The Wisconsin Idea
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BY
CHIEF, WISCONSIN LEGISLATIVE REFERENCE DEPARTMENT
New York
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
1912
All rights reserved
Copyright, 1912
By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.
Set up and electrotyped. Published March, 1912.
Norwood Press
J. S. Cushing Co.—Berwick & Smith Co.
Norwood, Mass., U.S. A.
To
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 Norse 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.
ERRATUM
Page 36: Quotation credited to the author of The American Commonwealth, beginning "Such was the beginning of the dynasties of absolution" etc., should have been credited to A. B. Stickney.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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CHAPTER I
1 |
CHAPTER II
19 |
CHAPTER III
34 |
CHAPTER IV
88 |
CHAPTER V
124 |
CHAPTER VI
156 |
CHAPTER VII
172 |
CHAPTER VIII
194 |
CHAPTER IX
233 |
CHAPTER X
273 |
APPENDIX
307 |
309 |
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319 |
This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.
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