Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1914-04-29

On Wednesday both houses of the
the national congress at Washington
adopted the war resolution. 1t reads
as follows and is the basis upon what
ever may result in the Mexican
trouble will rest:
''In view of the facts presented by
the president of the United States in
his address delivered to congress in
joint session on the Goth day Of April,
1914 in regard to certain affronts and
indignities committed against the
United States in Mexico, be it
Resolved, That the president is
justified in the employment of the
armed forces of the United States to
amends for the affronts and indignities
committed against the United States.
Be it further
''Resolved, That the United States
disclaims any hostility to the Mexican
upon them. .
This was a substitute for the
resolution earlier passed by the lower
house. The House resolution was op-
posed in the senate and a substitute
offered by Senator Lodge, of Mas
sachusetts, which was also lost.
In talking against the House resolu-
tion and favoring the Lodge substi-
tute, Senator Elihu Root, of New
York, said:
eve are asked as part of our
duty here to declare a certain course
of action in certain conditions to be
justified. We are called upon to do
our duty to the hundred million people
of this country and our duty to the
civilized world.'
The resolution, Senator Root said,
"called for forceful armed compulsion
of the de facto government of a
friendly nation to make amends for
an insult to the flag of this country"
eve cannot justify this, - he con-
tinued, ION our confidence in the
president. We must justify ourselves
before the conscience of the people of
our country and before the eyes of
the civilized world. What is that
justification? Mark you, do not
say there is no justification. I ask
what it is.
deeply as the president desires to
limit the scope of his action-the
maintenance of peace, all history sug-
gests that once lighted the fires of
war can not be quenched at will. 1t
is war in its essence that we are to
vote to justify tonight. What the
result of these incidents no man can
tell. Men will die-men dear to us
will die because of the action we are
to take tonight. American homes will
be desolate, and American children
will go through life fatherless because
of the action we will take to night,
and when they turn back the page to
find why their fathers died are they
to find that it was about the number
of guns or the form of salute?'
Senator Root reviewed the Tampico
incident as the avowed justification"
by the president. He said the Incl
dent was an insult to our flag.
"But, SIR" he said, "amends
were Immediately made. The officer
who made the arrest was himself ar
rested. The commandant at Tampico
apologized and Gen. Huerta also
apologized. These amends seemed not
sufficient to the commander of the
American vessels and he demanded a
salute to the flag.
WANTS PREAMBLE BY LODGE AID
OPTED.
IF this be all, how can we justify,
in our arrogance, our present attitude
toward bankrupt, weak, despairing
Mexico, if this be all? But this is
not all. There is matter of justifca-
ton. And 1.-THE senator from Mas
sachusetts has sought to lay it before
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