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Political Reform in Wisconsin : A Historical Review of the Subjects of Primary Election, Taxation, and Railway Regulation (Classic Reprint).cE L Philipp

Political Reform in Wisconsin : A Historical Review of the Subjects of Primary Election, Taxation, and Railway Regulation (Classic Reprint)

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Author: E L Philipp
Page Count: 264 pages
Published Date: 26 Nov 2015
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Publication Country: United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9781331228486
File size: 14 Mb
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Excerpt from Political Reform in Wisconsin: A Historical Review of the Subjects of Primary Election, Taxation, and Railway Regulation At no period in the history of our state has there been so much political agitation as has made the last ten years memorable, and at no time, not excepting the stormy years immediately preceding and during the civil war, has so much bitterness been injected into our politics. To the student of history there is something strange and unaccountable in the story of recent political events in Wisconsin. It is an unusual thing to see a community change its public policy, the habits of a lifetime, and its leaders, almost in a breath; it is an unusual thing also to see a state that always has been regarded as one of the most conservative in the union suddenly, as if by the influence of some magic power, transformed into one of the most advanced, impatient, not to say intemperate "reform" states in the entire sisterhood. While it may be unduly dignifying the change in the political policy effected in Wisconsin at the beginning of the present decade to call it a bloodless revolution, it certainly was more than a mere change of administration, a substitution of one set of state officers for another of the same party. And it came suddenly, almost without warning. Whatever mutterings of discontent previously had been heard had all disappeared. While a peaceful calm rested upon the state following a campaign in which there had been protestations of harmony and good will on all sides; at a time when citizens were looking forward to real progress under the beneficent influences of peace and prosperity, the alarm was suddenly sounded, signal fires were set blazing upon the hill tops, the dogs of war were loosed and the clans were called out in battle array. For what? The history of the nations of the world records many revolutionary movements in the past, but usually there was a satisfactory and sufficient cause for them. It is found that people are, as a rule, slow to rebel against the constituted authorities without some well defined and clearly understood reason. They may protest against the enforcement of oppressive laws; they may revolt against corruption in public office; they may refuse to be unjustly taxed; or there may be other sins of omission or commission on the part of the public servants or rulers, as the case may be, which have become intolerable and which explain the citizens determination to have a political house-cleaning for the general public good. But that was not the case in Wisconsin. The student of history will look in vain in the records of this state for proof of corruption in public office, for evidence of public scandals of any character worthy of consideration. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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