The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-17
KANSAS COMNENT
THE WIDOWS BURDEN.

THE WIDOWS BURDEN.
The man Groin. who committed
suicide at Kansas CITY recently. after
wasting money that belonged to others,
was such a contemplate individual
that there hasn't been a word of sym-
patny or attempted justification in all
the pages of stuff that have been
printed about him. He was one of
tnose l-felloW-well-met individuals
you read about. who seem to make a
good impression on the crowd He
used TO travel in Kansas, representing
brewery, and could open cold bot
tie with great skill.
There must have been something
fascinating about him. notwithstand-
ing that his first name was Reuben,
ana that he was known to have worn
| sidewhiskers. People handed over
their money to him as though he was
the United States treasury. He pur-
sued his good-fellow course. haunting
the bucket shops, and opening cold
bottles, and making no effort to ex-
tenuate his front name. and yet no.
BODY suspected him. He was placed
IN charge of big estates and permitted
TO TOOL with other peoples money, and
MS victims took it for granted that
everything was all right. until a cold
plooded lawyer came to the conclu-
sion that everything was all wrong,
and brought him up with a sharp jerk.
Then Reuben wrote a sickly letter
TO his wife. and put bullet in his
observation-disclosures head, and went to
that place where all the reubs wear
red side whiskers and shovel birthstone
instead of other peoples money. His
death would bring his wife a consider
able sum of life insurance money to
square up his shortages paying the
poor first, and letting the rich wait
This was bid for public sympathy.
A lot Reuben cared about the poor!
And Of -
must bear the burden and fight the
battles and endure the punishment
that belonged to a worthless and cow
ardly husband.
There is sympathy for her, but there
is none for the departed Reuben, and
that speaks we'll for human nature
Emporia Gazette
CHEERS FOR TAFT.
Say the dispatches, Every mention
Republican state convention at Mil
waukee, Wednesday, provoked warm
cheers. Commentator of the national
administration was the keynote of the
speeches.
President Taft has been in office
scarcely more than a year. Now as
the time for expiration of the first
regular session of congress under his
administration approaches, it is pos
sible to make some accurate measure
Of the value of his services.
Not from a single one of the numer-
Gus reforms for which he has declared
and to which before him, Mr.. Roose-
welt gave his endorsement, has Presi-
dent Taft allowed himself to be
swerved. The railroad bill, the enact
ment of which was declared impossi-
BILE, will within a few days become a
law. We shall have a postal savings
bank law. Day after day we are ad-
vised of savings in this government
department, and the curtailment of
expenses in that one. Taft's defeat of
the proposed increase in freight rates
was an immense victory for the people.
The tariff bill which was bitterly con-
demned by the opposition, whose mis-
representation deceived some Republi-
cans into joining their voices in pro-
test, is rapidly asserting itself what
the administration pronounced it to
be, one of the best tariff laws ever
enacted. It is not without fallacy, of
which the president is quite well
aware, but no tariff law is perfect and
this one has swelled the nations in
come amazingly.
In view of these facts it is small
wonder that the mention of the name
of William H. Taft before the Wiscon-
sin Republican party convention pro-
voked warm cheers. President Taft
has proved his right to be the stand
ard bearer of the Republican party
Leavenworth Times.