The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-06
FROM OTHER PENS
AN INJUSTICE OF PROCEDURE.

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There is at least one other problem
Of legal practices as important to the
public as that raised by the customary
delays and battling processes. How
shall the innocent sufferer be spared
the expense of securing Justice? The
grievance of a New & FORK woman, who
has been compelled to make repeated
fights in court to secure actual pay
ment of $40 a week which the court
granted her, is case in point It has
cost so much to have the husband so
many times adjudged in contempt that
about all she has collected under the
decree of separation in the last eight
years has been eaten up by the process
of law. The Brooklyn Eagle and the
New York Sun have called attention to
the case of a man who, in addition to
the fees of his own counsel is now
charged with more than $4,000 repre-
senting sundry items of expense in pro-
ceedings brought to prove that he is a
lunatfc; which proceedings have failed
absolutely. The courts have at last de-
cided that the city of New York must
defray the expenses imposed upon
Mayor Mcclellan to defend his title
against the attack of Mr.. Hearst; a
sum amounting to more tho $83, 900.
These are but isolated instances of
what undoubtedly is too frequent hard
ship in an age when litigation appears
to be much encouraged
Journal
PAUCITY OF POLITICAL LEADERS.
Before the Northwestern university
Governor Hadley, of Missouri, has once
more exploited the welI-worn theme of
commercIaIisnn. Commercialism is moth
ing new in this country or in the world
The love of money has prevailed always
and everywhere, and within reasonable |
limits it is the cornerstone Of ciyiliza-
ton.
But Governor Hadley's Indictment of
commercialism is that it is rObbing the
country Of its natural leaders. Men go
in for making money when they ought
to have an ambition to be the leaders |
of the people This is a curious state |
ment to make when it is a not uncom- |
mon complaint that men seek fortunes
in order that they may go into politics |
securing seats in the United States |
senate. for example.
The love Of public life is just as keen |
as 1t ever was, How many men have
refused to go into the senate or the |
house of representatives or to take the |
governorships of their states because |
they preferred to attend to business?
Mr.. MacVeagh retired from great |
business to enter the cabinet. A gen. |
willing to do the same thing, but the |
senate would not consent. Secretary /
Knox, Secretary Dickinson and Attor- |
ney General Wickersham retired from |
lucrative law practices to enter public |
life.-Philadeiphia Record.
SAFER AND MORE DURABLE RAIL. |
The agitation in railroad circles two
years ago, following a significant series |
of rail breakages which in some in |
stances entailed loss of life and injury, |
seems to have been productive of much |
good for future railroad trainmen and |
travellers. It will be recalled that the |
New York Central railroad took the /
lead in agitation for better material in 1
the rails, and also for change of form. |
IL necessary, TO reduce the danger of /
breakage under the trying conditions |
of winter, when some steels become |
quite fragile. The steel companies gave |
heed to these demands. and with the /
of the management of the /
Central road produced a tougher rail /
that has proved tits superiority under |
severe test.
The Iron Age discusses this new rail. |
and tells how its production was |
brought about by the adoption of an
improved process of rolling, and by the
addition OF = small quantity Of titanie /
UNI. Seventy-fVe pounds Of an alloy, |
of which was titanium, were |
added to eight and eight-teenths tons
OF steel. Many thousands of tons of /
rails of this new composition were laid i
on the New York Central road during /
the spring and summer Of 1908. and only /
four rails broke during che past win
ter.-Milwaukee Wisconsin