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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-07
LEGISLATIVE PAY.

That the members of the Kansas leg
islature are now serving their state
without pay is ridiculous proposition
And the salary of SO a 1ay accorded
them, during the brief limit for ses-
sion that the constitution provides, is
equally ridiculous. The wonder is that
the people of Kansas, who have we'll
earned regulations for being fair and
just in all things, have, on two or
three occasions in the past, voted down
proposed amendments to the constitu-
ton which would permit of raising the
pay of legislators to something like
reasonable sum.
The members of the legislature are
entrusted with the most important of
all of the functions of government
that of making the laws for the regula-
ton of all the activities in the com
monwealth that are of public concern.
So complex is the civilization of today,
so dove-taied are human activities that
the scope Of legislation is unusually
wide, Yet Kansas asks that the men
she sends to Topeka to make her laws
shall labor, and labor .hard-for law
making is no easy task-for a paltry
wage of IS q. day each.
constitution limits the length of a ses-
sion during which the members are en-
titled to this meager pay to so days.
There are not many people in Kansas
now who can remember when there
was a session of the legislature that fin
ished UP it's business within the time
specified. Assuredly during the past
decade and longer it has been we'll
nigh impossible for any of the legisla-
lures to finish up it's work inside of ten
days or two weeks after the 5O-day
limit has expired. And this necessl-
tates the legislators working in Topeka
that much longer without any COM
pensation whatever. Anybody who
thinks that this is treating the legis-
lators fairly has peculiar idea as to
what constitutes fairness.
When the opportunity again presents
itself another effort should be made to
amend the constitution so that the leg
islative session may be extended to
60 or rs days, and the pay of the MEM
bers increased to at least SIS a day.
Perhaps it would not be a bad idea to
place no limit at all on the length of
the session and pay the members
stated sum for the session of $3.50 or
$500. Increasing the pay Of the legisla-
tors to such an extent would not place
much Of an additional burden on the
taxpayers of the state. Indeed, in
to population, Kansas is one
of the wealthiest states in the Union
and she could we'll afford to treat her
Legislators with simple justice in the
matter of remuneration. No doubt
many able men in Kansas are kept
from trying for legislative honors be-
cause it is out of the question with
them to come to Topeka and serve the
state for a couple of months and long
or on a wage of So per day that only
runs for so days. 1t must be remem-
bered that most legislators have to
maintain their families at home while
they are in attendance at the session.
And it ought not to be difficult for
any one in the state to figure out how
far So a day will fail to go in helping
a legislator in average circumstances
keep even with his expenses during a
legislative session
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-07
THE END OF TILE woRI,D.

The END OF THE WORLD.
When the last big hat has been pur-
chased, and the plumes are broken
and bent,
When the hobble skirt has been banished,
and no one cares where it went,
we snail rest, and faith we shall need
1t-and quit for an aeon two
Denounc1ng each fashion verdict, and con-
demning each thing that's new.
Tnere will be no word from Paris of fash
49, ions of freakish mould.
IheyM be the rage in the springtime, -
VIII never again be told;
And the hair can be dressed as one wills
1t, provided it's all ones own.
AND no puffs or curls at the playhouse
shall make any patron groan.
And the men will have naught to worry,
Tor the tailors will show one style
That will satisfy all forever, and will
make no crimp in ones pile;
AND all who wear buds shall be happy,
and say: This is grand, I declare
L can wear my last years garments with
a. perfectly cheerful air"
D
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-07
JOURNAL ENTRIES

The good fellow has lots of friends
except when he needs them.
Many men would have to fight more
if they weren't such good runners.
The crouch, at any rate, can revel in
his own society once in while.
X =
There's this to be said for poverty:
it doesn't require much effort to at
tain it.
X X
Spring has come along with such a
rush that it seems to have caught the
poets mapping. Three cheers and a
tiger.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-07

the event newspapers. He made a
contract with five of the evening news
papers in New York and Brooklyn to
use page a day in each of their issues
for five years. But he made no such
C. tract with any morning newspaper,
and the morning newspapers OF New
York city are considered to be the
strongest newspapers in their class on
the face of the earth.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-07
THE CAR PoRTERCRATs.


