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The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-09-28
S. E. Wis. DOINCS
Attempts Suicide.
Jefferson Ranner

Jefferson Banner
WenZel Schram, who is employed
at the Wisconsin Manufacturing Co.
plant and boards with Mrs. John Gey-
er on the edge of the city limits on the
Lake Mills road, attempted to COM
nit suicide Sunday evening, Sept. Is,
at about $50 o'clock
He was playing cards with Mrs.
Geyer and fell asleep She woke him
up and told him to go up stairs to bed.
He then replied that he would go UP
stairs and shoot himself She did not
believe him as she did not know that
he had revolver Shortly afterward
she heard shot and ran to the home
Of Sylvester Shannon and called up
the sheriff, who, with DR.. Brewer, ar
rived soon.
He used a 80 calibre revolver and
the bullet entered his breast on the
left side under the collar bone and
just touched the top of his left lung
and the bullet was taken out by the
doctor just under the skin in his back.
The doctor believes that he will re-
cover
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-09-28
Washington's Solemn Warning.

We commend to all a careful and
thoughtful reading Of Our First Pres
ident's Farewell Address. The Adj
dress
Observe good faith and justice to-
ward all nations. Cultivate peace and
harmony with all Religion and moral
ity enjoin this conduct And can it be
that god policy does not equally join
it? 1t will be worthy of a free, en-
lightened, and in no distant period a
great nation to give to mankind the
magnanimous and too novel example
of a people always guided by an ex-
allied justice and benevolence.
In the execution of such a plan
nothing is more essential than that
permanent, inveterate antipathies
against particular nations and pass
tomato attachments for others should
be excluded, and that in place of them
just and amicable feelings toward all
should be cultivated. The nation
which INDUCES toward another an ha-
bitual hatred or an habitual fondness
is in some degree slave. 1t is slave
to its animosity or to it's affection,
either Of which is sufficient to lead it
astray from its duty ard it's interest.
Antipathy in a nation against another
disposes each more readily to offer in
suit and injury, to lay hold of slight
causes of umbrage, and to be naughty
and intractable when accidental or
tri1ing occasions of dispute occur.
So, likewise, passionate attach
ment of one nation for another pro-
duces variety of evils Sympathy for
the favorite nation, facilitating the IL
fusion OF an imaginary common inter-
est in cases where no real common in
terest exists, and infusing into one the
enmities of the other, betrays the for
mer into participation in the quar-
rels of wars Of the latter without ade-
quate inducement of Justification 1t
leads also to concessions to the favor
lite nation of privileges denied to 9TH
ers, which is apt doubly to injure the
nation making the concessions by I'M
necessarily parting with what ought
to have been retained and by exciting
jealousy, Ill Will and disposition to
retaliate in the parties from whom
equal privileges are withheld, and it
gives to ambitious, corrupted, or de-
luded citizens (who devote themselves
to the favorite nation) facility to be-
tray or sacrifice the interests of their
own country without odium, some
times even with popularity, gliding
with the appearances of virtuous
sense of obligation, a commendable
Difference of public opinion, or laud-
able zeal for public good the base or
foolish compliances of ambition, cor
ruption, or infatuation
GEORGE WASHINGTON in his
Farewell Address to his Friends and
Fellow Citizens"
Dated, United States, Sept 18th, 1896
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-09-28
WATERFOWL Wisconsin Jefferson County, Tuesday Sept 2S 1915

with a governor elected as a repudia-
ton of LaFollette, has shaved off 81,
100000 from the state appropriations.
''rhe amount saved is equal to the
entire budget OF the state in 1900 To
show how expensive was uplift under
LaFollette it need only be said that
in 1914 the state appropriations was
SIT 100000. The bill mounted upward
at the rate of about S1000,000 more
each year for about fourteen years.
"This is the trend of all modern leg
islatures. We spend money lavishly
like a prodigal and there is no one
who is strong enough to restrain the
hand from drawing such large sums
from the pockets of the people.
"All might be well if the people got
their moneys worth"
In view of such a large saving to
the taxpayers of the state one would
be inclined to the opinion that Bro.
Hicks would regret that he helped to
foist upon the state a political regime
that wasted between $40,000,000 and
$50 100000 of the peoples money dur
ing the fifteen years that it controlled
the state politically.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-09-28
As to Wilson's Boom.

