Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-04-30
THOUGHTS BY THE Way

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land woman who, in her complaint
alleges that her husband wakes her
up in the middle of the night to tell
her how his first wife c,mnitt !
suicide. She would have been j s1i-
fed in giving him something to ma he
him sleep q good, long time and
then not awaken. but sleep on.
A London doctor says. that it il
dangerous 10 sleep In q bed and an
eastern doctor says. that: sleeping :: is
the cause of appendicitis. 1t is an
awful thing to know q whole lot of
things that are not 30. The first
doctor, would have us roost on the
limbs Of trees and the ct er, have
Us turn night into day and net go home
It'll morning 80 ss to avoid any IN
reference with our appendix. For
thousands of years. people have slept
in beds without experimenting dangerous
results and millions have slept ignor
ant of the fact that they mad 81
appendix.
The brewers of this stA tie hsve
caused bill to be introduced in the
assembly providing of a commission
clOlhed with puwer tu r.:v be liquor
licenses, whenever it is proven that
the holder of the tic nse has violated
the local or state laws. The bill
has une good feature; 1t would elm
inmate the sslovn fflu me- trom
local politics which has prejudice
many against III kusins SO, which $
legalized by tn & #rs,
entitled to PROT, w Id u
iegitimately. The chief objection
to the proposed law ard C, mmIssion
is that it will take the control of
the business out of the hands of the
local authorities and remove 1t too far
from those affected to both the public
and saloon interests in either pro-
scouting or defending charges And
it is not unreasonable to surmise, that
where the prohibitlve sentiment ia
strong, the commission would be
flooded with complaints. The present
law may not be all that could be de-
sired but it is, in the Judgement of the
writer preferable to the enc proposed
for those most Interested.
On toward 1869 the entire cost of
maintaining the administration of the
United States was in the neighborhocd
of $40, 900. 900 year and it is now a
$I0C, 900, 00U, 100 affair and tn chances
are that inside OF the next five years.
ten years, twenty years, unless the
character of men at Washington be
changed, the expense of this govern
ment, will go f rward in leaps and
bounds.
Everywhere the peop'e are studying
how to secure the best municipal
government. 1t seems to he more
difficult to secure good and economical
city government than to solve any
other problem in the complex bust
ness of government. Theoretically
one would say that it would be easier
to get good government in a small
city than in state, but experience
shows this theory does not work OUT
in practice.
Our senior Senator has certainly
developed into an humorist. After
what the primary investigation has
brought out it was excuis iating'y funny
for him to stand up in the senate with
straight face and make the state
ment, that he was devnted to the
merit system. From what has been
CLEANED during the Investigation there
| Is no doubt of it, but he was the sole
Judge of the "merit'' and 1t was
personal service for him ut the expense
of the tax payers-and genuine merit
was . stranger in making appoint
ments. Just look at the crowd vic
secured appointments because Of
their merits, and have bean retained
IN Office for the same reason.
Chief Game Warden Stone contra
diets Gov. Davidson. As Stone has
already confessed that he was a full
pledged Ananias and could fiirt with
the truth, his contradiction of the
governor will not be accepted az true
by the public, but all will admit how.
ever, that there has been q lot of ly-
ing at Madison and it is difficult to tell