POLITICAL BANDITTI ARE ATTACKING AMERICA'S MOST PROGRESSIVE STATE
Quick, Herbert
Political Banditti Are Attacking America's Most Progressive State By HERBERT QUICK P OLITICAL conditions in Wisconsin are more critical than in Mex-*» ico. What happens in Mexico will neither...
...for my farm would be worth three times as much...
...What happens in Mexico will neither redeem nor enslave the Mexicans...
...Therefore, the crisis in Wisconsin is so important that progressives of all parties ought to take a hand in it...
...Good government, good schools, good education generally, good health, good corporation management, good terms to injured workingmen, and the like, are not to be had for nothing...
...The 1913 taxes were for special reasons two millions higher than they will be in 1914...
...But the road agents say this state is ruined...
...They cost money...
...Taxes have increased...
...The state taxes have increased no faster than have those levied upon themselves by the counties and cities—but when the corporation lawyers and political managers essay the role of demagogues and seek to lead ignorance and anger against good government temporarily at a disadvantage they are very dangerous demagogues, indeed...
...I have lived for years in Wisconsin, and have left the state with regret...
...It would pay me in money...
...for I have made up my mind...
...To appreciate Wisconsin, and all the great progressive history worked into the soul of things there, it is well to go somewhere else for awhile...
...A committee of the most eminent men of this type in the country should go to Wisconsin and investigate...
...This means that Wisconsin is unique in prosperity as well as in efficient government...
...I would give a thousand dollars to be taxed as the Wisconsin people are taxed, and for the same things...
...Taxes have risen everywhere else...
...hut the rurales heading the Wisconsin uprising are laying every increase to the cost of "progressivism...
...But in Wisconsin the political banditti which have so often been whipped by the La Follette forces have rallied again, and the fight is close, tense and doubtful...
...If we had such a system of public utility management as that of Wisconsin, such a university, such a wonderful and efficient system of expert commissions, I should be glad to give the thousand dollars, and pay my taxes in the future in addition...
...I notice that the banks of Wisconsin on March 4th held $25,-633,080 more money than they did a year ago...
...It would pay me in things not to be purchased with money...
...I could not serve on such a committee, even if competent...
Vol. 6 • May 1914 • No. 21
