Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1899-01-04
LIMBS MISE COURSE.
Goyernor.Eiect Came to Wiscon.
sin for Points
CONCERNING TIE CARE OF INSANE.

He win Recommend a Change in Mime
sofa to the Wisconsin System-His Visit
Was Made Incogniio and He Did Not
Even Cali Upon Governor scofeld--
Something About the New Editor of
America, the Strong Norwegian Weekly.
Madison, Wis, Dec. 2T.-Governor-
Elect John Lind of New Ulm, Mimi.
has been doing the Peter the Great act
in visiting Madison incognito for the
purpose of getting points for reforms
which he will urge upon the Minnesota
legislature. That body is Republican
and Lind is himself Democrat. but
he hopes the gopher lawmakers will be
alive to the necessities of the changes
he contemplates recommending. Lind
looks less than 40 years old, being tall
and spare and smooth faced and clear
cut. Being unobstrusive and dressed
much like a well-to-do farmer, his
identity at the Park hotel was not
known until revealed by the writer. He
came here, he says. partly to escape
from the politicians. but chiefly to look
into the Wisconsin system of taking
care of its public institutions and its
NNBNtAoNiatSs NiSSNItSil was the DlQ-
neer in the method of caring for the
insane which promises to become uni
versal in this country. 1t is that of
removing incurables to county asylums,
where they are more isolated and can
be kept cheaper. and of maintaining
hospitals for the treatment of acute
cases only. To the late honored II. H.
Giles of Madison, father of Ella Giles
Rudy, the poetess. of Los Angeles, is
due the most credit for working out
this more practical and humane sys-
tenn. A. O. Wright, also of Madison.
was valuable co-Worker of Mr. Giles
Minnesota has a local board of trus-
tees for each public institution instead
| of a state board of control as Wiscon-
sin, and has no county asylums for its
incurable insane. but keeps all its men
| tai wrecks in three large asylums.
Will Recommend a Change.
Mr. Lind will recommend a change to
| the Wisconsin system of taking care
| of the insane to the Minnesota legisla-
| ture. and would like to see the board
| of control system established in it's en-
tirety in his state, but says that will
require some time. He was also quite
favorably impressed with the Wiscon-
sin method of holding judicial elections
| in the spring. thus removing them from
| the baneful influences of a heated po-
| litical campaign. In Minnesota they
are held with the others in the fall Mr..
| Lind while here, spent the most of his
time in the state historical library and
gathered considerable data. He care
| fully avoided attention and did not even
| call on Governor Scofield, though pass
ing his office door every day. He
however. sought a visit with ex-Con-
gresham r. NJ, LaFollette, with whom
he served in congress in the latter SOS.
but the latter was still too sick to re-
ceive any visitors. The other day Mr..
Lind dropped in Unexpectedly upon
Superintendent Edwin of the Dane
county poor farm and asylum for a
visit. The latter could scarcely be-
lieve that the unpretentious visitor
who introduced himself was the gov
ernor-elect of a great neighboring
state, but; nevertheless, did his best to
entertain him. Mr.. Lind is a Swede,
and lawyer and bank president at
New UTlm, where he has a family. His
left arm is missing at the elbow, the
result of an accident During the re-
| Fourteenth Minnesota regiment His
election was one of the surprises of the
campaign. for. though the state went
heavily Republican On other issues,
Lind rode in with good majority.
Editor of Amerika.
The assumption of the edtorship of
Amerika, the strong Norwegian week
ly, by Professor Rasmus B. Anderson
-
Scandinavian journalism and politics in
this country. Professor Anderson is
now in the full vigor of his prime He
has long been known as the Father
of Scandinavian Literature in Amer
ica," and his books on Morse mythology,
discoveries and letters form many vol
umes. His style is rapid. rich and liter
airy. Whatever doubts his friends
might have entertained as to his abil=
ity 10 take hold of and manage a
newspaper have been quickly dispelled,
for its circulation is charging, it's coll
umns are enriched with new literary
features, and a strong personality
breathes from the editorial page. Pro-
fessor Anderson purchased the paper
in the midst of the political campaign
last fall Peer o. Stromme, the edi-
tor at the time, was a Democrat and
had been nominated for secretary Of
state. The majority Of the stockhold-
ers of the paper, however, were Re-
publicans. So Mr. Stromme was re-
duced 10 the irksome necessity of at
tempting to CONDUCT an independent
publication. Professor Anderson on
purchasing it, however Immediately
turned it into a vigorous Republican Of
gan and doubtless contributed not a
little TO the success of his party at the
polls Professor Anderson, while pri-
marily a literary man, nevertheless
takes a keen interest in public affairs
and makes a good politician, being
shrewd. genial and sympathetic. A
graceful platform speaker, he receives
many calls for lectures.
Heard by the Royal Family.
He is a champion of the romantic
and ideal element in literature, and
while minister to Denmark during
President Cleveland's first term deliv-
cred lecture in Copenhagen which
was heard by the royal family and
many other dignitaries, and which was
in the nature of a spirited declaration
of independence from the gross real
ism to which the school of young Nor