Emporia Weekly Gazette (Newspaper) - May 4, 1911, Emporia, Kansas 4 GAZETTE PSALMS 1M 10 O give thanks unto the Lord for he is good mercy for ever O give thanks unto the God of gods for his mercy for ever O thanks to thri Lord of lords for his mercy lor To him who alone great wonders for his mercy for To him that by wisdom made the his mercy for To that stretched out the sarth tho earth the waters mercy endureth for everi his him graat for endureth The sun to rule by for Mis mercy endureth Tlie moon arid stars to rule by night for his foi everi GETTING TOGETHER The just having a yoou ideal to say the Republican party of the state get ting It But how IB it going to done If the getting together means burying the all concerned get ting down to brass tacks to the common enemy and enact wise and wholesome legislation It a glorious resolution But if to organize In the interest of W Stubba United States senator or for Charles Curtis it wont cf Kansas cant be gotten together in the In terest of any one mans for office to reap the emolu ments of success for any particular machine Getting cant be insurgents expect the to bodily into their camp and swallow medicine On tue other hand neither can tho insurgents be expected ti give up all their cher ished Utopian dreams and fall on the breasts of the triust give and good for the Then the glorious STAND The sooner the party the better for it It is fast sinning away its hour of Stubbs will more than to fight to the bitter end He Is a rabble rouser and wins that But the balance of the ot the insurgency seem posed tobe fair The have ed to the people of Colorado North Dakota Wyoming Washington good been grant Republican all neighboring all our kinti of folks V And the presidential preference at has enacted by the legislatures of Nebraska California New one of the and v would as though it Is fair to these iti the next Republican state platform With Capper as the candidate running upon that kind of a platform lucre be no trouble about getting together Their Governor Stubbs and Sena tor Curtis could get a sixteen foot ring ana fight it out without Involving tho state in a THE resolution by Berger the Socialist congressman to abolish the Senate probably will serve two purposes It will newspaper an opportunity to make ribald remarks about the Sen ate afford a few people whq read beyond newspaper headlines newspaper Jokes an opportunity to consider how far in deedy the Senate is abolished now The old Senate the Senate of the rapidly going There is hardly a constitutional majority of the old of the fathers in the United Stated Senate as ii 1st now The Seriate now in ses sion at Washington comas from states that have the di rect nomination of United States sen and only a dozen that elect them Iri the spirit of the constitu tion these thirtythree states ten pro brawl the winner would vlac a popular advisory vote up to the people on a diT reel Kansas could whole matter at the polls As for the congressional districts there seems to on the part ct Senator Curtiss friends to trouble Ihe In seem to have no de sire for conquest in the Kansas dele gation in tlie House of so that neednt stop the har mony program But whether it be Capper er Some One Equally Good there la no reason In the fight this year further than the Senatorial test The issues between Stubbs and Curtis are clear cut requiring no personalities but hinging upon fun differences of policy In the Republican party issues should be fought cut But the on state issues has been won by the progressives and there Is no reason to continue that the reactionary forces in the state desire to challenge the the pro already enacted and already stated last Re publican state platform THK It is said by tue Washington dis patches that the to apply the same treatment to Curtis for his aland upon the reel live them treaty was applied to Farmr There is talk in the air these daya and most of it and Ecn eible Its outward and td have taken the form of an of Ier for governor A number of friends of Governor Stubbs and an equal number of Senator Curtis have pledged Capper their support Mr Capper i a personal friend of Senator Curtis and a politi cal associate of Governor Mr newspaper has sup ported Curtis 3n times past but the issues have been clear cut between the progressive in ensures and the reactionary opponents of hose measures Mr Capper nnd Capital have loil for the measures This made it for him to spoak well of those who favored these and to criticise the posi tion who them It lias been a King hard fight But it IB almost over Hero is a list of the things Kansas have accomplished in have the state printer elected treasury interest to tlie people All the slato institutions under a few ot tics The operating a pay depositors A registered Passes The 3wocent passenger fares A freight law A sound control of iil public util telephones express linos gas and companies and strcot cars a direct vote on United States senators A law Employers liability A judicial ouster against recalcitrant