The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1890-02-13
NUMBER 8

nc LduIes AuXlt lary gave an II :
eSting entertainment oh Friday evening It
IN the T. Nj. {. A. Rooms. The
Quartette responded in very accep. le
manner and entertaine d the audience h
three numbers. Als9 Mrs. Bradford I'd
MISS bllnn. A very interesting featu of
the evening was the thbleaux arranged ,v
nAfS. f. o Newell. One was very pr ty
representation OF Julie t and her nurse by
MISSES Madaline and Edith Newell, 6 an
Austrian peasant church scene. Tt tas
a characteristic scene of the wors of
the Austrians at their affairs and was re-
sented by group of little folks in; cry
interesting manner They were Miss ace
Van Ingen, Moyca Newell, Douglas ew-
ELL Edward Newell and Lena Goergen.
The proceeds of the e utertainment will 90
towards buying EncycI opadias for the libra
ry. The library is YER small and poor and
The young men are donstantly asking for
certain books which ought to be in
every library. No mo hey can be better in
vested than furnishing library for Keno
sha young men. The ladies deserve cred
1t for the success of this and we trust we can
soon give them more c fedit for another
Mayor Williams has been a regular
subscriber to, and read er of the TELEGRAPH
COURIER for the past y ear and half and it
was his good fortune t bat he was. This pa
per is noted for its ability to speak out and
tell the truth on occasi ion, and in the course
OF It's regular news gat herring it discovered
that Mayor Williams was not doing his du
ty to his masters, the voters who elected
him. The TELEGRA PH-CoURIER called
special attention to these facts and revealed
to the citizens of Keno sha the Mayors hos
tility to the public sch ools and his love of
the saloon, and was tt be only paper in Ke-
nosha that did it. b because the other pa
pers Did not come Out and take a square
stand beside this papeJ on the questions of
a better High School building and the sa-
loon IN the Third ward, the rebate of the
license, etc, "Hiz zone r. concluded perhaps
that the TELEGRAPH FOURIER did not rep
resent the public sent Fment on those ques-
tions. "Hiz-zoner" RAJ Their squirmed under
the kindly warnings given him in these
column, but continued to take his medicine
and the TELEGRAPH oURIER like little
man, until two weeks ago the straw fell that
broke the camel's back and the Mayor en-
tered the sanctum of the TELEGRAPH
COURIER and in his bl and and affable way
paid up and said he d dn't want the paper
any longer. Now, hht was a mistake on
his part, as every one Knows that this is the
newsiest, most enterprF siug, outspoken and
independent paper i4 the county, and it
would do him good to read it. He stopped
the paper, but he vi blded to the pressure
already brought to be ar on him and broke
out in print in an art1 Gle in the Union de-
Tending his course and rather intimates that
the youthful editor bf the COURIER is a
cynic." 1t is usually a touchy thing to do
to write for the publid eye unless you have
right on your side. His Honor now per-
haps wishes he had remained silent and
quietly profted by the words of the afore-
said youthful editor. His reply to the
on his acti pms in these columns
brought on his venera bile head the sarcasm
and rebuke of "Vote r. and "Third Ward"
in the Union of last week, and this week
" property Owner" gi yes him bang over
the head, in an article on the fifth
page of this paper From a legal
standpoint his defense is bosh. The Coun-
Gil of this city has ent ire control of the IL
censing of saloons and can license as few Or
as many as it pleases. The power to con-
troll the traffic in this city restsS in the
hands of the voters a hd they could elect a
Council which would refuse to grant a sim
gle license if they choB be to do So There is
40 doubt of that. 1t has been demonstrated
year after year in several towns in this
county. The Mayor stultifes himself by
making use of such arguments to sustain
MS position. They an e creditable to neither
brain nor conscience. If he really desired
20 enforce the laws W have and use them
20 control, restrain ahd restrict the traffic
n this city, he would have looked at the
aw through different eyes and he would
lot SO soon have forgd item the petition from
he people of the Third ward not to license
saloon in that part of the city. The diff
;ulty with Mayor Williams probably was
lot in his ability to c. directly interpret the
avs but in lack of sympathy with the
avs. Mayor Willia1 ns was elected as the
servant of the people and it is absurd to
pretend that be has darried out their wish
u.s. He voted to do exactly what large
number. of the best citizens in the Third
ward asked him not 10 do The people of
this city decided TO assess each saloon
keeper $500 for the pFivilege of doing BUSH
ness. They have perfect right to make it
S., 900 or to $50, 900, or to refuse to license
one His Honor total y disregards the plain
est legal principles i1 his actions and then
tries to excuse him self by quoting stuff
wholly irrelevant to The subject: Pennsyl-
vania laws are not Wisconsin laws, nor are