Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-02-19

dams. They don't belong to you.
You're not going to sacrifice yourself
and deny to save some one else's
property. Why should you butt in?
Well, the danger is here-and it's
real. Instead of calling it threat
ening flood, call it War!
| War, with all the horrors and terror
that make, in comparison, all the i'm
aginings of the frightfulness of He'll,
appear like peaceful haven of con-
tentment War, which if the barriers
which now dam it's frightful onrush
give way, will with its iron heel and
mailed fist crush, ruin and enslave.
| Does it make any difference now
who built and owned the dams? Does
/ it make any difference now who
started the War or who or why we got
into it? We are in. Boloism and
bolsheviki will not help us out or
save our blessed heritage of freedom
and liberty. We must save and main
tain that heritage ourselves. "There's
not to reason why! There's but to
dO-and die"-if need be, that others
may continue to live in peace under
the Flag whose every red stripe bears
witness of the blood of heroes
whose every white stripe SYM
bolizes the nobleness and purity of it's
women who bore men and gave them
to the cause of human freedom
whose blue field and stars have
beckoned men of all nations and
bound them as human brotherhood
in land of opportunity and plenty.
A Flag for which men have died, that
generations to come may live with all
the opportunity for which the Cross
was raised on Calvary.
And you came to this land, or your
father came before you, that yours
too might be this blessed heritage for
which men died and women suffered. |
And now there is danger, Are you
standing on the side lines trying to |
make yourself believe that whatever |
comes it will pass by you and yours
and leave you unharmed? Or, are
you going to fall into line and Go and |
give all that must be to prove worthy
of your birthright? Or, are you go
ing to camouflage with a Red Cross
button and Thrift Stamp, hoping
that will evidence your loyalty and |
entitle you to the respect of decent |
worthy men and women?
Are you one of those who must be |
jolted into real realization of this |
danger by having the first page of |
your paper devoted to lists of killed |
and wounded, and your neighbors'
for the dead? Don't you
know, that unless there is on your
part wholehearted cooperation apd |
loyalty in every way, that you are a
blot upon this community, and that
to criticize, doubt or complain, makes
you fostering sore, that because of |
its contagion should be quarantined
and interned? Don't you know, that
when all over this country the news
is flashed that 49O3 supposedly loyal,
law abiding democrats and republi-
cans permit a vote of 470 socialists
to leap into a vote of 2600 voicing
disloyalty and disapproval, that you
disgrace and shame and humiliate
the boys who left home and all, and
went to the front to maintain Ameri-
can manhood and freedom? Are you
as proud today to say to the stranger
II am from Wausau' as you were
tefore last Tuesday when the results
of the special election point the finger |
of scorn to what was the best city in |
This is no time for politics and the |
of selfish purposes. Men
and women now are divided into only |
two classes: those who are whole
heartedly loyal, ready to do and give |
all at all times, and those who are
disloyal. What are you? And, What
are you going to do about it!