public officials Commission form of government for cities with the initiative and rcf tho recall for and with cities A compulsory referendum for all granted in Kansas cities The recent Republican few not last legislature contained only 1 enacted by UFc Nothing was ill that platform that was not in the platforms of Republi can in Illinois sin North Dakota Nebraska Cilo rado California Republi can states that Only three propositions ot vital importance were neglected They are The presidential at the pri Tie and The recall Sir Capper and his newspaper are for these propositions Since the Republican platform written the initiative and nf For tor his stand upon tho Aldrich tariff treat ment would bo unfair to two mon who the respect ami should have tlie of n minority if not a majority ot the people of Kansas First it would be unfair to President Tuft hada right to believe that his Ult with Senator been temperamental is a in many ways a whu will compromise no where short of what lie regards as absolutely right TaCt believes mnro iu expediency than their quarrel which ended in the withdrawn of patronage from Bris tow have a personal quarrel Kansas has be fore that Tafl would try to make sen ator sell his upon a party matter for the ot bis state If the President treats Sen Curtis ns lie treated denying him his patronage because of his vole against reciprocity there can be iio doubt but the Presi that lie can and should buy votes with patronage For n quarrel Curtis and Tatt can not be temperamental The men rc in many ways Cur tis Is suave debonair easy to got on with and always ready to com promise Ho is a courtier who is never cantankerous Any quarrel between Tart and Curtis must be fundamentally of Tatts making and must bo made because Curtis doesnt vote to suit Taft Second for President Taft to force the outlined in tlu dis patches upon Senator Curtis would be unfair to Senator Curtis For all Jic Is supposed to not as President Taft should vote but as thinks Curtis Curtis think Kansas him to vote Ho rep and not the President Now the Gazette no brief for Senator Curtis It has nev er supported him In public life except when be was the duly nominated candidate of the Republican party His vole on reciprocity has not been oast and while he may be against the proposition in n general way his votes en the measure ultimately may be right or wrong righteousness not questions at issue arc Shall fl senator cast his vole accord ing lo his own convictions or accord Ing to anothers lias a President to barter party patronage for votes Itis one thing for n president to such public sentiment for hia public convictions that a surrender his vote tc Iho peo ple the President But it is another thing altogether for a Presi dent to try to buy a with A patronage break with Senator Curtis to the break with Senator would have no of tmn that thn President believed if his cri candidates at the No elections after the parties have named their candidates This advisory to ail intents and purposes an election It has not been violated by legislatures though tried four states Democratic of Nevada electing a Republican the Republi can Legislature of electing a Democrat tho Democratic Legisla ture of Nebraska electing a Demo crat and the Republican Legislature of another lime electing R Republican in of the ten states providing for an election ot senators by n direct vote senators br elected next year and in the other stales having pri maries more than half of them senators At every bieni um of the Senate la elected Next year much half the senators who arc to be sleeted have to face a direct or an indirect vote Iwo years twothirds of Ihe States Senate will be elected by the people with the legis performing the atrophied function of the college in presidential elections It is almost immaterial whether the direct vote for senators is authorized by the constitutional amendment or not Long it the Senate will be elected by the people The Senate is all but abolished now Hereafter Jt merely with a Bix tenure but as onethird of it comes the people directly every year even tlie tenure is on ly a sham Tho purpose of Senate as It was established by tho framers of constitution was a check against the waves of pub lic sentiment that rage over the country Some of these are wise some are passing whims for men are bc in the mass that men nre as Individual 13 very man makes who mis amounts to anything takes and likes lo have sonic veto on his yesterdays Tlie Senate as by tlie fathers afforded veto upon our yesterdays But we ara moving now in a rapid ago A of tlie American people expressing themselves through their legislatures have said that a yesterday 1st too long It is a kind ot day before yesterday and therefore to shorten the veto time by changing he o electing that IF by choosing men directly re sponsible to tho The old Senate was elected by the legislatures A small bosly ot men Is somewhat amenable to the conservative minority Therefore tlie senator chosen was a man who appealed