ALTRUISM AMERICA'S ONLY WAR AIM
Mason, Congressman Wm. E.
Altruism America's Only War Aim Extension of Democracy, Not Territorial Nor Po litical Advantage, Must Be Our Sole Object On European Soil, Declares Illinois Representative By CONGRESSMAN WM. E....
...That great war newspaper early in October last stated editorially that the return of Alsase-Lorraine to France might be a part of "British war aims as well as part of French war aims, but that it was not a part of the war aims of the United States...
...Madison to Mr...
...Look back to the history of Spain, Holland, Germany, Russia, Sweden, Denmark, Prussia, Italy, and Turkey for the last hundred years...
...I will not quote further, but recommend to tha student of this well-established policy of noninterference Moore's Digest of International Law, volume 6, which includes opinions of many of the Secretaries of State and many of tha Presidents, including messages from McKinley and Roosevelt...
...In his last message the President of the United States—and he has frequently so demanded—said that the German people should speak, but of course he did not mean that the American people should not be heard on this great question...
...Every loyal man in America should speak...
...I refer you also to Secretary of State Cass, who in 1859 declined to interfere in Mexico, although he sympathized with the constitutional party...
...You can trust a man like that...
...Alsace-Lorarine must offer a value in American prospects before the life of an American conscript could be justly spent in such an issue...
...Mason...
...Of course, this great war paper has published interviews by distinguished patriots of Chicago recommending the lynching of statesmen of my build (laughter), and for using the same argument that they use now...
...Chairman and fellow Members of the House of Representatives, "With malice toward none and charity for all," I desire to speak to my colleagues for a very few minutes upon the very live questions that confront our people...
...Roosevelt's Stand in 1904 |UST ONE SENTENCE from President •I Roosevelt's message in 1904: Ordinarily it is very much wiser and mora useful for us to concern ourselves with striving for our own moral and material betterment here at home than to concern ourselves with trying to better the conditions of things in other nations...
...Mason...
...We have not forgotten that the Emperor of Austria made demands upon Serbia which were wicked and outrageous as punishment for these two murders...
...That happened during the war...
...We, being civilized and in the war only for the purpose of peace, under the rule ought to look for peace at the first possible moment it can be had with honor...
...I will not get mad at you when you stand up here and say you are willing to give all the blood of this country except yours for that purpose...
...Applause...
...We will "go through...
...And when an editor writes an editorial to the effect that he is willing to give every dollar to bis country and every drop of your blood and mine, he is easily and cozily settled in the editorial sanctum, exposed to no danger beyond, possibly, the gout or apoplexy...
...President Fillmore claimed that in this doctrine of "neutrality and non-intervention the United States have not followed the lead of other civilized nations, but that they have taken the lead themselves and have been followed by others...
...I have great honor for the Secretary of War, though I do not know him...
...But I think it ought to be our rule not to meddle, and that of all the power of Europe not to desire us, or perhaps even to permit us, to interfere if they can help us...
...26, by the interstate commerce commission...
...Glass) omitted to say...
...A word from Daniel Webster, Secretary of State, in 1842: And the perfecting of this system of communication among nations requires the strictest application of the doctrine of nonintervention...
...Let me read a few extracts from this truly great editorial: The United States Fights for the United States * * Such things must be left to the individual selection of the citizens to their consciences and sense of right...
...Christ was a pacifist...
...The Constitution of the United States that gave life to this Congress and to the President and to the Supreme Court provides the war board to be elected by the people, and every one of you gentlemen is elected as a niember of the war board under this provision ȣ the Constitution which provides that Congress should make "Rules for the Government and regulation of'the land and naval forces" of the United States...
...The obligations of a citizen do not extend to other than his own nation...
...The people of all the world want peace, and it will come...
...Germany may say, "I will give you one billion...
...Shall we fill European graves with American youths that our Japanese co-workers may keep her democratic hold on German colonies...
...that he had made a treaty of peace after the defeat of the English arms, and therefore lost prestige for the English arms...
...I ask unanimous consent to revise and extend my remarks in the Record...
