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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-24
The WORK of the Muckraker.

No public official, however high,
should be immune from just criticism.
Public servants should invite and not
fear the severest analysis of their acts.
But they should not be subjected to
much of the abuse that is heaped upon
them by the muckrakers and sensa-
tionalists, who are actuated only by
sordid, mercenary motives or by some
other equally ungenerous purpose far
short of the public interest. There is
perhaps nothing more reprehensibIe
than the loose impeachment of the mo-
tives of the chief executive, the down
right misrepresentation of his acts, dis
tortion of his record by suppression of
the truth or by pure falsehood. No
possible good can result therefrom; on
the contrary, in the end confidence in
the government itself is undermined. 1t
may be diverting to a, certain class to
Witness such brutality toward the head
of the nation, but upon sober reflection
they must perceive the hurtful results
which flow from it and which, in the
final analysis. damage all alike.-Hon.
Charles W. Fairbanks, in Leslie's.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-24
THE ANGIO-sAxON MYTH.

Isn't it about time to give up talk
ing about the Anglo-Saxon race? asks
Henry Mann in the Christmas Column
bian. What is it, and where does it
exist? Certainly not in England, whose
people are a composition of ancient
Briton, Roman, Angle and Saxon, Nor
man and Scandinavian, not to speak OF
the Huguenot French, the large later
immigration of Celts from Ireland and
Scotland, and the recent influx of for
eigners from Eastern Europe. Certainly
not in North America, settled by Eng
lish Irish, Scotch, French, German
Dutch. Spanish, Swede, Flemish and
other nationalities, and with Eastern
and Southern Europeans rushing in at
the rate of million a year. Certainly
not in Australia or New Zealand, or
South Africa, where races are more
mixed than in Great Britain and Ire
land.
The Anglo-Sax swallowed the Ro-
manized Briton; then he was for time
under the heel of the Dane; and was
next thoroughly subjected by the Nor
man. The Englishman of today is an
Anglo-Saxon in the same sense that a
iack-knife, first renewed as to blade
and then as to handle, is the same jack
knife. Anglo-Saxon is a very narrow
term to apply to the great amalgama-
ton of English speaking races which is
the vanguard of civilization in both
hemispheres, and which partly occupies
and partly controls nearly all the rich
est regions of the globe. The Anglo
Saxon fell with King Harold at Hast.
ings. President Taft and King George
stand for an entirely different and su-
neriOr TYNE
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-24
QUAKER NEGOTIATIONS.
[Frono- the Philadelphia Record. j

[F'rono the Philadelphia Record
A fellow naturally feels cast down
when he is on his uppers.
The artists model should always be
in good shape for work.
A ship always has a stern duty 20
perform and is proved Of 1t.
Most women would rather marry
than remain faithful to their ideals.
People who are high strung are like
kites; liable to go - in the air.
Don't twit man with being a
chronic borrower. He is apt to be
touchy about it.
The butcher isn't always practical
JOKER in spite of the fact that he is a
good bit of cut up.
About the most useless thing in the
world is to offer a reward for the re-
turn of a lost opportunity.
The fellow who makes a mountain
out of a mole hill should have no diff
Guilty in putting up a bluff.
Turn about Is fair play" quoted the
Wise Guy. mot with a crooked rou-
lette Wheel added the Simple Mug.
Tonmy-"Pop, what do we mean by
the crust of society?" Tommy's Pop
1.-THE crust of society, my son, is COM
posed of those who have the dough-"
Blobbs-"Bjones is rank failure, AMI
yet they say he once had dazzling pros
poets" Slobbs-"Perhaps that's what
made him blind to his own interests."
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-24
THE ENGLISH sUFFRAGErTEs.

