The Detroit times., 1917-04-05
stone q Traitor" Our
Jingoes Cried; AStone Was
Right" Says the President!


be- ground which a war spirit will grind
but which war in itself will not.
Their purpose is TO saddle militarism
upon this country, and TO play upon the
patriotism of the country, now at its
hish point. to gain their ends-BE-
CAUSE MILITARISM IN ANY COU'N-
TRY MEANS PROFITS TO THEM.
THEIR BUSINESS Is EQUIPPING
MLITARISTIC COUNTRIES AN d
MILTTARISM.
England knows them.
Germany knows them.
Russia knows them.
The Uniteil States is about TO ind
them out.
These ultra-militarists-ou Jlngoes-
these who see in war giant consumer
of steel and borrowed money rather than
an agent of great humanitarian pnnci-
pie, have been quick to denounce those
who see first the great red stain that
war makes; who see the tears of women
which war draws-our ultra-mllltarlsts
have been quick to call such as these
.traitors." and the voicing of their senti-
ments and the giving of expression to
the feeling in their hearts treason.
Our ultra-militarists have an object IN
this.
They seek to throttle free press and
free speech; to muzzle those who are
able to conceive of what they are up TO-,
until they have saddled upon US things
which belong to autocracy, which we
have condemned by a willingness to take
up arms against it, rather than to dem
ocracy, in whose name va point to the
iiag under which we viii fight.
The war resolution met with OPP
position in the United States senate
from members of that body who opposed
it from conviction.
These senator's will be called trait
ors" and their words Unreasonable.
One of them has already been burned
in effisy by citizens who have yielded
TO the = the nitra-miitarists
Among their number is Senator Stone,
who Is chairman of the foreign relations
committee.
He announced in expressing his oppo|
sition to the resolution that while he
would vote against it, he would vote to
do everything required by it after its
passage.
Senator Stone was one of the number
termed traitors" because they opposed
the armed neutrality bill, the impotency
of which the president has now admitted
and the only service of which was that
of a stepping stone for the country into
real war.
BY the wilfuI ultra-militarists of this
country, or its jingoes, these senator's
were denounced by their stock epithet
and with added, expression here and
there that hanging would be too good
for them.
However, since that session Of our
senate, the Congressional Record has
been sent thru the country with the
speech of Senator Stone. which received
little mention in the press that does the
jingoes' bidding.
The Times quotes from the speech 80
that its readers may know exactly the
reasons advanced by the senator for his
opposition to the bill as introduced
Senator Stone said:
The constitution vests the warmakiug power
alone in the congress II iE power the congress
IN not AZ liberty 10 delegate Moreover. : am
personally unwilling 70 part with my constitu-
tional responsibility senator to cypress my
Judgment upon the issue 81 war whenever and
however Il may be presented believe this
law would contravene the constitution let us
examine that: let US discuss that. The bin pro.
vides that the president shall BE-
authoriEed and empowered 20 employ such iu-
strumsntali ties and methods may. fu his iIE4
ment and discretion. seem necessary and ad,-