The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1901-11-01

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tering to local prejudice by refusing
to dine with negro; but the first
president to thus recognize the leader
Of the black population and SO inspire
100000 of his fellows will give the
historians task to warm their hearts.
When it comes to blaming the news
papers and Booker Washington him
SELF that is another question.
spahr's Interest in Wisconsin.
The Outlook is another periodical
which keep it's eye on the northwest
and discusses intelligently the Wiscon-
sin political situation. 1t has rem
dered Governor LaFollette much serv-
ice and has great confidence that he
will further tax and other reforms.
Editor Spahr is a Columbus, O., man
and while recognizing the shortcom-
ings of Governor Pingree was one Of
the few public censors which had no
apologies to make when that honest
heart ceased to beat Most of us are
blinded in our judgments by the lido
syncrasies and weaknesses of men, SO
! that we cannot see the motives with
in. There is so much driftwood and
so many eddying currents on the
! stream that we do not note the strong,
resistless current which swells the bed
OF the stream and makes OverWhelm-
i ingly for the sea. Strong pressure by
way of protest and side-lights has
been brought to bear on the editors Of
The Outlook in order to call it off it's
advocacy of the LaFollette administra-
ton, but in vain.
AS every Badger knows, the east ap-
preciateS our Senator SpOOner even
more than our own people. Congress-
man Fowler Of New Jersey, who will
likely head the ways and means COM
mittee, and Senator Patton of Michi-
gan had no hesitation at putting him
not near the head, but as the leader in
the United States senate. \ number OF
such men have less knowledge Of
Governor LaFollette naturally, and
have the prejudice which the status
quo invariably entertains for men bent
on new things. But refOrmers are
never popular until they achieve the
difficult things they set out to do, in
the face of apathy and self interest,
and then the crowd begins to cheer
r n11
time had he been willing to resist the
prOmptings to better tax and election
conditions and throw in his brains and
attractive personality with the old re-
gime. But he would not 1t should
make him strong with the people.
They are the only friends he needs.
or not
When Whitehead Was a Co1legian.
1 find John Whitehead is being
watched with interest by the men who
knew him at Williston preparatory
school and Yale. l knew the James
vile man worked his own way, but a
classmate tells me John was distinc-
tive in his struggles. Perhaps there
was no poorer man in his class. 1t is
said one suit of clothes saw him
through the course, and no one was
more respected. On graduation day, a
sort of day of judgment for cOllegians.
Whitehead was cheered to the echo.
He did SO much outside work for a
living that his scholarship was not
marked enough to equip him to ''tu-
tor" defective students, but he worked
at whatever his hands found to do
Unlike many, Whitehead would not
wait on table'-a favOrite way of
earning college support; nor would he
because he was ashamed to do any
honest task, but he preferred to toll
with his hands outdoors, and this the
big fellow did in odd hours and vaca-
lions, in trenches or anywhere else.
The Yale push have great confidence
in Whitehead, whose good sense, in
tegrity and powers Of leadership were
conceded when he was a boy.
Minnesota Man Beats Them All,
1t was a wonderful procession of
great men that swept the streets Of
New Haven-scholars from all over the
world, clad in yari-colored gowns, the
Oxford man in rich scarlet. There Were
Japanese and German; savants from
India, and at their head the great
Eliot of Harvard. This college presi-
dent is not a little fellow, as many
supposed, but a tall, imperious look
ing fellow, his left cheek flaming with
the mark Of some disease. AS he led
the long line through the cheering
crowds, bands of music rending the
air, and the whole situation aglow with
enthusiasm, he was a superb object.
There was no Mark Hopkins gem
tleness nor Noah Porter meekness-his
is face kindling with pride of intel