II the news hads come that the ne
gro pofters who perform the sacred
rite OF hittle people on the back with
the butt of a whisk-b broom, had Sc :
dcured control of the Pullman COM
pany, not much surprise would have
peen manifested. But the news that
the Pullman porters have asked for a
raise in wages because they cannot
live on what they receive causes much
mental unrest. Every mean man who
has watched a porter's face light up
With pleasure when he was handed a
dollars, and who watched that same
face express beilderment, chagrin, dis
appointment and anguish when it's
owner was asked to give back rs cents,
has held the thought that every porter
was a multi-millionaire in disguise and
that he welded the brush-butt and in
flicted an imitation shine because of
eccentricity.
Booker T. Washington, asked his
opinion ond tipping, gave an answer
that would have delighted the Delphic
oracle. eff the wages are too low, tip
ping should be continued says this
educator. But why in the name of the
nine gods and the seven sacred hills Of
of Rome and the Pullman company,
after charging firSt-class hotel rates
for an ill-ventilated, jerky, uncomfort-
able sleeping shelf, should first expect
the public to pay the tanned chamber
maid-well, that is something that
seems to have been born without be-
ing fathered by reason.-Garden City
Telegram. no.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-07
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
IFrom the Chicago News.

lETOH1 TIE SIilCdSO 4NSWS.
Many a hotheaded man gets cold
feet.
Even the blind beggar seems to
have an object in view.
Should you get the worst of it, try
to make the best Of it.
Don't forget that people tire of lis
tening to your grouches.
No. Cordelia, man isn't necessarily
tipsy because he tips the waiter.
Aiming to do right is not enough.
You must score an occasional hit.
Some widows shed tears with one
eve and do a googoo stunt with the
other.
Most men are able to put up with
an unlimited amount of conceit in
themselves.
Occasionally we bump UP against a
man who has no use for his friends
unless he can Use them.
It is said that by amounting your
eyes with the milk of human kindness
you will be able to see good in your
neighbo,~
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-07
Feeling Against England.

Nothing would more surprise an
american schooboy than to attend a
Nova Scotian class in history and
learn that the tories who event to
Halifax in 1873 are there regarded
not only as human beings but as the
salt OF the earth. The same school
boy would, of course, know that it
was mere ignorant prejudice which,
once in the south and later in the
Fhll1ppines, credited the Yankees with
hoofs and horns. Something of this
prejudice against the foreigner is
part OF the human inheritance from
earlier stages of society," but not a lit
tie OF 1t has been kept alive by the
crude and narrow patriotism of
schoolbooks. Prof. Hart who has
written an interesting pamphlet on the
subject for the American association
for international Cancellation, quotes a
number of passages from school his
tories which seem deliberately calcu-
lated to fix in the mind of the student
a rancorous hostility against England
Our English heritage. political and
literary, and our uniformly amiable
diplomatic relations with the British
foreign office are quite neglected; the
student is taught naively to regard the
revolution as due to an aggression
which We gloriously repulsed, instead
OF as a broad and deep Anglo-Saxon
movement. The Introduction of our
textbooks of this more dispassionate
view of International relations will not
of itself bring about universal dis
armament, but it might easily stop
much loose talk in the world which is
born of these early impressions of the
grand achievements of our side and
the despicable behavior of our ad-
Versaries. Our country, right or
wrong" is nowhere so out of place
as in the histories.-New York Even
ing Post
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-07

Undoubtedly there will be much
popular approval of a bill which was
introduced in congress during its clos
ing hours that seeks to fix maximum
periods for the holding of things in
cold storage,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-07
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
[From the New York Press.l

It's very easy to make a good resolu-
ton and much easier to break it.
Arguments are never able to con-
vince anybody but the fellow who
makes them H g
A lot of people seem to think that
spending money is more honorable than
paying their debts.
A woman can be most mistaken
about having married a man and yet
be very glad she did it.
What a boy wants from his grand
father is not advice, but hard cash, and
you can guess what he usually gets.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-07

Now there is reported to be an al
lance of the Progressives and the
Democrats in the senate on the public
utilities bill. When the so-cal1ed
stand-patters and the Democrats
worked together on other propositions
earlier in the session, the alliance was
called a senate lodge" and much of
odium was attached to the character
fzafion
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-07

Governor Stubs is quite right in
pointing out that the legislature is re-
sponsible for all the state moneys that
are appropriated. So Is the legislature
responsible for all other kinds of leg
islation that is enacted. But it has not
been unusual in the past in Kansas
and other states for governor to ac-
sumo the credit for this and that piece
of legislation worth while that has
been enacted during his incumbency
IN office
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-07

Surely the senate and the house
ought to be able to get together on the
public utilities legislation. Governor
Stubs says he will call a special ses-
sion of the legislature if public util-
tiles bill is not passed. And the last
thing that Kansas needs is special ses-
sion -
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-07

If Mr.. Sheehan is right in his as
sertion that Governor Dix is blocking
his election to the United States SEN
ate, Governor Dix is doing a great
thing for the people of New York and
the rest of the country.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-07

Congress finally passed a bill Off
cially recognizing Mr.. Peary's North
Polar achievements and granting him
material rewards. But Doc. Cooks
friends can point with pride to the
fact that Peary hasn't yet received any
honorary degree or special medals
from the University of Copenhagen.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-07

deal like the youngster who refuses
to play unless he can name the game
and also fix up all the rules under
which it is to be played. There Is
only one chance for regret about this
latest Bailey performance That con-
Germs his withdrawal of his resigna-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-07

