Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-03-19
DAVIES SPEECHES
REVEAL THE MAN
EXTRACTS FROM ADDRESSES DE-
LlVERED BY DEMOCRATIC CAN
DIDATE FOR SENATOR DIS
CLOSE THOUGHT
AND VISION.
UNSWERVlNG IN HIS LOYALTY
Big, Vital Thing Is to Win the War,
He Says-Can Be No Division of
Council or of Parties-All
Must Sustain the
President.

President.
In speeches delivered by Joseph +.
Davies. Democratic candidate for
United States senator, in Wisconsin
and other parts Of the country during
the past year, he has taken the tlrm
position that success of American
arms in the struggle against the Ger
manic powers demands that united
nation support President Wilson.
While all of these speeches, from
which the appended extracts were tax
en-, were made long before Mr.. Davies
had any thought of entering the sena-
torial race, they disclose consistent
support of the governments war poll
cies and devotion to the American
ideals as voiced by the president.
The excerpts follow:
"The paramount and only considera-
lion now is to win the war. All other
problems must wait"
"It is, 1 believe, manifestation OF
divine Providence that in this critical
period when great forces affecting the
future of democracy are in the making
that there should be at the helm OF
the ship of state a leader who is think
ing of preserving individualism In
democracy, whose wisdom is based
upon those fundamental principles
which the economic and political his
tory of the world has established, and
who Is so directing these great forces
that they may be Of the greatest eff
fectiveneSS to win the war, and yet
may be such that with victorious peace
there should remain to the greatest
possible degree such conditions as are
compatible with the ideals of democ-
racy, to wit, the greatest possible free
dom and well-being Of the individual
which is compatible with the social
welfare"
"The nation need have no fear of
the future after the winning of the
war"
"Prices have been increased by rea-
son of fundamental economic laws,
which will still be operating under any
system of price control. The purchas-
ing power of money itself Is not
reached by any system of price fixing.
It is an economic fact well recognized
that the last commodity to be affected
by rising prices is labor. Actual wage,
real wage, is measured by purchasing
power. A standard of living wage I'M
der these conditions must be main
tanned, with the full appreciation of
what it will entail in the reorganiza-
ton of labor cost in international com
petition after the war"
Responsibility and complete author
ity induce speed of action, which is a
permanent necessity. The wisdom and
clarity of vision of the president of
the United States assures that there
shall be no division of responsibility
and authority to impair national effec-
tiveness."
"a peace that contemplates the tri-
umph of the Prussian system of poll
world, or a stalemate peace that would
require this and all other nations to
gather themselves together for still
greater struggle in the future are alike
unthinkabe."
"The government is thinking in
terms of winning this war A still
greater participation of government
itself in industry may be necessary
Whatever may be necessary for still
greater coordination and effectiveness
of industry will be done to win the
war"
'"Unfair competition is the seed of
monopoly in industry Control of the
raw material, of transportation and
unfair competition are the chief crea-
tors of private monopoly. Private
monopoly is intolerable in a democ-
racy, for it is the opposite of the idea.
It is in fact not industrial freedom
but industrial monarchy"
at is our war nOw-it is a war not
only to protect our material possess
sions-to protect our rights on the high
Seas-and to protect our homes and
our conceptions of the rights of man
but 1t is a war to sustain the very
fundamental case of civiliZatiOn-to
sustain the rule of law in the world. 1t
is war to sustain Christian civiliza-
ton. for the essence of Christianity
is that atruism and law as enunciated
by the Son of God should be the ruling
power of the world instead of brute
strength and mere power of might"
"The greatest hope for winning the
war is to create in the minds and
hearts of the German people the deter
mination that they, and not their war
mad rulers shall guide their destinies
To aSSail the righteousness of our en-
try into this war, to question the integ-
rity of our motives ami our purposes
Is TO raise doubts in the minds of the
Germanic people and to give aid and
comfort to our enemies
"The problem is now to organize and
project our man power, to build and
furnish ships, to provide the necessary
money, to keep the second line of de
tense, the industrial conditions in this
country, as near TO normal equities as
Is possible; TO provide capital with |
,air return for its efforts; to provide
laOor with its just share of profits, |
commensurate with our standards of |
iNiils ana present costs. These are
the thlngs that have to be done and |
which viii require the united effort of |
our best energies with singleness of
purpose and devotion to our country's
good"