Macon beacon., 1917-10-19
Causes Of the War Abroad
and Why We Are In II.
Confined from Pare Four.)

and Boy.Ed until we have got It 30 close to the
ambassadors skirts that It burns them the whole
organized movement in the United States to put
bombs in our factories and the organized msve-
ment to put bombs upon ships crossing the sea
with slow burning fuses, 90 that they would blow
up on the high seas and nobody would know what
happened to them-t use the word Of this am
bassador down In the Argentine Republic. who I'D.
vised Germany to sink the Argentine ships con.
trary to their plighted word but to do 1t in such
way that there would be no trace left. How
many ships went that way, we don't know.
In the meanwhile what else was going on?
Each sinking Of ship on the high seas without
warning AMI without visit and search and without
providing for the safety Of the noncombatant
passengers was casus bel. ~ the lawyers call
it-a cause for war recognized as such In inter-
national law.
Many Causes For War.
Firing upon our flag in a cause Of war recog.
nized in international law a. q cause for war. In
terfcring with and destroying natural and domss-
tic commerce Of country Is recognized as q cause
for war
And that was not all
While holding our hands in pretended friend
ship she was sending messages to Mexico to
arouse hostility upon our southern border and
went 20 far in the arrogance and insolence of the
house of Hohenzoern as to promise Mexico Tex
as Arizona and New Mexico rs the spos of the
war.
And that was not all. Negotiations for Mexico
TO negotiate with Japan that Japan might tske us
upon the Pacific side vhle we faced Germany
upon the Atlantic and Mexico upon the South.
| Now. what do you think Of the man care NOT
how high he be- whether he be in private life OF
whether he be in office who says that these peo
pie entered this war for commercial reasons, OIL
that II it had not been for commercial reasonl
they would not have been In It?
Why don't you remember when some Of tn,
southern repi iesentatives were standing on tn,
floor in Washington and trying to get US to wa
with Great Britain because she was interferin,
with our cotton trade that said. and the hear
OF the South re-echoed il. that !. for one wcu,
never be willing to make war In order even to pro
tect the cotton trade though my very existenc
and the food ofmy wife and children depends upo
cotton.
What must bo the sudacity. what must be tn
eGotism. what must be the capacity for falsehoo
; OF any man that ever says or insinuates that "
are in this conflict for commercial reasons or an
sort of mercenary reason whatsoever. Applause
Freedom of speech. sacredness Of conviction
4 sacredness of what sort Ct convction7 To be cor
: v'cted OF falsehood. that you know yourself
y false. Freedom Of speech; what sort Of speecl
Freedom to speak calumny and ISLANDERS again
your own people and your own president and yoy
own party and your own Congress Is there I
respect to be paid to the convictions Of the pres
dent and convictions of the Congress and the col
: victions of the peopleH No respect to be paid
: any convictions except the cony ictions Of lit
group Of egotstical and willful menl My friend
ail that history is known to you, and yet someho
: 81 Vhsr, stmply because you have been % Z