The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1919-10-09
WILCOX URGES
golden RULE"
State Senator Roy E. Will
cox Starts Season of Con-
gregatiOnal Mems Club
With Stirring Address.
SHOWS LESSONS OF WAR
Speaker Explains How War Taught
Rule of Jungle Is Thing Of the Past
Pleads For Cooperation In Every
Walk of Life.

Declaring that the sold fashioned
golden rule" was the key to the solu-
zion of the MANY 'rying problems which
arc now facing fails country IS an al
termath Of the war, State Senator Ro7
H. Wilcox, candidate for lie nomina
tion for governoship of the state on the
Republican ticket in the las election,
struck a responsive chord on Monday
evening i'll the parlors Of the Congre-
>gational church when he delivered the
first Of series of addresses being
brought to Kenosha by the men s club
of that church. The eloquent address
was heard by more than two hundred
Kenoshans and was delivered follow
ing the first dinner given by the Con-
gregational Men S club this season.
The gentleman from Eau Claire "
was enthusiastically applauded when he
was introduced by Louis Rahr, the
president of the club, as the next
"governor of Wisconsin" He quick
ly dissipated any beliefs that the adj
dress would be in the least political and
declared that he had come to Kenosha
ncrcly to talk as one citizen to others
in regard to some of the great questions
now facing the people of America.
''Thc war has taught u.s." declared
Senator Wilcox, that the day has pass
cd when force, money and power alone
rule the world. We have come to re-
alizc that it is only the intangible that
is real that it is only the law Of the
spirit that furnishes the motivation for
the acts Of man. 1t was to vindicate
the right of justice in the world that
England fought so valiantly over there,
that Belgium offered herself q willing
sacrifice before those advancing horde8
IF gray, that France threw herself as
& wall of flesh and blood against adj
vancing imperialism and that we sent
two million men, the flower of the land,
three thousand miles away to fight and
die. In the war we have realized
that force alone leads to suicide-that
the nation which puts her trust in the
shining sword and the mailed fist must
perish. We realize that the law of the
i@nglc no longer prevails
The speaker cloquently and forceful-
" plead that the lessons gained i'll war
should not be forgotten in times of
peace. g Force pursued to its logical con
clusion in peace, he said, "means sui
eide in our industrial and social life
as we'll as in our internal affairs. If
tic employer and employee continue to
stand with clenched fists, then disas
!rr must result" Senator Wilcox urg
ed that tho spirit of cooperation should
take the place of the spirit of antagon
ism in domestic as we'll as foreign rela-
tons.
IT was urged that the dominant prin-
cipo of American government-the
protection of the rights of the minority
even against the majority-,which has
dominated our political life since the
time Of the Pilgrim S covenant in the
cabin of the Mayhower, and the rights
established in the Virginia House Of
Burgesses till the present day, continue
to be the cornerstone of our political
life. In driving home the principle he
was stating, the speaker recalled the
travelling medicine man of pioneer days
who has a nostrum guaranteed to cure
every i'll and compared some politicians
to these men of the past.
owe now have peddlcrs Of political
permas'', said the state senator.
''They guarantee these to cure all the
ills of the body polite aud the price
is your vote Be not mislead by the
vendors of these legislative nostrums.
Legislation can do some things, but it's
field is limited. The ills of the body
polite can not be touched by an cure
all-they can only be cured by diet,
fresh air, and exercise. We must go
back to the old fashioned way of pro-
ducing more, saving more and paying
more. We must cease to spend money
like a crowd of drunken sailors. .
Senator Wilcox landed a blow at in
cipient Bolshcvism in America. "There
arc workers, " he said "who are tying
to give US tyranny of the majority
which we never want in America. To
these ] say, I'VE won t have any Boil
sevism in America and we won It have
any foreign flag or a flag of black or
red flying from the masthead of our
ship of state. We won It need any for
eign bomb throwers to blast the way for
political movements here. We will ~