Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1925-02-19


the early twenties, very attentive
clearly of earnest purpose. How
she ever was able to beat genial
John W. Salter, who represented
her bailiwick two years ago, is sim
| ply explained since he was unre-
servedly dry and she-well, she got
the vote that he didn't in region
quite we'll saturated. Both are
strong administration men," arid
or not,-which after all has quite
contradictory sound The logic
of politics sometimes makes one
/. WOODY.
| /. - =
/ And to what reckless bat
tering~is our good old constitution
not being subjected! 1t has serv-
ed wondrously for seventy-two
years, is still going strong, and is
more generally respected now than
ever despite restiyeness ca the
part of socialists A few adyan-
tageous amendments have been
adopted from time to time, as
changing circumstances clearly de-
manded, but the records will show
several scores that failed. Most
were lsummarily rejected by the
! Legislature, others by popular vote,
just twenty-one in the latter man
ner since 1854 when the first, for
biennial sessions, was offered IN
1914 Wisconsin, citizens at last be-
came highly wrathful over this
everlasting tinkering with the fun
damental law and moved down at
one savage sweep by huge majerS
ties ten propositions. One was
the initiative and referendum which
again hobs. up this year: another
the recall Of civil officers; a third,
state insurance. All these repudi-
ated notions, and a dozen or more
| besides, are scheduled to waste the
time Of the solons this season.
mostly no doubt to GO the way of
| their predecessors. A bromide in
| this line is the doctrine permitting
| sheriffs to succeed themselves. 1t
was roughly taboOed at the polls III
| 1922 by nearly $4,000 majority Citi-
zens fear a constabulary machine,
perhaps not warrantabIy in this
later era. Also an increase in leg
isfatiye salaries is regarded as
needless, though he is a severely
economical solon indeed who emer-
ges from Madison after six months
with visible residue from his $500
dole. A referendum in 1920 result
ted adversely to the proposal But
it, too, is on the tapis again at a
$500 rate. The natural remedy
isl short session, one of three
months, but, as I have suggested,
| in a previous communication, a hur-
ried session is apt unfortunately
to leave undesirable wreckage.
| * = 81
Assemblyman r. b. Wood of Adj
ans would modify the constitution
al anti-pass inhibition by adding a
clause making 1T applicable to
bona fide employees of any rail
road" His language is "the usll-
al passes, franks or privileges. ;"
But who ever saw a railwaH man
buy ticket or pay fare-or ever
wants to?
4: 81 Il
| On again, off again. Two years
ago Assemblyman Grandine Of For
est county succeeded in getting
through a. bill providing for the Off
cial inspection of pulpwood. Now
comes a measure for it's repeal by
his successor, S. J. Gwidt of Rhine
er-distinguished for it's pros
pering paper mills, its multitudin-
Gus Browns, it's beautiful lakes, its
romantic Indian gesture, and its
/ lovely girls summer camp, and
you may attach lovely either to
THE girls or to the camp.
A premium on inprovidence in
1.-THE form Of bill for old age pen
sions reappears in the senate.
What's the use of saving if the
state advertises to give every spend
thrift dollar a day in his senile
period OF tie afteryears, and you
pay the biIl, not he! How far
from sane standards are we not
drifting when such a scheme OBJ
tains serious support in this bles-
sed state.
| River Falls council wants TO
abolish the state railroad commits
sion, and frankly proclaims its de-
sire in a petition duly presented to
/ the lower house. To be sure, it is
not especially obvious exactly what
/ the commission ever has done for
the betterment of the roads or the
| Improvement of rates or of service
to the public, yet the particular