Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1920-04-06
EX-GOVERNOR
FRANK B. WILLIS
Addressed Our Citizens at the
First Presbyterian Church
Wednesday Evening

The local ass n OF the citizens COun-
Gil for Constitutional order gave din
ner in the parIors at the fst Presbyter-
ian Church on Wednesday evening at
the parlors at the First Presbyterian
Church on Wednesday evening at
which Ex-GOV Frank B. Willis of Ohio
made the principle address. There had
been many citizens of our city invited
and there was a large attendance.
Ex-Gov Willis was introduced by S.
B. Tobey, and he gave our people one
of the very best addresses on the pre-
sent day conditions in the attempt to
stir up discomfort and revolution in
this country by the communists, the
Bolsheviks, 1 w. w. ard others, that
has ever been given in Wausau. 1t
was fCrceful and timely.
He opened the eyes of the people by
reading to his audience excerpts from
radical literature seized in Bolshevik
propaganda centers here in Wisconsin.
A few of which from THE Right to be
Lazy" the l. w. w. gospel, are given;
also a brief resume of his address:
"In capitalistic society work is the
cause of all intellectual degeneracy,
of all organic deformity---Jesus
preached idlenesS. A citizen who gives
his labor for money degrades himself
to the rank of slaves. He commits a
crime which deserves years of impris-
onment."
Women as Sex Vendors
In accordance with Russian free
love, these Radicals teach that al wo-
men live by the sale of their sex,
whether under the marriage bond or
outside of it. "The fact remains that
men and women meet each other in
the capitalistic system as buyers and
sellers of, or barterers for, cOmmod-
ity.
College Cultured
Socialist young people in the city of
Milwaukee confessed that they were
attending the State University, secuT-
ing a college education for the express
purpose of being able to preach and
spread these doctrines in circles hith-
erto barred.
Abusing Berger is good advertising
for him. Let the name of no preacher
OF revolution ever be printed, either
with approval or disapproval, and sell
dom mentioned. Then adopt the rad
ical tactics Take the truth to the
people to whom they have taken false
hood. BlaZon forth the ideals of the
American Constitution-comm sac
ritice for common service. Tell the
story of its adoption. Bring home the
fact that it is the basis IN which is
founded the safety of life, liberty, pro-
perty and the pursuit of happiness.
Again and again tell the fact that
revolution means chaos, chaos means
idleness, and idleness means starva-
tiOn, attended by violence
Present Danger
There are two million dues paying
red card radicals in this country, a
million and half of them American
citizens and voters. They may hold
the balance of power in the next cleo
ton. Here are some of the things
which they gleefully report:
Strikes are developing verging on
revolutionary action, as in the Seattle
general strike. The Communist party
will endeavor to broaden and deepen
these strikes. Communism does not
propose to capture the Bourgeoise par
iiamentary state, but to conquer and
destroy it.***It will be necessary to
rally the workers, organized and un-
organized, by means of revolutionary
mass action. The revolutionary epoch
may last for years."
Methods
They close by stating their methods
of work: Every local and district or
ganizatiOn of the party shall estab-
lish contact with Industrial units in
its territOry*%the shops, mills and
mines%"and direct its organization ac-
cordingly. Shop committees shall be
organized wherever possible for the
purpose of Communist agitation in a
particular shop or industry by the
workers employed there"
These men are doing personal work.
While we merely write abusive edit
orials. We have got to take these men