The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1917-02-16
EXTRACTS FROM SPEECHES
JUST BEFORE TAKING VOTE.
Something of What Some of the United State.
Just Before the Memorable Vote of 70 to Endorsing
President Wilson's Attitude Towards Germany
SOME MIGHTY PATRIOTIC DocTRINE-PARrY LINES
BROKEN

United States Senators made imme-
diately preceding the vote in the
Senate February 7, on the resolution
offered by Senator Stone, chairman
of the committee on foreign relations,
to endorse the action of President
Wilson in dismissing the German Am
bassador and his note to the German
government:
Senator Lodge, trepublican) of
Massachusetts, said:
when my country is in contro-
versy with foreign nation can see
for myself but one duty and that is
10 stand by and to support the recog-
rizcd constitutional authority of the
Government in our dealings with
foreign nations.
my earnest hope is that at this
Time personal feelings, political feel
ings, political enminties will all be
laid aside. that we may remember
only that we are citizens of a COM
mon country, that we are all Ameri-
cans, and that our first duty is to
stand together in this controversy,
which has unhappily arisen with
another nation, and let that nation
and the world know that when the
President speaks, as he has spoken,
he has the Congress of the United
States and the people Of the United
States, no matter what their race or
origin, behind him in the one simple
character of American citizens"
Senator Smith, (republican) of
Michigan, said:
THE President has committed the
country, at least to this extent; and,
nu matter ho~ Senators may have
differed with him regarding the wis
dom or necessity for the step, it has
been taken, and it would be a nation
al humiliation now to repudiate his
course"
Senator Underwood. (democrat)
of Alabama, said:
ITO vote against the resolution
might be misinterpreted in
foreign lands"
Senator Pittman, (democrat) of
Colorado, said:
"If this country is forced into war,
in my humble opinion it will be large
ly by reason of the misdirected eff
forts of some of those who assume
to themselves all of the burdens of
peace.
81 think it is presumptuous for
,, some members of this body to assume
that they alone want peace, while
those that pursue a different practice
to obtain peace want nothing but
murder and war"
Senator Thomas, of Colorado, said:
I'VE shall stand by the administra-
ton as our fathers before US have
ever stood when facing another ma
ton with which a rupture seems i'm
minent.
"But to be disunited in so supreme
crisis is to encourage, if not to
court, the disaster we would shun."
Senator Sherman, (republican) of
Illinois, said:
" but to hesitate now
ultimately would be the signal to the
world of national cowardice.
"Not since the days of the corsairs,
the days when the pirates, unvexed,
sailed the seas and undertook to con-
fscate at pleasure the merchandise
and the lives of every nation, has
there been a more unjustiiable proc
lamation to the nations of the world
than the late one extending the war
zone into the Atlantic Ocean and 9TH
er bodies of navigable tidewater
named in the German Governments
last decree.
But this resolution approaches
the territory where partisan differ
ences cease, where mere party dies,
where the clamor of the politician
must end where discord is stilled,
and where the rights of the American
Nation must begin"
Defining what Germanys subma-
rine warfare means. Senator Sher-
man said:
1T means, Mr.. President, Il ruth
less warfare, with no visit and search,
with no saving of the life of passen-
gers and crew. but returns to the an
cient piratical method of destroying,
without chance of surrender, all on
board.
"The use of the submarine, espec-
tally that threatened in the last note,