Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1919-09-17

people didn quit. SOMEBODY else
did
Self Determirat Forgotten.
"He told us OF the destruction of
every arbitrary power that can sep
! arately and securely disturb the peace
/ of the world He never mentioned
it again in Paris. The American peo-
pie didn't quit. Somebody else did
He said, my friends. self-determination
. self-determnation for all the peoples
of the earth, and every one OF us ne
lieved in that doctrine. We all mlZ-
zaed and we said: we will stand
behind you four square for self-de-
/ termination but he left it. The Amer
/ lean people didn't quit. Who quit?
HE said there can be no league or
/ alliance or special covenants and un-
derstandings within the general and
/ common family of the League of Ma
/ tons, and then Clemenceau made
/ grimace and then we had an offensive
| and defensive alliance with France
! brought to us. The American people
/ didn't quit because they were behind
] him in his statement. Somebody else
was the gutter.
HE said to us as he went abroad
that no people can be forced to live
under a sovereignty under which it
| does not wish to live But Japan, with
an immobile countenance, shook her
head and the American people didn't
! quit, but somebody else Quit"
Cheer for American Troops.
Senator Johnson provoked demon
! stratiOn when he referred to the Amer
lean forces finally stopping the great
German drive on Paris.
"They required no League of Nations
! to do it," he exclaimed. Il have heard
of men placing themselves in the hands
of their creditors, but l have never yet
! heard of a man placing himself in the
hands of his debtors. There is just one
! going, solvent national concern in all
this world, and it is your country ami
my country. Why does the greatest
solvent national concern on earth have
! to enter into a partnership with four
/ bankrupts?
"Just think of it, my friends, in the
I
! United States, your country and mine,
! the most powerful on the face of the
| earth, the richest in all the world is
! given one vote to Great Britain's six
votes.
Harsh Names Do Not Brighten.
"You cannot brighten the American
/ people any longer by calling names.
/ The time has passed when calling
harsh names of men who do not agree
with those for a brief period in power
can deter or restrain them from doing
/ their duty as they see it. and when
! the president descended to that meth
Cd of argument in Minnesota yester-
| day and the day before in another city
| he forgot his high office he forgot the
! truth that should be ever upon his lips,
! the truth alone.
my friends, do you realize what the
president was up against? l think
! do. and he did not. His good intentions
did not protect him from the European
! diplomacy He used beautiful phrases
while they sat with their pockets bulg-
/ ing with the contracts signed, sealed
and delivered for carving the world.
When they got all through he had his
/ beautiful phrases and they had the
/ countries and the peoples for whom
| they had bargained long before we en-
/ tered the war. He brought home just
what was handed to him"
Picking Pockets to Poison Mind.
Senator BOrah declared the peoples
/ taxes during the last few years had
/ been spent on propaganda dedicated
to telling them how powerful the peo-
pie in power have been.
eve have been picking our pockets"
/ he said, "tO poison our minds"
Senator Borah opened his speech by
saying he would attempt to discuss
/ the question as broadly as "a man
can do who has a piemy mind.
MOE, our honored president has
said in his appeal at Columbus, O.,
/ that if you have not time to read the
/ treaty for yourselves, that he feels that
you are under obligation to take the
/ view and construction of those who
wrote the treaty" Senator BOrah con-
! tinued. THAT, my friends, it seems to
/ me, is open to legitimate objection. In
/ the first place, there are no two men
who helped to write the treaty that
now agree as to what it means.
"Our hOnored president said that
the treaty is a mere moral obligation.
When Clemenceau heard that he came
very near having paralysis. You know,
my friends, there is no agreement
among those who are anOinted at Yer
saifles. Even eX-President Taft had
an entirely different view as to some
of the terms of the treaty to that of
the president So, my friends it isn't
quite fair. it seems to me, with all due
respect to the president, for us to ac-
cept the treaty without looking in it.
1t might be different if we felt absO-