The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1919-09-18

doubtless followed" Mr.. johnson said,
"the utterances of the president in his
recent speaking tour. | 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. felt, as l read that
sentence, just as you doubtless fee,
wholly sympathetic for his enforced
idleness In the rigors of the White
House.
II 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
| 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 l preach
needs only the expression of the truth.
AS to Contemplate Cutters.
1.-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
tiers If they do not see the game
through What game, my friends
Your game? The game of the Ameri-
can people? Not at all.
1.-THE American people play their
game. They played 1t when they sent
their sons abroad to the number of
100000 and these boys vallantly up
held the traditions and honor of this
country.
"That was the American peoples
game, but 1t 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.
"Now, 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
Do ,,. .tyI,., In M n
game and who it was that forgot the
American rule.
"You remember, Just as | did, thai
he had certain celestial phrases, GER
tain idealistic statements and certain
specified principles upon which he
went across the water 70 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 a saying that ripened into a
proverb: Never sit in the other Eel
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?
1--WE Endorsed vocferously the free
dom Of the seas and the British Hon
growled. Who quit2
"He talked, my friends, of adequate
guarantees given and that ornaments
would be reduced. No armaments
were ended. None will be reduced, NJ
mittedly, under the League of Nations
Somebody quit upon the reduction OF
ornaments.
"He spoke OF free. open minded
and absolutely impartial adjustment
of all colonial states. and we all nodded
In acQuiescence. But there was noth'
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
II again in Paris. The American peo'
pie didn't quit. Somebody else did
He said. my friends, self-determination
elf-determlnation for all the peoples
of the earth, and every one of US be-
Iieved In that doctrine. We all huz-
zaed and we said: we will stand
behind you four square for self-de-
termination, but he left 1t. The Amer
lean people didn't quit. Who quit?
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 PEG,
pie in power have been.
"We have been picking our pockets, >
he said, "to poison our minds"
Senator Borah opened his speech BIZ
saying he would attempt to discuss
the question as broadly as "a man
can do who has pgmy mind.
NOW, 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
tlnued. 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 II means"
A Plot MARRIED.