The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1901-01-31

which in Milwaukee worry the retail
erS a good deal by bargains in table
liquors. The clause in this bill which
raises saloon licenses to $500 may be
in the bill only for the purpose of Sc
curing the support of temperance
people, which in fact has already been
given. To be sure, prohibitionists and
others who do not recognize the right
to regulate the business lent to this
bill what corresponds to the pope's
''Tolerandi." They simply say they
do not oppose it.
Another bill declares 1 per cent. of
alcohol the test of Intoxicating
quality"
The Damage Suit Industry.
Cities have long complained of dam
age suits. Some mar or woman falls
down on sidewalk or ships on the ice
and perhaps thinks nothing for the in
juries, which may be slight, until
some sharp lawyer gets hold of the
case and in his hands the injuries sus-
tanned become momentous. James
vile has suffered severely in this re-
spect, due to the fact that one or two
claims were successfully litigated one
or two years ago, and the precedent
becomes contagious.
The purpose of bill introduced the
other day is to compel claimants
against cities to commence action on
their claims within one year from
date of injury. 1t frequently hap
pens that a notice will be served in
time as required. but suit is unreasOn-
ably delayed. The city treats the
matter Us abandoned, when after five
or six years have passed and all the
departments of a city are being adj
ministered by different officers, the
witnesses dead or removed from the
city. suit is commenced and injustice
often follows.
This legislation simply makes
claimant sue within year or aban-
don his claim. Every principle Of
public policy demands that city
know what claims are abandoned and
what claims cities will be called on
to defend
Women I'm Public Offices.
Governor La FOllette's suggestion
in his inaugural that bright women be
pushed to the front is generally COM
mended and papers instance cases Gas
on school boards and in charities,
where women have acquitted them
selves we'll Here and there, however,
questions IRE raised. The Mineral
Point tribune, edited by one of the
governors most vigorous champions,
Mr. Bennett, puts in a question thus:
"With women crOWding out the
family's natural bread winners in so
many places in recent years. and the
dearth of women helpers in the places
where they are the most valuable
help it may we'll be questioned
whether it is wise for the state to aid
the movement"
It is hard to see, however. why
women should not have hand in the
supervision of those hundreds of par
entless boys and girls at the Sparta
school. Why should none but men be
considered eligible to make plans for
the physical and moral welfare OF
those boys at N<ukesha, called bad,
many of them having the seeds OF GOOD
within them? There is an idea afoat
that the so-called foreign elements III
our state oppose these recurring Ell
forts to put women to the font, as
some say to ''take them out OF the
home" While they are conservatives
as shown by the fact that not many
of their women are in the club move
ment, yet there is a breaking down or
this absurd tradition.
side Paths for Bicyclers.
The bicyclers have at last been
heard from. Their bicycle-as-baggage
bill. which nearly succeeded in thu
two last legislatures has been aban
dOned although in a number or states
bicycles are carried free. This year
they want side paths to be built by
commissions whom county judges are
to aDpOint whenever fifty Wheelmen
petition. Bicyclers are to pay all the
bills, taxing themselves 81 year each'
only licensed wheelmen to use the
paths. Six states are said to nave
such laws and the bill is to be
COPY of the New York law under
which more than 100000 is being
spent annually by the wheelmen Tor
the establishment Of paths.
no Insurance FOR such Fires.
Laws are growths, evolved from
thn experiences, often bitter, of men.
After the New Richmond cyclone
MANY of the buildings caught fire and
stocks of goods were destroyed when
had not been injured by the cyclone.
These the insurance companies de-
clined to pay for. They fell BACK
UDOn a clause IN the SCdludIu pollCJ
which says that when building Tails
the insurance lapses instanter
Senator Mosher of the cyclone town
seeks to amend the insurance laws al
this point
Police Powers for Conductors.
Senator Mills is the author of many
ingenious measures. He has one that
for the arrest on sight of
anv tramps attempting to steal ride
on a railroad, either on top, under
Meath or inside of a car. The effect
is to confer on every conductor much
of the authority of sheriff.
The Oshkosh Times commends the
10000 club" of Madison, and remem-
hers that the free excursions to Osh-
kosh given by the merchants last sum
mer were effective. That city will re-
peat the series next summer. The
Times suggests that it would require
less courage for Oshkosh business men
to strive for 10000 people, and init
mates that none Of us Madisonians will
live to see the day. This, of course, is
moro iihe as by the natural law OF in