The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1918-07-19

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prices for his products, and they
should set out upon their dangerous
mission, that father would be base
migrate to refuse them weapons or
some means of defending themselves,
and yet we find Vardaman, the
"f,iend of the poor man." the
''fricnd" of the working man, voting
to refuse protection to these seamen
and sailors. worthy sons of our great
country, who were Drawing dangers
the like of which the world had never
seen before, in order that our pro-
ducts, our cotton, our corn, our cat
tie products, our lumber and ell our
other products might find profitable
markets By voting against this meas
ure he showed his Indifference to
two classes of poor men, the poor men
here in his own state whose products
were being carried to market, and
the poor men on our ships who
were carrying them.
Was it patriotic, or did it look pa
triotic, for him to send the speeches
of the South-hating, German-loving
LaFollette all over Mississippi to pois-
on the minds Of Mississippians against
the Democratic party, against the
President of the United States against
preparedness, against asserting our
rights and against almost everything
earthly except the German govern
ment and it's high handed measures.
Can we imagine such patriots as La
mar, George, Walthall, McLaurir or
Morey doing such a thing? God for
bid.
Did it show patriotic and loyal de-
votion to his homefolks to vote again.
st the Ship Purchase Bill already re-
| ferred to when disaster stared US In
the face, and when that was the only
measure that promised any relief.
Did it seem patriotic and did 1T
show q sincere desire to win the war,
Army experts the world over agree
, when he opposed the Aviation Bill!
that the aviation department consti-
tutes the eyes of the fighing forces,
and that an amy is only as strong as
its aviation link, and so if he sincerely
wished for our arms to win ne should
have been willing to vote the entlre
resources of the nation to the last dol
lar and to the last ounce of energy,
if need be, to this branch of our war
machine, and yet he patriotically tC
fought it.
And does it sound patriotic, and
does it indicate sincere desire, lof
an early victory for our army for MIN
/ to favor, sending 100000 of our draft.
ed men back home because of lack OF
ships to get them across? When the
enemy is planning to make his so-
prene effort, when he is throwing eV-
ery available man against our flghting
> forces and against those of our aiheS,
, while the armies Of our allies are haro
pressed with their backs to the wall,
fighting immensely superior forces
for their very existence and for tne
: existence of their nations as well as
. that of ours, still our Junior Senator
: would have our nation placed IN the
, vacillating and ridiculous position OF
, sending her drafted men home IN
stead of searching the earth for ships
t to send them over in time to save the
dav. Such a procedure as he advo-
t Gated would have been playing into
t the hands Of the enemy:
i And finally, does it sound patriot
s ic for him to boldly boast TO the peo
= pie of Mississippi that he is so wei
D pleased with his record that he woult
D not. if he could. change it In tn
: slightest detail. AS events after event
r have come to pass; as one phase ate
: another in the great world TRACED
= has developed; as proof after proc
e of the Huns barbarity has been for
e. ced upon us: after there is no longe
t a doubt of Prussia nism's wild dream
v of world domination, and that tn,
Of %1a1 70, Il 10
s machine have a strangle hold on tn
e very Foundation of civilization itself
r after indisputable proof that Ger
: man money had been spent to incit,
the negroes of the South to violate
' our worcen and children, after learn
= ing how the Germans had planned ar
l invasion of our beloved Southland
= and possibly our own state, by the
Mexicans and Japanese; after learn
5 ing all the German duplicity and in
/ trigues and murderous plottings and
| all other conceivable deviltry he tells
. his people that he has no apologies
? for his record, that he acted with a
, clear conception of all the conditions,
now. honest in the light of our pres
ent knowledge, does it sound patriot
ic? l verify believe that great many
patriotic admirers of the Junior SEN
ators have hoped that explanation of
a great many of his public acts and
utterances would be Forthcoming.
They hoped that possibly he did not
mean great many things he said and
did, or, that possibly he said and did
those things without a thorough
knowledge Of conditions, or just ap-
probation Of the consequences, but
he disposes of the matter in these
words: 81 have no apologies to make,
for say to you that if it were all to
do over again, should do just as
have DONE"
Now Mr. Editor, if you see fit, you
are at liberty to publish this letter,
making, of course, any comment you
see fit. l anticipate that the gist of
your comments will be "Slandered"--
Vardaman later, "Secret Caucas," etc,
but l would remind you that calling
uamoc does not ancVuor fhd o~r.,,