The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1918-08-01

This newspaper is member Of The
Wisconsin Patriotic Press Association
and pledges its uncomproniising loyalty
to our government in this war.
>o'>o~WfR What Doth Il Proft7 '~o~'-oo~
The pertinent question today to peo-
pile of the first district Of Wisconsin is:
What does it profit if we make the
supreme sacrifice and send thousands of
our boys to the battle front and then
send man to Congress who is to be
lukewarm in the support Of these
boys?" It is the question that the
parents and brothers and sisters Of
twenty-five hundred boys from Kenosha
county are asking. They know that
these boys have marched away filed
with the patriotism of war, determined
to do their part to make the world a
decent place to live in and these people
feel that it is important that they have
a man representing the first district in
Congress who is going to back these
boys to the limit regardless Of political
demands or personal opinion as to his
belief in Germany or German people.
People are beginning to know that
only one phase of the - drive for
victory" is to be fought on the battle
fields Of Europe. Just as important a
phase is going to be fought in the
House of Representatives at Washing
ton during the next two years. The
boys over there are taking chances
desperate chances-and when they take
them they have a right to expect that
the people at home are going to back
them up to the letter.
There is not faint of Germanism
in any of the boys Kenosha has sent
to war. There must not be the sug-
gestion of friendliness to the Hun in
the man we send to Congress-
We do not want any man in Congress
who has been considered "safen to
vote for the interests Of Germany in
this war. We do not want man who
felt that way before war was declared
His sympathy might still be warped in
favor Of that same Germany he was
ready to protect before actual hostili-
ties were declared. We want man in
Congress who is going to stand for
America and against Germany. A man
who has no lingering idea that posi-
bly, after all it would be crime to
disremember Germany. We want a
man who believes that the limit must
be taken to secure peace and peace
which will be free Of the suggestion
"Made in Germany
The present representative of the
district in Washington is declared to
be about to take the stump to answer
suggestions that he has outlived his
usefulness as a representative of the
district.
He should be asked to answer peril
nent questions. There should be no
half hearted appeal to him to Nwave
the grand old flag but he should be
asked to get right down to bed rock
and explain. Undoubtedly he will elo-
quently respond, but the thing is to
have him speak in facts rather than in
parallels camouhaged with eloquence.
In this campaign the people of the
first district are not going to presume
to pass on the opinions of President
Wilson or any other member of the
national administration as to their
views before war was declared. These
men must settle with the people for
their opinions and their actions when,
they are again before the people for
political preferment. We are not at
this time arguing the position taken
by the Governor of the state. He
must stand on his own record and ans
wer to the people for it. Where the
President stood and where the Cover
nor stood has nothing to do with what
the people of the first district demand
of their representative in Congress.
Highly colored statements of the
great service of Mr.. Cooper in Com
gress" viii not deceive any one. The
people want to know that the man they
send TO Congress is man who is go
ing to be all the way American, regard
elss of the stand of any one else in
authority. 1t must be man who will not
go into a political caucus to determine
what the right is. 1t must be man
who can in his own mind and in the
light Of his own loyalty and patrio-
tism vote for the right regardless of
the stand of the rest Of his colleagues
from Wisconsin.
Wisconsin must wipe out the stain of
being out Of step with the nation. The
records will show that forty-seyen