New Britain herald., 1918-01-03
GUST LAF0LLETTE
 CRY OF VIG|LANTES
Authors Urge the Removal of
 Wisconsin Member Of Senate

New York, Jan. 3.-Forty Ameri- can authors have written to the United States senate protesting against the continued membership in that body of Senator LaFolIette. A petition to Vice President Marshall from the Vigilantes accompanies the letters. It cites the organizations impatience at the delay in the investigation of La Follette's conduct and expresses the conviction that not a seditious ut terance of Senator La Toilette has been allowed to lie fallow.'
 "All the un-Amcrican publications still allowed to continue their insid- ious propaganda find him a wealth of that treason they no longer dare to express from their own pens," the petition says, They clearly convey to their readers that there can be no real danger in defiance of the will of the country so long as La Toilette is permitted to enjoy the honors, the emoluments and the privileges of membership in the highest council of the nation.'
 Some of the individual expressions of the authors are:
 George w. Cable-La Toilette has turned to license his right of free speech as a citizen and his immuni- ties as a senator. He has counte- nanced the atrocious policies of for eign foes with whom we are at war.
 Wallace Irwin-If God will save us from the fate of a misguided Russia, coaxed to ruin by Pottsdam wolves in pacifst clothing, we must begin now by silencing our sweet-voiced enemies at home What use to cry, Hang him. against a German fanatic with a bomb when a senator of the United States endangers our national being with ideas more destructive than million bombs could be
 Meredith Nicholson-The toleration in our highest lawmaking body of man who speaks the Berlin language is an insult to every American soldier and sailor and to every loyal Amer ican citizen at home.
 Ethel Watts Mumford-My inter- ests as a writer have carried me into many places and among all classes and I have had personal experience of the effect of his seditions.
 No Excuse for Nation.
 Porter Emerson Browne-What ex- 1 cuse can the Am erican nation offer to the heart broken father, to the weeping mother, of the Am merican soldier who has made that nation the supreme sacrifice, when, at the same time it tolerates within it's capital at Washington so frank, so magnifi- 1 cent g. seditionist as the Hon. (God | help us!D Robert M. LaFollette?
 Gelett Burgess-By his pernicious 1 example he has encouraged others, | openly hostile and dangerous, to per- | sst in the attempt to nullify our na- tional effort.
 Amelia Josephine Burr-If one is l unable to cooperate with the Gov | ernment in times of crisis, it seems to l me at least that it is his duty to re- linquish his associations with the ] Government.
 Theodosia Garrison-By his expul- l sion or suspension from the Senate l the work of preparedness would be l speeded, and others of his opinion 1 would be discouraged from attempt ing to spread sedition.
 Rupert Hughes-La Toilette not 1 only rocks the boat, but he denounces 1 the oarsmen, he islanders the bos'n, l he bores holes in the bottom of the l boat. And the storm is at it's height. l
 Augustus Thomas-In a somewhat 1 similar situation raised by Vallandig- | hams opposition to President Lin coln's war policies, MT. Lincoln wrote: Must shoot a poor boy who deserts from the army, and must I not touch a. hair of the head of the wiley agita- to who persuaded him to desert?"
 Emerson Hough-He ought to be thrown out, so that we could go about our business of winning the war.
 Edward Hungerford--I feel that situations such as this of La Toilette, which have a direct bearing upon our conduct of the war, should have first and most imm mediate attention in this national crisis.
 Harrison Rhodes-He wasted time and should be got rid of.