The Cordele dispatch., 1920-03-30
A STUDY IN LOYALTY.

good ship Lusitania. Germany
notified the American people to
stay off the high seas, and we
should have done it,"-Ioke
Smith
This is not a political libel patched
to harm Senator Smith. 1t is a state
ment he made Immediately after the
| German submarine sank the great
Snip Lusitana. Some Of the most no
table Americans Of this age went Ia
their death in that vessle. A Ger
man enemy took their lives out on the
free, open seas where the American
! flag has it's indisputable rights.
| Those Americans were in peaceful
| pursuits The country was not eycn
at war with Germany, nor had it TAX
en- any open hostile course against
, that nation.
AS we read and reflect upon this
! statemcEt-one among the many with
which this whole state and section
is perfectly familiar in connection
wits Senator Smiths fight on the VIII
son administration, we think os an
other statement which soldier boy
made. He had faced the raging fire
Of the front and every inch of ground
over which he and the brave Geo.
gians who were with him in the CON
nict passed in their assaults on the
German enemy had been torn up by
heavy shells II was 4 living he'll.
r, sscldier boy was not one given
ii misrepresenting things, what he put
down in his letters was true-every
inch of his gains was torn up-liter-
ally ploughed to pieces by enemy mis-
siles aimed at HIM
Talk about sacrifice and patriotism
for world civilization, for our own
rights or the seas! These men were
defending them. Senator Smith was
at something else-call it whatever
you please. Think about it, you men
who were on those battlefronts de-
tending your flag, your country, the
world against German aggression.
The painful thing about it is that
Senator Smith has, since we drove
the Germans back across the Rhine,
still stood with his back on us, aiding
in defeating tie peace treaty where
we had thought the worlds best states
men and wisest thinkers written down
creed, an American creed, if you
please for til orld to live by, creed
to which all the nations OF the world
I had agree because it was the creed
of the nation which stood as the most
powerful exponent of freedom in the
ealth
Just today Senator Smith addresses
the people Of Georgia as follows:
Il know it is essential that re-
seryations should be made to the
treaty preserving the rights of the
people through Congress, to con
troll the action of our representa-
tipes in The League. and presery-
ing the right of the people to
determine as each occasion may
arise, whether they should con
tribute their boys and their money
to the wars of the world"
And that in the face of the fact that
he. we or anybody else cannot by the
adoption of a peace treaty, league
/ of nations or anything else, change or
modify the meaning of the coustitu-
ticn of the United States. Neither
that peace treaty nor the league of ma
| tions can modify or restrict the work
ings of that constitution. Woodrow
Wilson had no such thing as res
friction on our liberties in mind-and
/ il he had, it would do him nor any one
else any good.
BY our constitution congress de
clares war With the peace treaty
and the league in force, congress still
! has that power supreme, unmolested
mistaken, unQuestioned. An under
i standing with other nations that We