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la gillette CALLED
KAISER'S FRIEND
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he would support any war move IN,
government asks. vardaman wa
the same.
Ia Toilette Praises
Praislng the character and serv
ices OF GcrmRn.Amoricans, La Fol
letis said they now arc "dogged b,
tecrct service men lie denied
that any one government In re
sponAibls for the war.
III has pleased those who hav,
teen conducting this campaign
thru the press flor war; TO mako !
tumble OF issues" continued Sen
ator la Toilette. until now II 4,
impossible TO get an intelligent an
swer regarding the real issues
hey say Americans are belnr
killed by German submarines. We
have not a Lex 10 stand on I'm sup
port OF this war declaration"
Critlelses Wilson
THAT the United States did no,
protest more vigorously against
the British mineficld blockade va,
the administration's great mis-
take the senator said. and tn,
real and primary cause OF ar
American war declaration.
we have wallowed In the mire
at the feet OF Great Britain and
submitted In silence to her dicta
ton" he continued. Because We
acquiesced. we have a legal and
moral responsibility TO Germany
Thus We have been actively aiding
her enemy In starving German
women. children and old men. Ger
many waits three long months for
this government 10 protest.
Defends Ruthlessness
In principle. therefore. Germany
had the right blindly TO destroy
ships by submarines and mines IN
her own blockade. Germany Il
doing only what England Is doing
Germany has been patient with
US. standing strictly on her rights
to be accorded the same treatment
Gs England by Ms"
when Senator La Toilette con.
cludod he had been speaking more
than three hours. Senator vii
liams. OF Mississippi arose imme
diately to reply
Worse Than hollweg
The speech OF tho Wisconsin
senator would better have become
Herr Won Bethmann.liollweg than
an American senator said Senator
Williams. In fact, he has gone
further than Herr Won Bethmann
Hollweg would over have gone
Bethmann-Hollweg said the use OF
the submarine could be justified
only on the ground OF necessity
the senator from Wisconsin puts 1,
on the same footing as Great
Britains interference with our
commerce.
Il fully expected the senator
from Wisconsin before he took his
seat TO defend the invasion of Bel
GUM. the most barbarous act ever
committed | heard from him a
speech that was pro-German. pro
Goth. pro.vandal, and which was
antipresident. anti-congress. and
anti-Amcrlcan.
Fitted for Reichstau
while pronouncing an eulogy on
the German people, he might have
ollogized very much greater. bet.
ter and more intelligent people
the American. His speech was ex.
actly what might have been deliv.
cred In the German reichstag by
Bethmann-Hollweg. II Bethmann.
iIollweg mad the audacity. But
Bethmann-Hollweg had too much
sense. too much knowledge 10
make that speech"
At this point Senator La Toilette
left the chamber but remained In
the cloakroom while. within
hearing distance.
Applauds Common Enemy
Continuing. Senator Williams
said he heard In Imagination the
gioans Of men, women and chill
dren sent to watery graves by Ger.
man submarines.
But the senator from Wiscon-
sin hears none OF them. said the
Mississippi senator. Il have loved