Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-04-05


primary cause of an American war dee
laratiOn.
"We have wellowed in the mire at
the feet of Great Britain and submit
ted in silence to her dietation. - he
continued. because we aequiesee, we
have a legal and moral responsibility
10 Germany. Thus we have been active
/ ly aiding her enemy in starving Ger
man women, children and old men.
Germany waits three long months for
this government to protest. In princi-
| pie, therefore. Germany had the right
bIindly to destroy ships by submarines
and mines in her own blockade zone.
Germany is doing what England is do
ing.
Germany Called Patient
Germany has been patient with us,
standing strictly on her rights to be
accorded the same treatment as Eng
land by u.s.
When Senator LaFollette concluded
he had been speaking more than three
hours. Senator Williams, of Mississip-
lpi, arose Immediately to reply
"The speech of the Wisconsin sena-
! tor would better have become Herr
Won Bethmann-Hollweg than an Ameri-
can senator" said Senator Williams.
In fact, he had gone further than
Herr Won Bethmann-Hollweg would
ever have gone. Bethmann- Hollweg
said the use of the submarine could be
justified only on the ground of neces-
sity, the senator from Wisconsin puts
lit on the same footing as Great Brit
a m % M
81 fully expected the senator from
Wisconsin, before he took his seat, to
defend the invasion of Belgium, the
most barbarous act ever committed.
heard from his a speech that was pro-
German, pro-Goth, pro-Vandal, and
which was anti.president, anti con-
gress and anti-American.
"While pronouneing an eulogy on
the German people he might have eulo-
gized 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-H Hollweg, if
Bethmann Hollweg had the audacity.
But Bethmann- Hollweg had too much
sense, too much knowledge to make
that speech"
LaFollette Leaves Chamber
At this point Senator LaFollette left
the chamber, but remained in the
cloakroom awhile, within hearing dis
tance.
Continuing, Senator Williams said he
heard in imagination the groans OF
men, women and children sent to wa
| itery graves by German submarines.
"But the senator from Wisconsin
hears none of them,'' said the Missis-
| sippi senator. 81 have loved the Wis
consin senator in a way, until recent
| ly, but | have no patience with any
man who stands up in the senate at
this time applauding the common enc
my who also is the enemy of the hui
man race, and has not one word in
praise of the American president or
the American people.
eff the American people can It 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. / join the president in express
ing no hostility against the German
people themselves. | have lived among
them two years,
| "The senator from Wisconsin labor
| ed to establish an identity of purpose
and action in the violations of our neu-
trail rights of Great Britain and Ger
many. He proved he did not know the
difference between a prize court and
| a tornado. Great Britain has drowned
none of our citizens.
Need of Alliance Cited
| II am a little tired of utterances
Hike that of the senator from Wiscon-
sin denouneing the entente allies He
endeavors to twist the British lion s
| tail. Demagogues have been doing that
ever since the revolution, but it is a
matter of history that most of the peo-
pie of England were against the war
on the colonies.
(Which would you rather do, fight
'lGermany now, with France and Great
Britain and Russia, or fight her alone
latera You We 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
ready to whip us unless the English
fleet prevents it,
Referring to the Wisconsin senator IS
statement that the United States has
| HotHlhS 10 loSc, no lldtlcT Nhlcu WINS
the war, Senator Williams said;
| "Let S see. Have we no honor, no
regard for the future sovereignty of our
country, no regard for our flagl Is
sentiment OF, is patriotism rot, is there
nothing precious except moneys
"I'm getting tired of this talk that
this is Wall street war. That S a lie.
Wall street did not sink the Lusitania,
the Arabic, the Sussex, and those other
ships. m tired of lies like that, and
| think it is the duty of the American
congress and people to brand them as
lies, !"
Turkish Rule Assailed
Senator Williams said the resolution
did not propose that the United States
enter the war, but that it go into an
American war to protect American
rights, and for the sake of honor, jus
tiee, 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.