Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1907-02-28
INCIDENTAL EDITORIAL.

INCIDENTAL EDITORIAL.
Senator Bailey says the inyesiga,
ton of his character has gone too far.
Touches a vital spot, Ell?
VIII someone please tell how to dis
Germ the difference between demo
cratic newspaper and a republican
without referring to the bluebook?
All discussion of who is the poorest
senator in Washington is useless un'
til definition of terms is provided.
Meanwhile it may be reasonably main
tanned that Plat and Depew are about
as poor as they make them.
A New York woman, when asked
why she smelled of the volumes when
selecting one at the city library, ex-
planned that if she detected the odor
of perfumery she discarded the book,
preferring those that bore the odor Of
tobacco smoke. The best books" she
said, ARE read by men" Now what
do you think of that for disloyalty?
II the railroads affected by the re.
cent ruling of the rate commission
set themselves at once to the task of
complying with that order they will
go far toward removing from the
minds of the people a prejudice that
has existed for many years against
them. Happily there are indications
that that is what they will do.
Municipal government is a pracu.
cal science and the voters should use
the same discriminating Judgment in
selecting their officials as the wise
school board does in choosing a
teacher. They should name only
such as are qualified by education or
experience are not of the highest type
the fact that bar-room education and
experience is not of the highest type.
At least it is but fair that we have
a hearing upon all sides of the milk
question. Here, for instance, is DR.,
A. M. Cotton of Chicago who says: ~
think it ample time that the socalled
health officers should stop telling the
people that milk is causing scarlet
fever. There is not glimmer OF
truth in the story and none knows 1t
better than the doctors. Not one of
chem neither here nor elsewhere, has
any basis save a naked guess for as
sorting what causes scarlet fever or
how it is propagated. The cause
has never been discovered. All that
is known is that there is such dis
ease and that when a person takes
It he can communicate 1t to another.
What gives it to the first person or
how it was communicated to him no
one knows. 1t becomes epidemic
Chat is. over the people, just like in.
fuenza does and then 10000 may
Take 1t, but how or in what way no
one knows. There is not the most
distant reason for believing that milk
has anything TO do with the spread
of the disease. If there be scarlet
fever at Genoa Junction, Wis. or at
any other shipping point of milk it is
mere coincidence and has nothing
to do with its spread in Chicago. II
would be far more honest if these
health officers would tell the truth in
place of spreading what they know tC
be falsehood and humbug."
Wisconsin has given Illinois les
SON in the matter of regulating rail
road fares" frankly declares the Chi
cago Tribune, which discusses at
some length and with great approval
the procedure and conclusions of the
rate commission, then adds; The re
port of the commission should not
escape the attention of members OF
the Illinois legislature who are con.
sidering the cent fare question. The
report will teach them how a matter
of that kind should be handled. The
question should be studied for Illinois
as intelligently as it has been studied
for Wisconsin. That will take time
and cost money and will displease the
people who are clamoring for in
Simultaneous and inconsiderate action
but it is the thing for Illinois to do
Let the state railroad commission get
to work"
And still the editorial phone con
tinues to ring while Immediately fol
lowing comes the vibratory demand
Why don't you publish the railway
timetables" Once for all, let the
answer be heard-because this paper