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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-06-27
WILSON AND THE TARIFF.

President Wilson in his latest mes
sage to congress declares that ever
since the civil war the people have
waited for emancipation from protec-
ton. This is an assumption scarcely
warranted by the facts. Up to last fall
the people have been voting for pro-
lection right straight along except in
the year 1892, when they elected
Grover Cleveland on the plain issue
of tariff reform.
They did not get what they voted
for and they resented the perffdy of
the Democrats by hurting them from
power at the first opportunity. Every
time a Republican has been elected,
a protective tariff has been endorsed.
1t can hardly be said that the people
have not known what they were voting
for.
The people at the polls last year
did not repudiate OBJECTIONABLE not
ask to be "emancipated" from that
policy. Mr.. Wilson and the Sixty
third congress hold their commissions
from a minority of the electorate. The
Democracy came in through a division
of the party of protection caused by
a personal matter, and fell short of
the votes cast for the two wings of. the
protection party by a million, two hun
dred thousand.
The tariff has been revised five
times since the civil war, but not once
on lines of a tariff for revenue only.
The Wilson bill of twenty years ago
carried as it passed the house a good
ly amount of protection. Mr.. German
in the senate simply added more pro-
lection. But the country at the first
opportunity repudiated the work and
ordered a revision on lines of frank
protection, and the Dingley law fol-
lowed.
That the country is ready for a
change in the tariff laws may be true,
but the voters have not so expressed
themselves at the polls.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-06-27
PROTECTION FOR TRUSTS.

The amended Underwood bill. sub
mitted to the senate caucus imposes
a 80 per cent. duty on oatmeal and
rolled oats, which under the house
measure were to be free, and this in
spite Of the facts that the breakfast
food trust has just been prosecuted as
a wicked and malicious combination
in restraint of trade, and that oats and
Cruel are a substantial element of the
poor mans breakfast table. Bananas.
too, are taxed by the senate bill, and
although the impost is but 5 cents a
bunch, the two million dollars which
is figured in the estimate as the prob
able receipts, is hardly worthy of con-
sideration as compensation for the as
sauIt on the principle that the poor
mans luxuries. like sugar, for in
stance, should be free.
Still worse is the duty on refined
chicle fixed by the senate at 20 cents
per pound, in contrast with the free
admission vouchsafed by Chairman
Underwood. By what means has the
chewing gum trust qualified for recog-
milton and protection at the hands of
the Democratic party, pledged to do
battle with every trust which uses the
tariff to gouge the consumer? Must
every chewer of refined chicle, says the
Philadelphia Bulletin, pay tribute to
the trusts to the extent of 20 cents a
pound, collected by the government?
Has the Democratic caucus of the SEN
ate counted the cost, and the gnash-
ing of teeth as the army Of gum chew
ers crunch the toothsorne morsels be-
tween their jaws and realize that the
glorious benefits of free trade are de-
MED them? There is a mystery in
this. The "insidious' lobby must have
been at work.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-06-27
RY THE WY
By HARVEY PARSONS.

