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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-11

go 1 am in favor of authorizing the said
Directors to issue bonds in said district in
the sum of Thirty-one Thousand Five Hun
bred and no-100ths. 1891 300 Dollars for
the purposes mentioned in the first para
graph above.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-11
WANTED-MALE HELP.

wan ED-NA<AAAE
WANTED : Men learn barber trade,
More experience one month than shop ap-
prentice in one year. Accommodations for
country applicants. Write Moler Barber
College, Kansas City, Mo
TOPEKA government clerk examinations
April l., $4,000 month. Sample ques-
tons free. Franklin Institute, Dept. 40 NJ,
MISUNDERSTANDING, teachers, others with
reasonable education, salary and ex-
penses. No. 4, care Journal.
YOUNG men for locomotive firemen. Ex-
perience unnecessary. Give age. Box I,
care Journal
FOUND NEW POOL HALL, 4o215 East
MAN to drive car nights. Must have cash
bond. 5O6 West Sth.
w N'TIsD--EtNIALE HE ELLP.o,
THE billie Allen Sales Co. wants ladies
and gentlemen, exclusive territory, good
salary. See their line and terms. Victoria
Hotel. Topeka
BUSINESS CHANCES.
$500 INVESTMENT win secure interest in
substantial business in Topeka with
good salary in connection; lady or gentle
man. Billie" Allen Sales Co., Victoria hotel.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
WE PAY hishes: cash price for 2n hand
clothing, shoes. hats hats AND oveIeUats
DIop a caro- OF cal IOfO L. SGrluOpshI q
Son, 40S Kansas ave.
GOOD milk cows. fat cattle and veal calves
w. c. A. Leitzow. Eel. PSI
CARPET and rug weaving. 1880 Garfield.
Phone 25SS Blue.
WEAVING carpets. rugs. Pillows: rugs for
sale 221 Lake. 229S White
FOR RENT-ROOMS.
ONE ROOM in Office Block, steam heat,
bath. One room in Veale Block. Better
Realty and Loan Co.
TWO housekeeping rooms. S275; also two
first floor. 1014 Van Buren,.
933 KAN. AVE, front, unfinished
rooms, single room. 2299 Blue.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-11
FOR RENT-FIATS.

FOR RENT-FTATS.
APARTMENT in the Neil, 214-21s W 18th.
Hot and cold water, heat, janitor.
rooms, furnished except parior. Very con-
venient for family of two. $50. Geo.
Schenck, 11S5 Clay, phone 2907 Black.
FOR RENT-Apartment in the Del Plaza
apartments 18th and Taylor. Inquire SIG
Topeka ave. Phone 2766 Black.
FOR RENT-6 room flat 1925 Monroe. S14
Geo. E. Seybold. Phone 513 or 3740 Black
FOR RENT-March 1. 5 rooms, new. mod
er. Lower Duplex. Call 100.
ONE modern apartment in the Delmar.
Better Realty & Loan Co.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-11

ORDINANCE NO 135.

lblished in The Topeka State journal,
February IL. 1861
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-11

(2) 1 am not in favor of authorizing
the said Directors to issue any of said
bonds
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-11
OAKLAND NOTES

Items for this department may be
phoned to 3915 or State Journal office.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-11
EAST SIDE NOTES

Items for this department may be
phoned to 1915 or State Journal office
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-11
UNDERTAKING.

HAwLEY & STEELE
Funeral directors and embalmers if3 Ease
stb ave RS Robt. Steele assistant
Pnon III Day and Night
L. NJ PENwELL. funeral director and
embalmer. T. r. Jones. Asst First class
service 50e51o Quincy at Telephone f91
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-11

BILLIARD AND POCKET TABLES.
$3.50 80 $500 --~>~---~>~--<
FOR SALE-New and secondhand carorn
and pocket billiard tables and bowlfua
alleys and cigar store fixtures; easy pay
ments Send for catalogue The Bruns-
wick Be Ike -Collender Co, 132o-31 Main
street. Kansas City Mo.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1916-11-03
WILSON'S PEN OR YOUR
LIFE is EDITORIAL IN
DETROIT NEWSPAPER

