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The Topeka state journal., 1914-02-25

constantly increasing price Of shoes
due directly to the scarcity Of leather.
Statistics show that the leather supply
is nineteen and fraction per cent
less than 1t was a few years ago. But
we did not have an association Of this
kind then. gentlemen. and this Is one
reason for the need Of such an asso-
citation. It is to protect our interests
against overzealous politicians. who. in
their greed for fame. fail to consider
either need or final results.
This association should be q clear
ing house for progressive ideas. 1t
should give the merchants an oppor-
tunity to talk shop"
Smoker Tonight
There will be smoker tonight for
There win be no session Thursday
morning. The second session at 1880
o'clock Thursday afternoon in Repre-
sentative hall will open with an ad-
dress by w. G. Hutchins Of Chicago on
Don't Let an IF Block You" Arthur
L. Evans of Boston. editor of The
Shoeman. will give an address en-
titled. Whats the Matter With the
Shoe Trader" Otto Fischer Of Law
renee. will discuss the subject, 'Sys-
Mo-. will speak on '.Findings.' Harry
Vinsonhaler. of St Louis will give ''The
Style Forecast for 1914" w. C. Root
OF Winfield will speak on What Can
he Done 10 A88ISC ouOe MeIcnanIS IN
Small Towns7" N. Muehlberger of
Wellington will tell How an Exclu-
sfve Shoe Store Can Succeed in a
Small Town" s'Store Fronts That Pay
Profits" Is the subject which W. s.
French Of Niles Mich, will discuss.
Marco Morrow of the Capper Publfca-
tons will have something to say about
Advertising
Friday viii be devoted largely to the
transaction of business and the discus
sion Of various subjects Of interest 20
the shoe men.
Banquet Thursday Night.
A banquet viii be given for the Wis
itors Thursday night at the Mills Tea
room: o. NJ. Babcock will preside. The
Washburn Male quartet will sing sew
eral selections and Miss Ceora Lam
ham will entertain the guests " tn
readings. Talks will be made by the
following shoe men and others: Roy
e. Titles, ST. Louis; Jay House. 1o-
pcka: James II. Stone. editor Of TIE
Shoe Retailer; r. o. Green. Fcrt
Dodge. la: III. vinsonhaler. ST. Louas:
Schuyler JoneeL ytce presldont Kansos
The Topeka state journal., 1914-02-25

THE cheapest, nanliest. poorest
leather, tanned from hides Of any an
NAL Is recommended in this law az
preferable substitutes. which are prov
en- and guara--teed superior.
Leather is graded according to quail
fty, and you pay for quality. A $2 shoe
is a two dollar quality. A IS shoe 70
just that much better In quality than
the two dollar shoe.
"A manufacturer can split the inso,e,
make counters out of pieces Of Reath-
er. and yet comply with Kansas law.
Such shoes would not be given shelf
room in any legitimate shoe store.
I'VE are for any law, that will assure
the consumer better shoes. The ~cn-
sumner must consider that the whole
aim of all good factories and retailers
is to produce best possible wea ing
shoes at least price. Leather has ad-
and to keep shoe prices down. both re-
taller and factory are searching for a
substitute that will replace leather for
Shoes"
Raises Price But Not Quality.
In the course Of his address Presi-
dent Brelsford said: ''I am not going
to dwell on the Inconsistency Of this
law. More capable men are here for
that purpose, but will say that firm
ly believe that we as an association
with the strength we have at this time
could have shown the members of the
legislature that the law would be sure
to increase the price of shoes without
increasing the wearing qualities. We
could have shown that instead Of pre-
venting, laws should be made to en-
courage the perfecting Of any substi-
tutes for leather that would enable
the manufacturer to keep down the
The Topeka state journal., 1914-02-25
RIFLE CLUB SCORES.


