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The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1908-09-25
% Gents Fare for Dogs.

Sheboygan, Wis, Sept IA fare
of % cents will be asked by the street
car company in the future for each
canine carried In the past the com
pany made no charges, but carried the
dogs as free baggage. The result was
that almost as many dogs were being
carried as there were passengers. par
ticularly afternoons and on Sundays.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1908-09-25
Is Candidate For Congress In First
District.

Democrats of the First district have
nominated as their candidate for con-
gress representative business man. A.
II. Moehlenpah of Clinton is we'll known
to the people of southern Wisconsin. For
twenty years he has been country
banker and has been identified with the
independent telephone movement since
it's inception. Though not politician,
he has been in business life a vigorous
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1908-09-25
Makes $500 Men Idle.

Hannibal, Mo-, Sept. 21.-Because of
a strike of quarrymen which started
recently all manufacturing depart
ments of the Atlas Portland Cement
company have ceased operations. The
shutdown is caused by lack of ma
terial and affects $500 men.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1908-09-25
Common Council Proceedings.

Edgerton, Wis, Sept. Is, 1908.
Regular meeting of the common coun-
Gil, Mayor Ellingson presiding. The fol-
lowing aldermen responded to roll call:
Flagg, Conway, Hargraves, Skinner,
Dallman. Absent Arthur
Minutes read and approved.
The following bills audited by Finance
committee we're read and allowed, all
aldermen voting in affirmative on roll
call:
w. II. Wheeler, balance on reservoir top
and lowering main on High St......... 1926 90
......'.......... 81 80
p. Mcintyre, street com. ,................ 1854 q
G. NJ & St. p. Co., freight on COAL. 25 IS
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1908-09-25

Prentice, Wis, Sept. 21.-Fire which
destroyed the entire plant of the North
Fork Lumber Co., at North Fork, eaus-
ed loss of about 100000, one half
OF which is covered by insurance. For
a time the village of North Fork was
threatened
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1908-09-25
Five Killed by Wild Bulls.

Lisbon, Sept. 22.-Twenty- bulls
escaped from the arena at Moita and
ran amuck through crowd that was
assembling to witness a bullfight. Five
persons were killed and some twenty
were wounded. Troops were sum-
n0ned and shot the animals to death.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1908-09-25

Milwaukee, Wis, Sept. 21. Robert
J. Wallace, aged forty-seyen years, a
wcll-known business man of this city
and for the past three years president
of the Wholesale Saddlery association
of the United States, is dead OF
Bright's disease.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1908-09-25
Her Limitations.

''These pianos look too cheap" said
the young woman, her brows contract
ing slightly 'sShow me some of the
best you've got"
Eyes, ma'am," said the salesman.
MAY ask how high you care to go?"
"Me? Oh, only so to G, but want
one with all the octaves just the
same Chicago Tribune.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1908-09-25
Books and Titles.

The more accomplished way of using
books at present is to serve them as
some do lords-learn their titles and
then boast of their acquaintance.
Jonathan Swift.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1908-09-25
A Reliable
Remedy
EIy's Cream Balm
is quickly absorbed.

UEVeS hHIIFI al UnCe.
It cleanses, soothes,
heals and protects
the diseased men,
brane resulting from
Catarrh and drives
away a Cold in the
Head quickly. Re-
stores the Senses of
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1908-09-25

Our lives are half spent before we
know what living means.--New York
Press.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1908-09-25
"a arr

Taste and Smell. Full size SO cts, at Drug
gists or by mail. In liquid form, IS cents.
Ely Brothers, Sc Warren Street, New York.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1908-09-25
Who Wants a Lyon & Healy Piano?

Who Wants Lyon & Healy Piano?
We have learned of an unusual bar
gain Ia a Lyon & Healy Piano. This in
sstrument is one of the regular style in
sstruments. /: is of the very latest de-
sign, semi colonial, and tie case is of ex-
'quIsite mahogany. The musical portion
OF the instrument is fully up to the high
standard of all Lyon & Healy pianos
This particular instrument was in the
possession of private owner for a few
months only and shows no trace of wear.
II you are interested, write to Lyon 6
Healy, "a Adams street, Chicago, for an
illustration of this piano and also for the
low net price they are willing TO name
on this and other special bargains in
Slightly used pianos. Ask for their
special sales list of such bargains and
their offer of sales agents discount for
30 days. Uprights from 800 to Sis
that we're originally priced for more than
double these prices.
We have Just purchased large
sample line of ladies and misses suits.
Now Is the time to buy suit at a great
discount, right 10 the beginning of the
season. Everything that's correct in
style can be found in our always busy
cloak department at lowest prices in the
city. I. 2 Burns, GAINESVILLE, Wis. 43-l
WANTED "A competent girl for gem
erai homework IN a private family of
two persons. Will pay the highest wages
to right party. Address Mrs NJ Retler,
925 BUSHNELL Street, Beloit. Wis. 423
New fall suits samples great val
ues at $3.50, $500, Sl65O and $500
Archie Reid s. Co.. GAINESVILLE. 42.2
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1908-09-25
On motion council adjourned.
III. B. KNAPP. City Clerk.

