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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-01-12
PASSION FOR MONEYGET-
TING AND ITS CONSE-
OUENCES.

The most extraordinary feature of
the times is the passion for money
making. The desire to make rapid &C.
cumulations pervades nearly all ranks
of society. 1t is the intensified study
Of the rich and those in medium cir
cumstances to make rapid gains. The
rich have decided advantages. Not
content with the ample fortunes they
now possess, they band together, rich
with rich, monopolizing whatever pro-
ductive industry they choose, thus
enabling themselves to make larger
per cents on capital invested than those
who have less money at command.
The fact has long been demonstrated
that individuals or firms of limited
capital cannot compete with combined
capital. The poorer and laboring
classes, especially the HARMLESS, are
obliged to accept such terms as the rich
may be pleased to dictate. In great
majority of cases it is useless for work
ing mento stand out against inadequate
wages; in more than nine cases out of
ten the laborers are unable to endure a
strike" for any considerable length
of time but obliged to accept the terms
of the employers.
There is another aspect of the times
growing out of the passion for money
vastly more alarming than the struggle
of labor with capital; it is the tide of
crime, Of almost every nameable char
acter, now sweeping over the land.
The daily press of late, as never be-
fore, abounds with murders, robberies,
thefts, betrayal of trusts, defalcations,
forgeries and every crime recognized
in the criminal calendar. So common
have become the newspaper reports of |
the most fiendish atrocities that they
have almost ceased to attract particu-
lar notice; they are regarded common
place events and matters of course.
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farer has plodded on in the darkness,
coming in contact with hitching posts
or by misdirection found himself
tioundering in the mud. Kenosha,
it is said, has gas at command,
but spurns its use. People ask
why is this? Some one processes to
reveal the mystery why the gas light
is withheld. The authorities are wait
ing for something transcendently more
brilliant than feeble gas light. As soon
as the electric light is perfected the
city will be intersected with electric
currents, throwing a food of light on
the long benighted city, equaling the
monday sun. Who then will not wait
with exultant hope for the coming cleo
trio light?
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-01-12

Notwithstanding the great diversity
of opinions which have prevailed on
the subject of civil service reform in
past years, it is curious to observe it
was at last rushed through both
Houses of Congress by overwhelming
majoIities. This is not to be taken for
unanimity of sentiment on the merits
of the bill, but the apparent unanimity
was for other reasons. The people of
the country had expected this Congress
to pass civil service reform bill, and
so have done with the interminable
debate. Matters assumed such a shape
that the Pendleton bill, so called,
must be voted upon; neither party
could afford to vote against it, because
by so doing it would have gone before
the country as opposed to civil service
reform. Both parties fastened to give
their vote in favor and save their repu-
tation as friends of civil service reform.
The bill, as passed, has some good feat
ures, which may be advantageous, and
upon the whole regarded as an i'm
provement on the heretofore pre-
vailing practice; but whoever ex-
poets radical changes for the
better will very likely be disap-
pointed. We repeat what has often
been said before, that our system of
civil service, as it has existed for
years, while it was faulty, was not
justly chargeable with half the wrongs
attributed to it. If government off
Gals have been found guilty of dis
honesties, it was not the fault of the
system, no more than it is the fault of
churches that some of the members
prove to be knaves. There has been a
sort of vague theory running through
the popular mind, that honesty and
integrity can be legislated into men SO
as to eliminate their propensity to evil
This utopian idea Las been prevalent
with class of civil service reformers
for long time. No amount of wis
dom in human legislation will ever be
likely to reach such result.
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FRIDAY, JANUARY y, 1883.


