anomalous and some-
times burdensome
| Yet when President Taft was called
on to speak he sensibIy discoura ged
the idea of transforming the District
INTO state, thus defeating the very
purposes which the founders of the gov
eminent had in mind when they ar
ranged to have a tract coded to the
FEDERAL government in which its auth
GRITTY should be paramount and undi-
vided. 1t was chiefly in order to es-
cape the Inconvenience and dangers of
having seat of government in a city
where another authority than their own
was recognized that congress and the
executive left Philadelphia and settled
in the wastes along the Potomac. 1t
was felt to be impossible to maintain
the federal dignity in an alien jurisdic-
tfon-in city and state whose people
governed themselves and rightly con-
ssdered their local administration be-
yond the control of the federal power
| The government was merely a guest in
such a Jurisdiction. 1t could not ex-
ercise rights of its own, and had to
depend on the local authorities for hos
pitalfty and protection.
1t would be complete subversion of
the theory on which the District of
Columbia was created to convert it into
state. The federal government built
| Washington for its own use and COM
fort. In invited nobody to settle there
with the idea that federal control would
be relinquished. On the contrary those
who have gone to live in Washington
have gone there with the full under
standing that it was an area set apart
for special purposes, in which, for OBJ
| vious reasons, political and civil con-
troll must be vested in the federal gov
eminent. -
| Va hi OFT iar !,
cause for complaint. If they want to
exercise the suffrage they can move
out beyond the District line, as thou
sands of them have already done.
Municipal administration in Washing
ton has been clean. efficient, and. on
the whole, highly satisfactory The city
| is prosperous, and it's growth and pros
lperity are due almost entirely to the
| Initiative and care of the government.
| The president was on solid ground
constitutional as well as practical
when he dismissed the idea of autono-
my and statehood as illusory. If the
| District wants statehood it should think
first about raising funds to take over
| the nations investments within it's
area. When IL is fully prepared to
purchase the federal buildings and real
estate holdings congress might be will
ling to consider the advisability of ac-
curing a new federal district some
where else.-New York Tribune.
Brief Proper Names.
| In the Zuyder Zee there is bay
| called Y, and Amsterdam has a river
Y; while. strange to say. in quite an
| other part of the earth, in China, the
| same brief name is given to town.
Elsewhere in the Flowery Kingdom,
| in the province of Honan, there is
| city called U, and in France there is a
river and in Sweden a town rejoicing
| in the name of A.
| Proper names of this brief nature are
not, however, monopolized by places;
| instances are on record where individ-
| uals have been similarly named. Some
| years ago there was a shop kept on the
| Rue de LouVan, Brussels, by Theresa
| O. and there is a Nine. o in Paris, who
| is well known as the proprietor of a
| popular cafe.
| An amusing incident is recounted in
| connection with the impressment into
| the military service of the son of one
| of the o family. The young man could
| not write, and SO signed his name on
1 the military papers with a cross, it not
| occurring to him or to any of the Of
| ficials how easily he could have written
| his name.-Tit-Bit
Col. HeInphiIFs Ideal of a Brain Food
The New York Tribune pleads for
| the return of the Johnny cake. which
| shows that. in spite of it's miserable
| politics, the Tribune really has some
| thing human left in its composition.
| But our contemporary must watch
/ out for the pellagra, which is es-
| peeially fond Of Western corn, and
| buys its. supply of cornmeal from the