The point ofrview is most widel,
diversified in the case of inspired cor
respondents. Jackson county is MOI
so far away, but the first man to shiI
in the story of the homi-suicidal hay.
SEED, had the man commit the crime
with shotgun. The next correspond
ent introduced a pocket knife. and
counted the wounds with adding ma
viii probably close the incident by
finding that demise was due to sun
stroke.
Tastes vary in vacations as well as
hot weather drinks. To some, a vaca-
ton means a fishing trip to Paxico,
and to others the word means Billy
norganing around over Yurrip for two
or three months.
It's sad tale, mates, the tale of the
New York girl who made a desperate
effort to get along on $4,000 year.
but still sadder the yarn of the young
gent in the case. And the crool public.
which seldom weeps with them as
weeps, will undoubtedly meet his wall
with ribald laughter-"Hoe, hoe
just like thati
One Chicago paper suggests "cop-
pette's as a suitable dimunitive for lady
police officers But there is no occa-
sion to worry aboutit now. The lower
N oSes VIII AAVOnt AidtASS 1OA tASAA III
due time.
Anyway, they can't say that Attor-
ney Hanson has not given the law a
fair trial. And it isn't the law he OBJ
jects to so much: it's the verdicts.
There is constitutional provision
that says an individual cannot sue
the state, but it's a safe bet Mr.. Han
son could. If he wanted to.
Most people think a man is Awfully
Nice if he is kind to animals, but the
cook we ever knew was kind
to animals. Animals loved him, and
he could train them to do nearly any
thing He trained a mouse to sleep
nights in the pocket where he carried
his money. And his wife has been
fully satisfied, since that time, that
kindness to dumb animals is not the
greatest virtue In mankind.
1t is hot in Washington, and, were
it not for one thing, congressman
would like to quit and go home. That
one thing is that their constits are not
liable to be blamesight hotter at
home than 1t is in Washing ton.
Before long, the office equipment. of
every governors Office will include a
moving picture machine, so that the
signing of bills and proclamations may
be properly preserved.
A lot of suggestions have been Of
fered the currency commission, but
they differ in detail, they all
Tend to bring about the same result
to assist the suggester to get his mitts
On some of it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-06-27
QUAKER MEDTTATIONs.
rFrom the Philadelphia Record

CFrom the Philadelphia Record.1
Food for reflection is never very fat
tening.
Don't accept a favor from man from
whom you wouldn't take joke
In building castles in the air be sure
you don't find yourself in hole instead.
The man who loves his neighbors al
ways succeeds in getting more out of
them.
Revenge is sweet, but there are mighty
few of who can stand a diet of sweets.
You can generally reach a mans heart
either through his stomach or by feeding
his vanity.
The only man who can combine busi
ness and pleasure is the man whose pleas
ure is business.
Nell-'I think 1 shall marry him. He
says I'm dream" Belle-"How cruel of
you to wake him up
Blobbs-"Do you think joy ever kills?"
Slobbs-'WeI, I once heard of a man who
died two days after his mother-in-law."
Wigwag-"Did your wife marry for
money!" Henpeckke-'Not on your life
Wigwag-"For love?" Henpeckke-''Not
SO you could notice it" Wigwag-"Then
why did she marry your" Henpekke-
Just out of pure cussedness.''
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-06-27

A spade is not always called a spade.
A Cherryvale family spells its name
Spayd.
The Neo6esha Register has bought
a typeSetting machine and moved to
the ground floor.
Should Palestine be given to the
Jews" is a headline in the Winfield
Courier. It's all right with US. Let
'em have it.
Eugene Pulliam has filed suit for
$4,000 damages against Eugene, Howe
for personal injuries. When he gets
it he ought to give party.-Lawrence
Journal. ........ h r,t. -..s
Nowadays" says Tom Thompson,
"an speeches are carefully prepared
in advance. The only extemporaneous
oratory fellow hears any more is
when he gets home later than usual"
Whenever anything needs fixing, in
Kansas, says Conner Davies, we call
mass meeting, pass resolutions, and
when the legislature meets, make a
law"-and that settles it.
Now that Old Tom Cordry has be-
come a private citizen, says the Cha
mute Tribune, the Parsons papers are
running, his picture, and he is develop
ing into a Prominent Citizen.
Iola's old red street cars all are to
be reprinted, one at time. Mean
while ,Iolans should earnestly hope,
says Tom Morgan, that car No. 1
doesn't break down while the other
car is in the paint shop.
Bufftlo's chief claim to distinction,
says the Coffeyville Journal, rests in
the fact that the son of a Keokul5,
Ia, millionaire lives there. He is said
to be just plain, common folks and
plays in the ,own band. He is forty
years old unmarried and owns the
prettiest home in the town.
She is pensively picking a daisy to
pieces. Her lips move murmuringly
process l.
osity draws him near to listen. $50
cialist, Democrat, Republican, Pro-
gress@ What in Sam Hill are
she answers, 81 am just seeing which
one I am going to be."-Toronto Re-
publican.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-06-27
Handwriting of Authors.