Fred Bracket won the medal in the
weekly shoot OF the Topeka Rifle club
by making an Improvement of 13 per
cent for the week. Robert Simpson
made the best score in prone shoot
ing with a total OF 231. The scores:
The Topeka state journal., 1914-02-25

Mexico City. Feb. IA ban ap-
pears to have been put on the delivery
in Mexico Of newspapers from the
United States. BY the last mail or
two almost none have reached the ad-
dresses News dealers here obtain lit
tie satisfaction from the post authori-
ties and declare they have no doubt
that the deliveries are being impeded
by the officials.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1914-12-16
MiltOn'S Social News

The mercury registered IA below
zero at Theo Crisis home, and 10 be-
low at O. H. Blossoms home Monday
night.
Mrs. aJ.sH Murley was a Cambridge
City visitor Tuesday morning.
Miss Lula Faucet was the guest of
day.
Mrs. John Kellam and daughter Miss
Ruby Kellam were Richmond visitors
Tuesday.
Hiram Crook shipped his cattle to
indianapolis Tuesday morning.
Emerson Cause was home from Day.
ton, o., to spend over Sunday.
The Christian church Sunday school
and the public schools at Bentonville.
will unite in their Christmas entertain
ment. 1t will be held on Christmas
eve. The cantata is entitled Santa
Claus, Jr.
Mrs. Jennie Russard of Trenton
Mo-. is visiting her uncle DR.. sweeney
and family. Mrs. Bussard has been In
Ohio visiting relatives Mss Hazel
Hoch, who also has been a guest OF
her uncle DR.. sweeney and family, lef,
Saturday for her home at Los Angeles
Cal
! Park Hess was home from Rich
| mond to spend over Sunday with his
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Cause
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Freeman Of
Bentonville, will celebrate their fiji
teenth wedding anniversary Saturday
| Dec. 26.
Christmas dance will be- giveI
| Christmas night at the Farmers Banl
| hall nv several VO,no mon
Mrs. Frank DuGranrut and Mrs
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1914-12-16
By EDGAR ILlFF.

The criticisms here set forth are
upon the British ministry or govern
ment and not the English people.
When criticism is passed upon our
disgraceful and humiliating fiasco in
Mexico, that criticism is against
President Wilson and Secretary Bryan
and not the great humane and loving
heart of the American people. And
vet in a democracy like ours the fOllieS
and blunders of our representatives
make us responsible as nation
The British government has made a
record of evil no less removed than
England's wonderful growth into a
great sea-power. 1t has been said by
an English historian that England's
vast possessions and her control of the
high seas represent a thousand looted
cities and the continued thievery of
her kings. Her policy has been based
upon three cardinal points: The sup
preston of truth: the dissemination of
lies under the guise of diplomacy; and
the lavish use Of British gold. That
she still pursues this policy goes with
out saying, and in this day of the
newspaper, 1.-The tongue of the world
she shows her greatest weakness in
her hour Of travail. She keeps the
truth from her people, thereby de-
stroying national unity. She scatters
words Of SANDER and contempt for her
foes, thereby weakening her state of
preparedness for the evil day. She
boasts of her boarded gold and her
commercial supremacy, thereby nurs-
ing the old delusion that destroyed
Rome, Carthage, Tyre and Sfdon. and
the great monarchy of Xerxes. She
ho a
the money and can in time exhause all
the treasures of the earth. Walt
Fights Through Allies.
The British government has another
time honored policy. 1t has always
fought with and through allies. It
procured allies by the use Of the three
methods named above: BY the sup
preston of truth; by the scattering OF
pious falsehoods; and by the use Of
gold to buy the services of mercenary
troops And never before in her his
tory has England used these methods
SO openly and unblushingly as now.
She has made an ally OF Russia, who Is
her natural racial and geographical
enemy, and an enemy whom she most
hates and fears She has made an
ally of Japan, her natural, racial, In
sular and sea-power enemy, an enemy
either she or the United States will
have to reckon with sooner or later,
because Japan expects to lay the true
foundations of her greatness upon the
Pacific ocean. Her expansion Will
demand the Philippines and the
Hawaiian Islands. Japan now is al
most as powerful in the Pacific as
England is on the Atlantic. and heI
continued supremacy will demand
more coaling stations and more pos
sessions. AS Japan's and Russia s
lines of advance are convergent they
are natural allies, and they may yet
Join hands to loot American possess
ions and gobble up India, Australia
kongkOng and China.
Delusion Grasps Country.
That England Is the victim of a de
fusion as old as the days Of Xerxes
and his millions of men and mount
aims Of gold is apparent to all who
study the progress or downfall OF
nations in the light of natural uni
vorsal law, beyond whose decree there
is no appeal Her policy Of self-de
cpption and her reliance upon the
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1914-12-16
Tiff CONDEMNS BRITISH
FOR NEWS SUPPRESSION
Says Government Keeps People Ignorant Of Actual Progress
Of War in Ewope-Censmes Method Of Winning Russia
and Japan Aes-Recalls Efforts to Crush Attempts
of Americans to Gain Liberty.

