Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1914-10-30
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Bro. Bell instilled more ginger into
| the News-Budget editorial columns
| last week than it had shown for
many moons. He calls us a Socialist,
reads us out of the Republican par
ty. says we live in glass house and
throws a 16-inch challenge bomb in
to our midst. Good! Go to it! Hoch
der party! A bas les Independence!
Raus nit der constitutionallsche
amendments! Back to the simple life
and the political barrel!
Throw a few more bombs, just to
keep things going. Call us an anar-
chistic demagOgue or a demagoglc
anarchist. Charge us with attempting
to undermine the pillars of liberty
and knock the shingles off the tempt
of justice. Some of the things you
say sound strangely like similar
charges we have heard from other
sources, but that doesn't matter. Ii
you can't think of anything mean
enough, you know where you can get
it. "Lay on, Macduff, and damned be
he who cries, hold, enough. =
Journal
After Brother Maloney glibly APP
piled the epithets, ''slave" and
pawn" to all who failed to endorse
the Independent candidacy of Blaine
for governor, he seems terribly in
suited at being classed as a socialist
masquerading as republican, in
fact. he seems to think we had
exerted our meager mntal capacity
to the utmost in thinking up as mean
a thing as we could say. But isn't
our statement true, brother? Are
you willing to say that you are not
a socialist, and that you haven't
openly admitted it to many, includ-
ing the writer? Be candid, once, and
instead of subterfuge and inuendo,
say, yes or no, if you are not a So
cialist. Don't you believe-to get
down to the brass tacks that you
so often ask others TON govern
ment ownership of the machinery of
production and distribution, car
dinal principle of Socialism?
You say: "Following, in brief, are
the principles of the Republican par
ty, which we believe in and which
in a feeble way we have tried to
support: Primary election law Con
troll and regulation of railroads and
other public utilities. Income tax.
Civil service law. WOrkmen's com
pensation law. Corrupt practices law.
Referendum, and recall"
There is nothing in the advocacy
of those principles that would be in
compatible to being a socialist. You
lent reforms that have been enacted
into laws by republican administra-
tions in the past and which have
been endorsed by both the demo
Gratis and socialists. You fail to state
your position on a single fundamental
republican principle, such as a tariff
for the protection of American la
Dor and industries, that recognizes
the imperative need of American in
dustry for protection from the cheap
er cost of production abroad. Your
article is evasive, not frank.
We have no less respect for man
because he believes in the principles
Of Socialism, but we do not like to
see people parading under false col
ors. Take off the mask.
You were free to criticize the
Bruce Newsletter for not giving
the democratic ticket stronger sup
port Surely that should not worry a
loyal republican sheet, such as the
Journal! The truth is, you are not
half as frank and willing to show
your hand as you would have peo-
pie believe. If you were there would
be no occasion for anyone to Won
der whether you were supporting re-
publican nominees for county office
or not.
Your course in the campaign has
failed to disclose the slightest solicit
tude or interest in the success of
the republican party or it's ticket;
you give anyone the impression that
because the nominations did not go
to suit you you would rejoice in re-
publican defeat.
If this is loyalty to the republican
party and ticket, the Lord save us
from our friends.