often to tho conservative minority Ho did not represent the That is The Senate of the ot the constitution hw been abolished The old Senate nov bus n m But there It a of sentiment In the country within the next old Senate will never again elected according to provisions of constitution tiA functioning a check upon the people as the frain function ten years too late ers intended Victor with hia FOB VICTOR the together vf the leading papers of endorse Vic tor speeches in The Spring field It it Is on thet be granted of inserting iti tlie Record then such matter ought to be clearly f roih speeches that have been actually livered and Is to bo wished success in his attack upon an Indefensible custom But while this practice is under discussion and while reform seems generally air there Is an other congressional custom and which might well receive attention This Is conventional habit In regard to for who have he caso of some figure like the late for example whose eulogy by Senator was a piece of earnest the i Congress par take of an character But far too often arc tory that their omission be less Jarring to tlie turn to tho pages of the Congressional Record and readily cite examples ot socalled that might better have been loft Yet a concrete could taken without feelings so the may be to stand as n generality which will not be chal even it unsupported by chapter and Tlie late Tom Keed was by a newly member the latter ought to sny ot hia dead predecessor drawled Heed who could slip the chance fcr a sharp anything but the truth It as it did durins the recent session of Congress that the formally sot npart for so numer ous as seriously to interfere with the program oC legislative The late Congressman of New York bis oing to be not with bnt with more real dignity of his dying that tho House ot Representatives which he had adorned should not adjourn when his death shouM be announced lo It but should continue its Ings Exactly what change should be made In present custom it might bo to except that congressional if not might will bo limited strictly to Sundays but It may be repealed that in actual observance the custom loo frequent ly lacks dignity mid sometimes even ordinary l AT 1IOMR man has a to in vest cnn make fi per emit on it in this community desires at bond lie can make i or Iio can put it in pal bonds and 4 A That la a fair return some people fife not satisfied willi a fair So KO state of opinion ot tho majority in n Um hia stale unless that state of opinion was so nearly Hie minority was negligible Of in many cases Ihe conservative minority used Improper methods to choose itsi men Senators often went hot in hand to palpable repre of the great social finan cial or political forces and and aid in ing the legislature In a few cases men actually bought way Into legislature but probably rarely than they have bought way vunder a direct vote for rich governors have also used their wealth to set their offices In during the of n passing the Senate became tho bulwark of the rights ot property Tho fight as Paul U the great American attorneys has put It was between the people through their upon the one hand and the corpora tions upon the other the Senate naturally as the trainers of tho constitution intended it should public The Senate hart the ap pointment of the courts in all but the the lower federal lagged behind public sen timent It took a strong sustained overwhelming wave of public senti ment to change the Senate That Senate and the beholden lo it checked the forward movement of Iho country too firmly to satisfy the majority and is Company invest In pastures they money into stock thoy purchase nky and superheated atmosphere from the ends of the earth and get large unsalable experience that hangs like li Enough money upon them has out of to make this town the handsomest In the world and tins a garden spot Vet no dollar invested In n reputable concern Jn this town cvor to row nnd brings its In terest There is ng folly In buying mall order Investments as there is in buying mail order gro ceries dry goods ami hardware Money kept at home brings value received Money invested in blue Bky and the hills that are afar off bring trouble with 10 per cent Interest You can pat a man on tho back for years and ho will accept your friendship ns a matter ct course But rub the fur the wrong way only once nnd he forgets all the favors shown him and wants to Sedgwick But that worst of it If right to urn the as a club j try cf majority rule it 8jjarpeT in his differences with senators taken to change tho the ho would just and have it out it wouldnt be FO bad Hut after has foucht nnd settled it and youve it he holds II and you RO or boms decent to him and then in about seventeen years turns up wilh the same old tooth have an grouch THE VALUK OP James J Hill tho bis cron of America has de clared that railroads ami other pub lic service submit to publicity This view seems to the prevailing view ot many ot the great leaders in the financial world famous saying that come