Not so long ago an English CORES
pondent of one of the American week
lies prophesied that, If the British
parliament did not soon extend the
right of suffrage to women, there
would be bloodshed in England. In
view of the disgraceful and outrag-
eous attack which was made the
other day by the suffragettes on Pre-
mier Asquith, whom they happened
to catch up with in the streets of
London. it would appear that this
prophecy may yet be fulfilled.
These women fought the police
who came to the premier's rescue
like amazons, say the cable reports
telling of the fray. Their dresses
were half torn off. They sustaine'.
many minor injuries, they lost thei4
hats, their handbags and their Golf
fures. Indeed, they must have pre-
scented a sorrier looking spectacle
than does an American football team
after a hard game on muddy field.
Such are some of the women who
are urging that the right to vote be ac-
corded to them. They have no regard
for law and order. They conduct
themselves more like savages than
like civilized beings. And yet these
women think themselves entitled tC
participate in the affairs of the gov
eminent for which they have such
scant respect. Surely they must be
but a few hundred of misguided
cranks on the subject of woman's suf-
frage and are not representative in
any way of the many estimable wo-
MOI, Of Britain
They are only hurting the great and
good cause for which they are strug-
Cling in such an unseemly way. These
militant suffragettes, as they cal
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-24
TO AN AEROPLANE.


Brilliant, dashing, winged thing
Moving there across the sky,
What new message do you bring
Unto mankind as you fly?
Swift you cleave the vibrant air,
Now you fly and now you float,
Life itself you seem to share
Are you bird or are you boat?
What new era do you bring.
Speeding to us through the years?
Harki your motor seems to sing
With the music of the spheresi
Shall mad hosts who go to war
Look to you for deadly skill?
VIII you only sing and soar
so that men may MAIN and Kill?
Rather may you skim the seas
And go whirring near and far,
Fly to yonder Pleiades.
Visit Moon and Evening Star.
Watt young lovers through the air,
Ply them straight to Heavens owl
Ride on sunbeams bright and fair,
Chase yon cloudletS at your fore.
Go where gods in laughter sit,
Take us where life is but kind,
Seek where elves and fairies fit
Some new Eden for US to find.
Tiny airship, light and strong,
Lifting upward to the sky,
Life a joyous, rising song,
You shall teach our souls to fly
Robert McElravy, in Success Magazine
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-24
GLOBE SIGHTS.
Iron the Atchison Globe.l

[From the Atchison Globe.1
A shotgun makes a terrible looking
corpse.
ing it to death.
as we can tell when a woman paints
her cheeks.
More people like to be asked out
to Thanksgiving dinners than like to
give them.
When we get ready to- die, we hope
our kin won't tell it around that we
are failing"
AS a rule, the harmony IN church
choir seems to be largely confined to
the songs it sings.
A quail is a pretty, innocent little
thing, but it is good to eat, and men
won't let it alone.
We never knew anyone of whom it
was not said occasionally: HE has
some funny notions"
The Countess Tolstoi is wearing
particularly heavy mourning, to offset
what people are saying.
An Atchison girl is so small and
thin that there is hardly enough of her
to display dry goods on.
You may have noticed it is much
easier to detect fattery directed at
others than when it is coming your
way
When a woman wants to say some
thing about a man that will injure
him. she says, HE hasn't any respect
for any woman
Every time we meet certain Atchi-
son man he says: 'I rarely tell dirty
stories, but I heard one today so good
that it is worth repeating"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-24
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Nothing can be finer than marriage
when it isn't a failure.
y X
The har-.ony Of life is all too fire.
quently interrupted by family discords.
X Y
Nobody seems to show any reluc-
lance about helping the fool and his
money part.
The great trouble with future expec-
tations is that so few of them are
realized
X X
Every mans idea of his own intelli-
gence and wisdom is likely to be great
ly exaggerated.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-24
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
[From the Chicago News.l

LF'rom the Chicago News.l
The fool and his money are soon
spotted.
A man is known by the company he
keeps-away from.
Did you ever get so mad that you
couldn't see straight?
Lawyers. like children, ask a lot of
embarrassing questions
There is no fun in being wicked il
nobody pays any attention to it.
The titled foreigner seldom takes an
American heiress at her face value.
Drop your indifference and be en-
thusiastic if you would make hit with
people.
When a man gets too lazy to wind up
an eight-day clock he has outlived his
usefulness.
1t is difficult to keep in the straight
and narrow path if you keep watching
the people on the other road.
There isn't enough truth on tap TO
keep the tongues of all the gossips
constantly wagging-so you may draw
your own conclusions.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-24
.HYHAWKER JOTS