Nor did the special committee of
the lower branch of congress find the
slightest evidence of the existence of
anything savoring of an improper lob
by in connection with the ship subsidy
bill. The effectiveness of the con-
eressional personnel might be increas-
ed by putting some first-class detec-
tiVes in it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-07

good way to bring an end to this
Mexican revolution would be to have
a first class circus make a tour of
the revolutionary centers. Latin
Americans always drop everything
when circus gets in their midst.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-07

Women have been exempted from
jury duty in the state of Washington
II they don't care to serve And 1t
would not be at all surprising if all
of them now insisted on serving on
juries whenever they get a chance.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-07

In its marching on, John Browns
soul stopped for brief spell in the
Kansas house of representative the
other day and there was the excite
ment that is usual whenever a ghost
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-07

The last session of the Sixty-first
congress will go down in history as
Icing famous for the things it failed
IT, do. This is poor variety of fame,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-07
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The State Journal is a member OF the
Associated Press and receives the full day
telegraph report OF that great news or
ganization for the exclusive afternoon
publication in Topeka.
The news is received II The State Jour
nal building over wires for this sole pur-
pose.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-07

American tricks have evidently
spread to Italy. The slayer of prin-
cess in the royal household is reported
to be feigning insanity.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-07

AS a grandstander, Senator Bailey
of Texas is now entitled to the pass
ing glare of the limelight. It will
also probably strike some people that
in resigning from the United States
senate In a huff Bailey acted a good
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-07

One thing has been demonstrated,
at least, by the 1911 session of the
Kansas legislature. The executive and
legislative functions of government are
still separate and distinct in this state.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-07

Some real optimism from the At
lanta Journal: 1t is wonderful age
we live in; therefore. it is barely pos
sible we may live to see genuine tariff
revision
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-07

Mrs. Maldwin Drummond is a most
unusual woman. She scorns to worry
over the theft of her jewels which were
worth $4,000.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-07

AS the Galveston News understands
!. a raconteur is a man who can tell
an old joke so it sounds like he made
II I'D
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-07
HUNoR OF THE Day

You have made some fine speeches to
ator Sorghum; but I am never. able to
be sure whether my audience is being
instructed and persuaded or merely en-
tertained. washington Star.
1.-THE doctors are urging all kinds of
sanitary measures and precautions unon
the public yes; if all the recommersIa
tons and warnings were followed, mans
home would look like a hospital. But
faio Express
Money isn't everything" sighed the
young man. Of course not" said the
girl 81 know of a young couple that
started housekeeping nicely on tobacco
coupons alone. louisville Courier-Jour-
First New Woman-It is very import
ant to get all cooks interested in the
every cook controls two " votes-h er0a oWn
IT just. had letter from my cousin
Genevieve, whom 1 haven't seen in ten
Why's she She IS SAYS very th aFy she le0t
teaching herself to swim" Buffalo Ex-
press.
Warden-No'm; the guy that killed his
family amt here no more. The gov'nor
pardoned him. The Visitor-what a Shame.
other murderers have you?-Cieveland
Leader.
dare to take drink today!" said Mrs
hanback,. "Tha'sh what v did, m dear"
SO many words that I couldn't remember
EN-. Boston Traveller.
Miss Kay--I am told your husband I'M
der the Influence of the wine at dinner
the other evening, declared he had mar
ried beauty and brains Mrs. Bee
Aren't you going to investigate? Evident
ly he's bigamist-Boston Globe.
Emperor do not care to hear your
proposition, sir: Everything that is sub
mitted must first be put through the
prime minister Subject-Nothing would
the new bayonet which L have Invented
for army use.-Judge.
Uncle George Snow, an old antebellum
negro. was giving testimony. The coun-
sci asked Uncle George which side of
he rpe sFeek h y sde on On tho
creek do 1 live on, boss? YES" "Gwine
up or down the creek. boss?''-Argonaut.
"A number of performances are being
descr1bed as 1mproprieties," said one the
e PfiGdufe replied the he other
improprieties the public regards as prop
er. washington Star.
eff we didn't have to give back any
change. think of the money we merchants
would make" I'VE all have our trou-
bles,' said the magazine publisher
Sometimes it frets me to have to print
any reading matter, but s'pose it must
be done. kansas City Journal.
The Tailor-Married or single? The Gus
Concentrated. Why? The Tailor-Then
let me recommend my patent safety de-
posit pocket. 1t contains a most in
genious little continuance that feels ex-
actly like a live mouse.-Chicago News.
A local minister had had serious time
in fighting the saloon element in his town
and had not been backed up in his efforts
by the members of his own church This
with other troubles had led to his resig-
nation. and in announcing his departure
at his farewell sermon he said: "I am
going to do something the devil has never
done. 1 am going to leave c.
Argonaut.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-07
Davy Crockett please Note.

strel team was made a trio by the adj
dition of a real coon, which came TO
them under singular circumstances.
As the men were crossing wild
stretch of country near here they es-
pied a raecoon sitting in the branches
of tall tree. Their first impulse was
to capture it alive. and in order to do
so McSween stood off a few PAGES
while Carpenter bent the sapling over
until it was within a few feet of the
ground Then he let go.
When the tree swung back into po-
sition it threw the coon high into the
air, and as it came down McSween
caught it and bundled st into his over
coat without receiving a scratch
Monticello IN. " dispatch to New
York World.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-07
KANSAS COMMENT
EAST AND WEST.