...but it is due the President that we let him know how our constituents feel, while he is considering these hard and new diplomatic questions...
...and below it says, "Retaken by the French on______day of______, in the year_______" And that monument has stood there for more than 40 years, a menace and a threat of war and encouragement to Kvupp and other munition makers to keep their guns ready to "go to it" at any time...
...They know as well as you and I that what our dear country has done for democracy outside of the United States, has been done by example and not by word...
...Now, my colleagues, if for any reason this valuable territory should be forced back into France, look at it reasonably...
...Smith concludes by answering the question, "Is it the policy of the Louisville and Nashville railroad company to make political campaign contributions...
...Their mutual jealousies, their balance of power, their complicated alliances, their forms and principles of government are all foreign to us...
...Do not get mad about it...
...We have also learned by the publication of the secret treaties that if we were successful in our fight for democracy that the King of Italy, that great commoner, could turn down the Pope and become sovereign over the farmers of a part of Austria...
...She knits and prays for him constantly and in the night calls to him in her dreams...
...Mason...
...This affidavit has now been made public...
...territory of one nation to another will not be here to vote, they will have sacrificed their lives in the trenches of Europe...
...While we must not let up one bit in our preparations and prosecutions of this war, it would be barbarism to refuse to discuss peace, and it is wicked and undemocratic not to allow everyone who is interested and who must bear the burden of tax and blood to speak their honest convictions as to what would be an honorable peace for our country...
...I have stated the great war newspaper in Chicago has for its leading editorial Saturday, October 13, 1917, as follows: The United States and Alsace The restoration of Alsace-Lorraine to France may be a British as well as a French war objective, as proclaimed by British leadership...
...A nation must not compel citizens for other than the well-being of the nation" to' which they owe allegiance...
...I think, Mr...
...It is a question for the people of Alsace-Lorraine...
...We do not want them to ask us to sacrifice the blood of American youth and break the hearts of a million American mothers to correct the brutality and blunders of the Kaiser and the Emperor of 46 years ago...
...After a pause...
...It is not an American war objective...
...I see no profit in faultfinding, except where immediate correction can be made without interfering with our preparation for this war, and I regard it as unwise to discuss in party caucuses anything that affects the successful carrying on of this war, nor do I intend, if I can master my.self, to indulge in party claims or party criticisms...
...What does "go through" mean...
...In his deposition, made Feb...
...We have not forgotten the Serbian hospitality that murdered a man and his wife...
...Then I will answer you in this way: In substance there can be a meeting on every proposition made by our President, and any man who has studied diplomacy can see that there can be a meeting of the minds of the United States and Germany, except upon the proposition of the surrender by Germany of the control of Alsace-Lorraine...
...American sacrifices are for American values...
...The killing of our sons will not bring back the Belgian sons, and our boys will be of more use to poor Belgium in shop or between the plow handles at home than they will be in European graves...
...But again I say to you it is against the interests of America to entangle itself or endanger its life, the life of this Republic, in seeking to adjust European differences...
...The Statue of Liberty in the New York Harbor, given by the French, was not because in their war with Great Britain we violated neutrality as laid down by Washington, but because in all their struggle for self-government, when they made reprisal in one day for a century of kingly wrongs, they were fighting in the light of the American Declaration of Independence...
...I stood in the Place de la Concord, in Paris, where that great monument has been erected by the French people to Alsace-Lorraine, and on the monument it says, "Taken from the French by the Germans," on such a date, "in 1871...
...Such an invitation, nevertheless, will be a mark of respect not without a value, and this will be more enhanced by a polite refusal than by an acceptance, not to mention that an acceptance would be a step leading us into a wildness of politics and a den of conspirators...
...Monro* in 1823: A participation in (a congress proposed by Mr...
...Our blood is too sacred for that...
...How many emperors and kings have fallen victims to the alternate triumphs of parties excited by Englishmen or Frenchmen...
...I insert the messages of our Presidents, beginning with Washington and ending with Mc-Kinley and Roosevelt, showing the fixed policy of our Government to keep out of European entanglements...
...That is now conceded by all belligerents in all propositions of peace...
