The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-04
KANSAS COMMENT
WHERE LIFE IS CHEAP.

WHERE LIFE IS CHEAP.
our Oriental is something of a
stole; he knows he must die. and
doesn.t seem greatly concerned as to
nav IL happens. Perhaps this is be-
cause there isn't much in his life at
best AS his fathers were, he will be,
and In that crowded land the lot as q
rule. isn't desidabIe. But the Orient
! Ism [ the only place where life is cheap.
here IN America, where are the great
est inducements to live. life is really
about as cheap, population considered.
Within the past few weeks numer-
Gus fatal mining accidents have been
recorded Mining experts say there
are fewer physical causes for acct
dents in American mines than those
or Europe. Yet four, men in a thous-,
and are killed in the United States
to where one is killed abroad.
Our railroads kill and MAIN $4,000
IN year, which is more than five
times as great a toll as is taken by
the railways of Europe. Yet It is safer
to ride a year on an American railway
than to spend the same length of
time in the taxica5s and street cars of
New York.
Tennessee. with two million people,
all the United Kingdom with forty
millions, and fewer of the murderers
are brought to justice. And the rec
ord or the states. in proportion is not
far from that of Tennessee. While
these things continue, there is less
reason for this Yankee pride of super
iority than you may magfne.-Atchi-
son Globe.
FARMERS IN SESSION.
A most important meeting has just
closed its sessions In Emporia, the
Farmers Union. This is not political
organization, but one for mutual benefit
for the producers.
: The labor unions Of the country have
long been trying to interest the farmers
in their organization, and have been at
tempting to cooperate with the Farm
ers' Union, and friendly feeling had
existed, but when the labor unions took
up this foolish boycott on meat, the
farmers got sore and were preparing
to retaliate by refusing to use union
made goods. The labor leaders at once
got busy, called off the boycott and sent
a special representative to Enporia to
try to square things. He made long
speech before one of the secret meet
ings. and stated that the meat boycott
was not started by the unions, but by
enemies of the unions, and thoughtless-
ly some of the smaller bodies fell into
the trap and Joined the boycott. The
labor leaders realized that If the farm
ers should join in a universal movement
to boycott union made goods, it would be
the death blow to labor unionism.
So the meat boycott is practically at
an end, although the agitation for an
era of low prices will doubtless con-
tinue, but if the farmers would be aSl
emphatic about it and refuse to have
anything to do with these bogus re-
formers and apostles of unrest who are
bowling for return to the days of
Clevelandism and Coxeyism, this howl
would as soon end as did the meat
boycott, for after all the farmers are
the boys who hold the big whip, and all
the rest of us have got to dance when
they whistle.-Emporia Journal.
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SOMETHING LIKED THIS NEEDED.
There is at present convention in
Washington urging the passage of a
uniform motor vehicle bill BY Congress
the result of which. If passed will be
to enable these vehicles to go from
state to state and through the states
without securing a special license
from each state IN passage. In other
words, it. means free trade and travel
as far as motor vehicles are concerned,
the United States. The
great number of people now using
automobiles and the greater number
that will use them in the future makes
such a law spensable.-Parsons
Eclipse.