fable of Midas is her weakness and
may be the fatal path toward the de-
struction of the Empire.
1t has ever been an iron law that
a united people like the Greeks of the
Athenian republic, or more like the
Americans in their war with England
in 1776, are always power as seven
to one against money and the spirit
less battalions and armies money can
hire or buy. England with thousand
ships and an army of hireling troops
could not subdue the ragged and bare
foot patriots of rs.
AS recently as October %, 1911, the
English government made a semi
official statement upon the military
efficiency of Germany. Briefly stated
the report was this: THE German
artillery is out of date and very slow
and ineffective in methods of firing.
1t is so inferior that it can have no
pretentions to measure itself against
the French artillery German dirig-
ibles and aerOp1anes are very poor.
The German army, in spite of all
boasts and self-confidence, does not
present any signs of superiority and in
many ways does not rise to the level
of second-rate. The race for wealth
in Germany has almost destroyed the
martial valor of the people and really
what is needed is for the German
army to disband and go home and give
everybody needed rest. This weak
ness of the German nation can only
be set down to the gross ignorance OF
the people,
Censor Works Overtime.
Now think of that kind of dope be
ing sent broadcast through the col
umns of the London Times to a great
people like the English. No wonder
that the British press-censor is now
working over time to keep the real
truth about Germans artillery and
aeroplanes from the public. No won
der the British government requests
Wilson and Bryan to tell 1t not Gath
publish it not in the streets of Arke
lon." if they find out anything deroga
tory to English power. No wonder
that Wilson and Bryan, "strictly neu
trial." suppressed the news of the de
struction of the British superdread
nought, the Audacious, for six weeks
What browning triumph in Amerf
can diplomacy and statecraft!
In the American Revolution the En-
glish government pursued the same
policy 1t studiously scattered among
the English people at home the state
ment that the American colonists were
barbarians, cannibals. and less civil
lied than the bloodthirsty Indians
England urged to massacre American
settlers. 1t was commonly believed il
England that Americans killed an(
scalped all prisoners, used poisoned
| hill al low
peradoes. To the English people
Washington was far worse than the
| bloody Villa is to us. If the hire
soldiers of England burned a peace
/ full town and ravished lot of defense
| less women, they rang all the church
! bells in London. If the American:
with their long rifles, and the bes
craftsmanship the world has eve
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can soil. They were not allies but

can soil. They were not allies but
patriots.
The sufferings Of the settlers In
New Jersey far surpassed the miseries
of the Belgians today. The English
allies, the Hessians. destroyed every
thing and turned the inhabitants out
in the rigors of a very cold winter.
There was no Red Cross society.
There was no way to appeal to other
nations for succor. Thousands perish
ed from cold and starvation and many
men, women and children wandered
into the forests, there to be tomahaWk-
ed by the Indians who fought that
they might get British fire water"
During our Civil war, the English
government tried to keep the English
people In ignorance of the true state
of affairs in the United States. Thou
sands of English people believed that
the North was gang Of blood-thirsty
tyrants trying to crush the South. In
1863, Henry Ward Beecher was sent
to England to enlighten the English
masses. So nobly' did he defend us
that the English working people came
over to our side and stood as one man
for the integrity of our institutions.
John Wesley tried to do the same in
his day but the government of aris-
tocracy was too strong for him. To.
day the English people are kept in the
dark. The press is gagged. Irish
newspapers are suppressed. In Can
ada it is crime to have paper on
your person wherein sympathy IS ex.
pressed for Germany. The English
people have a natural adherence fol-
the Russian-Japanese alliance. Nc
man was more popular in London than
the German ambassador. Why are
there no uprisings in England voicine
national approval of this war upon
Germany? Why are the English com
mon people so luke-warm? Rightly
informed the English people always
stand for liberty and humanity. But
what can they do under rigorous
government that makes it crime tt
tell the truth?
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1914-12-16

