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The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-11-16
PATIENCE OR POLITICS?

One year ago the secretary of the
navy told an astonished nation that
the American feet was in state of
complete preparedness. Somewhat
later naval experts concurred in re-
port which set forth the solid fact
that it would take five years of real
work to prepare the fleet.
One year ago the president of the
United States knocked the proposals
of the secretary of war Into a cooked
hat" by a message which destroyed
the sensible and excessively modest
suggestions of Mr.. Garrison. This is
the record of the present administra-
ton in the matter of national prepaid
ness.
Now, finally, after we have been on
the edge of war, Mr.. Wilson gives his
sanction to a proposal to increase the
army and the navy. The details of the
plan remain unknown, but the public
is promptly informed of the cost
This is patiently an effort to stimulate
enthusiasm and accelerate popular
applause.
If the present administration hon
estly favors some STEP. some reasona-
BILE program of national preparedness
both for the army and for the navy
it will have the support of the country
as a whole, without regard to party
But there is not the smallest reason
yet to believe that the administration
is doing more than experimenting in
words, without any sincere intention
to act
An enlarged income tax is in view
1t has become an axiom that an ac-
cepted democratic administration
means increased tax burdens.-Burl
ington Hawk-Eye.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-11-16
Optimistic Thought.
EVIL gains are equal to q loss.
LEGAL NOTICES.
F. P. Oct. 26 At.
Notice to Creditors.

STATE OF WISCONSIN, County
Court, Jefferson County-In Probate.
In the matter of the estate of Frank
Schulz late of the city of Watertown,
in said County, deceased.
Notice is hereby given that the time
for creditors to present to said court
for allowance, claims or demands
against said deceased, is limited to
four months from the Goth day of Octo-
Der, A. D., 1915, and that said Court
will receive claims and demands pre-
sented against said deceased at the
Court House in the city of Jefferson in
said county, on any day before the ex-
piration of said four months; and that
the said Court will examine and adjust
such claims and demands at a term
thereof to be held at the City Hall in
the city of Watertown on the LIST day OF
March, 1916, at the opening of Court
on said day, or as soon thereafter as
the parties can be heard.
Dated this Goth day of October, A
d., 1915.
By the Court:
R. B. Kirkland, County Judge.
Skinner & Thauer, Attys.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-11-16
TWO POEMS A COMPARISON
A SECOND WARNING 0915).

A SECOND WARMING 0915).
We have forgotten it England's
neutrality"
We have surpassed it by one of our
own,
Based on a specious but shameful le-
gality,
Masked by SNUG, hypocritical
tone.
We have forgotten how England then
treated us,
Jeered at our struggles, our losses.
our tears,
Shouted whenever our brothers de-
feated us,
Captured our vessels with swift pri-
vateers.
We have forgotten how England then
rated US;
Nothing too vile of us then could be
said;
Snobs and aristocrats-a of them
hated us,
Now they despise us-our spirit is
dead.
,, We have forfotten how England then
scornfully
Ridiculed Lincoln as APE" and as
clown
While the whole nation, in reverence,
mournfully
4
| Laid him to rest and immortal re-
| nOwn.
We have forgotten her earlier raw
shore,
Use in her ranks of the scalp-hunting
savages,
Read we lives of our fathers no
more?
We have forgotten it all; though
stronger,
Tamely we yield to her shameless
DEGREES;
Souls of our sires, respect us no
longer,
While we thus cringe to the scourge
of the seasi
MAKE US remember it, lest our ser
Witty
Finally meet with the craven's re-
ward;
God of our fathers, restore our vi
rilityi
Up from our knees! 1t is time for
the sword
John L. Stoddard.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-11-16

of the export balance for the entire
fiscal year 1910"
The fiscal year 1910 happened to be
the low-water mark for trade balance
under republican tariff. 1t was the
year the Payne ldrich law was
passed and the uncertainty of the re-
ceptiOn of the maximum and minimum
provisions of that law by the foreign
countries unsettled our export trade
up to March /, 1910. Therefore, the
year 1910 was not representative
republican year. The fiscal year 1911
was the first full year under the re-
publican tariff with the maximum pro-
vision in full swing, and it did encour-
age our export trade and increase our
export balance from year to year until
both were throttled by the democratic
tariff of October 3, 1913.
The cuttlefish tactics of democratic
leaders in obscuring the deficiencies
of their tariff legislation through the
medium of the European war has been
a matter of common knowledge for
the past year, and deceives nobody.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-11-16
MANUFACTURING CRIMINALS.