A political note in the Caldwell News:
THE state legislature is safely Repub-
-mixed-pickles Republican"
The Mankato Monitor has noticed that
the man who takes the picture OF his
wife with him on his trips always leaves
her at home.
After calling attention to the fact
that this is the open season for quail
the Baldwin Ledger gives this good
advice: Don't whistle for a month"
They raise lots of kaffir corn out in
Harper county. The Douglass Tribune
it are shipped from it's town every
week.
From the number of advertisements
printed in the weekly papers warning
people not to shoot on this and that
land, it would seem that there is not
much territory in Kansas where
strangers are permitted to hunt.
Rudolph Rousmeteim, the Seguin cor
respondent of the Hoxie Sentinel, is one
of those reporters who evidently does
not believe in leg work. in the hunt
| for news. He reported last week as
follows: News is scarce. The phone
is out Of order"
According to a note in the Cuba Day
light, " a spotted pony is flying around
in the Tiff neighborhood." Here's a
chance for some one to catch this
beast and give exhibitions that would
draw quite as big CROWDS as the men
with aeroplanes attract.
Charles Leonard has informed the
Lebanon Times that the fellow who lost
his pipe in the Leonard chicken coop
may. have the same by calling for it.
OF course, says the Times, Charles
doesn't mind the loss of a few chickens
| but he doesn't like to have such poor
man lose any of his personal effects.
"Only Me-" the Duquoin correspond
| ent of the Harper Advocate, tells this
one: While speaking of chicken steal
ir -, a man of our acquaintance said
to his wife the other day, "Pll bet ten
dollars no chicken thief comes into my
chicken house of a night without my
knowing it." The wife also wishing to
know whether it could be done or not,
and thinking the ten dollars wouldn' :
come aniss, so concluded to demon
strate the matter by taking two gunny
sacks one dark night to the chicken
| house and with great caution succeeded
| in filling them with fowls without
squawk. She carried them to the sleep
! ing husbands bedside and after awak-
ening him triumphantly held them Up
| to his sleepy vision. Twas his wife
and she says she never saw anything
Of that ten dollars.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-24
REFLECTIONS OF a BACHELOR
[From the New York Press.1

LFrom the New York Press.J
A very fine recipe for a girls COM
plexion is to get kissed against her
will
1t seems as if some men lie whom
there is no need of it just to keen in
practice.
Feople want more money SO as to
get on higher basis Of spending and
need still more.
1t does seem as if a woman's entire
happiness depends on loving a man
who isn't worth it.
If a man sleeps ten hours and wakes
up fifteen minutes before hA has to ct
out of bed, he can swear he never
closed his eyes all night.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-24

Not very much is going to be ac-
complished by the exposure of legisla-
tive graft in New York state by the
investigating committee which is do
ing this work. Most Of the RESPONSE
bility for this grating is being placed
on the shoulders of former legislators
and others who happen to be dead and
hnrlad
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-24

1t is far from likely that three
fourths of the farmers of the nation
are rather deeply in debt, as was stat
ed by one of the speakers at the an
nual meeting of the National Grange.
Those of them in debt, however, are
not being pressed very hard by their
creditors, for most of the farmers
nowadays are on foundations that are
as firm as rocks.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-24

Confirmatory evidence o. the truth
of the adage that things come to those
who wait is to be found in the fact that
actual work has been started again on
the Melan bridge extension. There will
be a holding of breaths, though. for
fear something will turn up to inter-
rupt It.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-24

Senator CuIlom proposes the cree
ton of a memorial in Washington to
Abraham Lincoln which will be the
grandest and most magnificent affair
of its kind that any nation in the
world has provided for one of its he
roes. And everybody in the land
should second the motion.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-24

