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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-03
CORPORATION CONTROL.

In a recent number of the Yale
Law Journal, Mr.. Thomas Thatcher,
Of the New York bar, contributes a
very brief article under the caption of
Corporations and the Nation" and to
which attention is directed in the cur
rent issue of American Industries. The
object of Mr.. Thatcher's article is to
point out a very obvious truth, which.
from the very fact that it is obvious,
is often overlooked. A great many
people think that the Interstate COM
merce commission was created for the
purpose of supervising and controlling
corporations. There are some radicals
who apparently think that corpora
tions were organized in order to be
controlled by the interstate commerce
commission. Neither proposition is
true. The primary object of the inter-
state commerce commission is to reg
ulate commerce-only. A corporation
may conduct an interstate commerce
business, or it may not. As Mr.
Thatcher points out, partnership
which runs a stage between two vii
lagos in Vermont, does not do an in
terstate commerce business. If it was
ship, running such a stage line. the
corporation would be as unaffected by
congress or federal action as the part
nership would be. Power of congress
is unaffected by incorporation" (Mr.
Thatcher is not discussing the question
of corporations created by congress-
But If stage line is conducted be-
tween two villages, one in Vermont
and one in Connecticut, then the BUSH
ness becomes interstate commerce.
and such business can be regulated.
whether it is conducted as a partner
ship or as a corporation. Mr.. Thatch-
err further says: Corporations created
by the states stand upon the same
footing as natural persons; if their
business may be regulated, it is be-
cause of the character of the business,
| because such business-by whomso-
! ever it may be carried on-is of the
kind which is subjected to federal
regulation by the constitution"
The conclusion of Mr.. Thatcher's
article is simply to emphasize. as
above stated, a perfectly obvious prop
osition. 1t does not make any differ
ence whether business is carried on
through Incorporation, or an unincor-
porated association, or by an individ-
ual, or by a partnership-the sole
question is whether or not such bust
ness. however conducted, is being tran
sacted between the states and is bust
ness in the sense that it is commerce.
and hence comfortable by the inter
state commerce commission. All argu-
ment, directed toward restriction OF
corporate activity and method, is
quite apart from the Fundamental
proposition which Mr.. Thatcher's ar.
ticle so admirably describes.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-03
GLOBE SIGHTS.
rFrom the Atchison Globe.1

A man laughs when he is amused;
woman laughs when she thinks she
ought to.
Every man is disposed to think he
is a lion and that all the other men
are sheep.
1t is always rather shocking to hear
a. woman, wearing long widows veil,
laugh heartily.
Very young people and very old peo-
pie are abused as much for getting
married as a widower.
Look yourself over. Do you bore
people? A good many do, and you are
not above suspicion.
If reform keeps on at its present
gait. they will be arresting a man for
failure to wash his teeth.
This knowledge of sickness. and how
to lay out a corpse, is about all there
is left to grieve old women social pres
tige.
A neglected grave is a cheerful and
consoling institution compared with the
man who pities himself. and insists on
telling it.
A newly married man in town. whose
wife never learned to cook decently, is
suffering with Goldfish ball in his vermi-
form appendix.
About the best looking young fellow
in town had a little bad luck today:
there was chicken for dinner at the
restaurant where he dined, and he drew
a leg.
This is the season of the year when
a woman turns the house upside down
and inside out for the purpose of put
ting the bed where the stove used to
be.
Men are always afraid to talk loud
when in the presence of an unknown
woman who is heavily yelled. A heav-
lily yelled woman can get on a crowded
street car, and stop every sound.
There is a certain young man who
is engaged, and who is very much In
love. We were therefore shocked to-
day to see him laughing with a dinins
room girl, and apparently enjoying him
self.
Yes, it is very hard to bear" ar
Atchison widow sobbed when a friene
attempted to console her: John:
death occurred when all the girls and
myself had just bought new party
dresses.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-03
THE DEVILS DUE.

