Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1917-11-23
II THIS BE NOT AID AND COM
FORT TO OUR ENEMIES THEN
WHAT is?

zion in these columns on several occa.
sions to the Medford Sun, and its more
than apparent hostility to this govern
ment. When pushed to the wall it has
protested that it was not pro
German. But it takes a back-handeC
swipe at everything done to press the
war. From last weeks issue we gath
er a few paragraphs. The first from
why [ am opposed to the war;
I wish | could give you fully
frankly and in detail the reasons
for my opposition to the war. But
it is impossible, for some pinhead
official might unearth something
which to his intelligence might APP
pear reasonable or SeditiOus or
what. not.
And then:
Only by employing the most
peculiar sort of sOphistry, by the
lowest kind of intellectual chican-
cry, can this war be declared to
be defensive in character.
And this sort of thing:
We have no right
to FORCE our children to sacri-
flee themselves for the children of
other nations.
| saw the sinister elements that
were anxious to drag us into the
war.
the most brutal, most re-
dictionary, most ruthless enemies
of mankind were for it,
Now then he sums it all up in th
article by Voice in the Wilderness
If | had been in favor of war the
hypocrisy that made itself mani
fest from the first day of our en-
try into it, the rOwdyiSm in high
and low places, the impudent vio-
latiOns of their Oaths by those
sworn to uphold the Constitution,
the breaking up and prohibition
of peaceable meetings, the arrest
and Imprisonment of innocent
speakers and writer's, the barring
from the mails of numerous lib
eral publications, the dragging of
| people into the war against their
will in spite of the promise that
| this was to be ''in no sense a con-
| scriptiOn of the unwilling" the
brutal threats against the cOnsci-
| enti0uS ObjectOr worse than in
any other belligerent country
the illegal deportation of thou
| sands of workingmen-we went
| into Mysteries over the deportation
| of Belgians by the Germans-the
tampering with peoples private
sealed mail-reminding one of the
| darkest days of darkest Russia
| these and numerous other high
| handed actions of an autOcracy
| run mad, would have made me bit
| ter and antagonistic towards it.
What kind of stuff is this to feed
patriotic people? And the worst of
is that Mr.. Fauteck seems able to g
away with it in his city. We doubt
Kaiser Wilhelm or the oily and sua
| Ambassador Bernstorff, who was pr
| testing his love for the United Stat
while he was paying out thousands
| dollars for dynamite Outrages al
propaganda of disloyalty, adding a
son and murder to his gentle dipl
macy, could have written a more pc
feet article to give aid and comfort
| the enemy"
Therefore having read this and beil
| familiar with the general tenor of Il
| MedfOrd Sull-and Mr.. Fauteck
careful to- scissor anything that m;
bolster up the enemies of the cover
ment-nO one need be surprised to fiji
in the same issue on the front page, Il
editorial defense of those who did n
buy Liberty bonds, clipped from Il
issue of the Rusk County Journal,
| Nov 8. 1t all seemed to be in perfe
harmony and to fit in like the proven
ial glove with the policy of the Me
| ford Sun. Indeed How pleasant it
| for brethren to dwell together
unity Also and everywhere, ''Birt
of a feather flock together"
ONE MORE WARD