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The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1916-02-22
Holstein Progress in Wisconsin.

The past year has been one of con-
,tinued progress for the Holstein COW
in Wisconsin Although the demand
for breeding stock has not been as ac-
tive as in recent years due to quaran-
tine regulations and the general de-
preston of the live stock breeding
business because of the foot and
mouth epidemic, sales of pure-bred
Holsteins were nevertheless made in
to every county in the state during the
year 1915. Prices have also been con-
sentative, yet upon the whole, such
that breeders made a fair margin of
profit.
At the present time the demand is
improving. Breeders generally re-
port increased inquiry for their sur
plus stock, but an inclination of the
buyers to still demand animals at low
prices, except in cases where some
particular line of breeding is desired
A few months hence will undoubtedly
improve this condition also, and again
find prices on normal basis and plen-
ty of buyers willing 10 pay them.
New centers of Ho1stein interest
have continued TO spring up in the
state. There are now 81 local Hol-
stein associations A year ago there
were 43. The impetus that these have
given the HoIstein trade in the past
may well be taken as a criterion of
what that trade will be in the future
1t is less than ten years since the first
local Holstein, breeders association
was organized in Wisconsin. Within
that time Hoisteins have spread them
selves out over the state until it has
become uniformly the BLACK and
White Spot" of the Middle West. Each
new association has made it more
Black and White by introducing pure
bred Holstein sires where only the
scrub was known before
Further progress has also been made
by the HOlstein by way of establishing
new production records for the state
OF these the most notable are those of
the two four-yearold cows that COM
pleted records of more than 500
pounds of butterfat for a years pro-
duction. These are the first four
year-old cows in Wisconsin of any
breed to make such records.
Chris. Schroeder,
Sec. Holstein-Friesian Assn of Wis.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1916-02-22
VaciIlation Destroys Wilson's In
fiuence

There is no visible evidence here
than the Presidents speeches in the
middle west have produced any reac-
lion upon his rebellious fellowDemo-
Gratis in Congress which can be trans
lated into votes for his preparedness
legislation. On the contrary, the lead
ing malcOntents among Democratic
majority seem to have been stimulated
in their opposition by the Presidents
attempt to arouse the nation.
No sooner had Mr. Wilson delivered
his first speech at Pittsburg and it
became evident that his appeal for
support was to contain vague and
threatening generalities, than the re-
calcitrant Congressman proceeded to
hire a hail." as the President had
previously councelled in his New York
speech. They took the largest thea
ter in the city and proceeded to flood
the town with hand bills bearing the
striking heading: Don't be Scared!''
When the meeting was held it was
found that the crowd in attendance
was a record breaker and six Demo
cratic members or Congress proceeded
to voice their opinions of preparedness
and OF their Presidents position in re-
ference to it in language of hostility
which could not be misunderstood.
In this particular the speakers had
something on Mr.. Wilson, whose
speeches seem to require a common
tary or a gloss of some kind to deter
mine just what he is driving at. He
has spoken everywhere in terms of va
que and general alarm, always, how
ever, qualifying his menacing words
with phrases which deprive his most
solemn warnings of all their force.
In word the President has lacked the
punch" in what he has said to the
middle west. His speeches have been
clothed in elegant diction, as Con-
gfessman Kitchin has said, but they
have seemed to be the effort of an
elocutionist who is speaking piece"
rather than the hot and heartfelt ut
terances of a crusader. In short, the
Presidents speeches have not rung
true.
And in this is the great weakness of
the Presidents present position before
the country. not only regarding the
program for defense, but regarding
many other questions of wide impor-
lance. He has changed his mind so
often and SO suddenly that he does not
carry conviction with him when he
poets to convert Bryan, and Tavenner,
and the rest; or if he expects to over
come them with new converts to his
own standard, he will have to strike a
'aster gait than he has yet shown
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1916-02-22

If Messrs. Wilson and McAdoo sue
coed in imposing any more stamp
taxes upon this country they will do
so only after they have overcome the
opposition of Speaker Champ Clark,
who threatens to take the floor to
make a fight against any such pro-
gram. In the light Of history this is
not fearsome Threaten in the last
Congress Mr.. Clark took the floor to
oppose the President in the matter
of the canal tools and was unsuccess-
full To be sure, the democratic ma
jority in this Congress is much small
Ter than it was then, and there are
more constituents to be affected by
the stamp taxes.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1916-02-22
"CODDLES.,
The Funny HOusemaid in the Comedy,
"a Pair of Sixes."