Ellis Pen or Your Life" is the til
tie of a strong editorial Endorsement
OF President Wilson that is published
in the Detroit News, a paper Of in
dependent politics. The News says:
"a great deal of fun has been had
over underwriting, although we used
to be fond of quoting "The pen is
mightier than the sword" But Pres
ident Wilson has mad just two tools
he could use-his pen with his brain
behind it, or your life.
"That is all he had. He could send
notes, or he could send human lives.
He had to use either the tools of di-
plomacy, or he had to use American
fathers and brothers and sons-of
whom you likely would have been one.
"Now, aside from partisan prefer
ences, which would you prefer Pres
ident to risk first-his pen or your
life? President Wilson tried his pen
first. If the pen had failed through
any weakness in its handling, he
would have had to fall back on the
bodies of American men, offered as
sacrifcfiesfi fiofn theCE1RDLAH r r
sacrifices on the altar of battle.
"But the notes did not fail, because
they were not weak notes, and they
were not written by weak man."
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1916-11-03

Omitted Business Faces Hard
Times, says a Republican headline.
Fortunately it is only Republican
politician and parasites who aare fac
ing it.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1916-11-03
CONFUSION AND FUTILITY
President Wilson Charges Republicans
With EndanSering the Nation with y
Their Family Quarrel

"On the other hand we are told
that the methods of peace are the
methods of elocution and the methods
of phrase are the methods of manner;
that all that is needed is certain at
titude, certain personality, a GER
tain impressive manner in dealing
with the nations of the world.
Talking Without Saying Anything"
"You know that there used to be
an ancient art in politics, which seems
to have been revived, the art of talk
ing without saying anything, and the
people of the United States, my
friends, are very tired of that. They
look and they are looking with more
and more admiration and confidence
upon this contrasted picture:
"On the one hand a body of men
casting about for an issue; body Of
men casting about for some means to
throw those out of power who are
now in power, seeking any sort of sup
port, scrupling at nothing in the way
of their statement of facts and of
policy, grasping at anything in order
to make an impression, whether it be
false impression or a true impress
sion.
Flags G. o. P. Methods.
"They see that this is nothing but a
picture of forces that cannot unite,
of forces that do not constitute par
ty, and the intimation that just now
referred to is this, that those who are
doing the thinking for the opposition
are desiring to destroy the Republi-
can party as it was in 1912, in or
der that they may make it what they
then failed to make it by organizing
their opposition against it.
"Think Of it, my friends. In order
to reunite the Republican party by
giving dominance to that section of it
which has been rejected by that par
ty itself, a time of world crisis is to
be used in which it is absolutely nee
essary that the counsels of this ma
ton should be united and unmistak-
able. What are we to say of the pa
triotism of men who take advantage
of a crisis of the world when the for
tunes of men hang in uncertain bal
ance, when the peace of this great
nation can be maintained only by the
most thoughtful and considerate
means, in order to settle a question
of power among themselves? The
thing is incredible. The thing is not
to be endured by men who love Amer
lea, and more and more the attention
of this country is being concentrated
upon the Democratic party and the
thoughtful men who are now allying
themselves with the Democratic par
ty."
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1916-11-03
CHARLES HUGHES
OF CHARLES SCHWAB'S?

Charles Hughes is a Republican. So
is Charles Schwab.
Charles Hughes is a politician and
his future lies in politics. He spent
the last six years in the Federal Su-
preme Court. Charles Schwab is a
business man and his future lies in
business. He spent the past six years
making steel and building ships. He
builds 40 per cent of the ocean ships
built in this country. Both of these
Charleses have recently been talking
about business.
Charles Hughes says we are liv-
ing in a FOOLS paradise. Charles
Schwab tells US that he is now invest
ing $90,000,000 in additions and bet
terments at Bethlehem, though con-
struction costs are 40 per cent above
normal, because the certainty of sew
eral years of continued prosperity
makes the investment reasonable.
We omitted one detail Charles
Hughes is running for an office which
another man-one Woodrow Wilson
now fills. If he can pursuadc the
voters of America that we are living
in a FOOLS paradise, he believes they
will vote against Woodrow Wilson
and for him, He is very strenuous
about the FOOLS paradise business.
To him it means a job.
Now we submit, in conclusion, that
either Charles Schwab or Charles
Hughes has got the business situa-
ton wrongly sized up. Whose opin-
ion do you put most faith in? That
of the ship builder and steel maker
who is investing S90,000,000 in Ameri-
cas- future? Or that of a politician
whose own political future is bound
up with the genial attempt to make
100,000,000 people think there is no.
thing in the prosperiay the business
man is capitalizing?
In plain question of business con-
ditions and prospects, would you pre-
fer to follow Charles Hughes opinion
or Charles Schwab's? The opinion
of business man making an invest
ment or that of a politician out of a
job ?-St. Louis Republic.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1916-11-03

