The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-14

as they do with us. Some KINDS OF
clothing are much cheaper, ctner nlgn-
err Mems tailor made suits are cheap
not because the cloth is cheap but be-
cause labor is cheap, also the cheap
Ishor of Europe. Have to pay Aneri-
can prices for food. cloth and rent so
labor is underfed, underclad and orten
badly housed in Europe, Wnen one con-
siders the American standard; hence,
| Immigration to America, for cheap Ia
hor makes Europe the poor mans IN
ferno ard the middle class man par
adise. Food is about the same on the
two continents. Rent about the same:
American women are surprised to nno
div goods about the same, when one
considers whole days shopping. i1la-
ronds, gold, automobiles carriages
and luxuries of all kinds arc ABOUT the
same IN Europe as in America The
only real bargain in civilization To-Day
| fine only thing that is marked down
dirt cheap. is European labor. Ana
vet the low tariff and free traders
would reduce America to the level OF
| chean labor in Europe. We Republic
cans believe in the highest possible
1 wages for American laboring men ana
a continuance of our splendid home
/ /. arlzets for American producers.
Notes of the Trip.
| IF Ed Howe should ever visit Pleas
anton, in Linn county, ne coula nnu
| another chapter for his book, A
| Country Town He could find there
| p couple of characters worthy of
| place beside his old friends. and he
could find setting all placed upon
the stage and his characters with the
lines in their mouths and the plot Oh
the play partly unfolded.
| Col H. H. McGIothlin is mentioned
first because the State Journal repre-
sentative met him first. The colonel
came TO Pleasanton in the year 1858,
and since then has remained in the
| oId r11a and acted in the same
| old way. He is as young now as ne
| was in 49, his white beard being the
only mark of age. He is as big as
Jim Jeffries and as full of life and
spirits as Capt. Joe Waters of Topeka.
The colonel believes in fixed principles.
He has served % years as deputy
sheriff of Linn county, crying auctions
as a side line all that time. He has
sold enough household goods and
farm machinery and live stock to sup
ply a New England state. The col
| oneI served in the Sixth Kansas cav
airy in the war and hung on the
tanks of General Price in that Mis-
sourian's famous raid.
The colonel is Curtis man clear
to the bone and he has mixed the Cur
tbs sentiment with his blood in order
| to keep it fresh all the time. He met
1 the senator at the depot and led him
about by the hand in his stay in
| Pleasanton. It was the colonel who
/ SWelleQ Will DT1U0 WIl6H H6
| the senator at the night meeting at
| the opera house Tuesday night. 1t
was the colonel who held the senator
| by the hand when the latter climbed
| aboard his train at the Frisco depot,
| and the last glimpse of life in Pleas
anton was the colonels farewell wave
of the hand. He was holding his old
Panama hat in the other hand and his
white beard was waving, too, in mute
sympathy with the colonels God
| speed thoughts.
The other actor in the play is May
| or Henry Plumb, who came to Pleas
anton few minutes after the colonel
did, which is to say in the same year
| of 1858. That was Pleasanton's lucky
year.
The mayors body has yielded a lit
tie before the encroaching years, but
his heart still is young and his eyes
flash as brightly as the colonefs when
they argue politics. The mayor, be it
known, il a supporter of Governor
| Stubs. The mayor met Stubs at the
train and led him through PIeasanton
with pride and pleasure. The mayor
moved heaven and earth to make the
Stubs meeting a success and he fore
ed his friend, the colonel to attend
that meeting in order that the col
| Onels huge bulk might make the
crowd appear larger than it was in
reality.
The mayors advantage of being
presiding officer of the common coun-
Gil, of which the colonel is only a
member in the ranks, is offset by the
fact that the colonel presides at the
meetings of the G.. A. r. The Pleas
anton post is No. in Kansas.
Senator Curtis probaly has aided
more individuals in his home state
while in congress than any other man
who ever went to Washington. Hardly
town that has some old soldier or
widow or unfortunate who does not
come forward upon the senator's ar