Emporia Weekly Gazette (Newspaper) - July 25, 1907, Emporia, Kansas EMPORIA a 1907 TRANSPORTATION QUESTION In his comprehensive address ered before the National Association of Manufacturers of the United at Washington Secretary Root said Transportation sums up the trade relations of the United States entire lt was of a propo sition and applicable no less but even more to the inland trade and com merce of the country than to the for trade and commerce The facili ties of the great of the country are frankly admitted by their Officials to be wholly inadequate to the demands made upon them by the merchants and the manufacturers United States and with an equal frankness they concede that lenT of transportation must find its solution in the adequate improvement of the highways of trade and com merce furnished by nature and too long neglected is not found only in the fact that they furnish con means of transportation to the great inland markets of the coun try and to the harbors for the export trade but it is also found in the table fact that they carry the raw material and the finished product at rates vastly less than the railway rates in competition with the railways though not in antagonism them That sums up Irade relations between in commerce of a vastly greater degree represented by figures enormously larger than it sums up the trade relations of the United States with the entire world the bulletin issued from Ihe depart ment of commerce and labor the record of Ihe progress of the United States amply and most demonstrates For the year 1906 the value of from the United States was and the value of the imports was most gratifying total ol But in the same year the total value of farm products alone Ihe value of Ihe iron and steel products was 003 the value of wool manufacture the value of the manufactures was 2rS the value of silk products was In other words while the total foreign commerce of the United States in 1906 was of the valui of the value of five ar ticles in the of ex the value of the foreign com by or within fraction of the value of the exports and imports It needs no argument to demon that the question sums up the inland trade relations of the Stales nor does it need more than tin facts of apparent ti every section of Ihe country and sup by Ihe frank admissions o officials to demonstrate con that in the adequate im of the rivers and harbors of the country the true and solution of the problem to be found IN DARKEST ARKANSAW Kansans are bobbing up almos everywhere and conspicuously ii about everything but seldom as The El Dorado can vouchsafes the following veraci ous record of a venturesome county voluptuary Kansas people are nol so slow not so awful slow An El fellow citizen went to Arkansas sonn time ago bought forty acres of lam to be a Democrat Thi gave him a hog is ih right to go into Ihe woods and kil a wild hog when out of meat This Kansas to have ha twenty acres of woods and acres of plow land He on le acres of watermelons ten acres o chickens and as he was twenty mile from a railway station he had t create a home market for his produce He lilted up his woods hired som colored preachers and a color rd camp meeting He led in exhorted of nights lifted the lions sold his watermelons and chick ens to the brothers and sisters an when everything was disposed of th camp meeting was out He now own half a township of land is living lik an Arkansas nabob and is counte one of the foremost citizens of Dark est El Dorado Republican If thcr are thirteen woman members of club and if they meet every week i he year and give a of stocking each week as a chromo to the bes player il might be concluded tha fiftytwo pairs of stockings wer out during the year or abo four pairs for each member But th is a great mistake On pair of stockings does Ihe Each week they are taken back to the store and swapped for another pair of different color and in this way one of 25 cent stockings is given as a fiftytwo times in a year by in El Dorado womans THE LANDIS BOYS Here of late there liaj been a good eal of talk about Judge Kenesaw andis and the other Landis boys ays the Topeka Capital Judge Ken saw Mountain achieved some distinc rin through chasing John D Rocke eller in to his court and forcing him give testimony This is the most feat yet achieved by the andis family but it appears that all our of the brothers are entitled to lore or less honorable mention The them offered without apology ys the Capital further Judge Landis of Chicago who rought John to that lace for the purpose of answering ome questions in the federal court under 40 years of age His father as a soldier in the Civil war am ought the battle of Kenesaw fountain In memory of that battle e named his boy Kenesaw Mountain circumstance would usually sufficient to kill ny boys prospects But the Landis oys are not that kind There are our The judge is next to ic youngest Two of them were in from Indiana at ime Charles maintains his seat from brother at the last election The brother successfully holds own a government situation in Cuba rile mother of the Landis boys visited while her sons were mem ers and sat in the gallery looking own upon her children The suc ess of these young men is not due to ny accident They have brains and n unfailing courtesy They are all lie time making friends not enemies Courtesy is the best investment an young man can have One nothing about the father of the iOys except that he fought for the 1111 011 Hut it is evident that the mother mst be of the right sort Good boys o not often grow up by Thus writes their unofficial her He is not so fulsome as was Ur hired