Mountain advocate., 1914-04-24


the house standing about the walls of
the senate chamber listened as the
Massachusetts senator turned from
the discussion OF the history of the
Mexican affair to bitter attack on
the presidents failure to pledge the
restoration OF peace in Mexico.
NO man." he said. would suffer the
insult given to our honor and flag to
pass without atonement, but an atone
ment for an insult given by a nation
to another nation Is a salute to the
flag of the injured nation. And that
ence to a nation as an entity.
Certainly in seeking to secure
atonement for an insult to the flag.
all party lines vanish and all of us
stand back of the president.
Il have seen 1t intimated that In the
position taken by certain members Of
my party upon this resolution 1t APP
peared we we're not duly sensitive to
the honor OF the flag. No men In the
United States are more devoted to its
honor than the men who bear the name
Republican, and who gave their all
that there should be but one flag In
this country.
Refer to Murder OF Americans
I'VE not only believe. Mr.. President,
that the flag should be respected in
Mexico, but we believe that some
thing should be said about what the
flag covers More than $50 innocent
and helpless people-American citi-
zens--haye been murdered on Mexi-
can soil | cannot put aside the mem.
DRY Of those people whose murder has
passed unnoticed and unatoned. can
not pass by in silence the wrong done
these people without saying that theirs
has been the greater wrong demand
ing atonement. | cannot be put in the
position Of having to pick and choose
between the factions that are tearing
Mexico asunder. ! will not without
protest join in any action here which
would select one cutthroat and muir
derer in preference to another.
If we intervene in Mexico il must
be to protect life and property; not to
take down one man and set up another
like him in his place"
Senator Shively, as acting chairman
of the foreign relations committee,
to the senate to support the president.
The senator is not proposing" he
declared, in what he is doing and
what he has done. to exercise the war
power, which is lodged in congress.
ShiveIy Opposes Lodge Amendment.
Senator Shively declared that the
Lodge preamble which proposes, in.
stead OF singing out General Huerta
for attack alone as the basis for the
use OF the army and navy in Mexico.
that all outrages in Mexico and lack
of government there De cited as the
ground for the hostile demonstration.
and which was offered as an amend
ment to the senate sub-resolution. was
a proposition to declare war on the
Mexican people.
',All that there Is in this preamble. 70
he said, can be translated only in
resolution into a declaration OF war.
But II We are to make declaration Of
war then let us clearly make it. Let
US not indulge in the snivelng pharis
aism OF reciting causes and pretext
for making war and then passing peace
resolutions. Let us not thunder in the
preamble and whisper in the text.
There can be no question what the
natural effect OF that preamble would
be il addressed to any great power Of
the world. All recitation OF our pur-
pose would be idle.
mo distinction is made in that pre-
able, no attempt is there to draw the
line between those who have CON-
mitted offenses and those who have
not. It is declaration against the peo-
pie OF Mexico"
Senator Williams Speaks.
Senator Williams of Mississippi. q
lifelong advocate OF international
peace, then took the floor.
The world is not civilized yet
said he. Perhaps In another hundred
years II will be so advanced that the
spectacle OF a battleship with the
American flag flying at the stern will
be an object for laughter. but at the
present stage of civilization It is not
so. II the president had passed by
unnoticed the insults offered our flag
by the Huerta faction in Mexico there
would have gone up from every hill
and valley in this land an angry cry
OF protest.
"The time will come after a'whife
when mankind will say that a mere
punctilio shall not lead men to kill
one another. AT present we must
| ahida nv the demand OF the ciViliza