Judge Lamm has never given the
Land Bank bill any study, while Col.
Gardner, the author, has for three
years given the subject careful invest
igation. Col. Gardner is a business
man, while Judge Lamm has never
given any measure to advance the
interests of the Missouri farmer any
attention, until he was nominated for
Governor by his party. Outside of
Col. Gardeners efforts in this particu-
lar matter he has proven wherever.
trusted, a successful, resourceful and
practicable business man. At no time
in the history of Missouri have the
people had more need of a man Of the
Gardner type than now. Wherever
Judge Lamm attacks the Gardner bill
he makes votes for Gardner.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1916-11-03

fore been called upon to bear. And
all FOR WHAT? Just to give the
big cities something that they don't
want, and accumulate for the rural
districts a tax burden that THEY
don't want and which they cannot af-
ford to bear.
A total of $z121, 22761 was paid
by the liquor industry to the govern
ment of this State and local subdi-
visions thereof in the last two-year
period, IN LICENSE AND INSPEC-
TION FEES ALONE NOT COUNT
ING REGULAR TAXES. When that
amount Of money is taken away from
the State Treasury at one single blow,
SOMEBODY has got to make good
the loss. Somebody has got to PAY.
And Mr.. Farmer, Mr.. Homeownner,
that somebody" will be YOU. ,
From the political viewpoint, from
the financial viewpoint, from ANY
and EVERY viewpoint, statewide
prohibition in Missouri at this time is
wrong in principle, unwise in theory,
unjust in application and impossible
in practice.
To take a tax-burden of $7,121, 227.-
81 (now being paid by the cities) and
hurl it without warning upon the ru-
raj districts Of Missouri would be a
death-dart hurled at the heart of ev-
cry farm home in the State. 1t is for
the people to say, and especially for
the Missouri farmer to say on No
vember 7th; THIS THING SHALL
NOT BE DONE.
In ninety-six counties now depend
ent on the State for their road and
school funds, statewide prohibition
will Immediately bankrupt the county
treasures, the roads will suffer and
the schools must close. No more cri-
tical emergency has ever confronted
the people of this State, and there is
no eXaggeration in the statement that
statewide prohibition means STATE
WIDE RUIN. (adv.)
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1916-11-03
Statewide Prohibition Means
Statewide Ruin

SIXTY THOUSAND WAGE-EARN.
Frs in st. Louis City would be
thrown out of employment, and 1885,
600 people would find their income
gone. One-ffth of the city of St
Louis would be as completely blotted
out as if a feet of hostile Zeppelins
had poured their deadly fires upon it,
The railroads would at once lose $4,-
100000 per year in revenue; real cs-
tate of the value of $1G,000,000 would
become tenantless, and 100000, 600
of capital would be driven from the
borders of the State-and where cap
ital goes, there goes labor also, to
find employment.
In the presence of such financial
ruin no business interest in our great
cities or in the country could remain
unaffected
In the midst of such widespread
disaster the Missouri farmer cannot
stand unscathed. When the PUR-
CHASING power of the cities is Sc
riously impaired the SELLING pow
er of the farmer is just as injuriously
affected, because the CITY WAGE
GARNER is THE FARMERS BEST
CUSTOMER. Where great cities
thrive and throb with ever-increasing
life, there is the best market for the
farm-for, as said above. THE MAR
KET MAKES THE FARM.
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A NEW TAX ON LAND.
The present yearly income of the
State of Missouri is, in round num-
bers, $5,900,000, or a little less than
six millions of dollars per year.
More than one-half of this amount
comes from the liquor business and
allied industries. Therefore, should
prohibition carry at the polls Novem-
Der 7th, MORE THAN ONE-HALF
THE PRESENT INCOME OF THE
STATE WILL BE IMMEDIATELY
WIPED OUT.
In that even, the State taxes will
be more than doubled as necessary
and inevitable result. At least 49,
100000 per year in new taxes must
be raised. Where will you get it?
From the farm land. Prohibition
means A NEW TAX ON LAND.
All the money, notes and bonds, and
other chattels that can be reached are
being reached today. No new reve-
nues can be had from that source
But LAND LIES OUT OF DOORS.
1t cannot be hidden, or shifted
about, or taken away. The cities now
for the most part, are bonded, as
sessed and taxed TO THE CONSTR
TUTIONAL LIMIT on their real es-
tate.
But when it comes to taxing the
Missouri farm, the constitutional lin
it has not yet been reached-and may
Heaven help the farmer when it rs
reached! When Missouri's State rev.
enues are cut in half, the assessing
boards will have to go TO THE MIS-
SOURI, FARM for an extra three or
four million dollars per year. because
they can go NOWHERE ELSE. This
means new and BIGGER TAX ON
LAND than Missouri has ever known
before. 1t means heavier burden
than Missouri farmers have ever be-
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1916-11-03
HIGH AUTHORITY ON
LAND BANK BILL

