Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1916-06-01
WASHINGTON LETTER
Experiences and Observations
Bg EdtOGrd L. LuChoU.

the pure IOO0 law, united states
marshal disposed Of S9,280 dead eggs
Two deputy marshals spent five hours
and so gallons Of kerosene oil in dis
posing of the decayed eggs on the far
eastern portion of the public dump
near the Anacostia river. The eggs
were piled into heap and, after Gov
ering them with kerosene, a match
was applied. It is reported that the
deputies and inspectors from the de-
Partment of agriculture superintend-
ing the work, as we'll as the laborers,
rather wished for gas masks, such
as are worn upon the European battle
fields.
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Since the return of Mr.. and Mrs.
John Cox, have not encountered
visitors here from Baraboo, although
the number of sightseeing people
does not diminish. One of the pleas
ant experiences of Mr.. and Mrs. Cox
was visit to the White House and
their reception by the President.
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Later: Since writing the above
paragraph, at the request of newspa-
permen, the president consented to
have part of his speech published,
hence the following extracts
when we are dealing with domes-
tic affairs, gentlemen, we are dealing
with things that to us as Americans
are more or less calculable," said Mr..
Wilson. "But when the fortunes of
your own country are, so to say, sub
ject to the incalculable winds of pas
sion that are blowing through other
parts of the world, then the strain is
of singular and unprecedented kind,
because you do not know by what turn
Of the wheel of fortune the control of
things is going to be taken out OF your
hand; it makes no difference how deep
the passion of the nation lies, that
passion may be SO overborne by the
rush of fortune in circumstances like
those which now exist that you feel
the sort of had almost said resent
ment that man feels when his own
affairs are not within his own hands
You can imagine the strain upon the
feeling of any man who is trying to
interpret the spirit of his country when
he feels that that spirit cannot have
its own way beyond certain point
And one Of the greatest points Of
strain upon me, if may be permitted
to post it out, was this:
There are two reasons why the
chief wish Of America is for peace.
One is that they love peace and have
nothing to do with the present quar-
rel; and the other is that they believe
the present quarrel has carried those
engaged in it 50 far that they cannot
be held to ordinary standards Of re-
sponsibility, and that, therefore, as
some men have expressed it to me,
since the rest OF the world is mad.
why should we not simply refuse to
have anything to do with the rest Of
the world in the ordinary channels of
action?
"Sit on His Neck"
why not let the storm pass, and
then, when it is all over, have the reck
onings?
''If man will not listen to you
quietly in seat, sit on his neck and
make him listen; just as / have always
particularly in view of GER
tain experiences of mine, that the
shortest road to a boys moral sense is
through his cuticle There is direct
and, if I may be permitted the pun, a
fundamental connection between the
surface of his skin and his moral con-
sciousness.
''The people of the United States are
not asking anybody's leave to do their
own thinking, and are not asking any
body to tip them off what they ought
to think. They are thinking for them
selves, every man for himself; and
you do not know, and, the worst of it
is. since the responsibility is mine, l
do not know what they are thinking
about l have the most imperfect
means OF finding out and yet | have
got to act as if | knew. That is the
burden of it, and tell you, gentlemen,
it is pretty serious burden, particu-
larly if you look upon the office as
do-that | am not put here to do what
please. If l were, it would have been
very much more interesting than it
faS been"
EDWARD L. LUCKOW.
Mrs. Helen Courtier and James
Bishop Of Reedsburg were called here