The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1919-01-24

| the world and and for the democracy
of the world and to make democracy
safe in the world, when, as a mat
ter Of fact, it was fighting for "Mor-
ean interest" or it was fighting for
{ safe place for ship on the ocean
carrying high explosives protected
by the presence of American women
and children! Then he goes little
bit further in that speech at st. Paul,
and he has the audacity to say that
Mr.. Bern stOrf, as ambassa or from
Germany, gave US notice to keep off
the ship Gave US notice gave US /!
Who in the devil are we? We are
the American people, under the pro-
vidence Of God. This little miserable
Kaiser, who has since been dethror-
ed to the gratifio alton of the entire
world, gave us notice, through his
ambassador, that we might be hurt
if we went on this ship, and then we
were guilty of audacity and folly
and insanity because we went Oh the
ship, and ia American citizens
most of them women and children
did not have cowardice enough to
take the German warning and keep
Of the ship and went down unknelled
and unsung and unshriven, and went
down as Americans do go down, thank
God, not a man Of them deserting
his post; every man giving place to
woman or child; every member of
the crew., although they were British
but they speak English all the
same giving place to a woman or
a child; all of them went down.
My children are to believe, and their
children are to believe, that this Sen
ate is going to pass over this thing
in silence; that it was perfectly al
lowable for a man, provided he was
a United States Senator, to say that
these men, women and children had
no business there; they had no place
there; they ought to have taken the
warning of the German Ambassador !;
they ought TO have been scared by
the German Kaiser; they ought to
have been towards. and not Ameri-
cans,
Oh, Mr,President. do rot under
stand that. Maybe it is because /
am more OF less of barbarian. some
thing of southerner in my ways; but
i 90 not understand that. ! do not
understand why giving me warn
inc that | will be murdered if | go
where | have a right to be ought to
10 keep me from going there. Twill
go. so help me God. l will 90 every
morning. before breakfast and every
night before 90 to bed, and | believe
would go quicker after you told
ME that | should not than | would if
you had not told me so.
Oh. this speech in ST. Paul. | do
not know what the Senator thought.
! have begun to believe that he does
not think; that if he thought any
thing at all. he thought that the
zig LOT no
peace worshipers, the men and women
who are willing to give up everything
n-the world in order that they may
have a pice, easy time, would finally
control America. and that somehow
or other he or somebody else would
vocating that sort Of doctrine would
come out in front.
There is a peculiar thing about
humanity, Mr.. President. and that
is this: In its ordinary days it loves
pleasure. | understand why it loves
it. love it more than anybody. But
when the days of the crisis ONE, the
great days that invoke the human soul
the ordinary man rises above the
measure which the Senator from
Wisconsin meted out to him. He be-
comes inspired by the voice of God,
running throught all the history of
the world. He sacrifices himself, his
property, his children-and above all,
his children-that is the hardest part
OF it. He is willing to see it all go
into the melting pot rather than that
anything false should exist. God
calls to him from the depths-de
profundis and he answers with his
whole soul; and answering with his
whole soul, he has no. patience at
all-for any man who makes this
appeal to his ordinary, every day
life. He rises above it all. He be-