The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-02

financially responsible for his actions.
The advantage is mutual.
Right here it might be stated THAI
the State Journal has never decreaS ed
wages in its composing room to the best
OF It's recollection and belief during the
! past half of the century.
On the other hand, it has increased
wages many, many, times and it his
tried to improve the sanitary and
other conditions under which the COM
p3sitors do their work
Here is another point: The State
Journal in ten years has not iucreas-
/ ed its advertising rate to the big 10
cal advertisers They have been pay
ing AZ cents ger inch; that is, s cents
Fer agate ine, for what they use. but
without a contract on the part of the
publisher to give their advertising any
particular space.
OF course we try to please them and
give them the pages we think they
like, but they do not pay anything eX-
ira for position. OF course they ought
to pay 25 per cent extra, if they de-
mand good position every time, but
1t Is difficult enough for US to get AZ
cents for although the circulation of
the paper has practically doubled since
the rate of AZ cents was put in force,
our general competitor, who is the
fiercest, miId-mannered competitor
badly possible, because he has 5 z
different varieties of papers. and this
paper has only one paper, the daily
edition, which you are now reading,
and his competitor is now charging
some big Topeka advertisers as low as
80 cents per inch for the identical adj
vertisement in Identical space and on
identical days of the week. The only
way for us to make both ends meet is |
to get the business and increase the |
volume Of it nightly every year for |
the expenses increase nightly every |
year.
We want more people in Kansas;
we need them We have the acres and /
the places. This paper does not agree
with David Leahy, private secretary
to Governor Stubs, wherein he says
we do not want more people, except /
they be of a certain standard laid
down by Mr.. Leahy and other Of the |
400" In Topeka and Kansas we want
all kinds of men and women of good
character, who have real blood in
their veins. We can give them work
under the most happy surroundings:
roads; Chat is, pretty good in some
places.) They can come here and
ought to be healthy, wealthy and wise
in due time if they have the right kind
of stuff in them.
We notice that Arthur Capper, our
close neighb0r and personal friend in
this mornings Capital practically en-
dorses Dave Leahy's position about the
state of Kansas not desiring more ir1-
unless the people come from
the ranks of the high brows,'' the
400 or the rich and weIl-to-do, 10
say nothing Of the predatory rich. This
is a class we Go not care much about,
but il they come, we will try to re-
form them and make them put their
money III good use. We can take them
so we can get good roads, maybe. " Q
hope Mr.. Capper will not put this
'plank'' in mis- gubernatorial platform.
It might give Kansas g Democratic
governor. We want to see a Repub-
lican succeed the exemplary Gin some
modified respects) Governor Stubs and
we want him III his campaign to be tied
to Taft. for Taft ought to succeed him
self and Capper ought to come out f II
Taft now and quickly. or it may be too
late-for him. not Taft.
To say word politically at the end
IF this chapter, as it seems necessary
to add. the reader is invited to read
Two remarkable articles on today
first page. upon Insurgency in poll
les. and to also note a quotation given I
below, being an excerpt from an edi-
torial by William Allen White, APP
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