The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-03
KANSAS COAMENT

THE WORK OF THE JINGO MAN.
It is evident that the jingoes are
working cross-lift against the tax
payers. In the United States they
constantly hold before our eyes the
bogie man of the Yellow Peril. Japan
IS bound to have the Philippines and
| in order to get them and thus domi-
| nate the Pacific, she is just on the
verge of declaring war against us. We
are told that she could land 100000
| trained soldiers upon our Pacific coast
inside three weeks, that before we
| could dislodge them the number would
! be 100000 and that would mean either
submission on the part of Uncle Sam
or else generation of destructive
warfare that would bankrupt our ma
ton of both men and money.
While we are looking upon this,
the Western side of the curtain, the
| Eastern side displays a different pic
ture. There the United States is
painted as the aggressor and the
| Yankee Peril is pictured with full
equipment of horrors. Only a few
days ago one of the leading news
papers of Toxic told the Japanese
people in hysterical terms that Amer
lea was saturated with anti-Japanese
sentiment and the people of the Unit
ed States would inevitably drive the
| government at Washington into be-
ginning hostilities. The paper point
ed out with great detail that the ac-
tquisition of the Philippines by the
United States twelve years ago was
part of well matured plan to con-
quer Japan; the occupation of Ha-
waii, the building of the Panama
canal and the proposed fertilization
of the Pacific coast were all factors
| in the scheme, and that unless the
Japanese army and navy were both
| greatly strengthened at once, the at
tack would be made within the COM
| ing year.
Did you ever hear such rot? 1t is
as bad on one side of the Pacific as
the other. Two perfectly peaceable
boys have often been dragged into a
manufactured "war talk and dis
tributed it "both ways" but we can
scarcely believe that such a plan
would work with two great nations
But it might lead to increased mill
itary expenditures and that. prob
ably. is all that the jingoes are after.
OTTAWA Republic. .
AS TO MURDER.
! The number of murders seem to be
on the increase, and many people view
with alarm the present tendency to
take human life. Either our laws
for the punishment of crime are too
lax, or else the punishment is not
severe enough. In this day and gem
CIdliOI uiHSly-IlI6 cases Oul OL d
hundred are found out, and the guilty
one convicted, yet the crime goes on.
Our penal institutions are too often
not a place of punishment, and many
J of them have better board and bet
ter accommo dations than the men
lwho commit the crimes are used to
in their everyday walks of life, hence
jails or penitentiarieS have no fears
for them. OF course, such places
should not be ones of torture, but all
of them have more comforts than the
ordinary country hotel and criminals
are too well kept. Perhaps it is a
| harsh doctrine. but if "a life for a
life" was the penalty there would be
less murders committed, fewer expen-
sive murder trials. no chances for
pardons, or communication of sentences
and human life would be safer, as
the thugs would all be living in a
different climate.-America's Greeting.
PEACE CHEAP AT ANY PRICE.
Imagine universal peace if you can.
Carnegie's gift of ten million dollars
toward bringing it about would not
be a drop in the bucket compared
with the saving. This government
could give fifty million a year for the
insurance of universal peace, and
make more than that amount by the
deal. The government could give sew
eral times Carnegie's gift and make ii
back annually by doing away with the
army and navy, the erection of battle
ships and the maintenance of fortifiea-
tons. Z his makes Carnegie's donation
look cheap.-Alrna Signal.