This giving the devil his due is
something which admits of no argu-
ment- He collects it with an unfafl-
ing certainty which must be the envy
of all tax gatherers, and is as unfail-
ing as death He who goes to the
devil, pays the price, and he pays in
full, with likely an added premium.
The prince of collectors is the devil
Out in Montana. four boys are in
the penitentiary. or awaiting trans
portation thereto. One of them six
teen years old, is going up for life,
and the others for shorter terms.
They sought to go into business by
robbing a train. which is one of the
ways the devil offers for making easy
money And they succeeded. although
in the affair one of the boys killed a
passenger. Then, of course, they
were found out, and disgraced. and
punished
Life just begun is wrecked
The devil always gets his due
Atchison Globe.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-03
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
IFrom the chicago News.

Too often when the heart is willing
the purse is weak.
Occasionally women try to reform
a man by roasting him.
Some marriages mean war and
some mean an armed truce.
She is a wise young wife who tries
her first cake on a tramp.
AS men grow older they are apt to
talk less and say more.
If clothes don't make the women
some of them would look like men.
Perhaps love is blind, but it man.
ages to find its way to the ministers
There are men in this world who
wouldn't cheat another man-UnIess
they could
Running may or may not be health
full exercise; it depends on what is
chasing you
David said that all men were liars
and he might have added that some
men work at it overtime.
And when a woman tells how
successful her husband is in business
it's usually a safe bet that he isn't.
All boys imagine they will do just
as they please as soon as they are 81
but some of them get married
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-03
rHE OI.uBs ARE NExr.

Attorney General JackSon'S exhaus-
tive opinion on the handling of liquor
by clubs and the use of it by MEM
bers in their club rooms should be
warning to many organizations in this
state that something will happen to
them if they do not go out of the liquor
business. Mr.. Jackson goes so far as
to intimate that he doubts the right OF
a club member to drink his own liquor
In the rooms of his club. He is certain
on the point that clubs cannot traffic
in liquors in any way, or act as agents
for members in buying liquor and in
serving it to them. Also is he certain
that it is a violation of the law for
one club member to give away liquor
to another club member. And then he
lays particular stress on a section of
law that deems a place to be a nuisance
where persons congregate for the pur-
pose of drinking liquors.
Because Mr.. Jackson has gone to the
trouble of looking up the law and the
decisions of the courts in this matter it
is reasonable to suppose that he is
planning a crusade against the many
clubs in the state where liquor is dis
pensed and handled in conflict with the
prohibition laws. This is as it should
be. There are many clubs in Kansas
where the question of providing the
members with liquor or permitting
them to furnish themselves with it is
of secondary consideration. There are
many more clubs which are in exist
ence for the especial purpose of dodg-
ing the prohibitory law and providing
their members with all the liquor that
they desire To no class of clubs,
though. should there be shown any
leniency in the enforcement of the pro-
hibitory law.
The sentiment of a great majority of
the people of Kansas is for the abso-
lutte prohibition of the traffic in liquor
in the state. They applauded when the
legislature went so far at the last ses-
sion as to prohibit druggists from SELL
ing liquor for any purpose. And what
is sauce for the goose in this respect
should be sauce for the gander. There
is no reason in existence why any
number of men who have the means
should be permitted to band together,
organize a club, furnish and equip it
for the mere purpose of securing for
themselves a place where they can OBJ
tain liquor as they please. Nor is there
any excuse for permitting clubs which
were organized for other purposes to
engage in the liquor business as a side
line. 1t would be just as reasonable to
argue that joints should be permitted
to exist for the purpose of supplying
liquor to men who have not the means
Or the inclinations to organize club
for this purpose. If this state is to
have prohibition, and its people are evil
IDENTIFY wise enough to insist on this, 1t
should be prohibition for all. There
should be no culling of the black sheep
for the white ones. And it looks as
though Mr.. Jackson has this in his
mind.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-03
QUAKER MEDrTATIONs.
IFrom the Philadelphia RECORD

