The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-01
KANSAS CONAENT
THE POOR MANS SIDE.


II the legislature passed all the bills
! introduced in both houses, there
would be so many quarters, half dol
lars and dollars to pay that the poor
man would have to take a berth at
the poor farm.
The poor mans side is seldom rep
resented. For instance, some reform
measure is sprung. The advocate of
the Dill in long windy article ex-
pIalns the immense benefits del ived
and all for fee of twenty-five Or ff-
ty cents per head additional. That
sounds good and cheap but
It's twenty-five cents here and fifty
cents there now until the total eats
up an ordinary wage.
AS man explained it: A man
drawing $50 per month should take
out $1,000 life insurance. Say this
would cost 81 per month. That's a
cheap investment. But suppose TWEEN
ty-five insurance companies should
make the claim to the man and argue
that each $1,000 policy was a great
investment Individually. it is.
when the man took out twenty-five
policies. he would spend $50 per
month and as a result he and his
family would starve to death.
An investment is cheap only when
you can afford it. But a miscella-
neous lot of such investments. or
measures requiring fees, become a
burden because they eat into the poor
left to live on decently.
1t would be better and cheaper for
a man drawing $50 a month to be
stung occasionally by some unscrupu-
lous dealer or to have to battle with
a germ now and then, than it would
be for him to pay fees for all the
kinds of inspections proposed, school,
medical, pure food etc, registration
fees, taxes, insurance, licenses, etc,
that would take his entire $50 away
i'm hnfn h
lima Union.
LEAVE 1T TO THE LAWYERS!
When the law isn't sufficient to de-
feat the ends of right and justice,
leave it to the lawyers.
Ferdinand II. Cook disappeared
from his home in New York city, and
his mother-in-law, Mrs. James Her
man Aldrich, a wealthy woman, ad-
Vertised reward of 1000 to anyone
who would find Cook, dead or alive.
Vincent Coakley and Adrian Parker,
boy scouts, IA years old, out on a
practice hike on Long Island with
their troop, found the body of Cook.
After finding the body, the boys and
their parents, who are people in very
moderate circumstances, learned of
the reward, and two happy little boys
went to the offices of Mrs. Aldrich's
attorneys. to claim the thousand dol
lars.
But, by decision of the Court of
Appeals of New York state, anyone
who offers a re ward for the finding
isn't bound to pay the reward unless
the finder, knowing of the offer, went
out with the express purpose of find
ing that which was lost.
The Wall street firm of attorneys
who represent the wealthy Mrs. AL
drich knew this point of law, being
able and high-priced lawyers. BY
questioning the little boys, they dis
covered that the little boys were not
looking for Cooks body when they
found it. So they notified Mrs. AL
drich that she owed the boys moth
ing, and they sent the boys about
their business,
But Mrs. Aldrich, being a generous
woman, gave the boys $25 apiece.
She probably will give the lawyers
at least two or three times that, even
though they neither looked for Cooks
body nor found it.
Law and lawyers surely do make a
com animation that it's hard for grown
man to beat, let alone two little boys
Champion.