1911. 
THE RURAL MBW-Y01*I*.;b;E2. 
1X03 
Brighter Days in Washington. 
As I sat in the Senate gallery the day 
of last August when the reciprocity bill was 
on its passage, and I looked into the faces 
of nearly every Senator now in Congress, I 
could not help thinking of the wonderful 
change in six short years. Then Senator 
LaFollette was the only Progressive in that 
body. lie was looked on as a freak and 
made the butt of ridicule. When I sat in 
the Senate gallery last August the Progres¬ 
sives had increased to 30 with a few near- 
Progressives. By Progressives I do not 
mean Insurgent Bepublicans. There are 
Progressives in both parties and they are 
able to ignore party lines. There are Re¬ 
actionaries in both parties and they also 
ignore party lines at times, as they did fre¬ 
quently in the late special session. 
Who are the Progressives and where do 
they come from, and why are they increased 
in number so soon ? For nearly 40 years 
the Senate has been a millionaires’ club. It 
is not true to-day. Why? 
Who are the Progressives in the Senate? 
Let me name them : LaFollette, of Wiscon¬ 
sin. Cummins and Kenyon of Iowa, Clapp of 
Minnesota. Bristow of Kansas, Gore and 
Owen of Oklahoma, Culberson of Texas, 
Works of California, Bourne and Chamber- 
lain of Oregon, Kern and Shively of Indiana, 
Pomerene of Ohio, Poindexter of Washing¬ 
ton, Newlands of Nevada. Borah of Idaho, 
Gronna of North Dakota. Crawford of South 
Dakota, Brown and Hitchcock of Nebraska, 
Dixon and Meyers of Montana, Clark and 
Davis of Arkansas, Lee of Tennessee, Smith 
of 'South Carolina. Martino of New Jersey, 
Townsend of Michigan, and Reed of Mis¬ 
souri. (Add Gardner of Maine.—Eds.) 
Twenty-three States are represented by 
those 30 Progressives, and they come prin¬ 
cipally from the West and Central West. It 
will be noted that each of the 16 States 
sending one Progressive has also a Reaction¬ 
ary Senator. In nearly all these States Pro¬ 
gressives will in all probability replace the 
Reactionaries at the next election of a Sena¬ 
tor. Why is this probable? Because nearly 
all of these States have the primary in some 
form. That is why so soon have the Pro¬ 
gressives increased from one to 30. That 
is why there will soon be other Progressives 
replacing the Reactionaries in those States. 
The people are Progressive, and when they 
get the means of recording their will their 
Senators will be of the Progressive stamp. 
The primary, with its related ideas of gov¬ 
ernment. the initiative, referendum and re¬ 
call, spells Progress. These measures are 
not party measures. They are found in 
States controlled by either partv. In fact 
they do away largely with party" which is a 
thing for which we should he grateful. Prin- 
< iples should govern, not parties, and princi¬ 
ples will govern when the people have their 
will carried out in legislation. This wave 
of Progressive ideas is sweeping over the 
fountry from the West, and will reach the 
Atlantic befdre we are aware of it. 
The House is already Progressive. With 
the Senate Progressive the Federal courts 
'vill soon be made to conform to the new 
ideas. There is a strong probability that 
the next President will be a Progressive. 
The movement is so strong in both parties 
that it will be almost impossible to elect 
another reactionary President. With a Pro¬ 
gressive President and a Progressive Con¬ 
gress the courts would soon be changed in 
composition that would represent the public 
opinion of progress. 
This change of the Senate has been com¬ 
plemented by a similar change in the State 
governments. There are many strong Pro¬ 
gressive governors, especially in the same 
23 States. Among them are Wilson of New 
Jersey, Stubbs of Kansas, Osborne of Michi¬ 
gan. Johnson of California, McGovern of 
Wisconsin. These States are placing laws 
on the statute books that look to the rights 
of the people. Property has rights, but 
these rights should not stand above the 
rights of men to life and liberty, and the 
pursuit of happiness. It has been too long 
held that property rights were above human 
rights. “Equal rights to all and special 
privileges to none” is the correct view, and 
will more and more govern now that the 
people have found a way to voice their opin¬ 
ions and have those opinions represented. 
Misrepresentatives have too long controlled 
our legislatures both State and nation. A 
brighter day is dawning, in which this will 
more nearly approximate the idea of a gov¬ 
ernment of the people, by the people, and 
for the people. f. n. c. 
AILING ANIMALS. 
Indigestion. 
Why should my mule act as he does? He 
eats 15 quarts of oats a day, also good 
Timothy hay, is salted once a week, and is 
fat, but has a heavy coat of hair. He 
starts out in morning quite brisk, but after 
working 30 minutes he is wet with sweat 
and pants like a dog, sometimes drops down 
in harness and stretches out and groans. 
Does not roll. Collar fits perfectly. He 
cannot stand as much work as an 18-year- 
old mare. M. e. j. 
New York. 
Have the mule clipped at once, and that 
may prove sufficient to relieve him of the 
trouble described. Cut the grain ration in 
half and add one-fifth part of wheat bran 
to the oats fed. Allow free access to rock 
salt; otherwise allow a little salt daily. 
Give the drinking water before feeding. 
Do not feed any bulky food at noon when 
the mule has to work. Have the stable per¬ 
fectly ventilated. 
Swelling 
I have an old horse in first class condi¬ 
tion, apparently, good appetite, runs in 
pasture quite some and feels good, but 
lately one of his hind legs has swollen up 
over night and goes down after some use; 
did not seem to bother him until one day 
last week, when he went quite lame. Re¬ 
cently it swelled up double its normal size 
and he was very lame. Can you suggest the 
trouble and remedy, if any? a. r. n. 
New Y’ork. 
Possibly the horse is interfering and 
causing the swelling and lameness; but it 
would be well to make sure that he is free 
from farcy. That disease is indicated by 
button-like nodes on the swollen part and 
they break, discharge and leave ulcers 
when they tardily heal. It is the skin form 
of glanders, and an affected horse has to 
be destroyed according to State law. It 
may be that the swelling is simple stocking 
of the leg due to indigestion and poor cir¬ 
culation. For that brisk hand-rubbing of 
the part followed by swathing with cotton 
batting and application of a bandage usu¬ 
ally proves beneficial. 
Weak Udder; Weight of Milk. 
1. Will camphor or saltpeter be injurious 
to a milking cow, used in bathing her 
udder to strengthen the muscles, as they 
have dropped dowu in one quarter? 2. 
What will milk weigh to the quart? 
C. V. G. 
1. Camphor tends to dry off milk flow; 
saltpeter would be useless for the purpose 
mentioned. Bathe with a combination of 
two parts alcohol and four parts extract of 
witch hazel, and if necessary put on a 
suspensory bandage to relieve drag of ud¬ 
der. 2. Roughly calculated, a quart weighs 
about two pounds. 
Weak Stifle. 
We have an eight-months-old colt that 
slipped his stifle out of place when small. 
Instead of weakness getting better it gets 
worse, if anything. I do not think it slips 
out; at least we have not seen it do so 
except the first time. Have you any sug¬ 
gestion for helping it? w. g. 
New Jersey. 
In such cases the patella of stifle tends 
to slip out and in as the colt walks. Clip 
off the hair and rub tbe region of the stifle 
joint with a liniment composed of one 
ounce each of turpenine and aqua am¬ 
monia, four ounces of druggists’ soap lini¬ 
ment* and water to make one pint. Shake 
before using. Do not severely blister the 
skin. 
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