man but that nay be accounted for fact thai le is drawing no pay for his work Vithout deprecating in any way their to their state and country t would appear to the casual observer hat the most distinguishing charac eristic of the Landis boys is an abili y to stay on the payroll H is true hat them is temporarily from the emoluments and per of public life bul Ihe others their connection with the treasury The Landis boys lave made something of a record and the facts become generally cnown the Capital says it looks for a great scramble to secure their recipe in Kansas and elsewhere A TIP FOR THE YOUNG This is an age of most wonderful op and possibilities for the young says F D greater and more wonderful than any gone before In fact opportunities are wellnigh reaching out to seize them but the opportunity and seizure f effective must be met half way The will be of those with in industry clean brains and clean minds those not ashamed or afraid to work with head or hands more than eight hours a day or twice eight hours if necessary who can be trusted to best without watching who always give full meas ure Or more without the On the other hand there is little promise for the one who studies least and strives little who is afraid of doing too much or of working over time for the youth who thinks it manly to be a barroom patron to tax his brain for of a mcr schaum pipe or who discolors his fingers with cigarette stains who gives evenings to pool halls orar gues that the world owes him a living Such as these may exist but they will not be living in aii age that while having much to give will also demand much THE PARDON OF JANUARY Ledger The case of William January pardoned by President Roosevelt and released from the federal prison at Fort Leav en worth in response to a pe tition signed by persons made an irresistible appeal to public sym pathy Eleven years ago lie was sentenced to three years imprisonment for rob bing a post office iu Oklahoma Af ter years of his term he escaped went to Kansas City as the of Anderson en gaged in business married and lived a spotless life fornine years when his presence in Kansas City was reported to the authorities and he was returned lo prison Some cavilers may be found who regard the Presidents action as un warranted on principle January it might plausibly be said committed a second offense in His sen tence was not a long one It might be urged escaped convicts who apparently reform and lead a new life for some years are to expect pardon extraordinary inducements to break will be offered Justice defeated and An retributive argument Wichita Beacon Miss Annabel Root who has been for a good many years a reporter on the Atchison Globe is in Wichita visiting her sister Mrs Howe Miss Root works on the most remarkable newspaper in the world Atchison isnt naturally a newspaper town It is only hours ride sway from Kansas City and yet Atchison people take the Globe in preference to the metropolitan papers which reach them al the same time They not only take it but they fuss over which member of the family shall read it They not only take it but help to get it up If any thing of importance happens ni a neighborhood the first thought is Well give that to the The of the town arc interested in the paper because paper night has an accurate daily record of the life of that community The peo ple know that it is honest and relia ble and they regard it as a public in as Much as the city park or the town pump or the union depot A paper is fortunate when it arrives upon such terms of intimacy with its readers as exist between the Atchi son Globe and the people of Atchison And the town is fortunate when the paper reaches that relationship The paper becomes the mouthpiece for the town tho guardian of its public inter ests and the daily news bearer from every home lo every UP TO THE PEOPLE Kansas City Star Judge Lindsay of the Denver juvenile court pro poses radical methods for the of undesirable United States Senators Senator Simon Guggen against Januarys pardon might be constructed in this way but the exer cise of the pardoning power is discre Every application for par don must be disposed of on its own merits It is not understood that a pardon is to establish a precedent or a rule of action It will be at once recognized that Januarys case is ex The pardoning authori ty is not bound by hard and fast rules like a court Its conscience was in formed bythe declaration of many thousands of citizens that January de served pardon under the circum stances If the pardoning power Flail not favorably responded lo this pow appeal for it would have been justly arraigned for undue harshness The human impulse to forgive an offender who palliates his offense by years of exemplary is strongly iu evidence in the petition for Jantt irys pardon and the President fol lowing the of Attor ney General Bonaparte did what we imagine any rightminded executive would have done in such a case It is not recalled that there was any oppo sition to Januarys pardon expressed while action on the petition was pend ing So far as public sentiment was revealed by the press the desire for his pardon and release was unani heim of either should be sent to Iht penitentiary or hanged for the methods he used in securing his election to the United States sen is the declaration made by Judge Lindsay in the presentation of a rem edy for cleaner politics Mr Lind say has made a tine record in his juvenile court work but his observa tions on the subject of Senator Gug genheim and national politics indicate that he should confine his field of ac tion entirely to the reformation