The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1912-10-24
TALKS Of WISCONSIN ISSUES
Speaks to Large Crowds at the Street
Corners on Saturday Night and Fires
o Brosdside Into the state Ticke5--
Forgets to go Into National Issues.



date for member of congress, opened
the speaking campaign of the demo-
cratic party in Kenosha on Saturday
night, making three speeches in differ
emit parts of the city. He was greet
ed by good crowds. He gave much OF
his time to the discussion of state IS
sues and was bitter in the arraignment
of Governor McGovern and the repub-
lican candidates who had declared
their support for Roosevelt. He said
in part:
"Therefore we see that on account
of some of the insane and freak laws
which have been enacted in Wisconsin
in the past ten years that the popula-
tion of our state has only increased
IL and 6-10 per cent while from 1890
to 1900 it increased % and $40 per
cent. A falling off Of more than 10
per cent.
A comparison of the taxes paid by
sach individual in the surrounding
,tates to maintain their state govern
ment, in measure, accounts for this.
For instance, they pay in Ohio a per
sapita tax which means, of course,
zach man, woman, child 1888 for main
tanning the state government. In
Iowa $1.98; in Illinois $1.S7, while in
Wisconsin each man, woman and child
pays $505. That is to say, if man
has a family of eight children and he
Is the only earning head of the fami-
ly, he would pay the enormous sum of
5000 each year for maintaining our
state government.
And although they have so mani
pulated the tax that they are attempt
ing to make the people living in the
cities pay greater portion than the
man living in the rural districts; still
this same legislation has affected the
farmer as much as it affects the city
dweller.. And therefore, we find the
farmer wondering why it is that land
situated rs miles from Chicago in
Wisconsin, containing the same gen
eral character of soil, as farm sit
uated in Illinois rs miles from Chi
cago, will sell from thirty to fifty dol
lars per acre when placed upon the
market less than the Illinois farm.
And gradually the Wisconsin farmer
is waking up to the fact that, for the
past ten years. Wisconsin has not kept
pace in population, or in wealth per-
capita, with the surrounding states !;
and that this so-called progressive
legislation is really retarding the
growth and development of Wiscon-
sin.
am a progressive and stand for
true progressive principles, but / still
adhere to the teachings Of chat great
statesman and scholar, Thomas Jeffer-
son, when he said: That those peo-
pie who are least governed, are best
governed. There is absolutely moth
ing in the name of progressiveism, or
stand-patism, as Shakespear says, A
rose by any other name would smell
as sweet, and the true rule by which
to measure progress of a political
party, or of state, is the results ac-
complished That after ten years of
tinkering and experimenting with
every freak idea that emanated from
the brain of some theorist, and which
would create some new commission for
Wisconsin, we find that our own state
has not kept pace in progress with her
surrounding neighbors.
In other words, the people of Wis
consin are standing idly by and see
Ing multitude of new offices erect
ed and seeing swarms of officers sent
among our people to harass them and
to eat out their substance.
In 1776 our ancestors, in convention
assembled, recited to a candid world
some of the causes which impelled
them to throw off the ties which
bound them to Great Britain, and one
of the causes there recited was, that
he, meaning King George, has erect
O. multitude of new offices, and sent
hither swarms of officers to harass our
people and eat out their substance,
And for this, coupled with other
causes, of course, those noble pioneers
OF liberty, with firm reliance upon
the protection of divine Providence,
mutually pledged to each other their
lives, fortunes, and their sacred
honor.
| therefore appeal to you, O men of
Wisconsin, that when you go to the
poles on November the 5th, that YOU
recall these things to your mAmory
and say to yourselves that if my fore
fathers were willing to shoulder mus
kets and give up their lives to pre-
vent their rulers from sending swarm
OF officers among them, that you at