The Ladysmith news. [volume] (Ladysmith, Wis.) 1905-1905, 1905-04-22
A New Source of Trouble.

A New Source of Trouble.
/ The story of the imaginative little g.
year-old girl who cried when she thought
of herself as grown up, and married, and
had little baby, and died, leaving the
little thing without any mother, and
wondered who would care for the poor
little thing, is suggested by Doctor
Hicks's worry about railroad party IN
politics in this country, if certain things
are done. He concludes that it is not
| only probable, but that cit is practically
a foregone conclusion" that there will
be such party just as soon as rail
road commission is given the power to
regulate and control railroads, and says
that the opportunity to elect presidents,
senators and congressman" (when
will the doctor learn that senator is
congressman?) will be too great
! temptation to be resisted.
| And he shows just how it will be done.
There are 100000 people employed
be the railroads or who get their in
comes from them; of these, at rough
guess, he imagines that 100000 are
voters. What the railroads, which the
doctor says "are capitalized at $12, 000,-
OOO," will do, will be to take their
enormous wealth, sound their voters,
and run things to suit themselves eff
the wishes of the trust-busters pre-
vail" The doctor couldn't have slept
wink the night after this awful vision
appeared to him. We trust he will get
his foreign appointment soon.
The doctor reminds us of certain
good woman who was greatly given to
worry. She had many things to worry
about. Among them was an old well
in the back yard. She said once that
she usually had SO many things to worry
about that she forgot all about the we'll,
but when she hadn't anything else on
her mind, she worried about that-Mil-
waukee Free Press.
The Free Press is little if not caustic.
1t revels in sarcasm. It rejoices in the
lampoon. 1t is readable, entertaining
and instructive. But there is another
side to journalism-the constructive
side which we too often lose sight of.
Without stopping to correct the fig
ures used by DR.. Hicks land they
couldn' we'll have been more erroneous)
let us look at the ridiculous feat
ure of the scare" he attempts
to throws at the dear people, The
statement that there are IL, 900, 900 peo-
pie receiving their support from the
it counts the grocer, milkman, shoe
maker etc., who in more or less direct
manner are thus connected. But, as
Stunning that to be correct, where is
their power as against the 7O-odd mill
ions of others? Again, the railroad
men in lower positions say nothing
of refractory officials could not he be
counted upon.
The proposition is ridiculous. There
is no foundation upon which to construct
superstructure of scarecrow proper
tons. 1t is yellow journalism of the
yellowest sort. Efforts of the kind
should inspire an immediate boycott by
the public.
The American people ask for nothing
unreasonable from the railways and
other great corporations and the latter
will see their way to compromise rather
than unreasonable antagonism. 1t is
to the narrowing the widening of
the chasm that journalistic effort should
Be directed.
Mayor Dunno of Chicago says that
anyone calling him up at night to talk