The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1900-06-29
PRACTICAL STUDIES,
State Senator Stout's Plan to
Keep Children Longer
in School.
$2,5OO,OO0 WISCONSIN MONEY.
In Insurance Premiums Lost to This
State misunderstanding Iron
Near Madison.
$2,5oo,ooo WISCONSIN MONEY.

Madison, Wis, June 26.-There has
been talk for years Of the inadeQuacy
of the schooling furnished in the coun-
try districts in the lower and interme-
date grades throughout the state AS
a rule, the talk Of the rural problem"
and the youth, ineXperience, and in
competency of the teachers has been
the chief point of attack.
The educational alliance, of which
State Senator Stout is chairman, seeks
to raise educational standards, but is
going to work on a different line. Re-
form efforts aimed at the teachers
have found expression in the county
normal schools, now in successful OPP
GRAFTON in Wausau and Menomonie
Dunn county,.
This new effort is designed to arouse
a public sentiment in favor of manual
training, domestic sciences and the
elements of agriculture as an integral
part of the course of study, and. if
need be, to secure the necessary legis-
lation for the accomplishment CT this
object.
Laymen to Have a Part.
SCudLOI
this matter in his usual sensible way.
He is seeking to interest laymen and
not alone professional educators. A
conference is called for Tuesday, July
3. at 2 D. m. At the state capital. An
informal circular calling attention to
the movement is signed by the fol-
lowing: J. III. Stout, chairman, Me-
nomOnie: r. H. Halsey, Oshkosh; S.
~ Tim
ChynoWeth, Madison; r. B. DudgeOn,
Madison; c. E. Estabrook, Milwaukee;
M. V. O'Shea, Madison
The tact of Senator Stout and the
place he holds in the appreciation Of
the people are shown by the interest
the movement incites even among the
higher educational authorities.
Whereas another's efforts might be re-
garded with distrust, this conference
is to meet in the office Of the state
Superintendent No doubt much good
will result.
Graduated in Senator Depew's Glass.
Justice Brewer of the United States
supreme court received 500 and his
expenses from Washington on the Oc-
casion of his recent graduating address
to the law school. This created some
quiet comment, but the truth prOba-
bly, is that the great man needed the
money. While the salary of these
Judges is $4,000 a year, it is little
enough, measured by the style de-
manded in official circles and the eX-
pense of educating children.
Justice Brewer is a very large man,
with a smOOth-shaven face and bald
dome-shaped head. He graduated at
| Yale in the class of SO with Chauncey
M. Depew, General Wager Swane,
| Judge Magruder of Chicago, and JUS.
| tice Brown of the United States SUI
| preme court. 1t is a curious fact that
| these two justices, Brewer Of Kansas
and Brown of Michigan, both appoint
ed by President Harrison, were class
| mates.
Justice Brewer has considerable hui
! NOR and this dotted his address. His
| fun was incidental and not dragged in
| by the ears, but was along traditional
| lines. There was the Irishman's COM
ment on the bull struck by the loco
motive: the toast to the nation, bound
ed by the aurora borealis and the day
of Judgment; and the brakeman'S
| shout in Dakota, ''The train stops here
| thirty minutes for divorces
Let the State Keep Its Powers.
The burden of the address, however,
| was an appeal and protest against
| merging powers in congress. He want
| ed the states to work out divorce laws,
| woman suffrage, even the trust issue
and most other things, and not look
| to the federal power. He said the lat
| ter is more convenient and quick, but
under it people forget how to govern
| themselves. Washington is already the
worlds lobby center, he said, and ev-
cry additional subject given to con-
! gress to legislate about adds to the
| number of those influences. Justice
Brewer talked pretty freely for a
member of the supreme court before
whom some of these questions may
come, but more than once during the
evening he reminded his hearers that
what he said had no judicial sigfini-
canoe. He declined to get into the
Philippine question.
| Sending Good Money East.
| Wisconsin has some life insurance
companies of it's own, and one advan-
| tage in patronizing them is that thus
| the premium money paid into the COM
panies is invested at home. This money
now sent east serves to swell the de-
pOsits of eastern banks, employ an
army of men and develop numberless
| enterprises in other sections. 1t is a
matter of some two and a half MILAN
| dollars each year and that would build
q great number of factories and oper-
ate a great many industrial projects.
| This Wisconsin business of eastern life
insurance companies is set forth in the
following table:
| Premiums
| Year. Collected. Claims Paid
1895 IS 1893, 047.11 S 901.675.57
1896 -. 1,974,912.42 Gas, 263 26
1897 -. 1858, 1858 S01.27S. Is