The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-07-05
THE PRICE OF FooLIsHNEss.

county of Kenosha.
On. the other hand Kenosha has paid ter
rife price as result of the show of bitter per-
sonal hatred and the desire to arraign class
on the part of the administration in power.
Kenosha has lost millions of dollars in bust
ness prestige on account of the attitude of
these men who have fused with each other
over in Madison and out of it all has not come
single piece Of constructive legislation which
will in any way aid any one in Kenosha.
The entire session has been given to making
Of political issues for a few men rather than
In making wise laws for all the people. How
successful these men have been in making
campaign issues must be shown by the next
political campaign
The session opened with shameful bargain
between the administration forces and the So
clalists through which the Republican party
in name but not in spirit-was sold into hate
full bondage. Happy for the people there were
few men in the senate who refused to re-
spond to the lash of the whipping boss or to
sink their own principles into a mire of po-
litical palaver
Kenosha has paid bitter penalty for the
effects of these men to sell the great state of
Wisconsin into the bondage of socialism and
unrest. Simmons Company has moved it's
executive Offices from the city to New York
and Chicago taking many men prominent in
the affairs of the city. The Cooper Underwear
Company, feeling the unfairness of the admin
lstration to industry, has expended it's plant in
a nelghboring state The American Brass
Company has announced that it is unwilling to
expand in Kenosha on account of the danger
ofithe attitude which has been shown by the
leaders of this administration
The people of Kenosha have lost a great
pleasure park and the development of a great
manufacturing unit through the peevishness of
the officials and their personal dislike to Keno
sha county people.
Just stop and sum these things up. It's
worth while to put them down indelibly in
your memory so that you will be competent
TO act when the next general election comes
round. Kenosha will never regain what it
has lost on account of the attitude of the state
administration 1t may be stuffed for years
on account of these expressed opinions of some
men to discourage the development of industry
and to make personal hatred rather than
craftsmanship the rule in governing their pub
lie actions.
The mill will never grind with the water
that is passed and Kenosha must pocket her
losses and hope to retrieve them later Keno
sha people must never again make the mistake
OF giving aid and comfort to such an admins
tratlon OF the affairs of the state
The administration started out to enact a
tax bill which was not desirable and which was
WHOLLY unnecessary With the state treasury
bullying with $15,000000 the members of the
coCerle' when answered to the crack of the
administration whip, started out with the de-
sire TO take more" Sane suggestions that the
legislation was not needed counted NOTHING
no man yloO
INTO classes. The desire to 'get some one',
led these men to forget all ideas of economies
and forget all desires of state advancement to
vent their personal dislike against few peo-
pie They masked hatred under the veil of
shifting the burden of taxation.
Undoubtedly the men who have s,1nnorted
the administration will seek to make much no
Iltlcal capital out of the fact that $500 ex
>emptlon was voted on homesteads but the peo-
PIE should not be misled with this political buff
{Hoonery The tax on your home is not going
20 oe any less than it was before. The state
Fdoes not regulate the amount of your tax. #
! VIII demand more of the cities and the onlv
answer must be an increase in the mill tax
TO take care of any reduction which NAV he
\ made IN the valuation of your property. The
state and the cities must have money to nav
bills and operating expenses and neither organ
azatlon goes out with Jimmy at nnidnieht to
get 1t. Taxation is the only recognized wav
kof getting money for the expenses Of govern
ment and if you demand more money you must
assess more taxes
Neither can you shift the burden by putting
the heavier tax on one class of people for this
class is the class that sells and what it paws in
taxes must be added to what you must paw
when you buy.
Possibly out of it ali Kenosha has been lucky
to escape and hold its industries. There still
remains the danger of the autocrat at Madison
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