The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-06-17


OF the sidewalk. against few inches
on the part of the State Journal.
There is no criticism offered for this.
and the State Journal. Of course. offers
none. Scores OF instances OF this kind
could be cited. Malice sticks out
further than any OF the buildings. The
effort to besmirch and discourage
decent citizenship should be elimi-
mated from the Chamber of Commerce.
President Townley testified before
congress that the only liberty loan
bonds for which the /Nonpartisan
league has subscribed was $1,000 in
the third loan. The annual income
Of the league is reputed to be over
s1.5oo,ooo.
The custodian Of the records of the
Nonpartisan league testified in con-
gress5 that he knew Of no law or re-
striction limiting the activities OF the
Nonpartisan league, so called.
The Nonpartisan league is most
thoroughly organized in North Dako-
ia. also in Minnesota. South Dakota.
Wisconsin and idaho. Efforts to
organize Kansas and Nebraska are
about the expulsion Of the organizers
from various Kansas communities re-
ferred to above.
In<addition to other councils Of de-
Tense, the state council of defense of
Nebraska denounced the Nonpartisan
league as unpatriotic and spreading
sedition.
Connections between the Nonpartisan
league and the infamous and. destruc-
tive I. w. w. organization has other
wise been definitely made. An organ
izer for the Nonpartisan league was
arrested and copies of nearly all the
text books of I. w. W.-ism were
found in his grips. This particular
organizer testified on the stand that
he was a member of the I. w. W.
and was organizer for the Nonpartisan
league. He also admitted that many
of his co-organizers were members OF
| the I. W. W. and said that one Of the
prime qualifications for acceptance as
an organizer for the Nonpartisan
league was that a man be q red
card Socialist"
Look at the hne attitude Of Samuel
Gompers, fpre resident Of the Federation
of Labor, compared with certain lit
tie, narrow-minded labor leaders. The
government has increased wages ma
terially, and the wages in factories
have been enlarged time and again.
| The president and those in authority
have requested that wherever pos
sible, and where no particular injus-
tice exists, that labor agitation and
labor changes be put off in these per-
ilous times until after the war, and
that both labor and capital should
devote all OF their energieseto the one
thing of winning the victory.
1t has been rumored repeatedly that
! II it were not for the existence in this
city OF certain agitators who have not
| the real welfare of the workers at
heart, that Topeka would become a
very great center for enormous, en-
larged railroad shops. employing ad-
! ditional thousands in this city. 1t is
known that the Santa Fe shops here
are inadequate; that they are repair
| ing locomotives now not only for their
| own lines. but for the Pennsylvania
railroad. the Baltimore g. Ohio rail-
road, and other eastern lines. The
eastern shops are congested and over
whelmed with work for the railroads
and for the government What Is To-
peka getting?
| Aside from the existence of a few
short-sighted agitators, who have Sc
cured some following among men not
well informed, Topeka is an ideal place
for such increased shop facilities. The
absence Of saloons. the thrifty class
Of people attracted to the shops here
all tend to expansion and good con-
ditions. A few irresponsible agitators
| make a noise as il thousands were
yelling over deplorab1e conditions
which do not exist.
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