Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1901-03-20


can well be supplemented In this state
by crusade for less expenditure. A
horizontal 20 per cent. cut all along
the line win be successful warcry
some day.
Recasting Election Districts.
The apportionment is dragging along
it being difficult. Of course, to make
happy the fellows whose districts are
invaded or perhaps wiped out ana
some of the congressman have Deeh
here to look to their interests IN ire
proposed shuttle Of digtricts. \ WITH
cism of "Bill' Price. once congress
man from Black River Falls, is re-
vived. Appointments are not De
signed to keep men In congress-. DIS
interested state raft never ngufes III
appointments. For instance, III
Dane county We have three districts
and one of them is Democratic. by
clever distribution of towns the
three are now Republican. based on
the present vote, and Assem0iyman
Fesenfeldt of Black Earth viii have
difficulty In getting back to his Dem
ocratic associate on the floor.
Women Turned Down Again.
Woman's suffrage was quickly done
for I'm the senate the other day. Mills
of Superior alone voting for 1t. In
the house a letter from some good
mother In Israel Of Ripon was read,
evidently the indignant plea Of some
woman who pays taXcs and Is allowed
TO see drunken ioafnrs 90 to the polls
and decide how her money shall be
snent. It was softened by that pathet-
ically helpless vein with which a sad
minority. especially the standard-bear-
ers of unpopular causes, address the
great. powerful reckless legislature.
Every American In indeed an I'M
crowned king, but when an individual
citizen runs up against a congress OF
his peers. his scepter is tiny thing and
his crown pasteboaFd. However. there
is a law OF right ever working While
legislators sleep and the powerful neg
Iect others interests, and some day
the intelligent women of Wisconsin
will come into their own. II Is only
In their infancy that great forces seem
small. The beginning Of the whirl-
wind ia a freshened zephyr; the avail
| anche Is heralded by few hurrying
pebbles: and the earthquake warns the
world by gentle tremor that arouses
only mild curiosity Woman suffrage
| the curling of the liquor power, the
restoration Of cities to the wise, the
| lust and the dignifed win BIO achieved
| in their own good time,
Farmers Get What They Want.
The farmers are an important ele-
ment Of the assembly. especially when
bills affecting their interests come uD
There are always dozen ready to
| sneak, IL they are not themselves fol-
lowers of the pillow, they are country
LAWYERS and business men familiar
with the working Of the agricultural
| mind. Good road bills always bring
| orators to the surface. For instance,
the senate has n bill that increases the
permitted weight Of threshing ma
chine engines Naturally these are
built larger every year, Whereas once
six and seven ton engines were al
| lowed to use the highways, now the
thReshermen ask greatly Increased
limit and the farmers are afraid the
big things will not only ruin tb" ~oad,
but break the bridges.
Odds and Ends of Law,
There are a good many Milwaukee
| bills. but the usual fights between the
| tnxpaying conservatives of that city
and the politicians have not thus far
diverted the session. There Is Moth
ing that converts one to home rule
so quickly as to see attempts to run
special measures quietly through at
this distance Of eighty-two miles,
| while MiiwauIe e citizens most inter
ested quietly sicep. We have had one
| call from MIlwa Ikee people-eolnrad
1 no 40
| field assembiyman's bill forbidIing
the marriage OF blacks and whites. Mr..
| Green. fanny little negro in a tall
silk hat and patent feathers, is re-
garded here as the arch-champion Of
| his race. He runs a newspaper and
an employment bureau and lectures
and has about as large an acquaint-
ance with the great state as any one.
| Green says:
at Is directly In line with the dis
| franchlsement of the colored people
| in North and South Carolina. 1t is
on q par with the separate coach
law IN Georgia and Alabama. This
| bill is the first attempt made in Wis
consin, however. TO follow the lead of
the Tiilmanism which is rampant in
| the south
Primary Election Bill Reported.
OF course the liyeliest topic is the
primary election. There are not many
brilliant debates worth hearing in a
state legislature, but IL one could so
time himself as to catch what il said,
especially In the senate, when this
bill is on. he would no doubt hear
some good talking | have been re-
| buked for telling my readers that
some substantial part of the Stevens
bill will be enacted. but with such
men as Stevens Hall, Lenroot. Over
beck. Sturdevant. Thomas. Gilman,
Coapman, and many others willing to
fight and not alone vote for the
direct vote, 1t Is not strange / have re-
| fused TO believe the bin was dead.
Minnesota. Oregon, and Indiana have
| recently been up to their ears in the
same campaign and two of these
states adopted a primary election bill
| and the influence Is being felt. 1t win
be amended at some very important
points, but as have said before. when
the voting begins, whatever the mer-
'ts or dement's of the bill members
who think they have political future
will dread to have 1t said of them
when proposed for this Office or that
ale was not right on the Stevens stu"
This is one OF the biggest legislative
chapters in Wisconsin history-one
of those big bills that come along only
once In q decade and which are re-
membered as landmarks.
ORLANDO BURNETT.
ON TUE COUNTY LINE
SOUTH WEST PRAIRIE, March 10 49,