1.-The greatest crime in the United
of criminals" says Henry b. Hyde in
the Chicago Tribune, writing of the
great number of useless laws passed
by state legislatures and city councils
each year. And to support his in
dictment Mr.. Hyde marshals an array
of facts which fiction can not match.
Commenting editorially, on Mr..
Hyde's charges, the Tribune says:
obviously, what Mr.. Hyde calls the
wholesale manufacture of criminals
is one of the unexpected results of
our uncritical reliance upon legisla-
ton as cure-alI When the Americ-
an sees anything he doesn't like, his
first impulse is to pass law against
it. If there are no statutes against
gravitation enacted at the vociferous
behest of Americans who have slipped
up on a winters day, it an oversight
which will be corrected in due time.
This is an American failing which
is often commented on. Less often
do we ponder the moral phase of the
American habit of passing laws.
Undoubtedly we have been passing
through a period of acute social self
consciousness. Many things which
were ignored by our fathers we under
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-11-16
WASHINGTON LETTER.

Washington, Nov. Especial Cor
respondence-The democratic cam
paign publicity work being carried on
by Secretary Redfeld at government
expense has been extended to include
the official figures issued by his de-
partment. Because of unfair methods
of presenting statistics, fair compari-
son is rendered difficult For instance:
In Mr.. Redfield's trade review for
| September, 1915, recently made pub
lie, he failed to give the export bal
ance for September, and substituted
| therefor the balance for the fiscal year
1910 The report says in part:
THE September export balance was
$146,343, 919, being nine times as much
as the export balance of $16,341,722
in September, 1914, and only SAL $685.
81 short of the export balance for
the entire fiscal year 1910 The nine
months ending with September, last,
show an export balance of 81 ,227 ,293,-
5U4, an increase of s1,170 900 900 over
that for the corresponding period of
1914, and 1921, 256,417 over that of
1913.
The duty of the secretary of COM
merce, as required by law, is to furn-
ish impartial information concerning
commerce and trade. For years it has
been the custom of the bureau of for
eign and domestic commerce, in giving
out the monthly bulletin on imports
and exports, to state the current
month with he corresponding months
of the two years preceding. The un-
fairness of the above statement is in
the words "and only Sal ,693,371 short
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-11-16

stand, or think we understand, the
evil of, and in attempting to express
our new sense of responsibility and
correct the newly discovered faults
by our favorite method of making
we have not only far outstripped our
capacity for the more difficult tax of
administration, but we have developed
a taste for correcting what seems to
be our neighbours errors which bids
fair in turn to include everything
from his choice of neckties to his pri-
vate family affairs.
This taste for censorship is not
discriminating. What seems to the
great mass of a given community as at
worst harmless or inconsiderable,
seems to some moral specialists heni-
Gus and deeply demoralizing. In no
country of the world today, we be-
lieve, are there so many good people
who happen to be passionately ener-
gized over some particular fact of our
fallible human nature. The United
States is one huge example OF Herbert
Spencer's smile on reform 1t is a
titanic sheet of metal on which the
dinges are being furiously beaten
down with the inevitable result that
with almost every blow of our blum
dering hammers a new dinge is made
as the old one disappears.
I'm this period of AN awakened So
cial conscience we show collectively
tendency to neurasthenia in reform,
and individually supersensitiveness
as to other peoples errors. If good
many of our efforts at lettering the
world over night could be treated
with a dose of humor and sense of
proportion, deal of unnecessary suf-
fering could be avoided and some seri-
Gus social reactions escaped.
But more is needed even than the
perfecting of law enforcement and ad-
ministration-a thing more difficult
to attain. We need check upon our
growing tendency to force our neigh
bors into compliance with our own
| special standards. If we are to &C
| cept a sterner and more detailed So
cial discipline, let us at least see that
it is shaped by the common conscience
and based on the broad and settled
| convictions of the community Let
us no longer subject the individual to
the heterogeneous tyranny of innumer-
able minorities Too much of our
penal law is made under the cover OF
J public Indifference by that species OF
man or woman who would have us all
run into the mold of his or her own
| conviction"
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-11-16
WATERFOWL HAS
new CH|ROPRACIOR