...The defensive war of the civilized nation is for the purpose of securing an honorable peace...
...Sentimentally many Americans would be glad of a result that would give back these Provinces...
...Chairman, because the gentleman from Virginia controls the time, and I have only a few minutes...
...Some man husking corn in Illinois may have a good idea...
...Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called the children of God...
...What Secret Pacts Revealed IF ANY of my colleagues wish to settle this question, I recommend that they read an editorial in the world's greatest newspaper, which, of course, is published in Chicago...
...that there would be graft and boodling, which is as natural a part of war as breath is to life...
...This same doctrine is announced in this very newspaper that I have quoted from, that stood so strongly for the declaration of war and stands for the prosecution of war until the causes for which we went to war have been accomplished...
...Flood...
...As one of those who voted against war and opposed conscription for foreign service but pledged to the support of my country I say, so far as my observation goes in visiting the great cantonments, that the work of the Secretary of War has been marvelous and almost past belief...
...Chairman, again this great war newspaper has for its leading editorial Thursday, December 6, 1917, a clearly defined and well analyzed statement which shows the difference between fighting for the United States and fighting to help the down-trodden people of some other country...
...And seeing the multitudes He went up into a mountain, and when He was set His disciples came unto Him, and He opened His mouth and taught them, saying: "Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy...
...They are not cowards...
...Chairman, I did not intend to dis-Cuss, and shall not discuss further, the solution of the greatest stumbling block in our way to an honorable peace, but...
...I tl.ink this is true...
...I know that if yon asked your constituents how they feel upon this question of giving American boys to settle a real estate title in Europe you will be branded as a pacifist, possibly as a traitor...
...We want to do right in this war, and we will do right in this war...
...Altruistically and philosophically we may be interested otherwise than as conditions and products of conditions affect the United States, but we can not rightfully conscript soldiers to fight to change conditions that would not affect the United States...
...but, as a matter of fact, it is only natural that they should want to see Alsace-Lorraine returned, and we would like to see it done...
...Canning for the settlement of the difficulties between Spain and her colonies) would not be likely to make converts to our principles, whilst our admission under the wing of England would take from our consequences what it would add to hers...
...He may elect to further the cause of justice anywhere in the world, to fight for the downtrodden, and to be a champion of the we,ak, but no government founded upon fairness and trying to do justice to its citizens may force its citizens to give up their lives for other than the well-being and security of their own nation...
...Their months are thoroughly patriotic, but their legs are all pacifist...
...Action by Congress in these circumstances is not without precedent...
...Applause...
...If you have surrendered that power it is no time now to complain in the face of the enemy...
...Chairman, will the gentleman yield...
...U. S. World's Exemplar MR...
...Chairman and gentlemen, we went to war with an open declaration that we wanted no vengeance, no indemnities, but a demand for our ships—the freedom of the seas...
...Laughter...
...But I am told there is to be a new party formed, that which places upon its banner "No peace without victory...
...Chairman and gentlemen, I give all honor to our President...
...I know we are great for conservation here, but for God's sake, let us quit conserving the truth and give out a little of that old-fashioned commodity—the truth is, that the thing that stands in the way of peace today, that peace that would solve all of these questions that confront us, and which have put us in trouble, is what disposition shall be made of Alsace-Lorraine...
...We have got a lot of brave fellows in America with their arms in the Treasury clear up to the elbows—fellows who call everybody a traitor who catches them stealing...
...CHAIRMAN, there are hundreds of thousands — a million — Mary's—mothem and sisters...
...And can we expect to escape the vigilant attention of politicians so experienced, so keen sighted, and so rich...
...and, if I had the time I think I could convince the gentleman of that...
...We will not abandon for one moment the league of honor in which we, with our co-workers, fight the Imperial Government of Germany, nor will the American people allow our co-workers to drag us into interminable and un-ending war to settle the ungodly intrigues of royalty 50 years ago...
...When we are hung with those who thought with us six months ago, we will have a lot of excitement and a lot of editors will be hanging on the other rung...
...We have had that victory...
