The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-03

his business promises and his business
obligations equally as binding as his
social and family obligations. There
is no difference between political bust
ness and personal honesty.
''It seems to me that it is far better
for candidate for governor to prom
| Use to use his best endeaVorS to en-
| force the laws now on the statute
books than to promise the enactment
| of a multitude of new ones, and he
will best serve the people and the state
| by standing for a policy that gives the
voters the widest latitude in the selec-
ton of men who are to fill the various
! Offices of the state. The present short
ballot agitation in the Republican
party is a shameful attempt to rob the
voters of their right to have a voice
! in the selection of their officials and
| to place the power of their appoint
ment in the hands of governor that
| he may add still greater power and
strength to the political machine which
| is built with the single purpose of pro-
noting his candidacy for the United
| States senate.
| Abuse of Business Institutions.
| 1.-The abuse of business institutions
and corporations is SO prevalent lately
| that it has almost become a fad. IN
| temperate language is a poor weapon.
The effects of radical attacks on legiti-
mate business is alarming, 1t is Great
| ing in the public mind a latent dis
trust bordering upon fanaticism. 1t is
not a one-Sided affair. Legitimate bust
ness corporations are being wrought
| up to a feeling of reSentme nt that re-
acts against the consumer, and both
corporations and the public suffer
thereby. The inflamer of public preju-
dice is as guilty and as indefensible as
a rapacious corporation. But all cor
operations are not thieves and they
have a right to be treated fairly and
decently.
''It is time to get rid of the profess
sional politician, to settle down to an
each in his individual way; and the
results will count for the future great
ness and glory of the state and its peo-
| pie. No one denies that the Unsuitable
greed of unlawful commercial cOmbt-
nations control the necessities of life
until the wage Garner ekes out but q
Iscant living while predatory wealth
permits the Coreys and Schwabs tc
Ispend 100000 for a single supper for
their friends. Special interests legal
lied by congress control the CONNER
cial and political affairs of this nation
until the wage Garner hardly knows
where to turn for relief
FINALLY the tariff is the greatest po-
1itical question. The candid men OF
both parties agree that a high tariff
is the prolific mother of trusts and OF
the unlawful combinations that control
the industrial pursuits of the nation
The Democrats are in favor of tariff
on luxuries and for revenue only. II
given the power our party will place
upon the free list those daily neces-
stiles that make up the burden of the
cost Of living. We will go before the
people of Kansas with these declara-
tons and ask their support confident
Of their verdict at the polls in No
Yember."
The facial resemblance of Senator
Hodges to that late great hearted lead
err Governor Johnson, of Minnesota
is remarkable. They are much alike
also in character, both clean, honest
and impregnable. Many of the laws
of which Senator Hodges is the author
or were advanced by him are substan
TALLY the same as those passed through
, the influence of the lamented Johnson
Not in Lumber Trust.
5 Governor Stubs and others seize OF
; the fact that Senator Hodges is a lum
Der dealer to charge that he is a mem
Der of the lumber trust. This is fals'
charge to fool some of the people int
voting against Hodges.
George H. Hodges and Frank Hodge
are retail lumber merchants. They owl
| one large lumber yard at Olathe, Kan.
and nine small ones at villages scatter
ed about Olathe, within a radius of L
or 20 miles of their home town. Fo
So years they have toiled and as the.
accumulated a little money or coul'
borrow it they would buy a small lum
Der yard near them. The people o
Johnson county state that with thei
advent into the lumber business in
locality the price of lumber has in
variably fallen. People often haul lum
Der rs miles past other lumber yard
because they can save money by buy
ing of them.
It is a physical impossibility for re
tail dealers to be part of the trusts
A trust is composed solely of manu-
facturers. The retailer is the enemy G
the manufacturers trust which con
| stantly harnesses him by increasin
prices The retailer buys his lumbe
of the manufacturer in Louisiana, Ore
gon or other forest states buying a
cheaply as he can. just as the hard
| ware dealer buys his nails of the man
ufacturer in Pennsylvania, buying a
low as the steel trust will permit hin
Neither George nor Frank Hodges nc
any member of their family own an