The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-12-27

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telegraph report of that great news q"
sanitation for thu exclusive Afternoon
publication IN Topeka
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al building ever wires for this sole pur'
pose
Bands Of brigands appear to be get
ting the most material benefit out o
the Chinese revolution.
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Kansas is finally getting some no
toriety of the right kind. The blue
Sky law is responsible for it.
a Missouri farmer who did not be
lieve in banks. not only lost his money
to robbers. They also took his life.
It's too bad state cannot choose
its historians. That would preclude
the possibility of Harry Kemp at
tempting to be one for Kansas.
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The best feature of the recent
Christmas celebration throughout the
country was that the poor generally
we're better taken care of than evel
before.
In Maryland they don't lynch Of
Tending negroes. or riddle them with
bullets or burn them al stake. They
merely hack them to pieces and death
with hatchets
Colonel RooseveIt's little Christmas
talk on the need for men to have
humility might be read with exceed
ing profit by a number of the Repub-
lican insurgents
General Bernardo Reyes deserves
any fate that may be coming to him
because of his efforts to foment an
other revolution in Mexico. He wears
a goatee Of the proportions Of a $50
willow plume.
Russia must be wanting a trifle
more from Persia than is rightly her
due. Else she would not have de
manded the retirement of w. Morgan
ShUster- He has been giving every
one with a claim against Persia a
square deal.
Italian soldiers slaughtered defense
less women and children in Turkey.
Russian soldiers have Just used their
lead and steel on equally defenseless
women and children in Persia. Here's
war so each OF them can get good
taste of their own medicine
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Wait until some umpire hands the
Cincinnati Reds particularly raw de-
cision that costs them an important
game. Then watch their new mana
ger. Hank O'Day. stick to his good
resolution to treat him with that Gas
ton and Alphonse politeness that Hank
himself liked to receive when he was
umpiring.
See of the meanest men in the
world have been located at Cook coun-
ty. illinois, which is also the habitat
of Chicago. They are among the en-
ployees of that county's charitable in
situations and have distinguished
themselves by stealing trifling sums of
money and other personal property
from the unfortunate inmates.
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of what particular significance is a
straw vote contest on presidential
candidates. if the newspaper that is
conducting it is right in it's editorial
opinion that ''it is not safe to rely on
what a man says he is going to do
year before d national election. Po-
Htically, a year is a long time. and
every voter possesses the inalienable
privilege of changing his mind"
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John D. Rockefeller and Helen
Gould get nationwide notoriety for
passing out 50 gold pieces for Christ
mas presents to telephone operators
and railroad station employees in
their vicinity. But this isn't as heavy
a drain on their resources as the
cigars and boxes of candy that just
ordinary individuals pass out at
Christmas time in the same way.
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Peace in China will never be acced-
ed to by the rebels so the latest re-
ports have it. unless a republic is es-
tablished. And in that event the peace
that is likely to prevail won't be any
more or as much like the real thing
as the peace. or lack of it. which has
prevailed in Mexico since the new re-
public was instituted there. A sue
cessful republic can only be established
in a country that is blessed with an
Intelligent proletariat
j Pierpont Morgan ought to take
up his habitat in Germany. That's
where he seems to be appreciated.
Not so long ago Kaiser Wilhelm con
ferred on him the order of the Red
Eagle And for a Christmas present
the kaiser sent him a ma gnificently
wrought lust of himself. Maybe Mr..
Morgan has agreed to finance the
German emperor in the war he isl
credited to be planning against Eng
Land,