The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1918-03-14
MEET NIGHT WITH MIGHT"
Milwaukee Lawyer, Addressing st. Mat
thew's Mems Club Decries Hallway
Measures Use Stone wall
Movies Are Good.

There is only one way to fight
this war and that is by meeting might
with might. The devil has taken the
kaiser to the top of higk mountain
and from this pinnacle shown him
Paris, London, and New York. these
are all yours, if you will only
worship me, he has whispered seduc-
lively; and the autocrat has answered
not Get thee behind me, Satan, but
Lead on and I will follow He is
following -diabolically, too, and will
continue his satanic progress until we
meet him with his own methods and
hoist him on his own sword s"
This was the essence of the message
brought to the members of st. Mat
thew's Mems Club on Tuesday eve.
ming at Guild Hall, when they were
favored with an address. by Wheeler
2. Bloodgood of Milwaukee, a man
whose wide experience with life and
the law has made him something Of a
mentor on questions of both peace and
war.
The speaker plead especially for
military methods in holding the civil
ian lines in the war. Pointing the
dangers of espionage and propaganda,
he urged drastic measures for their
SUPPRESSION and cited the experiences
of England and France as iustifca-
ton of stone-wall and fring-squad PEN
alties for spies and traitors of all de-
grees. He demonstrated how the work
of master-spy had practically null
lifted the activities of a whole divis-
ion and how the perfidy of minor
traitors had resulted in the destrue-
ton of whole companies and regi-
ments along the firing line out there.
eve have 100000 fighting men in
France" he declared with passionate
fervor And by September that mum
Der will have reached the million
mark. Thereafter others will be sent
to the front as rapidly as they can
DE trained and carried from America
to Europe. It is our duty to protect
those men. They cannot expect to
save their lives and ours with an in
sidious propaganda or a treacherous
system of espionage stabbing them in
the back before they have had
chance to perform the work entrusted
to them
Subsequently Mr. Bloodgood ex-
planned the nature and sources Of
German propaganda in America. He
gave especial attention to the. dirty,
nasty, vicious pamphlets circulated
in camps and factories, which he de-
clared were "made in Germany" with
the intention of stimulating a Bolshe-
wiki revolution in the United States.
He also read statistics to show recent
losses in incendiary enemy fres'' and
cited facts to prove the presence of
well-developed German conspiracies in
various parts of Michigan and other
states of the Union.
"The time for calmness and unim-
passioned words has passed. he de-
clared in conclusion. sfOur soldiers
at the front will fight and fight eff
fectively if they are backed up by the
folks back home. Not a spy or traitor
must escape if that third line is kept
intact. In this way and in this way
only will victory be brought to ma
ton never defeated and never to be
defeated in fight for a just cause. ("
Mr.. Bloodgood's address followed an
excellent dinner served in the banquet
room of Guild Hail. The festivities
of the evening concluded with several
reels of moving pictures showing ac-
tivities along the western front dur
ing the summer just past. Various
episodes presented the big guns in ac-
ton, the caterpillar tanks, creeping ir-
across No Man s Land and
through the Wanted Hindenburg line,
and the victorious Tommies, cheering
the armored monsters as they re-
turned in triumph from the lines be-
fore Arras and Cambria.
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