...Does "go through" mean we shall let our children go cold and hungry, our people ground to death by taxation, that Great Britain, our co-worker, may keep her "kill...
...There is one thing my colleague from Virginia (Mr...
...How many revolutions have been caused...
...President John Quincy Adams, in 182C, says: Compare our situation and the circumstances of that time (that of Washington's Farewell Address) with those of the present day, and what from the very words of Washington then would be his counsels to his countrymen uow...
...I have only a few minutes' time...
...CHAIRMAN...
...These practices, however, while customary and conventional with corporations generally in the past, are contrary to the public opinion of today and have been discontinued by our company...
...The disclosures were based on an affidavit recently filed by Milton H. Smith, president of the road, answering question to which he had refused replies during an interstate commerce commission inquiry in May, 1916, and to secure which the commission obtained from the Supreme court last November an order requiring Mr...
...Kossuth, the Hungarian patriot, said here in Washington that in all his struggles he had before him our Declaration of Independence...
...The answer says: "It is not...
...E. MASON MR...
...Our French co-workers, God bless them, in this work are demanding that that territory, including the people, 95 per cent of whom speak German and 80 per cent of whom are German—and the right to govern shall be turned over to our co-workers, and our good President is of the opinion that unless that is done Alsace-Lorraine will still stand as a menace to the peace of the world...
...Without objection, it is so ordered...
...Just look at it...
...but in the past the company occasionally made campaign contributions to defeat a candidate who was running on a platform of antagonism and injury to this company...
...They will all wish to make us a make-weight candle when they are weighing out their pounds...
...Ask your people, and then let our President know...
...They know, if they have been through high school, that never before in the history of the United States have Americans been conscripted to settle ancient questions pending between other nations...
...Both Kings are wrong, neither of them stood for democracy...
...If the return of Alsace-Lorraine meant that Germany would strive for 50 years to get it back, and in so s/.rivinc put the world in hazard again, it were better that it remained under the German flag...
...But, regardless of sentiment, the American Government could not rightfully offer one conscripted soldier to this cause...
...And a few words from President Monroe in 1824: • Separated as we are from Europe by the great Atlantic Ocean, we can have no concern in the wars of the European Governments, nor in the causes which produce them...
...The gentleman misunderstood me...
...Gladstone was a Christian statesman and his answer was: "The world knows that England can conquer South Africa, but we want the world to know that England can do rignt...
...The people of the United States are patient, there will be riots that will shake our Government for they know that in the cool, quiet days of next November they will be permitted to speak npon questions of life and death about which heretofore they have been silent...
...If we convince them that our attachment to neutrality is unchangeable, they will let us alone, but as long as a hope remains in either power of 6educing us to engage in war on his side and against his enemy we shall be torn and convinced by his maneuvers...
...In conclusion, Mr...
...It will be written in German, and moved from Paris to Berlin, a continuing threat of war...
...asked by Mr...
...We knew, of course, when we declared war that there would be mistakes...
...In such cases the interests of the company seemed in the judgment of its officers at that time, to require this as a matter of protection...
...This city of Washington has no monopoly on brains and patriotism...
...The Secretary of War had the courage to admit that he made a mistake or delay, and he went about correcting it...
...Some lone sentinel standing guard at night under the stars Roads Spent Fortunes for Votes An official record of how the Louisville and Nashville railway spent many thousands of dollars in political activity and supporting newspapers in southern states between 1907 and 1914 was made public Feb...
...I do not want you to get mad with me...
...They are not unwilling to sacrifice in defense of this land...
...And you gentlemen may canvass yonr districts from one end to the other and you will not find one father or mother who is willing to give their sons to settle a title of real estate in Europe...
...Mason...
...Laughter...
...I also quote from Washington's Farewell Address, 1796: Europe has a set of primary interests which to us have none or a very remote relation...
...Applause) . This is my theory in this war...
...We are torn asunder now with plans for a new war board...
...The Republic of the United States was not born when that territory was taken by the French from the Germans, and nearly half a century has passed since the Germans took it from the French...
...Applause...