Mcintyre, street com. ,.............. 1854 2
M. & St. p. Co., freight on coal. 25 6
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Six Sharp Sentences.

We must stand for the rights of every decent man,
whether of great wealth wageworker or ter OF the SOIL
To make the national government supreme over railroads
merely carry the prime purpose for which the Consti
tuition founded.
We believe in the distribution OF wealth in profits to the
real owners.
We believe that greed and rascaly, practced large
SCALE should be punished relentessly pracced
small scale.
Democracy is in peril wherever the administration OF
lal power scattered among variety OF men who work
secret whose unknown the common people
Wise radicasm and wise conservatism so hand i'll hand,
bent progress the other seeing that change
made unless lin the rich direction.
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FORESTS

IF there is any one duty which more
than another We owe it to our children
and our childrens children to perform
at once it is to save the forests OF this
country, for they constitute the first and
most important element in the conserva-
ton of the natural resources of the coun-
try. There are, of course, two kinds of
natural resources. One is the kind which
can only be used as part Of q process of
exhaustion; this Is true of mines natural
Oil and gas wells and the like The other
and, of course, ultimately by far the most
important. includes the resources which
can he improved In the process of wise
use; the soil. the rivers and the forests
come under this head.
Any real civilized nation will so use ali
of these three great national assets that
the nation will have their benefit in the
future. Just as the farmer after all his
life making his living from his farm, will,
II he Is an expert farmer, leave 1t as an
asset of increased value to his son, so we
should leave our national domain to our
children. Increased in value and not worn
out
There are small sections of our own
country, in the east and in the west In
the Adirondacks. the White mountains
and the Appalachians. and In the Rocky
mountains. where we can already see for
manent injury to the soil and the river
systems which comes from reckless de-
forestation. 1t matters not whether this
deforestation is due to the actual reckless
cutting of timber to the fires that newt
ably follow such reckless cutting of tim
Der. or to reckless and uncontrolled graz
Ing, especially by the great migratory
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defeat their will by the technicalities of
strained construction.
People Are to Blame.
For many of the shortcomings Of JUS
tice in our country our people as a
whole are themselves to blame, and the
judges and juries merely bear their share
together with the public as a whole. 1t
is discreditable to us as a people that
there should be difficulty in convicting
murderers, or in bringing to justice men
who as public servants have been guilty
of corruption, or who have prohted by
the corruption of public servants. The
result is equally unfortunate, whether
due to hairsplitting technicalities in the
Interpretation Of law by judges, to SEN
timentality and class consciousness on
the part of juries, or to hysteria and sem
sationalsm in the daily press.
For much of this failure Of justice no
responsibility whatever lies on rich men
as such We who make up the mass OF
the people cannot shift the responsibility
from our own shoulders. But there is an
important part of the failure which has
specially to do with inability to hold to
proper account men of wealth who be-
have badly.
The chief breakdown is in dealing with
the new relations that arise from the
mutualism, the interdependence of our
time. Every new social relation begets
a new type Of wrongdoing-of sin, to use
an old-fashioned woodland many years
always elapse before society is able to
turn this sin into crime which can be
effectively punished at law.
During the lifetime OF the older men
now alive the social relations have
changed far more rapidly than in the
preceding two centuries. The immense
growth of corporations, of business done
by associations. and the extreme strain
and pressure of modern life. have pro-
duced conditions which render the public
confused as to who its really dangerous
foes are; and among the public servants
who have not only shared this confusion,
but by some of their acts have increased
it, are certain judges.
Marked inef1ciency has been shown In
dealing with corporations and in reset
ting the proper attitude to be taken by
the public not only towards corporations.
but towards labor, and towards the social
questions arising out of the factory sys-
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equitable remedy. which should on no
.scount be destroyed. But safeguards
should be erected against its abuse. l
believe that some such provisions as
those I advocated a year ago for check
ing the abuse of the issuance of tenn
porary injunctions should be adopted.
In substance. provision should be made
that no injunction or temporary restrain
ing order issue otherwise than on notice,
except where irreparabie injury would
otherwise result: and in such a case
hearing on the merits of the order should
be had within a short fixed period. and.
if not then continued after hearing, 1t
should forthwith lapse. Decisions should
be rendered Immediately, and the chance
of delay minimized in every way More
over, l believe that the procedure should
be sharply defined. and the Judge required
infinitely to state the particulars both
of his action and of his reasons there
for, so that the Congress can II it de-
sires examine and investigate the same.
The chief lawmakers in our country
may be, and often are, the judges. be-
cause they are the final seat of authority.
Every time they interpret contract prop
erty, vested rights, due process of law,
liberty, they necessarily enact into law
parts of a system of social philosophy:
and as such Interpretation is fundamental,
they give direction to all lawmaking.
The decisions of the courts on economic
and social questions depend upon their
economic and social philosophy; and for
the peaceful progress of our people during
the twentieth century we shall owe most
to those judges who hold to a twentieth
century economic and social philosophy
and not to a long outgrown philosophy,
which was itself the product OF primi-
tive economic conditions. OF course
Judges views on progressive social philos-
ophy are entirely second in Importance
10 his possession of high and hne char
acter, which means the possession of such
elementary virtues as honesty, courage
and "Reminiscences.
The Judge who owes his election to
pandering to demagogic sentiments or
class hatreds and prejudices and the
judge who owes either his election or his
appointment to the money or the favor
of great corporation. are alike unworthy
to sit on the bench, are alike traitors to
the people; and no profundity of legal
learning, or correctness of abstract con-
viction on questions of public policy, can
serve as an offset to such shortcomings
But 1t is also true that Judges, like ex-
ecutives and legislators, should hold sound
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The huge wealth that has been ac-
cumulated by Il few individuals OF re-
cent years, in what has amounted to
social and industrial revolution, has been
as regards some Of these individuals
made possible only by the improper use