One of the most original comic char
acters new to the stage is that of God
dies, the eccentric housemaid in "a
Pair OF Sizes" which will be seen at
the Turner Opera House Friday Feb
ruary 70. She is angular and quaint
in appearance and is prominent in the
action OF the play through her infat-
uation for Boggs, one Of the rich part
ners who is forced to act as butler in
his partners household Goodies be-
lieVes that he is a sure-enough ser
want and sets her cap for him, greatly
to his distress and peace of mind. The
character made such a hit in New
York that the newspapers devoted col
umns to it. The part will be played
here by the well known actress, Miss
Marie Clifford who was for many years
a prominent star.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1916-02-22
WASHINGTON LETTER.

Washington, ID. c., Feb. 2I-Speclal
Correspondence in Con-
gress are demoraliZed.
Disheartened, the Democratic mem
bers are guilty of deliberate neglect.
BY actual daily count since the mol
idays the Democrats have been fewer
in number on the floor OF the House
than Republicans, except for seven
roll calls. An unifol med observer
would have supposed that the Repub-
licans and not the Democrats were the
responsible party.
There are in the House 228 Demo-
Gratis and 1877 Republicans. The re-
cord of attendance sho@5 that on every
day during January, with the excep-
tons noted, the Republicans outnum-
bered the Democrats on the floor,
sometimes two to one, and sometimes
three to one.
Here is the record, by daily actual
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1916-02-22
TO BUYERS OF PRINTING.
Prices of Materials Have Advanced
and Delivery Not Guaranteed.

For the information of our GUS
toners We reprint list of before-the-
war prices and present prices on GER
tain raw materials used in the manu-
facture OF paper.
This list was furnished by one of
the largest manufacturers of paper
in the United States, with the sugges-
ton that the information should be
given to our customers and the facts
placed before them, that they might
realize how serious the present con-
ditiOn is.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1916-02-22
FOR CHILDREN'S COUGH.

your child's cough and cold than Dr.
Kings New Discovery. 1t is prepared
from pine tar mixed with healing and
soothing balsams 1t does not contain
anything harmful and is slightly laxa-
tive, just enough to expel the poisons
from the system. Dr. Kings New Dis
covery is antiseptic-kills the cold
the cough and soothes the irritation
Don't put off treatment. Coughs and
Colds often lead to serious lung
troubles. 1t is also good for adults
and the aged. Get a bottle to-day.
All Druggists.-Adv.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1916-02-22
less capital is assured of reason

less capital is assured of reason
able return.
Moreover, no country can be pre-
pared for war without a dyestuff in
dustry in time of peace. the plants
being practically interchangeable, and
no powder factory can in time of
peace be kept up for a war footing.
Write to your congressman and urge
upon him the necessity of protecting
the whole industry of the country from
loss, and as patriotic duty to the
country, by the enactment of bill
giving adequate protection to dye
shifts
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1916-02-22

1t would be difficult to conceive
greater economic folly than the theory
that free trade promotes healthful
competition. Free trade promotes
competition, certainly, but a destruc-
tive competition. That this is so is
indicated by reason and proven by
experience. Every thinking man
our markets open to the competition of
cheap labor from abroad will deprive
the American producer of business
thus weakening the home competitor
at the same time that the foreign COM
petitor is strengthened. This was pre-
dicted when the Democratic tariff Jaw
was enacted during the Cleveland ad-
ministration, and results justified the
prediction. Men whose personal recol-
lections of 1898 are still clear, need
no evidence on that subject
Facts regarding experience under
the Underwood act of 1913 are of a
similar nature. During the last ter
months of the Republican tariff law
the balance Of trade in favor of the
United States was more than SOC mil
lion dollars, while during the CORE
spending period under the Democratic
tariff law and before the outbreak OF
the war, the balance of trade was
about sac million dollars, or reduc-
zion of 266 million dollars.
This represents not merely a loss OF
that sum of the industries of the
United States but many times that
sum for each dollar expended in pro-
ductive enterprise is respented a dozen
times year, which means that in ten
months period we suffered an indus
trial loss of not less than billion dol
lars.
Advocates OF free trade are ap-
parently unable to understand that
protective tariff establishes the only
real and permanent competition-com-
petition not with foreign producers
but competition among the producers
of our own country
AT the same time that protective
tariff shuts out goods of foreign pro-
duction, it encourages foreign capital
to come to this country for investment
IN productive enterprise. When the
foreign manufacturer finds that his
market in America is shut off and his
investment rendered CORRESPONDENCE
Improbable, he necessarily searches
for new opportunities for investment
and finds in the protected nation the
opportunity he desires Instead OF
letting his capital remain idle, he ma
turally sends it to the country from
which his products have been cut off
and invests it in factory such asxhe
has been accustomed to operate.
Under low tariff or free trade in
pocket knives, for example, we pur-
chase those articles Made in Ger
MANY" A protective tariff law will
not preclude our securing whatever
of good quality German ingenuity can
make, but will merely result in the
German manufacturer coming here to
set up his establishment, where he will
bring his best experts and employ la
borers who will be similarly trained
10 produce an article to be sold in
competition with factories already
here Then it becomes a question oil
the survival of the fitest. the success
of the competitor who can produce Tux
best article at the lowest price The
difference is-and it is an al1-ir1por.
tant difference the pconey paid
tor wages will be paid in America fol-
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1916-02-22