Prof. Frank A. Fetter Of Princeton
University, an expert on rural cred
its, endorses the practicability and
value of the Gardner Land Bank, and
pays a high tribute to Mr.. Gardeners
earnestness and ability in studying
the subject, and formulating his plan.
Prof. Fetter declares that with eff
cient and honest administration, the
bank as planned in the Gardner bill.
will be success, and splendid thing
for the farmers of Missouri. He saws
it is valuable as a supplement to the
Federal bill, and thinks the farmers
need State system of rural credits
in addition to the Federal system. He
thinks one-half of one per cent ample
to bear the cost of administration.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1916-11-03

"The campaign that we are now en-
gagged in" said President Wilson, in
his Long Branch speech last Satur-
day, "has reached point of culmina-
ton where, perhaps, it is possible and
permissible to view the field and char
acterize the results. The field has
been very confused one, because the
forces in the operation are confused.
"Looking over the field as whole,
you can see that all that has been
disclosed on the side of the opposl-
ton is confusion and futility. 1t is
not singular that it should be so, be-
cause they serve under no single cap
tain. They are moving in no single
direction, they have no single body Of
principles, they have no single pur-
pose in mind. 1t has been impossible
to condust the campaign as if it were
a regular battle, because so soon as
we caught some section of the enemy
it was found they had dispersed.
No Stamp of Definite Policy.
at has been a confusing campaign
because the public mind has never
been permitted to center upon any
single issue that they cared TO stand
for. Most Of the issues proposed at
the outset have so utterly disappeared
that it is doubtful If they ever exist
ed, and that because OF an inevitable
division of counsels.
"They possess no stamp OF definite
policy. They suggest no line of def
mite action. On the one hand the Vo-
cal element says that we have ac-
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1916-11-03

Edison is electrocuting the ele-
plant. as
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1916-11-03
Do You Have Sour Stomach?

If you are troubled with sour stom-
aeh you should eat slowly and masti-
cate your food thoroughly, then take
one of Chamberlain's Tablets imme-
diately after supper. Obtainable ev-
erywhere. (Adv.)
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1916-11-03
Sufferer from Indigestion Relieved.

Before taking Chamberlain's Tab
lets my husband suffered for several
years from indigestion, causing him
to have pains in the stomach and dis
tress after eating. Chamberlain
Tablets relieved him of these spells
right away" writes Mrs. Thomas
Casey, Geneva, N. Y. Obtainable ev-
erywhere. (Adv,)
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1916-11-03
DESTROYING THE FARMERS
MARKET,

Every Missouri farmer knows that
the value of his farm depends in large
degree upon the availability of the
market for farm products. Without an
active, profitable and convenient mar
ket, there is no money in farming.
Every Missouri farmer knows this to
be a fact. The better the market, the
better the price Of the farm. What
ever Injuries the farmers market low
ers the value of the farm. All this is
known to everybody and is not open
to argument. 1t must be taken for
granted. 1t cannot and will not be
denied that THE MARKET MAKES
THE FARM.
1t never has been and it never will
be possible for a rich farming COM
munity to exist without great cities
to buy and consume the products of
the farm. The nearest and best mar
ket for Missouri farmers is found in
the three great cities of st. Louis,
Kansas City and st. Joseph. They
are among the greatest grain and
live stock markets Of the world.
Missouri farmers hav been told
and it is TRUE-that the manufac-
turers of malt and spirituous liquors
in this State buy and consume one
fifth of the Missouri corn crop in the
manufacture of their product. In sub
stantially similar proportions they
absorb the wheat crop, and other grain
crops. But by far the biggest and
best market provided by the liquor in
dustry of the cities for the products
of the Missouri farm lies in the PUR-
CHASING POWER OF THOSE
WHO DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY
DERIVE THEIR LIVING FROM
THIS VAST BUSINESS.
The advert of statewide prohibit
ton would at once shut off TEN MIL
LION DOLLARS A WEAR IN WAC
Es, in the city OF st. Louis alone.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1916-11-03
STATE GOVERNMENT WILL
coll 0pGE

