The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1901-07-19

for and petty factionalism, as a blow
at tax reform and nomination re-
form. What would an opposition
movement do with the Republican
platform? If they approved it, why
new governor? If they repudiated it,
with it's tax reform on which the
country districts are set, would not
the Democrats put up some strong
man and possibly carry the state?
The interest of LaFollette and SpOoner
run parallel. It is the invasion Of
personal hostility and the fear of Mil
waukee's fiscal interest that the La
Toilette reign threatens their pocket
books that may make trouble. [ have
given my readers the political situation
as it is today.
More Imbeciles Accommodated.
The board of control has been the
! object of considerable comment in re-
/ Iation to changes in the state insti-
appOintive power. Nevertheless, they
go about their work and there is i'm
pOrtant work on hand. The most i'm
pOrtant new constructions are at
Chippewa Falls-the predetermined in
stitutiOn-where four new buildings
will be put up. 1t is a bracing thought
that the number of imbeciles cared for
there can be increased from 400 to
100, for in many counties there are
+ detectives of this class who would be
! much better off at Chippewa Falls.
Not only for themselves, but for their
brothers and sisters, for children
should associate with their mental
equals or superiOrs. Besides the pres
ence of a mental defective is apt to
generate an atmosphere of oppression
in a home. Superintendent Wilmarth
OF the Chippewa Falls institution, Is
, kindly man, and parents whose
, children or relations are made his care
may know that all possible is done
for them. The improvements at Green
Bay will cost 100000 and those at
, Chippewa Falls about $4,000.
The Stevens Point and Oshkosh
normal schools are also in process of
extensions.
lacking Names to Legacies.
When a man leaves money it is a
great temptation to associate his name
with it, for men who have brains
enough to make money or who are
lucky enough to inherit it lay a good
deal of stress on the family name.
1t is laudable, and there is no question
that the prestige of library or a
hospital to which is backed a family
name confers prestige for a number of
| generations. 1t is this that led Ten
nyson, the poet, to accept peerage.
He was a democrat himself, and
! wrote many such lines as
'Kind hearts are more than coronets
, And simple faith than Norman blood"
The poet himself did not care for
the frills and feathers of rank but he
wanted his children to enjoy the adj
vantages that go with an earldOm
under the British systems so he ac
cepted the honor and perQuiSiteS.
| Many an American will spend many
thousands Of dollars on family tomb,
or a shaft of marble which scarce
any one sees in a cemetery that pos
terity may know the merit and clinch
!. the name Of some father of whom he
is proud, or other whom he loved
forgetful that some other form of
memorial may be much more lasting.
You give your name to a library or
school or park-how it runs down
through the decades after you are gone
and benefits in those indescribable
social ways all who follow you, and
who bear your name. Why, up in
Maine, know a family that has put
memorial family windows in almost
every church in town!
A Milwaukee Lawyers Ambition.
The stockholders of the Milwaukee
Law Library Association have de-
cided not to accept the $4,000 legacy
left the association in the will of AM
mi r. r. Butler, Of that city, on the
condition that the name should be
changer to the Butler Law Library AS
ISOLATION. 1t was thought that the
change desired would be unfair to the
late B. X. Miller, who made a hand
| some gift to the association a few
years ago. Mr.. Butler was most
worthy man, a pioneer in Milwaukee,
and in the history of its bar, and it
was not an unworthy ambition. But
it requires a philosopher and most
unselfish man to leave money with
nothing to show for it except the I'M
! heralded annals Of virtues. Some Of
our colleges have been nearly sWamped
| by gifts Of buildings to bear the
donors name-splendid acquisitions to
a campus, but adding to the expense
! OF an institution, rather than reley-