Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1911-06-09


sense of humor which is one of his
many saving graces He scorns
Democratic pretensions to unpreju-
diced tariff reform and in luiring why
not free rice if there is to be free
wheat. launches this story:
I am reminded in this connection
of an eminent member of this house.
now dead and gone. With three or
four drinks his tongue would become
loosened, and one day at Wizards
(hoteD he fell into conversation with
Judge Ella of New Hampshire. Said
he, Judge, | recollect very well our
service together in congress. The
Judge replied, oh, it was most pleas
ant to me. We were on opposite
sides of the house. but we were both
called watch dogs of the treasury
His friend answered, so we were, so
we were And having had the fourth
drink he continued. But we always
had the true instinct of a good watch
dog-we knew enough not to bark
when our friends were around
kent's Apostle Illustration.
be set the opposite illustration of the
working Of the tariff scheme furnish
ed by Billy" Kent, a new Republican
insurgent from California who shocks
his brethren by making near-free-
trade speeches. Mr.. Kent puts it this
way:
at is argued that by taxing one
ind %
dustry, and vice-versa, we create a
home market that is productive Of
wealth. This brings to mind the story
told by David Starr Jordan concern
ing the eagle and the blue tailed liz
ard. It seems that the eagle one day
swooped down upon the lizard and bit
off and ate the lizards tail; whereup-
on the eagle acquired sufficient ener-
gy to lay an egg. The lizard climbed
the tree, sucked the egg, and
through the encouragement thus af-
forded grew a new tail. This process
continued through many years, ap-
parently without much profit to eth
er party save as it added to the in
terest of existence.
profitable sequence, was related Of a
man who lived near the Potaluma
marshes and started to raise carp. He
was doing fairly we'll selling carp
from his pond, when he suddenly
conceived the idea of raising a side
line of cats for the fur He discoy-
cred that he could feed the carp to
the cats and the cats to the carp so
that he increased nightly in his out
put Of cats and carp and become
wealthy"
Many other humorous anecdotes,
each having it's pertinence to some
solemn subject like reciprocity or the
farmers free list might be added to
these three. Neither congress nor
its printed record is as dull as the
nation thinks
Senate Gains Youth, Loses Wealth.
Some newspaper genius with a
mind for statistics-even though the
figures are drawn somewhat from
the agination-printed the 9th
er day the story that the recent
Democratic uprising had left the
poorer than it was during the
last session of the SiXty-frst con-
gress. Among the owners of
great fortunes who have disap-
peared from the senate he mentioned
Nelson w. Aldrich, Stephen B. Elkins,
James P. Talliaferro, N. B. Scott John
Kean and Chauncey NJ Depew. Fig
- l;x,tI
were given, but figures of that sort
can have no definite basis and are oft
en- discredited- particularly when sor
rowing heirs make up the appraise-
ment for the Inheritance tax. Yet it
is probable that the estimate that the
senate is $50,0O0,OOO "shy" this year
is about correct. The only new sena-
tor in the class of the rlillionaires
named above is Clarence w. Watson
Of West Virginia.
But if the senate lost in cash it
gained in youth, virility and the pro-
gressiveness which usually accom-
panies those qualities. | print table
compiled from the new Congressional
Directory showing those who either
died during the last year of the 61st
congress or were retired with it, and
list of their successors, with the ages
of both:
Elected. Succeeds.
l.. Percy, Miss. 81 A. j. McLaurin. 63
c. A Swanson, Va49 j. A. Daniel. :. SO
]. M Terrell Ga. so A. S. Clay. .....58
j. r. Thornton, La50 S. D. McEnery. 10
A. ]. Gronna, N. D53 M N. Johnson. 81
c. w Watson, W. S. B. Elkins. 10
va. ...............41
N. P. Bryan, Fla. 80 j. P. Taliaferro. "a
w. E Chiffon, W. N. B. Scott. 90
va ........-...... .53
Luke Lea, Tenn....32 J. B. Frazier. SO
H. F. Lippitt, RI. .55 N. W. Aldrich. 10
g. M. Hitchcock, E. j. Burkett. "A
NeO. 90
c. F. Johnson, Me. 81 Eugene Hale. rs
j. w. Kern, Ind. so A. ]. Beveridge. 40
G. p. Mclean, M G. Bulkeley.74
Conn. "a
j. E. MARITIME, N.J.61 John Kean. SO
H. L. Myers, Months T. FL. Carter. ST
j. A. O'Gorman, C. H. Depew IT
N. Y. ........1
NJ o n x e r, S. H Piles. SO