The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1901-03-22

administration must be provided
However, it does not appear that the
drain on the treasury will be unduly
great if reasonably care is devoted to
the appropriation bills. Opinions differ
as to the success of the effort to i'll
crease railroad taxes by some $780,
600 year. Of the two bills it is
thought the increase in themselves
plan has the best chance, as it is SIM
pier than the plan to tax the value of
the railroad plant. If the railroads
should pay this much more money, 1t
would mean so much less for real and
personal property to pay, unless 1t is
spent on the theory that boy with
! his pocket full of pennies will make
| it fly faster than if the pennies were
locked up at home, Tapping more
freely the sources of revenue
(Which is often what republication
means in the hands of the legislature
can we'll be supplemented in this state
by a crusade for less expenditure A
horizontal 20 per cent. cut all along
the line will be successful warcry
some day.
Recasting Election Districts.
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it being difficult, of course, to make
happy the fellows whose districts are
invaded or perhaps wiped out and
some of the congressman have been
here to look to their interests in the
proposed shuttle of districts. A witt
cism of ''BilI' Price, once congress-
man from Black River Falls, is re-
vived. appointments are not de-
signed to keep men in congress" Dis
interested statecraft never figures in
apportionments. For instance, in
Dane county we have three districts
and one Of them is Democratic. By
a clever distribution of towns the
three are now Republican, based on
the present vote, and Assemblyman
Fesenfeldt Of Black Earth will have
difficulty in getting back to his Dem
ocratic associate on the floor.
Women Turned Down Again.
WOman's suffrage was quickly done
for in the senate the other day, Mills
of Superior alone voting for it. In
the house a letter from some good
mother in Israel of RipOn was read
evidently the indignant plea of some
woman who pays taxes and is allowed
to see drunken loafers go to the polls
and decide how her money shall be
spent. 1t was softened by that pathet-
icalIy HELPLESS vein with which a sad
minority, especially the standard-bear-
ers of unpopular causes, address the
great, powerful reckless legislature.
Every American is 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 pasteboard. However, there
is a law of right ever working while
legislators sleep and the powerful neg
lect others interests, and some day
the intelligent women of Wisconsin
will come into their own. 1t is only
in their infancy that great forces seeE
small. The beginning of the whirl-
wind is a freshened zephyr: the avail
anche is heralded by a few hurrying
pebbles; and the earthquake warns the
world by a gentle tremOr that arOuses
only mild curiosity Woman suffrage,
restoration of cities to the wise, the
just and the dignified will be 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 up
There are always a dozen ready to
speak. If they are not themselves fol-
lowers of the plow, 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 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 a greatly increased
limit and the farmers are afraid the
big things will not only ruin the road
but break the bridges.
Odds and Ends of Law.
There are a good many Milwaukee
bills, but the usual fights between the
taXpaying 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 Milwaukee citizens most inter
ested quietly sleep. We have had one
call from Milwaukee people-colored
people-who do not like the Marsh
field assemb1ymans bill forbiddng
the marriage of blacks and whites Mr.
Green, a funny little negro in a tall
silk hat and patent feathers, is re-
garded here as the arch champion of
his race. He runs newspaper and
an employment bureau and lectures,
and has about as large an acquaint-
ance with the great state as any one.
Green says:
"It is directly in line with the dis
franchisement of the colored people
in North and South Carolina. 1t is
on a 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 Tillmanism which is rampant in
the SOUTH
Primary Election Bill Reported.
Of course, the liveliest topic is the
urinary election There are not MANY