Evening journal., 1916-01-22

piled Mr. Williams "is that would agree to declare
upon Great Britain and have a lot of Irish Eng
lsh Welsh Scotch and Americans and Canadians killed
because my mail had been interfered with.
well, decline to do H. do not know how import
ant his mail is. but mine is not important enough for
that and do not think the mail Of the average citizen
is unless IL is spy within the United States. bear
ing the title OF American citizen while he processes
allegiance to some foreign government and as iar as
he is concerned, do not care whether his mail is in
terfered with or not
q am not going TO shed one drop Of American or
Canadian blood on account Of any confounded-I beg
pardon-on account of any action of the British CEN
sors with regard to letters and post matters.
Mr. Hitchcock said that letters containing bills OF lad
ing had been opened and examined prices taken and all
had gone to central authority where they COM
municated to British manufacturers and shipping
agents. that they knew the secrets Of American bust
and might steal their trade in the midst Of
war.
Does not the Senator care for that?" asked Mr..
Hitchcock
"If / said did not care replied Mr. Williams, my
mouth overshot my intellect What mean to say is l
don't care enough to shed blood about IT, AS to wheth-
British censors have taken private business letters
and handed them over TO the British concerns, 90
believe word Of that. Great Britain is TOO busy
fighting TO maintain her naval supremacy and her en-
pire TO be very much engaged in watching or Detrayng
trade secrets
"Whon you get people engaged in deadly warfare
fighting as they think for their lives their liberty
civilization and culture, they thinking about them
selves chiefly secondly about the enemy and thirdly
about the neutIals
"The only thing I would shed blood about is blood
never heard in the time Of dueo in the South of gen
uemen ever challenging each other about money.
never heard of the worst dueo fanatic i'm the world
wanting to kin another man about a bill property
damage
Nineteen American citizens arc killed on American
soil and a whole lot Of you nag your presi-
dent into course of conduct that would result in war
You want to 90 down there and kin a lot of Mexican
poems and Naquis and other Mexcans and because the
Jesse James bandits robbed and killed your citizens
"Ye not blessed one Of you is introducing reso-
luton about the several hundred Americans kllednOt
German soil but the high seasnot by irrespon-
sibe bandits but by the prepared and declared policy
Of government And why? Why you PURSUING
such different courses? Simply because YOU think
Mexico is little enough to be kicked and Germany is too
big TO he kicked
regard to Germany. make allowances for her people
I do not hate Germans and Germany. / love German
literature and history and culture, and love ospec-
tally the people of the Rhine. know them. know
they are my equals and yours
81 ann not Quarrclling with you because you are not
nagging the President about Germany but because you
are nagging him about Mexico when no Mexican Gov
ernment oflense has been committed and when you
dare not nag him about Germany You are wise when
YOU do not had better get ready you can sup
your naeging before you get to nagsng somebody
who fight"
There is much in that speech that commends sei
to the American people I'm the light of the bloody
worl, Germany has done against American neutrals
and non-combatans IL is the American hope that that
country viii defeated signally in the now on
such persons feel that every reasonable allowance
should for the Quadruplo Entente and that the
pro-German element i'm Congress should be held in
! control while the Entente is accomplishing the ends il
set out to accomplish No should lose sight of the
fact that II Germany conquer Europe, her mex
spring would be at the throat OF America and that
in that sense the British blockade is blockade an'
the inconveniencos VIC now suffer merely make for GU
national security in the future.