l take this opportunity to announce
to the people of Watertown and vi
cinity that l am now located in Cen
trial block, Rooms and 8, northeast
corner Third and Main streets.
Chiropractic is just coming into it's
own. Thousands of people testify to
it's efficiency for the removal of the
cause of disease
l come to you with a schooling COW
ering a period of three years, and two
years successful practice. If you are
afflicted with either chronic or acute
disease, you owe it to yourself to in
vestigate Chiropractic.
Investigation, analysis and consul
tation costs you nothing. You will
find me at my Office daily, except
Sunday, from 9 A NJ to II A. NJ, and
P. M. to 5 P NJ, and in order to
accommodate those who work, 7 to
P NJ.
c. D. BRANDON, d. C.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-11-16

1t begins to look as if Gov Phillip
was a fourflusher and that his claims
of economy in state expenditures was
all wind, for it appears that instead
of dispensing with the useless serv-
ices of an army of useless employees
in the several state departments, there
has been no decrease and the salaries
paid are all out of Proportion to the
services rendered. Then, there does
not appear, to have been any pruning
down of the expenses of the state uni
versity and professors continue to
draw large salaries for little or no
services of any value to the taxpay-
ers and the state overrun with men
drawing good salaries with large ex-
pense accounts to talk fads of no in
terest or benefit to the people And
then, the appointments made by the
governor, do not in their entirity rec
ommend themselves to the republican
voters who elected Gov. Phillip to
whom he must look for reelection,
in case he should desire to succeed
himself in the executive office.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-11-16
GOVERNOR" OR SENATOR,

F. E. McGovern, ex-governor is
nothing if not an egotist His assump-
ton that the people of Wisconsin are
going to send him to the United States
senate or to Madison is gall in the
rankest form. Mr.. McGovern is a fine
gentleman in every respect, but in
politics he appears to be Office hungry
and is deluding himself into the be-
lief that the voters of the state are
anxiously waiting for him to pick his
office, then they will hand it to him
on silver platter.
Now, that is just what is not going
to happen. The people of the state
are not in the temper this year to per-
suade anyone to accept any office, and
Mr. McGovern's "watchful waiting" is
not going to coax the persimmon to
fall into his lap. He had better tell
the people what he wants-we all
know he wants something, and wants
it badly-and stop kidding" himself
After he has announced himself the
voters will do the electing- it will
not be McGovern.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-11-16
knowledge of feeding problems and
the live stock market.

knowledge of feeding problems and
the live stock market.
AS dealer in credits, loans, dis
counts, ETC., he must know the values
or probable future values of real prop
erty, produce, grain and stock when
be invests, the money of the bank.
His Judgment, from a financial stand
point, must be keen and close. He is
a specialist in finance
You may be specialist in general
farming, fruit raising, or an expert
in stock, but your judgment in fnan-
cial matters may be more or less
sentimental, conceited, or spoiled by
prejudice. Let your banker give you
the benefit of his study and Judgment
if you are investing money Go to
him as you do when you borrow
money.
It's your bankers business to see
the money-making side of the invest
ments of his customers probable de-
positors or borrowers. Will that pro-
posed investment make money for
you? That's what you want to know
perhaps your banker can help you
come to a fair conclusion Don't be
afraid to talk to him.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-11-16
GO TO YOUR LOCAL BANKER.

Are you intimately acquainted with
your local banker? Do you go to see
him only when you want to make a
loan? The banker, like the minister,
the lawyer and the doctor, is a spec
ialist. He holds a unique position in
our community AS is the case with
the minister, the lawyer and the doc
tor, his advice is too little sought ex-
cept in time of immediate need.
OF necessity the banker is a close
student of community affairs. In city
or town his dealings are largely with
farmers, produce merchants, grain
buyers and stock men. He knows the
land values; he follows the produce
and grain market, and he has no small
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-11-16
AT THE CHURCHES
First Church of Christ, Scientist
Services held every Sunday at 1890 =

