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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-02
BRITISH VIEW OF THE TARIFF.

The British view of our proposed
new tariff seems to be considerably
I at variance with that of the alarmists
! in this country who profess to believe
| that its passage will mean disaster to
many American industries. The Lon
don Times says:
The introduction of DR.. Wilson's
tariff bill at Washington has passed
almost unnoticed both in Wall street
derful illustration of the value of an
ticipation. Finance had discounted
the event, at least as far as the i'm
mediate effect was in question. But
of course, the real consequences of the
new tariff will only be felt when it
has come into operation and they will
prove of enormous benefit to the states
and her business friends, chief among
the latter, of course, England. For
the bill, though cautious, is thorough.
1t frees food and clothing and lowers
all excessive import duties and there
by effectively breaks the chains by
which the worst trusts had enslaved
the people of America. 1t will be a
genuine help in bringing down the
cost of living. 1t leaves a moderate
tariff on certain manufactures but
one that will not allow the formation
of oppressive trusts. Though not in
PRODUCING absolute free trade-no
sane statesman would propose so abb
rupt a step in the states-it is the
knell of protection in the country and
thereby sets an example which can
hardly remain unheeded in Europe.
For, as we know from our own tar1n
reformers, America has been always
held up as the example of prosperity
under protection and, with this exam
pie failing, the chances of economic
freedom in Europe have without
question vastly improved.
On this same subject, the London
''Statist" says:
Our own view of the matter is that
the increased importations in the
United States as a result of the new
tariffs will be much less than gener-
ally expected. At the present time the
factories of Europe are so busy that
they cannot supply any large amount
of additional goods, and if there isl
any trade contraction it will make
American manufacturers keener than
ever to provide for the home market, |
and this will tend to keep out for
eign goods.
The industries of the United States |
are now in a very different position |
from what they were 20 or 80 years |
ago. They are now firmly established,
well organized, and able to take care
of themselves in a manner that was
not possible in the old days. There is
indeed a certain amount of nervous
ness on this side lest the reductions
of the duties will bring about such
in American methods
and such economy of production that
American manufacturers will not only
retain the markets of the. United
States, but will succeed in obtaining
a much greater share in foreign mar
kets than hitherto. Such result IS
by no means improbable.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-02
SAYS UNCLE CAV

| If you have the qualities of real leader
ship you will not worry great deal over
the slowness of the people around to ac-
| cept your ideas. No man can lead who
| cannot work and wait.
| Tho force of public opinion, said a
wise man the other day, is always mega
| tive. If it wasn't this world would be
| humping it's heads and breaking its neck
| against every maniacal vagary that com IS
| along with the borrowed brand of pro-
gress upon it.
The fact that humanity in the mass is
slow to wrath and quite slow to en-
| thuSiaSm is the only thing that makes an
| be most enthusiastically hanging each
other every day and the survivors would
be as enthusiastically building monuments
to us upon every morrow. The man who
is eternally bowling about the blindness
and stubbornness of public opinion is
hownng about that which keeps him from
getting hurt. He car see no farther than
his nose. If he did he'd stop the lamenta-
tons. He'd suddenly realize with shudder-
ing vivtdness that the engine of public
opinion which he would so lightly turn
against others might in the twinkling of
an eye accomplish his own destruction.
BY it's very slowness to make up its
mind the public Sits and tests the opin-
ions of its leaders. 1t safeguards itself
against violence and million errors. 1t
goes wrong almost as often as it goes
right-being just a little more than half
right all the tirne.
you've first got to learn to think clearly
and sanely. and the first thing you've got
to think about is this disposition of the
public to give your ideas long probation
before they are even partially accepted.
Whether you are in a profession a
business, are interested in politics or
theology, in social betterment or in the
advancement of science, you've got to
work and wait. Your first task is to
reach a clear and definite conclusion;
your next to impress that conclusion upon
the public mind, and the rock upon which
your hopes seem to go to wreck will in
time be your anchor when other men with
ASSail he
ciples which you have established.
It's a very practical lesson. The prin-
ciple applies to every activity of men. 1t
is as forceful in the shop and factory as
it is in the laboratory and the forum. In
word, you've got to make good in such
fashion as to compel the innate con-
servatism of public opinion to be your
chief asset. Until you have done so you
needn't give much thought as to the de-
lay of your neighbors in accepting your
ideas. That's a part of the game and a
of
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-02
QUAKER MI1DfTATIONS
[From the Phfladelphia RECORD. l