A recent letter of Joe Tumulty, the
presidents secretary, to certain dem
ocrats in New Jersey, asking that they
forego their plan to start boom for
Mr.. Wilson's denomination next year
because the president feels that it
might seem as if he were taking adj
vantage Of the extraordinary situa-
ton now existing to gain some per-
sonal advantage through such an ex-
preston of confidence in him." must
have caused the GloOmiest Gus in the
democratic party to smile in his
sleeve. That same extraordinary
situation" is the one bright ray which
has reached the democracy since that
party became the tail of the Wilsonian
kite. Every man who has criticized
the administration during the period
OF its diplomatic travail has been &C
cused of lacking patriotism: every
appeal to the public is based on the
marvellous foreign policy of the presi-
dent. 1t is the one great issue on
which the followers of Mr. Wilson de-
sire to go to the country in 1915. The
identity of the democratic party is
merged in that of the present occu-
pant of the White House.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-09-28
HOldup Man Identified.

George Jackson, charged with burg
larry in the night time, being charged
with robbing the Milwaukee road pas
senger station at Oconomowoc on
Aug. 80, was arraigned in municipal
court in this city Tuesday and the
preliminary examination set for Oct.
IA. The defendant was taken into
custody at Beloit, in company with
others in connection with the robbery
at the Beloit depot last week. Earl
Campbell went to Beloit Sunday and
identified Jackson as the man who
committed the holdup and robbery
here. Bonds were fixed at $4,000 and
were not furnished. Jackson was TAX
en- to the Waukesha country jail to
await the examination. 1t is said that
Mayor Adams of Beloit will be attor-
ney for the defendant.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-09-28
Ralph Freeman i'm Air Ship.
(Lake Mills Leader.)

Ralph Freeman has the proud dis
tinction of being the only one of our
citizens who saw the state fair from
an elevation of about one thousand
feet. The sensation was one that can
better be experienced than described.
Ralph did not make an ascension
with his Indian motorcycle because he
has it too well trained to go in that di-
rection, but in company with one of
the aeronauts who was engaged for
the week at the fair he made the as
cension successfully and gratified an
ambition that he had possessed. for
long time. Whether the first attempt
is only a beginning of life in the air
we would not try to prophesy, but this
we believe, that Ralph has the nerve
as we'll as the desire to sail through
the air.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-09-28
Administration Admits War Has Ben
eficial Effect on American
Industry.

Washington, Sept %. = Especial
nce.)-Directly reversing
the statements of Secretary of Com
merce Redfield that revival of Amer
lean industry was not due to war or
ders, the department of commerce has
just given out statement concluding
with the assertion that surveying
the whole field, it may justly be said
that the worlds conflict has been of
unmeasured value to American indus
try as a whole"
The same statement contains prac-
teal admissions of the soundness of
the protective tariff principle The
departments bulletin says: an a
more or less uncomfortable way we
have suddenly been brought to recog-
n1ze the unwisdom, the folly of ship
ping vast amounts of the crude ma
terial of our farms, forests, and mines
5000 miles across the ocean, and buy
ing 1t back in manufactured form,
at vastly enhanced price. We have
likewise come to recognize the absur
dity of allowing many natural pro-
ducts of the tropics, OF South Ameri-
ca, OF the far east, to find their way to
Europe, and of paying foreign intelli-
gence and skill to transform them in
to articles of daily need in our lives"
This attitude now taken by a de-
partment under the control of a Dem
ocratlc administration is exactly what
Republicans have contended for from
the foundation of the party. During
every Democratic administration. we
have shipped raw material abroad and
bought it back in manufactured form
at vastly increased price We were
doing exactly that under the present
Democratic tariff law, until the Euro
pean war interviewed and served as
protective wall to cut off foreign i'm
ports.
Probably nothing that has come out
OF the Department of Commerce will
serve more to embarrass the Demo-
cratic party in the coming campaign
than this statement expressly ac-
knowledged the vital Importance of
manufacturing goods at home. The
Department points to the course of
events that followed the cutting off
by war of the aniline imports from
Germany and the supply of potash
from the same source, with the re-
sulting tremendous impulse given to
the expansion of domestic manufac-
ture. The department might as well
have made its acknowledgement ap-
ply to long list of commodities here
tofore supplied largely from aboard
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-09-28
Nebraska Has 1t.

