The Topeka state journal. [volume], February 05, 1909, LAST EDITION, Page 10, Image 10

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THE TOPEA DAILY STATE JOURNAL--FRIDAY EVENING FEBRUARY 5, 1909
Children's Shoes Reduced
Buy a Woman's Winter Coat
Tomorrow
CORRECT DRESS FOR WOMEN
707 Kansas Avenue
You cannot possibly get better returns for your invest
ment than by putting your money in one of the excellent gar
ments we offer you, in two assortments of 54-in-long Colored
Broadcloth and Kersey Coats.
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Values up to $15
ea. Your choice
tomorrow
$c.oo
Values up to $19.50
ea. Your choice
tomorrow
$Q.50
You will need another pair of good, sturdy, wear-resisting
shoes for that boy or girl before the present school year
is over.
Better take advantage of this opportunity to secure them
at about one-half the usual price.
We have a miscellaneous assortment, representing the
best values from our regular stock of children's shoes
these are lines in which the sizes are broken but are not
off sizes. ,
. You will find something to fit your boy or girl in real
wearable shoes,
There are splendid Tan Russia Calf Button Shoes, with
broad toe and heavy welted soles, capable of withstanding
the hardest Wear.
Black Vici Kid, patent tip. heavy welted soles, button
and lace.
A few Patent Kid, medium and heavy soles.
The sizes range 8h to 11, Hi to 2, and 2 to 6.
The prices will be according to size.
$1.00, $1.50 and $1.75 Pair
All other winter garments in our coat stock (Fur Coats
closeJoutareiactly the Regular PrfCC
Saturday will be the last day we offer you your choice
of our Skirt Stock
At Off Regular Prices
Thousands of pieces of Cot
ton Underclothing will be on
sale tomorrow at prices that
spell
E-C-0-N-O-M-Y
The Knit Underwear Dept.
is also offering special low
prices in broken lots of Wo
men's Winter Underwear.
THE RAILROADS.
f JL. A. Graham, a Former Rock
Island Official,
Takes
Exceptions to X. H.
Loomis' Address.
JtAP SHOWEVG HOW E. II. IIAKRIMAN CONTROLS THE TRAXSOONTINEJrTAJj OOMJIERCE.
RAILWAY NOT PEOPLE
llSays He, Is Responsible for
Troubles.
Public and Fair Treatment
Railroads' Best Assets.
To the Editor of the State Journal.
The address of Mr. Loomis before
your editorial association, in its de
fense of Mr. Harriman. called to mind
the visit of that gentleman to Topeka,
eomewhat over a year afro. during
which he stated that he was a poor
man, and did not own a mile of rail
road. Railroads Ran Everybody Nearly.
During the last 30 years, excepting
the present, railroads have either
dominated, or actually run, the gov
ernment, and many of the newspapers
ibesides.
Thirty years back of 1908, what chief
office in Kansas, whether state or fed
eral, could have been filled by an in
dividual not acceptable to the railroad
Interests of the state? During that time,
ihow many such offices were filled
egainst the bitter antagonism of the
(press, when some candidate wholly un
fit for the dignity of the office sought,
either from a physical, political, moral
or religious standpoint, was against the
efforts of the press, the people and
righteousness and honesty, selected for
the office, when he had the proper rail
road baekine?
Railroad building west of the Mis
souri river, to which Mr. Loomis re-
E. H. Harriman has slipped into the Vanderbilt roads that the full meaning has scarcely been appre
ciated. With his election to the directorate of the New York Central lines Harriman is put in control of
the greatest system of railroads ever conceived by man. He is king of railroad men.
ferred only to the Kansas situation,
needs to be understood to a greater ex
tent than stated by him, because he
lays the blame of that great disaster,
so far as relates to Kansas at least,
upon the people.
The truth is. that, prior to the time
referred to by Mr. Loomis, the Mis
souri river was the dividing line be
tween the eastern and the western sys
tems of railroad: and an agreement ex
isted between them that the railroads
operating east of the, Missouri river
would not build west of it, nor those
west, build east of it.
Railroads Violated Had Agreement.
As always has happened with re-
THIS
STORE
QUITS
Commencing Saturday,
Feb. 6th, and continuing un
til the stock of Shoes and
store fixtures are entirely
disposed of, we shall sell any
and everything contained in
the store located at 515 Kan
sas Ave., at closing out re
duced bargain price sale. See
the show window display.
Our new spring styles have
just been received. Every
thing goes in this" closing out
sale at bargain prices. All
. kinds of Boots, Shoes, Ox
fords, Slippers and Rubber
Goods will be fomid here.
spect to railroad agreements.' this one
was also violated. I need say nothing
about the building east of the Missouri
river: but. in the mad scramble of the
eastern roads invading the territory
west of the Missouri river to obtain the
best advantages and locations, and the
roads already west of the Missouri
river to protect their own territory,
everything was confusion, and the ill
advised schemes then put in operation
soon became a burden upon the people
to maintain, because they contributed
very largely and materially to their
construction, every dollar of which
whether as public aid in the shape of
bonds and stocks, or private subscrip
tions or donations, was lost to the peo
ple. The Railroads Ixst Nothing:.