of wayward boys He shows no partic ular adaptability for the reformation of the United States senate What possible advantage to Colo rado could result from either send ing Guggenheim to the penitentiary or to the gallows The methods employed in his election may have been revolting to men like Judge he was elected nevertheless by the repre of the people of Colorado The removal of Guggenheim would do no more than to afford these repre an opportunity to profit by the same methods in the election of another senator and there is no reason to believe thai a better man would be selected even if the country accepts Judge Lindsays portrayal of Guggenheim as being the correct measure of Ihe man The trouble is not with Colorados senator Judge Lindsay is mistaken in his assumption that the blame rests with the man higher If the peo ple of Colorado are misrepresented in the senate the responsibility rests with them and the extreme remedy proposed would only satisfy a thirst for vengeance It offers no solution to the problem as to how to get hel ler Besides Judge Lindsays radical suggestion applies only to one state Why should Guggenheim perish when there are yet others Bench Mark at Courthouse The Jamestown Train Acting under the instructions of Lawrence drainage engineer of the United Stales department of agri culture E W Chadwick yesterday put a bench mark in the front lawn of the courthouse A bench mark is nothing more or less than an iron pipe feet long with a brass knob on Ihe top placed at different points over I ho states for the purpose of establishing the per manent elevation of that particular place above the sea level The brass knob of the bench mark in front of the courthouse bears inscription Office Experiment Stations U S Department of Agriculture Drainage Elevation above sea level The elevation is left blank for the present because it has never been accurately ascertained However as soon as it is determined the blank space will be filled The bench mark was put at the courthouse because that is a public place and midway between the two EDUCATED FARMERS Mail and Breeze A few weeks ago lie editor was out at a Kansas lowu where a class of young people were out in their glad clothes and Celling their diplomas lie half or more of the boys of he class were farmer boys and on found that most of them in ended to go on through college He alked with one of the of Ihe town aboul Ihe mailer saying thai he supposed that that meant thai ioys would quit the farm for good On the said the citizen it is more than likely that they will come back and down on Ihe farm A good many boys from here lave gone to college graduated and then come back to settle down on farms I know of nine or ten I could name who went lo college com their course and are now farm The fad is Kansas is gradually filling up with educated farmers The notion that it wasnt necessary for a farmer to know anything ex cept how to work is dying out Farm ing is gelling lo be one of the learned professions The really successful farmer nowadays needs lo be a ma and he to be a chemist He need to keep posted every day or he will drop to the tail end of the procession There is plenty of hard El Dorado Republican Grave yards yawn for the misguided millions who soak themselves in hot or cold water all summer long while the vast army of animals who fill up on rice prunes and creek water as a regular thing adds millions of dol lars to the coffin trust year Then there arc the slock provender seeks health wealth ad happiness by abjur ing meats and grease And when we consider lhat live on patent medicines pills and other drug store dope we are surprised the world Js not depopulated The streets our cities swarm with mummified ca davers who bathe and diet and starve while seeking the health of those who lake to meals and grease those who cat what is set before them and make no remarks who drink when arc thirsty rest wholl they are tired and go to bed and lo sleep of who whistle or sing when getting up and who arc filled with happiness while blessing the saints that arc here to enjoy all there is in life worth having But health is not for these mummified cadavers the love microbe that should fill them up is the lack of grease and is noth ing left for them but lost opportunity and SUFFRAGISTS BEQUEST The treasurer uf the National Wo man Suffrage Association Taylor Upton of Warren has been officially notified by the execu tors of the es of Mary S An thony lhal she left in trust to Rev Anna 1 Shaw Catherine Waugh McCulloch and Harriet Taylor Up ton suffrage work Be quests of each were left in a similar wav the local Political El Dorado Republican Of course there will be and and of teeth When all work yet on the but not the Ihe hypocritical old the drudgery there used tolTe Farmers Equality club of Rochester N and to the State Woman Suffrage Association Miss Anthony was for many years a leacher in Ihe public schools and her modest fortune was saved from her ON WOMAN SUFFRAGE long as there is one woman who wants a vule and it is denied her so long you have a civilization lhat has not reached ils highest said Mayor Tom L Johnson the oilier night in introducing Rev Anna II Shaw President of the National Wo man Suffrage Association lo a Cleve land audience Continuing he said Do nol be discouraged because all women do not want to vote It is tin history of all reforms that opposition comes from the very class which is lo be most benefited by that particular movement All reforms pass through throe stages people cry Its ridiculous next they say It is con trary to and O is that what you mean Why I have be in