Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1916-02-26
SIGNS OF THE TIMES.
Milwaukee Writer Sets Forth His Con-
illusions About Things Politi-
cal in State.
(By Ellis b. Usher.)


against the disloyal Germans In this
state who are supporting the Ger
man-American Alliance and such
newspapers as the Milwaukee Free
Press and the Germania, and all these
in combination have made thousands
of votes for Wilson among Republi-
cans who never have voted for De-
mOcrat in their lifes. cansee and
feel this even in my small orbit. 1t is
sentiment that will grow, steadily,
| until election day, and with it will
grow the determination among all pa
triotic citizens of Wisconsin that no
man, white, black or copper colored,
shall be elected to office, this year,
who is aiding or abetting the denun-
citation of the government of the Uni
ted States, or the villification of the
President, who is the head of that
government.
No American Ia so narrow and pre-
JUDGED that he does not recognize the
perfect proprietv of personal sympa-
thy between the people of Wisconsin
and the Germans who are fighting in
Europe, who are their kindred. We
recognize the same situation as to our
British, Polish, Austrian and Italian
neighbors. But we recognize no right
on the part of any of them to criti-
else the government or institutions of
this country, and it makes no differ
ence where he halls from, that sort of
a celtic is public enemy. Unfort-
unately the bulk of the German blood
in Wisconsin has, like some of the
timid American blood, but, perhaps,
with more reason, allowed a very
small but noisy decentralization"
element to misrepresent it. AS / have
once said before, there are evidences
that Milwaukee has been under very
strict government surveillance, and is
yet, on account of this element. 1t is
even rum0red that the conspiracy to
invade Canada from the United States
which is getting prominence, just
now, has had its representatives in
milwaukee. This conspiracy is said
to ramify from Maine to California,
and 30 persons are now under indict-
ment inSan Francisco, for part in it.
The Milwaukee Free Press and Ger
mania have been so yirulent and abu-
siye of the government and president
that they have attracted more than
usual attention to Milwaukee, and as
their attitude has been one of unusu-
al insOlence, so has their influences
been calculated to arouse unusual
feeling among the large majority of
Milwaukee people. German blood
not excepted, whom they misrepre-
sent. To the Influence of the Free
Press is generally credited the signed
agreement of the Milwaukee Clear
ing House banks not to buy any Ang-
lo-French bonds. In other ways this
element has sought to intimidate pri-
vate citizens, the Free Press, for ex-
ample. had pretty touch, in an edi-
torial attack on me, about my bread
aid butter" and ] have had one or
two very insolent letters from outside
Milwaukee,.
The striking feature of this situa-
ton is that nobody else of any race
or color is abusing this government,
or the president, or attempting to in
timidate, with bombs, or otherwise,
any private business or citizens.
There are, think, more naturalized
Poles in Milwaukee, than there are
Germans. German immigration has
steadily fallen off, under the influence
of the Kaiser and the Pan-German
propaganda. for the past twenty-five
years, But / have heard of no Po-
lish-Ameriean hyphenates. The Nor
wegian immigration to Wisconsin has
slowly put steadily increased during
the same time but ksknow of no Nor
wegian-American society in this state.
There are about 10000 Belgians in
Brown county but / have heard of no
meetings among them to join Ted
dy" in an cutlery against Mr.. Wilson
for not going to war with Germany.
The citizens of Wisconsin of German
blood who love American institutions
will do we'll TO ponder these facts.
The past ten days have given new
emphasis to the fact that Senator La
Toilette in his department of LaFol-
lette Weekly, has tor many months
been catering to the Germans, of the
Germania element especially. 1t is
an open secret that the LaFollette
candidates have been getting their
biographies put into German at that
establishment. The Senator himself
has been talking embargo in his pa
per, and objecting in the senate TO
measures for preparedness. 1t is well
understood that Mr.. McGovern's law
partner is the head of the Free Press
and of the propaganda of that paper
against the government, 1t has been