Eisner, who, short time ago, burst
into print with fervid but misleading
treasury feeder. Mr.. Eisner seems to
be a very versatile gentleman who is
attempting to do most anything except
attend to his own job.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1916-02-22

Train No. 40, arrives from Milwaukee
at 2:55 p m. Saturday and Sunday only.
Train No. "A leaves Watertown for the
east at 4:50 o. m. 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
800 a. NJ. except Sunday.
Train No. arrives from Chicago and
departs for Madison at Bill p, N. 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
$50 p. III. daily
Sunday excursion train arrives from
Milwaukee at $50 a. m. and goes thru
to Madison. returning at $50 p. "a.
*Stops at Watertewn junction only.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1916-02-22


By little mental calculation you
will be able to figure out why paper
mills are advancing all grades
Our paper dealer informed the
Leader during the past week that their
house had been making yearly con-
tracts for several years with an office
in Fond du Lac, the delivery to be one
and one-half tons each month The
wholesaler will not now contract for
more than ninety days in advance
Inks have advanced in price in the
last three months an average of Is
per cent, while in the last two years
the advance has been 60 per cent, ex-
cepting reds and blues, which have
advanced 125 per cent.
Linotype metal which sold six weeks
ago for 1920 ton, with 2 per cent.
off for payment in thirty days, now
sells at $3.50, net
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1916-02-22

In relating the above facts to a local
merchant during the past week, he
gave the Leader a letter which he had
received from a dress goods manu-
facturer. and which he permits us to
publish. The dyestuff item spoken Of
below bears the same relation to the
dress goods industry as does the ingre-
above above. The letter follows
The country is rapidly approaching
critical Situation in the merchan-
dising of all textile materials, be-
cause of the dyestuff situation The
dyes are rapidly becoming exhausted,
and it is possible that the textile mills
of the country will soon be confronted
with a great scarcity of colors; the
result must inevitably be the loss of
business for retailers as we'll as man
ufacturers.
The stoppage of mills will mean not
simply the loss of goods to the retail
trade, but the loss of employment to
everybody in any way affected by the
textile business from the hands in
the cotton fields to the man who buys
necktie
Capital hesitates to enter this field
because of insufficient protection
against German competition when the
war is over. and there cannot be a
scale created in the United States un-
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1916-02-22
War Order Prosperity.

Increased sales and better collec-
| ton all over the United States, as re-
suit of our war order prosperity, are
shown by the second annual merchan-
| disc research report of the AssOcia-
| ted Advertising Club of the World,
| which compares the 1915 trade in six
representative business lines with
1914. During two-thirds of 1914 trade
in all lines was stagnating in the coun-
try, but in 1915 the ring of gold poured
into the lap of American labor by the
stupendous trade incentive of the
| European war, becomes the clink Of
coin on the counters of the retailers.
| The report shows the following in
creases in sales, by percentage, 1915
over 1914, in the lines investigated:
| Department stores, 19 per cent; gro
| Gerry stores, 8.S per cent; clothing
stores, II per cent; hardware stores,
| 1873 per cent: drug stores, 11.6 per
cent; jewlery stores. 1879 per cent.
Every geographical division shows an
increase in retail trade in these six
| lines in 1915 over 1914, the smallest
being recorded in the Pacific states,-
California, Oregon, and Washington,
where the effect of the war order slim
illus in dispelling the Democratic bus
mess depression of 1914 has been felt
more remotely. Some and 10 cent
stores, show increased sales, over
1914, of SOL per cent.
Eighty Republicans and some Bull
| Moosers of Philadelphia, have issue a
call for reunion of the forces opposed
| to Democratic control of the nation.
They represent the Republican party
as the best medium for such action
and the response will undoubtedly be
| of such a character as to emphasize
| that the reunion has already staken
place, to large extent and that
| it will be completed before the NOM
mating convention meets in Chicago
/ 1t now developes that the numerous
plums awarded to the McAdoo family
| in New York were distributed by a
Mr.. Eisner, who is a collector of in
ternal revenue. 1t was this same Mr..
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1916-02-22

Don't say it can't be had; for maybe
you haven't tried The Central Trading
CO.-Adv
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1916-02-22

