The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-03-12

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Senator Getty owed support to Senator
Snyder, who, earlier in the day, had
helped Senator Getty on the primary
bill Getty promptly reciprocated.
The senator crop Wyandotte helped
the senator from Leavenworth, and
the senator from Leavenworth helped
the senator from Wyandotte. and
everything was harmonious, except
ing only eight senators were in favor
of the Bergen bill out of the forty.
Senator Getty loves to quote the
Scriptures, and he quotes them with
effect. He believes in reciprocity.
which is another term for consistency.
which he frequently declares is a jew
ell. That is one reason why he helps
Snyder when Snyder helps him.
The bill was absurd. as it appeared
to US as a layman. Its friends criti-
cised the federal reserve act in one
breath and in another said it had been
the salvation in financing the war and
had saved a panic. The Bergen bill
set itself up as bigger than the fed
eral reserve act. There was small
chance for a State Reserve bank to do
what it pretended to do unless there
should be an act of congress, not only
to permit it to join the federal sys-
tenn but to enable it to discount paper
of a non-member of the federal re-
serve system, which act of congress.
of course, would not be forthcoming.
The facts in the matter are that state
bankers differed radically on the bill.
Some favored it strong, like Presi-
dent Cobb of the Bank of Topeka;
others opposed it vigorously, like Mr..
Bowman, and others connected with
the Bank of Topeka.
The present legislature is doing a.
very large amount of good to the state
thru the bills it does not pass, and the
Bergen bill was one of them. We
have too many laws, and senators
senators like the veteran Senator Kan
avel, who do not say much and do not
introduce more than a bill or two, do
the state a world of good by cracking
on the head weak measures which
cannot possibly be of any strength to
the state of Kansas.
Does the Chamber of Commerce
know where it can invest $4,000 and
get a million dollar hotelfor Topeka
in any other way than taking hold of
the North American? Or will it con-
tinue to do nothing and permit its
attorneys to exploit another ten-story
hotel which has not yet procured per-
mission to sell the stock here?
Carroll Merriam, the new president
of the Chamber of Commerce. and
Mr.. Oliger. the new secretary, are all
right. They know a hawk from a
hand-saw. They haze simply been
| handicapped by a board of directors
lacking the courage of its convictions;
a board dictated to by one director, an
obstructionist, who publishes paper
of obstruction. The Chamber of Com
merce has been paying for and dis
tributing this paper. pulling down To-
peka and respectable Topeka people
and scattering poison over the city and
to every ortion of Kansas, according
to representation of the director in his
latest issues. The Chamber of Com
merce directors have not yet denied
the truth of the statement printed in
every issue of the directors paper that
the papers are paid for and dis
| tributed by the Chamber of Com
merce." The writer pays for fifteen
memberships in the Chamber at
| twenty dollars each and has been
doing so for nearly three years. Thank
| fortune this is the last year the writer
! is under contract to DO this. and have
| his money used to pay for and dis
tribute the directors paper of villainy
and vileness; and the Y. NJ. c. A. too.
Dear Reader: Do you know Whats
| The Matter With Topeka" and why
| Wichita, Kansas City and other cities
are getting our conventions, our en-
| terprises, our business. our good. re-
pute, our theater goers, our hotel
| patrons
| About this Getty anti-primary bill,
i known as Substitute Senate Bill 293.
There is beyond a doubt, widespread
| feeling in Kansas against the primary
law While the people like the prin-
eiple of it. they are not pleased with
its practical workings out in all re-
spects. There is a feeling on the part