The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1920-09-02

mill smashing campaign of quixo-
tic attorney general heralded as GER
tain to brighten the profiteer and
bring H. G. L. futtering to earth, but
with an entirely contrary effect"
Our farmer friend should know, and prob
ablv does, that this windmill smashing cam
naign of quixotic attorney general was
merely typical of the whole Democratic adj
ministration. Mr.. Palmer merely happened to
he the latest and most vehement if not the most
spectacular of the windmill smashing Dons
His vociferous performances were merely IN
cidents in the long series of windmill exhibit
tions that have characterized this regime OF
government by hysteria,
Mr.. Wilson himself began the new style of
government when, at the special session OF
Congress after his Inauguration, ne denounced
respectable and honest American citizens as
"irsidious lobbyists" and threatened to hang
them higher than Hannah because they went
70 the National Capital to protest against leg
islation which they alleged would inJure Amer
lean industry They we're driven from the
caDital. their protests were ignored, the low
tariff law was enacted, it had exactly the
effect AANNSVA4ON
suffered until the war shut off imports and
gave this country a new market for its
products.
From that day to this - all through the
seven years of Democratic administration we
have had government in harmony with the
policy laid down by Mr.. Wilson when he prac-
ticaly denied business men their constitution
al right to petition their Representatives on
Congress. Soon after the war broke out in
Europe, Colonel Roosevelt and others began
urging that the United States make reason
able preparation for eventualities which the
trend of affairs indicated as highly probable.
President Wilson declared that the United
States had not neglected preparedness and
drove out of his cabinet Secretary OF War
who advocated a very moderate degree OF
military development. A few months later
Mr. Wilson was stampeding over the country
shouting that ''the world is on fire" and de-
handing the very kind of preparedness ne
had denounced when advocated in deliberate
manner by others with more practical vision
than himself.
There was more windmill smashing in the
forcing of banks into the Federal Reserve
System and in the selling of Liberty Bonds on
the assurance that they were "as good as cur
rency'. There was still further windmill
smashing in taking over and scramhling the
railroads and in Selling the telegraph and
telephone lines The same hysteria was mani
tested by the Postmaster General when he
seized the ocean cables as a "war measure"
after the armistice had been signed.
Looking back over the past seven years, 1t
would be difficult to point out anything that
has been done by the impractical, inexperienc-
ed bunch at Washington in a deliberate, we'll
considered manner. Hysteria has been the
rule, and there is no reason why Mr.. Palmer
should be singled out for special condemnation
Nor are the farmers the only sufferers. The
whole country, directly, or indirectly, has felt
the nerve-racxing effect of quixotic govern
ment. Mr.. Cox and Franklin d. Roosevelt are
now out on windmill smashing campaign. IL
the country wants another four years OF
quixotic rule there is one certain way OF get
ting it - continue the quixotic Democracy in
power If the. country wants deliberative gov
eminent, Harding and Coolidge and their par
ty associates in Congress are ready to render
the service.