Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-03-19
f. 3. THAYER. Editor and Prop.-VOL. LII.

tical demonstration and freely PLACING
its results at the service of the admin
listration. With this, no one will actu
Tally suffer for necessities, tho it ma.
jar many of us out of our softneSs ant
ease.
Loyalty means more than simpl!
Ilip-service, but it has never mean
abject subservience to mere men ol
measures. Here in this state we are
now to be put to an added test of oul
sincerity in the selection of a United
States Senator. Here is the oppor.
tunity for secret stealthy treason-fol
allowing petty personal grievance ant
ingrown political prejudices to OBJ
scure the one great issue of swim the
war at whatever cost" Here too is
the opportunity of a practical demon
stratiOn for such Wholehearted 10y.
atty as will subordinate all else to that
one issue and make the result of that
election convincing verdict that the
people of Wisconsin are Americans
first, last and all the time. Il were
best that party politics and factional
strife should not enter this contest
If there were no other question, than
to decide between a loyal republican
ard loyal democrat, we could view
the issue without any misgiving-it
could bring no encouragement or COM
fort to the enemy but we have with
us those who are not true to the
country of their adoption, those whose
theory of government would first
create chaos and invite certain victory
OF the enemy, and then those, more
dangerous because more numerous,
who will allow their petty little griev-
ances control in casting their vote to
satisfy some real or fancied crouch or
be swayed by some personal preju-
dice, forgetting that in this crisis of
the Nations life the great, big and
first thing for every American to do
is to stand behind the President in
one solid unfaltering phalanx You
might as well invest your money in
munitions of war and send them to
the enemy, as by your vote send a
United States Senator to Washington
who will not loyalty and steadfastly
give his every effort and support in
winning this war. You might as well
load "a gun and fire into the backs of
the boys who are marching to the
front as to cast your vote except for
wholehearted uncompromising 10y
atty.
TO elect man as United States
Senator who does not stand for un-
alloyed Americanism will encourage
the enemy and mean more deaths for
us. A large vote that can in any man
ner be construed as opposition to the
Government and the war will shame
and discourage our Wisconsin boys
and make their task more difficult.
just now, in comparison to Loyalty
or DlslOyalty, being a republican or
democrat is matter of Indifference.
May we not now be heartened by
the patriotic appeal of Abraham Lin
coin, which today again becomes SO
applicable:
There may be mistakes made.
Sometimes things may be done wrong,
while the officers of the Government
do all they can to prevent mistakes:
but L beg OF you as citizens of this
great Republic not to let your minds
be carried off from the great work
we have before us.
The struggle is too large for you
to be diverted from it by any small
matter. When you return to your
homes, rise up to the dignity of a gene
ration of men worthy of free govern
ment and we will carry out the work
we have commenced.
That is the great thing-not to al
low small 1rritations and petty preju-
dlces and personal predictions to
weaken our main purpose and prevent
us from rising to this great occa sion
This war must be fought and won by
the power and momentum of this
people moving solid and wholehearted
behind the President at Washington.
and not otherwise.
This is to be the big hour of Ameri-
can life. God grant we may all be fit
for it,
'Fondly do we hope, fervently do
we pray that this mighty scourge of
war may soon pass away"