...Hence, therefore, it must be unwise in us to implicate ourselves by artificial ties in the ordinary vicissitudes of her politics or ordinary combinations and collisions of her friendships or enmities...
...Indeed, it is not surprising, for we shall very often, if not always, be able to turn the scale...
...Smith to give answers...
...Seme man in the store» factory, or office may contribute to our needs...
...I beg leave to quote first from John Adams' diary in 1782: It is obvious that all the powers of Europe will be continually .maneuvering with us to work us into their imaginary balances of power...
...Insert Black Face Paragraph______________ One friend writes, speaking of his wife and of his son somewhere in France: "Mary sets Jim's place at the table regularly...
...And some of you maybe were surprised when you discovered that our good friend, the Mikado, who does not want to own land in this country nor send his children to the schools of California and does not want the Sandwich Islands or the Philippine Islands, and who while in our fight for democracy has not found it convenient to send a man or a ship to help us while we are helping him—I say some of you may have been surprised that our Japanese friends, while expecting our assistance in this fight for democracy, had a secret treaty with the great democrat, the Czar, whereby they were to fight your Uncle Sam in the Far East in case action should arise and we need the whipping...
...Folk...
...They have some right here...
...We do...
...simply to emphasize the fact that its disposition is not an American question...
...I would like to ask the gentleman, if he will permit, when an agreement was ever made to return that territory...
...Are we to continue to bear sacrifices...
...Applause...
...This paper has been the most warlike of any of the great papers, and shows it is in earnest by the actual enlistment at the front of its editors and employees...
...I believe that if the poor, "despised" bolsheviki could have his way for a few minutes and those people have self-government and allowed to govern themselves, Alsace-Lorraine would be neutral territory, and thereafter an island of peace and, sofar as that land is concerned, the world will be at peace...
...Do not be afraid of being called a traitor or a pacifist...
...we will not stop, even while considering peace...
...When we hear the Marseillaise it brings a throb to our hearts like the sound of the Star-Spangled Banner...
...Applause...
...Territorial adjustments in Europe concern us only as they may eliminate future war which may in turn involve us...
...As to Serbia and Belgium, the Belligerent* agree to return the territory and the amount of money to be paid for restoration is not an American qpestion...
...I believe that answer has been conceded by every proposition as to the terms of peace...
...They are nations of eternal war, AH their energies are expended in the destruction of the labor, property, and lives of their people...
...Since the publication of the secret treaties between our allies we have discovered that when we went into the war for democracy our good friends, the English, the Russians, and the French, had agreed just how our English cousins and our French brothers were to slice up Germany, and that noble democrat, the Czar of Russia, was to have a slice of Turkey...
...The closing words of the President's last message find a responsive chord in every American heart...
...Are we to continue to bear what our boys yesterday received from a submarine...
...When the United States is safe—not when democracy is safe but when the United States is safe—the purpose of this war has been served...
...The Chairman...
...A FEW WORDS from Mr...
...Mr...
...Of course, the French people have established now a Republic, and we are in sympathy with it...
...We have not forgotten that Serbia lit the match that set the world afire...
...But our President says if it is transferred back to France it will be the means of establishing Peace...
...This does not come out of my time, Mr...
...There need be no threatening monuments either in Paris or Berlin...
...We have seen the time come when the Kaiser has been obliged to consult the Reichstag before getting a man to accept the chancellorship of the Imperial Government of Germany...
...my colleagues, are the custodians of the Treasury of this country, you are the custodians of the blood of the American youth, and 1, as one of your Members being willing to support this Government and support my country in this great war, will never vote to give the life of one American boy in a war of conquest, not one drop of American blood to settle questions in which the United States has no interest and not one American life to correct the blunders and brutalities of the Kaiser and the Emperor 50 years ago...
...Laughter...
...The public negotiations and secret intrigues of the English and the French have been employed for centuries in every court and country of Europe...
...At least we are justified in thinking that it is not worth conscripted American soldiers...
...Of course, our President will not join that party, for his greatest message, a milestone in the march of civilization, was that message which declared for "peace without victory," and none of us who seek re-election need be afraid of that party, for those who are willing and anxious to continue to give the life of every American and every dollar of American money to transfer the...