Now that the deep, dark, purple
mark has been placed on the neck of
DR.. Crippen. it is to be hoped that if
Belle Elmore is alive she will remain
in hiding forever. There is little
chance, however, that she is. Justice
seldom miscarries in England.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-24

Noting that there are forty-four
lawyers and only fourteen farmers in
the recently elected Ohio legislature,
the Chicago Record-H Herald remarks:
''Most of the farmers are still able to
make a pretty good living on the out
side"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-24

A pupil in Wellston school, writ
ing an essay about cotton, stated that
sit is chiefly used in making woollen
goods" And the St. Louis Post-Dis-
patch challenges the country to pro-
duce a wiser school lad
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-24

Another cut in the prices of all
kinds of meat has been made by the
packers. If this thing keeps up and
the retailers follow suit, it won't be
long before many of the merry viii
layers will be able to renew their old
time acquaintance with meat
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-24

Old Doc. Wiley had to throw a little
cold water on the Thanksgiving festiv-
ities by advising folk to beware of the
cold storage turkey, which, he init
mates, is resting place for a variety
of microbes of the undesirable type.
But then, the doctors advice will fall
on many deaf ears. Their possessors
haven't the price of any old kind of a
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-24

country, the not very distant future
''win hear the hoof of the yellow mans
horse as it rushes over this land. The
more Hobson talks about the yellow
peril the weaker his arguments grow.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-24

Everything that Captain Hobson
looks at seems to suggest the prob
ability of the yellow race over-running
and getting control of these United
states. In talking to the National So
ciety of Patriotic Women the other
day he expressed the opinion that If
the drinking of cocktails and the use
of alcohol were not checked in this
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-24

Lawyer Brandeis will probably be
offered a mighty lucrative job by some
one of the big railroad systems. Or
maybe they will all club together and
hire him to advise them as to their
management. He says the railroads
waste no less than 81 100000 a day
through mismanagement However. it
Is easier to point out a sore of this
sort than /. is to heal it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-24

How much better is. the United
States way Of having it's revolutions in
the unmolested solitude of the election
booths.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-24

They are talking of erecting a Hall
of Peace on the battlefield of Gettys-
burg. Wouldn't there be more use for
such a structure in Mexico, or Central
America?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-24

Even the turkeys, which are being
kept alive for the Christmas table,
have something to be thankful for to-
daN.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-24

Romantic old Mexico with it's tropi-
cal attractiveness is also a pretty good
place to stay away from these days.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-24
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Being elected president of Mexico
appears to be much easier than hold
ing onto the job.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-24
AN AMERICAN NEED.

We are getting back at Europe for
the number of bogus noblemen that
have been fondled by our American
world of fashion, ever open to the
Establishments of titled persons A
counterfeit Vanderbilt has just done
two confiding English women out of
$4,000 by methods somewhat similar
to those of titled Adventures who
come to US, though it does not appear
that the pretender sought to marry
either of his victims, favorite trick
with the pinchbeck dukes and earls
and all that who sun themselves in
the genial warmth of American hos
pitality. 1t were almost impossible
that the European counterfeits should
impose upon American society were
we not the most conffding of the
human race, for there are books of
place and identify everybody who is
world. Europe, however, has no such
sure means of detecting our social
counterfeits. Only a few awe-stricken
and industrious Americans really
know the roots and branches of our
American ruling houses, and the blue
books of American cities are utterly
| Inadequate as counterfeit detectors
What we need is an American Altman
ach de Gotha. to be supplemented
by the equivalent of Burke's peerage,
and whatever else official or semiof-
fetal contains the true record of the
European royalty, nobility and gentry.
The industrious genealogist who shall
| schedule our upper 10000 in such q
volume will win the gratitude of a
waiting world.-Boston Herald
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-24
FRON OFFER PENS
FROM SHIP TO SHORE.