Oliver Wallace were Richmond visit
ors Tuesday.
The offering for missions at the
open meeting Of the c. w. B. NJ. Sun
day morning amounted to SASS.
The several schools In the township
Will observe Christmas in some pleas
ant manner with program and tree
The Woman's Cemetery Association
met with Mrs. Jane Stills Monday
night. The ladies' decided to postpone
their box social until some time in
February. A report was given by the
treasurer, Mrs. ID. Fl. Warren: Bal
ance on hand from October, 1913.
$2s.75; received during the year by
canvass Of the town, $214O; by dona-
tions, sl3; by dues. sl5.25: making a
total of $7S.4O. Expenditures for the
year beginning October l.. 1913 and
ending October l. 1914, $51.75; leav-
ing a balance at the close of the year,
October l, 1914, $2665
The United Poultrymen made an
exhibit of poultry at the poultry show
at Marion with the following result !:
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1914-12-16

seen, whipped the English troops to
finish, the British government sup
pressed the facts The English people
never heard of the battle of Concord,
Lexington. Trenton and Saratoga I'M
til years had passed. English histor-
ians had to come to the American
archives to get the truth.
John Wesley Protested.
So indignant was John Wesley. the
founder of the Methodist church, and
one of England's greatest men, that
he publicly protested against the
cruel ISLANDERS of Americans He had
visited the colonies and he knew
whereof he spoke. Wesley was
promptly suppressed under penalty OF
prison, the hangman's moose, or exile.
England with pious, free and shame
full effrontery, openly bargained with
Catherine of Russia for an army of
Russian conticts to send across the
Atlantic to fight the American col
onists The money was counted out.
King George the Third wrote to her
in his own hand. my dear sister
Kitty, I want your friendly help and
will pay you handsomely in good
coin of the realm"
Edmund Burke. one of England's
greatest men, said, II can't sleep for
thinking of these Russian savages
being sent to destroy the finest group
of people on the face of the globe"
Why did Catherine of Russia fail to
send these ruffians to America? Lis
ten. Frederick the Great, a German
who loved liberty so much that he
NO. He put stop to hireling
troops. England got no Russian mer-
cenaries
Uses English Historian.
In speaking of this most atrocious
and shameful use Of Englands hired
allies, / am using no less an author
ity than the English historian who has
written the finest and fairest history
of the American Revolution, Sir
George Otto Trevelyan. He condemns
it as the most debauched and shame
full affair in the history of the world
Engladn, he says, paid agents to
gather in by force or kidnapping the
thieves, thugs, drunkards, seducers
rapists, criminals, and the dregs and
the scum of Europe, to send across the
/ waters to fight her own children and
| to expose to the tender mercies OF
these worthless dogs the most refined
and civilized people on earth.
| England then tried to force Holland
| to give her soldiers for the American
campaign but the Dutch replied in
/ these memorable words:
LAS long as we love liberty, We
will never take up arms to enslave q
| people as ardent lovers of liberty as
we are"
England then tried coercion upor
Ireland, demanding force of ter
| thousand soldiers to fight America
Irish patriots everywhere exclaimed
NO. The cause of America is the
cause of Ireland!'
Germans Help America.
The army roster of the American
Revolution shows the names OF thou
sands of 1rishmen and Germans wht
fought and died for liberty on Ameri
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1914-12-16

Buff Orpingtons-First and second on
cockerel, first and second on pullet.
second on pen. Black Orpington-
Second on hen. third on cockerel. third
and fourth on pullet. second on pen
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1914-12-16

Every member of the family of Sir
Roper Lethbridge, Of England. has
gone to the war or to training for it
the men to fight and the women to
nurse.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1914-12-16

Hollands government will take
charge of the distribution Of all grains
and meal so as effectively to control
the price of bread.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1914-12-16

Delicious brown cakes made from
Mrs. Austin's Bag Pancake Flour.
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1914-02-20

obsequies of the geese that have been
for so long laying for them golden
eggs. AS a little slave to the griev.
ously wounded feelings of the hapless
victims advice was literally dispensed
and, as far as it went, it was good
1t was that the small shippers resid-
ing near each other combine and make
their shipment in carload lots and
thus receive the benefit of lower rates
that was very good, when it is practi
cable to follow it; but if the crop is
too small or there are too few in a
settlement to get up carloads lots
the crops had better be fed to the
hOgs-if they have any hogs.
Another piece of gratuitous advice
that was offered was that the ship
pers use refrigerated care and ship
by fast freight. Very good again, il
the shippers are able to bear the
extra expense of icing. There would
be at least one inestimable good at
tanned by this method they would
escape the omniverous nav of the
Southern Express Co.-Tampa Times
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1914-02-20
leather case.

