ELECTING A SENATOR FROM WISCONSIN
Electing a Senator from Wisconsin ON the second day of April Congressman I. L. Lenroot was elected United States senator from Wisconsin to succeed the late Paul O. Husting. He received a majority...
...The "Loyalty" issue was dropped like a hot-poker...
...EOBERT M. LA FOLLETTE...
...WITHIN each major party there were charges and countercharges of disloyalty...
...In ths name of "patriotism" they will insist that All those safe-guards In the government machinery which are to prevent fraud and theft be swept away and antiquated "red-tapeism" that obstructs the necessary vigor and promptness of action...
...In both parties candidates were nominated who had announced themselves as nothing if not patriotic...
...Carl Schurz On Patriotism IN Harper's Weekly of April 16, 18!>8 appeared an article on "About Patriotism" which is truly prophetic...
...Therefore, I call upon ; the voters of Wisconsin to send me to the senate, in order that I may sustain in every way tho magnificent patriotism and the splendid leadership of President Wilson," WHY WASTE TIME...
...From all we can learn, Wisconsin and the nation will be served creditably whichever man or party wins...
...Thus these two simonpure patriots have fought on the issues of their respective percentages of loyalty...
...Meanwhile the Democrats rest their whole hope of winning on the claim that these 80,000 Republican disloyalists will be for their candidate...
...It would not then take two years, as in this war, for England and America to have an army ready...
...He has had something to say about my loyalty but if it comes to that I have been more loyal than Woodrow Wilson has been...
...It amounts to as much as we spend in twenty-five days of war...
...For unless it do so with effect, the range and power of corrupt and degrading influences in our political life will be fearfully enlarged, and the progress of honest, safe and orderly methods of government may be set back for an indefinite period...
...The issue in Wisconsin today is two-fold...
...It would be fatal, however, to believe that the revolutionary wave from the east can be stopt either by the police, the censor, or the pressure of the Government...
...It needs every dollar that can be raised for it...
...The vote polled by each of the three contesting candidates was: Lenroot, Republican, 163,983...
...It was votes they were interested in...
...Berger, Socialist, 110,187...
...The value of the ore that lies in the provinces of Briey and Longwy has been estimated by experts...
...When both sides wenc to scrambling for "disloyalist" votes when It was that kind of votes they needed in order to win, all doubt ceased...
...Da-vies, Democrat, 148,923...
...They will always be seen and heard among the noisiest of "patriots," in whose opinion no prepara» tion Is large enough, no action too quick and no measure too far-reaching...
...Lenroot's speeches in Wisconsin comes out of the can ?.bout as follows: "This is a party fight...
...Friedrich Naumann in his paper, the Berlin Hilfe, says: "Despite all the lessons that the war has taught us, we have not yet become a real nation, as is well proved by the discussion* in the Prussian Diet...
...Having taken up marine insurance in the face of submarine risks, Secretary McAdoo dares to insure the lives of soldiers approaching the front.—Review of Reviews...
...They actually boast of it, who should be pale with the remorse of it, supposing these voters to be what before the primaries they were said to be...
...In the Socialist Vorwarts we find this: "While the fighting at present is inclining in Germany's favor, none the less after this fight we shall neither be in a position nor shall we have the moral right to treat the enemy on the principle of 'hands on the throat and knees on the chest.' "The necessity for a political understanding lies behind even the greatest military decision...
...certainly it cannot be won...
...And if any republican administration had been as feeble and inefficient as his in the conduct of the war, it would blush for shame...
...A war-indemnity is not to be thought of...
...Lenroot and likewise Davies, the democratic "Loyalty" candidate sought the "traitor" votes of Candidate Thompson with honied unction...
...This is the class of "patriots" well fitted by old Dr...
...It i3 tha Supreme Antidote.—Isaac F. Marcosson...
...No money expended in the war reaps so rich a harvest of gratitude and service...
...Just as it is the world's most colossal struggle, enlisting more millions and creating a wider havoc than any other war, so are the demands for mercy greater than ever before...
...After this war the German people can only exist if they live as a peaceful, self-governing nation...
...Uncle Sam's Huge Insurance Business THE thing that would in any case have given Mr...
