Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-04-06

having adjourned over until tomorrow
to await the action of the house on
the resolution. !
The pacifsts today concentrated
their energies on members of the house
in an effort to defeat the resolution
Their leaders announced that in cent
of adoption of the resolution in the
house they would then start work in
opposition to CONSUMPTION.
LA TOILETTE CENSURED.
When Senator La Toilette concluded
Wednesday night he had been speaking
more than three hours. Senator Will
liams. of Mississippi, arose to reply.
THE speech of the Wisconsin sena-
tor would better have become Herr Won
Bethmann-Hollweg than an American
senator" said Senator Williams. I'm
fact, he has gone further than Herr Won
Bethmann-H ollweg would ever have
gone. Bethmann-Hollweg said the use
of the submarine could be justified only
on the ground of necessity, the senator
from Wisconsin puts it on the same
footing as Great Britain's interference
with our commerce.
II fully expected the senator from
Wisconsin before he took his seat to
defend the invasion of Belgium, the
most barbarous act ever committed. L
German, pro-Goth, pro-vandal and which
was anti-president. anti-congress and
anti-American.
while pronouncing a eulOgy on the
German people it might have eulogized
very much greater. better and more
intellifent people-.the American. His
speech was exactly what might haze
been delivered in the German reichstag
by Bethmann-Hollyeg, if Bethmann-
Hollweg had had the audacity. But
Bethmann-Hollweg had too much sense.
too much knowledge, to make that
speech"
At this point Senator La Toilette left
the chamber, but remained.in the cloak
room a while within hearing distance.
CAN HEAR THE ORGANS.
Continuing, Senator williams said he
heard in Imagination the groans of men.
women and children, sent to watery
graves by German submarines.
But the senator from wisconsin hears
none of them" said the Mississippi SEN
ator 81 have no patience with any man
who stands up in the senate at this time
abplauding the common enemy, who also
is the enemy of the human race. and
has not one word in praise OF the Amer
lean president or the American people.
IF the American people can't De
aroused now in patriotic fervor they are
degenerate sons of noble sires. We are
involved in this war now, but not by
congress, but by the German kaiser.
THE senator from Wisconsin labored
to establish an identity of purpose and
action in the violations of our neutral
rights bv Great Britain and Germany.
He proved he did not know the difference
between a prize court and torpedo.
Great Britain has drowned none of our
citizens.
81 am a little tired of utterances like
that of the senator from Wisconsin de-
nouncing the entente allies He en-
deavors to twist the British lions tail.
Demagogues have been doing that ever
since the Revolution, but it is matter
of history that most of the people Or
England. were against the war on the
colonies.
which would you rather do, figh
Germany now with France and Great
Britain and Russia, or fight her alone
later? You've got to do one of the 9TH
er. tell YOU if Germany does win
that fight on the continent of Europe,
she will begin building and getting ready
to whip US unless the English fleet pre-
vents it."
HAVE WE NO HONOR?
Referring to the Wisconsin senator's
settlement that the United States has
nothing to lose no matter which side
wins the war, Senator Williams said:
Lets see Have we no honor, no
regard for the future sovereignty of
our country, no regard for our flag, is
sentiment rot. is patriotism rot, Is
there nothing precious except money!"
I'm getting tired of this talk that
this is a Wall street war. That's
lie. Wall street did not sink the Lusi-
tania. the Arabic the Sussex and these
other. ships. I'm tired of lies like that
and | think it is the duty of the Amer
lean congress and people to brand them
as lies"
Senator Williams said the resolution
did not propose that the United States
enter the European war, but that 1T go
into an American war TO protect Ameri-
can rights, and for the sake of honor.
Justice, safety, liberty and equality.
Once at war, he declared. the United
States should stay until it became as
sured the houses of HohenZollern and
Hapsburg would no longer reign in Ger-
many and Austria. ard that the Turk