fought the first Liberty Loan
and the second; he fought, in December last, against a declaration of
war with Austro-Hungary. And, so far as the members of Congress were
concerned, he fought practically single-handed.

His vote cast in opposition to the will of the majority meant nothing;
his voice raised in opposition meant much. For very soon the avowed
pacifists and the secret protagonists of Kultur, the blood-eyed
anarchists and the lily-livered dissenters, the conscientious
objectors and the conscienceless I.W.W. group, saw in him a buttress
upon which to stay their cause. The lone wolf wasn't a lone wolf
any longer--he had a pack to rally about him, yelping approval of his
every word. Day by day he grew stronger and day by day the sinister
elements behind him grew bolder, echoing his challenges against the
Government and against the war. With practically every newspaper in
America, big and little, fighting him; with every influential magazine
fighting him; with the leaders of the Administration fighting him--he
nevertheless loomed on the national sky line as a great sinister
figure of defiance and rebellion.

[Illustration: THE LONE WOLF WASN'T A LONE WOLF ANY LONGER. HE
HAD A PACK TO RALLY ABOUT HIM.]

Deft word chandlers of the magazines and the daily press coined terms
of opprobrium for him. He was the King of Copperheads, the Junior
Benedict Arnold, the Modern Judas, the Second Aaron Burr; these things
and a hundred others they called him; and he laughed at hard names and
in reply coined singularly apt and cruel synonyms for the more
conspicuous of his critics. The oldest active editor in the
country--and the most famous--called upon the body of which he was a
member to impeach him for acts of disloyalty, tending to give aid and
comfort to the common enemy. The great president of a great university
suggested as a proper remedy for what seemed to ail this man Mallard
that he be shot against a brick wall some fine morning at sunrise. At
a monstrous mass meeting held in the chief city of Mallard's home
state, a mass meeting presided over by the governor of that state,
resolutions were unanimously adopted calling upon him to resign his
commission as a representative. His answer to all three was a speech
which, as translated, was shortly thereafter printed in pamphlet form
by the Berlin Lokal-Anzeiger and circulated among the German soldiers
at the Front.

For you see Congressman Mallard felt safe, and Co