that all the 1 hope you will soon have passed this last Parsons Sim There has not been a harvest in this slate for years in which men were nol killed and robbed Mr Chadwick says that these bench marks were put in all the towns along the river from Chetopa on the state line to Emporia where the surVey of the Neosho valley was slopped The putting in of the bench mark completes the work of the en Mr who superintend ed the work of surveying the valley is at present in Washington D C assisting J O Wright super vising engineer of irrigation and drain age investigations in Ihe of the report of the work When Mr Brett the sur vey he said he was confident that a wav be devised whereby this part of could be relieved from large losses caused by high wat ers He further suid thai drainage work was comparatively new in this part of Ihe country and it was prob able that active work of reclamation will be undertaken in many places along the Neosho river in accordance with the plans furnished by the gov If this work is undertaken and valley is protected from the floods il will increase the price of Ihe rich bot lom land in the valley Iwo fold The governments work in the drainage of the Neosho valley will be completed when it has distributed the investigations it has made among Ihe landowners The expense of lie re clamation wil have lo by the men who own valley Every landowner in I lie Fowler neighborhood has said that if tin plans devised by the Syl Dixon who wan here Tuesday for the purpose of interesting the business men and farmers in his train which he will take to the Jamestown exposition some time in October loaded with Kansas prod went to Topeka today Mr Dix on found the people so busy attend ing the Chautauqua that he did not get to see many of th business men He lo return in a few days and makea thorough canvass of the town The men whom he talked with while here gave him the assurance of their support and he expressed hint self as encouraged at the outlook His idea is to have a special train of several cars loaded with the agri cultural products of the different counties of the state and take it to the Jamestown exposition in October Arrangements will be made to have the train run on a daylight Schedule and to stop for a short time at all the principal towns on the route Mr Dixon has received letters from the governors of several of the states through which the train will pass ac his invitation to visit the train lie has the endorsement of Secretary of Agriculture Coburn Governor Hock and other prominent officials It may interest Emporia people to know that the calliope which was here with the Red Mens carnival last spring will accompany the train be executed at a reasonable cost will undertake them It is believed that all the farmers along valley will carry mil the government plans if they ran al a minimum cost Mr has said that will late this fall DAUGHTER OF DEMOCRACY In the eighteenth century two great revolutions were fought which firm ly established the principle of mans right to selfgovernment Now in the twentieth century a silent revolu tion is establishing no less securely the principle of womans rights to Selfgovernment Future generations will smile at mans assurance in eating any government a republic in which but half of Ihe people vole and at womans stupid in such a definition And what will pos terity think of the people who are now saying that democracy is a fail it has ever been tried while returning from the harvest fields and in each instance the vic tims were beating way back home upon freight trains to evade the payment of railroad fare The men have lost lives for the sake of a few dollars and for those same few dollars others have taken Advertising That Pays President of the Col lege is a thorough adver tising campaign for that institution For some time he has been running advertising matter in the Kansas City papers and has employed two men lo act as field agents for securing new students Within Ihe past week a number of handsome booklets been sent out to prospective slu pamphlet with a cover and is entitled arge have more time to rend now more lime for leisure Fanners arc edu cating their sons with the idea of making doctors or lawyers or preach ers out of them bul just plain farm Ottawa Republic It is announced that the Santa Fc road will spend on the roadbed and track of its branch line from Chamite to poria and lhat when the work is done the track will be in condition to ad mit the running of the heaviest trains at sixty miles per hour If you will notice Ihe Santa Fc doesnt wait to be ordered to put its track in condi tion but is voluntarily spending many millions of dollars each year for bet This is an example which other Kansas ronds could follow with profit lo themselves and great satis faction to their long nosed gossiping old the whining and the lying land below and go to stoking brimstone of course they will howl and when sec the amen corner of the New Jerusalem packed with men and women they have spent lives lying aboul the wail ing will be hair lifting And there ought to be a hot these hyp a hot place for the men and women who go snooping around pok ing their noses into things lhat do nol concern them instead of slopping at home and trying to make an honest living for themselves and their fami lies And the smoke of the torment go skyward in such it will hide thc sun pet to Alma Enterprise Charles W Barnes superintendent of insurance has in on a job that will make him one of the biggest men in the slate if he succeeds in carrying it through and that is nothing less than the breaking up of the fire insurance