Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1917-12-28
rtpnIII hTIlM of last issue to actual goa
UtnuuAHllUN subscribers ............. UCU
"KEEP THE HOME FIRES BURN
ING" AND THE MAN WITH THE
BUCKET OF WATER

IneY dream OF nome.
There's silver lining
Through the dark cloud shining
Turn the dark inside out
Till the boys come home.
The large audience at the gymna-
stun applauded the Junior highschOol
girls as they sang this Friday night.
1t has the right sentiment. 1t is the
right doctrine at this time. What
does it profit us to put men in the field
and have a back-fire at home or some
one at the hearth throwing cold water
on the blaze of patriotism?
We must live in the atmosphere of
today Once Benedict Arnold had the
unqualified admiration of the colon
lists. He had glOrified the struggle for
Liberty by his bravery at TiconderOga,
at Quebec and i'll saving the day at
Saratoga. But when he sold his birth
right of honor for few British SOY
creigns, no man ever received the
unanimous hatred and contempt of a
nation to such an extent as he.
These are no times to feed traitors
and dislOyalists with soft butter or to
kill an enemy with kindness. We have
no apology for plain-speaking at this
time. When a man is u traitor he is a
traitor and nothing more. There are
various ways of showing it one is the
support of men and measures calculat-
ed at this time to haraSS and embar-
raSs the government in the prosecution
of M NtvnF. hO 1ot,A rro1I
by attempting to set one class of men
against another and preaching the
doctrine of pacific Socialism
The one example of BergeriZed So
cialiSm i'll the county is the Rusk
County Journal. Stopped from the
mails. now kept from circulation by
express and sold only in open diSre-
gard of the rules of decency on the
streets of Milwaukee, the Berger paper
has its weak and snivelling counter
part IN the local journal.
And the Journal is not even honest
in its demagOgical ranting about its
pity and care for the poor. 1t sheds
its crocodile tears i'll one column,
damns the rich and when it comes to
Il show down, is the first to get in I'M
der the protecting wings of the corpor-
alton. Just let one of the men the
Journal loves to Iambaste as ''preda-
tory rich. ask that some article of
news be suppressed and see how quick
ly it syncOphantly Obeys the behest.
The function of a newspaper is to
print the news. That is why the Jour
llal for weeks, smarting under the fact
that the NeWs-Budget was beating it
ut all stages in the making of a news
paper, spent its nasty venom and
Sickly. peevish temper on this paper
That was the moving reason for its
attitude of constant criticism. 1t had
no time TO get the news only to at
tempt to be quarrelsome and show it's
whining temper.
When it comes to words and general
tiles about the suffering and down
trOdden, the journal scars in sea of
delusiOn to no goal in particular:
when it comes to the concrete the Jour.
nal serves. the corporation with equal
mental malfOrmatiOn. Note with what
SlaviSh zeal it is for the preservation
of the fOreign-Owned lighting plant
Were that corporation in Omaha or
IOkio. the Journal would be for NUM-
cipal ownership but here because the
Journal is the megaphOne of the in
tereStS that are behind the corpora
ton. the Journal is serving with the
zeal of the renegade and the hypOcrite
When it attacks the rich. it will then
lie seen that the Journal has rubber
teeth and not enameled fangs.
The Journal is sensitive and resent
full when it is called to account. after
1t has ruthleSsly assaulted almost
everyone in the county. Nothing suits
the Journal. 1t has the bucket of
water for every home fire 1t is not
cOntented with bucket full always
and then brings out its piddling hose.
Is there one thing that ever suits
the Journal? Whenever there is fire
o1 patriotism or something for the good
OF the people it is there with the bucket
OF water. We had the best fair ever
held in the county last fall: more adj
missions. more exhibits, more and bet
dtl tdillIc-Dul Ill went lOf nauSnC.
The whole blessed business was not to
the Journals liking. People are used
to the Journal and its snarling and
barking, and SO they chronicle it as
one more exhibit of the sort of thing
that follows a lack of nourishment and
general mental debility
Therefore, to those who do not know
about it we are desperately pleased to
inform the public that one thing for
the good of the city has had the sup
port of the Journal. Hail the glad
tidings of joy. Maybe it was the
Christmas cheer that did it; maybe
someone went round and told the
Journal to get in line for it-but how
ever it was insitgated it did happen
The Journal in it's issue of Dec 81
supported the purchase of Menasha