First Church of Christ, Scientist
Services held every Sunday at 1920 4.
m.
Testimonial meeting Wednesday
evening at o'clock. All are cordially
invited to these meetings. Sunday
school Immediately following morning
service. Reading room, Cor. Fifth and
Spring streets, open every Monday,
Wednesday and Friday afternoon from
2:3O until 4:30 o'clock.
Reformed Church-NOrth Fifth and
Cole streets, F. W. Lemke, pastor. Sum-
day school at a. M; Divine service at
10 a. m. The first Thursday in every
month at 2 p. M, Ladies Society; at 100
p. m, Young Peoples Society All are
most cordially invited.
First M. E. Church Bible School 10 a
m. Morning worship II a. m. Epworth
League 6:45 p. NJ; Devotional service
at 1870 p. m. Services at Pipersville at
1:30 p. IN. Everybody is cordially in
vited to these services. Strangers very
welcome.
ST, Johns Lutheran church-Sunday
school at 9 a. M; services at 10 a. M;
English services every second and last
Sunday in the month at 7:3O o. m.
| ST. Marks Lutheran church Sunday
school at a. M; German services at 10
a. m. English services the first and
third Sunday of the month at 1880 p. m.
St. Luke's Evangelical Lutheran
church-Preaching services at 10 a. N.
and 1880 p. M; Sunday school at p. m.
| Moravian church-Sunday school at
9:l5 a. m.; German preaching service at
1920 a. MY. P. S. c. <. at $50 .. "a.
7:30 p. M. evening services.
German Baptist church--Sunday school
at 9:15 a. M; preaching services at 1890
a. M; young peoples meeting at $50 p.
m; evening services at 7:30 p. m.
Congregational Chnrch-Sunday school
al 10 O'clotk. Sermon at II O'Clock; Rev.
n. Carter Daniel, pastor. Young peoples
meeting at $50 P M.
st. lienry's Catholic church = Low
mass at 500 a. M; high mass at 10 a. M.
Sunday school and vespers at $3.50 p. M
st Bernard's Catholic church-Low
mass a. M; high mass 1920 a. N.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-11-16

At Winnetka, ILL.,, the assistant
postmaster was bounced" last week
for remarking to a friend that he
thought that the president should
have waited at least year before
galivanting around with a young
widow, with a grin on his face that
might be expected of young man
taking g girl to a dance for the first
time. 1t was regarded by the pin
headed officials in the postoffice de-
partment ct Washington as disloyalty
to the president. The president is not
responsible for the firing" of the as
sistant postmaster, and should give
the funkies in the department a verb
al castigation.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-11-16
A WARNING. -(1S63).

"A W AhNlNVs y IoO0)s
The following poem appeared in
Harper's Weekly, May IS, 1863
We will remember it England's
neutrality
We who have witnessed her cow
ardly craft;
Friendly in seeming, foe in reality,
Wiping her eyes while she inwardly
laughed.
We will remember when round US
were lying
Thousands of gallant men, wounded
and dead,
Rebels on all sides our pathway de-
Down with our rival" was ali Eng
land said.
We will remember with lasting emo
ton.
When her starved workmen were
gasping for breath,
While stores of grain we sent over
the ocean,
Her ships came laden with weapons
of death.
We will remember her sham aristoc-
racy,
Cheerful and jubilant over our fall,
Helping when treason would stifie
democracy,
Turning a deaf ear to Liberty's call.
We will remember the Keokuk sinking
Riddled with balls neutral Eng
land" had sent;
We will remember her laughing and
winking,
Feasting arch-traitors on board of
the Trent
We viii remember it when we are
stronger,
When once again we stand saved
and erect;
Her neutral mask shall shield Eng
land no longer;
BY her foul deeds she'll know what
to expect.
Authors name not given.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-11-16
COLDS Do NOT LEAVE WILLINGLY.

Because a cold is stubborn is no
reason why you should be. Instead of
wearing" it out, get sure relief
by taking DIR. Kings New Discovery.
Dangerous bronchial and lung all
ments often follow a cold which has
been neglected at the beginning. AS
your body faithfully battles those cold
germs, no better aid can be given than
the use of this remedy. Its merit has
been tested by old and young. Get a
bottle today. SOC. and $1.0O.-Adv.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-11-16
Evolution.