trust in Kansas Every local agent in the state has a little book bound in tagboard covers that gives the rate to be charged on every building and the thereof in your town No matter company you want your insurance in the agent gets out the same book and tells For Late Seeding Good cane seed t 50 cents a bushel Haynes Brothers what the rate is The books are pre pared by the bureau in To peka and sold to all the fire insurance companies in the state and every one of them charges exactly the same rate the one in tho little book There is no clement of competition in the matter whatever it is m airtight castiron book is a er and is entitled Why Choose the College of Em The book contains seven half tone cuts of the buildings literary co and athletic teams besides a large of information aboul college The College is in shape than for many years and Presi dent is sanguine of mak ing next year the best the institution has ever had Gets What He Goes After A week ago Sunday Sheriff Cowan uninvited and by himself went to So dens grove where he had anticipated name would be in session He was not disappointed for the were busy when he arrived but two of the party re treated in the woods while Sheriff Cowan placed under arrest md William Franklin The sheriff however recognized the other two Burton and Franklin who were arrested appeared in justice court Tuesday morning where they pleaded guilty and were Nothing more was heard of the oth er two members of the dice party un til Sheriff Cowan arrived on the train last evening from with Ihil Perkins and John Lewis They thought by leaving town they would avoid the law Im Sheriff Cowan is not so easily baffled Several months IK the police were notified that Waller Wiliams a col ored boy bad property from the amounting to They did not succeed in locating him Sheriff Cowan was notified of the rub bery and asked to locate ihc In a week or a longer he learned that Williams was in Rock Island III He went to Illinois after him and Williams is now in the state reforma tory at Hulchinson Meets Death Accidentally Fred Hooper aged 26 the son of Mr and Mrs John Hooper who live on Logan avenue was shot stantly killed in a bank at N Monday evening by the Accidental discharge of a 44 caliber revolver The bank clerk pushed the revolver under the counter and it exploded the bullet piercing the wood of the and the heart of Hooper just as the latter was stepping out the door A coroners jury gave a verdict of accidental death Fred Hooper was a fireman on the Belen cutoff of the Santa Fe Several years ago he fired lor the Santa Fe out of Emporia He went from here to Kansas City in which place he leaves a wife and child who expected if Mr Hooper should remain permanently on thi Belen cutoff to go lo New Mexico lo live Besides his mother and father in Emporia he leaves two sisters anil three A sifter Miss Fairy Hooper works for W E a lailor above tin Palace Clothing store Mrs Alma El lives at City the brothers are Will of Kansas City Fred of City ami Harry of Mebr The body will be brought here for burial The time of the funeral will bo announced later An Honest Useful Man The Ohio Gazette says lhat R Jackson who has serv ed eleven years as messenger in the stale treasurers office at Springfield is one nf the best known ami most respected of lhat state In his capacity as messenger Mr Jack sail has carried millions of dollars from the banks lo the treasury and has probably handled more money than any other colored man mi the face of the lie has served under three treasurers of state and they all speak of him as an honest and honorable servant of the people Mr and Mrs Jackson went to Spring field from Kentucky twenty years ago They have five children Mr Jackson is a brother of an Em poria woman Mrs Henrietta Wood son who lives at IOJ Market A couple of bachelors have found the coolest pi ice to sleep in LJOM enmity H is a spot on top of a hill a few miles from which they on hut They throw rui old blanket on the ground under a Iree drive oil Ihe mosquitoes with ii liberal annum of tobacco smoke and then roll up in their blankets ami sleep until when they After II J Allen editor of the Wichita Beacon had said that he was going lo the poor children in Wichita a ticket to the which will be in Wichita this week W R Morrison manager nf the street rail way company said that lie would give all the children that held tick ets a free ride on the street cars to and from the circus A license was issued by 1iobate Judge Tuesday to lames B Osgood of Kansas City Miss Glaze of Kansas City and Thomas W A Cooper manager of the Rex Fluid plant in Emporia were married in Kansas City Tuesday evening They arrived ill sui an train leaving Kans morning City mid night Mr and Mrs boarding for the present Mr Ci expects to build a hike back t i chance to so before anyone them Theres considerable interest among attorneys as to what will the outcome uf the Brier which will be heard in district court at tomorrow morning It is hr case ever in the enmity fr contempt 1 Butl cinch and the man who buys the in and Mi Emma E of surance pays the freight Success to A manage lices by Probate Win J Lee ami you Mr Get a Cupid baby hammock for Si at Haynes Brothers Hammocks from 75 cents to A few good numbers cheap to close Eckdall McCarty Minnie Collier of iff the cows and the with Stan Keep the mites out of tin dard Fly and Killer r will Brier and Attorney Harris will prose Advert for bids for tin paving f has ds for a account of tile plans ami or tho work not City Alva Smith is at work the plans ami to luve them on ex We street Wanted ti 1 few COWS North Merchant
