Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1917-09-07

Ountfy. II uOtH seem 70 mo that III tne
and give up their lives. n need be. for
-ne country. we ought to be willing to
withhold any comment that win hamper
their successful operations.
Il was said by one Of the great states
men Of England that success to the
allies cause , does not depend exclusively ,
success TO the allies cause depends equal
~ a. much upon the morale OF the peo-
pie behind the srniss. The resources
hind the lines crack the armies win
crack. The morale Of the people enters
int the fighting spirit OF the men. Al
message from General Pershing to be
unfted that the American boys now fight
tNg for their country Ia France may be
encouraged
Unity Needed In Crisis.
Profiting by the experience Of every
belligerent nation, 1t was manifest that
production and controlling the price Of
foodstuffs, Too long has the Spectator,
middle man and common hoarder robbed
the honest farmer Of the fruits Of his
labor. These statistics showed too plainly
that the high prices Of foodstuffs paid by
the consumer was not realized by the pro-
lducer. So the House Of Representatives,
by a unanimous vote, passed food con-
ltrol bill, giving large powers to the Presi-
dent In controlling prices. guaranteeing
70 the farmers fair prices, prohibiting
ating such conditions that our armies
might be sustained and the farmer and
con protected. This bill went to
the Senate. and although the junior Sem
ator from Mississippi voted for IT, he
consistently criticized 1t and assisted in
delaying Its passage.
bate Of this bill that he congratulated
those In Canada who were rioting and
protesting against the selective draft bill
recently passed by that government. re-
ferring to this law as an act OF 'inJus-
'ties s'. and a species Of petty tyranny"
holding high and responsible office,
leader among men, to voice such senti-
ments in the face of this great crisis.
when the selective draft, plan for raising
army must fail or succeed when The
young men who are enlisting must be en-
couraged or discouraged for him to ex-
seem that those who are not enlisted in
the war ought to be good enough and
patriotic enough to try to unity the SEN
timent OF America against the common
zoe. In the civil war, II is said. soldiers
around the campfires of the northern and
southern armies would sing this song:
Tell the traitors all around you
That their cruel words we know,
In every battle kill our soldiers.
BY the aid they give the foe.
I commend that sentiment-the truth
OF which cannot be denied-to those pub
TIC servants Of today who are sowing the
seeds OF discord and endangering the sue
cessfu prosecution of the war. And those
who would persist then In their efforts,
let me remind them OF poor, big, divided
Russia. whose resources are unlimited
whose power Is unexceled. a majority OF
whose people are patriotic yet through
the backfire Of unpatriotic. disgruntled
her. II that picture is not satisfying
enough, let me commend to them those
brave, heroic women who snatched arms
threw themselves In the path of the on
rushing Germans
vardaman obstructIonIst.
Mississippi has been one Of consistent
obstruction and opposition to the leaders
Of his party Looking down the vista Of
the past we can plainly see that If he
and five other Senators with whom he
stood had not strangled the shipping bill
the ships We are now forced to build at
an enormous cost, could have been bought
or constructed at great saving to the
who are forced t. suffer increase In
transportation rates on their cotton from
millions of dollars. II that bill had
passed our citizens might have Travelled
on our own vessels on the high seas and
war might have been averted II the OPP
position, In that instance, had not arisen
to the Presidents policy. the expressions
OF the Junior Senator for Mississippi and
OIltTs DeIeNlHg as ne uld, touching the
right of our citizen to travel the high
aas, had been withheld, Germany prob
ably would not have come to the con-
clusion that there was a division Of senti-
ment in this country, and without this
encouragement she might not have
broken her pledges to our government and
renewed her unrestricted submarine war
fare.
If the junior Senator from Mississippi
and those with whom he sSood had CO.
operated with the administration In pre-
a hU he
President and In passing the armed neu-
trality BILL Germany would have appre-
ciated how fixed was our purpose and
how strong our determination to main
tain our rights and in all probability
would have respected them.
Practically every move Of the junior
Senator from Mississippi since the decla-
ration Of war has been against his party
and the government. Only last week in
a prepared statement given to the press,
said in speaking of Germany. that Amer
lea had merely entered the war to stab
her In the back. while England and
France have her down
Unfair to Mississippi
II there is a friend OF the junior Sena-
tor here, ! ask you can you possibly APP
he made it? You who have boys already
gone to war--you who have sons who
will go to warts it fair to them. who are
to risk their lives In defense OF their
nations honor. who are giving up their
all to fight for humanity and democracy,
to have 1t said of the cause in which
they are fighting that 1t Is merely one
of stabbing Germany in the back?
love Mississippi. l love my state
with all the devotion that any radical
southerner could have for his native
state and Its people; ! love its history and
its traditions. and the part its leaders
have played in every crisis of that his
tory. What ideals l have today are in
spired by the splendid deeds and chiyalry
of our fathers. And Mississippi In all her
history, In every great national crisis,
where honor was at stake, has played a
most commanding part. At New Orleans
under Thomas Kinds, II was Mississippi
riflemen that saved the day. In the Mex
lean war 1t was a Mssissippian, John A,
Quitman, who first scaled the heights Of
Chapultepec. And 1t was Missssippian,
jefferson Davis. who at Buena Vista first
gave to military science the celebrated
"V" formation. / need not mention the
names of those great leaders and the
splendid soldiers who shed luster and
glory upon Mississippi from 81 to IS and
In the Spanish American war. but In