Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-03-03

We are not Irish, not Germans. not Eng
lish, not Latins, not Russians, not
French. We are here, if we have the
right to participate in American govern
ment. simply as Americans.
Therefore, American ideals and
everything that responds to the noblest
in America can be relied upon to push
aside any man whose. idea of politics
consists of pleasing some racial preju-
dice.
1.-THE initiative in foreign relations
lies with the executive and congress
ought not to attempt TO assume the ini-
tative
Through resolutions and in speeches
and whispers, the chief magistrate has
been prodded and nagged and dared. To
do what? To surrender the initiative
the constitution places with him and let
congress take the lead i'm foreign rela-
tons
Now the patience of every patient
man has been exhausted. Now, he says
you have given comfort to foreign ma
TONS you have given them contempt
! for your own government, you have
weakened my hand, now L want show
down And l believe it will be show
up. 1 am through.
you have nagged and prodded MIN
until he has picked up the gauntlet ana
| said IF the patriotism of congress Is
| behind me. lets find it out, and If 1t is
not behind me, let's find that out. IL
I'm to be hamstrung, just kill me as a
! negotiator and have done. III am help-
| less, say so and let me and the people
| know it, You already have done as
much harm as you could do by adopting
tine resolution. 1 have pleaded with
Won not to go on, and in spite OF all
YOU have kept II up. Therefore with
ont evasion, 1 say now, let's bring this
! 70 an issue Bring on your war resolu-
| lions and your own resolution and let
a motion be made to table them.
NO NEW DOCTRINE.
''The president has onered no new
doctrine. The proposition OF armed lner-
chantmen is a principle recognized in the
- NTH Spain and i'm the Sivil war.
what Germany wants to do, what she
| wants rs TO do. is to change mterha-
| tionaI law and she is trying to make US
| a particeps criminis.
"The only danger of war today, the
only cloud on the horizon, comes from
the fact that the politicians nave not
LET him alone, and that some Oh you
| must seek to create the impression lhaI
the American people are not oehllu the
| American government eRAiN ~
tion alone is due the last posltlOli '''Ne4i
by the Germans"
Senator Gore. i'm defending his reso-
tuition i'm the senate, said the Impeding
reason for his course was report that
the president had told certain senators
land representatives that war between
the United States and Germany hllShl
/ not be undesirable and might result IN
advancing civilization by bringing about
I
summer.
| senator stone denied the president had
! ssi6 70 him or i'm his hearing that such
n war might not be undesirable.
Senator Gore declared that at tine
| proper time he would put the issue
souarelv before the senate whether the
sinking of an armed merchant vessel
by a submarine would be considered
sufficient cause for war.
| 81 introduced my resolution because
| was apprehensive we were heading to-
ward war" said he. MY act was based
on a report which seemed to me to come
from the highest authority that certain
senators and members of the house in
conference with the president received
from the president the intimation II
not the declaration that If Germany
| insisted on her position the United
states would insist upon hers and that
this WOULD result probably in breach
of diplomatic relations and that breach
of diplomatic relations would probably
be followed by a state of war and that
a state Of war might not be an evil,
might not he ungrateful, might end the
war by midsummer and thus might rem
Ger a great service to civilization. l
cannot certify to the truth of the re-
port. tell the tale as it was told to
me. There were such external and in
ternal marks of truth that l feared
lit might be the truth.
STONE ANSWERS GORE.
"If the senator from Missouri, the
chairman Of the foreign relations COM