The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1904-03-18

members of the stalwart ward COM
mittee. Then. too, a man in business
dislikes to disoblige Il committee which
calls on him: it is a common saying
that it is easy to get petition to hang
the best man in town. The LaFollette
workers are very clever. Had ii
Baensch men first got out Il petition,
they could have got thousands Of
names, but Bob was ahead of them.
1t is amusing how he has used the
burning of the capitol to his advan-
tage, an event at first which threat
ened to undo him. AS a Madison man.
o. course he does not wish the capitol
city to be removed, and though now
the furry is over and no one expects
the capitol to be moved. hundreds Of
our Madison and Dane county people
are being corraled into redhot La
Floette men because they think he will
save the building to this city. If that
isn't genius-What is called making
stepping stones of our mistakeS-then
vestigation of the cause of the capitol
fire and the question of water sup
ply is disregarded. That was prob
ably factor in not calling special
session, and by the time the next
legislature is here the subject will be
obsolete in peoples minds. 1t seems
the city water could have been turned
into the capitol and the sprinklers and
permanent pipes inside the building
used to effect, but no one turned the
water on. A good many things are
lost i'll the sweep of time and it is
unlikely that any more will be known
of this matter.
Some political sparring is going
on in the matter of railroad
passes. The railroad commissioner,
Mr.. Thomas, is in correspond
ence with the Illinois Central in an en-
deavor to get list of the holders in
Wisconsin of free transportation.
Some intimate that this is to anticipate
the companies themselves, which wish
to publish the list, thereby exposing
some of the governors friends The
manufacturing and other interests OPP
posed to a railroad commission are
very persistent. They understand bet
ter than some others how to influence
a legislature, for they begin early
enough. Here it is nearly ten months
before the session begins, and hand
books and newspaper articles are
pointing out the arguments against
commission. The result will be that,
by next winter, every man in the
state will know at least there are two
sides to the question and a good many
will believe the railroads are right,
Cheering the Farm.
There are many farmers institutes
in the state but perhaps none on which
more pains are lavished than the
eighteenth annual closing institute and
midwinter fair at Kaukauna March
1911. The program covers the usual
topics with some ''star" events, as the
presence of Professor Hamilton, an in
stitute specialist from Washington,
d. c.; Professor Moore, Superin-
tendent McKerron and DR.. Alexander,
the veterinarian. The talks of the
others range from ten to fifteen min
utes-trial orchards, the law of the
road. ice on the farm, winter eggs and
the like. The women play a growing
part in these gatherings. Under the
caption: THE destiny of nations de-
ponds on the manner in which they
are fed -(Brillat Each
afternoon Of the institute "a woman's
section will be conducted consisting Of
two demonstrative lectures by Miss
Adella Safer, of Orfordville Wis, and
an afternoon session of talks pertain
ing to our homes and families, at
which Miss Safer will be assisted by
Mrs. j. w. Bates, of Broad Ripple,
Ind, and Mrs. AIDA +. HOWE, of Elm
Grove, Wis. This is the menu the
ladies study one day: Baked fish,
potato soup. egg sauce, corn meal
gems, boiled custard. This is the
menu another day: Breslau of beef,
beef on toast, tomato sauce, apple and
celery salad chocolate loaf cake, Jeru-
salem pedding.
Road From Chicago.
4 good road fronsaNew York to Chi
cago, one that you can walk ON or ride
a bicycle on or tour with an auto
mobile-it is rather winning fancy.
And there is really an incorporation to
do this thing. Colonel Pope, the
bicyle man. is the head of it, and en-
gineers, etc, are other officers. With
the exception Of five eastern states;
to Wit-New Jersey, Massachusetts,
Connecticut, New York, Michigan and
Pennsylvania, there is no attempt at
an organized plan for securing better
roads. In these states the work has
been done only in the last ten years,
and the limited appropriation of state
money permits of building only few
miles of roads in each county In New
Jersey $2,5OO,OO0 has been expended in
ten years, and the increased valuation
of taxable property reaches the enor-
nous figure of $27, 100000. The as