The communication in this number
Of the TELEGRAPH, under the heading
of Independent Candidate for Cir
cult Judge" is given place for the
reason that all sides may be heard.
We fail to perceive thatOur correspOn-
dent prescrlbes a method for bringing
candidates before the people for judi
cial officers less Objectionable than
through the agency of conventions.
Every man who has fitness for Judge
or other important office has his poll
tical convictions. A man who in this
age has no political opinions must be
hard to find. That the primary meet
ings of the people are manipulated by
a few designing men may in many in
stances be true, but that is not the
fault Of the present system of eau
cuses, but of the people who neglect
to avail themselves of the best plan
possible for arriving at a true express
sion of public sentiment. Voters who
permit their primary town meetings
to be controlled by a few traficers are
even more likely to be imposed upon
by a few expert managers who peram-
bulate the country procuring names to
a call for an independent candidate.
Every one knows the ease with which
names are secured for such purpose.
The number Of signatures SO obtained
is heralded with flourish of trumpets
az the voice of the people.
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CIVIL SERVICE TROUBLES

The agitation Of civil service reform
during the past few years has had at
least one noticeable effect. it has kept
government officers and clerks in con-
tinual commotion. The timorous de-
pendent clerks have had their almost
monthly scares, arising from some real
or vaguely rumored rule to be enforced
which threatened their displacement
from Office. Every head of Depart
ment seems to feel it incumbent on
himself to inaugurate some reform,
which may be worthy the name of re-
form or may not. This he believes to
be necessary, so that he may go before
the country as a true officer. Since
the passage of the new civil service
bill last week, Washington cores
pondent writes the Milwaukee Sentinel
as follows:
WASHINGTON, Jan. T. The Civil Ser
vice Reform Bill is creating a great
deal of dissatisfaction in the depart
ments. Some of the secretaries are
anticipating the bill by enforcing the
most rigid of regulations. Secretary
Folger has caused a good deal of com
plant by rule forbidding any one EN-.
ployed in the Treasury Department
receiving visitors during business
hours. This has been construed SC
literally that heads of the divisions
even have been reprimanded where
members of their own families have
called upon them to ask about domestic
matters. Comptroller Knox, who is
supposed to be independent of the
Secretary, and Treasurer Gilfllan were
reprimanded last week for receiving
visits from their wives. It is not be.
lieved that the rule forbidding senators
or members from recommending PEG
pie for appointment can be enforced
The bill will afford the senators and
members, however, splendid opportu
nifty to cold-shoulder every one but
sec: favorites.
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t is noticeable how small proportion

It is noticeable how small proportion
of crimes are adequately punished,
and how many escape any punishment
at all. The passion for money drives
thousands to its acquisition, regardless
of consequences. 1t spares not The
life of the innocent; it robs the dead;
it stops at no deed of infamy; it fears
no God and no hereafter. Out Of the
facilities for money-making has grown
up gigantic extravaganza, expensive
equipages, costly dress and household
furnishments, money laYishly paid for
journeys of pleasure and visiting wa
tering places in obedience to the
demands of modern custom and fash
ION. Immense sums of money are ex-
pended for mere show and display.
There have been residences built at
the national capital, during the past
two years, the cost Of any one of which
would buy whole neighborhood of
farms. What is true of Washington
is equally so of many other cities.
Can these things last? History in due
time will repeat itself, and there will
come reaction; it may not be imme-
diately. but come it must. flour good
haryests should be followed by single
year of short crops, a revulsion would
ensue, and many a now richly-fur.
nished mansion would find its goods
offered under the auctioneer's hammer
The wise will be forewarned of coming
danger.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-01-12

Rev. G. J. Hutchins, of Los Angeles
California, who some twenty years ago
was pastor of the Congregational
church, Kenosha, and afterwards pas
tor of the Presbyterian church in Ra-
cine, writes letter for the Racine Ad-
cocate, from which we take the follow
ing:
"One of our neighbors sold his
orange crop, which is just beginning to
ripen, for $25,O0O. The grove COM
prises 40 acres. Six hundred dollars
an acre is pretty handsome. Here in
Southern California we can go into our
orchards and pick up fruit, beginning
with the cherry and ending with the
orange, every month in the year. But
l will not dwell on these tantalizing
facts; they might make some of my
old Racine friends, God bless them, a
little tired of the snow banks with
which they may have to keep up
several months of the year."
Yours truly, C.J.H.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-01-12
WISCONSIN, LEGISLATURE.

