Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-02-26
His Head Was Level.

The Wausau Record usually coin
cides with anything and everything
done by the leaders of its party, but it
seems to have a knife up its sleeve for
Governor LaFollette, which it has
unsheathed for really no other reason
than that the Gov. has seen fit to turn
down Geo. w. Taylor. The Governors
course cannot help but be upheld by
every reasonable person when the facts
are known. The PILOT in its last issue
said;
"LaFollette's knockout blow to the
State Board of Immigration has dropped
out quite a number from nice, easy
berths, with large pay. If any one can
show that this board has done enough
to warrant its life being extended let
him now speak
To this the Record said
The quite a number of nice, easy
berthS' mentioned by the PILOT shrinks
to one upon examination, and that one
not so easy. A great deal has been said,
first and last, in favor of State Board
of Immigration which the PILOT should
not have missed"
1t then publishes an article which
does not contain one iota of a reason
why the life of the board should have
been extended. A letter from Ii. R.
Allen, of Merrill, is also published,
which chiefly recounts the great work
done by Mr.. Allen in Lincoln county.
The Record, as clincher, says:
The Pilot will find that accuracy of
statement is an admirable thing in a
newspaper if it will try it once. At all
events it has another guess coming this
time
The Records arguments are on a par
with the boy who resented Il city chaps
assertion that "thoSe are fine pigs" by
saying them amt pigs, they'se hogs"
1t makes very little difference who re-
ceived the $4,000 paid out by the state
for the so-called Board of immigration,
whether by Geo. Taylor or half dozen
other men. When the Governor
stopped the financial stream running
into their trough it affected all alike.
There are other democratic papers in
Northern Wisconsin that think the Gov
errors head was level in this matter.
Here is what the ex-Secretary of State,
j. I. Cunningham, says, in his Chip
pewa Independent
The Milwaukee Journal that can
see nothing good in Governor LaFol-
lette is very much afraid that the Gov
ernor in retiring George w. Taylor,
Secretary of the State Board of Immi-
grafton. dealt serious blow to North
eru Wisconsin. The Governor has done
nothing of the kind. The State Board
of Immigration has never been of any
use to this section. Of the ten thousand
dollars appropriated since the office was
created eight of il has gone to MIR. lay
lor for salary and expenses. There was
no haSty action on the part of the Gov
extravaganza and worthlesSueSS. He
asked that the office be abolished ard
the taxpayer who will take the pains TO
investigate the facts win thank him
for il.
That is about the sentiment through
out Northern Wisconsin, and the
Record knows it, if it really knows any
thing at all about it. If the state wants
to do something for Northern Wiscon-
sin let her give the Wisconsin Valley
Advancement Association couple
thousand dollars, and at the end of the
year there will be something TO show
for the money expended. But to give
out 10000 into the hands of Taylor and
his newspaper and other friends, why.
it might as well be dumped into the
Wisconsin river