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THE WISCONSIN STATE JOURNAL, MONDAY, APRIL 28, 1919. EDITORIAL PAGE DOINGS THE OF DUFFS The right is more precious than peace. WOOD ROW WILSON liefconsin cJa State Journal IXDEPEJiDK.NT NKWSPAPK1 jii Founded In US 1 "KnUrefl a matter November S. at tha poet office al Madlaon. Wleoonala.

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He who 'has money to spare has it always in his power to satisfactory make complaint promptly; telephone 6000. ADVERTISING O. Loaraa Pa xae Coaanaay 1 benefit others. Johnson. VICTORY LOAN IS NOT TAXATION Marqoette Bulldlnf.

CIIICAno Kress Bulldlnjr. DETROIT rayne. naras ana mus Winter Street, BOSTON Fifth Avenue Building-, NEW YORK ONEY received from the sale of the Fifth Liberty (Victory) tBJO A UmP.OUVIA amdteu. ma vwrr loo- Qurre 1 1 uess nia 15 A rrettv frjfcsr a ump.ouvia vio.uv?o I cusss lwd sonr- ws i ahoTeu. ma vwrr Look- Qwrre i HAO tT PAID VovThiuKOI HH SPIFFS I STEP OUT A UTT1.I5 tVT AFTER.

iT fa at I Loan will not pay' war debts. It will pay war bills. That is, the money thus raised will be used in settling the federal i overnment's obligations at banks where treasury certifi form two antithical cnlts. The anarchist has prided himself on hit mental superiority over the Socialist. The Socialist has realized the odium his party has suffered from being placed in the same category with the anarchist.

cates are held as evidences of the government indebtedness, issued beginning last November, supplied money for the payment of war bills, which included to the extent of many hundred millions, the cost Bolshevism is nearer to the anarchist ideal than anything that of returning our soldiers from abroad and from training camps. has developed since propagandists began to smoke the pipe of pleasant nightmares. Twisting and shaping some tenets of old Socialism might fit in with the plan of the Soviets but never with the program of the Bolshevists. Bolshevism is applied anarchy. Socialists have The Victory Loan merely changes the personnel of the government's creditors.

By the purchase of a bond, you, instead of some bank, are financing your government to that extent. You are not paying any portion of the national war debt; you are substituting jourself in place of a bank as your government creditor. And in atead of paying the bank interest for loaning its money, you pay your self the interest. There is no more secure investment possible for the average person to make than Victory Bonds. They pay a higher interest rate than is possible for most savings banks to pay, and there is no bank, or combination of banks in this or any other country, as strong as this government.

And Victory Bonds are the promissory cotes of this government, backed by all the wealth of the wealthiest country on arth, and backed by all Americans of today and tomorrow. Victory Bonds are' safe, sound, profitable. FUJI'S SLOPES NOW ECHO TO "VOTES. EOR WOMEN" CRY But they are not taxation. always claimed to plan for orderly and peaceful revolution, pure democracy and freedom from dictators and autocrats.

Anarchism applied has resulted in the condition Bussia finds herself in under the Bolshevists. In ordinary times a Socialist welcomed the presence of an anarchist in the same spirit a camper welcomes the rattlesnake he finds in his blankets. The anarchist reciprocated the feeling. Now certain of the Socialists who have always read a chapter from Das Eapital at vesper services and chosen their nightly prayer from the Eighteenth Brnmaire are found dallying with the idea that they want to see a real full-blown Bolshevist movement in America. 4 i What kind of hasheesh have these "comrades" been lingering with that they get their ideas so confused, or have they always been confused? Bolshevism will not invade America because there are too many people who have seen it first.

It won't come here unless the vast preponderance of the. people want it in that event, if the nation goes mad and bites itself, we shall have That will not happen. Bolshevism is anti-social it is anarchy. It a menace to the organized labor movement. The workers of America do not want it and they must prevent it.

The antidote for the poisonous propaganda must come from an enlightened labor movement and from employers who will recognize the right of the federal government to adjudicate labor disputes. Nothing in the law paving the way for this or any preceding Liberty Loan gives any person, or any group of persons, any committee, or any government official, the right to "assess" any other person than himself. The very spirit of democracy is violated when one person seeks to compel a fellow citizen to invest a single penny or a million dollars in the bonds of his government. He should invest, for it is a good investment. But he should not be forced to invest, if he cannot see that it is the thing for him to do.

He should not be brow-beaten, intimidated, threatened, for not a word in the Liberty Loan legislation permits even a suggestion of such a thing. He may be compelled to pay his taxes but the Vic are fluent, not fleecy like the showers of other Aprils. Hail the umbrella! Down with the snow shovel!" Milwaukee Wisconsin-New. WITH EDITORS: OF WISCONSIN tory Loan is not taxation. It is ought to be the voluntary lending of money.

We may each of us "assess" ourselves to the amount, of bonds we think we can afford to buy, the investment we believe we can make. But let us not "assess" our neighbor's ability to If that is necessary the logical and legal way is to call it a tax and not a loan, to demand it from him and not plead for it, to make it a duty of senship, not a privilege. Then, tax assessors and collectors, will do the work, not the fine host of voluntary citizens whq are selling bonds in this campaign. Every Victory Loan salesman, we believe, will remember that he, or she, is a governmental bond seller not a tax collector! Passing the Buck The politicians solve all public questions by voting to have them investigated, the investigating committee refer them to the next congress or legislature, the legislative bodies refer them to the people, and the people refer them back to the politicians. Manitowoc Herald-New.