The Legislature of this State con-
vened and organized on Wednesday by
choosing Earl P. Finch Speaker of the
House. Governor Rusk delivered his
annual message, which is a straightfor-
ward, sensible document. The fnan-
cial condition of the State is in an en-
couraging condition. The school funds
State, Normal and University, are rep
resented as satisfactory. The benevo-
lent institutions under state patronage
are being we'll cared for. The rail-
roads receive considerable share of
attention in the message, but no new
legislation of Importance is suggested.
The subject Of fisheries, immigration,
river overflow, capitol extension, agri.
culture and agricultural societies, dairy
ing, pharmacy and special legislation,
are all treated upon. A copy of the
message was received too late for pub
licatien or extended review this week !;
it will be referred to hereafter.
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GAMBETTA.

When beggars die, there are no comets seen,
The heavens themselves blaze forth the death Of
princes" JULIUS CESAR.
The world in all ages has paid hom :
age to human greatness, and so it " ill
continue to do. Great names are i'm
mortalized in history :; men whose
sphere in life has been circumscribed,
however honest and worthy, die and
are soon forgotten. Gambetta, the
statesman of France, died January
lst, 1888, and was buried on the 9Th
with funeral honors of surprising
grandeur-such as has seldom, if ever,
been witnessed in France or in Europe.
There have been a few attempts in this
country and others, by the press, to af-
fix stains on his national reputation,
but the general verdict of civilized ma.
tions will award to him as having been
one of three great men of his time
Gladstone, of England, Bismarck, of
Germany, Gambetta, of France. What
is said of the statesman like character
Of Gambetta is declared by almost the
united voice of the people of France.
The nation put on the habiliments of
mourning /; the peasantry, as we'll as
the higher classes, were in sadness,
Who can better judge of the public
services of Gambetta than the people
of France ? Would it not more become
us on this side of the water oaccept the
decision of people directly interested
than assume superior wisdom by point
ing out defects in the public life of
Gambetta a.?
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ELECTRIC LIGHT.

The experiment of lighting cities
with electric currents has been reported
successful in some places, but after all
there seems to be drawbacks and fur
Their improvements needed to render
the illuminating power complete. A
few cities in Wisconsin have sought to
introduce this claimed superior light I;
but it has not yet satisfied public ex-
pectation. Kenosha has for many long
months been enveloped in nightly
darkness, except as the plying stars
have now and then shed a glimmering
light, and the pale moon emerged from
behind the passing cloud. The way
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-01-12
INDEPENDENT CANDIDATE
FOR .TUD4E

EDITOR TELEGRAPH: In the politi.
cal primaries, third-rate men. by audaci.
ty, and skillful manipulation Otter
master the situation and ACCOMPLISH
for themselves the position of nominee
for the Office to which they aspire
Men OF superior character absent
themselves from the primaries. and
when the election occurs are left to
choice between two evils, For the
reasons named, there is public dis
trust of that method for selecting
candidates for the higher judicial
Offices. The Circuit judges should
not possess, or be allied to, active
political managers, toward whom thew
may feel constrained to lean in the
course of the administration of law
The men who manipulate the prima-
ries are, if successful, quite sure to de-
mand recognition. When the Office
seeks the man, then the obligation
reaches to no greater extent than an
intelligent and meritorious perform
ance of duty.
The public are exceedingly sensitive
in relation to the character and aualif.
cations of those who are to occunv the
bench in our Circuit Courts, and that
Office should, beyond question. be re-
moved from the faint CT iugglers who
shoulder the responsibilities of organiz
ing caucuses and furnishing the public
with "ready-made" nominees.
When men of integrity, learning
and ability are invited by the sigma.
lures of men of intelligence and
superior character to accept the nosi-
ton of candidate for judicial Office he
may do so, without loss of self-respect.
and, if elected, find no clog to the in.
dependent administration of the duties
of the Office. 1t is in that manner
that the Office seeks the man, and the
bench is relieved from an unstable
administration of law. Statepy has its
empire in political primaries, but when
F." strategy" steps outside political pri-
maries 1t is limp and powerless.
Winans, though he may have been
heralded as an independent candidate
for representative in Congress, was,
in fact, nominated by a political con-
vention, aud under the circumstances.
no title that he may chose to assume
would increase or lessen the votes he
would receive.
One who has had experience in
the administration of law in the |
courts held by Justices of the Peace |
cannot well Jest at scars that never
felt wound" One of the problems
that the public has endeavored to
solve relates to a method of selecting
,hese offices by some means indepen-
lent of political caucuses and conven-
ions. The Office appears to be neces-
'ity, and for that reason the public
las submitted to its incidental evils.
When the last constitutional conren-
ion occurred in the state of Illinois
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IMPORTANT SUIT IN COURT.