Democratic control of the state trea-
sury OF Nebraska has McAdooed the
finances of that state, and Governor
Morehead is at odds with the state
treasurer because of the latter's re-
fusal to pay the warrants of other de-
partment where a specific appropri-
alton has not been made by the state
legislature. Appropriations made
for certain departments have been
squandered, the state treasurer is gov
erned by the law in the payment of
warrants, and Morehead insists that
this is merely the interposition of a
'technicality" Some other states UNI
der democratic thraldom are in a sim
liar condition of financial inanition.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-09-28
Republicans VIII Decide.

1t is refreshing 10 note the bellige-
In the house and senate have assumed
now that premonitory quakings warn
them they are about to be pitched
into Oblivion by nationwide revul-
sion one year hence.
Senator Furnifold Simmons, of
North Carolina, chairman of the SEN
ate committee on finance, now swash-
buckles around in a suit of borrowed
armor four sizes too large and de-
clares himself for huge bond issue
to provide for an adequate navy. Here
tofore Mr.. Simmons espousal of the
cause of national preparedness has
been about as ardent as that of Ken
lucky colonel for the Hobson anti
redeye amendment.
But while Furnifold has glimpsed
enough of the light to encourage him
to take his place in the sun, his fell
low statesman and coadijutor, Rep
resentative Claude Kitchin, still snug
giles the Bryan dove to his palpitating
bosom and strives with soft accent to
smothe the wrinkled front of grim
visaged war. Claude is the next chair
man of the ways and means committee
of the house Thus we are to have
the pleasing spectacle of two tar-heel-
ed incense-swingers, each chairman
OF the most powerful committee of
his respective branch of congree, diff
70 ~, Il
toms When such democratic leaders
disagree, who shall decide? Answer:
The republican party in 1917.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-09-28

buf cut OFF by the war with result
ing tremendous impulse to the ex-
pansion of domestic manufacture"
In the acknowledgement of facts as
they exist. the department seems to
have made complete confession. In
expression OF opinions it does not go
so FAR, for 1t says that it docs not be-
lieve that the cost of production in
the warning countries of Europe will
be lowered as a result of the war, or
that there will be danger from that
source to the holding of new markets
already gained" In view of the fact
that the departments opinions have
been found erroneous so many times
in the past, there will be little dispo-
siton on the part of the business men
OF the United States to accept the
mere opinions of the department as a
guarantee against the return of ex-
actly the same conditions which the
department now admits were unfOrt-
innate for this country and which the
war alone served to overthrow.
Upon the close of the war, millions
of men will return to active industry
and the removal of the shipping en-
barge will release a vast quantity of
manufactured articles now held in
Germany because of the destruction
of that country's merchant marine.
These are facts which the department
will be compelled eventually to ad-
NIT, along with other admissions re-
luctantly made.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-09-28
"Tee Bee" Roach.

One of the most widely known auto
mobile men in Wisconsin is T. B
Roach, known Familiarity to the indus
try as Tee Bee" At the present time
Mr.. Roach is wholesale representa-
tive OF the Mitchell Automobile Co. in
Wisconsin and upper Michigan For
years he has sold cars in this state
and in 1912 startled the industry by
ordering an automobile by aeroplane
Motorist.
Tee Bee" and his family were here
Saturday in new Mitchell and met
numerous old acquaintance. Some
faint impression of his salesmanship
can be understood when one knows
that he sold 155 Mitchell cars to deal
ers during the state fair.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-09-28
Lewis Assistant Chief.
(Beaver Dam Argus.)


