The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-01-06

w.
anefisd Mr. Ppindexter. y conceds
that our cttisanR shonta be careful how
they travel. bot ~ the same time th5
government should hesitate 20 waive
ihelr riahts by implication"
/ Senator O'Gorman. WIN had been
I following the coIloquy closely. inter
posed here
Under Expressed treaties oar eitl.
gems have the right 20 travel and re-
: side In Mexico. Does the senator think
these right we're prejudiced when the
government warned Americans to leave
that country1 Great Britain. few
years ago. without concedinR the right,
advised British Rnhtaets to keen on
ships liable 10 attack"
Senator Work, In reply to suages-
,ions that had gone before, added.
The right 10 travel by heliigeTent
ships may be conceded as lawful. but
surely there is moral obligation on
the government and our citizens 20
avoid being drawn into this war. !
viii 40 further back than that At
the very beginning Of the war J OPP
posed the shipment If arms to beilig
erents, particularly after Great Hri-
tain blockaded the ports of Germany,
II ~ that time we had Eaid to Great
Britains II you blockade tho ports Of
allow no more arms to 20 10 you We
might have brought England to terms.
We have become practically parties
to THIS war by shipping arms 10 one
side only We are not neutral, but
we are hypocriticaliy say ing We are
neutral"
Senator Reed, Of Missouri. combatted
Senator Works. suggestion mat be
cause the United states permitted the
export of arms 90 Great Britain the
government violated neutrality.
Doesn't the senator from Caiifof
MIA know, iuterpoaed Mr.. Reed, that
the frst act of the kind Of this couu-
try after the outbreak Of thr war was
the floating here of = loan of $4,000
GOO 20 Germany without protest from
tho senator, or from any body else ?
Germany got arms here just as long as
she was allowed to transport them.
We have treated ALI alike. and our
markets have been open 10 all In the
Hight OF this how can the senator say
we have not been neutral
But 1t has been impossible for one
side TO reach our markets. replied
Senator Works
THE senator. "a fair man. re
piled Mr. Reed, will admit that this
impossibility arose from nothing done
by our government. but from the fact
that one OF the beliiRerents overcame
It's enemy on the sea"
Doing 1t Fer Money.
oh observed Mr.. Works, y don't
doubt that the Americans now selling
arms to England would sci 20 Ger
many IL they could make deliveries.
They are doing IL for money. hut our
moral responsibility does not relate
to our selling arms 20 only one side.
We should sell to neither.
The difference between the Senator
from Missouri and myself. continued
Mr. Works. rs that ! set a higher
value on human life than on the prop
erty, and the Senator does not We
are practically the allies of one side
by selling them ammunition
Just word on this question OF
neutrality" interposed Senator Lodge.
OF Massachusetts,, Republican. The
question is whether the act of a neu-
trail should change condition created
by the war. our markets were open
to all. but a condition created by the
war, and by the war alone closed the
market to one side. II by our act
we sought to restore the condition ex-
isting before the war. we practically
enter the war by our unneutral act y
Lodge Clearly States Case.
Does the Senator think the United
States is under obligations TO sell arms
TO all belligercnts?" asked Mr. O'Gor-
4 man.
There Is no question of obligation. -
replied Mr.. Lodge. international law
is well known. The United States can.
of course, interpose an embargo II it
wishes. bat it would he a violation
OF neutrality"
Docs the Senator mean ana
embargo, which It IL our conceded
right to impose. would he unneu-
trai?' insisted Mr.. O'GoFman
AN embargo On arms" replied
/ VAR, lodge, would now he DIS
tinctIy uniaeusraI II would place
ia on the side of the belligerent
pTosating by the EMBARGO"
Does the Senator think. ask ed
Senator Hitchcock. Democrat. and a
member Of the Foreign Relations Com
mittee that Sweden, Holland. Nor
way and Denmark were unneutrai
when they placed embarwoes ON their
exports? -
Mr. Lodge replied that he did not.
Then" said Mr. Hitchcock with
emphasis, ''the tinted States is the
only country IN the world, according
10 the Senator position that cannot
impose an embargo"
Would be worth Milton Men.
Those countries replied Nrl
Lodge. did mot change a condition
Their embargo was applied to an
alike Ours would apply 10 one An
the world Knows that an American
embargo would be worth more to Ger
many than a million men"
Suppose a belligareHt suggested
AIR. O'GOrnau the chief beneficiary
of our present policy ~ exports, were