...What the Red Cross Actually Stands For THE stay-at-home American cannot realize what the Red Cross means in this war...
...If such things were said in this country we fear that the papers would be denied the mails...
...Viewed by the West (From Nebraska State Journal...
...Conditions As They Are in Germany THERE is going on in Germany a sharp political campaign to determine the conditions of peace and Germany's policies' after the war...
...Think of it, the 80,000 or so of traitors who voted for the La Follette candidate are going to Lenroot and the Republicans assert the fact without shame...
...Let us put it out of our heads...
...It is the familiar old fight to see which man and which party shali get the office...
...The total vote case at this special election was only 23,741 less than the total vote cast in the presidential election of 1916...
...If it were, would they all be scrambling now for La Follette's division of "traitor" votes...
...Why, each of them is more or less disloyal...
...The Rc.d Cross is succour and sustenance...
...Even now our air service is costing us more than our entire Army did in peace time...
...Wherever I have gone the Red Cross has been in the thick of the battle—first to aid, last to rest...
...These definitions are generally accepted as correct, and they should be well kept in mind, especially at a time of warlike excitement when the word "patriotism" is on every lip, and an appeal to "patriotism," from whomsoever it may come and by whatever motive it may be prompt...
...A bald-headed man buys his restoxar fcy tho bottle, doesn't he...
...And those who "love their country and mean to serve it faithfully" must not forget that true patriotism, whila in time of war it has to fight the foreign enemy abroad, has to fight with equal vigilance and vigor false patriotism at home...
...He ha.-' raised with the President's help, the issue of partisanship which ought to be stilled during the war...
...Looking to the future, it is safe enough to say that this experience of ours in the field of government life insurance will lead to projects for surrounding workmen and their families with the safeguards of a system that will greatly lessen that dread of poverty which, heretofore, has so clouded the lives of millions of deserving and industrious men, women, and children...
...Why do you consider women to be superior to men in intelligence...
...In the name of "patriotism" they will seek to foist into places of trust and responsibility patriots of their own stripe to help them in their rascally game...
...We will fight for our existence and will do so until the Fatherland is safe...
...It is interesting to look over this statement at this time in view of conditions of the present day...
...The great majority of the German people do not desire revolution if it can be avoided by timely measures...
...Except'ng for the miseries of war, the fact of poverty has been the greatest curse of mankind in modern times...
...The statement follows: The dictionaries define "patriotism" as "love of one's country," and "patriot" as "one who loves and faithfully serves his country...
...In the name of "patriotism" they will strive to discredit and break down public men who have remained sufficiently cool to guard the public interest, as "not patriotic enough...
...If international trade is not reestablished, we shall have a hunger peace, for you can take away territory from a state, but you can't compel it to exchange goods with us...
...Both candidates will blush a bit over their traitor talk at each other when they have had time to cool off...
...Witness the saying of the notorious Herr von Oldenburg-Janushau^ 'If we get equal suffrage in Prussia, then we have lost the war.' "We demand more liberty...
...We still have a House of Lords, or rather, of Junkers, in which the different clans struggle for their existence one against the other, and thi3 primitive turmoil we dignify with the term parliamentarianism...
...Such an understanding, however, will be all the easier for us once the poisoned cloud of Pan-German war-lies has disappeared...
...So now the issue in Wisconsin is plainer than the nose on a Cyrano de Bergerac...
...He received a majority of 15,060 over his principal competitor, out of a total of 423,393 votes cast at the election...
...Dr...
...Er—yes...
...Lloyd George a permanent place in the history of British sooial progress was his leadership, some years ago, in the establishment of a national system of insurance for working people against the hazards of sickness, accident, and old age...
...When the caldron is beginning to bubble over there is no means of stilling it except by quenching the fires which are the sources of its agitation, and they can not be quenched by a counter-irritation which would only add to their fuel until the whole system is ablaze...
...Samuel Johnson's robust saying, that "patriotism is the last refuge of % scoundrel...
...every bit of loyalty that can be mustered...
...The horrible discovery is made that Lenroot had voted in Congress a couple of years ago for a couple of the German propaganda bills...
...ed, is sure to draw popular applause...
