The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1918-10-07
SENATOR SAYS
DON 7 LISTEN
To PEACE TALK
HON. W. s. KENYON OF IOWA
SCORNS GERMAN TALK OF
PEACE wHEE HERE.
Says It Is All German Propaganda to
finder tho Fourth Liberty Loan.

United States Senator W. S. Kenyon
! Of Iowa was Il distinguished visitor IN
Wheeling for L few hours yesterday.
: Senator Kenyon is high in tho offices
! OF the Knights Of Pythias. and through
the p"rSo1nl efforts OF Hon. Charles J.
Schuck, Mr. Kenyon consented 10 make
! Il spectral trip from Washington 20 nd
| dress tho great n. OF i. meeting that
was In have been held yesterday AFTER
noon al the Virginia theatre. when IL
! was learned late Saturday night that
/ all public meetings were 10 be- 'anceIeu.
; efforts were made IN get in touch with
senator Kenyon and notify him OF the
! situation. But these were not success
! full and the distinguished visitor APP
pcarcd as per schedule, arriving at 12;l5
over the Pennsylvania and was met at
| the depot by number Of prominent
! Pylhians and taken to the Mcclure no.
tel for the afternoon.
Members of the Liberty loan eSecu-
! tive committee, officers Of the fythian
order and many others called on Scna-
tor Kenyon To express their apprecia-
ton Of his coming To Wheeling and re-
GREETED that they were not To have the
opportunity to hear him. senator Ken
Won loft last evening ats $50 over the
Il. Il O. for Washington.
Speaking Ia m 1ntelligencer reporter.
tn" senator said:
Congress is very busy just now
with many important matters and | DO
I.not anticipate that there will be any
adjournment or recess before the regu-
liar session begins in December. iroD-
ably tho most important measure We
have to pass on is the revrnu" Dill.
concerning the national prohibition
rider, look for that to pass both houses
Of congress shortly and become law
II will absolutely prohibit the sale OF
alcoholic liquors in the United states
after July !. 1919. This great measure
r regard as simply tho forerunner OF
national prohibition by amendment to
tho constitution. Already n consider
able number Of states have endorsed
the amendment and do not think there
lis the least doubt that tho necessary
number Will do SO within two years
I time if not sooner
| Spcaking Of peace proposals sent OUT
by tho Tcutunir allies he said: / am
in favor of nothing hut an unconditional
surrender. and I>think the majority OF
! tho American people and our AIleS ha'
the same thought.
/ LAS one of tho members Of the con-
grcssional commission which went &c
Europe. I have seen some Of the das'
tardly work Of the Hun.
Saw Zeppelin Raid.
1T happened to be in London when
that city was the target OF Heppc!'r
mir raid and it was horrible. The VIC
Tins were mostly women and children
and to soc their mutiiltcd poolcs AM
the destruction. causes feciinG %
cleanliness to creep over the heart o.
the onlookcr. Shc wonderful sto'clSH
J.. I will yOT
, yet, They take their losses with great
= for,itudc and never sigh is heard"
WhSe chatting with ono Of the gov
H. nrnmcnt officials one day he told TINS
story: II came out of my office aftc'
8 working hours n few days ago and So"
q friend and his WIFI. We greeted escf
other and tho lady saids MT. -. W.
I have had great honor conferred upon
; us today: we have just received th'
/ announcement that our son was kii''N
: in battle in France Is ii not glorious
,n know thu, our beloved son died ir
! tho service OF his country That is '..'
british mind. and especially tho women
and have unbnundcd admiration lo'
the mothers. wives and sisters OF hl''
/. ain for their unsclhsh attitud" IN Trying
= tn win tho war.
"RcnrisalS should he made for every
. city and village ruined in Franco "uN
. belgium by the destruction OF II wv '"I
city and village and carry thiS ue"u'
parallel through To. the end of the war
THE Hun is very good Mt starting
hing hut poor m finishing IL lhrA
wcrc tho first to use poison gas anc tn'
nrst 70 lombard unfnrtifcd towns. ant
when the English nr French do t."
!, same thing on their territory they CITY
that il is unfair.
Germany Must Be Downed.
4 Never listen tn pcac" talk unth w,
4 many is comnletcly whipped. and whcr
saw whipped ! mean when Sh" is "n
4 oblo IN raise a finger Ia harm u"
a marity. o,o-o,,s
! Common dccency they never knew ~ :!
4 no liars murdnrcrs and rapists. o.
scending TO the lowest depths ~ =.
Iotiou. 4 solemn pledge to them Is
nero scrap Of paper and they are th'
B n,,,I,ws in the world Of nations.
"With NIL their prntcstati"nS "t pea
tho Tcutonic allies are in bctter' Si'np'
rirh, now than ever before IN rcea,'
80 tcrritorv. food and mineral wealth.
germany. even with Austria ana III
Inv nut Of the fight. now controls "'c
fonr hundred thousand sQuar" m'loS '"
territory which she has oTclruh "'''
4 conquered. -;a IN,
"'rhry have the wheat of kuSsln -"
I'll aids of Rumania and the cope
q ,,,;,as or Serbia and all these countrlc
Il to.minr with man power when Shc WI
nso whom the occasion suits so you Sc
j clio &c fir from tho end of her ~
'"ly'hrn the right kind Of peace IS n'
81 c1,red am in favor of taxing the on
q crrs and crew of every German ""N.
h r;nc every Zeppelin crew. every Al