The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1917-06-15

that Mississippi has but one Senator at Washington who is able
is no uncommon thing to hear it said, If you want anythine
hoI a Washington Tosn sHasn M that comes by N way % of + the se matt tE Su had a.
some Who have not had the opportunity to know this. but b..
A"01 Does B B oo. Anderson /" not o feel eeii in his i $ heart "a Of hearts that had
not Vardaman, and the few others who stood with him at Wash
for keeping out of war, that we would not have been in war?
Does not our Ripley friend know that .vardaman's petu-
and gave color to the bombastic belief of the German Emperor
that we were afraid to tackle him?
Does our Ripley friend not know that to back Vardamans
attitude in Congress means. opposition to our own country in
of his country to take care Of the political fortunes Of any man?
We assume that our Ripley friend means, by his quoting
a year ago, that he thinks this country wrong when Congress
passed the following resolution declaring a state of war; will
he be kind enough to tell US whether our assumption is well
founded = :- .~gxa - e.dAo
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Does our Ripley friend not know that out of SO votes in the
Senate, of which body Sen. Vardaman is a member, that there
Were but s votes against this resolution and that vardaman
other Democrats. Lane OF Oregon, and Gronna of North Dakota,
Does our Ripley friend not know that every Senator South
of the Mason and Dixon line voted for the resolution and that
sippi voted for the resolution? Then was Vardaman right and
all the other senator's playing the part of the eleven contrary
men, on the jury?
Secretary Lane says the war is being waged by the United
states: TO save America, to preserve our selfrespect. to JUS
try our right to live as We have lived heretofore, not as some
one else wishes us to live Will our Ripley friend please tell
us what he thinks of Secretary Lanes opinion?
In noting what Secretary Lane said, the Kansas CITY Jour-
nal very lucidly and aptly said: 4..,
: ny involves n includes, but does not specify, the countless aggres-
SION inflicted by Germany upon the nations rights. the many insulting
ASSAULT upon its honor, the murder Of its citizens, women n children on
IN nigh seas, the unwarned sinking of ships bearing relief to h neonles
strGKen by German barbarism. the violation of every law of man of Cod
ana Oh nauon IN tn prosecution of a war which has been attended by these
epeated atso OF hostility against this country. The secretary's Statement
Involves includes, even though it does n OF specify. the insMent senir9
o. pared zones, within which American vessels must o 90. under nenaNv
o. oelng set to tn bottom in defiance of all the laws of the sea and of ali
ne gI.ato Oh ernaton agreements or the dictates of humanity
II these acts 10 lot constitute causesf for war then il Is hon.,ass
oraaon OF Flag day next Thursday would be a hollow and hypocutica mol.
cry. II Is ior these reasons primarily, and secondarnv that ali nnions
m nay ENJOY tn rights which belong to this country and which have been daS
~ E z w Nerm1any. tn me Stars and Stripes re floating YER h trenches
49, a@r a:ht oeiore II Is or these reasons that the nation is fighting TO
secu u gnu invaded by Prusian frightfulness. though it is NOT 10 r. an;sJ
tins of that frghfuness" ''"p""! WIN ne VIC
NOW we expect our Ripley neighbor to attempt TO brusb
away every cause Tor the war by saying that IF our peonle had
KEPT Oh the seas that these vessels would not have heon hlown
up, ana tnatn we had been as careful to recognize the q wa
Aohe Geciafed Dy Germany as we were to recognize the q
zone declared by the Allies, there would have heen n - anse
for war" ""'e III U cause
men II Bill Jones lives 20 miles in the country and h.s
HI = orop II SIX oaies OF cotton ready for market but is told that
II II e places ms cotton on his wagon and starts toward town that
us can VII De shot and his wagon and cotton dvnam;tad