BROWNE'S RECORD OF SERVICE
Browne's Record of Service ONE OF the Republican leaders in Wisconsin, a state Senator whose devotion and intellectual strength have helped greatly in the upbuilding of Wisconsin's far-famed body...
...He has had experience in the affairs of the state...
...In 1906 he was nominated and elected to the state Senate without opposition...
...The people of the state are anxious to have him re-elected...
...In 1904 he was appointed a regent of the State University, which position he filled with an eye ever toward the fullest freedom in the pursuit of truth, and the best development of individual efficiency and character...
...In the sessions of 1907, 1909 and 1911, he left a conspicuous record, as one of the most conscientious workers in that body...
...increase of the power of the Interstate Commerce Commission, giving as full power as is held by the Railroad Commission of Wisconsin, including a physical valuation of the railroads...
...He Belonged.—The accomplished and obliging pianist had rendered several selections, when one of the admiring group of listeners in the hotel parlor suggested Mozart's Twelfth Mass...
...Senator Browne is the Republican candidate for Congress from the Eighth Wisconsin District...
...His work is right...
...He can always be depended upon to act in the interest of the whole people...
...and, to quote the concluding paragraph of his platform, 'Enactment of such constructive and progressive legislation as will abolish special privilege and assure equal opportunity and equal privilege to all and as will completely restore the control of the government to the people, where it belongs...
...A road leads from every man's farm to every market and over it passes the annual food supply of the nation...
...As he once said, in a speech: "The subject of good roads has a direct bearing upon the social, intellectual and economic welfare of the whole people...
...It would mean another substantial advance toward making the Wisconsin way the national way...
...And it was a deserved tribute...
...The highest tax our people pay is the poor road or mud tax...
...An Opportunity for the Eighth WITH PROGRESSIVE Republicans in Wisconsin, platforms are made seriously by the candidates and taken seriously by the voters...
...Is the Wisconsin Way his way...
...Senator Browne co-operated throughout his career in the Senate, in perfecting and enacting all those progressive statutes which have placed Wisconsin in the advance guard of popular government...
...A Good Roads Champion THIS RECORD may be summed up very briefly as a record of faithful, intelligent, energetic service in shaping into constructive, workable statutes those reforms demanded by the people of the state to restore true representative government and to open wide the doors to equality of opportunity for all...
...But he directed his chief efforts toward the betterment of educational facilities in the common and the rural schools...
...Browne comes from a district largely agricultural...
...It would mean one more member added to the little group of steadfast progressive Republicans who have on so many crucial occasions demonstrated their fitness to hold the balance of power in Congress, fighting both the autocratic Republican System and the tyrannical Democratic caucus...
...Upon his graduation from the University of Wisconsin law course in 1892, he entered upon the practice of his profession at Waupaca...
...For Democracy in Education A GRADUATE of the state university and a friend of the enlightened policies which have made this institution the servant of the whole people, Senator Browne has labored to strengthen and continue the effective work of the Agricultural College, the Extension Division and the courses in letters and science...
...Browne for four years in the state Senate...
...Browne having been nominated on the Republican ticket and endorsed by the Democratic, Prohibition and Social Democratic parties...
...What is his record...
...The surest road to retirement from public office is by way of breaking a promise made to the voters before election...
...Every man's home faces on a road which connects with every other road and leads to every other home throughout the whole land...
...the election of United States Senators by direct vote of the people...
...The dead pull of the sandy road part of the year, and the bottomless mud a portion of the year has in the past fifty years and still continues to constitute an incalculable drag not only upon the economic life of the whole country, but upon the spiritual and social life of our great rural population upon which the happiness and prosperity of the rest of our people are so dependent...
...He is asking for the support of progressive citizens on his record in the state Senate and on his advanced position upon national problems...
...That fidelity is ample guarantee of like fulfillment in case he is elected to represent the Eighth District and the rest of the country in the House of Representatives...
...It would mean able and conscientious labor in the working out of legislation in the public interest in Congress...
...He has always been found on the side of the people...
