Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1918-06-14

trenches that has not had my enthu-
siastic and cordial support" he re-
fused to vote ON final passage for the
act providing for the raising of our
national army He did not give that
war measure his enthusiastic and
cordial support; on the contrary, ut
page s33 of the Congressional Record,
First session. 65th Congress- in speak
Ing on the floor OF the Senate, he
said: "The republic that must be de-
Tended by a conscript soldiery has
about run its course and ought to
change its form of government. The
conscript and convict have been held
by patriotic, brave men in equal con
tempt No more splendid men are
in the world than compose our nation
al army, and am wondering whether
the mothers and fathers of those
young men now being trained and
! fighting to protect our nations honor
appreciate their sons being classed as
| l"conyict"
They will not forget the Senator's
action in opposing. the aviation bill
and making a speech in the United
States Senate against tia bill the
purpose of which was to expend six
hundred and forty millions of dollars
In providing airplanes to prosecute
the war. They will not forget the OPP
position of the Senator to those meas
ures designed to prevent the newspa-
pers Of the country from publishing
the movements of the army and the
navy and In Furnishing the treasona-
bile. abusive and disloyal utterances
of German sympathizers and Hun
coated patriots in this country. They
will not forget that only three weeks
ago, on the 4th day OF May, 1918. at
4 o'clock. in the Senate of the United
States, he deliberately recused him
self from the Senate chamber and
failed to vote on the adoption of the
conference report tofplace on the stat
ute books the law that would punish
disloyalty and sedition. The Senator
did not then manifest those splendid
qualities of courage and independence
to which some of his friends often al.
lude. The Senator, by his own utter.
ances never did believe In the justice
of our cause that forced US into the
war. He has not given the admins.
tration or the government, since the
war resolution was passed, that
wholehearted, sincere support that Is
expected of a Senator from MISSISSIPPI
pi. The Senator may now, by ap-
peals to Mississippians for the Red
Cross and Y M. c. A., and the sale of
Liberty bonds, profess his loyalty and
devotion to the cause, but Mississip
effaced from the minds of the people
of America, that four months and five
days after the United States entered
the war against Germany, namely, on
the 18th day of August, 1917, the Sen
ator, In a carefully prepared state
ment which he gave to the press-a
has not denied, and will not deny
said:
"Then again il was proposed II
we did not fight Germany now
stab her In the back while Eng
land anA haua har da,.,.
that we would have to fight her
alone, and other excuses or
causes, imaginary and real, for
war were assigned. Now, person
ally, | think the cause of this war
was the Interference on the part
of Germany with commerce be-
have always thought II was a mat
ter Of pecunlary profit, and |
think so still, but have no objec-
tion to discussion. II the sub
marine warfare had not interfered
with business and profits there
would, In my judgment, probably
have been no war;"
by their fruits ye shall know
them" is as true today as it was when
uttered by the Savior Of men in the
Sermon on the Mount. When the Sen
ator ON that occasion, In his office,
dictated that interview and give 1t in
prepared form to the newspapers no
was expressing his honest sentiments
and his deliberate judgment; he was
expressing what was in his heart, and
the way he felt about this war If ne
thought four months and five days
after our entrance into the war that
he had always thought it was purely