tfrom the Philadelphia Record.1
Many supposed fast color is
really an also ran.
1t is much better to take things
easy than to be taken for an easy
thing.
Blobbs-"Can you give me a good
tip on the races?" Slobbs-'Y es.
Don't bet
An aristocrat is q person who thinks
more of his ancestors than he does of
his posterity.
At every wedding there Is always
someone to say "She is entirely too
good for him"
The unsuccessful mans motto
seems to be "If at first you don't sue
coed, fail, fail, again."
1t seems impossible to exterminate
the mosquito. Science might now
turn her attention to making q
vegetarian of the insect.
Even when a man rests on his
laurels he has to sleep with one eye
open to prevent some other fellow
from stealing them
Elderly Lady-'Little boy. don't
you know that cigarettes stunt the
growth? Little Boy-"Dat's all right,
lady. I'm goin' to be a jockey
1t was after the lovers quarrel.
''And now" he remarked, sadly, "I
suppose we must meet as Strangers
mot at ALL she replied, coldly. eff
we met as strangers we should prob
ably fall in love with each other
again"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-03
FRON OTHER PENS
OF BREAD WINNERS

There are people here and there
and good many of them-who are
SO unreasonable as to complain about
the diminution in the size and weight
of the loaves of bread they buy since
Mr.. Patten has succeeded in running
corner on the wheat market. These
grumblers don't seem to have any
imagination whatever. They allow
the sordid consideration of the price
of bread-which is, at best, bagateile
to close their eyes to the magnificent
burst of genius by which Mr. Patten,
by simple turn of the wrist, so to
speak, Will pull in millions of dollars
by way of profits on his mastery deal.
The trouble is that those people who
allow themselves to fall into the rut
of mere bread-winners and who think
only of what they shall eat and where
withal they shall be clothed, really be-
come too ossif1ed to appreciate the
effulgence and grandeur of such bril-
liant speculation as Mr.. Patten and
other plungers of his stripe are capa-
Bile. They appear to have no concep-
ton whatever of what a dull and
stupid affair life would soon become
if all persons were content to go in
the beaten path of honest and legiti-
mate umulation.-Kansas City
Times.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-03

Kermit Roosevelt is doing some good
shooting in Africa. He brought down a
Thompson's gazelle the other day with
g. first shot at a distance of $40 yards.
IT the preliminary announcements of
the Roosevelt hunt it was related that
Kermit was going TO confine his activi-
ties to taking pictures of the wild
things in Africa But then maybe the
ex-president is not able to get all the
gazelles that the Smithsonian Institute
lat Washington needs. This fact must
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-03

John S. Dawson. former assistant at
tcrney general and now secretary to
the governor. remarks that every good
newspaper man has something about
him that is Godlike. he so frequently
makes something out of nothing On
the othSr hand. most lawyers make a
living ~ endeavoring to make nothing
out of something, especially when it
comes y defending criminals. Surely
1t is tnseer to create things than it is
to desS4Iy them.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-03
JOURNAL ENTRIES

People have no trouble at all in
warming I'D to cold cash.
X n
There is poor satisfaction for most
folks in the thought that poverty is
not a crime.
4 4 =
The individual who believes in pre-
destination ought not to have much to
worry about.
Between the cradle and the grave
are almost as many paths as there are
people on the earth.
4 n n
Among the undesirables in girls
eyes are the men who are always talk
ing about matrimony but who never
get to the point Of proposing.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-03
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
[From the New York Press.J

IFrOm the new 7 OK Pre86.I
A woman can guss strighter than a
man can reason.
There's nothing a girl can be so art
full about as making you think it's ar
tiessness.
Ideals are like the small coins in loose
change-ycu never know where they
disappear.
Most Of the nonsensical things we do
come from how smart We think our
way of doing them is
If a woman makes all her own clothes
she can talk about how her tailor keeps
putting up his prices.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-03
A BURDEN ON LABOR.

