The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1904-01-29

Average ~ yrs (1SSU-lJUl ..... Ito
For the state of Wyoming the high
est premium was in 1902. 13-low-
est 1S96-176. Average twenty years
(1SS0- 1901 1877.
Free Passes and Other Things.
The state administration has been
worried and.its enemies very eXultant
over the revelation that Assistant At
torney Bancroft the Richiand Center
man who sprung into prominence by
his oratory at the last state convcn-
ton, has been riding on a free pass.
It seems that he enjoyed the pass on
the ground that he was a local attor-
ney7' 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 Sturdevant 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 a political Incl
dent, and the free pass of the assist
ant attorney general is substituted.
The campaign thus far is largely one
O. sma1lish counter-crosses of this
So Perhaps we shall get something
bug later.
Hepburn Bill at Washington.
There lis a fight on at Washington
over bill which the liquor men call
the most menacing to their industry
since the civil war It is the Hepburn
bill, and has been referred to
the judiciary committee, headed by
our Wisconsin Congressman jenkins
Wilbur r. Crafts of the Re-
form bureau at Washington, calls at
tention 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 would
shut out the interstate commerce"
Original package bootlegger from
states and districts where the citizens
have voted out the sale of liquor. 1t
Ss q bill to assert state rights. Anoth-
er is the ,Gallinger- 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 ard bloody gold
should not be. taken to rum 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
ber.. AS rule. they are ey.pastors
whose conscience had derived from the
conventional life of the cloth. or who
have become wearied of the seeming
profitless 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 disapproye. Human nature is at