Mistaksn Identity Rome people simply wear a common, ordinary little navy bean on their shoulders for a head, but Imagine that thl little bean la a big Lima bean. Seymour Press. Demonstration for Univartal Suffrage in Front of National Building in Tokyo Over-Zealou Highway Improver Judging from the way they run down i BY H. H. KINYON E.

A. Staff Correspondent in Tokyo, Japan.) (N. pedestrians, some motorists seem to regard them a good road making material when properly crushed and rolled THE PREACHER'S PAY out. Manitowoc Herald-New. The average salary for preachers in 12 leading denominations is mands for suffrage are Mrs.

Akiki Japan's greatest woman poet and literary critic. "The participation of women In poll-tics is strctly forbdden by the law," she says in an article in the Kujln Koron (Woman' Kevlew). "Recently a big mass meeting in favor of universal suffrage was hnld ln-Kanda, and I was asked by the promoters to deliver an address. I was very much pleased to think that I might represent the wlil of Japanese women on that occasion. But.

to my great disappointment, I could not even attend the meeting, as A Matching of Wits The fisherman who has Door luck mal nor reasonable." The "votes' for women" cry is only part of the gen-! eral outcry for a true popular vote, which, however, has Just gone down' to defeat. The lower hpuse of the Diet on March 8 passed the Kara Government's Electoral Reform bill, granting the vote to all who pay tllrect taxes of 3 yen or more a year. This lowering of the property Qualification from 10 yen will practically double the number of Japanese voters and will increase the membership of the lower house from 381 to 464. Among women who have voiceO de TOKYO. Japan, April 15 The Tank-hursta of Japan have broken loose.

Japan la having Its drat asitatlon for woman suffrage. nd the stvansre thing about It is, moat of Japan's I'ankhursts are men. Electoral reform on any really democratic ba-sls sterns far in the future. They Killed It The legislature killed a bill yesterday allowing automobile to run thirty miles an hour along country roads on certain conditions when everything is clear and a good road in sight. In other words they killed a bill that would have kept many an automobil-ist from being a law-breaker, for there are mighty few of them that do not hit it up a little better than twenty-flve miles an hour when they strike a good stretch of country road with everything clear.

As It is now the auto-ist breaks the law and becomes eajry picking for a bunch of unprincipled motor cops who lie in wait for thenir Ashland Press. should take not of the claim made by T74 a year. That's $2.12 a day. The average preacher is married. Most of them are raising state Superintendent Nevin, who says the fish in Wisconsin waters are wise" and have adopted the "safety first" rule.

Oehkoih Northwestern. children, feeding them, clothing them, buying medicine for them and i but the agitation for women's votes Is sicniflcar.t. Ir. Oen. Yaraawakl.

member of the House of Peers, recently declared: "The situation is neither nor- the lav- prohibits the attendance of The Right 8ort of April April showers and flowers are simul women at any political gathering. taneous, this year; and the showers tending them to school He must wear good clothes his wife must dress well, and his children cannot appear in tattered and torn rags. This congregation insists that the preacher and his family must not display any sign of poverty, and the preacher must wear a smile LOOKS LIKE SOMEBODY'S COMING, ALL RIGHT! Freckles and His Friends OUTBURSTS OF EVERETT TRUE always. He must have a cheery word for every man, woman and child he meets. He must not complain.

Once in a while a preacher quits the pulpit and takes another job one which will leave something in his pay envelope after taking out the tolls of butcher, candlestick maker and the baker. Then his congregation speaks of "his fall from grace." A preacher ought to preach. What right has he to stew and fret about shoes for his children, food for his table and the declining years of his life? And above all, a preacher should never 'mention his pay for his congregation has arrived at the conclusion that their paster will reap his reward in the hereafter, than which no human being could desire a greater reward. You know, the average congregation imagines its pastor never would get to heaven unless it permitted him to preach to each Sunday. That's the impression the preacher must receive every time he gets his lean pay envelope.

Uo 0 1 h-S Mis ftpoufiur J. Truly is the "laborer worthy of his hire." The only trouble in the matter is the matter of the preacher's hire is that his congregation expects the Lord to pay about 88 per cent of the hire. It is better to increase the content of the preacher's pay envelope than to contribute for homes for aged pastors, and it is more pleasing to preachers to get regular sized pay envelopes while they live than TN VICTORY LOAM NOT A OF PATRIOTISM bronze tablets after they 're dead. THE ANTIDOTE MO PURSCC A Bo-Sinks PROPOSITION CAM Sfcll Why do Socialists, or many who have called themselves such, espouse so vigorously the cause of the Russian Bolshevists? To reach the answer might involve a controversy about what Bolshevism is COT r1wfV A short cut is to say that Bolshevism is anarchy. Few will controvert that.

Anyone starting an argument about that will begin by talk ing abput the Soviets. There is where the confusion arises. Soviets are an institution. They existed before the Bolsheviks overthrew the Kerensky regime. The Bolshe'viki are a political group.

The Soviets are composed of agrarian people and a limited number are engaged in what little remains of industry in Russia, The Eolsheviki consist of a few political adventurers who are the leaders and a vast mass of the people who are more or less blindly following. Socialists and anarchists have never loved one another, They.