No author, or any one else for that
matter, could possibly have written
more legibly than Francis Thompson.
He wrote. frequently in pencil, in a
careful round hand that would have
put a schoolboy at the top OF his writ
ing class. His copy was always good"
for the compositor, which was fortu
nate, for there was always the great
est difficulty in getting him to correct
the proofs of his reviews. I have the
manuscript of one of his later poems,
which a child of 10 could read with
ease, though it is written partly in ink
and partly in pencil, and carefully
stuck together where lines have been
shipped out with scissors. He was
probably the only writer of genius who
used penny exercise books as manu-
script paper.
1t is the singular distinction of
Charles Dickens handwriting that
early formed in those galloping post
chaises by lantern light-it became not
only as clear as Thackeray's. but more
beautiful than any other handwriting
in the world. 1t has movement, grace.
charming form in the capitals and
that indefinable thing-touch. One
'unregarded curl' .(Poe's word of g
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-06-27
EVENING CH\T
Are You a snob?
BIZ RUTA CAMERON

Are you a snob?
Before you give an emphatic Mo-
to that please. let me explain what I
mean by it. Are you absolutely and
entirely Democratic? Do you never
make class distinctions in your mind,
if not in your speech? P Do you never
find yourself in awe of some new ac
quaintance, because you have been
told that he has a great deal of
money? Are you never ashamed when
one of your more Fashionable friends
sees you on the street with some shah
billy dressed acquaintance? Do you
never look down on people for the
kind of work they do? Do you never
try to make yourself out richer than
you are? Do you never boast about
your family connection?
IT you can honestly answer NO to
all these you may emphatically an
swer mo" to that first question. But
can you? I am afraid not am
afraid the man who hasn't a single
drop of snobbish blood in his veins
would be far harder to find than
Diogenes' honest man.
Maud Radford- Warren tells the
story of young girl of refined and
educated family, who was suddenly
thrown on her own resources by death
and financial loss. The only way, for
her to earn her living seemed to be
for her to go behind the counter. She
lived in a small town which is sup.
posed to be the most democratic place
on earth, and yet "It had been a little
shock to think of being a clerk in a
store" she says. For all the democ
racy of our town, there were some
distinctions. I didn't want to do it. 1
guess most of us at heart are snobs,
born with an instinct to climb. We
are only qualified democrats, the best
Of us. I had always supposed looked
on a certain friend of my mothers
who worked in shop as quite as good
as anyone else; now, however, found
that I had really pitied her."
I suspect that most of us have ex-
periences like that when we realize
suddenly that we have been entertain
ing some such feelings of superiority
know I have. 1 love democracy.
There is nothing that I desire of my
self more ardently than that I may be
anG consistently democratic,
and yet again and again am ashamed
to find myself entertaining snobbish
feelings.
Not that have anything to be snob-
bish about, but that's the queer part
of it, One doesn't need to have. In
the play "Kismet'' the beggar who has
Just been exiled by the calf, vents
his unhappiness upon a beggar of q.
lower order. AS he lords 1t over the
miserable creature, he moralizes to
himself, ITO the calf I am dirt. but
to the dirt I am calif.'
So we all must be calf to somebody
in the kingdom of our own fancies.
Democracy of government is hard to
win; but infinitely more difficult to
bring about is that greater democracy,
the democracy Of the heart. 'a- !
1 wonder if it will ever come.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-06-27
McREYNOLDs.
meetings.

Attorney General McReynolds seems
determined to be the hoodoo of the
Wilson administration. One bad break
on his part is quickly followed by an
other. His plan to tax the American
Tobacco company to death so that
other concerns could do all the BUSH
ness was so quickly sat upon by the
president that probably 1t will not be
heard of again.
But this California affair will not be
squelched so easily. That there is
much politics in it can hardly be ques-
toned. Apparently Mr.. McNab's job
was wanted for somebody else and
means were taken to make the place
temporarily untenable for a self re-
specting official.
McNab's charges and insinuations of
other motives may or may not be well
founded, but If they be true it is not
conceivable that the president will con-
done such a course on the part Of a
cabinet member. In any event Mercy
nolds has shown himself unfit for the
place he occupies and the sooner the
president rids his official family of the
presence of the attorney general, the
more creditable it will be to the adj
and satisfactory to the
public.
1t is time for McReynolds to go.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-06-27

