Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1909-01-29
THOUGHTS BY THE WAY

Senator .Tillman is still yawping-
and the more he tries to explain. it
makes it more apparent that he did
not do the square thing. He should
fade away and maintain a mastery
silence, and possibly, the public might
forget that there was such a man as
Tillman in the senate.
Some men, chiefly politicians, talk
too much with their mouths without
thinking. Thus far, there has been
talkfest in our legislature and it has
been cheap talk-nostly wind, diar-
hea of words and a constipation of
ideas. Cheap skates trying to make
political capital for themselves with
out thought or a care for the people.
About seventy per cent Of those sent
TO the state Legislature would serve
the people to a better advantage by
returning to their homes and devo ting
their energies to their usual avoca-
lions.
Is it any less a moral or legal de-
linquency to spend thirty thousand
dollars to secure sena torial nomina-
ton than fifty thousands dollars? The
principle involved is just the same,
and if one is worthy of condemnation,
so is the other. The law should be
condemned that makes it possible to
buys a senatorship. But then the
people liste- g It, eralave. of dema-
gogues and voted for such law and
now it plaques them.
The talk of war with japan has be-
come a chestnut. 1t is only INDUCED
in by thuse whu wish to spend millions
of dollars on war vessels and keep
them on the Atlantic ocean where they
would Re of no use to the nation n
case of war. Japan is in no condition
to engage in war with this country
and the japanese know it-and there
is no disposition upon their part to do
SO. They are not fools, for they real
ize tha'. in case of a war with anoth-
er nation, Russia would certainly take
adv antage of the opportunity to settle
old scores. What this country needs,
is less Jingoes and less Jipgcism and
less money spent in maintaining a
large army and expensive navy. If
We keep on a few years more at the
same rate we have been going, our
condition will be similar to that of
Germany. Every man who goes to
work will carry either soldier or
sailor on his back to his work. We
have departed a long way from the
lntents and purposes of the revolu-
tionary fathers of this country, and it
- becoming a debatable question if
there is any real freedom left.
The action cf the secretary of state
in refusing to grant the request of the
Russian government for the remov a |
OF Christian Rudovitz. political
refugee, from this country back to
Russia that he might be murdered
because of his political opinions and
acts, will meet with the hearty ap-
prevail of every true patriot in this
country. Rudovitz had been identified
with revolutionary movement as he
desired that his country should be
free from the tyranny which rules in
that half-civilized land. The effort
failing. he fled to this country, the
"land IF the free and home of the
brave" fol protection, this land being
an asylum for all who love liberty. His
return would have been a disgrace to
our country and lie as to our profess
sions as a nation.
In State Senator Blaine's charges
against United States Senator Steph-
enson, he charges diverse persons of
being guilty of moral delinquencies
and illegal acts, in using money to
in their political action at the primary
election last September. Unless he