The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1917-09-06


ing the fruits OF our industry in ever
increasing quantities
But we had no merchant marine. no
ships In which to transport our goods
ocean freight rates became first exor-
ibitant. and then prohibitive. The mer-
chant marine of the belligerents were
becoming impaired: the people OF for
and other products but we could get them
only as far as the seaboard and there
they remained. pyramiding and congest.
ing every available wharf. The lack OF
ships forced the price OF cotton to SIX
cents a pound and lumber to less than
the cost OF production.
In this trying situation, PRESIDENT WI.
son with statesman-like vision, saw that
If the prosperity or our people WAS 10
he maintained that the means or ocean
transportation must be had, ships must
He submitted the question to Congress
and asked for an appropriation OF $780,
600. 900 to procure ships. The measure
passed the House OF keprese ahad ths
Senate a small coterie Of Senators OPP
posing it consplred to encompass its de-
feat by a filibuster. For days ana Weeks
those patriotic Senators, who believed IN
the wisdom OF the measure tried to bring
il to vote, but this little handful OF
men stood unmoved by the CRYING neeos
of the country, ana the altnost u n. nf
the BILL and by their well-pianned I'M
clustering tactics defeated the legislation.
MIssissIppIans Inundated.
II was sad day for the farmers ana
manufa cturars of Mississippi. who hai
their cotton and lumber ready, for ship
ment when that little bunch or senators
denied them relief by Killing INA, pii IN
the part of Mississippians were cnahseu
to humiliation when 1t became known
that one OF the most conspicuous actors
L. hGa
from Mississippi, 81 first it was hard FOR
them to believe that this pretended friend
OF the people had thrown his influence
against the passage OF TINS ,vo sld hrotcn
and paid for by the agents OF the shippiAs
trust the night the filibpster ended.
/ shall not soon forget that spectacle
of those Democrats who stood with rev
standpat Republicans on that meinorapie
'day and fought, whether consciously or
;unconsciously, In behalf OF the shippihs
trust and against the interests oi .ne
American people. / can see now those
willy standpat Republicans coming over
on the Democratic side OF the senate ana
atfeationately placing, their sympatheuc
aFns about the shoulders of their Demo
cratic a4ds and whispering honeyed words
OF appreciati.a, in their ears as they
knowingly winked ts-eir eyes and returned
to their Republican seals,
ITp until the time the snip purchase
bill was put to death by the junior SEN
ator from Mississippi and his haf oozeh
associates, the junior Senator from MIS-.
sfssappi had not given open, evidence
any paraopal hatred of Woodrow Wilson
and notwtthstapdin their humiliation
over his aetien in assisting, In the oe-
feat OF the ship pafensse PM me he y Of l his
friends-friends who felt that he N9AiA
yet stand by his party and the ffesi=
dent in an emergency. Few men ever
had so strong a hold on the people u
his state. and few men ever had SO great
an t,fsnzrtunity to win his enemies by
rendering patriotic service to his state
and nation. .1,.
Gift: they had expended these energy and
SSa6ir means in his behalf. An ~3Stit,6
i1ina well and hoped that no act 81 h'A
would cause them to feel that their cor
fidence had Dsen misplaced. Therefor
it was with feelings OF genuine reg
and disappointment thsrt the news -
read by Mississippians that TINS h9ias
son was one of the men who nas 49,
marined the old Demccralc Snip ny fAssexk
and Joined hands with the frisas3 %
predatory wealth.
Men False to Party
1t was not long before the ~ 81
croaching upon our rtgbLs, aA
the rights of other ne4tfaa
| ternational law was beirE
nut to the test. new cuHs3 9fs 49,
! never before risen: ea9se A. nss
| CO. workers-QuestiOns Of til zessk3 oass "a
| Character and far-rea shing ss4net' p9r
| position as a neutral S'ss asgs ,,a,st4
| more difficult with each IsASsis uioi, .t
| and the President again peeslns, als - rais
culture, saw how unprepared y + nisp'p -
tected we would be y case n mai, an ~
as as the Sc sentinef on the watch Iger. with
sparks flying eNerywhere- osn.a to
| the warming TO prepare. ealte ~
Congress and asked for an H., VI
our army and increased aE 4sg,aa ,e t;a,at
| for the navy and our coast n sillca sais
| So strongly did he feel len r. auee 4L
| of such Importance 70 the fa'as, ~ = utstt
| he left his office III WasillElgZa f. tt VIZ
! through the country, into! IT, IT, % pa,ane
pie of the situation and, LAG 49,;
| sounding the warning 0r( oppi
| danger. Lsition ufted
+ts head against the ma4est nseus " ~
Nne nation. One OF the nf' et6d -,
| attacks was organized ar tos and -, -.
| the Senate of the Unitedl 49, On" 10
mar worked harder, mG pil seir, s ..lo
more consistently againSthe po;o, 3 III,
! OF pressaredness than di 9 ,fiod .,tith
at9r cfrepi Mississippi. WITH his voice
opposing the programme W. -. W. us 80 ~
and vote an the Senatesb afange ~ the
press "a statement th9 chansmged me
Presidents patriotism. ey n mav be the
! things he said: 'Whatf faot ~ ~ noe
Presidents motives. thfarSeu J js s an IN IN
sstion taken by him yfnredS torv inter.
I fortunate surrender
yeStsT fose whether our
IneA cshe .Qu *,oIroIfe high seas. carry
cltlZens 1tt.ss{i. q Illness and go forth
| on their lssssstssIntttte Eands. international
| on their Hegi aranteed that right
| nav 3au dlwaSs Enied or questioned by
n aad neNsF neenH time In the history
Any country a. q President gave adj
OF tls@ ~9ftc Be- as did every pa
| hefezlE@ 44 Ilah 81 the American peo-
! triOfsc stSz@sg9*lM Senator from Missis-
| ple.-bNt the S&R# everyone from Presi-
sipp, VINO SAID, atood for such a doc
dent to page WI Asched.
4rine should be r>
pissen#e more right to stop
| .Ssea1nany nad EfoF1 travelling on seas,
A8nekAGan cltixe Eseaeeful missions, than
gong about the# from travelling on the
I have - STOP %klsg from your country
| Dub3ic road IN Z town. Both are high
| place 20. trade the public.
| ways and ,oEieTH was killing American
! While GeIm8 igh seas, and the Presi-
citizens Oh 10 an earnest effort to set
ilsent Eas naa &eS with England, SO eager
So or diffef# Senator to hamper and
Wa tie Jui% that he repeatedly issued
/ safnsl aF{ass icizing the Presidents eff
stssA naIts other things, he said:
TarkA sSxIMtison is a rare combination
'-Iagcstdsr8 OF long headed determination
| N esssast1~ tant timidity. The, victims of
ana aN ishia tragedy are dead. delay
the LusSsh or two in settling claims for
of md and determining questions of
reparattn al law will make little differ
intern4
:ence' u not discuss with you the Lust
shMsaster. but 1t does seem to me
stania u 40 many innocent women, little
that qknd strong men, went to watery
bssbex under the most horrifying, mex
gravM circumstances of German fright
cusaA that a strict accountability was
fuln#i.
nee&n Germany followed up the Lusi-
We frseff40nf and fla era ntly persisted in