The Palatka news and advertiser., 1917-04-06
SENATE ADOPTS THE
WAR RESOLUTION
On Wednesday by Vote 81 to
6---Now Before House
of Representatives.

The war resolution was adopted by
the u. S. Senate Wednesday night by
vote of 81 to 6. 1t then went to
the House, whose committee had re-
ported favorably on it, and was taken
up at 10 o'clock Thursday morning,
with understanding that House is not
to adjourn until the matter is dis
posed Of. 1t will pass the house, if
it has not already done so, by tre-
mendous popular vote.
The Senate's action came after II
o'clock and after a debate which had
lasted from 10 in the morning.
The six to vote against the resolu-
ton were Lane, Stone and Vardeman,
democrats; and Gronna, La Toilette
and Norris, republicans.
Senator Lodge, ranking republican
on the foreign relations committee,
perhaps made the most vigorous
speech of the day. Among other
things he said:
"We cannot send great army
across the ocean, for we have no ar
my to send. Yet l would he glad if
we could send 10000 men of our reg
ular troops, so that the flag of the
United States might at least be un-
furled in the fields of France. be-
lieve that the mere sight of that flag
would stimulate the courage and help
the success Of those who have the
same aim that we have. We can
also help the allies, as the president
recommends, with large credit and
with supplies. We cannot do more
in any direction to bring this war to
a speedy end than to give those cred
its and furnish those supplies.
Never a Military Naticn.
"We have never been a military ma
tion," Mr.. Lodge continued. owe are
not prepared for war in the modern
sense, but we have vast resources
and unbounded energies, and the day
when war is declared we should de-
vote ourselves to calling out those
resources and organizing those ener-
gies so that they can be used with
the utmost effect in Fastening the
complete victory. The worst of all
wars is a feeble war. War is too
awful to be entered upon half-heart-
edly. If we fight at all, we must
fight for all we are worth. 1t must be
no weak hesitating war. The most
merciful war is that which is most
vigorously waged and which comes
f'most quickly to an end.
"Th2re are, in my opinion, some
things worse for a nation than war.
National degeneracy is worse; nation
al cowardice is worse. The division
OF our people into race groups, striv-
ing to direct the course of the United
safes in the interest of some other
country when we should have but one
alegance one hope, one tradition.
All these dangers have been gather
ing about us and darkening the hor-
izon during the last three years.
Whatever suffering and misery war
may hiring it will at least sweep these
foul things away.
81 believe that on our entrance in
to this war, under the conditions
which it has assumed. our future
peace, our independence as q proud
and high spirited nation, our very
security are at stake. But there is
still higher purpose here as | look
upon it. We do not enter. upon this
war to secure victory for one nation
as against another.
eve enter this war to unite with
those who are fighting the common
foe in order to preserve human free
dom, democracy and modern civiliza-
ton. This war is war, as | see it,
against barbarism, not the anarchical
barbarism panoplied in all the devices
for the destruction Of human life
which science, benefcent science, can
bring forth.
eve are resisting an effort to
thrust mankind back to forms of gov
ernment, to political creeds and
methods of conquest which we had
hoped had disappeared forever from
the world. We are fighting against
a nation which, in the fashion Of
centuries ago, drags the inhabitants
Of conquered lands into slavery, which
carries off women and girls for even
worse purposes; which in its mad de-
sire to conquer mankind and trample
them under foot has stopped at no
wrong, has regarded no treaty"