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2cgaIlfment tht 6iisntlies gereeNsrnnaen

(9tup24 25,26.20 esoSnTiWare.
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-07-30

look for the democratic party in
this state in the immediate future.
The writer's evidently forget, that
the party in this state for many
years has been destitute of single
principle that would commend it to
the voters, and when it had an op-
portunity to have carried the state,
it bartered it for a mere mess of
political potage. They also forget,
that there IS not now, nor has there
been any cohesiveness in the party
for many years. 1t has its politi-
cal Clan-ne-gail and Molly Nc
CURES, ready to devour each other
like the celebrated Killarney cats
and when a German IS named for a
prominent state office, they Join
hands and haste" the political
stufing out of him. And then,
there are too many who listen with
approval to the siren songs of re-
form instead of using their own
party to force reform, first within
their party, and then in the state
and nation. If the party should
become united and nominate a good
ticket upon a platform declaring
for retrenchment in state expendi-
lures, the abolition of four or five
hundred useless, but costly state
sinicures, the election of United
States Senators by popular vote
and a tariff for revenue with Incl
dental protection only, there is not
much doubt in the mind of the
writer, but that the democracy
would give the republicans a run
for their life.
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-07-30
HAVE YOU HEARD OF 1T?

Have you heard of the Roosevelt
Homes Commission and its re-
port? Probably not. The capt.
talist press has avoided all refer
ence to it and the United States
senate tried to prohibit its circula-
ton through the mails and this
Notwithstanding it is an authorized
report of commission appointed
by the government.
What is the trouble With it? 1t
discloses too many shocking immor-
alities and a widespread and
alarming depravity. In a word,
it shows the effects of capitalism
and is very apt, if the people are
allowed to see it, to be traced back
to capitalism itself and thus con-
firm what the socialists say about
capitalism--and this would never
do.
The Roosevelt Homes Commits
sion" was appointed to investigate
the homes" and conditions of life
of the lower classes in New York
and Washington. The report is
horrible beyond belief. 1t is no
wonder that the government sup
pressed it. Not to any sense of
delicaCy or from any regard for
good morals has this report been
squelched, but simply to keep the
people in ignorance of what capt.
talism is and what countless lives
are ruined and what widespread
misery is created by it.
Either the copies of the report
which was printed have been des-
troyed or hid away, for it is imposs-
IDLE to secure a copy. If it dealt
with the underground life in Wash
ington D. c.. there was good rea-
son, no doubt, for SURPRISING it.
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-07-30
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

Prof. Starr of the Chicago Uni
versity says all women are savages.
Delightful savages professor, with
out whom life would not be worth
living.
Some of the members of congress
do a good deal toward saving the
country by keeping quiet, notably
the Junior senator from Wisconsin.
The federal census next year will
cost $40, 900, 900, but it IS import
ant to know the population OF the
country and how people are getting
along and a whole lot of other un-
important things.
A scientist has made the state
ment that a man can buy food
enough for a dollar to keep HIM
alive for a month. He could not
do it, if he bought his food in
Watertown. He would starve IN
Just three days, unless he subsist-
ed on faith.
The number of teachers IN the
United States is 100000 OF whom
roo ooo are men and 100000
women. The hand that YIELDS the
ferule does not rock the cradle,
but does the world a good service
Just the same. God bless the
school ma ms.
The president of Yale college
notes with regret, that the study OF
Greek in the colleges and universe
ties in this country is falling off.
If he will listen, he will learn that
students are studying a new Ian
guage known as the baseball lingo.
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-07-30
A SORT OF COMPROMISE

The conference of the committees
from the Senate and House have
practically agreed upon a schedule
of rates and to large extent the
President has won in his contention
for a revision of the tariff down.
ward. While the revision has
been downward, it has to a great
extent only effected a few articles
in which the people are interested
and which will not be of any advan-
tage to them. Hides has been placed
on the free list and the rates on
leather reduced, crude petroleum
has also been placed on the free
list with string attached to it
known as the countervailing duty,
which does not tangle the Stand
ard Oil Co. to an alarming extent.
The rate on wooden and cotton
goods remain about the same and
the people will not be benefited to
any perceptible extent. The rate
on lumber is reduced from So to
SI.5o per thousand feet and should
have been placed on the free list
for the lumber manufactures do
not need protection, for they are
rich enough without it-and the
rate only ADDS 10 the stumpage of
the holders of large areas of timber
land. The rates upon much that
goes to the feeding of the people.
especially the laboring classes, re-
mains about the same as under the
present schedule, and IS downright
of a class obliged to &C
cept whatever pay the corporations
will give-which is generally on
starvation basis, and pay excessive
prices for the necessities of life.
Speaker Cannon is responsible in a
large measure for the outcome by
members of the confer
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-07-30
Do NOT WANT TO BE TRAM
MELED.

