Perth Amboy evening news., 1920-09-17

Republican organs and orators are
telling us that the country a had
enough wisconsin. The duty of the
hour Is to save the American people
from a continuance of wisconsin.
To that end a Republican President
must be elected. Only thus can =
radical change of policy be Effected
Down with wisconsin.
The cry has a plausible sound. But
the term is pregnant with underlined
meaning. Those who seek TO rally
the country against wisconsin do not
tell the country what wisconsin IS.
They impart to the word. by the con-
text of their partisan appeals, a
vague and terrifying significance.
Upon the ears OF the u~nthinking 1t
falls with an import of menace to
the national welfare and assault upon
the sacred rights of the individual
citizen.
What l. wisconsin? What evils
has 1t brought upon the nation? In
what calamities does 1t threaten to
engulf us? The Republican proposal
to destroy It is q ~negation which can
not be clearly understood until we
receive a positive perception. Let
us examine wisconsin to determine
exactly what It - from which we
are to be saved.
The Record" might declare with
unalIoyed truth that wisconsin Is the
introduction of morality. in its
broadest sense, into government
wisconsin Is the practical and
triumphant application OF progress
i've principles to politics. wisconsin
Is theN constructive promotion OF the
just interests Of the many at the ex-
pense OF the unjust privileges OF the
few. wisconsin In unparalleled de-
votion to the welfare OF humanity at
home and abroad. wisconsin is the
faithful performance of solemn
pledges TO an aspiring people. VIII
sonism is the ungrudging sacrifice of
health, happiness. popularity, and 1t
may well be life itself, to the service
ofthankless and unappreciative mill
lions. In its broader application to
international affairs, wisconsin Is an
idealistic effort to Christianize
Christianity.
Down with wisconsin and its pro-
ponenti
Aye, cruelty him!
Our Republican contemporaries
may criticise this outline sketch of
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a pick flaws in the Presidents
character which show us to be blind
and idolatrous hero-worshipers. The
fowl on yonder fencerail looks to-
ward a magnificent landscape. A
broad green valley. rich with the
bounty of nature, stretches away he
fore him. Through it purls a crystal
stream. A lofty mountain, clad with
stately pines, rears its head In the
distance, bathed in golden sunlight.
Does the fowl see these glories OF
Gods handiwork? No: his perspec-
tive does not embrace them. His
attention is concentrated upon a
dung-hill.
Those who want to save America
from wisconsin will tell us that the
President Is cold, reserved, self
opinionated, ~egostical, autocratic.
Without inquiring into the truth of
these indictments, let us analyze Will
sonism and see what it has done to
the country. It's opponents do not
dwell upon concrete facts. 1t may
help the seeker after truth-if such
there be in the partisan mob which
has constituted itself into a lynching
party-to catalogue a few:
1t was wisconsin that promised
justly to revise a tariff enacted for
the enrichment of intrenched special
Interest," tariff that a Republican
President denounced as iniquitous
even while he was signing it-and
did IT.
wisconsin destroyed a discredit-
able banking system under which
panics were a~rtificially created for
the benefit of special interest, and re-
placed it with a system which Wall
street cannot manipulate for the
purpose of undermining public credit.
1t was wisconsin that devised and
submitted to the States a system of
taxation which distributed the bur-
den not in proportion to the power
of wealth and influence to dodge it,
but in proportion to ability to bear
it, as gagged by income, the only
practical measure of just taxable
capacity.
wisconsin gave to the worker the
Anti-Injunction law, the eight-hour
day the act for the safety of railway
employees, the Workmen's Compen-
sation act and the Seamen's law.
wisconsin gave to the farmer the
Good Roads act the Rural Credits
act, the Warehouse act, the Grain
Grades act, the act to prevent gamb-
ling in farm products and the Agri-
cultural Extension act.
wisconsin submitted to the States
the constitutional amendment which
enables the voters to select their
United States Senators; abolished
bossism in the House of Represen-
~tatives. and passed the Clayton act to
curb the power of the Trusts.
wisconsin kept the United States
out of the world war until 1t became
clearly apparent that the issue drawn
was between barbarism and civiliza-
ton. and that without u help civil
ization must perish. wisconsin kept
us out of the war until the con:
science of the nation va aroused
and the people were ready for the
sacrifice.
1t was wisconsin that gave con-
crete expression to the purpose Of
1.-THE war: wisconsin that framed II
words the thought in every patriots
heart; wisconsin that supplied tht
moral stamina which keyed America
lup TO the point of tremendous and
unparalleled achievement; wisconsin
that aroused the weary, staggering