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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-04-10
FAIRNESS OF DIRECT TAXATION

Why not frankly acknowledge that
our government can no longer be fed
by those who have little and are con-
stantly getting less, and must be sup
ported by those who have much and
are steadily acquiring more? asks Col.
George Harvey in the North American
Review for April. and he continues:
Attempts have been made from time
to time to impose adequate taxes upon
incomes and inheritances. Some have
been insincere; all for one reason or
another have been abortive Is it not
now time to undertake the task with
reso1ute determination to succeed?
Can a better solution of our most vital
problem be devised?
Advocacy of legislation making such
imposition does not involve assault
upon a class. 1t is not a contest of
classes at all. 1t is no more or less
than a recognition of the natural
rights of free men to establish a sys-
tenn under which all memt ers of each
present and succeeding generation shall
possess substantially equal privileges.
A tax upon incomes is not. as is so
frequently said, a tax upon industry.
1t is rent of exceptional opportunity,
a just payment for peculiar advantages
levied in proportion to the gains de-
rived from their exercise. And a tax
upon inheritances is not a tax upon
the Garner, but upon the beneficiary
who, having played no part in the
making, should be willing to share his
bequest with the state whose aid was
essential to it's requirement and whose
protection continues to be requisite to
it's preservation.
We are accustomed to regard our
very rich as broader and more gem
erous-minded than the very rich of
other lands and we set forth in evil
dence their magnificent benefactions.
But making big gifts is quite different
from paying big taxes. The former
not only gratifies vanity, but presum-
ably paves the way to a place among
the angels, while the latter merely
discharges a just obligation. So we
must expect that the opposition will
continue as strong as ever and that
the usual arguments must be confuted
in fairness and reason. But this is not
difficult. There need be no question of
double taxation and no antagonism be-
tween state and nation. Cooperation
alone is essential. 1t is useless for a
commonwealth to impose a tax which
can be evaded by a mere change of
residence But the federal govern
ment can make such a tax general and
conserve all state prerogatives by al
lowing i reduction equivalent to the
amount paid under similar enactment
to the state. The would-be dodger
would then be compelled to leave the
country to avoid bearing his fair share
of the total burden. And the justice
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-04-10
woes of the Architect.

Extraordinary demands are often
made of the architect varying with ev-
cry client. Jones wants colonial stairs
in a wide hall. Smith says, For
heavens sake put the stairs some
where so that I can sneak upstairs
without going by the front door," Mrs.
Jones announces with an air of a dis
coverer that she wants the iceman to
be able to put in the ice from the out
side-a plan which Mrs. Smith siren
uously Vetoes because she says 1t en-
ables the iceman to cheat SO easily.
One of my architect friends recently
received more as a command than as
a suggestion the idea of a combina-
ton dumb-waiter and dining table.
"a splendid idea" said the client;
"the table can be set in the basement,
then raised gracefully in to place like
an elevator
YES" agreed the architect, '+but
when the table is down below what
happens to the hole in the floor ?'-
METROPOLITAN.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-04-10
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
[From the Chicago News.1

From the chicago News
False profits often lead to bank
ruptcy.
One way to flatter a woman is to tell
her that YOU can't.
It's difficult for rounder to keep in
the straight and narrow path.
Most of US feel that We could get
along nicely on double our income.
It's queer how much interest a dig
nified man can generate in a dog fight.
Sometimes mans idea of economy
is to tell his wife how to save money.
Ignorance is bliss when man has
more money than he knows what to do
with.
Occasionally man marries for a
home, so that he will have some place
to stay away from.
Only a girl with tiny feet and a
genuine complexion enjoys being
caught in a rain storm
A little travel is a dangerous thing.
1t may make a fool of a man upon a
great many subjects.
The man who marries after falling
in love at first sight is apt to become
a firm believer in second sight later.
Judging from their actions here on
earth, some men will try to beat his
Satanic majesty out of his job as soon
as they reach the other place.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-04-10