Some idea Of the attitude of the
lower branch of congress toward
corporations may be inferred from
the fact that on the 23rd inst, Re-
preventative Randall offered a
resolution in the House instructing
the speaker to appoint the members
of the judiciary committee that such
committee might consider his bills
prohibiting senators and represent
atives, and judges of federal courts
from receiving gifts and employ
ment from public service corpora
tons trusts and all persons interest
IN matters of legislation and the
resolution was tabled by a vote of
$50 to 100, almost as many demo
Gratis voting to kill the resolution
as republicans. 1t is becoming
more evident every day that large
number of the representatives in
congress in both senate and House
could best serve the public in pri-
vate life and their constituents
should mark them for the political
slaughter house at the first OPP
portunity. And in this connection,
attention might be called to the
fact that an honest man in congress
has but very little or no influence.
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-07-30
THE NATURE AND PRICE OF
REFORM
CONTINUED FROM LAST WEEK

The monopoly, with its system
OF secret and personal favoritism
was broken, and the India service
open to every man squarely on
his merits. 1t hurt business, but
but whose business? The whole
India service was cleaned and
strengthened and all England was
the gamer. Why did Trevellyan
and Northcote rise against this
cabal2 Because a new democratic
movement was in the air. A few
years later, under the Lord Derby
Act, the vote went to the working
man SO as to change the equilibri-
um IN the House of Commons. and
stralghtway, in 1870, Gladstone
won the principle of free democratic
opportunity for the entire English
civil service. Trevellyan, North
cote, and Gladstone alike won be-
cause they were backed by a new
democratic consciousness and as
sertlon IN the State. But for this,
the private and personal favoratism
IN that monopoly would have stood
like a Gibraltar.
what this moment is happening
70 US? Straight through the list
beginning with the secret ballot,
direct primary, initiative, referen-
dunn, recall, direct choice of sena-
tors, reform in campaign contribu-
ton, new city charters, and all the
rest of it that heightened demo-
cratic purpose has come to US. It
backs our Roosevelt and Governor
Hughes as it backed Gladstone. 1t
VIII back our lesser reformers as if
backed Trevellyan and Northcote.
Many man high in the business
world will tell you in a mood of
confidence over his cigar what, as
director, president or other official
he has felt he had to do to smooth
things over and secure what was
necessary to his company's in
terests. He will tell YOU that he
hates to consent and to wink at
at these Shiny alliances. Then,
from the hesitations that spring
from fear and uncertainties, he
adds, OF course the thing must
stop, but we are not quite strong
enough for it yet"
That, | believe to be the great
Illusion, and | submit this test. |
can assume what is true of the
East IS true also of the West
what IS true of Albany, N. Y, is
true OF Sacramento.
My question-test is this: If the
little groupe of business men at the
top were to face these issues and
say bluntly and fearlessly to the
people, We have been doing this
shameless and dirty work and you,
the people, have been doing it with
US. You have supported represent
atives that clutched at graft. We
and all of US together tarred with
the same stick, neither shall the
pot nor the kettle call the other
black, but all together, we will
now enter upon the ways of clean
ness, decency and honor; once for
all we will break with the Jury
flxer; once for all we will break
with the representatives of race
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-07-30
THOUGHTS BY THE WAY


