Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1899-07-12
at can't be- shouted Litter.

1T can't be" shouted Littler.
well, let's see.. replied smith
what do You do with your sour milk"
4 feed 4 10 swine and make pork that
brings q good price, aid the Iowa
man triumphantly.
IA send mine to Milwaukee to be
made into fancy cheese for my Ger
man friends and j get 90 cents d cam
said Smith. This was a sumner for
Littier II was almost as much as he
got fol his new milk in Chicago. He
acknowledged the Wisconsin man made
a better showing Of profits.
Hoard's First Dairy Lesson.
Then Howard WIS called on. He un-
folded his tall. awkward form and said
@ithout breaking a smile that he didn't
profess to know much about cows.
tThis was nearly twenty years ago.
M ad you)
but the debate recalled his first les
sen IN dairying. 1t showed a loss In
marketing the outpr. and not even :
sma profit. like lIttler's. He was
counting a girl and day found her
hhiking, an occupation in which she
shone to best advantage. He was assist
Ing her 10 the best of his ability ana II
became necessary to set very near her
In fact. he kissed her. at which she
raised such a commotion that the COW
became frightened and upset the nail
and started down the road. after send
ing both him and his fair teacher
tumbiing over each other.
Debs Much More Mild.
Eugene Eebs, the moving genius OF the
great Chicago strike. spoke in Oshkosh
the other night. He is much more mild.
The reporters spoke of it as a SCHOLAR
" address" Debs is well educated and
doesn't look or talk like Powderly.
who, although Intelligent, has that grim
dignity OF a mar who has worked round
metals. Debs is optimistic withal. Agi-
tators In the heat of a crisis can never
be comfortable, but Ii is difficult for a
man who makes his living by lecturing
TO be otherwise. He said some epigram-
matte things. however.
Excessive wealth is as demoraIizing
as extreme poverty"
If the arm of corporate greed could
reach Old Sol there would be a meter
on every sunbeam"
Our children are becoming mere cogs
in the wheels of Industry
"Rockefeller's Stsndard Oil uniyer-
sity Is a pillared pile OF public plunder.n
Government ownerships of railroads
is better than railroad ownership of
government"
Under present conditions it doesn't
pay to work. 1t pays better to work
those who do"
AS to trusts. Debs holds the old Carl
Marx socialistic view-that they are a
good thing; that trusts will multiply
and combine until there is one big trust.
at which point the government (people)
will step in n operate it themselves.
That will Their be socialism in fact.
How To BE Happy at Carniyais.
Some of u LOO people who went to
see the lwauk carnival grumbled a
little. That was when they got back.
Some who staid over night said they
had to sleep in cots In hotel corridors.
Those who could afford to go to the
Pfister had rooms to themselves. 1t was
those who had to be economic that
shared the inconvenience of a great
crowd. They said the streets were so
crowded n could hardly move. and
that the restaurant service was rushed.
What did they expect. Carnival
mean crowd; that's half the fun. But
it's always thus at picnic occasions
impatient to go and impatient to get
home.
Biggest Machine Shop in the World.
But every n is proud of the biggest
city in Wisconsin. 1t is certainly lovely
to loo upon, but to those who live near
the lake it is more often cool than in
land cities, When the wind is from in
land it is no more cool than other cities.
But often the breeze is frcra the lake.
Milwaukee is said to be very prosper
Gus at present. The capital invested In
its enterprises is sos, 600, 600, and over
$25, 900, 600 is paid in wages. The Alis
concern is the largest machine shop in
the world, and with iron, steel and ma
chinery interests growing, Milwaukee
really expects to be the Sheffield of the
northwest. Over 10000 people are en-
ployed in the metal industries. Beer is
not the principal industry, as so many
suppose, for Milwaukee is the largest
tanning center in the country. AS for
beer 1898, eco, eco is invested, and this
years output will surpass all records.
As for hogs LOCO, goo were killed in 1885
valued at SIC, 600, 900 when worked
up" and among other great industries
in the wonderful Cream City are
clothing. stovemaking, architectural
iron, trunks, knit goods, millinery, malt,
tinware ard farm implements.
ORLANDO BURNETT.