CALL FOR MR.. DARWIN!
(Not to mention full particulars of
the sad accident to Mr.. Schoen).
Miss Hattie Simmeolink is now at
home.
Willie Simmeolink visited home folks
Sunday.
A. M. Schoen has his stalks broken
and is discing for corn.
Miss Lucy Simmeolink went over
south Of Osborne Saturday to visit
friends for a few days.-Downs Times.
Were it not for the word ''irnuand
ing" the Mexican scrap reporters would
find but little wherewith to burden the
wires.
Here's that ss-It-Along'' thing
We have been keeping in the ice chest
Some Excuses.
'Scuse me. please,
/ forget
Done your Christmas
Shopping yet?
Birmingham Age-Herald.
No. we amt
Not quite vet
Cause we made
Lection bet.
Springfield Union.
No, we amt
Same old fret
Cause we don't know
What to get.
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
No, we amt.
We rise to say.
We're saving for
Thanksgiving Day.
Boston Transcript.
We have not
Can't until
We have paid that
x x Ill gas bill.
III G P
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-04-10

obliged to do had it not been for Jes-
seas absence Then he might have
thought she had cared about the trifi-
ing quarrel that had brought her visit
at her aunt's to an abrupt termination.
| It had ended the friendship, too,
that had been rapidly growing toward
a closer regard. But he must never.
never dream that she had given him a
second thought.
why, how small the world is, after
ALL" she added, striving to speak with
easy cordially. 81 am delighted that
Mr.. Beldon's friend proves to be an old
acquaintance of mine. instead of the
stranger 1 expected to meet. Please
be seated. OF course you must have
lunch with me. What a gay party we
should be if only my husband were
here!"
You have very pleasant home.
Mrs. Beldon, and am quite sure a
very happy one If Dick Beldon has
anything to do with it, Tom Sprague
remarked, giving Enid a peculiar look
which brought the color to her cheeks
They chatted for a few minutes
upon various Indifferent topics. Then
Enid excused herself, and went to the
kitchen. Though she would not have
owned to it, she could not help feeling
a little the apparent indifference with
which ner guest had accepted the fact
of her being another mans wife. He
had seemed TO take delight, too, in
making occasions for addressing her
as Mrs. Belden.
With the assumption of all the mat
ronly dignity she could muster, she
summoned him to the dining-room,
where they sat down to a tete-a-tete
meal, interrupted only by the occa-
sional clumsy entrances of the stout
but willing Mrs. O'Brien.
1t Seem ed to Enid as if that dreadful
meal would never end.
But, as Mrs. O'Brien made her last
exit, Tom looked at Enid with an
odd smile.
do you know" he remarked, his
voice softening to tenderness, there
was time when well, presumptu-
Gus as it may semi hoped that you
would sit opposite me thus at my own
table one day.
Enid's eyes sought her place. She
knew. in her assumed character of
Mrs. Richard Belden she ought to feel
indignant, but-she couldn't. Instead,
she listened with bated breath.
"Then came that unfortunate mis-
understanding" Tom continued, land
you went home without giving me a
you did not care. as I cared
Enid struggled for self control. oh,
how bitterly had she repented the
anger that had driven her home too
Sooni
A rebellious tear refused to be held
in check longer. and rolled down her
cheek
Tom was at her side in one quick
bound, and Enid was in ris arms sob
bling out the confession of her fool
ishness.
st have a confession to make too,
DEAR" Tom told her, later, when mat
tiers had been satisfactorily settled
and they were engaged. 81 knew all
the time that you were not Dicks
wife, for he had told me he had mar
ried a Miss Jessica Bowman"
What a goose 1 was not to think
of that Enid pouted charmingly.
but 1 don't care a bit, SO there
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-04-10
CHINA GETTING WHO'RE.

