The Seward gateway and the Alaska evening post., 1917-03-14
SENATOR LANE ON AMERICAN RIGHTS

ing excerpts from the speech Ot Senator Harry Lane or Oregon, made in the U s. senate on Febraury r.
 Any American citizen who would go to Europe and walk down between the trenches where they were 1ng at another with their machine guns would be an ass and would deserve to get just what he would get would not fight for him. No; would not take chance of be- ing shot at for him. That kind of citizen is of value or credit to uS he puts this nation in peril and does not bring anything of value in return to this country after having been nurtured in it the age of maturity age when he ought in ordinary deCency keep out of tbe by using reasonable amount of common sense So would say to him when he starts for the zone, My dear brother we bid you farewell you may go there if you want you can tramp up and down all your life between the firing lines but do not assume any responsibility for ycur happiness good health It is right up to you
 And nation should come and say to me that there is certain about my enemies country inside ot which no ship will be permitted to pass with ammunition fOOd would say to him. Very we'll that suits me frStrate. live more than 5000 miles away from you and people at home need all the food have and than they get and it looks like we might need our ammunition after while to rehabtae ourselves from peace footing to one of reasonable war preparation in the event that some other nation may dislike It is up to you gent lemen. l will keep my ships at home
 "There is many a family in this country today gentle men, who under the high cost of living due in part to the war are not getting enough to eat Right here within five blocks of this building there are families that are cut ting down their food supplies for lack of money to pay for them They short of shoes short of clothing and short of the necessities of life all due degree and n directly to this great and unfortunate conflict which go ing on upon the other side of the ocean, and have no heart in it or for it.
 T would say those who want to go the dead line where there are submarines ZeppelinS Go, and God go with yOut; but go at your risk will not fight to save the merchandise of any such Americans as you are Go and get killed if you want to- but the people, will not fight for you or the like of yOu for your goes of war supplies
 q will guarantee to the senate that can take ship sea- and if the sinking of that ship will cause war between this country and some other nation bring war home to you and this country ten days It would be an easy thing to do so easy that fear will be done by those who would profit from such incident We are running great risk at this time From motives of sell tiShneSS anyone may force this country into in week if we are going stand upon rights to act the fool in any such manner.
 It is the duty of this country first and now has been it's duty for some time in the past say to it's c zenS Go yourself or with your ships at your peril; go with the understanding that you about to the loss of thousands of lives of your fellow citizens who
 just as good men as you are and most of them better you want to make excursion into the realms of war fare but 90 at your own peril We will not mperl the happiness and perhaps the very existence of this nation to fight for such you So, also to the who wants to ship for profit would say Do you also go but at your peril. will you to the three-mle limit, will give you book of Psalms and God bless you and a fare well to you and then watch you fade from view and sink into the horizon and if you come back well and good but you do not back will not grappe either for your body your cargo. You we'll know the risk yourself and you have right to it. but you have no right to push or drag into your The minute you do you become my enemy just much foreigners with whom have conflict or anything but kindly feelings
 "That is where stand this question and where the people stand whom represent, and whom believe in dorse in the position which take here and who have prayed that we be kept out of this war.