Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-04-05

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Germany has been patient with us
standing strictly on her rights to be
accorded the same treatment ~ Eng.
land by u.s.
REPLY BY WILLIAMS.
When Senator I.aFoliette conclud-
ed he had been speaking more than
three hours. Senator williams Of Mis-
sissippi arose immediately to reply.
1.-THE speech of the Wisconsin SEN
ator would better have become Herr
| lean SENATOR" said Senator Williams.
"In fact he has gone further than Herr
Won Bethmann- Hollweg would ever
| have gone. Bethmann Holweg said the
| use of the submarine could be justi-
fled only on the ground OF necessity,
the senator from Wisconsin puts it on
the same footing as Great Britain's in
| reference with our commerce."
Il fully expected tn, senator from
Wisconsin before he took his seat to
defend the invasion of Belgium, the
most barbarous act ever committed. I
heard from him a speech that was
pro- German, pro-Goth, pro-Vandal,
and which was anti president, anti
congress and anti-American.
NO EULoGY FOR AMERICA.
while pronouncing an eulogy on
the German people, he might have
eulogized very much greater. better
and more intelligent people the
American. His speech was exactly
what might have been delivered in the
German reichstag by Bethmann- Holl-
veg, IL Bethmann- Hollweg had the
audacity. But Bethmann- Hollweg had
too much sense, too much knowledge,
to make that speech"
At this point Senator LaFollette left
tho chamber, but remained in the
cloakroom a while, within hearing
distance.
Continuing, Senator williams, said
he heard in imagination the groans of
men, women and children sent to wa
terry graves by German submarines.
But the senator from Wisconsin
hears none of them" said the Missis-
sippi senator. II have loved the Wis
consin senator in a way, until recent
ly, but l have no patience with any
man who stands up in the senate at
this time applauding the common en-
envy, who also is the enemy of the hu-
man race, and has MOI one word In
praise of the American president or
the American people.
TIME FOR PATRIOTISM.
III the American people can't be
aroused now in patriotic fervor, they
are degenerate sons OF noble sires. We
are involved in this war now, but not
by congress; involved by the German
kaiser. I join the president in ex-
pressing no hostility against the Ger
man people themselves. / lived among
them two years.
The senator from Wisconsin labor
ed to establish an identity of pur-
pose and action in the violations of
our neutral rights by Great Britain and
Germany. He proved he did not know
the difference between a prize court
and a torpedo. Great Britain has
drowned none Of our citizens.
Il am a little tired OF utterances like
that Of the senator from Wisconsin,
denouncing the entente allies. He en-
beavers to twist the British lions tail.
Demagogues have been doing that ever
since the revolution, but 1t is a mat
ter of history that most OF the people
Of England were against the war on
the colonies
which would you rather do, fight
Germany now, with France and Great
Britain and Russia, or fight her alone
later? You've got to do one or the
other. tell you If Germany does win
that fight on the continent of Europe.
she will begin building and getting
read to whip us unless the English
fleet prevents It."
NOTHING TO LoSE2
Referring to the Wisconsin senator's
statement that the United States has
nothing to lose, no matter which wins
the war, Senator Williams said:
Let's see. Have VIZ no honor no
regard for the future sovereignty of
our country, no regard for our flag?
Is sentiment rot; is patriotism rot; is
there anything precious except money?
I'm getting tired of this talk that
this is Wall street war. That's a
lie. Wall street did not sink the Lusl-
tania, the Arabic, the Sussex, and
those other ships. I'm tired of lies
like that and l think it is the duty of
the American congress and people to
brand them as lies"
Senator Williams said the resolution
did not propose that tn. United States
enter the war but that 1t 20 into an
American war to protect American
rights and for the sake of honor, JUS
uce. safety, liberty and equality. once
at war, he declared, the United States
should stay until it became assured
that the houses of Hohenzollern and
Hapsburg would no longer reign in
Germany and Austria, and that the
Turk would be forced back into Asia.
Senator Hustin, Senator LaFol-
lette's Wisconsin colleague, said that
while every senator should have a
mind Of his own and speak on his
own convictions, in times of this kind
the conduct of international affairs
must be in the hands of one man. He
said he believed that if the question
"of peace or war" only were submitted
to the people 1t would be voted down.
THAT" he added, sis not the ques-
tion here. The question is shall the
people of the United States support
the president and congress of the