The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-10-06

and kept the public interest on the
senate organization rather than Brfs-
tow's own application for nice s7,50U
job without too much work and re-
sponsibility.
] 1t was old stuff in Kansas politics.
| Kansas is progressive = just as
/ Roosevelt told his Topeka crowd. For
] that reason something besides the Old
| style appeal to the rabble should be
used in appeals for Kansas votes.
Ooohi What a WalIop!
| Under the caption Growing Com
! pers," The Cincinnati Enquirer, mas
editorially handed Samuel iGompers
! one of the hardest shots of the year
/ in discussion of his position on the
Kansas industrial court law. The En-
quirer is one of the strong Democratic
! papers of the middle west. In a dis
cussion of the Kansas law it asserts
1 that the act may not be perfect but
/ that it is worthy of a complete trial.
Following is the papers editorial
comment on Gompers' war declara-
ton against the labor court act:
Says Mr.. Gompers: Every voter in
Kansas should know that the court of
industrial relations law of that state
provides for involuntary servitude in
violation of the Thirteenth amendment
| to the constitution of the United
States"
Mr.. Gompers is whistling down the
wind. He certainly knows better than
ito expect rational people to believe
this preachment addressed to unset
/ tied and biased minds. But the great
labor leader consistently has been OPP
| posed to this court, established to have
special jurisdiction over labor trou-
| bles. He has denounced it as being
vicious. He has urged its abolition.
He now is appealing to the farmers of
Kansas to assist in multiplying the law.
Elect your friends and defeat your
enemies" says the sage of Federated
| Labor.
| Happily, the farmers of this country
are outstanding men, men who are in
| telligent and patriotic. They are not
| to be deluded by the appeals of any
class. They know that the stability
and the solidarity of the nation rests
upon their shoulders. They will not
be deceived by specious philosophy
which is concerned only in the ex-
ploitation of class propaganda.
More and more the Kansas court OF
industrial relations is proving itself.
Only recently one of the chief labor
authorities in the country spoke of its
| beneficent efficiency, calling upon Ia
Dor generally to recognize in this plain.
sane, sensible method the way out of
| it's troubles. v
But Mr.. Gompers resents anything
which seems to interfere with labor's
"inaliena BILE" right to strike. to reduce
production and to add to the misery
of the great middle class of consum-
ers. The Kansas law may not be per-
feet. It may be but the germ OF an
idea which ultimately will fructify
into a universally recognized agency
for the settlement of all controversies
without disturbance of industry or
damage or suffering to any class OF
our people. 1t is unfair on the part
of Mr.. Gompers to decry the Kansas
law as being merely vicious and bad.
1t is worthy of complete trial.
Democrat Speaking Dates.
The following speaking dates have
been announced by the Democrat state
committee:
Jonathan NJ. Davis-Oct. 6, Lincoln
Center; Oct. Plainville; Oct 8, Hill
City and Hoxie; Oct. IL, Usage City;
Oct. II, Emporia.
Dudley DoolittIe-Oct. IS, Ellsworth
Oct 20, Oakley and Colby; Oct. FL
Goodland; Oct %, Norton and Phil
lipsburg; Oct. %, Belleville.
James O'Hara-Oct. II Moreland
and Hiawatha; Oct. IL, Seneca ana
Sabetha; Oct. 10, Frankfort and Con-
Marys; Oct. Is. Valley Falls and Hoi-
ton; Oct Is, Troy and Horton.
E. T. Giddings-Oct. IL, Arkansas
City; Oct. -, Mulvane and Winfield;
Oct. 1 8, Moline and Howard; Oct. ii,
Emporia; Oct. Is. Peabody and Mar
ion; Oct. 16, Wellington.
w. S. Hyatt-Oct. Z. Pleanton; Oct.
| 8, Prescott; Oct 8, Paola.
W. W. Rose-Oct. 9. Parsons.
Mrs. Severance to Speak.
Mrs. c. A. Severance of Minneapo-
lis Mimi, is coming to Kansas for a
series of speeches during the week of
October II. She was formerly mem
lber of the executive committee of the
Republican national organization.
Her dates include: Oct. IL, Law
renee: Oct. IL, Kansas City, Kan;
Oct 10. Pittsburgh; Oct. IA, Independ-
ence; Oct. Is, lola.
Hoover to Address Students.
Herbert Hoover will speak before
members of the Washburn college Re-
publican club at meeting at the
Chamber of Commerce October IA.
Plans for the meeting are being
worked out by Herbert Cavaness, in
charge of club organizations for the
Republican state committee.
Hoover comes to Topeka the eve
ming of October Is for a speech be-
fore the Farmers Cooperative asso-
citation. His only political talk in To-
peka will be before the college organ
| ization. More than 800 students have
Joined the club, of which Max Wyman,
a student is president.