The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1901-03-29


The Woodward marriage bill seems
| to be fading away because of lack OF
supporters who are interested enough
| to work for it. 1t is common enough
| to hear members say they believe it
! would be well to examine physically
and mentally those who contemplate
matrimony, but the proposition to set
| up machinery enough to examine the
dozen people who are every day get
| ting married in Madison, to say moth
| ing of other places where the inst.tu-
ton is popular, is too big a thing to
| be effected without stronger demand
| on the part Of the public.
| Every craft would like to be exclu-
| sive. By making it difficult to get into
/ the ranks, the income Of those already
| in is increased and better organiZa-
! ton effected. The lawyers, doctors,
! dentists and some others are pre-
tected by the state. The BARRIERS hope
to be but will miss it this session. SO
with the dancing masters. The sta
tionary engineers have been working
for some years and expect to succeed
this time. Their bill provides for one
commissioner to do the licensing, he to
work under the labor commissioner.
Architects are the latest who wish
state board erected Mr.. Gavin in
troduced their bill.
Sparta school Baby Bill.
The assembly passed the bill which
opens the Sparta school to infants I'M
der three years, but there is opposition
awaiting it in the senate. II the b IL
must go through there is talk OF
amending it SO as to put the state
school and the child-finding societies
Oh identically the same footing. First
to compel them to place children III
homes within sixty days, reporting
failure to do such in every case to the
board Of control; second, to limit the
charges TO county officers and others
taking the child to Sparta; mot long
ago it cost $40 to move one child from
one northern county;) and third, to
avoid encouraging the social evil by
requiring parents Of illegitimate chill
dren to support them.
Speaking of immortality, the bill
which is popular in many states
against the use Of ''knock-out' drops
comes out Of the committee fayOrably
recommended.
Where Carnegie Gould Get light.
[ asked Senator Stout the other day
if he had ever talked libraries with
Mr.. Carnegie and he said he had never
met the man.
But wouldn't these two library en-
thusiasts have Il good time Of a long
winters evening before an open fire
There is one phase of Mr.. Carnegie's
giving that might be improved, ]
think said Senator Stout the other
day. Mr. Carnegie follows tic law
Of self-help admirably in expecting
communities which he benefits to bear
part Of the burden. Sometimes the
city to furnish a site and 10 per cent
in annual maintenance. But | do not
understand that there is any system
or provision in the architectural OF
these many libraries. Now q commit
tee turned loose with a large amount
Of money to build q library may Go a
very foolish thing-f0r men do not
usually construct more than one house
in a life time, to say nothing CT Ii
raries. IT is q branch of architecture
to construct beautiful and effective Ii
raries and great deal Of >money is
wasted and inconv enience caused by
entrusting the work to men who lack
experience" And the senator from
Men0m0nie instanced q city in another
state where the results were most
equipment
Senator Stout is working on his bill
to establish county agricultural
schools. The plan il TO Try i couple
of schools in the same manner that
the county normal schools were tried,
and then to extend the system as the
demand for the schools Increases,
Stout ChaSes Shadows Away
y
sachuSetts-in a country community
SO small that the name was not on
the map-of depressed and lone
ly-mad mother who killed all of her
six children?
When J. Fl. Stout's plans for the
frightening and uplifting of life in
the country districts are all fulfilled,
such an unutterably sad thing could
not happen. The picture of this good
man should be on the mantoI Of every
farm hQme in Wisconsin.
Reapportionment is making some
hard feelings, as was predicted Those
members whose sections suffer feel
it keenly, for they are apt to ina CINE
that their constituents may think
there is q loss because the member
lacks influence. This is all nonsense,
because the distribution is purely a
matter Of mathematics. There is po,it-
zeal adroitness in rearr2nging districts,
but no county loses q member Of the
assembly uniustly. Of course, Mil
waukee gets the most of the increase
The assembly district bill is not like
ly to be revised and the state is fort
innate in having the matter disposed
OF as easily as it is.
Taxation Measgl, cs Daily.
'What are we here for?' Would
probably be best answered if a law
maker should reply Taxation" It
was the l0udest cry in campaign time.
Yet primary elections have complete
~ submerged the tax issue However.
there is an end to everything and the
bills affecting taxation must in time
get OH the floor. The prophets say
a storm will then break; that the
Milwaukee interests, the railroads.
etc. have a Carrie Nation AK CON
cealed for the tax commission. and it
is not unlikely The reorganized Mil
waukee Sentinel says the commission
had nothing worth hearing to say, in