Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1922-08-17
La Toilette Advises People Not to
Trade at Stores Advertising in
Sheets He Does Not Approve
HEARERS LARGELY FROM
OTSIDE CITY OF BARABOO
Speech Woull Indicate Bob
Mi~ht Be Subscription Solicitor
For Capital Times and One or
Tive Other Newspapers

| Following his customary TRADE
against newspapers that are not sup
porting him, Senator La Toilette
broadened his role of censor consider
ably Monday afternoon when he told
nearly 1000 persons largely nom
residents of this city, in the AL. Ring
ling theatre what papers to read and
by inference what ones not TO read.
His recommendations were based on
the honesty of the publications which
he told the people could with safety
f.. be taken to their homes. The Hearst
papers in Milwaukee-the News and
elegram-received the Senator's
commentator. (They are supporting
his candidacy with great fervor).
fCuriously enough, Victor l.. Berger's
Milwaukee, Leader (Which is doing
yeoman service to lead the Socialist
vote into the Republican primary to
nominate and elect La Toilette, was
not mentioned Whether this omission
was due to spirit of caution or in
advertence is only to be conjectured.
Never, it is stated, in any of his
speeches, has Senator La Foifcite
told any of his audiences
that he had received the So
cialist endorsement for Sena-
tor, or in any way conveyed any al
fusion that might apprise Republicans
that a working agreement exists.
Almost the first statement the
Senator made was that he was not
speaking about his war record in a
defensive way. He said he was taking
lit aggressively' to the ody of men
who in Milwaukee recently condemn
ed him. He reiterated his pride in
his record.
Flags the Newspapers
| The first epithet he bestowed on
the papers was vampires" but he
soon shifted back to his favorite
term-"the lying press" He ventured
|, the thought that to send children to
school was of doubtful value if their
minds are later to be poisoned by the
Lying press" eff the young people
are to be he'd to and misled by papers,
majority of which are controlled by
great aggregations of wealth, you
/. might as we'll abandon keeping their
minds straight while they are in
: school" Then he opened fire on the
BarabOo papers. 81 used to know
something about the BaraboO Repub-
lie. and The News suspect they
have not improved" said the Sena-
tor. You are betraying the future of
your children if you permit these
papers to come into your homes.
Here the speaker said that virtuous
, papers could be procured, enumerat-
ing the News and Telegram of Mil
waukee, and The Capital Times at
Madison, regarded as his personal or
gan. The above papers with possibly
one or two exceptions are believed
to be the only papers in the state
: boosting La Foilette's candidacy.
Advise About Store Trading
: The Senator repeated his advice
given in other cities to refuse TO trade
| in stores that advertised in the pa
pers he disapproved. Powerful in
fuences are at work on the press
they make money by lying" he shout
ed. He told OF his speech before the
, magazine publishers at Philadelphia
: where he predicted that the maya
zines would be owned by financial in
terests, and said that though the men
resented it his prophecy had come
true. There ara few magazines left
now" he continued, "The Nation, my
: own magazine, and the New Republic
that's about all"
: With the Endorsement of his own
: magazine, the Senator went back to
+ his war speech, telling the crowd that
: they would now learn more in AZ
!. minutes than they had in five years
He declared that while II
was legitimate TO starve wo
I mn and children in the
seige of a fortified city, it was never
regarded as legitimate until this war
TO starve them by blockading whoFs
nation as England did with Germany
e In making this statement the Sena
tor ignored the history of the Civil
Q war blockade when the north fought
the south in the same way.