Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-08-06
THOUGHTS 6Y THE WAY

party ought to nominate candidates
for congress against either of the
twelve anti Cannon republicans in
the house of representatives.. 1t is
wonderful how great minds run
in the same channel. The writer
is decidedly of the same opinion
and there should be no opposition
to several representatives from
Wisconsin. Men not party should
govern in making choice, and the
men who stood for the people be
returned.
The New Jersey legislature at
its last session had under consider
alton a bill to prohibit children
under rs years of age from attend
ance at theatres unless accompanied
by their parents and guardians.
1t IS becoming a social problem in
both the east and west, because of
the bad influence it has upon the
morals Of the youth of the land.
All must recognize the fact that
most of the plays presented, are of
an immoral character and appeal
to the sentual and not to the nobler
impulses.
Money is acquired by one type
of man with the same facility that
another type acquires learning. 1t
is habit of mind to dig for money.
1t is another to dig for the basis of
psychology. A professor of men
tai and moral philosophy at the
University of Minnesota once stat
ed principle to his students in a
sentence of thirty words, and when
they had written it down, remarked
that he had hoped some of them
would remember it, as it had cost
him six months of hard work to
produce it in what he hoped and
believed was an enduring form.
Undoubtedly, the same intensity
of application directed toward
money-getting about the same time
was making some other man rich.
Gov. Davidson, it is rumored,
wishes a reelection as a vindica-
ton. The writer's advice to the
governor, is to retire quietly and
keep exceedingly still for the vindi-
cation he would get from the people,
would be of a different character
than he would anticipate.
Congress has adjourned at last,
the federal treasury is depleted and
about two-thirds of the members of
both branches should go into the
political scrap heap.
Eighteen years ago Senator AID
rich sold out his drug business in
Providence, Rhode Island, for
SIS, 900 cash. Today he has as
many millions as thousands then
which he has made in politics.
Many will doubt his honesty and
not question the gratitude of the
special interest of the country to-
ward their friends in congress. 1t
IS high time, that politicians of the
Aldrlch-Cannon stripe were elimi-
mated from the political life of the
country, for they are not in it for
the good of their country, but for
their own good and their million
aire employers,
Consumers Leagues or Legions,
are beng organized throughout the
country to deal with the trusts and
combines handling the necessities
Lof life which have become abnor-
mally high by reason of trust man
ipulation. 1t is a good idea and
leagues should be organized in
every hamlet, village and city in
the land, the members obligating
themselves to neither buy nor use
anything in the way of cloth, cloth
ing or food of any kind controlled
by a trust, nor to patronize any
man or firm which handles trust
made goods. 1t may be hard upon
some of the dealers locally, but it
will put them wise and he the
means of destroying trusts.
The appointment Of committees
of the House by speaker Cannon,
demonstrates that it does not paw