Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1919-09-19
Californian Is Sarcastic.

Il have followed, just as you have
doubtless followed" Mr.. johnson said
"the utterances of the president in his
recent speaking tour. I read his open
ing sentence delivered at the city OF
Columbus when he said that he chafed
at the confinement for so long time
at Washington. / felt, as read that
sentence, just as you doubtless feel,
wholly sympathetic for his enforced
idleness in the rigors of the White
House.
81 felt, just as you doubtless felt.
that the confinement in Washington,
of which he complained, for 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 state
1 am reasonably familiar with, and in
which I 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 preach
needs only the expression of the truth.
AS to Contemplate Cutters.
""The other day at st. Louis, in
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
tiers if they do not see the game
through What game, my friendsf
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
in any 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 ] did. that
he had certain celestial phrases, cer-
tain idealistic statements and certain
specified principles upon which ne
went across the water to play MS
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 we're 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
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
quit. Who was the gutter?
eve indorsed vociferously the free
dom of the seas and the British lion,
growled. Who Quit7
"He talked, my friends, of adequate
guarantees given and that ornaments
would be reduced. No ornaments
were ended. None will be reduced, At
mfttedly, under the League of Nations.
Somebody quit upon the reduction q
ornaments
"He spoke Of a free. open minded
and absolutely impartial adjustment
Of all colonial states, and we all nodoed
in acquiescence. But there was MOTH
ing of that sort done. The American
people didn't quit. Somebody else
did.
"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-determination for all the peoples
of the earth, and every one OF US be-
lieved in that doctrine. We all huz-
zaed and we said: We will stand
behind you four square for self-de-
termination but he left it. The Amer
ican people didn't quit. Who quit9
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-
ple in power have been.
1--WE have been picking our pockets, !"
he said ito poison our minds"
Senator Borah opened his speech by
saving he would attempt to discuss
the question as broadly as "a man
can do who has a pigmy mind.
"Now, our hon'ored 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
Inc, 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