The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1901-09-20
tempt may not be made more often
than once in three years.
Advantages of Many Children.


than once in three years.
Advantages of Many Children.
Those Wisconsin counties that have
a good many children are happy these
days. t'Teddy' Roosevelt has six. Pa
ternity will be the fashion now. The
theory of public education is that the
child is entitled to an education, so
division of the school fund is the num-
Der of children, and in the collection Of
the money property is the basis.
have known wealthy old bachelors
crawl under this injustice, as they
style it, but the principal is sound
Columbia county, for instance, pays to
this fund $S0344 more than it gets
back, all because the county does not
produce enough children. Forty-one
counties in the state receive more from
the state than they pay while twenty
nine counties pay more into the school
fund than they receive. The total ex-
cess in the state amounts to over $780,
OOO
Children are q blessing-it is the
testimony Of ages. God is kind in
dealing with parents of big families;
that is, they'll have trouble; some Of
the young folks may go wrong; there'H
be expense and anxiety and sorrow.
But that desolate feeling is no tenant
of the home where children's voices
make the walls ring, and such is the
human heart that it will receive and
treasure the memories of infancy and
youth, and prove the richest kind of
inheritance. It is irrelevant to say
that children carry trouble; all human
experiences do. Childlessness carries
greater trouble. The home that is
built up on children, however, has po-
tential assets to sweeten life.
Returns of Assessors.
The assessment returns are being
we'll rounded up and, as expected,
there is much discrepancy. The equal
izatiOn in counties will be difficult.
Some obeyed the law by assessing at
full value; others followed the old GUS
tom Of assessing at so pea cent. val
uation; some compromised by increas-
ing to some extent [ have the Dane
county figures before me. For in
stance, the town of Middleton and the
town of Albion in 1900 returned prac-
tically the same amount (Within $2O,-
OOO), say $G75,O00. Yet this year Mid
dleton reports $7O5,SS5, and Albion ST.
G24,609. Compare the town of Berry
with the village of Sun Prairie, each
last year reporting q valuation Of
about 100000. Yet Berry really re-
ports less property, while the village
advances to $S74,995 So it is over the
state The experience, however. will
prove educative. 1t has been demon
strated that "full value" assessments
are no dream. The question now is
whether the system will be sustained.
If it follows that the eQualizers do not
allow the under assessed commune
ties to escape, and possibly the offend
ers may be punished, as they can be
under the law, and especially it it fol-
lows that the citizens are no higher,
the system may stand. The state tax
commission is presumably Interested
to achieve permanent results. AS has
been pointed out, there is this advan
tage about full valuations that intelli-
gent comparisons can be made of prop
erty as taxed. Full value of property
is pretty we'll known and agreed upon
in a community. When an assessor
turns in a list Of properties all at full
value as he interprets them, citizens
may intelligently make protest, if they
feel injustice is done them.
Indians in High Positions.
Senator Quarles and a number of
Washington legislators, accompanied
by Indian Commissioner Jones Min
eral Point have been inspecting the
] Indian schools and reservations up
north. Colonel Pratt Of the Carlisle
school said some interesting things
about the bright redskins he has han
died. He said:
"There were thirty-four in the Phil
ippines, several in Cuba and Porto
Rico, and one of the ten picked men
in General Lawtons body guard was
a full-blooded Indian from Carlisle.
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