Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1920-08-24
LIBERTY PARAMOUNT,
SAYS MAYOR McHENRY
IN ADDRESS FRIDAY
''The great issue in this campaig1

4 IHe great issue IN THIS campaign
Is liberty" Mayor A. c. McHenry, OF
Oshkosh, personal liberty candidate
for the Republican nomination for
United States senator, told an audi
ence larger than any. previous cam
paigner had addressed here, at the
court house square Friday evening
For nearer two hours than an hour
and half, the fighting mayor talked,
and held his audience. Liberty has
been the goal OF all human struggle
! This republic had it's birth in the
| liberty loving vision of our fathers.
Restore to the American people their
liberty-return to the republic of
our fathers and we can get along
with or without league of nations ;
we can solve our national and inter-
national reconstruction problems; we
/ can have peace at home and respect
abroad; we can take care of our pub
lie utilities, without injury to human
or property rights; we can have a
definite understanding with Mexico
with credit to the United States and
justice to the Mexican people; we can
cure the unrest of honest labor and
break the bondage of honest capital;
the nations of the world, without big
army and big navy-with the only
national preparedness that really
prepares-a happy, contented, produc-
| tive people.
mo man is big enough in his lead
ership, politically or otherwise to
| make me advocate what / consider is
a public wrong or vote for a measure
deem undemocratic and un-Ameri-
can. Had l been in the United States
senate, l assure the people of Wiscon-
sin, that would never have voted for
the eighteenth amendment. More than
that | would have lifted my voice in
vigorous protest against any such
prostitution of the constitution by
congress.
"As a candidate for United States
senator, | have no friends to favor
and no enemies to revenge. I belong
to no political faction in the state of
Wisconsin and if elected / will treat
all factions alike. A fair and square
deal to all is my idea of official rep
resentation.
Il believe in organized labor and
organized capital. Any attempt to
curtail by law the freedom of capital
or labor is not only undemocratic
and un-American, but a social and
economic crime. More organization
on the part OF both labor and capital
means greater efficiency in business
and production. This constitutes the
only sound basis for reduction in the
high cost of living
Continue in the chains of class
legislation and the slavery of greater
and greater Capitalization of national
government, which is a government
| OF autocracy and patrnalism, and our
national destiny will be the story of
Athens and Rome, and still more an
cient Egypt. Under the reign of lib
erty that our fathers established with
their life's blood, you will have no ma
| tlonal prohibition no government
spying upon or within the freeman's
castle-no legal dictation as to what
we shall eat, drink or wear-no inius-
tice to the soldiers of the republic
| who fought for world liberty and
democracy in Europe while our would
be statesmen and paid reformers cur
| failing their democracy and robbing
them of their liberty at home-no
Esch-Cummins railroad bill--no gov
ernment by injunction-no espionage
| act-no denial of a seat in any leg
islative body to the duly elected rep
resentatives Of the people-no unrea-
sonable abridgment of free speech,
free press or free assembly-and no
man shall be deprived of life, liberty
or property without due process of
law"
Mayor McHenry remained in Wau-
sau until Saturday morning when he
left for Rhinelander where he was
scheduled to speak that evening. He
will be Joined by his wife and son at
| Hurley