Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-03-12
THOUGHTS BY THE WAY.

the revision OF the taK1H Will not Do
a party question as q majority of
both parties are in favor of such
action-and both parties are pledged
to revision.
The people of this country do not
want tariff commission, but imme-
date action. A commission would
be an expensive affair and economy
in public expenditures is what the
people demand. Congress, under the
constitution, is invested with the
power of regulating the tariff and
should not Do permitted to sbirk nor
shift the responsibility.
Castro, the ex-presidenr of Vene-
zuela. who went to France just in
the nick of time to save his neck. is
reported as being homesick. Should
he return, ne will be sick that he
came home, for the people of his
country are not grieving over his
absence.
The actiun of Walter L. Houser,
ex-secretary of state, insisting that
the attorney general shall proceed to
collect from the state insurance COM
missioners the fees that they have
illegally converted to their own use is
commendable. If the state official
does not wish to bring actions, Mr..
Houser asks that he be authorized to
proceed in his own name So citizen
and taxpayer. He claims that there
is about $780, belonging to the
people and they certainly should have
it.
William J. Bryan is reported 81
having said. that he has no confidence
in the cabinet chosen by President
Taft. Of course he would not, for
he is too much like our friend LaFol-
lette, who has No use for any man
or set Of men he cannot control and
who will not do his bidding-men who
think his Thoughts and say his sayings
and raise all the hell they can.
-Four years ago. a committee Was
created to investigate the cost of pub
lie printing which recently made it's
report, to congress, which shows that
the cost has increased from 5000, 600
In 1910 to more than 81, 900. 900 in 1905
and is still increasing in volume and
cost. Any one acquainted with the
public printing at Washington knows
that at least half of the money ex-
pended is absolutely thrown away and
could be curtailed without injury to
any department. Much that is print
ed ut great cost is uf no value what
ever to the public and tons Of it is
piled up to mildew and rot.
An inventor in the east has solved
the problem of storing the rays of the
sun. The invention can be used for
lighting and warming homes and will
be boom to the poor unless some
monopoly gets hold of it and raises
the price out of the reach of the poor.
1t will be we'll however, to stick to
Standard oil for illumination and
wood for fuel, for the COMPOUNDED
thing may not prove q SUCCESS.
The investigation in progress at
Madison has discovered to the people
the fact that civil service in this
state is colossal humbug. Tue law
was enacted to keep certain men in
Office, who are all right when they
work for certain men and their
friends.
The expected has happened The
Standard Oil Go. has been relieved
from paying that $29, 100000 fine.
Johndee knew what he was saying,
when he said that the company would
never pay the fine Judge Anderson
may have been justified in instructing
the jury to bring in verdict favor
able to the company, bu. We have G
suspicion that if the defendant had
been poor man, the evidence would
have been sufficient to convict him.
From present indications, it is quite
evident that Uncle Joe Cannon will
be reelected as speaker of the House
of Representatives, ana the cabal
which has controlled the house for so
many years, will continue in the sad
die and the people can have Just such