New Britain herald., 1917-07-27

ing to find graves upon European
battlefields No more serious situa-
ton could confront us than con-
front the Allies now. And will the
senate stop and parley over money
going into the improvement Of
creeks?
The news about the submarine
| warfare is distinctly favorable to the
Teutons. Great Britain is losing "a
ships a week, and the neutrals and
others of the Allied group are losing
from SO to IS per cent. of what Great
Britain is losing. At the present rate
I at the end of twelve months the rest
of the world will be 100000 tons
behind In this submarine contest
Peace Talk Not Timely.
| How are we going to win this war
| with the conditions that confront Il :?
! This is not an appropriate time to
talk peace. Does anybody suppose
| that Germany would talk peace with
| us except on her own terms? We
must give the boys at the front, and
| their people at home, an American
| issue. We must Zeal with the man IN
| the street, in the workshop and on
! the farm. y
"Out yonder in the open, where
every move toward war means toll
and suffering, where fathers and hus-
bands and brothers and sons are to-
be offered up on the altar, that altar
| must be our country. You must give
| them an American issue for which to-
| die.
1--WE have our allies, and with
! them common purpose; but AMER
| lea is still America, with her own in
! dividuality. with her separate and
distinct and noble institution, with
! the intellectual and moral concep-
lions Of her people. She is still sun
! and not satellite III
IF this war does not involve our
! own institutions il the security and
| dignity of our own democracy Is not
| involved, If we are not fighting this
war for the defense Of our own rights
and for the protection of our own
| rights and for the protection of our
| own citizens then this declaration OF
! war was a bold and impudent be.
| travail Of the rights of the whole
nation, and its continuance for q.
| single hour is conspiracy against
| every home in the land"
Victory Must Be Gained.
II understand from the senator's
| remarks that he is of the opinion
! that any attempt to arrive at such q
basis of peace as he is now advo-
| eating would be perfectly futile boz
cause of the victorious position Ger
many is in said Senator Poindext ,r.a
| IF that is true, does 1t not folledws
necessarily that the only peace basis
| upon which the United States can
proceed is to change that victorious
| ~ u,
in which that can be brought about
is by victory; so that constitutes the
| ISSUE"
THAT is what I am talking about,
Mr.. Borah answered. The senator Is
greatly in error if he supposed What
| [ have advocated peace upon any
! basis. I have simply advocated that
! the American people be advised as to
| the issue in this war from the Ameri-
can standpoint, and the issues which
will have to be determined from the
American standpoint before it is
| closed. a
! This is an American war, but shat
| Is not the manner in which it has
been heretofore presented to the
| American people," declared Mr..
| Borah. e4
I'VE have been supposed to be
|
tain nations in Europe, for the redis-
! tribution of European territory, for
the establishment Of democracy in
| Europe, and for this and that in
| Europe" Is
| Mr. POtndeXteer For HUMANITY"
And for humanity in Europe and
| SO FORTH continued Mr.. Borah, but
! the peril which confronts the Ameri-
| can people, immediate and inlmine nt,
has not been presented to the Ameri-
can people, and the senator's CORES
| pondence, if it is like mine, will dis
| close that the American people do
| not understand it. 7 have not talAn
the position at all that the United
| States ought not to be in this war and
that there we're manifest reasons for
| our immediate interest why we should
| be in the war-not at all"