gene quite far enough. I have waited
and waited, and dawdled along, and
let you play the game your way Now
Wen play it mine, thanks to Mr..
Shaughnessey and what I've learned
this afternoon-thatw women like men
to be the masters. I said, get outl'
Slowly, flushing beautifully she
stepped from the car. With Billy's
hands beneath her arm she went up
the walk to the rectory. Billy rang
the bell and maid let them into a
reception room.
Once the maid was gone, Marion
stepped to Billy'S side and put her
hands on his shoulders
''Oh, Billy" said she, ct was so tired
of it all today. Nothing seemed right
nor worth while. II wanted you
and a home. And wanted to be told
what to do. And-and I think ought
to be beaten just as Shaughnessey is
no doubt beating his wife now. I'm
I'm glad you took the reins and made
me do this. Only, Billy, afterwards
you won't always-''
Billy caught her in his arms and by
way of answering her he covered her
face with kisses.-(Copyright 1913,
by the Mcclure Newspaper Syndicate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-06-27
HUNOR or THE DIP

Ethel-'I can't understand why she
broke the engagement" Marie-'Perhaps
she got cold feet" Ethel-sThat's no
excuse. Jack offered to lay his burninS
her."-Boston Transcript w
Father (who has taken daughter t. the
play)-"lm sorry / brought You now
Mabel This is hardly a play for the
young person Daughter-"Oh, I DONE
mind it, dad! It'll probably liven up a hit
before the end?'7Judge.
She-"These reporters are SO careles.
This paper says have been for vearS
one of the handsomest women in 81.
ciety.'" He-"Well. my dear, what is IT,
said anything about for years "~E1,cIr e
to that?" She-"Why nex,er
Il do not think people should get mar
ried until they are thoroughly acouainfed
with each other" What would Won 10
abolish matrimony
The duke has some vague ideas as to
our history. 500? Yes; he thinks the
South America "-Washington Herald.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-06-27

lady's hair) in Dickens script has
spring In 1t. and rebound. Probably
a magnifying glass would show in de-
tail this vitality in every letter of his
alphabet.
Bad handwriting may som etim es
prove advantageous, as Lord CurZon
once found when he was young man
at college. Writing two letterS-one
to relative, the other to friend-he
misplaced them in the envelopes. Dis
covering the mistake when too late, he
was aghast, for the friends letter con-
tanned a reference to the relative with
which that gent1emtn would not be
overpleased. A reply came back, how
ever: 81 have not been able to de-
cipher a line of your Scrawl, but sup
pose it's money you're after, so I in
close a check.''-London Chronicle.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-06-27
says UNCLE CIV

