The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1918-06-21

About the time 1t began TO De un
derstood in Mississippi that Hon. Pa
Harrison would be candidate TO-
United States Senator, Senator Var
daman delivered speech in the Unit
ed States Senate, August 16, 1917
a part of which he employed to pa!
his respects in Vardamanic style t.
Mr.. Harrison. Of course he was too
we'll versed in the arts of politics tt
call Mr.. Harrison's name and furth
ermore, the rules of both houses Of
Congress forbid the members of ont
branch from blackmailing or assail
ing another. If the Senator really
felt what his words imply, the casua
reader would conclude that he thinks
the Congressman from the Sixth Dis
trict is entitled to quarters in that
abode where there never was any
snow birds: ...>
There are men in America today
who under the dishonest guise of 10y.
atty to the administration, would abol
ish the Constitution and upon the
ruins of this Republic erect a mon.
archy if they thought there was q
chance of becoming a favored funky
in the court of the king.
Down all the stretch of hell to its
last gulf there is no shape more ter
rible than this. .
There will also be found in large
droves the patriots for pelf, whose
cupidity is cloaked in patriotism,
along with the statesmen in pursuit
of power for personal ends. The dis
astrous consequences which newt
ably flow from such sources, if not
checked, will impose a burden upon
posterity whose bhghting influences
will extend beyond the life Of our
civilization itself. They are in truth
and in fact -t
Such as do build their faith upon
The holy text Of pike and gun
or any other subterfuge or excuse
that may serve their sinister pur-
poses.
Mr.. President, can not this morn
ing perform a greater service to my
country than to give warning, put the
brand of disapproval, the stigma of
deserved infamy, on every such char
acter that the patriotic, unsuspecting,
slow-thinking common people may
know them and that they may be
warned against their seductive, mis-.
leading and sinister sophistry.
My attention has been called of
late to a peculiar species of embry-
onic statesmen, the spawn and pro-
duct Of the slime-covered pools of
war, the evolution from the human
microbe, which found it's origin in the
troubled womb of abnormality. There
is found on every hand these days ro-
bust specimens of this runty genus,
which mention only because such as
they present a problem with which
the people must deal-men with am
bition but without the slightest ca
pacity for independent thought or in
telligent action, fit only to follow and
fawn at the feet of power. This type
of individual. l repeat, is one of the
many tantalizing incidents of war,
which but adds to the burden that
the people must bear. One of these
ton has been called, is incubating an
er himself in the halls of State. He
favors war, and is loud and lusty in
the protestations of his loyalty to his
country. He holds that under certain
circumstances it is treason to even
obey the Constitution in the prosecu- !,
ton of the war. He would suspend
the Bill of Rights, abrogate the Ser
mon on the Mount, repeal the Golden
Rule, and vest with the Commander !!
in Chief Of the Army the power of
life and death over the people. His
lip patriotism is preached from ev-
cry street corner and he is known
and heard ad nauseam by his friends.
The valance of his soul is made man.
ifest upon every stump upon which
he is permitted to stand and make
profert Of the shallowness of his
mind and the emptiness Of his soul,
while he fills the ears of the patient
waiting, long suffering, populace with
his meaningless verbigerations This
peculiar type Of American statesman,
the legitimate product of illigitimate
conditions, the pest and provocation
of patient patriotism, is shown up in
all its nakedness, in the light of his
own explanation, or analysis, which
he makes while hesitating to enter the
arena of politics. He declines to an
nounce his platform until it shall
have been made certain how the peo-
pie will look upon the declaration of
war-and, by way of parenthesis, let
me say the declaration of war about
which the people were not consulted
and how they will finally regard
the un-American and un-Constitution-
al manner of raising an army for for
eign service by conscription.
Mr.. President, such a spectacle is
in the extreme to the
patriotic citizen, and is enough to
sicken the soul of an outlaw or shock
The moral sensibilities of a pirate tol
behold the thing. -.
With the fire of patriotism burning /,
1pon his mendacious lips, eyes illum-
ned by the meretricious glare of dra-
natic fervor as he announced"