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

Chicago, Sept. 11.-Fifteen thousand
people fought for more than an hour
last night to enter the Auditorium
theater to hear Senators Johnson,
BOrah and Mccormick reply to Presi-
dent Wilson's defense of the League
of Nations.
Senator Mccormick received cheers
when he declared that while 1.-The chief
spokesman for America stood there Cat
the peace cOnference), his gaze enrap-
tured by the sight, Lloyd George sat
down in the cockpit and wrote the
League of Nations"
Senator Johnson declared that when
the treaty finally did reach the senate
it was found not to be a document
responding to the idealistic phrases
and altruistic doctrines" but san in
strument that spends our treasure and
our blood for the maintenance of the
British empire and the japanese
empire"
Californian Is Sarcastic.
Il have followed, just as you have
doubtless followed" Mr. Johnson said,
1.-The utterances of the president in his
recent speaking tour. l read his open
ing sentence delivered at the city of
Columbus when he said that he chafed
at the confinement for so long a time
at Washington. l felt, as l read that
sentence, just as you doubtless feel,
wholly sympathetic for his enforced
idleness in the rigOrs of the White
House.
Il felt, just as you doubtless felt,
that the confinement in Washington.
of which he complained, for a few days
over a month had torn his soul and
made his spirit rebel at the restraint
put upon it. But | observed, my
friends, that he is going to a state
l am reasonably familiar with, and in
which | was born, and / am hoping
and praying, too, my friends, that when
he reaches that state, the balmy
breezes of the Pacific and the salu-
briOus climate of California will soothe
his perturbed spirit and assuage his
anguished soul.
Now, my friends, we will let him
use denunciation and abuse. Thank
God, the American cause I preach
needs only the expression of the truth.
AS to Contemplate Cutters.
"The other day at ST. Louis, in a
frenzy of anger, Mr.. Wilson said, Let
them show how they will prove that,
having gone into an enterprise. they
are not absolutely contemplate quit
Il 'naI,
through What game, my friends?
Your game? The game of the Ameri-
can people? Not at all.
The American people play their
game. They played it when they sent
their sons abroad to the NUMBER of
100000 and these boys valiantly up
held the traditions and honor of this
country.
THAT was the American peoples
game, but it is not the American peo-
pies game to safeguard the territorial
acquisitions of England or of France
or of Italy or of Japan. And that is
The game that Mr.. Wilson speaks of
and that Mr.. Wilson plays today.
Nov, the American people never
have been cutters. They never have
I'm anv contest. either in their own be-
half or in the behalf of humanity quit
the game They have ever seen it
through. Mr.. Wilson began his game at
Paris, and let's see who quit in that
game and who it was that forgot the
American rule.
"You remember, just as 1 did, that
ID oor+o;, celestial Y11ro
tain idealistic statements and certain
specified principles upon which he
went across the water to play his
game. and. my friends, might say to
YOU something that we learned long,
long ago in the West. In our unregen-
Grated day, before we were as civilized
as YOU are here in this great state,
there was saying that ripened into
proverb: Never sit in the other fell
lows game The trouble with Mr..
Wilson is that he has been sitting in
the other fellows game. And he got
there lust exactly what a man always
gets who sits in another fellows game.
Armaments Not Reduced.
HE started off, as you recall, with
open covenants OF peace openly ar
rived at. You and echoed the senti-
ment. All America applauded. Who
uuit Who was the gutter?
'We indorsed vociferously the free
dom of the seas and the British lion
growled. Who quit?
HE talked, my friends of adequate
,uarantees given and that ornaments
would be reduced. No ornaments
were ended. None will be reduced, adj
mittedly, under the League of Nations
Somebody quit upon the reduction of
ornaments.
EmpIovees' Initiative