to pocketS isi but a paraphrase of what Hill has what Mr Vail has BaM of the merger Given ing the prevention of se cret between men or in public and regulation becomes a matter upon which honest servants and reasonable corporation cannot widely disagree When al hands know the facts reasonable rates and adequate service be difficult rto determine A public service ly ami there is nothing abot mono inand cf that IB sirable Only be an And extortion is when obese profits arc And publici ty Is the one cure for overfed profits Tail should be not for those who make tho rates but for those and pre vent publicity Given a valuation of physical property true statement of money actually invested an hon est valuation of a given franchise and the rates of any public service corporation will hardly be in dispute for it they are capital at a low rate of interest al ways stands ready tor tho Myopic are willing to vote the As tho people are taking over the ot more directly into own handa as they have power ot control their public officials as dies in public life complete as ho comes simpler nnd less complicated by representatives the people and their public corporations will come to a fair understanding So long as public service corpora tions arc fair and the people have the exact facts the public service corporations need have no toar of popular wrath Tt is the suspicion the tho twisted Informa the general everlasting tomfoolery of a lot of arrogant po corporations trouble now If Mr Morgan ami Mr Hill for be in tho United States Senate or In tlie ot n place of any cnn ot halt n er rand ot the big corporations then these big fellows could talk di to the people contri bute their genius ot organization to Hie government We bis In this government But tho coun try is everlastingly sick sore at them for sending to Washington who contribute nothing to the genius ot our government who arouse suspicion by their elec tion nnd wrath by their volets Given publicity Hint Is real and the Hint irritate the flesh of Ihc body will disap pear 3OUHCU OK THK Mr Wagner principal ot the High School wus Iu office morning a few remark the by the School boys mentioned In Mr ncr Is anxious that these boys bu brought to justice ami in way np lie his labored ever eince iio hits been in poria in and out thu of other depre dations by pupils of tho school Bui Mr Wagner says with consider ot reason it to the the and tha Normal are in large measure to blame for the lawlessness ot the High School buyn and Ho says that while of course such actions arc not sanctioned by the faculties of the bigger schools proper to stop such doings have not been taken and the of refresh ments for class parties and from other functions 03 well has gone on year after year and the lawlessness steadily grows High School students It is well known pattern largely after thn higher schools and In this particular there is no doubt they have followed the example ot College and Normal students the faculties ot institutions Mr Wagner out these lawless tendencies years ago before they had obtained so strong a hold on tlie the present trouble might averted The tendency of high school student to ape the cf their superiors is when t leads them Into six A Bishop Quayle formerly of Kan sas bf a pretty fair talker He now liven in Olt but he went up to help M E Church raise for r building last Ther raised in half an makes a minute Thai comes nearly being n Kansas record A The La Harpe is weary what u powerful man Sonn tor Curtis is The Journal would prefer to hear what Curtis hag done for the people with all his newer The Journal says An argument formerly put up with great regularity by in office and his friends was that ho knew the The longer his services the his knowledge and the more varied hs experience Consequently this better able he would bo to do things and to set especially to get things and Hale and Cannon and their ilk always were used as illustrations and the power wielded by mien men long in office was held to be the thing most greatly to bo desired nearly every case those point ed out as object lessons were placed in office and held there by the spe cial interests they served These men had great power certainly for they were tho express lives of Big Business But used this power first for the special interests rather than for the people With refreshing regularity the have recently beon re tiring these particular men in most instances as rapidly as they reach them and the argu ment for continuing men in office because of long service hag lost its power Yet battered obsolete argument is furbished up and Is now doing duty on behalf of Charles Curtis United States sena tor from Kansas who earnestly de sires a reelection This argument was worked for all it was worth ou of Chester 1 Long late United States senator when Chester sought reflection Tlie machine papers throughout the state suld of him It was after his long ser vice In thn House that he was pro moted to Iho Senate by u Legislature which in electing him