The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1902-07-18
WILL CONTINUE WAR.
Milwaukee StaIwarts Are Settling
Down for Anti-LaFolIette
Campaign.
Law TO PROTECT CHILDREN
Infant Labor Common in Milwaukee
Green County's Cheese Fac
tOries-MinnesOta Timber.

Madison, July 15.-The Republican
state convention will soon be ancient
history. No doubt we shall settle down
to quieter times. 1t is clear enough
that the contingent of the party rep
resented by the Sentinel will continue
the war. Gov. LaFOllette must pre-
pare himself for a protracted battle.
Only by public virtue, consistency and
intelligence can he hope to win out
against an adversary so desperate,
with so much resource at stake.
Child Labor Near Home.
The next legislature will have a
chance to try it's hand at the child-la-
Dor question near home as Miss Ida
Jackson assistant factory inspector Ia
bright newspaper womanD has not hes
itated to give vent to her feelings on
the subject. In a report as to WiscOn-
sin conditions. Miss Jackson says she
has found women and girls at work in
"the most unlikely placeS-placeS
where you would scarcely expect to
see even girls OF the most ignorant
type 1 have come across them in
founderies making cores for brass cast
ings; n the leather works making heel
leather and fiynets; in the tinshops
soldering cans; in the cigar factories
stripping tobacco and making cigars,
and in the northern part of the state
l have found them in door, sash and
box factories, working with saws"
Miss Jackson says that there are
between 10000 and $4,000 girls work
ing in the factories Of Milwaukee
alone. The most pathetic thing of
all Miss Jackson says. lis the lack
Of ambition or the impOssibility to get
ahead that characteriZes them after
tain length OF time. l can never de-
eide which is the sorriest figure-the
child Of IA, perhaps less, starting in
at 81 week, or the girl who ten years
later is making only 81 The absolute
ignorance Of the one is as touching as
the utter hopelessness of the other
OF course we can't have such Wis
cOnsin as we want if the fathers and
mothers of the future are to start life
SO inauspiciously.
The Cradle of "A College.
The dreams of one Of our smaller
Wisconsin colleges dreams not yet
fulfilled were recalled by the death
Gale, the founder Of Galesville and
Gales college. She was over 81 years
old. The judge died in 1868. She
and her husband We're strong figures
in laying foundations. Judge Gale
was a member OF the constitutional
convention, state senator in 1S49 and
militia acknowledgements, and cir
cult judge over La Crosse and seven
other counties. In 1858 Judge Gale
purchased two thousand acres of land
at the present location Of Galesville
including the water power on Ieaver
Creek. IN 1854 he procured from the
legislature Of Wisconsin the organiza-
ton of the new county of Trempeal-
eau, with the location Of the county
seat at Galesville, and university
charter With the same location.
Enormous Cream and Milk Business
The city man is prone to forget how
colossal is the dairy industry in Wis
consin-the activity that RACES round
eX-Gov. Hoards 100000 cow friends.
There are 1,540 cheese factories,
1886 creameries, and Il combined fac
tories in Wisconsin. IN many sections
one who drives along the country
roads meets factory or Il creamery
every mile or two. In d dozen coun-
ties in the northern part of the state
there are no factOrieS-in fact in Il
group of IA counties of that section
| there are but Is concerns in either
| butter or cheese The business will
| interest them later.
Coming farther south the number
| of creamerieS and cheese factories in
crease. Some counties prefer cheese
jackson has but one cheese factory
and 20 creamerieS. Door, by way of