Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1920-10-05
COL, M'COY ADDRESSES
MARATHON COUNTY MEETINGS

to control the courts, TO overthrow
religion, to reyolutioniZe our form OF
government. Socialism is atheism,
pure and simple 1t seeks the own
ership of public utilities and private
industries, including land-land con-
fiscated by means of taxation. The
time has arrived when thinking people
must stand together, that there shall
not arise a twilight zone in which
this government may be overthrown.
Crush Radicalism
"If we are iTtrusted, with Office, we
shall to the best of our ability pre-
vent the establishment of a state
bank, the undermining of our schools
and our business relations, that would
result by such extensive ownership.
We call on you and all those who love
their homes and who love the associa-
tions which they have been permitted
to form under our constitution, to
bind themselves together to crush the
spread of radicalism.
''The duty lies with us here to re-
ceive foreigners with open helpful
ness and not with any intention of eX-
plotting their helplessness and their
ignorance of our manners, customs,
and language. We must extend our
hand and assist them. We want to
study their viewpoint of life, of busi-
ness, education, and to colesce their
viewpoint into our own. The women,
we know, will settle these questions
on the side of humanity. We not
only have mental and educational
problem to meet, but likewise a ply
sical problem which is proved by the
disqualification of many men who at
tempted to enlist and were eager to
serve. l shall work to see that the
physical welfare of the youth of our
land shall receive proper attention.
| am in favor of all means being used
to the end that illiteracy be reduced.
II am in. favor of the use of the
English language in our schools as the
vehicle of intelligence, but | am not
a person who would forfeit the right
of any to use or to teach the use of
other languages.
"It pleases me to have my old COM
paniOn in arms who was captain of
Company G, Wisconsin Volunteer In
fantry in the Spanish-American war,
Major Abraham here.
Down in Milwaukee, Captain Koc-
Zak raised company of 1873 boys,
not single one of whom was subject
to the draft. Many of them obtained
their first papers just before enlisting g
and their second papers were obtained
in Germany under army regulations.
UsurpatiOn
'The Nonpartisan league has for its
distinct object the usurpation of ac-
cumulated property which you people
! have after years and years obtained
1t is responsive to no one, respond
ing to the dictation of outsiders, and
within its own Golfers it possesses a
campaign fund which permits it to
enter into every and any political cam
paign If is hurts North Dakota as
it did three years ago, when the
league controlled all of the officers
save several the Supreme court,
when it had control of the legisla-
1 ture of North Dakota and put into
operation it's pet plans and attacked the
very bulwark upon which we depend
to protect the elector we should con-
slider it now in Wisconsin. They at
tackled the ballot. No one, as we go in
to the booth, can buy that ballot or see
how it is marked. To weaken the Sc
crecy of the ballot, they passed the
Absent Voters law by which it would
be possible for any voter thirty days
before election, to go to notary pub
lie, swear and cast his ballot on thai
day under the notarys seal, and this
notary public is appointed by the gov
ernor of North Dakota 1t is possible
to purchase these votes or to infiu
ence notary public-and the secre
cy of the ballot is destroyed in Nortf
Dakota.
"How would you like to have schoo
money taken from the local banks
sent to Milwaukee. Wausau or Crane
Rapids, and elsewhere, to be used a
the direction of people outside of th'
state of Wisconsin? This is the dis
tinct policy of the Nonpartisan League
in the twenty-four states in which
operates. That this sinister infiuenc
shall not stand in the way of orderl.
progress and government, is the stant
of both Mr.. Silverthorn and myself