The argument of Senator La
Toilette on the tariff bill filled 2I7
pages of the Congressional Record.
That is all right. He had to make
up for what Senator Stephenson
didn't say on the tariff.
Last year the government spent
$50, ooo,o 900 more than it took in
and yet majority of the United
States senators wanted a prohibi-
tive tariff to further reduce the
revenue on imports. One cent a
pound upon one million pounds of
importations is better than one
dollar a pound which never comes.
While there may be no predju-
dice against large wealth honestly
acquired, there is a difficulty in
convincing the run of people that
enormous fortune comes from any
mans single-handed honest exer-
tons. There is, for example,
scarcely a possibility, even in the
absence of evidence to the contrary,
to convince anyone that ohm D.
Rockefeller honestly gathered in
a moderate lifetime more money
than the United States treasury
holds. People are bound to look
for the loophole of privilege, or
dishonesty, that Rockefeller crept
thru. And when they seek earnestly
enough, they are bound to find it.
Insurance Commissioner Beedle
is having his troubles. The at
torney general has decided that
there is no law providing for pay
ing his expenses while making
examination of insurance Compan-
ies-and the law makes it obliga-
tory to make such examinations.
Our last legislature was undoubt-
eddy the poorest the state ever had.
Too much politics and too little
sense and Judgment.
The associate press must be
hard up for news, when it will send
out column after column relative
to Thaw, a moral degenerate who
should have been hung long ago
and his desreputable wife, who is
stranger to every sense of womanly
decency. Every mention of either,
has become nauceating to decent
people and the less said about them
will be pleasing to the public.
A vast horde of rats have mi
grated from the United States into
Manitoba and are making havoc
with the grain in that province.
While we are glad to get rid of the
rodents, we sympathise with our
neighbors.
Col. Bryan admonishes the dem
ocrats to stick to their party. AS
there is no difference between the
two leading parties and the repub-
lican party has practically absorb
ed whatever principles the demo-
crazy had, it has really become
simply question of men and what
they stand for; and good and pat
riotic citizen will vote for the best
interests of the people regardless
of what his past political afiliation
may have been. Party names no
longer have any significance. To IL
lustrate. In every congressional dis
trict in this state, there should be
no opposition to the present men,
bers who fought Cannon and high
prohibltive tariff which robs the
consumers and produces no reven-
lie.
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-07-30

ence whom he knew to be friendly
to the trust and not to the people.
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-07-30
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Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-07-30
INTERESTING STUFF

Hill Hasbin is writing some
mighty interesting stuff for the
Milwaukee Free Press, especially
for us old fellows, who have been
acquainted with Milwaukee for
nigh unto hundred years.
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-07-30
MUST GET TOGETHER FIRST

We read In our democratic ex-
changes with considerable amuse-
ment, articles on the roseate out
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1909-04-28

Postmaster ]. A. Rose made bust
ness trip to Oklahoma City today.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1909-04-28
PENSION
TROUBLES

Washington, D. G., April 27-since
Oklahoma has become a state with
five representatives whose Industry in
getting pensions for constituents is
noted the pension department in
Washington mas peen put up against
all sorts Of difficulties on account of
the various marriage customs extant in
the various Indian tribes prior to the
abolition Of the tribal courts. An act
Of congress was passed a good many
years ago to cover cases Of this kind.
It provides that the government shall
recognize the married relation II it
was in accordance with the customs
and usages Of the people. and was
considered. This applied to Indians
and negroes who we're married prior
to 1874
Scores Of cases come up from East
ern Oklahoma where the widow Of an
indian soldier applies for 4 pension
or children born OF indian parents
apply. in instances where there Is nc
record Of marriage the pension bureau
has to determine whether the marriage
relation has been observed and how
This is usually submitted in proof with
the application. IN the early days the
Indians did not have a marriage cere
mony as it is known now. They sim
ply took up and such a mating was
considered perfectly legitimate. and
be It truthfully said. resulted in less
separations afterward than under the
! present legaIized form. And to sug
gest that such a marriage was i'm
proper to any Of the old-time Indians
was at once to arouse their highest in
dignation
The trouble the pension department
has IS to determine just what the mar.
riage custom was at the time the per.
sons asking for pensions were married
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part Of the present plant. such equip
ment as can be readily worked into
the new installation with good re-
suits. viii be used. s5 per cent Of the
plant will be brand new from one end
to another. and will be the best and
most reliable machinery that can be
purchased. The transmission lines Of
the company will be reconstructed
completely and larger wires put in,
reducing transmission losses and Civ
ing better service.
The stockholders Of the company de-
cided to enter on this new construc-
ton last week. and bids are already
being asked from manufacturers on
part Of the equipment. Work will be-
gin on the power house as soon as
the material can be bought
The new power will be cut over onto
the company's lines some time during
the summer. and no effort will be
spared to make the transfer as rapid
" as possible.