leather case.
Following the games the guests en-
joyed very lovely salad course, serv-
ed with its numerous delectable &C
cessories. Serving were Misses Mar
garet Jackson, Martha Kate Rentz
and Emma Perry.
Miss Jackson's guests were Mrs. ].
c. Jackson, Mrs. B. F. Condor, Mrs.
c. B. Aver, Mrs. Garrett of Roanoke,
Va, Misses Ophelia Sawtell Hester
Dewey, Josephine Bullock, Annie Da-
Wis, Fannie and Rosebud Robinson,
Ruby Gissendaner, Gertie Peyser
Clara Johnson, Nellie Gottlieb, Adele
Bittinger, Bette McIver, Mary Nc
Dowell Annie Laurie Perry, Cecile
Downs, Elizabeth Mizelle, Mary Con,
nor and Miss Elizabeth Kane OF
Springfield, Ill.,
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1914-02-20
ocALA CONF ERENcE

Ocala is the most GENERALLY located
city In Florida and therefore most
convenient for the holding of gather
ings of statewide importance. And
then, too, the public spirit of her
people causes them TO take hold oil
live questions and handle them pro
bono publico.
These reasons contributed to the
holding of the express rate confer
snce In that city the other day. But
the "Ocala conference" will not gain
the conspicuous position in the his
tory Of our own times" that was
achieved by the "Ocala platform in
the old populistic days.
The express men and the officers
OF the shippers organizations and the
shippers themselves came together in
great numbers and consulted and
compared views and palavered a
plenty: but the outcome reminds us
of the story OF the king of France
and his army that marched up the
hin and then marched down again.
The express men impaired much
information which the others did not
previously possess. but as to lower
ing rates. they stood pat with mag
nificently aggravating unanimity.
II appears that in the general ma
tiOn-wide readjustment of the express
rates ordered by the interstate com
merce commission Florida, the geo.
graphical tail-end of the country,
came out at the little end OF the
horn. and our long-suffering truck
and fruit growers got il in the same
spot where the edge OF the wood
mans implement was applied to the
anatomy OF the eallinaceous biped.
From the information so generous
~ given out By the accommodating
transportation men it appears that
the one system has been borrowed
from the parcel post and the express
charges regulated accordingly That
means that rates TO nearby points,
those I'm the south TO which our PEG
pie ship very little, are lowered
rates 10 intermediate points to which
we ship more. but still comparatively
little. are kept at practically the old
figures. while rates to northern potts
10 which the bulk of our shipments
20 are raised from fly to seventy.
five per cent. The net result spells ex,
treme hazard to Florida's leading in
dustry.
OF course the express people ex-
hibited no conjunction whatever at
assisting at the preliminaries of the
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1914-02-20
WHY SHOULD THERE BE WAR

There have been urgent demands
that the United States go to war with
Mexico. These demands have not
come from the masses of the people,
who have little to do with bringing
on the wars, but who are relied on
to give their lives and property to
carry on the wars, but the stirring
appeals for arousing that patriotic
feeling which incites people to bloody
conflict have been made by investors
in Mexican mines and other proper
ties in that country.
If greed could have it's way we
would have been involved in a bloody
conflict with a neighboring country
which has a population of $4,000, 900
people. There has been no good
cause why we should send our sons
into that country to kill and be
killed. There is no reason why we
should make more desolate a coun-
try already groaning under the waste
OF war.
The better side it the side of peace.
See what the war has done for the
Bulgarian people. A little more than a
year ago those people were proud.
prosperous and happy. Now a half
million of them have been slain and
other thousands wounded and MANNED
for life. The country is in waste and
the very flower of the inhabitants are
dead on the battlefelds with their
widows and orphans, thousands of
them, literally are starving to death
all as the result of a cruel and un-
just war instigated to satisfy the
greed of rulers.-Nashville Tonnes
seean.