of the modern corporation.
n certain type of modern corporation,
with it's officers and agents, it's many is
sues of securities and it's constant con-
solidation with allied undertakings. final
ly becomes an instrument SO complex
as to contain a greater number OF ele-
ments that under various judicial de-
cisons lend themselves to fraud and
oppression than any device yet evolved
in the human brain.
Corporations are necessary lnstru-
ments of modern business. They have
been permitted to become menace
largely because the governmental rep
reSentatives of the people have worked
slowly in providing for adequate control
over them.
The chief offender in any given case
may be an executive, legislature or a
judge. Every executive head who advises
violent. instead Of gradual, action, or
who advocates ill-considered and sweep
ing measures Of reform especially II
they are tainted with vindictiveness and
disregard for the rights Of the minority
is particularly blameworthy.
The several legislatures are RESPONSE
BILE for the fact that our laws are often
prepared with slovenly haste and lack OF
consideration. Moreover, they are often
prepared, and still more frequently
amended during passage. at the sugges-
ton of the very parties against whom
they are afterward enforced.
Our great clusters of corporations,
huge trusts and fabulOusly wealthy null
timillionaires, employ the very best law
yers they can obtain to pick flaws in
these statutes after their passag e; but
they also employ a class of secret agents
who seek. under the advice of experts,
to render hostile legislation innocuous by
making ii unconstitutional, often through
the insertion of what appear on their face
to be drastic and sweeping provisions
against the interests of the parties In
spring them; while the denagogues, the
corrupt creatures who introduce black
mailing schemes to strike" corporations,
and all who demand extreme, and unde-
sirably radical. measures. show them
selves to be the worst enemies of the
very public whose loud-mouthed cham
pions they profess to be.
A very striking illustration of the con-
sequences of carelessness In the prepara-
ton of statute was the employers LA
bility law of 1906. In the cases arising
under that law. four out of six courts of
first instance held it unconstitutionai; six
out of nine justices of the Supreme Court
held that its Subject-matter was within
the province of congressional action. and
four out Of nine justices held il valid. II
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was, however, adjudged unconstitutional
by a bare majority of the court-nve to
four.
It was surely a very slovenly piece Of
work to frame the legislation in such
shape as to leave the question open at
ALL
Interstate Commerce Law.
Real damage has been done by the
manifold and conflicting interpretations of
the Interstate commerce law. Control
over the great corporations doing inter-
state business can be effective only II 1t
is vested with full power In an admins
trative department. branch Of the fed
eral executive. carrying out federal
law: 1t can never be effective II a divided
responsibility Is left in both the states
ami the nation; it can never be effective
if left in the hands Of the courts to be
decided by lawsuits.
The courts hold q place of peculiar and
deserved sanctity under our form of gov
eminent. Respect for the law Is essen
tial to the permanence OF our institu-
tons; and respect for the law Is largely
1t Is an offense against the republic to
say anything which can weaken this
respect, save for the gravest reason and
in the most carefully guarded manner.
Our judges should be heId In peculiar
honor: and the duty of respectful and
truthful comment and criticism. which
should be binding when we speak OF any,
body, should be especially binding when
we speak of them. On an average they
stand above any other servants of the
community. and the greatest judges have
reached the high level he'd by those few
greatest patriots whom the whole coun-
try delights to honor.
But we must face the fact that there
are wise and unwise judges. just as there
are wise and unwise executives and legis-
lators.
When President or a governor be-
HAYES improperly or unwisely the rem
edy is easy, for his term is short; the
same is true with the legislator. although
not to the same degree for he is one
of many who belong to some given legis-
lative body. and 1t is therefore less easy
to fix his personal responsibility and hold
him accountable therefor. With judge.
who, being human, is also likely to err.
but whose tenure is for life. there Is no
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Province Of Courts.
The legislators and executives are
chosen to represent the people in enact
ing and administering the laws. The
Judges are not chosen to represent the
people in this sense. Their function is TO
interpret the laws. The legislators are
responsible for the laws: the judges for
the spirit in which they interpret and en-
force the laws.
We stand aloof from the reckless agi-
tators who would make the judges mere
plant tools of popular prejudice and pas
sion; and We stand aloof from those
equally unwise partisans Of reaction and
privilege who deny the proposition that,
inasmuch as judges are chosen to serve
the interests of the whole people, they
should strive to find out what those in
terests are. and, SO far as they conscien-
tiously can, should strive to give effect
TO popular conviction when deliberately
and duly expressed by the law-making
body.
The courts are to be highly commended
and staunchy upheld when they set their
faces against wrongdoing or tyranny by
a majority; but they are to be blamed
when they fail to recognize under gov
eminent like ours the deliberate judg-
ment of the majority as to matter OF
legitimate policy, when duly expressed
by the legislature. Such lawfully ex-
pressed and deliberate Judgment should
be given effect by the courts. save in the
extreme and exceptional cases where
there has been clear violation of a con-
stitutional provision.
Anything like frivolity wantonness
in upsetting such clearly taken govern
mental action is a grave offense against
the republic. To protest against tyranny,
to protect minorities from oppression, to
nullify an act committed in sDasm of
popular fury, is to render a service to the
republic But for the courts to arrogate
to themselves functions which properly
belong to the Legislative bodies is all
wrong, and in the end works mischief.
The people should not be permitted to
pardon evil and siipshod legislation on
the theory that the court will set II right
they should be taught that the right way
to get rid Of bad law is to have the
legislature repeal it, and not to have the
courts by ingenious hair-splitting nullify
it, A law may he unwise and improper:
but IL should not for these reasons be de-
elared unconstitutional by strained in
depreciation. for the result of such action
is to take away from the people at large
their sense of responsibility and ultimate
ly TO destroy their capacity for orderly
self restraint and self government.
Under such n popular government as
ours founded on the theory that in the
long run the will of the people is SUI
preme, the ultimate safety OF the nation
can only rest in training and guiding
the PEOPLE so that what they will shall
be right. and not in devisins means to
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Points in the Message.