...He has also taken a prominent part in framing legislation improving our common school system...
...The condition of the rural highway has been wrongly looked upon as the concern of...
...Senator Browne has demonstrated in the legislature his fidelity to platform pledges...
...He served three terms as district attorney...
...Senator Browne's legislative record in the Wisconsin Senate gives assurance of this...
...Several people echoed the request, but one lady was particularly desirous of hearing the piece, explaining that her husband had belonged to that very regiment.—Everybody's...
...Senator Browne's election to Congress would mean true and faithful representation for his constituents...
...enforcement of the Sherman Anti-trust law, not its repeal, and legislation making the issuance of watered or fictitious stock a crime...
...to quote from the Blue Book, "Mr...
...And that means the opportunity should not be left equally bad, but made equally good...
...Progressive Pledges THE PLATFORM of principles upon which Senator Browne is making his campaign for election to Congress is in keeping with his whole public record...
...the initiative, referendum and recall of public officers and publicity of campaign contributions and expenditures before as well as after election...
...conservation of natural resources for the benefit of the whole people...
...direct election of delegates to the national conventions, and the popular expression of choice for President and Vice-President...
...We cannot afford to lose any man of his ability, courage and honesty...
...simply the man who lives upon it...
...prohibition of child labor under the same restrictions as exist in Wisconsin...
...He has been the leader in the movement for good roads...
...So Senator Browne drafted an amendment to the state constitution permitting the state to aid the rural localities in building good roads...
...Browne's Record of Service ONE OF the Republican leaders in Wisconsin, a state Senator whose devotion and intellectual strength have helped greatly in the upbuilding of Wisconsin's far-famed body of progressive legislation, had this to say in a published interview two years ago: "I have served with Mr...
...What are his policies...
...The cost of hauling increases the cost of production and every consumer pays his share of this excessive waste that is shifted to the ultimate consumer...
...Browne came to the state Senate in 1907 an experienced fighter for the principles of popular rule and democracy in industry and education...
...With Browne, equality of opportunity has a very definite meaning when applied to highways and common schools...
...He was a pioneer Progressive Republican in his home county...
...to open the door of educational opportunity equally to those who may not enjoy the advantages of higher education and in the same way he lent his energy toward the establishment of a truly effective and democratically conducted system of industrial education in the state...
...It is not necessary to recount in detail the bills upon which Senator Browne left a record in the Wisconsin Senate...
...It suffices to state that on all the great measures identified with the progressive movement in Wisconsin since 1907—the public utilities law, the workmen's compensation and industrial commission law, the industrial education commission, the inheritance tax law, the income tax law, pure food legislation, liability of railroad companies for injuries to employees, state aid for good roads, state life insurance and proper conduct of private insurance business, the initiative and referendum—on all these measures Senator Browne labored with the progressive Senators...
...He began an investigation of this problem and a study of its solution which he has continued to the present time...
...direct primary election for the nomination of all elective officers...
...Imbued with that spirit of Service which to so many graduates is one of the priceless attributes of the state's university, he early espoused the cause of the Progressive Republicans, and promoted its interests at home...
...revision of the tariff downward and the establishment of a non-partisan tariff commission along the lines pledged by the progressive Republican delegates in the last Republican convention at Chicago...
...More than that, it gives promise of clear-headed, devoted and tireless service to the Progressive Movement in the nation...
...He favors national and state aid for rural highways...
...He received the nomination from the voters of his district in the primaries last September...
...We are behind all the nations in the world in our highways and our mode of constructing and maintaining them...
...It involves the great problem of transportation, and is vital to the interests of all classes—producers, dealers, and consumers...
...He believes there should be equality of opportunity to haul and equality of opportunity to learn...
...He referred to State Senator Edward E. Browne of Waupaca...
...He became particularly identified, however, with the advancement of two important legislative measures—good roads and popular education...
...Years ago he began to figure what a tremendous burden bad roads place upon the shoulders of the farmer...
...It is the concern of everyone...
Vol. 4 • October 1912 • No. 42
