The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1920-03-11

eve want to stand steady, with our
feet on the ground, our ideals high,
our eyes on God, and hold on to the
policies and traditions which have
made us what we are. We all want
to progress, to go forward to better
things, but we want to know where
our feet are planted. We want no
leap in the dark. Rational conserva-
tism is not timidity. 1t is the effect of
Judgment and experience"
This was the diagnosis Of the needs
of the nation today as expressed by
General Leonard Wood, candidate for
president on the Republican ticket,
speaking before the Mems club of the
First Congregational church here on
Tuesday night. 1t was his first adj
dress Of the campaign in Wisconsin
and he was greeted by more than six
hundred people, among the most prom
lneat in che city, The Y fol+
lowed a dinner at which he had brok-
en- bread with more than two hundred
members and guests of the club.
He was most cordially received and
many times his address was inter-
rupted by prolonged applause.
Nation Wants to Go Ahead
eve want to go ahead" he con-
tinued, cas- l said, when we know
where we are going; but progress
made on roads which lead where we
know not is dangerous at this time.
We have no serious difficulties. We
want to pull together, we want the
same kind of democracy that we had
during the war when the son of the
millionaire and the son of the laborer,
new. conner and native born, Jew and
Gentle stood shoulder to shoulder,
stripped of all distinctions other than
those which came from character, ed
ucation and physique"
General Wood discussed at some
length the "Red element" in the ma
ton, but declared that he did not see
it in dangerous menace to the ma
ton.
For League With Reservations.
The general spoke at some length
on the League of Nations. II think"
he said, 1--WE are all interested in see
ing what is being done with the
League of Nations. AS | go over the
Central Department with forty million
people within its confines, touching
Maryland on one side and Utah on the
other, I find that there is a general
desire to have the League approved
with reservations which completely
and thoroughly Americanize it; which
leaves America free to exercise her
will through the agencies provided by
the constitution; to be an American
treaty to help world in trouble, but
and American working and acting un:
der the dictates of her own conscience
under the will of the American pub
lie.
eve want to push forward legiti-
mate business" he said, push it for
ward to the best of our ability, and
nothing will help more in pushing
forward legitimate business than to
spread the burden of the war over a
much longer period Of years than IS
now being contemplated.
eve want to get the strangle-hold
of the excess profit tax and certain
other taxes off the throat of business,
because those taxes are paralyzing
initiative at time when we need 1t.
We want to spread our business
abroad over the world, our commerce
and our trade.
Just a Memory of Military.
eve want to remember something
of our military policy. The people
now are rather fed up on the war;
they don't like to talk of war. 1t is
a good deal like football team that
has been playing hard season: no
one wants to think of the game again
for some time; but we must not for
get that we may have to play it again
that other seasons are coming on.
We earnestly hope we may never again
have war, but if we are men and wo-
men of intelligence we know that hope
may not be gratified. We must judge
of the future in a measure by the
past. God has given us certain tai
ents; Ne has given us eyes to see, ears
to hear, memory to carry, and an
intelligence to apply to the lessons Of