Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1922-08-10

to keep our ships upon the seas, not
TO defend our land against a military
power which was blowing up our fac
tories and plotting to dismember the
Union, not to end war forever and
bring peace to the people of the earth,
but to rescue Morgan's millions and
to fight England's battles.
What shall we think of the diabol-
ism of man that can go into COM
munity where the bitter hatreds of
war had begun to die away and a
spirit OF neighborlineSs had again re-
tanned, and arouse by his eloquence
resentment against our country for
| its part in the war, and his ideas
We're not even his own for they can
be found in the Socialist platform of
1917 written by Victor Berger and
Kate O'Hara to give aid and comfort
to the enemy. Now have the mighty
fallen. To become the mouthpiece of
the International Socialists for the
sake of votes; to lose ones identity; ;
to become an echo or the transcript
of his master voice, to become a Vic
tor Record
If our noble senator were sincere
in his love for the people of German
SWIM AAS nOQlQ nave QoSQ liIS I1diCh-
less oratory to persuade the Senate
to restore peace to the world, he
would have fought for our entrance
into the League of Nations and with
it the entrance of Germany, that jus
tice might be done. But no. Instead
of peace, he brings discord.
To-day France is laundering at the
gates of the Rhine valley. Great dan
ger threatens Germany. America is
the only nation from which she can
expect any help in her present trou-
BILE, and that help must come, if at all,
through the Senate. What likelihood
is there, after such an astounding out
burst of venom ON the part of our
grave and reverend senator, in which
he has insulted every ex-service man
in the Union, that the Senate will take
kindly to any measures of relief?
Let me assure the Gold Star Moth
ers of Wisconsin that they have no
reason to question the motives of our
country or the conduct of the war
with respect to the boys of different
nationalities. Our cause was just.
Our flag was never lowered. Our
| honor is unstained and we have the
happy reflection that we have robbed
no country and despoiled no land. Be
proud of your sons, for they died that
self government might come to the
peoples Of the earth and that war
should be no more. Be comforted
in your souls that it is we'll with your
son, and though today dark clouds
still lower the better day is coming
when nations shall come to respect
each other and to live in peace.
"These heartless men who for the
sake of votes go about our land ap-
pealing to racial hatreds are our
worst enemies. They forget thai
America is the world in little. Here
are gathered representatives of al
most every nation on earth, speaking
diverse tongues and worshipping in
many different ways. It would take
but little to set them at each others
threats. You who have read Othello
/ will recall how the slight insinuatior
of Iago results in tragedy, most fou
and violent. 1t is easy to break III
family or disturb the peace of &
neighborhood, even when all are O.
the same race and the same religion
But when nations are set against ma
lions we have the condition that pre-
walls in Europe, making it a powdel
magazine which may burst into fam,
over night.
i "You say there is small danger o
such catastrophe in America. How