The railroads, however, lost nothing;
they, .in fact, passed through receiver
ships, and extinguished all their obli
gations to the people and the individ
uals, but not to their promoters and
magnates: they naturally won what
the people and the individual lost.
These roads were built to fail; and, I
might say were foreordained to meet
that end. If they had not failed in one
manner, they must necessarily have
found another. This is not new infor
mation;' but, Mr. Loomis having raised
the point, the facts must necessarily be
stated.
The very large number of railroad
receiverships of 1892 and following
have been, by the railroad interests,
laid to the door of the people, not
withstanding the fact that the rail
roads then, and almost to the present
time, have been in full possession and
control, not only of themselves, but
also of the government. The truth,
however, of the matter is that the
railroads, for some years prior to
1892, had been run entirely from finan
cial considerations which some have
incourteously called stockjobbing:
and the physical condition of the
properties allowed to deteriorate for
the purpose of applying the earnings
to the payment of interest upon
securities: and, when the demand for
repairs and betterments became
absolutely necessary, the roads found
themselves unable to continue their
interest payments, and keep, up the
property at the same time.
If this is ' not the result of over
capitalization, what is it? Many of
the roads now in the hands of re
ceivers, interest payments being con
sequently stopped, the earnings were
again used to rehabilitate the prop
erty. The people thus gained in the in
creased value of the railroads, both
as objects of taxation and as public
conveniences. By the- same sort of
reasoning we should now say that, as
the people have gained by the re
establishment of proper railroad
facilities, they were the cause.
Too MiM'ti Business for Roads.
This disaster now happily over,
the country, by the grace of favor
able seasons, enjoyed an unpre
cedented prosperity: but poor, poor,
railroads, they were a few months
ago as much embarrassed by too
much business as they had been by
too little; and. if they earn more dur
ing the reign of prosperity, no more
credit is their due than blame for the
failure during their adversity.
for this prosperity, the people were
directly to blame: they plowed,
planted, reaped, threshed and gar
nered, but did not ship, because the
railroads lacked the facilities. Peo
ple from the country again adopted
the method of driving long distances,
taking their produce to the cities and
towns, and hauling back their goods,
a much more expenditious way than
to depend upon the railroads, because
they frequently occupied many
months in conveying goods" over one
division.
The Crash of October, 1907.
Suddenly, like a clap of thunder
from a clear sky, and as unexpected
ly, came on the stringent . times of
October, 1907, by . reason of an at
tempt on the part of the New York
financial gamblers to get a corner on
Enjoy Your Meals
By Simply Eating A Little Pleasant
Tablet After Each of Them.
A TABLET DIGESTS A MEAL.
When digestion Is perfect the fluids
necessary to this process come
naturally to the aid of the stomach.
They arc of right proportion and do
their work speedily and well. When
indigestion and dyspepsia are pre
valent, these same juices come slowly
if at all, are weak and insufficient or
are filled with strong acids and
alkalies.
When such a condition exists each
meal is a hardship upon the diges
tive organs. The meal should
strengthen the juices, but on the con
trary it weakens them, so that man
by the very act of eating causes con
ditions to arise which of themselves
bring him pain and loathing for the
next meal.
By eating one of Stuart's Dyspepsia
Tablets you mix the tablet with your
saliva and it goes into your stomach
a strong, vigorous fluid, many times
more powerful than the natural
digestive juices. -These tablets are
made up from natural vegetable and
fruit essences and are composed from
Hydrastis. Golden Seal, Lactose, Nux,
Ascetic Pepsin, Bismuth and Jamaica
Ginger. There is the formula and
one grain of it will digest 3,000 grains
of food in any stomach. Beside di
gesting the food it will give the blood
the power to enrich the digestive
fluids so after a time nature will
take care of itself. Though you have
no stomach thouble one of these tab
lets after each - meal is a powerful
assistance to nature and is an excel
lent habit to make.
tlo to any druggist and ask his
opinion of Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets.
We will abide his answer if he be an
honest man. They sell for 50c per
package. Send us your name and
address and we -will send you a trial
package by mail free. Address F. A.
Stuart Co.. 150 " Stuart BIdg., Mar
shall, Mich.
all the money of" the country. They
so far succeeded in doing so as to put
a stop to all financial transactions,
and Would have succeeded in their
design, had not all the people outside
the city of Xew York stood loyal to
the. country, friendlv to one another.
and transacted only - that business ,
After inventory we find
we have too many Skirts
in stock. We prepared
to take
A LOSS OF
$500.00
in our Skirt department
to reduce the stock.
SHOP EARLY AND SECURE
THE BEST SELECTIONS
IMAGINE the saving to our pa-
Jrons ! Such an opportunity will
probably not present itself again.
Skirts at less than makers' cost.
Imported Altman Voiles, French
Panamas, Serges, Worsteds ; late
Fall and Winter models.
