The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-10-15
The Whole Town Turned Cut to
Greet the Visitor.
Tells the Pawnee Committee to
Fight as If in Earnest.

the people gave him an ovation. Mem
bers of both parties thronged the depot
platforms, crowded the hotel offices and
filled the meeting places to overlooking.
The governor made II speeches during
the four days of active service on the
trip. At none of these meetings could
all the people who came to attend them
get inside the hall.
The governor has, during the past
three years, spoken in every county in
the state except Barber, but the Rice
county reception gets the blue ribbon.
Larger crowds have gathered to hear
him talk, but the meeting at Lyons last
Thursday was a revival. The people
suspended business with the town full
of farmers and turned the day over to
Stubs.
In Pawnee county Friday it was about
the same. The Larned meeting was
harvest home picnic. At Garfield, a lit
tie town between Larned and Kinsley,
through there in an auto at o'clock
and got up meeting for $3.50. Over 200
attended and they had enough enthusi-
asm for thousand. The governor ar
rived in Kinsley at 500 and went right
to the opera house. where the audience
had been waiting patiently for half an
hour, and spoke until the Topeka train
whistled the crossing west of town.
The Inheritance Tax.
In Pawnee county Governor Stubs
devoted part of his speech to the in
heritance tax law. This measure was
assailed during the primary campaign
by Wagstaf and now Hodges, the
Democratic candidate, is trying to
make medicine out of this Republican
law. Pawnee county was especially
interested in this part of the governor
speech for the reason that large num-
Der of estates in that county had re-
Gently been affected by the provisions
of the law.
Governor Stubs, speaking Of the
measure, said that 1t was passed dur
ing the closing hours of the last legis-
lature and had been hurriedly drafted
therefore inequalities had been found
later which would likely be amended by
the next legislature. He declared, how
ever, that the principle of the law was
right and just. That it was designed to
more equally distribute the burden of
taxation. That it had been drawn up
in an effort to make those who had
accumulated more than their share Of
wealth bear their full share of the pub
lie expense.
The governor declared further: TT is
gift to be able to make money. just
as it is gift to possess unusual physi-
cal strength. A long time ago the man
of extraordinary strength dominated his
settlement or his cave. Now the man
who tries to rule by physical strength
is called a bully and he is quickly sub
dued by little officer with a big gun.
The rich men dominate public affairs
and policies today to serve their own
ends, but before long they viii be dri-
ven to the rear along with the cave
men"
st believe that some Of the provis-
ions of the inheritance tax law are
unjust. There never was a law drafted
that was just to all classes. l believe
that the widow should be exempt from
the tax on inheritances. She is en-
titled to her husbands property under
the Kansas law, and besides she helps
accumulate it and save it after it has
been accumulated. 1 believe that the
limit for estates that are taxable under
instead of $1,000. The law will be
amended and improved at the next
session of the legislature. But do not
misunderstood me, the principle of the
law is right, 1t only remains to work
out the Details
Stubs at Larned.
In his Larned speech Friday after
noon the governor departed from the
beaten track and wandered over the
field of state affairs just his fancy
dictated. His speech was unique. He
talked more about good citizenship
than he did about politics; and de-
voted as much time to agriculture as
to anything else. After quoting from
Abraham Lincoln, which he never fails
to do when before an audience, the
governor declared himself on indie
pendence in politics as follows: THE
this country than any party has done
for any nation in the history of the
world. But the party cannot live on
its past history alone. 1t must meet
new issues and maintain its past stand
ard and efficiency. If it shirks this
responsibility, then some other party
must take its place. But I believe
that the Republican party is best fit
ted by organization, equipm ent history
and membership to perform the work
at hand.
at was under Republican rule that
the great combinations of wealth that
now threaten the welfare of the coun-
try thrived and intrenche6 themselves.
That same party should now exert it
self to curb them and control the
dangerous side of their business act
ivity. The party must apply remedies
that may seem harsh and severe, but
they are necessary
''It is my opinion that it viii be no
more trouble to control the trusts than
it would be to lead a lamb by a rope.
What is needed is a real antitrust
law and the right kind of men in pub
lie office to enforce it -
Stubbs Drafts an Antitrust Law.
At this point in his speech the gov
ernor proceeded to draw up an anti
trust law that would, as he put it
make combines as scarce as hens
teeth Here is the Stubs law as he
himself presented it to the Larned
wheat raisers:
Amy man or set of men who form
a combine for restraint of trade shall
be sent to prison for a term of not
less than twenty years.
Brief and simple, this remedy The
| governor explained it when he said: 1.-The
| law should be so plain and simple in this
| respect that any wayfaring man could
read and understand it, Its very sim
| plicity and brsvity would defend it
| against technicality. It is chfld's play 10
| punish trust by imposing a fine That
has been proved In fha case AGAINST the