The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-04-21
OPPOSE MAKING
FISH OF ONE AND
FLESH OF OTHER
q. S. Senators Favor Treating
Britain and Germany Alike.
Weeks and MARITIME Give Views
on TeutOnic Situation.
BOTH ARE STRONG NEUTRALS
Neither Thinks War With the
Kaiser Justifiable.
Works Says American People
Do Not Want a Conquest.
BOTH ARE STRONG NEUTRALS
Neither Thinks War With the
Kaiser Justifiable.
BY JOHN d. WORKS,
United States Senator From California.

United States Senator From California.
Washington. April AL do not be-
lieve there is adequate reason to sever
diplomatic relations with Germany. II
there is. it is because Germany has
violated the rules of international law.
The allies have done the same thing.
Therefore. if we do sever diplomatic
relations with Germany, we should at
the same time sever diplomatic rela-
tions with the allies as well. If we do
not. we will establish clearly our I'M
neutrality.
do not believe the congress of the
United States will be willing to declare
war against Germany or any other
belligerent nations for anything that
has been done by them or by either of
them up to this time. Nor do believe
that the people of this country want
war with any other nation on any such
account.
And neither do 1 believe that con-
gress would declare in favor of war
with Germany if the president should
sever diplomatic relations with that
country. What Germany might do in
that case, 1 do not know.
BY JAMES f. MARITIME,
United States Senator From New
Jersey.
Washington, April al feel that
we might with justification press our
demands on Great Britain with almost
as much force and right as we have
pressed them on Germany.
Great Britain has violated interna-
tional understandings and laws that
were supposed to govern nations on
the high seas. Hence, 1 feel that we
should not make fish of one and fowl
of the other.
OF course, I realize that in sub
marine attacks Great Britain has not
been as active and violent at Germany
l. L. H. IL
be brought to an understa nding with
the United States.
feel that it is not fair to hold Ger
many to a strict accountability and
ignore Great Britain. have no claims
as an expert, but manifestly the con-
ditions would justify us in insisting
upon a plain understanding with
Great Britain as we now demand with
Germany. =
do not thinksthe severance of dip
lomatic relations would result in war.
1t has generally led to war, but 1 do
not believe this necessarily should be
the case.
Has Faith in Germans.
I have so much faith in the intel
ligence and fairness of the German
people that 1 believe they will realize
the unfairness of their position and
that our difference will be harmonized
without strife or bloodshed.
God knows I do not want war and 1t
will be the last of my thoughts and
votes to bring it about
1 think the senate would be averse
to declaring war. / feel they would
insist that conditions would have to be
much more aggravated than at present
before declaring war.
War would mean primarily the sew
erance of so many ties of relationship
by which we are bound to foreign
lands and the breaking and bleeding
of hearts; the sacrifice of myriads of
lives and millions of treasure; the
stagnation of every industry in our
land and the prostration that neces-
sarily would follow the great accum-
ulation of debts that must necessarily
ensue. All would combine a picture
of horrors too sad to contemplate /
do not feel the country would justify
the congress in going to war with
Germany for the present reasons