Strange things happen in this world.
The greatest dealer in mules in the
United States was killed in an automo-
bile accident Think Of man having
to do with mules for forty years and
coming out unscathed only to be
whirled to glory by pinhead chauf.
feur.-Houston Post
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-11-16

Speaking of hard jobs: 1t must be
some mental strain to keep an anxious
and enthusiastic public waiting to
hear your dulcet voice pipe out
whether they shall accept you for SEN
ator or governor as republican. And
this does not refer to LaFolIette,
either
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-11-16

When the editor of the Leader sees
pictures of prominent persons in some
city dalies, which are so smeared and
notified as to be blotch on the page,
having the appearance of being print
ed on cider press and apple butter
being used for ink, most profound
thanks are returned that we are not
prominent
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-11-16
The Modern Nav.

Instead of singing lullabies many
modern mothers take their babies to
the movies and let the audience laugh
the little dears to sleep.-Toledo
Blade.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-11-16

Rockford Passenger arrives at Water
Town at $40 a. m. and goes no farther.
The 7:55 a. m. train makes connection
at Clyman Junction for trains east.
A train goes west from Clyman June
tiOn at p. m.
*These trains vedaily except Sunday
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-11-16

New Heaters, New Combination Gas
and Coal Ranges The Central Trad
ing Co.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-11-16
LOCAL MARKET.
ELGIN BUTTER MARKET.

Elgin, ILL.,, Nov 15.-Butter sales at
zoe; an advance of 1c.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-11-16

Train No. 40, arrives from Milwaukee
at 2:55 p. N. Saturday and Sunday only.
Train No. Al leaves WatertOwn for the
east at 4:50 o. H.. Saturday and Sunday
only.
Train No. 33 arrives from Milwaukee
and departs for Madison at 1892 a. m.
except Sunday.
Train No. 40 arrives from Madison at
9:20 a. NJ. except Sunday.
Train No. arrives from Chicago and
departs for Madison at 3:11 p, "a. daily
except Sunday.
Train No. % arrives from Chicago and
departs for Madison at 6:38 p. m. except
Sunday.
Train No. 80 arrives from the east at
ESQ p. m. daily.
Sunday excursion train arrives from
Milwaukee at $50 a. m. and goes thru
to Madison. returning at $50 p. N.
*Stops at Watertown junction only.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-11-16
THIS SHOULD PEEVE YOU.

Tigers are too weak in lung power
to run more than one-fourth mile.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-11-16
Children Cry
FOR FLETcHER'S
G a 81 Q RIA
Railway Time tables.
CHICAGO & NORTHWESTERN
SOUTH

*ChicagO Passenger. 5:35 a. M.
*ChlcagO Passenger. ........ II 05 a. III.
*ChlcagO. ...... ........ :. 80 p. M.
GAINESVILLE Passenger ..... 7:l5 o. m
5:35 p. m. train makes close connec-
tiOns for the west at Jefferson Junction,
also for Milwaukee.
b th 11:05 a. m. and 7:l5 p. m. trains
make close connections at Jefferson
Junction for Madison and all points
west
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-11-16

Will take your old machine
and give you a S12 credit
ON these cabinets. 1t is a
beautiful solid oak case,
and has a Free" head.
The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1915-12-03
The Sunday School Lesson
SENIOR BEREAM.

Golden Text.-Go ye therefore and
make disciples Of all the nations Matt.
xviii, 10, 2O).
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Chess Congress.

Chess Congress.
The chess masters tourney in New
York city this winter will be in honor
of the Rice gambit. 1t is twenty years
since Isaac L. Rice, the scholar, musi-
clan and patron of the royal game Of
chess. invented this opening which
bears his name. The tourney will be-
gin Jan. 8, the opening round being
scheduled to be played ut the Manhat-
tan Chess club. Invitations have been
sent to a group Of the foremost chess
players, including ]. II. Capablanca
Of Havana, Il. ]. Marshall of New
York. A. A. Alechine of Petrograd.
Boris kostic of Budapest, Edouard
Lasker of Chicago, ]. w. Showalter Of
Georgetown, E. B. Jefferson of Mem
phis, N. T. Whitaker Of Washington,
". Banks Of Detroit, who recently
challenged +. ]. Marshall, and others of
the leading American chess PLAYERS.
Professor Rice has consented to act ~
president Of the congress and has do
mated $1,000 to be given as prizes.