The fight of Eugene Ely. in wind
and rain, from the deck of the cruiser
Birmingham in Hampton Roads to
Fort Monroe, though it lasted but five
in the modern chronicle" of aviation.
The successful maneuver suggests
that in future it will not make so
much difference to transatlantic pas
sengers whether they are prevented
by the ebbtide from reaching the
landing stage. They can be transport
ed by aeroplane to the wharf in the
haven where they would be. And in
the event of a fire or q wreck, instead
of taking to the water, the passengers
can take to the air. 1t will be less
work to fly from the platform on the
ships deck than to lower the lifeboats.
In wartime, instead of relying upon
the glass of the man in the crows nest
to scour the horizon for a hostile fleet,
it will be quite possible to have ''lit
tie cherub sitting up aloft'' in an aero
plane, high in midh eaven, keeping those
below informed by means of wireless
as to all that he discerns in the dis
lance. The airship, as a detective of
far-off menace, will perform for the
battleship much the same service as
that useful bird which, as African
travellers inform US, rides on the back
of the hippopotamus to give friendly
warning of the imminent foe.
With the use of the aeroplane it
may be feasible to pay flying visits be-
tween moving ships at sea, just as
wireless messages are sent today. A
traveller on the Olympic-particula
if the vessels were travelling in the
same direction-might fit to the deck
of the Mauritania, play bridge or
Switchboard for an hour or two, and
return to his own steamer. The pos
sibilities suggested by the fight of Mr..
Ely seem well-nigh infinite.-PhiladeI-
phia Public Ledger.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-24
Lovely Characters: Lesson XXXH.
ANANIAS.

ANANIAS.
When Ananias* told fib, he croaked
upon the spot,
But modern liars do not, and we're glad
that they do not.
For if a lie did now result in quick
annihilation
The net result would be a quick de-
crease in population.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-24

Even now it is almost too late to d
y. G. Sc.
Franklin's paper the statesman., 1910-01-22
SCHOOL CA ;E DECIDED
DOUGH- S DOTS.

The case of inj notion against the
trustees Of the Sc ool board of Doug
las, Ariz.. was de ,ided last week in
Tombstone. Rev ]. H. Brown and S.
f. Dyson went up TO see the fight
come off. The res ult was the parents
Of coiored childre need never have
any concern abo It having to send
their children to Boniville, one mile
and half from lere they are living.
The court handed down restriction
to the effect that ne trustees of Doug
las shall keep aid maintain at the
place where color ID children now at
tend. which is the greatest victory
ever achieved by Negroes, with the
greatest odds aga nst them.
Rev. ]. II. Brol n opened up in his
church against his and from that
time on there wa something doing. 1t
took both money and time spent in
the right way o bring this thing
about and this W S forthcoming when
Rev Brown exhi ,ited his bravery to
20 for right and istice for his people.
Notification wa served on the city
school directors hat the colored peo
Pile had enjoined them and refused to
accept the school recently built, conse-
Quently the patr ms were advised to
send the children TO Twelfth street,
Franklin's paper the statesman., 1910-01-22

sanction OF law in th zee states that in
the Southern state Negroes have
been disfranchised. And now comes
our leader" urging us to sing the
song of jubilee! d you, reader, re-
member in reading le 1877 Psalm that
the children of Isrf Ell rebelled when
they were asked to make mirth for
their captors. saying BY the rivers
of Babylon there W sat down. Yea
We wept when We 'emembered Zion.
We hanged our harI upon the willows
in the midst thereo For there they
that carried us ava captive required
of us a song, and Il ey that wasted US
required OF US mirt !, saying, Sing US
one OF the songs OF Zion How shall
we sing the Lords song in strange
land" And now Negroes, half slave
and half free, a emonstrable fact,
with 100000 votes / the North, which
actually can be CO Inted as cast, are
asked to make mon ieys of themselves
by our leader" ~ riding in jim
crow cars, to some Southern state TO
praise the Lord tha they are free and
to fill the Golfers Il the management
OF this menagerie with good money.
Are all We Negroe fools?
SAMUI L THE BLACK.