CFrom the Philadelphia Record.1
I he better part of wisdom is to know
when you have said enough.
The worst feature about borrowing
trouble is that nobody wants it back.
A fool is simply a man who doesn't use
our own particular brand of folly.
Beauty may be only skin deep, but some
people are mighty thick skinned.
A little push is all right, but it has sent
many a fellow on the downward path.
At the age of 10. boys idea of a per-
feet woman is one who never cuts pie
into less than four pieces.
Life is made up of extremes. Where one
man has money to burn, another man is
eager to freeze onto it.
Wigg-'rDo you believe there are mi
crobes in kisses?" Wagg- No. 1 don't -
Wigg-"I guess you're right. I've always
found that kisses would go with most
girls
Muggins-'I have no sympathy with a
woman'S club. Buggins-"But even a
woman's club may have certain aims
Muggins-"Sure, But It never seems to
hit what it aims att
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-02
BY TIE WAY
BIT HARVEY PARSONS.

English authorities momentarily
stopped the suffragette newspaper by
nabbiHg the composing room fixtures
but the only way to stop the suffs
themselves will be to stop all Other
newspapers from printing anything
The kitchen sink is the newest OF
the dances invented in New York II
is said to be good for the development
of the knee-cap. but is otherwise just
as foolish as any of the others.
Now that the war scare is fairly
launched, the word lingo which has
been up in the attic with the ping-pong
set and women's bicycles, will be
brought out and busted up.
And some erveless simp will show
up daily with Absolute Proof that the
japanese have spies in every hotel
kitchen, with Instructions to use dyna-
mite instead of mincemeat in the con-
struction of pies.
charged with being missionaries" 1t
least they are charged with making
good Indians"sout of certain land-own-
ing Choctaws. ae-
Nay, Ernyntrude; people do not
write open letters" to city commits
sioners just to save the extra cent
postage on a sealed letter.
A negro in South Carolina committed
the usual offense .ant. then killed a
few white gG t1efnen who objected to
his methods. You are entitled to one
guess on what will occur to the colored
gentlemen when they catch him-and
of course they will.
For in the south it is considered
a fau pas-what ever that is-to let
one guilty colored gentleman escape.
Owing to severe dust storm. the
Socialist parade, was a brief incident
of the May-Day festivities. But it
was not the shortest political parade
on record in this town. When the
We're here, the line of march
was short, and the parade formation
was something like this:
FIRST Emma Goldman.
SECOND DIVISION-He Gentleman
Friend.
So, of course, it didn't take the
Anarchist parade long to pass given
point. afA
Kansas is not scoring heavily at the
national pie counter, but it cannot be
from any reason of false modesty on
the part of Kansans, who are rapidly
record as local and long
distance PERSONAL recommenders.
AT late hour this afternoon, it was
the federal forces that Were evacuat-
ing Juarez, Mexico. That makes
Juarez about the most completely and
evacuated town on the map.
Since the earliest Mexican trouble,
avacuating Juarez has been a game
played by innings-first one side and
then the other doing the evacuating.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-02
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
IFrom the Chicago News.J

