The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1917-02-16

50 "Se'oi otioH 9ndt Ho NeSSel, Oel-
ligerent or neutral, will be spared:
that no life. combatant or noncom-
batant will be spared; that men, wom-
en- and children will be joined in an
ndiscriminate slaughter. TO the
horros of war, sufficiently brutal at
its very best, will be added the de-
stiuction that comes from the ming
ing IN a common grave and in a COM
mon river Of blood of those who by
the laws even Of savage empires in
the days of old, have been spared,
when the women and children were
collected and protected in camps.
Even Attila the Hun, the scourge of
God, when he came from the confines
of central Asia and upon the night
cf the fatal day when he met his de-
feat at the hands of Christendom.
piled high his spoil and arranged his
war chariots for final defense in the
morning, made provision for the care
and safety of the men and women
who were noncombatants and the
helpless that might be involved with
him in common defeat"
Senator Sherman says the war
now being waged means:
1T is a war of democracy against
absolutism; it is war for the su-
pren,acy of civil power over that of
the military-principles for which
Jefferson wrote and Washington
fought. Berlin is the only one of the
great civilized powers of the world
where in time of peace military
officer can drive citizen from the
walks of the capital into the gutter,
and yhen refused the privilege can
rure Btim through with the sword,
with s2no penalty save that of the
camR with no trial by the civil courts
in time of peace"
In speaking of those few Senators
who said it was doubtful propriety to
endorse the President, Senator Sher-
ran said:
whether we follow
him with heroic fidelity to the logic
Of the conclusions of the principle he
has laid down or whether we abandon
him to his fate. When we have re-
fused to endorse the President we
shall reap in due season the harvest
of our folly
"There is marked difference be-
tween a cargo of merchandise and
human lives, between condemning
property in a prize court and drown
ing women and children at sea-"
Senator Husting, (republican) =,
said:
1.-THE President of the United States
has done more to keep the country
out Of war than any other one man
in the United States. If he had
chosen to listen to counsel on one
side or to counsel on the other, if he
had not had his feet firmly planted
upon the rocks of peace, the rock of
/ right, and the rock of justice, he
would have been showed from his po-
sition into war and he would have
dragged this country with him months
and months ago.
"Now, it is said this may lead to
war. God forbid that it should. This
is not, however, step that leads to
war. 1t may be the only step that
will still lead to peace. In union
there is strength, and our diplomacy
can have no strength when it appears
that we are divided upon a momen-
tous issue"
Senator McCumber, republican,
Of North Dakota, said:
"If l felt that in supporting this
resolution we were taking one step
nearer to war; should pause, and
pause very long. before casting a
vote in it's favor; but, Mr.. President,
instead of bringing US nearer, | be-
lieve that a united front in support
of this resolution at this critical time
will do more to prevent war than any
one thing we could do today"
Defining in brief the position main
tanned by President Wilson, Senator
McCumber said:
"All we are claiming, if | under
:tand the Presidents address Alright,
is simply that in the exercise of the
right of helligerent to prevent the
importation of munitions or other
contraband of war into an enemy
country he shall exercise the usual
precautions that are required by in
ternational law. What we claim is,
not that we may break that blockade