Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1915-11-06
RACE ISSUE NEVER SUCCESSFUL.
Milwaukee Writer Sees A PhiIipp-
McGovern-Van Hise
Triumvirate.
BY Ellis b. Usher.

BY Ellis b. Usher.
/ There are recent signs that ex-Guv.
/ McGoyern, as well as Gov. Philip, Is
moving to keep the people reminded
/ that he is still with us r. but not too
still. lie has recently explained that
+ La Toilette deserted him at the Ma
tional Convention at Chicago, not the
reverse, as had been charged. In an
other newspaper letter he never
! joined Mr.. ROosyelt's party" which
/ like the other statements leaves one
to infer that it worked "the other
/ way round, =" for it seemed to outsid-
/ ers that there was large community
Of interest, at least, between him and
/ the Roosevelt people that season. But
/ it may as well be set down as certain
/ that there will be no working agree
ments between McGoyern and LaFol-
I lette. 1t is much more probable that
a triumyrate consisting of Gov. Phil
| ipp, eX-GOv. McGoyern and Pres. Van
! Hise OF the state university, will be
/ pulling together next season. But
! there are some embarrassments that
will make politics delicate business
/ for all next year and time will en-
/ phasize them. Certain Germans have
made and are making open threats
/ against the president, and everybody
/ who is with him. This situation, as
has Just been eXemplified in Massa-
chusetts, is very embarrassing to
both Republican and Progressive
candidates, all of whom fear German
/ endorsement. Senator La Toilette,
with his French antecedents, who
never showed any interest in Ger
mans until year ago, is already
! backing up into cave of gloom, and
GOV. Philip, with his Swiss Italian
/ name, is almost as uncomfortable.
GOV. McGoyern would have clearer
! atmosphere if it were not for these
| German threats which are not at all
/ relieved by the strong and belligereDt
! pro-German attitude of some of his
associates, on one hand, and EXPIRE
sident Roosevelt's equally belligerent
/ anti-German attitude on the other.
! ! am just suggesting, with all due
4 feeling of wish you much joy" to
| these various gentlemen, what is GER
tain TO be the "miXup" of 1916 poll
tics. If Mr.. Wilson can be assured
that the simple questions will be
asked of the voters next year, r." Are
/ yon au American?" and do you
support your government as the ex-
/ pOnent of American law and patriot
! ISM he Will also be assured, as the
/ boys say, that 80 here'll be nuthin'
to it," lie will win in walk. The
| Germans who, as Germans, are at
lacking the president and threaten
/ ing to beat him at the polls, must be
+ singularly dense if they do not realize
/ that they are raising a race issue. No
/ rage issue ever was or ever can be
successful in American politics. 1t
will insure its own destruction.
on STATE TAX LEVY.
/ Ii is important again to note that
we are told, in the usual stereotyped
way, that the state tax levy has been
cut, this time nearly million.
This is what the late Mr.. Shakes
peare would, take it term 1.-THE lie
circumstantial. 1t is truth per-
verified to a dishonest purpose because
ii is using technically true state
ment to convey false impression.
Comparatively few people know that,
technically, the statement applies to
/ the assessment of real estate, and
/ that the tax so raised amounts to
/ about one-fourth of the states in
come. This levy, to which the term
state tax" is thus applied, will, this
year. amount to -. 430, 1856. Another
/ news item tells us that income taxes
4 will bring in something less than last
/ year, when they yielded S4 l40, 81 Sc.
! Last year the states receipts from
| railroad taxes was about - mil
/ lions: from insurance companies over
n million, from inheritance, tele-
/ phone companies, street railways, etc,
abont four million more, and so on,
until the states income from all sour
ces amounted to a close approXima-
I tion of ~ million of dollars. All the
/ figures have never been added toge