Evening star., 1925-06-19
BODY OF La TOILETTE TO LIE
IN STATE IN WISCONSIN CAPITOL
Funeral Services to Be Held on Monday at Madison
Nation's Leaders Pay Tributes to Late Head
of Progressive Party.

Il suppose he will take his place in
history. in the view OF some, as an
| agitator. and in these days we are not
| favorable to agitators. But, as such, he
will have the company of the noblest
spirits of history. Agitation has its
place and an indispensable place In the
life OF free Government, and II man
| is devoted to his country, as I believe
La Toilette always to have been. his
service is often the highest type of
statesmanship.
Those who care to glance back
| over the last 80 years and recall the
| things for which La Toilette contend.
ed will be surprised to know how
many of them have been accepted as
sound and just He boldly led. His
friends and admirers, looking back
over his life of terrific energy and
thinking of the denunciations which
ever and always accompanied his ef-
forts. will be able to point with salts
faction and pride to the things he ac-
tually achieved. They can well rest
their commentator upon the work ac-
tually performed. Generally de-
nounced and often for a time bafHed,
nevertheless there is the record Of
things done. and now accepted. There
is often a great sense of loneliness In
the discharge of high public duties.
The old bishop in Hugo's great
novel said to the hunted galley slave:
This door does not ask man who
enters whether he has name, but
IL he has a sorrow This was a guild
ing principle in the life of Bob La
Toilette. Human suffering, human
misery. oppression, injustice, could at
all times and under all circumstances
enlist the uncompromising support OF
this gladiator If the voice of human
suffering called, there was no indivi-
dual so obscure, no cause so con-
temned, but could find here ready
and tireless defender and advocate.
He preferred to go to the house OF
| mourning rather than to the house OF
feasting.'
"He had a keen scent for wrong
doing The devious track OF the crook
seemed straight and plain enough 10
him, for he knew where he was going.
and once on the trail neither power
nor place, nor friend nor foe could
turn him aside.
His faith perhaps IN some nice tenets
might !, 49,,
Be wrong; his life l am sure was In the
A. Patriot, Walsh Says
Senator Walsh of Montana said:
Senator La Toilette was a patriot.
I never doubted his sincerity or the
purity of his purposes. The country
owes him much for rescuing 1t from
the danger of falling into rank plu'
tocracy. He wore himself out in serv-
ice to the public
Frank Morrison, secretary of the
American Federation Of Labor, said:
The death of Robert Marion La
Toilette marks the passing of Amer
ica's leading champion of liberty. No
other public official in contempora-
neous life can approach his record OF
devotion to the peoples cause. When
time tempers the judgment OF men II
will be found that that record has not
been equaled by any legislator In the
Nations history.
mo other official can match his long
list of constructive legislative pro-
posals that were finally accepted and
written into the law of the land. His
outstanding contributions to human
liberty were the seamen's law and
Government employees anti-gag law y
THE Nation has suffered a distinct
loss in the death of Robert NJ. La Fol-
lette When history Is written he
will be recorded as one of this coun-
try's greatest statesmen said Senator
Burton K. Wheeler of Montana. his
running mate In the last presidential
election. His 40 years of public life
is a greater monument than anything
that can be erected to his memory.
The fight for the principles which he
has. advocated these many years will
be carried on by the people with the
same indomitable courage which he
has always manifested. La Toilette
dead will be even more powerful than
La Toilette living"
a letter of coincidence accompany
ing a wreath, with card bearing the
words, From the Filipino people, ."
was sent today to Mrs. La Toilette
and family, reads, In part: The death
of Senator Robert NJ. La Toilette,
your most beloved husband, comes
as a shock not only to his legion of
American friends and admirers. but
to the II ,00O,800 Filipinos whom he
has aided so much and so devotedly
In their struggle for freedom and in
dependence.
THE entire Filipino people will
cherish his name and his memory
with fond recollection, and in extend
ing our heartfelt coincidence and
sympathy we do so in the hope that
this sentiment from a whole people
may help assuage the sorrow which
must be yours in this hour Of your
bereavement
RRVAN pAVS TRVRITTE