It is only of late years, comparatively
speaking, that the nations of the earth
have begun to realize that their natural
resources are governmental assets.
There is no more parceling of them out
in ruthless fashion to be exploited at
immense profit by private individuals
and corporations. They are being made,
either through lease on royalty basis
or through sale at figure somewhat
approximating their value, to help the
governments on their financial way.
Nor does China, which.is alleged to be
in a perpetual state of somnolency, ap-
pear to be much behind her more pro-
gressive sister nations in this particu-
lar. Indeed, China seems to be particu-
larry wide-awake in the premises. She
has had natural resource for centuries
that has apparently served little or no
purpose unless it has been to disfigure
the look of the Chinese race. But this
natural resource is now being exploited
by the Chinese government itself for all
that it is worth, and when it has be-
come exhausted, the greater part of the
enormous national debt which China
has been staggering under for years,
will have been paid.
That will be a worthy accomplish
ment. But it would hold more favor in
the eyes of the men of the Occident, no
doubt, were it not for the fact that this
national debt of China is going to be
wiped out at the expense of the vanity
of the women Of Europe and America.
FIR the great natural resource that
China is putting to such good use is
NOTHING OfH n he Snior OF 49,
male Chinese which are in demand in
the more "civilized'' centers of the
world for the making of false hair for
feminine coiffures.
Until they began to cut them off
there were more that 30O, Ooo, 900 queues
dangling from the heads of as many
Cinnamon. Under recent ukase of the
Chinese regent all these hirsute ap-
pendages must be cut off and turned
over to the government. There is a
ready market for them at from so cents
to 81 per pigtail, according to it's size
and quality. The money that is re-
ceived from them is going to be applied
to China's national debt, and will nearly
wipe it out.
Who is there now to insist that China
is not getting there In the march of
progress? Is there any other nation on
the face of the earth that can show
such large results in the conservation
or the disposition of any of it's natural
resources? A lot of ridici1le has been
heaped on the Chinese because they
have insisted on wearing a yard or SO
of hair hanging down their backs. But
1T takes long time for pigtail crop
to reach its largest proportions. When
one becomes ripe, however, it can be
disposed of to great advantage, as the
Chinese have not been slow to find out
Out of the receipts from the pigtails.
the Chinese government should set
aside a sufficient sum to erect a suit
able monument to the ChinF who was
far-sighted enough to establish the
custom of growing and wearing queues
until the time arrived for their profit
able harvest.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-04-10
HUAOR OF THE DRY

Expei1ence Is the best teacher" quoted
the Wise Guy. Yes, but her charges are
mighty high" added the Simple Mug
Philadelphia Record.
First Farmer at concert. as singer,
start duet)-What be they comm two To-
gether for2 Second Farmer-Idkelv he
cause it's gittin' late. and they want to
finish.-Punch. =
Are you friend Of the groom's fam
ilyT' asked the usher at the church wed
ding II think not" replied the iadv adj
Yonkers Statesman,
''Ah! So that is the oldest inhabitant D,
said the city man. Venerable fipItra
TRULY How do you account for his hav
ing lived all these years., well a trffie
acidly replied the landlord of the Skaee
dee Tavern. Il guess It's because he's
never done anything else."-Puck.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-04-10
GLOBE SIGHTS.
[From the Atchison Globe.[

[From the Atchison Globe.[
A white lie doesn't holZ its color
very well.
Many people work harder to land a.
job than they do afterwards.
No woman feels dressed up unless
she has on a fresh pair of hose.
Are you willing to arbitrate with
man if you know you can whip him?
Farmers have become 50 prosper
Gus that there is no longer crying
demand for pillow shoes.
The published announcement of an
engagement doesn't often come as
rude shock to the community.
If there wasn't any such thing as
running for Office some people would
never know how unpopular they are.
If you are under rs years of age
you sound foolish when yoI say any,
thing about suffering from insomnia.
saloonkeeper may grieve when a
drunkard dies, but the rest of the
community bears up under it pretty
well.
Uncle Sam has asked for prices on
collins in large lots. Doesn't that kind
of news arouse your patriotic enthus-
iasm?
Some people wonder why dog
bowls when the music begins. But
there are others, good judges of music,
who know.
Delayed dinners have doubtless
caused more domestic unhappiness
than all the beautiful blonde stenog-
raphers on earth.
Our idea of a wise man is one who
knows all about a barometer; one OF
them has just been telling US, but We
didn't catch it,
1t would also be better if your con-
science would stop you before you do
wrong, instead of calling you down
after you hit the toboggan.
II is an unusual town man who can
give you something raised in his own
garden without acting as proud as if
he had just endowed a college
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-04-10
JAYHAWKER JOTS

