Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1917-12-21
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CLEARING UP A LITTLE BRUSH

The editor of the Rusk County Jour-
nal appears to be in the last stages OF
dissolution. He is already picking at
the counterpane He is continually
the victim of Authorizations and over
the foot of the bed there peer distOrt-
ed faces and forms of misShapen ideas.
1t may be that this is but transition
to a higher and better life. 1t may be
that when the rags and mental dirt of
the present are shaken off, he will
emerge like the butterfly from its
chrysaIis. with beautiful wings and a
new viewpoint of life. Still, SO long
as a grub worm is a grub worm. that's
all it can be. BY the time the next
Liberty Loan is before the people.
March LIST. the transition from the cat
erpiller to the butterfly may be COM
plete. 1t will be pleasure then to
he able to chronicle the fact that all of
the newspapers in Rusk county are
heartily in favor of the loan and give
to the movement all the support in
their power. 1t will be greater
pleasure to see that the Rusk County
JOttfIIl HAS lOGSdheU Tic DOl-
sheyiki. and class hatred.
The nine million people who bought
the two billion four hundred thousand
dollars worth of bonds are not kicking.
Nor are the $4,000 men and firms
which took two billion more. 1t was
neither rich mans nor a poor mans
loan: it belonged to the people of the
country. The attempt to crawl behind
the prO-German cry that this was
rich mans war failed utterly and the
NewS-Budget said so. The other state
ment reiterated over and over by the
sneaking secOnd-story enemies of the
Government. that the poor were being
asked to take on the burdens of the
war, when it came to the bond issue
was answered with equal emphasis by
the enormous subscriptions by the few.
Plainly therefore it was all splendid
demonstration of the fact that the
whole nation was working as one man,
each according to his means. The
Kaiser woke up to the unity behind
the war
There was no burden imposed upon
anyone There will be none i'm the
next effort to sell bonds Whatever
is done is voluntary. No one is asked
TO give Uncle Sam a cent. Whenever
a man. however, who is well-known to
he in position to buy, or one who in
terferes with the purchase of bonds
by some one else. and does or did not
invest, he is now and will be autOmat-
ically put in the Stacker column where
he belongs. In that same column goes
also the man who fosters diSSensiOn,
distrust and discomfort. He may blow
his horn until kingdom come about
his loyalty, but he remains a dema-
gOgic desloyalist.
The result of the loan has as one of
IFS striking features, the effect in
mOney-saving. Hundreds have laid
ny little for bond when they never
before saved a penny. They have an
Investment and they can realize on
it any moment. In most every store in
the country the bonds are taken in pay
ment for purchases. And yet the poor.
feeble person whose chief stock in
trade is an effort to foment class ha-
tired. would have one believe that the
Government wanted everybody to hand
over to Uncle Sam at least $50 and get
nothing
Two weeks ago the News-Budget said
III its closing paragraph analyZing
the Liberty Loan:
This is not a rich mans or
poor mans war; it is war of the
people and the man who stands
back and endeavors to raise class
hatred and to pit the poor against
the rich or the rich against the
less well-tO-dO. is Il traitor and as
dislOyal as the sneak who puts
the bomb under the factory
These words are repeated for the
S0lace of the editor of the Rusk County
Journal as he picks the lint from the
bed-clotheS and brushes at imaginary
objects which go floating past his dis
tOrted vision.