The following Important Notice"
was received yesterday:
"Since the issuance of our approx
mate and temporary Price List No, 80,
dated February 8, manufacturers have
found it necessary to further advance
prices on book, writing, bond, ledger
papers, envelopes, card boards, etc.,
and deliveries are becoming more diff
ficult
Our customers may rest assured
that we shall bill out all goods ordered
from us at prices as low as conditions
will justify or permit
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1916-02-22

Elgin Board Prices.
Elgin, ILL.,, Feb. 19.-Butter higher;
Is tubs at 33c; so tubs at 3212c.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1916-02-22
Railway Time tables.
CHICAGO & NORTHWESTERN
SOUTH

''.s'U p III UIuIH IIJdhCo CIVb6 CUHIEtC'
lions for the west at jefferson Junction.
also for Milwaukee.
Beth 11:O5 a. m. and 7:15 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, 1916-02-22

NUCKIUTU fdSStHgbT HTTIVbS at wafer
town at $40 a. IN. and goes no farther.
The 1855 a. m. train makes connection
at Clyman Junction for trains east.
A train goes west from Clyman juno
ton at p. m.
*These trains leave daily except Sunday
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1916-02-22
THIS SHOULD PEEyE Y0U.

Madagascar is a good market for
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1916-02-22

1t now developes that the numerous
plums awarded to the McAdoo family
in New York were distributed by a
Mr.. Eisner, who is a collector of in
ternal revenue. 1t was this same Mr..
Freie Presse fuÌˆr Texas. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1865-1945, 1916-02-07
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Gbefs suriidgel1idt.
Freie Presse fuÌˆr Texas. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1865-1945, 1916-02-07
Der n~iersebniabriae

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Solution Don 2ntle, ipelder am
Samitag in Der 8dmmerunq gegen
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Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-08-01
ROY SMITH SUS-
TA|NS CONCLUSION
Struck on Top of Head with Shovel
Handle Caught in Cement
Mixer at Factory.

Roy Smith. who resides at the
north end of Wilson avenue and is
employed in the o. A. VAIL cement
block factory on north Des Moines
street. was struck on the top of the
head with scoop shovel handle yes
terday afternoon about o'clock and
sustained a slight conclusion, causing
Inconsistencies for about two hours.
Mr.. Vail. who was working about
the cement mixer. accidentally got
his shovel caught in the mixer and
the implement went quickly round
the machinery, striking Mr.. Smith
upon the head Mr.. S. was standing
near the mixer and staggered away
a few feet and dropped as if he had
been shot. A physician was sum-
moned anC Mr.. Smith removed to his
home where later he regained con-
sciousness
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-08-01
SOLDIER BOYS ARE NOW we'll
ESTABLISHED IN TEXAS CAMP

due to the fact that the Mexican pop
ulation of this section greatly out.
number the American contingent
Every precaution is taken to prevent
the flaming up of racial antipathies
Provost guards and military police
are constantly on the alert. Every
sentry, guard and military police
man is provided with ball ammuni-
ton.
After time it is expected that
ten per cent Of the men will be Civ.
en- passes daily. The men alternate
in the matter. Good behavior on
the part of the applicant for pass
is essential.
Private Kemp of e company was
stung by a scorpion this morning
He was picking up bricks near an
old house a short distance from the
street and was stung before he no
ticed the insect. Kemp was badly
scared youth, not knowing that the
sting of the red scorpion is rarely
fatal. He hurried to the hospital
where his finger was lanced, then
bandaged, after receiving an appli-
cation of permanganate of potas-
SUM, the most successful antidOte
for vermin of all kinds.
The Second Iowa Band has a very
nice looking street The boys have
planted ornamental cacti, palms,
etc, about their tents. The plants
were dug out of the street. Floyd
Bingham has started collection OF
desert deniZens. He has two of the
"cutest" horned toads imaginable.
The little lizards are quite content
ed Both We're found on the bands
street. Bingham is now bargaining
with Private Mckay Of G company
for handsome red scorpion which
the latter captured on G street. He
secured hideous pair of tarantu-
las lTOiH Il SVudu III ID NouIpduS wiz
discovered them in their bedding
this morning.
A number of the fellows rambled
down to the river yesterday after
noon Mexican breatworks are
plainly visible. The "greasers" are
busily engaged in strengthing them
and making them more elaborate.
No defense works of any kind are
to be found on the American bank.
Patrols of both armies are constant
lily guarding the banks, to see that
no ,unauthrized crossing is made.
Our daily program is some what
different than at Camp Dodge. From
eleven until three no work Of any
kind is performed. The midday heat
is quite intense, although the Their
mometer rarely goes above 9S.