Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1918-11-06
NOT IN THE BEST INTERESTS OF
THE GOVERNMENT, EVEN
WHEN WELL MEANT.
BIG FIGHT STILL TO COME
One Lesson We Are Learning From
the War Is to Be Less Wasteful-
Fugitive Discussions of the Next
Presidential Campaign.
BY ARTHUR DUNN.

Neutrality-suspicious. the people
who discuss and publish articles
about the early ending of the war do
not know that they are assisting in
sort of German propaganda. To talk
about ending the war now or seeing
the end Immediately is not to the
test interests of the government. Very
likely earnest people who want the
Germans well trounced are among
those who talk an early ending OF the
var. Possibly they are nor pacif1sts,
but over-enthusiastic Americans who
think that the successes that have been
won on the western front and the col
lapse of Bulgaria. means an early ca
pitulation of the Germans. Such per-
sons should take reef III their i'm
agination.
Let us look back to Civil war days.
Grant captured Vicksburg in July,
1868, which opened the Mississippi
and cut the Confederacy in half
Meade defeated Lee at Gettysburg at
the same time, but it was April, 1868,
before the war ended. Between the
victories of Vicksburg and Gettysburg
and the final end there were the great
battles of Chickamauga and Nashville
ana Shermans march to the sea, also
the Wilderness, Spotsyivania, Cold
Harbor, Sheridan's Shenandoah cam
paign and the siege of Petersburg.
Those who read the story of those
days, or hear the people talk who
participated in the events, know that
IT was assumed that the Union cause
| would succeed after Vicksburg and
Gettysburg, but it took nearly two
years longer to accomplish the final de-
feat Of the Confederacy.
It must be remembered that Ger
many occupies nearly all of Belgium
and large slice of France, and that
IT will require some very severe bat
ties before the Huns are beaten as
they should be in order to make sue
cess of this war.
We have to get all the good out Of
this war we can and we must look
forward to making use Of some Of the
lessons which we have learned as re-
suit Of the war. One is to be less
wasteful in all things. 1t has been
pointed out that there is enough fuel
OIL wasted in its use by people to sup
ply the needs of the government, in
Guiding the navy, at the present time.
Strange as 1t may seem, government
officials must go through the country
and teach people how not to
waste oil. This waste before the
war extended to nearly everything.
People have learned to save and found
out that they have not injured them
selves thereby. The lessons of saw
ing and thrift and stopping waste
ought to remain with the people.
Although politics have been post
poned until after the Liberty loan is
n success, there are a few people who
will gather in the corridors and some
times on the street corners and talk
about the next presidential election,
which is more tran two years distant.
As a general thing we hear it stated
that Roosevelt seems to be about the
only man in sight for the Republican
nomination, although Senator Harding
of Ohio comes in for a frequent sec
ond mention. OF course II Is quite
well understood that Senator Weeks of
Massachusetts and Senator Watson OF
Indiana are both In the race and are
likely to have q considerable follow
Ing when the convention meets unless
there should be q general concentra-
ton upon some one candidate like
Colonel Roosevelt 1t Is also said that
In case Charles S. Whitman is elected
governor Of New York for a third
time he will be very formidable fig
ure In the next PRESIDENTIAL race. It
might be said that the Democrats dis
cuss only one man, but that is hardly
true, for they discuss other possibili-
ties with an eff" Generally the Dem
ocrats say that 'ff President Wilson is
not a candidate TO succeed HIMSELF
then Secretary McAdoo is likely to be
the Democratic choice. There Is scarce
" any divergence of opinion among
Democrats on that line.
why is 1t that the Teutonfc pow
! ers always start off with a lie in
every alleged peace move that they
have made? Evidently the answer
is that they still think they can
deceive the nations of the world by
the same lying diplomatic tricks that
they have perpetrated for such long
period. For Instance, one of the re-
cent peace notes from Austria began,
~The Austro-Hungarian monarchy
which has only made defensive Wal