If an income tax could not be Shift
ed it would be ideal: but when we
come to reflect about it all of us find
that production pays all taxes, and
production is the fruit of labor, physical
or mental.
All dividends, all wages. all salaries,
all the funds wasted by the prodigal-
all that is expended for any purpose
whatsoaver-is the fruit of that years
work, and what we call capital" is
only the surplus that has been saved
from that yawning maw-daily ex-
pense.
The income tax will be levied on a
bank With what result? The bank
viii advance its rate of discount. and
instead of recouping the thing once it
viii collect it off its customers many
times. The same is true of the rail-
road. and in the end it is a tax on
labor.
But. after all. labor foots the bill.
There is one way to benefit labor, and
that is to reduce the cost of living The
income tax provides ways and means
to keep the cost of living at high
V alter mark.-Washington Post.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-03

not be lost sight of. The Roosevelts
are not in Africa for sport They are
there to get exhibits for the great mus
cum of natural history at Washington
II anyone laughs or even so much as
smiles at this he will be deemed guilty
Of lese majestic of a most aggravated
degree and will be compelled to eat
cranberry pie or be forced to undergo
some equally severe punishment.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-03

Mr.. Roosevelt's friends are being
pretty well taken care of by the Taft
administration. The former president
secretary landed the collectorship of
the port of New York and now one of
the shining lights of the tennis cabi-
net has been appointed to be an as
sociate justice of the supreme court of
New Mexico.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-03

w. A. Morgan, commander of the
state G. A. r., declares that the new
state memorial building will surely be
erected in Topeka. This won't make
Mr.. Morgan very popular with the peo-
pie of Hutchinson where his son pub
fishes a newspaper
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-03

The famous woodworking cruise OF
the great battleship fleet wasn't so cost
ly after ALL The secretary of the navy
has figured it out that its expense was
only 81, 900 more than If the ships
had been kept at home and assigned to
ordinary duties.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-03

The fact that the business and finan-
cial reviews for the past week report
that trade, Is much better now than it
was during the corresponding period of
last year is encouraging But just
watch the wheels OF trade begin to
hum as soon as the tariff revision is
settled, and it won't make much diff
ference how It is determined, either.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-03

Castro is now going to Spain. Maybe
ne is going to try and borrow Alphon-
SOS airship. He ought to have no trou-
BILE in negotiating the loan for the
queen of Spain will not let her royal
spouse use his aeroplane. He can only
have the pleasure of watching others
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-03

Some of the suits instituted against
corporations under the Roosevelt regime
are to be dropped. according to Mr..
Wickersham, the new federal attorney
general. and for the very good reason
that they were brought without ade-
quate cause. It's too bad that Brother
Roosevelt is as far away as Africa,
else the next issue of the Outlook might
have a few stirring words on this sub
iapf
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-03

Senator Nelson. of Minnesota, recent
" assailed the Aldrich tariff bill with
considerable force. He declared that
while it ostensibly lowers the rate on
lumber 1t really raises it. This is pro-
baby true. for the most important fea-
lures of tariff bill are its "jokers''
which are deftly woven into it's fabric
by the cunning statesmen, of which
there are not a few at Washington.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-03

About the first job that the new
sultan of Turkey ought to undertake
IS the putting of a stop to the
massacre of Armenians.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-03

W. L. A. Johnson, state labor COM
missioner, announces that as soon as
the new child labor law for this common
wealth becomes effective he will en-
force it. Nothing less was expected Of
him in this regard
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-03

mo man. says the Louisville
Courier-JournAl. "can be either a
prohibitionist or a protectionist and
remain a Democrat" And then it
breaks away from the forceful sim
plicity of recent times and uses the
longer and uglier word. adding: HE
who is either and claims to be a
Democrat is a prevaricationist"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-03

Certain narts of Kansas are getting
so dry that even the fish in them
are dying Of thirst. Explanation: Sew
eral small surface lakes IN the western
part of the state are drying UP.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-03

DR.. Crumbine, secretary Of the Kan
sas board of health. has placed the
house fly in a destructive class a little
beyond that of the famous Dread
thoughts. He says that fly carries
more death than a battleship.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-03

Those army maneuvers without troops
which It is proposed to hold this sum
mer, ought to carry off the palm TO
furnishing real excitement.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-03

