The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-03-03
Says Criticism League of Ma
lions Good Thing for Wilson.
Does He Mean 1t the Way the
Interview Reads9
CAPPER FOR TAFT'S PLAN
Taft and Wilson Speak From
Same Platform Tomorrow.
The Ex-Governor Hits Topeka
Chamber of Commerce a Blow.


Arthur Capper, United States senator
elect from Kansas. in which our fell
low townsman says that the buffet
ing the league of nations platform of
principles isireceiving is good thing
for President Wilson, for the idea I'M
derlying is the desire for compact
between the nations determined to
prevent war, and for the, truth-seek-
ing people of the Unite6 States who
believe that truth should prevail,
1.-The cutting and buffeting Presi-
dent Wilson's league of nations plan
| is receiving, both in and out of con-
gress, is u good thing for the advo-
Gates at the Paris conference of the
plan for a compact between the great
nations that shall make future great
wars impossible. The president is
supposed to know all about the sub
| ject. 1t is natural and right that the
people of this republic, whose chill
dren must toll and strive long after
| this generation is gone, should de-
mand full knowledge with reference
to every important item in the arti-
| cles binding the nations together,
said Senator Capper.
Capper for Taft's Plan.
PERSONALLY, I am for a league of
nations. and L am affiliated with Mr.
Taft in his scheme for league to
| enforce peace.
The underlying idea represents
what is noblest among the children
of men.
THE Republicans, durin~ the last
| two years have been led by Theodore
/ Roosevelt-not because of blind hero
| worship, but because Roosevelt was
right. He loved the truth, an he
hated sham, l visited him at Christ
mas time in Roosevelt hospital Per-
| haps he should not have received
| a caller like myself, but last year
when he was west for tn. Hbert.- loan,
I was much with him, and we were
| friends. At Christmas time, altho his
| strength was tagging, he had the
same clean-cut views on politics that
he always has had. 1t was pleasure
| to talk with him. He was the leader
| of the right-minded. Had he lived no
| other name wou-' have been sug-
| gested for president by Republicans.
| His life and his views abide with US.
We must go forward all the tim not
| too fast or so as to trip and fall, but
| forward. That was Roosevelt's way
| LAS a party we are fortunate in
having Will H. Hays as chairman Of
| the national committee He has the
/ honest intelligence and the vision to
| make him successful in his task, and
/ he is eminently successful. W. are
| in good shape for 1920.
Against Nonpartisan Leagues Foot
| hold Here.
| ''As to candidates, it is hard to say
| who is leading. Governor Lowden,
| of Illinois; Gen. Leonard Wood; Cen
eral Pershing; Senator Harding, of
| Ohio: Senator Watson, of Indiana
all, are highly thought of in Kansas
Neither Townleyism, 1. w. Wism, or
! Bolshevism is taking root in Kansas"
''The people, if 1 understand the
sentiment in Kansas, are not 50 much
interested in any of these isms as they
are for square deal. They do not
dlemen between the farm and the
market, and they will not stand for
it, if they can force a better condf-
| ton of things. They do not like to
see the meat-packing and distribu-
ton of the nation in the hands of five
or six big interests. They want a
government supervising of meat-han-
ding analogous to that of govern
mental control of the banks. More
over, they want to know what profit
the packers are making They want
publicity, openness and above board
dealing. 1 think they will keep in
sistipg on it until they get it,"
When prohibition was mentioned
the visitor from Kansas laughed soft
ly, and then said:
Its all thing of the past with
Kansas people. We got thru it long
ago. The dynamic behind prohibit
ton is more economic than moral
altho in the beginning it was almost
wholly moral. A superman is a better
J man every way than drunken one
President Ripley, of the Atchison sys
| tenn, tells me that the Topeka cal
shops, with 5000 employees, relative
: ly and comparatively speaking. is the
most efficient plant of its kind in the
: country. The employees are total alb
l stainers and have been for years, an(
j. he attributes it to total abstinence.
Will Soon Forget 1t.
1.-The drinkers of New York will
forget about booze within a month
after it is shut off by the enforcement
of the federal law. Drinking it is e
habit easily dropped when alcoholic
[ beverages are not within reach. Thi
large banquets in Kansas are just a:
bright as when liquor was served
= Whether New Workers like it or not
booze has been voted out, never to ge
back.
"Kansans are loking forward to th'
banner wheat year. We have 1900,
600 acres of winter wheat and its con
dition at the present time is SO pc
cent. which is the same as saying tina
it could not be much better. Kansas
raises nearly one-quarter of the whea
| produced in the United States. Thi
year, if all goes well, we shall harves
about 250,00o.000 bushels. and it viii
be worth SAILS a bushel in Kansa
City. This year will mark the peal
| in the Industrial history of Kansas.
How do you justify the govern
! ments arbitrary price-fixing of 1872
bushel?''
ut was determined upon as a wa
measure, and that was its justifica
J tion," said Senator Capper. II appre
bend that government price-fixing o
i all kinds will be done away with a
4 soon as we have been restored full.
4 to peace conditions The fixing of tn
marketing price OF s2,26 seemed. il
4 the Judgment of the government, t
be proper. 1 think it was. Ultimate
ly. the inexorahle law of supply an