The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1917-11-23

Hon. L. v. 0lsSon, congressman
from this district. spoke by appoint
rent at the court house in Gre
NADIA Monday night to represen-
tstive audience. But for the rain,
Mr.. Sisson's crowd would no doubt
have been much larger. He was
billed to speak the same morning at
Providence and in the afternoon at
Holcomb but weather conditions in
terferred with the Providence ap-
pointmcnt.
Mr.. Sisson was presented by Judge
A. T. Roane in five minutes talk
in which Judge Roane gave his cor
dial endorsement to Mr.. Sisson's
record as a whole. The Judge stat
ed that he was pleased to say that
Mr.. Sisson has stood unreservedly
with President Wilson, the greatest
man in his judgment who had ever
occupied the presidential chair. Mr..
Sisson expressed his appreciation of
the kind words of Judge Roane and
said that he agreed with the Judge
as to his estimate of the President
except that he would place Thomas
Jefferson second to none in the esti-
nation of the American people.
Mr.. Sisson said that he was not
here to make a political speech but
to keep his promise made to his con-
stituents to come before them from
time to time to give account Of what
he did at Washington. To begin
with, he said it was necessary to
discuss some Of the more important
acts of the last congress, hence at
tention to the first thought now in
the minds of the American people,
the war; therefore he thought it
necessary to fully understand the
two theories of government now
dominant in the minds of the world,
one as announced and expounded by
Thomas jefferson that all powers OF
government must come from the con-
sent of the governed and the other
as stood for by the Kaiser of Ger
many that he rules by direct dis
pensation from God and that he and
his people came booted and spurred
to dominate and control the world
These two dominant theories were
now in death grapple on the battle
fields of Europe the speaker stat
ed. Mr.. Sisson said Great Britain's
king was only nominal ruler, that
the people of England controlled
and directed their affairs; thai
France was a republic, that ltaly''
ruler only enjoyed the name OF king
that the people in fact directed thu
destinies Of their government. III
said that Germany stood separate
and apart from the balance OF tn
world in holding that the people
were subjects, tools or puppets u
come at IT,, beck and call of III
country's highest officer. He discuss
ed at some length the many obJec
tionable features of the German gov
ernment and told how meaningless
was the Reichstag when it came t
a supposed representation OF tn
body of the German people. III
followed the German theory Of gov
ernment at some length and sho"
ed how a clash must of necessit
have come between that theor
which held that might was right an
that the Kaiser's will must be tn
law of the world and the theor
that held the people who make u
and support a government were IN
prime controllers. Mr.. Sisson wa
strong and clear in his enunciatio
of the causes of the war. state
in a few words, he said the wa
which the United States was hgn
ing with Germany was being fougi
"for the freedom of the seas"
for the same thing he said that tn
government went to war with u
British government about in 1S1
He showed how the causes OF tn
war paralleled the causes OF the WI
Of 1912, but he said that there WI
this striking difference. Englar