Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1918-02-13
WORLD LEAGUE OF
PEACE EXPECTED
SEEMS TO BE THE ONLY GREAT
RESULT OF THE WAR THAT
CAN BE PREDICTED.
FIERY WORDS FROM KENYON
Iowa Senator Declares No One viii
Want to Buy German Goods After
Conflict Has Enoed-King Depiores
Political Heresies.
BY ARTHUR w. DUNN.

BY ARTHUR w. DUNN.
Washington.-k the ideas of Presi-
dent Wilson and Lloyd-George prevail,
one outcome of the great war will be
world league of peace. 1t is interest
ing to note that the movement for such
league was started by peace advo-
Gates, those who afterward became
known as pacitsts, but it will be the
outcome of the greatest war in history.
While this nation was taking no part
In the war and doing its utmost to keep
neutral. the advocates of world peace
organization were intoxicating their
doctrines by speeches, lectures and the
distribution of literature. 1t is doubt
full whether their efforts had much eff
feet, although Endorsed by many proml-
nent, earnest people.
A world peace league is promised as
one of the results of war; it is so de-
clared by the two most conspicuous
men of the war today. If it can be ac-
complished it will be a most important
outcome of the war, and at this time
is about the only great result when
can be safely predicted.
A world weary of war will welcome
any agreement which might prevent
another such cataclysm as that we are
passing through.
In the early stages of discussion the
world peace league met opposition
from those in this country who feared
that it meant embodiment in old world
affairs and that it would sacrifice our
Monroe doctrine. Whether these objec-
tons will be raised again cannot be
determined until the world peace
league takes definite shape at the end
of the war.
Trade With Germany.
While the discussion is going on as
to whether our people will trade with
Germany after the war, perhaps an
excerpt from the speech of Senator
Kenyon of Iowa would be interesting
reading:
"Who will buy German goods after
| the WARP" he asked. "Who wants any
thing in his home made by the same
hands that have shot poor little chill
dren and women of Belgium; hands
| that have bayonetted women and car
ried away as relics parts of women's
| breasts? Who wants any utensils made
| by those who have carried women and
| children into exile; who have blown
up the homes of the people in northern
| France; who have sent women and
| children down into the seas with the
| helish torpedo ard submarine; who
have shelled boats in which people
were trying to escape from their devil
| ish work who have let drop the MUIR
| derous bomb upon hospitals where men
were already living in pain; who have
blotted out from the sky, contrary to
all edicts of warfare, poor men and
| their families? Who wants anything
made by the outlaw? Let her take her
products to hell. That is the only
place she would find market"
| Senator King of Utah is a Demo-
| cratic senator who wants to return to
what was once the good ole Demo
cratic faith. 1.-THE people in theory
pass their power to the congress-" he
said in the senate, "and congress passes
the power over to the president, execu-
| tive departments, commissions and bu-
reaus # we continue our present pro-
gram there will be no more great cap
tains of industry. We have chloro-
| formed the energies of the people.
| States have been debauched and bribed
| by appropriations of the federal gov
| eminent"
"4ave we as Democrats" said King
later, departed from the faith of the
fathers of our party? Since l returned
TO congress have been amazed to find
| so many heresies and isms prevailing"
AS to Railroad Control.
The real fight over government con-
| troll of railroads will come on the prop
osition of surrendering such control
after the war. The opponents of gov
| eminent ownership will propose that
the railroads shall be restored to the
| owners after the war closes, either in
| six months or year.
| Doubt is expressed whether such an
| amendment can be made to the rail-
| road bill in view of the tendency
| toward government control of every
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ownership of all public utilities are
| urging the continued control of the
railroads regardless of war. Those
| Who oppose government ownership are
I looking forward TO a hard fight to
| secure a provision in the railroad bill
| which will turn the roads back TO the
| owners after the war.
1t was only a few years ago-be-
tween 1905 and 1909, to be exact
| that an antismoke law was vigorously
| enforced in Washington. After March
4. 1909, it was disregarded, but previ-
Gus TO that time there was every indi-
cation that Dituminous coal would be
driven out of the capital.
But how different now Our fuel ad-
ministrators have laid heavy hands
on anthracite coal; they have decreed