Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1917-10-31

nlkalg1n; that they have read the or.
ticle setting forth In detail it, virtues
and the specific cases In which n hos
been used, and that rerorts on
the subject are to be made to the mad,-
cal department within shor. time
There are certain things CONCERNING
this discovery for which so much has
been claimed, that must be said rs ur.
questionably rejecting the views or
Uncle Sans army surgeons. They will
decline, as they believe the medicoI
profession elsewhere will decline. 10
experiment on soldiers with anvthiug
new and untried. A wounded man In
the midst of his suffering is not. ~.
cording to their belief, one upon whom
experiment should be made. The
known agencies of relief only should
be used.
There are other ways OF trying ont
the virtues of nikalgln and they will hs
used. In fact the American Medical
association, according to information
given to me by surgeon of the sery-
ice, already has investigated nikalgin
L. n
citation, l am told, is now conductive
another series of experiments because
so the word is, the first trials did NOT
bear out the claims which were made
1t is known that representative az
the British medical department, who
recently came to the United States has
told the surgeons that up to the time
he left the home office nikalgin had NOT
been given a trial there. A French
surgeon recently arrived has said the
same thing, but as soon as the story
of demonstration of nikalgin in Eng
land and in France was read, reports
from the medical officers of the two
countries were asked for, and soon
will be received in Washington.
Almost Fear to Make War Talk.
One reason for the desire of con-
gress to have some weeks intervene
between the end of one session
and the beginning of the next Is
that periodically inclined members,
Democrats and Republicans, can go
forth into their districts to talk to
their constituents on the war and the
necessity of driving it hard to VIC
tory for democracy.
Republican congressman, and par
ticularly those who represent western
districts, are a trifie disturbed over
the prospect. They do not like to be
deaf to the summons, and yet they
fear that the results may be damag-
ing to their political fortunes. 1t may
seem curious that any man can think
that his appeals to people to stand by
their country may work anything but
good to him and his cause, and yet
there seems reason in a way for the
fear of some of the members that they
may lose by their efforts.
In order that ! might get the real
basis for the fear that political ill-f0r-
tune may await the Republicans who
volunteer to speak in behalf of vigOr-
Gus war measures, l sought out a
member of congress of that party from
district in New England, where the
war spirit is higher than it Is In the
West, and where, presumably, speak
ing member could not suffer by telling
his neighbors that they must stand for
war as mighty nation should con-
duct it.
The New England Republican to
whom | talked will be candidate for
reelection next year. He said:
"There is nigh war spirit in Eearly
all parts of my district. There are
some sections, however, where the PEG"
pie need information in order to bring
them to the point of Willingness TO
sanction all the government measures
necessary to put through this big thing
in which we are engaged. The mere
preaching of a driving war in behalf
| of democracy will n0t hurt me at the
polls, but there is something which IS
likely to hurt me and every Repub-
| lican candidate in the country.
"The people in the main do not dif-
| ferentiate between the government, or
to put it better, between the United
| States and the administration. There
is no party of opposition in congress
| today-that is, no party of opposition
to war. The men in congress who are
| opposed to the war are to be t0und III
| both parties, and there are only re"
| of them.
Dilemma of the Republicans.
when we Republicans go out 70
speak in behalf of hearty support
for the government, many OF our near
| ers will take this to mean that we
desire a hearty support for the admin
| istration. So we will, in way, Dut
we will not mean that we are pleading
for the support of the administration
in it's endeavors along lines which nave
nothing to do with the war.
1--WE cannot expect, however, tha'
the people will make this distlnctioh
and they are the more certain not 10
make it because we would destroy all
the force of what we have to say IL We
tried to discriminate between an eur
! dorsement of the administration ID ll0
war efforts and an endorsement u 10
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