Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-04-30
WISCONSIN NOT DISLOYAL

The state of Wisconsin seems to bt
the one state in the Union which is
being selected to pick upon; to stamI
as disloyal and for no other reason
than that our senior U. s. senator
blaZed the way to make such a proceed
uere possible and have whatever muC
is thrown our way in a measure stick
and annoy. Wisconsin is one of the
great loyal states of our country, and
the facts will clearly bear out this state
ment. Nothing which has been asked
Of it by the Nation, but what it has
gone over the top" Recently pub
lie speaker from Princeton University
addressed a patriotic meeting in Madi-
son, all of the University turned out
This address was delivered in the
agricultural building where there was
no heat; it was raining and it was very
cold. There were couple of prelimi-
nary addresses made before the speak
er Of the occasion commenced his ad-
dress. He was a slow, tedious talker
and the students felt that it was either
a matter of taking severe colds and
cOurting death by pneumonia. So they
belled. The speaker took occasion to
tired. The speaker took occasion to
say vile things about the students and
the state at the time and since has
said things which were very uncompli-
mentary, in interviews.
Chief Justice Winslow has replied
to these vile statements and has fayed
the speaker in way which should get
under his hide. Making Wisconsin
the goat, should be stopped, and the
loyal men of the state should see that
it is stopped or know the reason why.
Chief Justice Winslow has started the
ball rolling, let others follow. He
says:
I'VE have been traduced and Wilt
fled from one end of the country to
the other. Knowing that there were
unfortunate circumstances which lent
some color to the charges, we have
borne them patiently, believing that
time would prove their falsity to our
fellow country men. But we can no
longer keep silent.
Patience has ceased to be a virtue
We have demonstrated our absolute
loyalty and we demand recognition. of
the fact. A month ago we had more
soldiers in France than any other
state; we have oYersubscribed both
Liberty loans, and will do the same
with the third; we have responded
generously and bOuntifully to every
appeal Of the comfort ana safeguard
ing of our men; our National guard
units were among the first, if not the
very first, to be fully equipped and on
their way to the front; our governor
and state administration have met
every demand promptly, and last, but
not least, we have sQuarely met the
acid test by upholding the arms of the
fede al government, and we have cast
three votes out of every four in favor
of an active, loyal and unreserved
support of the government and its
pOlici S.
as there any state that can offer
better demonstration of its loyalty
than Wisconsin? Nay. Is there any
state that can offer it's equal?
THE citizen of Wisconsin does not
propose to carry a bowed head and
shame-faced look in the future when
he travels in a sister state, but he
proposes to look his fellow citizens in
the face and demand full recognition
of his loyalty.
Il think no one can question the
loyalty of the writer, nor his steadfast
support of the government and its
aims in this great war, and l now in
the name of the great and loyal state
of Wisconsin, demand that the gratui-
tOus and baSeless ins dltS which have
been heaped upon the people of the
state and their great university
cease"