The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1900-03-02

Despite the periodic effort to get
''business" men and "farmers' into
public station, it remains true that
those clever fellows, the lawyers, have
an immense advantage in politics.
which is the same thing. The New
York legislature has SiXty-tWO lawyers,
the senate being composed of fifty
.cembers ard the assembly OF 80. AS
3ne business of the legislature is to
make and change laws, it has always
seemed to me that an honest, COmpe-
tent lawyer makes the ideal legislator.
We recognize, however, that the craft
has undue proportion of smart and
.$oVerreaching" fellows mot to offend
any. and even the best of them work
together to conserve traditions that
might well be shattered. SO binding
is the teaching of the sacredness of
statute and usage that lawyers uncon-
SciOusIy ruffie their backs at the men
ton OF changes, especially that touches
their business. There is no trust like
the legal profession. If it were not So
the T0rrens land title bill; the meas
ures to simplify administration of
small estates, ETC.. might not be de-
layed until aroused public sentiment
fairly takes the bar by the neck and
drags it to it's duty. For such reasons
it is well to sprinkle a legislature with
business men, laboring men and farm
ers who are free to heed the plan Of
argument touching the interests of the
bar and the courts. The only way to
secure justice for all interests is to
have all interests represented. The
best men that God ever made. if their
standpoint be the same, will reason
bIindIX. and soon seltishly 1t is human
nature.
repeat, the only way to secure JUS !!
tice for all classes and interests is to
have aE interests represented by them |
selves not by somebody else. 1t is the
banner argument for women suffrage. .
The religious forces in the state uni
yersity are praying for Il Y. NJ. c. 4.
building The managers have gone
sturdily forward and put the building
into the hands Of Chicago architects;
and an effort will be made to raise
500. 900 to build it. There are 2,2OO
students OF all kinds in the university,
of whom half are church members
The Y. N. G.. \. association already
numbers $50 members standing for
clean. Christian manhood in the uni:
NerSltT. n general secretary Is CeVOt-
ing all his time to the work.
The work is thus outlined: o. New
students met at trains: rooms, board,
and roommates. 1000 handbooks
gratis % Employment-In four
months sixty-two jobs furnished
needy students. 81 Bible
hundred and ten men in
ten classes. taking daily Bible study.
a. Social-Four hundred men at five
socials. and 900 men and women at
three. % Religious Meetings-At.
tendance-Sunday, average. 1913: mid
week prayer meetings. forty-three
80 ssionary-Fourteen men in class;
pledges amount TO 500. "a Pastoral
Seventy-fve per cent. of freshmen Wis
tied in their rooms: 200 personal calls
by the general secretary to Feb /.
The Need-A building. Why? Be
cause it will give Christian work prom
nence, dignity. and efficiency. and
will tend to become the social and
religious center of university life
Wherein the 100000 lot already pur.
chased. When-Now. The work is J
aampered at every point for lack of 1t.
i" ORLANDO BURNETT.