Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1916-08-16

GRANT COJI
Here's a good story indicating the
high motive inspiring an applicant for
citizenship.
Chicago, Aug. John Hainrihar,
an Austrian, applied for citizenship
papers under the American flag yester-
day so he could hunt rabbits.
q am going on my vacation and
want to hunt rabbits he told the nat
uralization clerk. 1 can't get license
unless l have first papers. Give me
papers so 1 can hunt rabbits"
After days of Stygian heat (no par
ticular reason for the adjective eX-
cept that the hot weather can't be
called too bad names) a little rain
comes along, fired plants glisten and
wave a challenge in the breeze, ami
mails frisk and gambol, and humanity
in general raises its dropping head
and says that life is good again. Cool,
balmy air, bright but not too warm
sunshine, clean air and clean roads
the Good Old Summer Time" again.
900
Rather neat, wasn't it, the way Mr..
Hughes slipped it back on old Red
field? Redfield and his friends thought
/ they had it on Hughes, surest thing
you know, but they had another think
coming. This Redfield got very
Ilarge-sized foot in his mouth the time
he tried to whitewash the Eastland af-
fair, and made everybody feel sorry
for President Wilson, who is frequent
\ " the victim of his fool friends. Red
field seems to be guilty of some dis
tinct "boners" and the sooner he is
choked off the better it will be for the
presidents campaign.
900
\ Scott Cooper as the old sea captain
\ in that wholesome drama of Eugene
Walters paid In Full" says pungent-
/ Iy, there are only two kinds Of wo-
men in this world, regardless of what
you say. Not the rich or poor, the
handsome or homely, the sparkling or
the quiet, but the good and bad. Some
women are just naturally good and
Iothers are just naturally bad and that
lis all there is to it," This indictment
! if true, applies equally to all classes
of humanity. Some people are trifie
Z wild but the fundamental spark of
integrity, of goodness, Of honesty and
Icleanness, sustains them through de-
vious paths and brings them trium-
plant to the end. Others are SEEM
ingly without moral sense and regard
less of the lifts given them, stagger
along from one pitfall to another to
a disastrous and pitiful outcome.
Strong people are sometimes inclined
to be harsh with these weak ones
forgetful that their defects are more
congenital than otherwise and more
their misfortune than their fault.
900
Governor Phillip spoke at Baraboo
the other night, firing the opening guns
of his campaign. His speech was too
lengthy to enable reproduction, but
few things are worthy of reprinting.
Here they are:
1T was charged that if [ was elect
ed governor l would pass legislation
raising railroad fares in this state. A
bill was introduced early in the session
of 1915 giving the railroads 27a cents
per mile for passenger fares. l an
nOunced that l would vetoe such a
bill, and it was withdrawn.
ct was charged that 1 would raise
freight rates. That has not been at
tempted, the only action in that con-
necticn being a case before the rail
road commission asking that the rates
be lowered, and the merits of the pc
tition now are being considered.
1T was charged that | was the serv-
ant of the public utilities of the state.
Rates charged by these utilities have
in many cases been lowered by the
railroad commission appointed since
| became governor.
ct was charged that / was the spec
ial friend of the insurance companies.
Since I have been governor the rates
for fire insurance have been lowered.
1T was charged that was the spec
ial friend OF the liquor interests. The
last legislature, with my approval,
passed a more stringent excise law
than Senator LaFOllette and his
friends ever dared to advocate.
1t has been charged that / am OPP
posed to the industrial commission,
and would destroy this valuable work.
I point to the fact that this commits
sion has been more busiIy engaged III
the interest Of the laboring man and
the employer, who have equal rights
under the law than ever before.
1T was represented that the state