The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1910-08-05


The senator is an earnest worker for
legislation which will put an end to
the economic waste which results
from the application of Eighteenth
century law to Twentieth century in
dustrial conditions. He believes in
dustrial insurance is of the utmost in
portance and &C the greatest interest
to the people He feels that in some
adequate way those who are injured
at their work or those who may be
dependent on employees who lose their
lives in the hazards of industry must
be provided for He believes this can
be done without placing an unjust bur
den on employers and that long lit1-
cation, expensive alike to employer
and employee, can be avoided by an
equitable law His committee is now
laboring to formulate such bill, the
senator having pledged himself TIC
work for the best results obtainable.
Senator Fairchild is opposed to
county option. Polished, we'll read,
affable, a man who makes friends
wherever he goes, the steel which IN
derlies the velvet is shown by his stand
on this question. When the decisive
vote came up in the state senate on
the Marsh county option bill at the
last session, when many senators
would have been pleased to have been
on the sick list and when members
of the assembly were praying the bill
would receive it's quietus in the SEN
ate and not come into the assembly
to place them on record, Senator Fair
child risked his life that his vote
might be recorded in accordance with
his convictions.
While still suffering from serious
illness, he had himself carried into
the senate chamber on stretcher on
that cold March afternoon and, when
his name was called, voted NO in
voice that, although trembling
from physical weakness, yet gave ev-
idence of the rock-like determination
beneath the smiling exterior which
men know as Edward T. Fairchild.
While he is opposed to county op-
ton, he has declared that if nominated
and elected he will expect the legis-
lature to strengthen the excise laws
of the state so as to minimize the
evils that all too frequently associate
themselves with the sale of liquor.
AS a candidate for governor, Sena-
tor Fairchild stands by President Taft
with absolute faith in his intention to
carry out the Roosevelt policies.
He favors the protective tariff sys-
TEN, as advocated by the Republican
party in the nation.
He commends President Taft for
having won from congress more i'm
portant and more advanced legislation
at the last session than has been
passed at any other session of con-
gress since the Civil war.
He stands with the president lor
postal savings banks, for the reason
that they will afford convenient de-
pository for people with small saw
ings and one which will be absolutely
safe, backed by the good faith of the
general government.
by President Taft for a better control
of large corporations, whose business
so largely affects the prosperity of the
people, and he believes firmly in the
enforcement of the Sherman antitrust
act as planned by the president.
He especially favors control of rail-
way capitalization by the national gov
eminent, to protect the people against
the unnecessary burdens that follow
over-capitalization and to make the
securities of these large corporations
safe investments for people of mOder-
ate means.
He favors the conservation of nat
ural resources and while he admits
that the enormous values locked up in
the water powers of the state may. I'M
der the laws of Wisconsin, and I'M
doubtedly do belong to private owners,
he feels there is no reason why these
owners should not pay into the treas
ury taxes on these values, the same
as owners of other property.
He believes these power corpora
lions may fairly be considered as
quasi-public and be regulated by the
state through the railroad rate COM
mission or some other proper author
ity, in like manner as other public
utilities.
He also favors such legislation as
will assure good roads for Wisconsin
without placing an undue burden upon
the taxpayer and in the announce
ment of his candidacy declares Tor a
more economical administration of all
state affairs.