Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-01-27
Fire Insurance in Wiscon
Premium per

1901 Observation-Disclosures. 1.56
l9O2 ............... LOU
Highest 1S96). ................ Ito
Lowest QS9o) ................ LII
Average % yrs 1885, 1000. 49,. 1.43
For the state of Wyoming the high
est premium was in 1902. BLOW
est 1896-1.I6. Average twenty years
1SS0-190D 1877.
Free Passes and Other Things
The state administra ton has been
worried and it's enemies very exultant
over the revelation that Assistant At
torney Bancroft the Richland Center
man who sprung into prominence by
his oratory at the last state convcn-
ton has been riding on free pass.
1t seems that he enjoyed the pass on
the ground that he was ''local attor-
ney" for the st. Paul road, in fact, that
little community of Richland Center
had two of these local attorneys"
1t surprises many to know that the
law leaves q loOphOle for this sort OF
thing-the law that was worked on so
laboriously and the principle thereof
actually embodied in the state consti-
tuition. Judge Bancroft cites New
York decision which allowed police
man to use pass. And Attorney Gen
eral Sturdeyant thinks so, too. The
Milwaukee Free Press wants Mr. Ban
croft to resign; the governor indicates
to the attorney general that things OF
this sort should cease Mr.. Sturde-
want thinks so, too.
Thus the Lacrosse editors letter
passes off the scene as political incl
dent, and the free pass of the assist
ant attorney general is substituted.
The campaign thus far is largely one
of smallish eOuntercrOsses of this
sort. Perhaps we shall get something
big later.
Hepburn Bill at Washington.
There is a fight on at Washington
over a bill which the liquor men call
the most menacing to their industry
since the civil war 1t is the Hepburn
bill, and has been referred to
the Judiciary committee, headed by
our Wisconsin Congressman Jenkins.
Wilbur F. Crafts of the Re-
form bureau at Washington, calls at
tenton to the fact that no less than
six reform measures of great impor-
lance will come before congress this
month and next. Among them is this
Hepburn Dolliver bill which world
shut out the Interstate commerce."
original package" bOotlegger from
states and districts where the citizens
have voted out the sale of liquor. 1t
Is a bill to assert state rights. Anoth
er is the GalIinger- Humphreys bill,
which forbids internal revenue col
lectors giving United States tax re-
ceipts, regarded by average jurymen
as licenses in spite of all argument to
the contrary, to ''blind tigers" and
brothels, whose muddy and bloody gold
should not be taken to run christian
government" The Dryden bill, drawn
by the postoffice department, would
leave no lax judge any chance to rule
that turf investment companies and
gambling by guessing and by gift en-
terprises were not excluded from use
Of the mails by the anti-lottery law
Socialists Active.
Socialists are active in Wisconsin.
In Madison there are frequent speech
es by champions of what Father Sher
man calls "The Dream City" They
usually speak in the assembly cham
Der. AS rule, they are ex-pastors
whose conscience had derived from the
conventional life of the cloth, or who
have become wearied of the seeming
proftless routine of slim prayer meet
ings and spiritless Sunday services.
These socialist speakers are by no
means rabid fellows; but quiet man
nered gentlemen, though when heated
In discussion, of course they jump into
coal trust and other things that most
Of us disapprove. Human nature is at