IAN elocutionist that took her audi
ence by storm appeared in Holton the
other night.
In the short name contest. Mr.. Ed
Gee, a hotel proprietor at Pratt, ought
to get an honorable mention, at least.
Advice from the Glenwood reporter
of the Holton Recorder: Beware of the
jealousy of an old man and the too
ardent friendship of a young person.
Editor Osterhold of the Holton Signal
expresses the opinion that the new
harem skirt gives the wearer the APP
pearance of being just about to lose
something.
My church is just like yours, and
every other one for that matter, reports
Deacon Walker in his Osborne Farmer.
We have a few members who Joined as
business investment
The Osborne County Farmers Village
Deacon knows a fellow who has grown
gray listening for the knock of oppor-
tunity on his door. He has spent all
his time listening and hasn't had time
to work He is poor.
Some good advice from the Colby
Free Press: When YOU buy goods in
some distant city that could be had as
well at home, you miss the chance to
make a business ally in your own town
who sooner or later may be very use
full.
The Denison correspondent of the
Holton Recorder inflicted this piece of
poetry in last weeks issue of that pa
per:
Spring is here.
The rhubarb and the catnip
Do now appear in sight,
While upon Highland Avenue
The tulips bloom each night.
Most of the Lower Banner notes In
last weeks issue of the Holton Record
er: Rev. Platz called at George stous'
Monday afternoon. The StouS
boys were pleasant callers at the
Rooney home Thursday evening.
George Stous was hauling hay to Hol-
ton the past week. Frank Stous
spent Sunday at home. .. John
Stous and wife of Kansas City and Mrs.
Frank Perkins called on the George
Stous family Sunday morning.
My friend, writes Deacon Walker in
his Osborne Farmer, you remember
the old saying, 1.-THE mill will never
grind with the water that is past ?"
A lot to that little sentence You
couldn't put it better if you were to
write fourteen big volumes on the sub
ject. But you will see people every
hour who haven't learned that much.
Any day down on the stream of life
you will see fellows sitting along the
bank looking <anxiously down stream.
Their mill is above them and the
WneeI IS sui. L ears Ddck II IuTneuS
but the water that moved it is now
mingled with the ocean thousands of
miles below. But they keep on think
ing that it will return and again put
life and power into their old wheel.
The dull light of hope never fades
from their eyes. So they sit and hope
and hope, but their mill never grinds
again and the water ne-er returns.
Time rolls on, but they do not change
their seat. They do not hunt another
stream for their mill. They sit and
patiently wait for the mountain to
come to them. 1t does not come and
then they weep over spilled milk. Are
YOU waiting for your mill to grind with
the water that has passed? Are you
located at the head of the stream with
your wheel instead of at the mouth?
A lot OF us are.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-04-10

Most of Ruth Cameron's correspond
ents who are now telling her the kind
of creature a man SHOULD be to APP
peal most strongly to woman, insist
that he should have a sense of humor.
This suggestion probably comes from
the fact that most men either fail to
see the point of or laugh at their wives
~jokes." But does this fac. that men
generally fail to greet women's Jokes
with a laugh Indicate thas they are
lacking in a sense of humor?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-04-10

The patroling of the Mexican border
by United States troops has not been
without one result. The plans of a
couple of hundred Cinnamon to sneak
into this country have been thwarted,
and these unfortunates are now hud-
died together in a camp just across the
line with the prospects excellent that
they will starve to death -..
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-04-10

