Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1906-10-05
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y" favor the enactment Of taw Nsta.h
fishing the doc5Etne az coniFaratiI" nvGi.-
.yance IN all personal injury cases.
Fee en- Earnings.
Equality of contributions to the pubic
burdens is essential to equality of socia!
and political rights: the e, recent decision
has opened the way for a more equitable
distribution of the tax burden. and u speedy
return to the constitutional rule of uni
! formity We now insist that ell laws i'm
I rcSing q license fee on earnings in Ii II of
taxes. except as to foreign corporations, be
repealed, and that all property within the
Jurisdiction of this commonwealth be as
sessed and taxed on az ad vaorem basis
until superseded by a more scientific meth
o.. We incline to the opinion that grad
uated Income tax as the groundwork of all
taxation will prove to be more scientific
and equitable. method than the antigIaE"d
system now in use. We, therefore. favor
the adoption of the constitutional amend
ment permissive of graduated income tax.
/ We are e favor of the highest efficiency
! Of the public 81 hools and all institutions of
! learning, including manual training and ag-
ricultural schools. And we demand that
! party consideration be wholly eliminated
/ from the management of these institutions.
For Good Roads.
! The construction of good highways is en-
titled to the highest consideration of the
state.
Transfer Of Funds.
! We demand that the present state debt
4 of 1925, 900, borrowed from the trust
funds of the state for war purposes and
per aunum, for which annual tax levy OF
$157, $40 is made, shall be paid in accord
ance with the mandates of the constitution;
and we condemn the action of the Rrpub-
| lican administration for diverting the sum
| of 81, 1S4, 659.TS received during the years
1903 and 1905 from the United States gov
the state, from which this fund was orig
inally taken into the general fund, and its
peraes.
Primary Election.
We favor primary elections as being
Democratic in principle, but recognize some
defects i'll the present law and favor such
changes and amendments In 1t as time and
experience may demonstrate to be neces-
s2ry after a fair trial
William Jennings Bryan.
we regard with just pride and admiration
the typical American who has been Journey
ing in foreign lands the last year, and, al
though Gully a private citizen with none OF
the alluremeuts of place and power about
him. has been accorded distinguished con-
sfderatiou and attention wherever he has
gone. solely because his course in public
! and private life alike has shown him to be
q patriotic citizen. a wise> and farseeing
upright man., in whom the people can safe
~ repCse their utmost confidence. We
! therefore declare that we are heartily in
favor Of that typical American William
date for President in 1908, and we pledge
our united efforts to secure his nomination.
Resolution Of Lewis
The following resolution was present.
ed by George w. Lewis:
The truth Of the following facts has been
established by investigation and cannot,
successfully, be challenged:
1. large AMOUNT of capital and hum
dreds of drsira' = citizens have left Wis
consin with the last two years and have
sought homes in other states and in Cana
da-
, During the same period an army of
homeseekers from Europe and the eastern
states has passed through Wisconsin, bound
for the western and Canadian prairies and
woodlands
5. Official statistics gathered by the fed
eeral government demonstrate that the cui.
owners as much profit per acre as the pest
lands in the most favored states In the
Union.
land IN this state awaiting the homeseeker,
and there is enough natural wealth in the
form Of undeyelOped resources to employ
state.
5. The reason Wisconsin is tagging in the
rear of the procession in these days of I'M
eXampled progress may be looked for in
the fact that this state alone. of all the
states Of the Union having undeveloprd re-
Rd Settlers ao nd Gdnce them 10 to take Gap5
vantage of the opportunities for profitable
employment to be found here. Therefore
be it
Resolved. that. following the example OF
other states that have so successfully ad-
vertiscd their resources. the bureau of Tabor
and industrial statistics or the state de
partment, us the Legislature shall deter
mine. should collect. publish and distribute
fncts and statistics relating to the produc-
ton and earnings of Wisconsin farm lands,
forests, factories and mines, and the unde-
vetopPd resources of the state; and
Resolved. that this information should he
1ISf JNf1fn
whence come SO many of the sturdy set
tiers who have contributed so much to the
states success as great industrial COM
Resolved. that the Legislator is request
ed to appropriate for the use of such bureau
or department d sum of money sufficient to
place Wisconsin on an equal footing with
the other states with which it will come
in competition
Democratic Central Committee.
The following state central committee
was elected:
First dtstrict-T, B. Hodges, Green; ]. ].
Cunningham. Rock.
Second-Col George W. Bird, Madison,
c. Ii. Smith Markpsan.
Third-Jackson Silbaugh, Vernon; E. c.
Fielder, Iowa.
Fourth-P"ter Barry, Milwaukee; Henry
Schmidt, Hales Corners.
Filthy. A: scholl, Waukesha; Frank
Faust. Milwaukee.
Sixth-GCorge w. Theisen, Dodge; W. z.
Joachim, Ozaukee.
Seventh-Steph" Richmond, Trempea-
leau: Charles Hille Jackson.
Eighth-George Hilton, Oshkosh; William
A. Hume. Chiffon.
Ninth-Josepn f. Martin, Brown; Thomas
II. Ryan, Outagamie.
Tenth-Thomas Hogan, Amigo; Julius c.
Thielman, Merrill.
Eleventh-F. A. Partlow, Polk; E. F. Nc
Causland, Douglas.
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