IFrom the Chicago News-1
There is less fun in gambling if you can
afford to lose.
The only. thing that gives weight to a
fish story is the scales
Some man is usually at the bottom of
two women's dislike for each other.
A woman seldom knows what she wants
until she discovers that she can't get it.
Here's a good motto for married men:
BE sure you're right, then ask your
wife"
With riches some men imagine that they
can gid lot of vices until they look like
virtues.
No, Maude, dear; we would scarcely say
that it was idle curiosity that prompted a
man to look for work.
The difference between the average
young woman and a suffragette is gener-
ally about twenty years.
When a small boy overhears the doctor
telling his mother to take plenty of exer-
else, that's his cue to be good.
After woman has spent twenty years
trying to make man of her son, along
comes another woman who proceeds to
make fool of him in twenty minutes.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-02

picked out, not by arguments from the
past, but by power to render service IN
the present. The true church is being
selected now by the survival of the
fittest and the law that governs the
selection is an eternal one, HE that
is greatest among you shall be your
servant
AS ministry to the real needs of
men is thus emphasized as the objec-
tive of the church, all speculative
quarrels over niceties in metaphysics
and all consuming interest in the per-
petuation of a polity or ritual that
makes no real difference to life, give
way. gradually but certainly, before
the desire to be of use. Men who
could not and who should not in the
interest of unity make any dishonor-
able surrender of cherished and
significant belief, discover that men or
most diverse beliefs can be united, not
in creedal subscription, but in prac-
teal service, not in doctrine, but in
deed.
Church unity is not by any means a
matter of our choice alone; it is be-
ing forced on us by the democratic
test of service. The churches can CO.
operate in program, if they cannot
unite in creed, and democracy insists
that they muster die.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-02
FROM OTHER PENS
DRAWING THE LINES.

DRAWING THE LINES.
1t is proposed in the administration
of the antitrust law to draw a line
between labor and capital. Many IA
vor this who do not see that it is i'm
possible to stop there, and that re-
suits which they cannot wish will fol-
low unless the line is drawn between
good and bad unions as well as be-
tween good and bad capitalists con-
spiracies.
The antitrust law as it stands pun
ishes all whose conduct is worthy of
punishment, and no Others and asks
no questions otherwise. Those who
are seeking TO exempt organizations
not formed for profit, but for uplift,
such as unions and cotton planters
and tobacco raisers would either
have to exempt them all or to draw
lines between them. If all were ex-
empted, then the president would be
unable to prosecute the I. w. W., or
the nightriders. or those admirable
organizations of southern planters
who promote the prosperity of the
country by "bulling" cotton above
the worlds level. -
tional Council for Industrial Defense,
an organization of $50 associations OF
200, 900 firms, which remarks that an
archistic organizations of labor would
avail themselves of the license given
by freedom from prosecution even
sooner than the conservative body
represented by Mr.. Gompers. mo
compromise is the only platform re-
garding the administration of the law
without fear or favor.-New York
Times.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-02
AYHAWKER JOTy

Hutchinson claims to have paid the
expense of her annual music festival
and had s400 left.
The lola Register is authority for a
statement that traffic has been opened
on the Neosho river.
Three men have been arrested at
Independence on the charge of stealing
evidence in liquor cases.
Wichita is planning to build pub
lie grain elevator and the idea has the
hearty support of the Beacon.
Still the Lawrence Journal is not
satisfied Brady thinks Bryan should
have served water instead of grape
juice.
In Parsons the stores have gone on
a cash basis and quit delivering goods.
This should reduce the high cost of
living.
Up in Brown county the districts
are building barns on the rural school
grounds for the horses of pupils who
ride to school. Why not garages and
gasoline tanks?
A Wellington man has been Violat-
ing the game law by killing a skunk
in the closed season. The skunk was
killing his chickens and a jury might
find his act justifiable, on the ground
of self-defense.
Conner Davies finds consolation in
the possession of a wooden leg when he
says: 1.-The compensating joys of
cripple is not understood by the mass
of men. For instance, if we have
war with Japan, the government will
not draft wooden legged men to the
army
Spooning will be permitted in Pitts
burg parks with the approval of the
city park commission until 10 O'Clock
at night. AT that hour tspooners
must depart" according to rules pro-
mulgated by the commission. The
park commissioner announced he was
a firm believer in spooning, but
thought there should be a time limit.
Old Joe Rank, of the Atchison Globe,
says Walt Mason, lives at a boarding
house and so he doesn't get in close
touch with the common people. For
instance he is taking no part in the
dandelion crusade, and probably won
ders what all the fuss is about. Con-
sequently the Globe is lacking in "hu-
man interest," There should be a law
requiring every editor to live in his
own house and raise his own garden
sass and NOW his own lawn, in order
that he may sympathize with the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-02
WHY LAGs THE CHURCH?