Be yourself and you'll. be popular. All
the worlds in love with personality.
All the worlds striving to come into
intimate. sympathetic touch with all
the rest. Give it chance to get under
your hide and itawiII be grateful. So
will you.
Success is largely a matter of reach
ing an understanding with your neigh
Dor So is happiness. The man who
is happy is a success no matter what
the neighbors say. But he can't be
altogether happy and successful I'M
less the neighbors know him for what
he is.
All the great careers of the world
have been built upon personality. The
little successes have been based upon
the same thing. 1t doesn't make a
great deal of difference what your per-
sonality is so long as you have the
courage and the faith to let others
see you as you are. Be genuine and
you'll find champions and co-operators,
the two great secondary factors in sue
cess. On the whole, the most import
ant thing is to believe in the kind
Illness of the human animal. It should
be easy to believe, but it isn't.
All of us love the thing that rings
true. We love the character that con-
ceals nothing, but stands forth I'M
blushingly for what it is, and we love
who is frankly wicked has quite as
many admirers as he who is frankly
good. He has good many more stanch
friends than the one who is either
apologetically bad or hesitatingly good.
We love not the lukewarm who blow
hot and cold. We adore the real thing.
There is so much sham, shoddy, mis-
labeled just-as-g ood-as- genuine hui
mainly that we turn with relief to
whatever lives up to its label.
Wherefore, let your personality shine
Don't be afraid of your neighbors. They
won't bite unless you appear to be
afraid of their teeth. A frank, naked
exposure of personality is the best
possible introduction to the society Of
the elect-to the free-masonary of real
folks. Il
The volcanic vaudeville performer
who unties his feet and let's loose OF
himself, smile and all, knows the Sc
cret. So did Napoleon facing the mob
of the Revolution. So did Cromwell
preaching death to kings. SO did AL
fred visiting his subjects incognito.
So also did Garibaldi of the red shirt
and Savonarola, who went to the pyre.
Tolstoi in peasant garb in the fields
was merely letting loose of himself
and getting into touch with his world.
So was Christ upon the mount and the
woman of Samaria by the well and
upon the cross of Calvary.
Realize that for the world to know
you is to love you. Know that you are
merely hayward child to whom soci-
ETY. holds out it's arms. All you've got
to do is to warm up, be your natural
self and find fellowship. Whether your
aim be high or low, whether you seek
to show the world the light or merely
intend to amuse it. which is no small
thing in itself-it is personality. free,
naked and unashamed,
that will solve your problem.
Get out from under that bushel, you
coward. Let loose of yourself.
We're for you, be not afraid. Let |
your personality shinei-(Copyright |
1913, by the Mcclure Newspaper Syn
dicate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-06-27
FROM OTHER PENS
MUSICAL ANARCHY.

l.
While the people, as the Evening Mail
has proved, are hungry for good music
is offered to them at the prices they can
pay, their everyday music is being con-
stantly degraded by the songs and instru-
that are dfnned in their ears. we are
given coon songs in endless number which
are in no proper sense the songs of the
negroeS-which are the coarsest perver-
sions of negro melodies and negro lyrics.
AS matter of fact, the American negro
is full of music. and If left to himself
produces such splendid strains of song as
Swing Low, Sweet Chariot They Look
Like Men of War; and Let nv People
Gos-al tunes composed and sung by
American negroes. But put the negro
upon a vaudeville stage and set him to
pandering for. profit to an already de-
PRAYED musical taste among white people,
and he becomes a musical anarchist
The average popular ragtime coon
song of the present day is rubbish of
the basest description. And 1t Is being
spread abroad throughout the land by the
aid of fnnumerable monographs and
banquet entertainers as a thing to be ad-
In nearly every other country in the
world government takes some interest in
in one way or another. Thus the people
have a chance to hear good music. They
are not, as with us, sent to the very dogs
for their musical entertainment. Under
such circumstances the love of music
thrives. With US, If the degrading tend
ency Keeps on there will soon be no gen.
From American lips, and even from
American hearts, nothing will ascend to
the afflicted heavens but one agonizing
wall of discordant ragtime May we be
saved from that fate!-New York Mail.
%
THIRTY-SIx HOURS UNDER WATER
The submarine which at Long Beach.
Cal, rose safely and easily to the surface
after having been submerged for thirty
six hours in thirty feet of water with six
men on board has done much more than
break the record of continued submerg-
ence. 1t appears to have demonstrated
that with the mechanisms of the inventor
it is possible to operate a gasoline engine
In the submerged ship and to exhaust the
burnt gases into the water under heavy
pressure, thus enabling her crew to live
and direct the boat under sea for in
definite periods
Such achievement brings us almost
within measurable distance of the con-
struction and voyaging of ship like that
of Jules Verne's romance of Twenty
Thousand Leagues Under the Sea- 1t
brings distinctly nearer also the long fore
seen coming of a day when the Dread
nought will be as useless in war as the
wooden ships of Paul Jones
and Decatur. The heaviest guns of such
a craft would be directed In vain against
a smaller but quicker foe that could sink
at Wa. beneath the waves and remain
there for days IL necessary.-New York
World.