Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-01-15

tom of the boat. And the storm is at
its height
Edward Hungerford: II feel that
situations such as this of LaFoilette'
which have a direct bearjng upon u
conduct of the war, ShOuld have irSt
and most immediate attention %in this
national crisis"
Wallace Irwin: "If God will save
us from the a of misguided Russia,
%coaxed to ruin by Potsdau1 wolves in
pacifist clothing. we must begin now
by si!encinE our s~weet-voiced enemies
at hone What use to cry "llanS
him." against a German fanatic with
a bomb when a senator of the unlted
States endangers II national being
with ideas more destructive than Il
million bombs could eve be?"
Burgess Johnson: 'ls it possible
that Mama Wisconsin is gazing out Of
her lofty window upon the loyal ranks
at Washington and saying proudly,
Everyone is out of step except my
Robert?'*+* | believe that his ascot
ates in congress are being unfair to
me, and not WIDELY tru to their
trust, in permitting him to march at
ALL"
Hapsburg Liel,e asked that LaFol-
lette be expelled 'in the name Of all
humanity in and in'the name
Of the red price America is surely 10
pay toward the cost of a world
peace
Ethel Watts Mumford: My inter-
ests rs Il writer take me II many
places and among all classes and
have had personal experience OF the
effect of his seditions. The limits OF
eur national patience have long been
passed. l trust hat the time will soon
come when his activities will not
shame our country"
Meredith Nicholson 1--WE W 1t to
the boys we are sending out to fight
for us to maintain a strong line OF ma
tional defence at home. The tolera-
ton in our highest law-making body
of a man who speaks h Berlin
language is an insult to every Amerl-
can soldier and sailor, n to every
loyal American citizen at home
Harrison Rhodes: Gle wastes time
and should be got rid of. There is no
longer any question that the country
as a whole disagrecs with him. 1t
fectively to victory and peace"
Edgar Saltus: AT the Board of
Health, persons with contagious dis
orders are not merely shown the door.
For the good of the community they
are put behind other doors. Paci1ism
is a cognatc distempcr. She infected
should be put away"
f1eTTH DWISIL seq III IIiIC
of war there is one fundamental law,
to which ali other laws, customs and
privileges are subordinate; hat fun
damental law is the right of tho ma
iority to rule. When the majority
have declared war, and are straintng
every nerve to send the young men of
the country to uphold the right and
are pouring out the savings OF the
country as the waters are poured at
| Nj. rr., vo ~I,,1 II tl,1 o~o <f %11 ITri<-
ed States permit n of it's members
to do his best to block the national
will. to deliver speeches that encour-
age the prO-Germans to d~isloEalty.
and to spread among u allies abroad
the notion that we are a divided pcO-
ple?"
Marian Couthouy Smith: mfr. La
Toilette stands practically alone in
the senate as the exponent of Il
out, would betray the world into the
hands of the enemy of De-
mocracy and Humanity. In Russia
today we see the work of this sinister
undermining force"
Julian Street: MAY T respectfully
inform you of my hope thai the SEN
ate will find some means of Kidding it.
self of Senator Robert NJ. LaFollettc.
on the ground that his activities are
"a w u III IlL
of the United States. and further than
merely Kidding itself of Senator La
Toilette, that it may hold him up as
an example to show u W citizens.
and those of other countries. that the
United States senate sets itself solidly
against sedition. wherever found?"
Augustus Thomas: "In a somewhat
similar situation raised by Vallandig-
hams opposition to President Lin
coins war policies, Mr.. Lincoln wrote:
Must 7 shoot a o o boy who deserts
from tho army and must 7 not touch a
hair Of the head of thewily agitator
who persuaded him to desert?"
Charles Hanson Towne: ''The
country is sick under the heavy bur-
den of war with the strongest military
power on earth, and the gentlemen
from Wisconsin would shake the in
valid not into action but into inaction.
ass LaFollette has cried from the
roof-tops that u agony is for
naught. Yet we know it is for every
thing that is sacred. and just. and
right. Put LaFollette out. He is
with the enemies of America"