AS was to have been expected sooner
or later. the green bug has been found
in the Kansas wheat fielos. Inasmuch
as the story, that dust storms had just
about ruined the wheat crop, was
punctured. the crop killers" just nat
urally had to dig up something else to
serve their PURPOSES.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-04-10
REFLECTIONS or BACHELOR
[From the New York Press.l

[From the New York Press.l
A girl can smile at you just because
she doesn't mean it.
The exception never proved any rule
that was worth using.
The hotter the cooks temper the
colder the soup she can send in
1t takes a woman to reDroach her
self for catching one of the children
in a lie.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-04-10
JOURNAL ENTRIES
Clothes often make the man uncom-

Clothes often make the man uncom-
Portable.
Knowing the best people in town
and associating with them are differ
ent propositions.
Most men who are called on for a
speech ought to tender an apology for
attempting one.
The prevailing opinion is that there
is something wrong with the boy or the
man who doesn't care for baseball.
The way to the room that is always
at the top is generally too difficult for
the great majority of folk to climb.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-04-10

Chicago's city council is to be thor
oughly renovated and reorganized on
non-partisan basis. So it is quite APP
propriate that the committeeman en-
trusted with thia work should HE
themselves to Hot Springs, Ark,
where there are many and divers
springs of water that are credited
with having wonderful curative and
cleansing powers
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-04-10

broom corn crop. Not a few economists
in this country insist that the prices
of all things that are bought and sold
here are controlled by the tariff law.
and there has been no recent change
in the tariff on broom corn or brooms.
Maybe there isn't any tariff on them
at all. but little thing like that would
not make any difference with the anti
tariff agitators.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-04-10

According to the Chicago Tribune,
Governor Blease, of South Carolina. is
SO popular in his own state that his
election to the United States senate
probably is only a question of time.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-04-10

Emphatic denial has been made by
the regents of the state university that
they in any way authorized the state
.nent of Dean Templin that because of
reduced appropriations the university
would have to close its doors to any
ilclo case in the number of students.
The regents suggest that this matter
be dropped and forgotten and the sug-
Cestion is good one.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-04-10

A bedspring in the hands of a prac-
teal joker killed a 17-year-old lad in
Chicago the other day. 1t is more
than likely, too, that other bedsprings
have driven many people to insomnia
and suicide because they either did
not know their places or refused to
STAY in them
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-04-10

President Smith of the Mormon
church has come out again in a public
statement against polygamy. Presum-
ably it is human nature with the Nor
mons of high and low degree, as it is
with most other folk, to say one thing
and do another-in other words fail
TO practice what they preach.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-04-10

And speaking of generosity, Fran
cisco I. Madero, the leader of the Mex
lean revolutionists. says he is willing
TO resign as provisional president of
the new Republic of Mexico, if Diaz
will also resign his place. AS a matter
of fact, this job. which Madero thinks
he holds. is merely a Pigment of his
Imagination
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-04-10

Bank robbers in Oklahoma should
come up to Kansas and take lessons
from their brethren who work at the
same trade in this state. A band of
the Oklahoma yeggs operated on a
bank at Tulsa the other dav and over
looked $1,000 in cash that they could
have made away with just as easy as
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-04-10

Committees working on the great
white way project report that it is
finding much favor among the property
owners on Kansas avenue. 1t would
be strange if it did not and were that
the case it would show that the big
property owners in Topeka are not of
the progressive and wide-awake type.
But that is just what they are.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-04-10

of the proposal is indicated by the fact
that there is no civilized land from
England to Italy to which he could go
and obtain better terms than the high
est we would think of exacting for
the protection of his property.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-04-10

The new south is evidently impressed
with the fact that advertising pays.
The people of Memphis, Tenn, would
be willing to give Mr.. Bryan $2,O00,0O0
in cash if he would make his home in
their MIDST