Back in the SOS and '70s and sos
iano was great deal cheaper in the
west tnan IN the east. 1t was a COM
paraIively easy matter for a young
man 10 pick up a good homestead on
comfortable terms, anywhere west of
tne mississippi thirty years ago. 1t is
not an easy matter now to pick up a
homestead at bargain even west of
Inc missouri. The small farmers in
tIuho1S, Missouri and Iowa have of
iale peen selling out at high prices to
the Dig farmers and investing the pro-
ceeds In the Pacific Northwest or in
western Canada. Land is higher
throughout the west today than it is
Inrougnout the east. The soil is more
Iertile In the west, generally speaking,
Indn IN the east. But the western far
mer as a rule, is farther from the
market than the eastern farmer. Sta
tistics recently prepared under the
auspices of the New York State Ag-
ricultural college show an acreage
production in the five great crops,
corn. wheat, oats, potatoes and hay, of
$lS.4 In New York as against $3.50 in
1liino1s and $13.96 in Iowa.
professor Warren of the college
named, touching upon the statistics
which produce this result, declares
that land is too high in the west and
TOO low in the east. It would seem,
however, that the country is approach
ing readjustment. In New York it is
reported that many applications for
unoccupied farms come from western
ers. There are similar reports in Mas
sachusetts and from the other New
England states. The west as we'll as
the east should welcome the return
wave. since it promises not only to re-
populate the agricultural districts of
the latter section but to check the ten
~ u =
land monopoly in the former.-Atchi-
son Champion
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-07
EVIDENCE OF FAST LIVING.

Modern life is complicated. 1t is
swift We live at high tension The
sins of society-eople have become in
ured to them. Neurasthenia, one knows,
is often the inevitable. though much
to-be- deprecated, result of going the
pace. But what is one to think of
neurasthenia in the poultry yard?
Comes a publication which devotes it
self to poultry and other topics of the
farm. In it correspondent writes of
the symptoms of one of his hens-list-
less, nervous, indifference to food and
society.
And the editor replies that the
symptoms are those of a nervous dis
ease, and he declares that the only
cure for the hen is the rest cure in
some quiet retreat, away from the
feverish atmosphere of the poultry
yard This is a whitening Indictment
of present-day civilization. A neurotic
hen-think of thati A debutante of
last season, no. doubt, who should now
be in the full feather of glorious youth
a victim Of nerves!-Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-07

Miss Kay-I am told your husband. un-
der the influence of the wine at dinner
the other evening, declared he had 'mar-
ried beauty and BRAINS Mrs Bee
Well, well, how NIGEL Miss Kay-Nice?
Aren't you going to investigate? Evident
ly he's bigamist.-BoSton Globe.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-07
FpOM OFFER PENS
TRADE OF AMERICAN CONTINENT

TRADE OF AMERICAN CONTINENT
The United States has been amaz-
ingly slow in recognizing in practical
action that, by right of location and
the enterprise of her business men,
she is entitled to the trade of the
that the historian of the future is
bound to condemn, this country has
been diverted from the nearby mar
kets through visions of large trade in
the Orient, which have led US into our
unfortunate colonial adventures. 1t
will always remain the chief distinc-
ton of the life of James G. Blaine that
he recognized to the full in his later
years the trade advantages that are TO
be found on our own continent. His
ideas joined with eXactnesS of states
manship the warning word OF George
Washington against entangling for
eign alliances for this country. We
have been fooling away our day of
grace in thoroughly childish fashion.
Now comes President Taft's reciproc-
ity treaty with Canada to afford US op-
portunity for taking step in the right
direction The advantages of such
relationship as it is sought to establish
are widely recognized throughout the
country; the people as a whole are
ready for this question. and only the
Bourbons in the United States senate
stand in the way. Light upon our I'M
wisdom in the past is thrown by the
following paragraph in the Mexican
Herald: ''Twenty-eight years ago
Mexico and the United States tried to
get together comm ercially on a re-
ciprocity basis, but the Washington
standpatters Of that time were able to
defeat the measure. rms KIND OF
obstruction can not go on forever, and
we may be sure that the people will
see that it is not permitted.-Spring-
field Republican.