Combination has become the watch
word of modern society. The ten
dency to unity of action manifests
itself in the trusts, the labor unions
and almost every form of business life.
The churches alone seem to lag be-
hind. There have been some feeble
attempts at church union but little has
been accomplished.
That the subject is pressing for at
tention is indicated by the fact that
two of the leading magazines for May
contain articles on the subject. A
writer in the Atlantic says:
The World Almanac for 1911 names
166 different Christian organizations
in the United States; and, either con-
sciouSly or unconsciously, the heads of
each organization, the editors of all
the papers published in the interest of
each of the organizations, the profess
SorS in the training schools for minis
ters of all these denominations. the
writers and publishers of all the books
each of these 166 churches, oppose
any consolidation which would put
them out of business. If Christian
unity were realized in the state in
which live, one man from one office
could do the work now done by seven
highly paid and respected officials.
The influence of the sectarian press is
striking example of sectarian inertia
unity.
There are in the United States 1872
theological Seminaries, whose 1850
professors are engaged in earning
their salaries by teaching coming
clergymen that the particular empha-
sis for which their church stands in
divided Christendom is still worth
fighting for. 1t seems, therefore, as
if the leaders of thought were, by
cruel necessity, opposed to unity.
In the North American Review APP
pears the following:
Where once the propagation of a
special creed, or the perpetuation of a
ritual, seemed a sufficient raison
d'etre for denomination, today all
churches are subjected to a single test,
a test at once Christian and demo-
cratic; they must prove their right to
live by the service that they render.
Which is the true church was once
debated with opposing texts; now it
is seen that the true church will be
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-02
THE GoLD-HAIRED MAID.

I watched the endless gull wings fade;
1 dreamed my old dim endless things:
Against the sea, with arms like wings.
Spreading her green scarf to the wind,
Leaning and laughing to the sum-
All me, her brightness made me blind,
Till could hardly see her run.
White-footed down the thin white foam,
Slim-bodied up the slippery sands;
Like some wild sea-maid, dancing home
With shining feet and Pickering hands.
Il crouched beneath the dune. She
passed;
Her song, sea-smothered, and her CLEANS
Fading along the foam at last,
Like all the sun that haunts my dreams.
The brave day fades; too blue, too fair.
Sunset and silence and the night
o golden head and wild heart, where
Are you some glad homes lasting light?
BY Fannie Stearns Davis.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-02

That the United States has so small
a part in the shipbuilding industry of
the world, often has been charged to
our tariff laws. On the eve of i'm
portant tariff changes, Charles NJ.
Schwab, head of the Bethlehem Steel
works, has bought the big Fore River
shipbuilding plant at Quincy, Mass,
with the avowed purpose of entering
into competition with the remainder of
the world. If tariff revision shall bring
about the carrying of American COM
merce in American ships, it will COM
pensate for a number of other posi-
BILE shortcomings.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-02
EVENING CHAT
On Expecting Thanks.
BIZ RUra CAMERON


