The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1902-09-19
LAF0LLETTE'S TURN.
Mayor Rose Having Been Gay,
the Governor Will Now
BE Serious.
EACH a POWER IN HIS WAY
Wisconsin Leads Union in Increase of
Patents-Half Fare to Boston
The Trolley System.

q notable speech from Governor La
Toilette this week, and as the COVER
nor has not talked much and as there
is wild curiosity to know what he mas
to say on the lines along which he has.
been so terrifically attacked, his
speech will be a state, and even
national event. Governor LaFOllette
is an orator of great power-all con-
cede this. He has the dramatic in
stinct, the passion, the earnestness
that hold great crowd. He is better
at sometimes than at others. But If
he is in good strength, his opening
gum Of the campaign will be well
| worth hearing. He will open in Mil
| waukee-in the enemys country.
Rose a Lively Fellow.
Mayor Rose is doing what all eX-
| pected he would do-"making things
| hum" He talks readily and captivat-
! ingly, and is clever in denunciatiOn
| and .idicule. The mayor, however,
| lacks the element of the marvellous,
| the hypnotic touch, that rivets men.
LaFollette regards himself very seri
| ously; he has the mission and compOrt
of prophet and appeals to men who
respond to the awe and deep things of
| life. He would have made a great
revivalist-this is true of most states
men Of the oratorical type. Rose is
| light and sparkling and happy with
1.-THE boys" The farmers to whom life
is sober thing and who are intro
spective as to their wrongs are the
| governors favorite audience. Rose
| belongs in those wards of a city where
the thinking is not Very profound and
where man seems to talk the
| truth when he is only awfully clever.
! 1t is the difference between hear
ing an orchestra playing medley of
| popular airs and an oratOrio.
| Wisconsin Genius and Patents.
| l was interested in seeing what Wis
consin had done in taking out pat
| ents," as exploited in recent cen
sus bureau. I'm the decade before 1910,
| one patent was taken out. That was
| before the territory was made
| state. Wouldn't it be interesting to
| know who entered the claim and what
| his dream of wealth was? In the next
decade but five patents were granted
| to Wisconsin. But lin the next de-
| cade, previous to 1S60-the population
had increased and 215 patent were
| granted Wisconsin. From 1860 to 1870,
1859; from 1870 to 1880, 2,426; from
| 1880 to 1890, 1910. and in the ten
years following, 5,076. Thus our
| genius felt the inventive thrill. More
over, of the ten states leading in manu-
| features, Wisconsin heads the Union
in per cent of increase in number of
patents in the last decade, and our
state is third in per cent of increase
in gross value of products! There was
| one patent issued to every 4,O73 citi-
Zens.
| How is it with little Connecticut?
She took out 1921 patents in the last
| decade which gave her seventh rank
| in patents, whereas she is twenty
ninth in population. However. though
Connecticut shows a slight increase
for 1900, it is but IA per cent, while
the increase for the country at large
for the decade is 1902 per cent. On
the whole, the New England states
show retrograde movement.
| The first patent granted by the gen.
eral government was to Samuel Hop
kins, July 81, 1900, for an improve
ment in pot and pearl ash manufac-
| ture. The last patent granted for the
year 1889, at the close of the first
hundred years of patents issues, was
to Wilhelm Dreyer, No. 41S,664 on
December 81, 1889, for an electro
magnetic typesetting machine.
a Cheap Railroad Rates East
| There are SO many opportunities of
going east and west at reduced rates
that it gives one a wearied feeling to
stand up and pay full fare. There
are excursions to conventions, politi-
CAL religious, educational. and all
| else; and often it is not necessary to
be affiliated with the organization for
whose benefit the trip is projected. nor
to attend single meeting of the de-
| liberations in a distant city, in order
| to enjoy the reduced rate A rate of
Dne-and-one-third is considered q for.
tunate stroke by most people, but the
] haif-rate is not unusual, especially for
long distance tours. For short round
| trips, Sunday excursions and the like.
often 25 or @ cents will get a ride in