The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1904-03-18
STUDY OF FAMILIES
Mothers Must Have Originality,
and Other Attributes to
Bear Great Sons.
ONE OF THE DWIGHT LINE
Governor LaFollette Keeping His OPP.
ponents Busy-No Investigation
ofCapitoI Fire.

NldulSOU, WI u.s., AIdFcn 10 Hc
mother of President Eaton died recent
~ in Beloit, where one son is president
Of this sort, is interesting, for only
great women can bear great sons.
Byron had an eccentric mother but
everyone admits she was woman of
brains. Eccentricities Of this sort seem
10 cOnfound the truth, but they really
do not. The mother must be a Wom-
an of ideas, Of ambition, and force; in
the absence of these qualities, it is
simply impossible to find great man,
using the word great in the sense of
remarkable and powerful in some di-
rection. The mother need not be q
cultivated woman, nor an educated
woman, but she must have originality,
force, and commanding qualities Of
some sort. President Eaton had three
brothers, one of them a d. D., now in
Mexico, another a leading business
man of Boston, and another Des
MOineS physician. | remember some
years ago-it was 1S94-the American
board of foreign missions was in ses-
sion in Madison. I was one of num-
Der whose duty it was at a reception
in the capitol to introduce the peo-
pie to the receiving line, DR.. Richard
s. Storrs being the most distinguished
Of it. An aged couple of O. type IN
miStakable to one who knows the
Puritan stock of an earlier day came
in their turn. What name please?"
The old lady Strengthened her sparse
form, look of pride mantled her keen
eye as she said. you may say the
father and mother of President Eaton
Of Beloit college" Surely title
wOrthier than Il kings. If these tired
young mothers could interpret the
weary days as an investment in man
hood and wOmanhood. who some day
are to sway commemorative and lead,
perhaps whole people, to the heights
of material, mental and moral better
ment, it would be task Illuminated
by hope. trust and JOY.
Dwight of Oregon.
Every now and then a man passes
away whose friends wish the world
could have known him better. for in
him was real power. Some years ago
[ was Fourth of July speaker in the
beautiful village of Oregon, ten miles
south of Madison. At the conclusion
of the exercises there was a cry from
the crowd for Mr. Dwight not
dwight" but ''Mr. Dwight" A
tall, angular man. as I remember him.
plain, rugged, with the Abraham Lin
coin marks upon him lin the days be-
fore Lincoln became famous climbed
he imprOvised rostrum. He took his
coat off. but with no affectation. He
spoke to his neighbors and fellow
citizens in calm. friendly way ais a
philosopher. father of the community
might have done. 1t was not a
polished speech. but it was not rough:
he did not belong to the familiar vii
lage philosopher type at whom his fell
lows are privileged to fling jokes Mr..
Dwight had dignity. He was a grad
uate of the whaling fleet and of the
civil war, not of the college: but he
was constant reader He died at
a. He was a near kinsman of Presi-
dent Dwight of Yale Ga cousin. 7 be-
Heve) and a brother Gf I mistake not
Of the most famous teacher of law Of
his time in New York City. now dead
One could see in his blood and the
power that runs in great families. l
Go not know the story of his youth,
but it is probable that he was too
restless for conventional lines of train
ing that might have brought him
national reputation. Surely no one
could meet this farmer of oregon.
who talked that day sincerely of what
American citizenship means, who read
his classics daily. who played his flute
at night under the stars. who practiced
justice, who was looked up to by all
who knew him during the fifty years
he lived on his farm, without feeling
A14elI 1lClS was great
Political Chatter.
Judge Baensch is visiting different
parts of the state. and his quiet. un-
affected personality is making friends.
especially in conservative quarters
EX-COngressman Cook is tireless, with
his right hand man, E. r. Hicks: and
Governor LaFollette is putting out
even more literature than, the stall
warts. Mr.. Cook makes friends where
ever he goes. His campaign is neither
a branch of the LaFollete movement,
nor. as some infer. is it an effort to
get a lot of delegates and then after
a conference at the state convention
with the Cook men, to decide which of
the two shall make a dead set against
Governor LaFollette. Mr. Cooks
campaign is on the theory that the
party and the people want rest and
non fractional government, and that