Excerpt from The Wisconsin Idea
Thanks to the movement for genuinely democratic popular government which Senator La Follette led to overwhelming victory in Wisconsin, that state has be come literally a laboratory for wise experimental legis lation aiming to secure the social and political better ment of the people as a whole. Nothing is easier than to demand, on the stump, or in essays and editorials, the abolition of injustice and the securing to each man of his rights. But actually to accomplish practical and effective work along the line of such utterances is so hard that the average public man, and average public writer, have not even attempted it; and unfortunately too many of the men in public life who have seemed to attempt it have contented themselves with enacting legislation which, just because it made believe to do so much, in reality accomplished very little.
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Co The hard-handed men who broke the prairie, hewed the forests, made the roads and bridges, and built little homes in the wilderness. to the nokse lumberjack and the forty-eight german and the men of the iron brigade, and all toilers who, by their sweat, made possible our schools, a great university, and all the good that is with us. to the legislators, always criticised and never praised. They that dig foundations deep. Fit for realms to rise upon. Little honor do they reap. Of their generation. Kipling.
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