Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1916-01-28


amount of it, although the salaries paid are in a
general way more than fairly comfortable
Robert Wickliffe Woolley is one Of the latest
of Americas well-known newspaper men to pc
appointed to a position in the treasury depart
ment AS someone else has put it, Woolley makes
more money than any other man in the United
States but the personal difficulty is that he is
not allowed to keep the proceeds of his manu-
facture He is the director of the mint, and every
body knows that the province of the mint is-to
turn out money for the multtudnous of the
people of these United States
There not many newspaper men in the
country who better known than this present
official of Uncle Sans government. Woolley
looks about thirty years old, but he add quite
number of years on to that and givS no lie to
the date of his birth. He has been reporter, a
sporting editor, managing editor, an editor and
a writer of magazine articles and today he can
pick up any one of his old jobs and do it justice,
and if the whrligig of politics in time shall thrust
him forth from the portals of the treasury de-
partment, he probably and very naturally will
turn to tread in the old accustomed ways.
The writer of this has known Woolley for
good many years, and worked with him side by
side for a considerable length of time great
Chicago daily. Woolley then sporting edi-
tor. He is outdoor man, who loves the things
which all fullblooded Americans love- and, more
over he knows how to write about them, whether
1t be a close finish on Kentucky track or
IA innings so lar U TO at the NatOnaI league
grounds in New York city. Woolley loves sport
for sports sake but it must not be supposed for
a minute that sport ever occupied the major part
of his time.
From boyhood until this day the present direc-
tor of the mint has been a student of sociological
conditions of economics and of the ways and
means of legislation to get for the people what
seems to the progressive-minded the things which
they ought to have Convictions that certain
lines of procedure were the right to follow,
and determination to follow them, have given
Robert w. Wooey many strenuous and exciting
hours during his long newspaper career.
1t is not necessary to explain to the people Of
the United States what political ring, is nor is
it necessary to explain what an invisible govern
ment is Certain brave spirits in newspaperdom
have been fighting rings and invisible government
for years, and it has made no difference to the
courageous whether the ring was composed
of men of their party, or whether the in
visible government likewise tinged with
partisan color of hue ordinarily deemed adj
mrabe by the crusaders The director of the
mint is Democrat but he has fought Democrats
when they were trying to exploit the people for
selfish ends.
Not long after he entered newspaper work the
director of the mint had time of it, which
tested his courage and the sincerity of his convic-
iions / am not going to mention the name OF
che place where a certain thing happened. but
unuuestionably the scene of it will be recognized
by many and the details will be remembered by
men who have not yet arrived on the borders of
middle age
Down in the South, and not very far in the
South, either, Robert w. Woolley once
managing editor OF a newspaper of prominence
in city of considerable size The chief editor
of his paper and the mayor of the town were
engaged in row. for the mayor, it was believed,
was connected with municipal political combi-
nation which, as the editor viewed it, was far
from being an institution intended to benefit the
people of the community. Finally the lie
passed. and the lie is. was, anyway, sure
fighting word in certain communities.
One morning Mr.. Woolley went down to the
newspaper office and found the mayor of the town
snd his son. each with a gun in hard. holding the