No State with one-half the city
population of Missouri has ever
thought of adopting statewide pro-
hibition.
No prohibition State ever did de-
pend so largely upon the revenues
which come from the liquor and al
lied industries of the large cities as
does Missouri.
The State government today is
not in such a financial condition as to
be able to withstand the shock of sub
tracing between three and four mil
lion dollars per year from its reve-
nues. Everybody knows that the State
revenues today are by law so levied
as to be barely adequate to meet the
necessary expenses Of the State gov
eminent. Statewide prohibition iii
Missouri will therefore mean nothing
less than a total collapse of the State
government. The disastrous condi-
tions resulting from such an occur
renee would be universal throughout
the State. There is but one way to
avert a calamity so terrible and I'M
precedented, and that is to scratch the
Eyes" on Amendment No. 3.
The Brinkley argus., 1916-11-24
MANY HOMES WILL BE
 MADE HAPPY CHRISTMAS
Distribution of Christmas Club Funds in December Will be Made by
 Bank of Brinkley

On yesterday, a reporter for the ARGUS dropped in, at the Bank of Brinkley and was very pleasantly surprised when MT. F. Lee Major, the Cashier of that institution, stated that his bank would mail out checks early in December to many hundred citizens of Brinkley and Monroe County representing the amount they have saved in their Christ mas Savings Clubs this year. It was quite a pleasure to note. in going over the list of members in these Clubs, that there were many who had saved sums rang ing from s2b.5O to s63. 75in these Clubs. that had nekef before had any connection with a bank>or any savings institution apd had never donsso with so Ixfle effort on theipparts. as the payments in these Clubs begin with two or five cents and increase two or five cents each week, gradually fncreasipglin such a manner that the fifty payments have made been before the member realizes that he has saved anything. The bank of Brinkley was the originator of this popular form of saving in our community and is to be commended for the ser vice it has thus rendered our people. Many have formed a habit of saving through this means that will mean their financial independence in days to come.
 MT. Major stated that this de- partment of the bank would hereafter be a permanent fea- ture and invites every one to call at the bank and have the Clubs explained to them, as the Clubs for the coming year are now open and dozens of the men, women and children are joining every day.
The Brinkley argus., 1916-11-24
Father of Mrs. J. 5. Mitchell and Miss Louise Dickin- son Drops Dead at
 Humbolt, Tenn.

A message announcing that that their father, H. L. Dickin- son, had dropped dead at his home in Humbolt, Tenn. was re- ceived by Mrs. Jas. s. Mitchell and Miss Louise Dickinson on Tuesday evening and they left at once for their old home.
 MT. Dickinson had often been heard to remark that when the end of life came with him. he wished to go suddenly. He was in good health and there was nc intimation of the end being SC near.
 Two sons, Messrs Roy and Haskell Dickinson of Benton, Ark, two daughters. Mrs. Jas. s, Mitchell and Miss Louise Dickin. son of this city. and wife sur. vive MT. Dickinson.
The Brinkley argus., 1916-11-24
Just About Town

Yes, sir. ] appreciate the ARGUS and what it is doing and I suggest that you begin the advocacy of the establishment in Brinkley of a flour and grist mill," said H. J. Harshbarger. the Ohio capitalist who is down in Brinkley now looking after his holdings in the Tippecanoe Ranch.
 II believe that the people of Brinkley should come out to the City Council Meeting and see and hear how their corpora tion is being run. Brinkley is in debt and is going further in debt every month. Something MUST be done to raise more revenue" says Mayor C. F. Greenlee'
The Brinkley argus., 1916-11-24
The Monroe County Teach. CTS Plan Their Decem.
 ber Meeting

An interesting program for the December meeting of the Monroe county teachers, to be held in Brinkley. Dec. 18th, has been planned in which Miss Sophia Walker of Blackton, Jas. H. Davis of Holly Grove, Leo l.. Partlow of Clarendon, Earnest McCastlain, Miss Annie Trice and Miss Block of Holly Gteve. w. E. Phipps of Roe and w. N. Wilkes of Keevil, are to take part. Mrs. R. F. Millwee of Clarendon, will also address the meeting.