That wonderful pace which is beini
set in the building world in Topeki
is not in any way related to the pac
that kills.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-03
HU1AOR or THE Day

Business-''why don't you write some
thing that will liver asked the critical
friend. Don't display your ignorance
you know that most Of the works that
lived were originally accounted among the
worst Observation-Disclosures Star.
HOWELL eat only one meal a day. Pow
ellis that SO Howell-Yes; 1 have the
other two at home.-Judge.
Barber (rather slow-Beg pardon. sir.
but your hair is turning a bit gray Vic
time I've been here.-Chicago News
Maude-rm little uneasy in my mind.
Ned asked me to marry him and I told
him I might some day. Now. would you
call that promise? Marie-No; should
call 1t threat--Tit-Bits.
daS GSs Senss s for to Ina my
without QUITE mag GOOD boy yen figure Ee1 m that
be cheaper."-Philadelphia Public Ledger.
PROFESSIONALISM was Nero's great
crime? Bright Pupil-He played the fid-
dle.-Chicago News.
Knicker-Did you look into a sea of up
turned faces? Orator-Er-yes, but the.
tide was evidently out.-Judge.
she-Bell says she can read her husband
IKE IKE book He.Ah, yes; He is her
eiilu NoiuIle, lsnt he!-Boston Trans
Hubby.-What, You paid $50 for that
wife (sweetly)-No matter: the sin viii be
on my own head!-Lppincott's Magazine
but she divorces better" '.Huh?" .;She
has retired on her mony."-Cieveland
Leader.
Hoy fast was he going?" asked Magis-
trate Krotel. so. fast that the bulldog
replica replica th , cop TSKed Ans se the
accused was held for decentralization
The New Wife-John, It's o'clock, and
you must get up. You said yon wanted
The New RusbandHYes, but 1 forTo da1 to
say that I didn't breakfast till 11.ICleye-
land Leader.
just secured her third diverse. us after
her friend replied. THAT you have not
engaged In your various ventures for
charting purposes Chicago Record Her
aid.
The country parson was condoliing with
the bereft widow. ''Alas!" he continued
was to learn that your husband had
zone 6o1 TO heaven: We were bosom friends.
colts Magazine.
Mrs. Sunflower-Pete Green am getting
to be quite an actor. Dey say he am wed
ded to his art. Do. yo' think we could be
welded to yo' art, Sam? Sam SunfIower
with yawn)-Wall, yeas, eff art would
cook good dinnah en- take in enuff wash
ing to keep me in tobacco money.-Chicago
News.
Bulzer-Pennster told me that the hest
magazines were clamoring for his contri-
buttons. Knolorham-No wonder: he
| writes full-page ads.-Ldppincott's
Did she marry for lover" That's what
everybody is wondering. Her husband Is
charming In manner. wealthy, has no bad
habits and moves In the best of society
! Judge.
Griggs-Did you ever know that milk
man never drinks? Riggs-why not7
Grtggs-Because he's always on the water
lwagon.-Princeton Tiger.
Eben-Dearest. when shall I get the
marriage license? F1o-Not until 1 have
worn for few months the engagement
ring you are going to buy for me.-Chi-
cago Tribune.
II heard Crittick remark" said the
playwright's friend, that some OF the
passages In your comedy were worthy of
Congreve Ohr exclaimed the play
! wright, that's too bad. why that
surely means compliments Not
much! II means that he's on to me-
catholic Standard and Times.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-03

why couldn't the weather have been
decent this spring?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-03
At the Novelty,
At the Majestic.

I'm very glad" she smiled. still
nervous. "I hardly knew how to tell
you, but I-guess it's alright This
day week I'm to start west, but before
I go I'm to be married Toto Sam
Weston's er."-(Copyrighted 1903,
by Associated Literary Press)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-03
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The State Journal is a member Of the
Associated Press and receives the full day
telegraph report of that great news or
ganization for the exclusive afternoon
publication in Topeka.
The news Is received in The State Jour
pose.