The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1915-02-19
Press Comment on Vote
On Ship Purchase Bill.

Senator Vardaman's speech denounc-
ing Senator Stone seems to have been
carefully prepared for home consump-
tion; for he describes the Cha ncer,. :,
Missouri statesman as "pou.... :
mouth of the blowfish emptying it's
belly full of bad air." This is really
Vardamanesque ard it will be greatly
enjoyed by that class of patriots who
sit on the front galleries of country
store and spit tobacco juice at doodle
bugs while immortalizing themselves
by carving their names on dry goods
boxes. Every mothers son of them
will say: "You can just bet that Jim
knows how to skin 'em when they get
him started. New Orleans Safes.
The Record is of the opinion that
Senator Vardaman has made mistake,
along with his eight Democratic COL
leagues, in opposing the ship purchase
bill. 1t might be wrong in principle
as a general thing, but it seems that
the present situation demands the pas
sage of this bill, in the interest of pro-
noting Americas s shipping facilities,
which have been greatly impaired since
the war broke out.-Newton Record.
The Herald agrees with the Record in
the opinion that Senator Vardaman has
made mistake in opposing the ship
purchasing bill; mistake which the
Herald hopes he will be able to explain
in a way that will satisfy his friends
and confound his enemies. M Madson
County Herald.
Says L. =. Senators Should Go
To England.
England has taken over thirty intern
ed German ships, and is using them for
freighters. She paid nothing for these
ships, but she objects to the United
States purchasing outright and paying
for ships that are similarly interned in
American ports, because an American
merchant marine would compete with
her in the freight carrying business.
Our Democratic senators who are be.
trayng their own people in order to
continue the British monopoly of the
freight carrying ocean trade, ought to
resign and remove to England. They
are misrepresenting their own people. =
News. Scimitar.
This is no time for disputations on
party regularity, the traditions of the
fathers and such other frothy stuff fed
out in times of running for office.
Grave questions involving not only
the business, the prosperity. but the
peace of the nation, are before Con-
gress, and unless the Democrats rise
equal to them they will not only show
themselves unworthy of future trust,
but unfit to discharge the trust they
asked Jor when they went before the
people. Commercial Appeal.
Senator Vardaman's opposition to the
shipping bill has caused much comment
and the Senator has come in for good
deal of criticism from his political
enemies. Had we been in Congress
we probably would have voted for the
bill for it promises temporary relief
from the present war situation. How
ever, we can readily see that Senator
Vardaman's opposition to the bill is
well taken and is honest and sincere.
He takes the position that the bill is
undemocratic, is only temporary re-
lief that will cause the expenditure
needlessly of several millions of dollars,
will create a market for ships that are
now inferno ed and that will be left on
our hands at the end of the war, and
lastly, that is liable to cause trouble be-
tween Uncle Sam and some of the bel
lgerent nations. The shipping bill is
the best thing in sight. but there is a
serious doubt of it being able to ac.
complish its purpose in case of its being
passed by Congress. All of this hurrah