.
A suit, the title of which will be
found below, and which has excited
considerable interest in this city and
vicinity the past year, has just had a
hearing in the Supreme Court. The
suit was brought by the plaintiffs to
recover damages done their premises.
known as the Kenosha Water Cure"
It is alleged by the plaintiffs that the
establishment Of n large tannery in
the vicinity of the Water Cure, by the
defendants, Injuries its patronage and
damages its value. The suit is enti-
tied as follows Edgar Pennoyer
and Nelson A. Pennoyer, plaintiffs.
against Nathan r. Allen and Charles
Allen, defendants" This case was
tried at the November term, 1881, Ke-
nosha county Circuit Court The jury
at that trial found for the defendants.
From this decision plaintiffs appealed
to the Supreme Court. The decision of
the Circuit Court was on Tuesday re-
versed by the Supreme Court, and re-
manded for a new trial. J.V. Quarles
and John T. Fish, for plaintiffs Jen.
kins, Elliot & Winkler, James Cavan-
agh and Quarles & Stebbins, for de-
PENDANTS.
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TERRIBLE DISASTER BY FIRE.

a ~ AAASAO60 D41<1SA LIZA IL Il II xkAs
One of the most terrible disasters by
fire which has ever occurred. in the
Northwest was occasioned by the
burning of the Newhall House in Mil
waukee at o'clock on the morning Of
Wednesday last. 1t is impossible in
brief newspaper article to give an ade-
quate idea of this most extraordinary
catastrophe. The Newhall was one
Of the largest hotels in the state, and
at the time of the occurrence of the
fire the number of inmates was sup
posed to be two hundred. Of this
number the latest report of the lost is
that ninety lives were lost and about
thirty persons severely injured. Such
a sacrifice of life by the burning of
single building will send a thrill of
horror over the continent and across
the seas. The origin of the fire is not
definitely settled. The loss is esti-
mated at 100000. The total insu-
ance on the building and furniture
was $1o3,3Oo. The scenes and Incl
dents described as witnessed during
the burning are touching and heart
rending. The unfortunate inmates
vino were seen at the fourth aud fifth
Storv r,ipdovuc oo6 on %bo hoIooo;oc
wild with despair and shrieking for
help, can be easier imagined than
described. Those who made the fatal
leap to escape the fiery furnace within
in most instances met with instant
death. The events connected with
this terrible calamity will furnish
reading of interest for some time to
come.
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WOMAN SUFFRAGE.

Governor Ben Butler, in his mes
sage to the legislature of Massachu-
sets, suggests the passage of a law
allowing women to vote under the
same regulations as men in municipal
elections, the law to take effect when
ever it shall be accepted by the major
ity of women at any general election,
provision to be made to obyiate the
necessity for women to go into any
ward room or objectional place to ex-
ercise the right of voting.
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