...A dictated peace, according to the Fatherland model would make the Entente Alliance permanent...
...What the East Saw (From the New York Evening Post, April 1.) THE condensed milk of Mr...
...Demburg, well known in this country, and an ex-minister in the German cabinet, speaking to an audience in Frankfort recently, is reported in the conservative Frankfurter ZeitunK as saying: "It is against the foe within as the foe without that we must fight...
...It is one of the most appropriate functions of an organized democracy to mitigate such evils by promoting thrift and providing safeguards...
...The whole power of the Fatherland party is in the hands of reactionary despots, the very men who upheld despotic government, unequal suffrage, and class privilege...
...The republican party has been attacked by the president, yet Wisconsin is a republican state, arid will know how to answer his misrepresentations...
...It is in time of war, when the rush of events frequently makes the need of the Government especially pressing, that the tribe of unscrupulous speculators bent upon cheating and robbing the public find most fruitful opportunities...
...The hypocrisy of the "Loyalty" issue was made plain as soon as the primary was over...
...A Tirpitz peace would perpetuate present antagonisms and bind this nation to hopeless militarism...
...But what really matters is to find the right word that shall deliver the world from the insanity into which it has been plunged by the Super-Germans and Pan-Germans, the Super-French and th«j Pan-French, and the Super-English and the Pan-English...
...I have been with six armies and on half a dozen fronts...
...Without the Red Cross this war could not be waged...
...The fart that the men who used the disloyalty club against their opponents in the primaries continued to use it when opposing super-loyalists at the election shows that...
...It finds Republicans gleeful over their claim that Vice President Marshall's democratic speeches have driven the La Follette Republican vote to Lenroot...
...There is no question of loyalty in it, barring the hardly possible election of the Socialist candidate...
...It is notable, therefore, that the Government of the United States has now become the greatest insurance company in t'.ie world, in the aggregate amount of the policies it has already written under the novel system of soldiers' and sailors' insurance and war risks that Congress adopted last October...
...Well, a woman doesn't waste time on a hair* restorer...
...It wasn't loyalty the politicians were excited about...
...Lenroot declared that "Loyalty" was the only issue between him and his competitors...
...Then the whole world would stand in arms against us and we should have to meet the expense of ever-lasting armaments involving annually some 12,000 million marks...
...Professor Lindsay, who was active in helping to work out the system when the bill was pending, writes for us this month on the scheme as now in foice, giving particular attention to those more temporary _ phases, the allotments and allowances for dependent families...
...Davies on the other hand is unpatriotic for trying under cover of the war to seize a democratic senator-ship in a republican state...
...This party has developed into a powerful weapon against progress, with the press of the landowners and the great interest* as its organ...
...But now when these two 103 per cent plus patriots, Lenroot and Davies, go at each other in the final round, what happens...
...After sinking enormous capital in <5erman colonies, the net annual dividend is just about the war-expenditure for one day from eight in the morning to six at night...
...Lenroot won the republican nomination in the primary campaign on a sham issue by 2,400 out of a total of 143,688 votes cast for the two republican candidates...
...The principle of insurance is one of the most beneficent that mankind has put into practise...
...The article was written by Carl Schurz, lover of liberty...
...It should be constantly remembered that to "serve one's country faithfully" means not only to profess love for it, or to have a sentimental attachment to it, but to consider with conscientious care what is best for its welfare and its honor, and then to do one's duty to it according to that understanding, honestly, with courageous devotion and in a spirit of self-sacrifice...
...Issue "A" is, shall Lenroot or Davies be senator ? Issue "B" is, shall-the new senator be a Democrat or a Republican...
...Colonial acquisitions can hardly bo counted as compensations for the cost of War...
...And this tribe of sharks and harpies will be lustily aided by the disreputable politicians who discover in the general disturbances a new chance for themselves, and who expect the loudest kind of war patriotism to lift them into popular favor and public place, trusting that everything will be forgiven to the "patriot" who is most vociferous in denouncing the enemy and most fiercely proclaiming that the war must not cease until the last fighting foe has bitten the dust...
...the bays hair.*'—London Swing Show...
Vol. 10 • April 1918 • No. 4