$29.75 to $39.75 Skirts, 1Q
priced now p 1 0. 1 0
$15.00 to $22.50 Skirts, &Q nr
priced now ..$)
$9.95 to $14.95 Skirts, djy Ac
priced now P I oD
$7.95 to $12.50 Skirts, dc Re
priced now pOD
$5.95 to $9.95 Skirts, - , $0 Re
priced now pJD
Clearing of Coats and Suits Less than Half Price
which did not require cash, or could
be done on credit.
The unfortunate railroads were
again the first to suffer. Should
the blame be laid upon the people
for this? The fact is sure, that the
condition now under considera
tion was brought about, as has al
ready been said, in New York city by
the men who secured the corner on
the money of the country, and we
will call them bankers and brokers, if
stockjobbers and gamblers seem too
severe terms.
I am much opposed to speculation
upon events; but, in this instance, we
ought to consider what would have
happened to the country,- if financial
New York had succeeded in its de
signs. Every bank in the country
outside of New York would have been
broken; and all the money in the
country would have been found in
New York.
The owners of the railroads of the
country live in New York. Would
they have gotten any of this money?
If they had gotten their share, could
they not well have afforded to see the
country. Including their railroads, in
distress?
Mr. Loomis says that our railroads
at $58,080 per mile, are not overcapi
talized, although he gives us an in
stance, where about eighty miles of
railroad were 'practically given away.
However this average capitalization
per mile may strike the man who does
not know, and who has no means of
knowing, it will not do to tell it to one
who has ever been away from home.
Averages often hide real facts.
The comparison of the railroads of
the United States in capitalization with
those of Great Britain, Germany,
France and Belgium is .altogether mis
leading, because no basis of com
parison, either aus to their physical con
struction and condition or amount of
traffic, or their earning capacity is
given.
The common starting point now of all
railway schemes, progresses by censur
ing the people for all the misfortunes
and crimes of the railroads, makes
railway projectors and magnates the
object of the public gratitude; and ends
with Mr. Harriman.
Give me a blue pencil, having the
power wielded by the editor; and, by a
very few lines. I can take the pay roll
of any of the great railway systems in
the United States, and in five minutes,
can save it at least five hundred thou
sand dollars a year. This is retrench
ment at the rate of a hundred thou
sand dollars a minute; and its effect
will be more far reaching than the
mere amount of money saved; it will
also eliminate from the railroads, and
from the business of the country, men,
and a class of men, whose methods and
operations have always been. and. i
doubtless, always will continue to be,
against the interests alike of the peo
ple and the corporations tney preiena
to serve but which, in reality, they are
using to the detriment of the people
and the corporations ior ineir uwii
selfish purposes. With this elimination,
little would be left in the way of a
complete understanding between the
corporations and the people.
The people do not seek to destroy the
corporations: but, on the other hand,
the people do not desire to be de
stroyed by . them. Battles, however,
sometimes become so obstinate, that
the commanders on the one. side may
be unable to call their men to retreat,
or the other to moderation, until one
army or the other has suffered com
plete annihilation.
No such condition yet confronts us.
because the people are yet persuasive,
but if the corporations persist in con
tinuing the fight, they should not com
plain of the result, if defeated; and, if
triumphant, they should treat the peo
ple with moderation, and not bind
them with too many chains, or make
their conditions of servitude too hard,
because the people will still continue to
be their chief asset.
A. A. GRAHAM. .
Topeka, Kansas, February 4, 1909.
NO PER5ITTS TO SELL LIQUOR.
SPECIAL
$4 Shoes for
50
'aanmi&sffOEsu m asrsixmsr.
revoked. If there are permits at these
places the matter is one of news to
Probate Judge Schoch. as there are no
records in the probate judge's office
indicating that they have been
granted.
At one time F. M. Curtis held a per
mit at 834 Kansas avenue and a com
munication was received from him
this morning by Probate Judge Schoch
asking that it be revoked, or rather
that he desired to surrender it to the
probate court. Mr. Curtis owns a drug
store at 732 Kansas avenue and has a
permit for this store. He was formerly
conected with the store at 834 Kansas
avenue but has not been for several
months. -
Brother of Mrs. I a ii-lianUs Dies.
London. O., Feb. 5. Kdward K.
Cole, brother-in-law of Vice President
Fairbanks, died here hist night of can
cer of the liver. He whs stricken
while in this city, attending to some
legal business. He lived in Summer
ford, this county, and the body will
be taken there. Mr. Cole was 58 years
of age and leaves an aged mother and
two sisters, Mrs. Charles Fairbanks,
wife of the vice president, and Mrs.
John G. Sellers.
Maud Miss Passe looks quit- wfll to
night, doesn't she? Tom iVa; lik a (r'
cian godde.es. Maud Rut not tiuito so old.
Kansas City Journal.
Drug Stores Which Were Concerned in
Raids Are in Trouble.
Owing to disclosures made by two
girls arrested this week. County Attor
ney John Schenck made arrangements
to have the permits held at 1125 Kan
sas avenue and at 834 Kansas avenue
N ew Spring Styles are now on Display
THE TOGGERY
602 Kansas Avenue