The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-10-19

tnt itnpefidi Oeffndn government, ID
cause evidence against that nation wa
NO overwhelming and 80 conclusive O
TO convict II ON several counts.
The mfractions of the Imperial Go
man government were 80 numerou
that, were ] to attempt to take ther
up ono by one. we would be here unit
the war might end. Therefore, an
going TO confine myself tonight to som
OF the more fragrant violations.
usc the Imperial German govern
ment often and advisedly. because ther,
N a great distinction between the I'm
portal German government and IN,
German pt6pl6' themselves. and ther,
liz a groa;. difference between them nov
in Germany. President Wilson recog
nissd this distinction In his message
in which he stated that we had no wal
To make on the German people. but on
their government as constituted and
controlled. The president was right, az
when the case is placed squarely be,
fore the German people they will arise
In thor might and fight for these same
principles in their own country.
ssf - s'H'AHs Nff ullet0N
IN ,.aS m!a1r aa they we've published
In 'Ae papers.
The high seas have always been con.
sidered free Ia all travel and commerce
OF the world. America has never re.
fused 70 fight in de!ea.c'of this right
aid may she never fail to do so.
We had a controversy with France
over this question. when our govern.
ment was only ten years I'D and later
with Great britain. and this freedom
Of the seas had not since been uues.
toned until IT,. Imperial German gov.
.lEmont Issued. its U.boat ukase.
No man ever strove with more perse.
eiance and patience 10 keep his coun-
try from the horrors OF war than did
Pre- sident Woodrow Wilson He was
consistent all the way through. be-
cause when We voted for his election
on a peace platform there had not
been the indignities and violations of
our rights that later occurred.
Congressman Carter stated that his
baggage had been delayed and the dc.
tailed information he had expected to
rNpiilk MdN ilVt Dul nt WOulu
Iuoto from extracts. Hs then proceed.
ID to review the evidences Of Ger
nany's acts of spying, the spreading
II sedition and conspiracy, even while
friendship. He showed that
eighteen vessels had been sunk and 234
II our people killed on them. including
90 helpless women and children. He
Lsked. who would refuse to resent such
utrages against our country and its
,eople?
In support OF his charges against |
Germany, which he arranged in nine !
he quoted from the records of |
his country. and the information since |
ecured from letters and kilograms sent |
{ the time by the foreign secretary |
4 Germany and the replies from the |
embassy at Washington. be- |
ore diplomatic relations had been sew. ,
red.
Mt. Carter also depicted the condi- |
ion this country would have had to
.cc alone had Germany overridden 4,
he allies. which. no doubt would have
ccurred had not this country extended
id and entered the struggle. He called
ttention to the preponderance os Ger
,any's naval power SHOULD il have con-
uered England. France and Italy. Ger
iany could then have sheIled our
hores with its superior feet and land.
sufficient force Of its ten million
ghting men to run rough-shod over !
his nation before We were in condition
} successfully defend ourselves
Attention was also called to the fact
,at all of the great and learned men
our country, regardless of political
are standing behind the gov.
'nment and our cOmmander.in.chief in
lis great struggle. He named former.
residents Taft and Roosevelt, the lat.
r Of whom hardly ever agreed with
~ one, and also OF the leading social.
Is. He also cited the fact that twenty
ur of the twenty-eght countries now
war with Germany are in support of |
e freedom OF the seas, which is tho \
ain cause of our action. Without 4 II
is freedom of the seas our commerce ! II
)uld decay and our country suffer H
eat calamity, he said. He then re. II
ed the conditions of trade that Ger
any submitted, under which one ship Nj
week each way and on certain days, II
uld leave Plymouth, England. This II
'uld have been virtually no freedom II
the high seas. II
Had we conformed to the conditions II