New Britain herald., 1917-09-08

department of government that sees
to it that these seditious, traitorous
meetings shall not be held In this
country while the young men who go
into the service are. fighting to save
the country against the outrages and
barbarous cruelties of the Huns.
THE course mapped out by the dis
tineuished senator from Georgia, Mr..
Hardwick, if followed out, would
leave us without any army in this
country: we would not have any army
to prosecute the war. The senator
has always expressed his opposition to
conscription, which was perfectly
proper; but the senator, not satlshed
to assent to the will of congress as
expressed in the so-called Selecuve
Draft act, has introduced already
bill not to require the service OF any
one taken under the selectlve oraA'
outside of the territorial limits of the
United States. That matter was pre-
sented to the military affairs commit
tee and by a unanimous vote OF the
committee I was instructed to report
| back that bill unfavorably.
II am not going to discuss the
whole question Of the selective draft.
| 1t is absolutely the only fair way 10
raise an army, and I sometimes re-
greet that anybody volunteered IN Inc
regular army, for the reason that the
| selective draft would have operateo
with uniformity all over the country.
| But that law is on the statute DOOM
! now. he men have gone willingly I'M
| der the law as it stands TO-DAY. one
| peculiar thing about this whole ols-
cussion is this: It will be observed
that men have opposed the draft only
| in those states where the senators or
| representatives have opposed IL III
| congress. Without a single e1cep
ton. as I now bear in mind, TINS mas
! been the case"
When Senator Chamberlain sat
down. Senator Hardwick again de-
| tended himself, saying that Mr.
| Chamberlain had manifested "a spirit
| OF intolerance, suppression and OPP
| preston"
Senator Williams got into the fray
| then starting out with his character
| ization of Senator Hardwick's conduct
in the senate as "self-inhated ana
puffed up"
Senator Reed protested that this
| was unparliamentary language. SEN
| ator Salisbury, who was In the chair
ruled against Senator Reed Where-
| upon Senator Hardwick jumped up,
| intimatine that he would take up
| Senator Williams attack outside the
senate.
LET me suggest to the senator from
Mississippi, in view of the personal re-
laions between him and the senator
| from Georgia., that If the senator
| from Mississippi has any sentiment OF
| the kind that he would like to ex-
press to or about the senator from
Georgia that the senate floor is not
the proper place for that expression"
T remarked Senator Hardwick.
"Is that all? ?" demanded Senator
Williams.
THAT is all for the present" re-
joined Senator Hardwick, angrily.
Everybody who knows me knows
that if the personal relations cut any
figure at all it would have made me
hesitate in making my expression as
strong as I otherwise would have
made it in answer 10 an argument"
went on Senator Williams.
Nov, say puffed-up, self-acting
because the senator has acted the part
of a man who has been denied free
| speech. Nobody has denied the
| senator free speech. The fact that
| the senator spoke was sufficient w
prove that that was not true. The
| senator from Oregon did not deny him
free speech. He merely answered a
! foolish speech. He answered it with
generosity and a manliness and a
! patriotism and an outspokenness and
generous warmth that made every
heart in this chambe almost beat re-
sponsive to what he said. I was never
| hof ~ f1a k1,a
senator from Oregon was born and
; raised in the state of Mississippi.
Then the senator u little bit later
the senator from Minnesota (M.r Mel
, son. a gray-haired old veteran.
Spread eagle foolishness' This cpl.
tome of manhood and valor! TIC
[ whom was he using that language? a
man who bore the musket four years
| during the civil war, and never go,
{ higher than corporal land that at thu
| very close of it.
Poor Georgia Misguided.
''Mr President, L DO not doubt tn,
word of the senator from Georgia, be
[ | cause I never had any reason t,
, doubt it on this or any other occasion
when he says that he has not en-
: couraged-I mean advised-any re
8 sistance to the draft law upon tn,
statute books. I do not doubt tina
the junior senator from Georgia 4
good enough lawyer to have avoide,
I that trap, but when a man who is .
i senator in the United States an,
has a reputation of being a lawyer
% says the draft law is unconstitutional
= poor, ignorant people down in Georgi
. and elsewhere draw their own In
ferences.
., "They have been taught that an I'm
u constitutional law is no law and tina
. . it is the duty of citizen to resist il
- They draw the inference that if it
unconstitutional they have a right t