AT a recent meeting of the fire and
police commission of this city, Henry
Lewis, who has efficiently served the
city as night policeman for number
OF years, was chosen as assistant chief
OF police. The advancement of Mr..
Lewis fills the vacancy caused by the
promotion of Assistant Chief GroIIing
following the death of Chief Goetsch.
John Deitz was selected to fell the
position of night policeman and has
assumed his duties as such Mr.. Deitz
served the city in this capacity a num-
Der OF years, but of late has been en-
gagged in the butcher business from
which he just recently retired. The
commission at it's meeting also en-
powered Chief Grolling to engage as
many additional policemen as he
deemed necessary to safeguard the
large crowd of fair visitors expected
here this week.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-09-28
Notice of Proceedings.

Z STATE OF WISCONSIN-Cou
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 at a term
OF the County Court, to be held in and
for said County, at the City Hall in the
City OF Watertown, in said County, on
the 10th day of October, A D., 1915, at
the opening of Court on that day or as
soon thereafter as the same can be
heard, the following matters will be
heard and considered:
The application of Martha Schulz
Tor the appointment of an administra-
tor OF the estate of Frank Schulz, late
or the City of Watertown, in said
County, deceased.
Dated this Oath day of September.
A. D., 1915.
By the Court:
R. B. KIRKLAND,
Skinner e Thauer, County Judge
Attorneys.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-09-28
Catholic Church Robbed.
Enterprise. Oconomowoc.)

Enterprise, OcOnOmOWOc)
st. Jerome's Catholic church was
robbed last Tuesday night, the thieves
prying the steel offerings box near the
altar from the wall and carried away
box and contents, which is thought to
have been about 81. They evidently
were readers of the Chicago American,
as copy of this paper was found near
the door,
When Rev. C. F. Mccarthy, pastor
OF st. Jerome's, locked the church
Tuesday evening after looking care
fully about. No one was to be seen
and it is thought the thieves were
hiding in the basement, and later made
their way out of the main door of the
church, which is locked from the in
side. The key is usually left in the
lock, and was found thus on Wednes-
day morning
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-09-28

Moonshining in Wisconsin. An
illicit still was discovered near Amigo
and the maker of moonshine whiskey.
one William Coon, arrested and his
ten gallons of whiskey and mash con-
fiscated and the still destroyed. Coon
may have been a sly coon, but not sly
enough to escape detection and a term
in the federal prison at Leavenworth,
Kansas, will convince him, that moon
shining in the Badger state was a fail
ure.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-09-28
The Oldest Elk i'm State.

When the first exemplification of
the degree of the Milwaukee lodge of
Benevolent Protective Order of Elks
for the fall season is held on Sept 27
class OF twenty candidates, which
William E. "Granpa" Goodman has
gathered together, will be initiated in
to the order. Mr.. Goodman, who is
76 years old, is the oldest Elk in Wis
consin and is very popular in the or
ganization.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-09-28

Every now and then the Attorney
General reminds the public of his ex-
istence by putting out an opinion on
some law passed by the last Congress.
The gist of this Democrats judgment
on most of these Democratic statutes
is that they are imperative. Time
was when it was the function of
the courts to pass on questions of this
sort, but nowadays a ministerial Off
Ger supplants the courts and, instead
of a government by constitutional law,
we have government by opinion.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-09-28

Rev. DR.. Charles A Eaton one Sun
day recently preached a sermon in the
Madison avenue church in New York
city in which he expressed approval
OF the terrible war now raging in Eu-
rope, in which he said in part:
This war is the greatest blessing
that has fallen upon mankind since
the German reformation. The world
was losing it's soul. We needed
cross and God has laid this cross upon
the world. We are being purged by
pain. Suffering, the beautiful mother
of greatness, is brooding the race back
to nobility, to unselfishness, to ideal
ism, to real manhood"
Such expressions from the pulpit
leads to the inference that the speaker
is stranger to christianity and does
not express the teachings of the Christ
whom he processes to serve
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-09-28
Injured While at Work.