without doubt reflected the wishes of a largo majority of Republicans ot tho But tho argument was beaten up and trodden down Long wan de and was Tho argument WHB presented by papers and people In the various districts during tile primary campaign ot last year It proved lo be pitiably Ineffective then Kov the same old argument In he same old words is in tho field on behalf of Curtis biil Curtis will bo defeated and Stubbs will bo LIko Long IB n mighty nice fellow able cordial and companionable but like Long Curlis lias been with for Aid rich nnl the has stood Governor Wilson of Now Is certainly a winner It come to getting reform passed by Iho Governor go nnd learn how he it Citizen Why If yoi a governor cred it for the work of then give Stubbs credit for the work of Iho Kaunas nnd by youll find that linn that hasnt so Moreover If Is to bo credited for the work ot n remember Hint tho last luru nearly all of tho plat of and of asked fnr In Ibc governors flnt HB i mailer of fact governors dont make That lit done by the to whom all IB duo What Stubbs and WIlBun do la to voice popular when it and members ot tho that Uio ar In nor could do much without him Dul expressing senti menl they have boon powerful agents for good OK THK Today in New York City at the Rutgers Presbyterian Church the Ruv William II Is being us in tutelar iio comeu to New York from ono of tho largest 1resbytcrlun on tho ra il lie const nt Portland Ore But originally ho from the Col lege of The four years he spent in town arc a part of IIH life are a part of his training and capital has Impressed him with the beat that It Iu her and has him into tho world to preach nil that thin town stands for In earnest kindly living AHO In New York City Ilev 0 R U Ward nn is doing important use ful necessary work aj a missionary to the heathon of that city His has boon influenced by this town imi this towns Ideals Ho Is one of of boys nnd fii who come to live hero luring Intensely tvo and take tho befit of this town away to tho ends of tho earth is her part In world an thouch nre but ten thousand people here tho town is rowing Its Iu the boat Among tho many excellent pro laws passed by the recent Kansas legislature was one ling cities ot the first class to oen alon their teachers Topoka public school teachers will take advantage of the new law which make possible the payment at a aggregating per num for those teachers who comply with the requirements of the law and are retired after seeing thirty years of service The teachers of tha of education was instructed at tho regular May meeting of hoard to maka plans for ratting the system into operation It was stated by Mrs 0 E Evans chairman of Hie committee that out of 237 teach ers canvassed expressed the de sire to receive the benefit of the new state law Iu the next Legislature an effort win bo made to give second cities tills same right that is done will lead off No pen sion is more just than that to a matt or woman who devotes UK life lo school teaching For ho gets low wages and glory and little hope of promotion THK ON The Victor Murdock against putting specious matters in tho Congressional Record received a blow other day when Madden ot Chicago raso In Congress He said It is needless to deeply appreciative of this magnificent an ot this crowded with of galleries packed with said Mr Madden in arising lo speak In opposition to the Democratic free list In facing an audience of such proportions one cannot bo unmindful of tho im portance of this measure to tha wholo Mr Speaker not have order here Mann of Chicago order is preserved In so larso an assemblage and with the galleries it Is almost impossible to hear what tho gentleman has There were just eleven ot the 3D I members on Iho floor and In tho gal leries there were nineteen That is ono way around tho barn by little re on together Tlie organ ami thn and tho slide Irom entered the now as Vory few aro now baptized In Iho crook fearing nnd now tbo common com cm hiis officially ut The Episcopal of nl Mon day morning up for discussion Iho individual which by many of tho Methodist churches Tho generally In favor of this plan on tho ground of health What would a good old Kansas preacher of forty years ago said to Hint proposition mill ivoro al ii but they and up Slar mys Congress man Of got ting Into ilio curly national The haw a low opinion ut on lo tho publicity and liont it that Mr tho Tbo 11 ro tho of bis amendment Tim will appear the up In Sinalo And it it is de foaled there it will sooner or later prevail It always i to got in a Mr Jackson Is strong he is Arthur Capper in ihc of tho Topika ran two of press ou lie boom iu tin Capital Mr Cappers may well be If thv Cap ital in Mr upon hia return from they tbo It may or Governor Stubhs dumb with over that ir the tor United WHY Tho Cordon City says that ttH made by a Kansas paper in u Ions time tho that Senator Curtis ot Nnw why bad been of for it li only Why mean to say it uNm Theres reason that ir honl asu not Cor think that K viii vaA XV