] hope effort to bring about larger share in
the ownership by wageworke OF railway mill and factory
When workman is injured what he needs is the certainty
of relief through immediate administrative action
Progress in civilization has everywhere limitation
and regulation OF
Beginning with the Supreme Court the judges should have
their salaries doubled
Long delays i'll final decisions OF law make crying
evil
Courts jeoparded by Judges who show inability stop
wrongdoings OF rich men.
What would have been infringement upon liberty hall
century ago be the necessary safeguard OF liberty today
The power OF injunction great equitable remedy.
Legislators responsible for laws; judges for the spirit
in which they interpret and enforce laws
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similar way of holding him to RESPONSE

similar way OF holoinB nliH 10 RESPONSE
bility.
Under ordinary conditions the only
forms of pressure to which he Is in any
way amenable are public opinion and the
action Of his fellow judges. 1t is the
last which is most Immediately effective,
and to which we should lopk for the
reform of abuses. Any remedy applied
from without is fraught with risk. 1t
Is far better, from every standpoint that
the remedy should come from within.
In no other nation in the world do the
courts WELD such vast and far-reaching
power as in the United States. All that
is necessary is that the courts as whole
should exercise this power with the far
sighted wisdom already shown by those
judges who scan the future while they
act in the present
Let them exercise this great power not
only honestly and bravely, but with wise
insight into the needs and fixed purposes
of the people. SO that they may do justice
and work equity. SO that they may pro-
tect all persons in their rights, and yet
break down the barriers of privilege.
which is the foe of right.
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INLAND WATERWAYS

Action should be begun forthwith. dur
ing the present session of tho Congress.
for the improvement Of our inland water
ways-action which will result in giving
us not only navigable but navigated
rivers. We have spent hundreds of mil
lions of dollars upon these waterways,
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Wealth Built on Wrongdoing.

tenn. and the enormous growth of our
great cities.
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Province Of Courts.

views on the questions of public policy
which are Of vital interest to the people.