Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1914-10-06
SMELLS OF TREASON.
Ex-maYor John Lamont Gives the Re-
publican Press of Our State Some
thing to Think About.

| L AC AOilOWAuS ID ICttCi 1iOi4 i1A
mayor John F. Lamont of this city Il
the publisher of the Oconto Enter
prise. 1t tells some plain truths anc
should be placed In the hands of every
voter in Wisconsin. Every peace
loving citizen should vote to sustain
President Wilson. Read this letter
Wausau, Wis, Sept. 25, 1914
Hon. P. A. BADoUR,
OCoNTo, WISCONSIN.
Dear Mr.. Badour
was much impressed with your
editorial on the attitude of the DEM
ocratic Country Press in reference to
the result in the Primary. / was one
of those Democrats who actively sup
ported Mr.. Aylward for Governor;
but now that majority of my party
has decided that Mr.. Karel should
have that nomination / shall be just
as active in his support as l would
have been had Mr.. Aylward been
nominated.
In contrast with the attitude of
the Democratic Press of the state you
noticed the position taken by the
Stalwart Republican Press with refer
ence to national matters?
The rivers of Europe run red with
the blood of innocent people. Vast
armies march through the land.
Great guns thunder death and deyas-
tation in cities where all were happy
and content few months ago. Wo-
men are widowed and children made
orphans. Homes are destroyed, wives
outraged, babies murdered. Twenty
million men have forgotten God, and,
nineteen hundred years after the
birth of Christ have by instinct re-
turned to the barbarous savagery of
the cave man. The stupendous hor-
ror of it all must strike terror to the
heart of thinking man. We in our
American homes cannot begin to real
ize the fearfulness of it all. And yet
il is but step from the peaceful
quietness of my home and Of yours
into a struggle justas terrible. There
is only one human agent that stands
between that condition and ours. /
firmly and honestly believe that if it
were not for Woodrow Wilson, by the
grace of God President of the United
Stotac that tbio onuptru mould to1av
be bathed ia blood and our sons
would be marching forth to become
targets for modern machine guns.
Our wives would be widowed and our
daughters in danger of outrage. If
our Presidents Christian courage or
his craftsmanship should fail for an
instant nothing could save us from
war. Our people would then become
as savages and the work of our lives
become as naught through the deyas-
tation of our beautiful land.
And yet, Brother Badour, have you
noticed the attitude of the Stalwart
Republican Press of Wisconsin? Turn
to their editorial page and you will
find that it smells of treason. There
seems to be concerted effort to be-
little the President and everything he
does. By inuendo, they sneer at his
peace policy. They belittle his efforts
to keep up prosperity. They are, per-
sistently and in concerted action,
trying to destroy the confidence of
the people in the President. They
would gladly plunge this country in
to all the horrors of war that they
might gain party supremacy. Under
any reasonable Interpretation they
are traitors. l am proud of my Amer
ican citizenship. They have none.
AN appeal should be made to every
man and woman in Wisconsin to
stand by the President in this trying
time. The Stalwart Republican Press
of Wisconsin should be rebuked. In
the coming election we should give
the President vote of confidence by
sending to Washington solid Demo
cratic Congressional delegation; one
that will work with him and for him.
Give him a Democratic Governor in
Wisconsin and serve notice on the
world that we are American citizens
and that we have no use for traitors.
A vote for the Democratic ticket this
fall is vote of confidence in the
President. A vote for the Stalwart
Republican ticket in this state is a
vote of censure for the President.
Very truly yours,
JOHN +. LAMONT.