Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-03-30
CONGRESSMAN OUTLINES PROB
ABLE ATTITUDE PRESIDENT
WILL ASSUME.
WILL NOT ASK FOR
DECLARATION OF WAR
Suggestion to Be Made to Congress
That Resolution Be Adopted DecIar-
ing State Of War Already Exists
Good Believes Congress Will Pass
Such Resolution Without Opposition.

| III HIS message 10 the special SeSSioih u
congress which meets April o. said
congressman Good, who left for Wash
ilston Thursday afternoon.
Il feel sure that the president will
recite the acts which have widened the
| breach between this country and>Ger-
many He will show plainly that the
German policy Of torpedoing neutral
ships is a violation Of the recognized
principles Of International warfare. He
will call attention to the statement
made in his message after the cinking
of the Lusitania that the United States
would not omit any act or thing to
prevent its citizens being killed IN this
illegal warfare. He will show that Ger
many made pledges to the United
States that this killing Of American
citizens should not be repeated, and he
will also show that Germany has not
kept these pledges, and probably never
intended to keep them. He will show
that Germany is an outlaw among the
civilized nations Of the world anu
probably he~will state that in his opin-
ion state Of war now exists between
the United States and Germany.
Will Not Declare War.
II do not think the president will ask
congress to declare war and DO not
think that congress will declare war
against Germany. But I think the
president will recommend that a reso-
luton be passed declaring that state
Of war between the United Sttaes and
Germany actually exists. For such d
resolution shall be glad to vote ind
have no doubt that it will he passed by
congress by practically a unanimous
ivote. e.
Change Legal Status.
"And that will change our entire le-
gal status with regard to Germany.
There has been some doubt as to
whether we had the right to take guns
and gun crews from the navy and place
them on merchant ships carrying shot
and shell to the allies. But with the
passage Of the resolution have indi-
Gated all such legal obstacles will be
removed and we shall have an absolute
legal right to arm the ships carrying
munitions OF war to the allies. as well
as the ships carrying food. And 1t Is
our food and .our munitions OF war that
the allies need more than they need our
men,. They have plenty Of men to win
the war against Germany.
Will Send Subpnarins chasers.
I'VE shall have the legal right to
send out submarine chasers and help
to rid the seas OF the German subma-
rines. We shall insure safe, passage
across the Atlantic for all our ships
and we shall send a stream OF food
stuffs across the ocean to feed the al
lies, as we'll as shot and shell for their
guns In that way we shall render
them far more effective help than II
we send men to fight on the battle
fields Of Europe. Meanwhile we shall
need the regular army and the national
guard to help protect our property here
at home.
"There are those who say that in or
der to insure our own peace after the
war Is over we must join the entente
alliance and agree to cast in our lot
with the allies, fighting with them UNI
til the war Is finally terminated ana
until the terms OF peace have been
made acceptable to all the allies. They
say that unless this is done. Germany
may conclude a peace with the allies
and then turn upon the United States
Germany Could Mot Fight U. s.
az do not agree with this view sof
the case. Germany could not fight
against the United States. She is now
fighting at home with the odds all In
her favor, the fighting being near her
own bases of supply and every favor
OF Transportation. But If she under
took to fight against the United States.
the conditions would be- reversed. She
would be fighting, wholly at dis
advantage. She could not send her
troops across 5000 miles of ocean.
Washinston's Advice.
"The more I read the advice OF
George Washington. the more am
convinced that. we should enter no en-
tangling alliances with other nations.
Consider the'history of the European
controversies which will enter into the
peace settlement when this war is
over. There is the Balkan situation,
controversy centuries old. There Is
Poland which has sometimes been
given some forms Of liberty and at
other times cruelty oppressed. These
and many similar problems will have
to be solved when the war is over.
Are we going to sit around the table
and decide what shall be the future of
Poland or Of Roumania?
What About Msxieo7
"And II we should do so would we
not have to allow other nations to
have voice In what shall be done
with Mexico? Germany has lost mill
lions4of dollars as a result Of the strife
in Mexico She has lost also IN the
lives Of her citizens. So has England,
and go has France. II we enter into an
alliance with the entente allies. will
we not have to give them voice in
the future Of Mexico? And II we do
that what becomes Of our Monroe
doctrine? The more study the sit
uation the more am convinced that
we ought not to enter an alliance with
any foreign nation. Washington's
advice on this matter was as eternally
sound as the great rock Of Gibraltar.
An UnsoIved Problem.
1.-THE time is coming when We shall
have to clean up Mexico. We can not
allow the property of our own citizens
and Of the citizens Of other nations to
be pillaged and destroyed or confis-
Gated. forever. If we do not protect 1t,
other nations will have the right-at
least they will Insist upon going in and
protecting their property. In my opin-,
ion the time Is very near. when we
shall have to take control Of the
Mexican ports and assume the pro-
lection Of life and property in Mexico.
gradually. advancing the fortifcations
OF Amsricane liberty ana civilization