When you receive a favor remember
When you bestow one forget it,
Some weeks ago the Lady who-aI-
| ways knows-somehow sent a beauti-
| full bunch of roses to her washer
woman on the occasion of the latter
silver wedding anniversary.
| Something recalled this fact to us
| the other day, and the Author mans
wife asked, WAS she very much
pleased She ought to have been"
Il imagine so,' said the Lady-who-
always knows-somehow. She is one
of those rare people who really do not
like to have their charities talked
about.
Imagine SOP" repeated the Author
mans wife. Don't you know? Hasn't
she written you or anything?"
why no, she hasn't said the
Lady. Her daughter met me on the
| street and told me that her mother
was delighted with the roses and that
she had had an attack of the rheu-
matism and two of the younger chill
dren had the measles, and so she
hadn't been able to get out"
And that was seven weeks ago.
reckoned the Author-man's wife. land
she hasn't written. 1 think that's an
outrage. 1t just shows how ungrate-
full some people are
Il don't think it shows anything of
the Sort said the Lady-who- always
Il
hadn't even thought of it until you
spoke. l know she was pleased and
I'm glad, and 1 know how busy she
is and how hard it is for her to get
out, especially when the children are
sick, and what an undertaking it is
for her write a formal letter, and
L don't care if she never thanks me-"
l admired the Lady-who-always-
krows-somehow for remembering to
sen0 the flowers to her washerWoman
L admire her still more for being big
enough not to insist on being formal
ly thanked.
The generosity that thrives upon
thanks and dies without them is
scarcely worthy of the name at all
To insist upon thanks is like exact
ing interest upon your kindness, and
thus changing it from a gift into a
loan- have known many people
who would give lavishly of time or
effort Or money If they received plen-
ty OF praise and thanks, but the mo-
ment these pleasant stimulants cease,
the giving ceased too. 1 even knew
one woman who was not satisfied with
the thanks implied in praise and de-
light unless the recipient actually
said, II thank you"
The real generosity is too busy Civ
ing, and giving again, to keep tabs on
all it's recipients and make sure they
are duly grateful.
Don't faint your generosity by ex-
acting thanks.
when you receive a favor renem-
Der it.
When you bestow one forget it,"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-02

Triumph of sanitation and medicine
in their war against disease is set
forth in an article in the Century from
which is taken the -followings: In 1866
the public health conditions of New
York were in so low a state that the
average length of life of the inhabi-
tants was thirty years. In 1912 these
conditions had been improved so that
the average length of life was sixty
six years. Thus the value of human
life, reckoned in terms of time alone
had more than doubled in less than half
a century,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-02

HOW BETTER FARMING PAYS.
In 1911 there was no organized eff
fort among the farmers of Leaven-
worth county to improve their crops
That year 49,4S6 acres of land was
planted with corn; the yield was 9S9,-
72O bushels, and the value of the same
was $574,0S7.6G. In 1912 the Leaven-
worth Progressive Agricultural club
was organized and with every man
working for better crops, that year
46,04S acres were planted in corn and
the yield was 1,703,776 bushels and
the value of the same was $1.03s,-
3O3.36.
with an average of s.4ss acres less
than in 1911 the county had 714,O56
more bushels of corn and the crop
brought $465,265.76 more than the
year before. The average yield for
1911 was 20 bushels to the acre and
for 1912 it Y as 81 bushels to the acre,
an increase of IL bushels to the acre.
Better farming in the corn crop
alone in 1912 brought almost half a
million dollars more into the county.
This is one of the best evidences that
tural club is doing good work for the
county. These figures are taken from
Secretary Coburn's crop reports
Leavenworth Post.
SAVING $4,000.
The good services of the secretary
of state, C. H. Sessions, are becoming
more apparent every day. Just one
instance VIII snow now ne is accom-
plishing things. Two years ago the
reports of the various boards of the
state were published in separate books
with a lot of material of no value
whatever to the public. The books
made a pile three and a half feet high.
This year Mr.. Sessions edited the
books to the extent of cutting out all
the immaterial matter and put the
whole series of reports in one book, of
vastly more value than before and in
much handler form. Besides he saved
the state over $4,000 in printing.
That is the kind of public service that
measures up to the right Standard
Abilene Reflector.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-02

my girls annoy me terribly with their
porch parties. and it gets worse every
summer why don't you 70 do as L
did?'' What did you do? Exercise your
iting?" Neither. I'm too foxy for to stir
up trouble I simply enclosed the porch
and turned it into a breakfast ROOM
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-02

In appointing woman to a high
salaried position in Colorado Secretary
Lane declared it to be an esta blished
fact that money can be handled more
safely by women tan by men. Right,
says the Boston Transcript,-what man
could do a whole days shopping with
nothing in his pocketbook but six
samples and a couple of car tickets?