John Endl, Jr., was injured while
working for the Wisconsin Manufac-
turing company Saturday afternoon,
Sept. -, at about 10 o'clock. He was
operating the rip saw when in some
way piece of board was thrown by
the saw and hit him below the stom-
ach and he sustained bad rupture.
He was taken to Milwaukee to ST., Jo-
seph hospital the same day by DR..
Daniels and an operation performed
successfully.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-09-28
Philip an Accident No!

John Hicks, editor of the Oshkosh
Northwestern, says that Governor
Philip was an accident. Possibly
so; but the taxpayers of the state are
mighty thankful for the accident
which has reduced the tax budget of
the state 100000 annually.
The Boston Globe under the head
ing, "A Wiser Wisconsin," wisely
says:
There is such thing as too much
OF good thing. That is what Wis
consin thinks about uplift This years
legislature. acting in cooperation
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-09-28

The balance in the general fund of
the federal treasury is dropping from
day to day and on September Ii went
below the $50,000,O00 mark The ex-
act balance was s49,990,237 as COM
pared with $131,390,515 on the same
date in 1913 while revenue laws and
appropriations enacted by republi-
can administration were still in eff
feet The deficit incurred by the pres
ent administration since July 1st
amounts to $31 ,935 900.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-09-28
Breaks Leg i'm Is Foot Fall.

Fred Thomas, DeClark street. broke
MS left leg in two places and also frac-
tured the bones of his right hip in a
hfteen foot fall down a hay chute on
the Snyder farm just north of the city
Monday morning. He was brought
down town and later taken to the hos
pltal where the bones were set Thorn
as is employed with the hay pressing
crew OF William Frederick and was at
work in the barn when the accident
occurred His injuries will confine
him to his bed for a number of weeks.
IL
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-09-28

We often hear or read the statement,
Right or Wrong My Country" 1t is
a patriotic sentiment, but all true low
ers OF our country will say: If wrong
make it right mighty quick Coun-
tries like men are not infallible and
mistakes may be made which should
be rectified at the earliest possible mo-
ment.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-09-28

began the excavations and the work
is to be pushed with all possible speed.
While the general contract was aw-
arded to an Illinois firm, no doubt
some of the material for the new gov
eminent building will be furnished by
local concerns, and probably local la
Dor will also be employed to some ex-
tent.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-09-28

During the rush at Waterbury's sale
Saturday George Clark, aged 81 years,
stole box of cigars, four pipes and
other articles. He claims Beloit as
his home and was employed by Aaron
keuier near Helenville He was de-
tected by customer in the store. He
was taken before Justice Buss Mon
day and plead guilty and fined.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-09-28

Next year no man should be elected
to the presidency, who is not unalter-
ably opposed to free trade and stands
for protection to all American commo-
dities, whether farm or factory Poll
tics should cut no figure, for the well
fare and prosperity of the country
should be the only consideration in
choosing candidates for senator's, CON
gresham and president
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-09-28
Begin Work ON New P0stOffice.

democrat, Fort Atkinson)
That our new government building
is to be reality in the near future can
no longer be doubted, and work on the
same is now in actual progress Frank
Kisow and force of men on Tuesday
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-09-28
An American.

Let foreign cannon belch and roar,
And fire their shots and shell;
Let blockades seal the foreign shore
And sound commercial knell.
Let the fettered fools go forth to STAY
Those of another clan;
They'll not drag me into the fray
I'm an American.
| get my living in this land;
This nations kind to me.
/ have had plenty from its hand,
And it has made me free.
My gratitude I'm glad to sing;
On war talk I've ban;
Let others root for foreign kings
I'm an American.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-09-28
SHORT SNAP SHOTS.

A man in New York shot and killed
an acquaintance who said that he
looked like Charley Chaplin. Those
who have seen pictures Of Chaplin
will say, that his provocation almost
justified the act.