...In that light and by reason of our example, England, against whom we rebelled, lAas broadened into a constitutional government...
...He said: "The hand of God is laid upon the nations...
...If you move it deliberately and against the will of the people of Alsace-Lorraine back into French territory, that monument that is a standing threat of war will not be written in French...
...And I say to you, friends and colleagues, that the quicker we talk truthfully and fairly with our constituents, and the sooner we let the President know how the people feel about these things, the sooner we will have an honorable peace...
...may give wisdom to our counsels...
...We have had a greater victory...
...Applause...
...Europe has still her set of primary interests, with which we have little or a remote relation...
...Our distant and detached situation with reference to Europe remains the same...
...Applause...
...The Chair hears no objection...
...One word from Mr...
...Our friends may say, "We demand live billions...
...An English Precedent YOU WILL remember that when the great Gladstone made the treaty of peace after the defeat of the British at Majuba Hill, Sir Michael Hicks Beach accused him of perfidy...
...Flood...
...4 at Louisville, Mr...
...Are we to decide questions outside of American policies and outside of the interests of the United States...
...Are we to be still continued in the war year after year to make sure that those four other billions will be collected...
...I pray God that during this war we may be big enough to wipe out this middle aisle which separates an American Republican from an American Democrat...
...We know, however, those of us who have studied history, that the Franco-Prussian War was brought on by the Emperor of France and it was brought on for conquest...
...That demand is answered by every proposition of peace made by all the belligerents conceding the freedom of the seas...
...Jeffersoi Jefferson Kept Hands Off to the President in 182...
...I liave ever deemed it fundamental for the United States never to take an active part in the quarrels of Europe...
...Both Webster and Clay supported a resolution tendering the sympathy of the United States to Greece in her great struggle for democracy, but both of them disclaimed any idea that it was a part of the American policy to make war on account of that question...
...On our part never had a people so favorable a chance of trying the opposite system of peace and fraternity with mankind and the direction of all our means and faculties to the purposes of improvement instead of destruction...
...Our Allies demand not only a return of territory, but an indemnity...
...Flood...
...When the Bastille fell Lafayette sent the key to Washington, in no compensation for the sword, but on account of the illustrious example...
...Let me illustrate as to Belgium...
...Their political interests are entirely distinct from ours...
...ut, Mr...
...Hence she must be engaged in frequent controversies, the causes of which' are essentially foreign to our concerns...
...Applause...
...He will show them favor, I devoutly believe, only as they rise to the clear heights of his own justice and mercy...
...Now, let us be fair with ourselves and let us be fair with our President...
...Van Buren, Secretary of State, to Mr...
...I remember somewhere in my reading when an amendment was offered to an appropriation bill fixing the salary of a minister to a country that the President would not recognize, it was offered on the theory that the Congress wished the President to know what the desire of Congress was...
...Let us have it...
...Chairman and colleagues, that you will understand what I mean when I call attention to the difference between giving the lives of our sons for American ideals and the , forcing of American youth to settle the ancient wrongs and territorial boundaries of Europe...
...While his suggestions open an inviting field for discussion, the real thing that stands in the way of peace to-day—look it in the face, tell the truth about it...
...In the very outset of his message he says that America stands against these secret treaties, and I call attention to them not for the purpose of showing any camouflage covering our cry for democracy.but.for the purpose of appealing to you as Americans to determine what are American questions that we are willing to sacrifice the lives of our sons for...
...We know we aje at war and must go through...
...Alsace Not Our Issue KNOW you will meet constituents who will say and you will meet editors who will write, that we will give every drop of blood in America to put Alsace-Lorraine back into France, but you will find that they safely stand under thm American flag, with no danger of being coa-scripted into the trenches...
...The offensive wsx of the uncivilized is for land and other things of value...
...Let no man say that we do not love France...
...That is the security of the United States...
...Now, again, very humbly and very respectfully, I can not reach that conclusion, and I must be allowed to think...
...Applause...
...Our American lives must not be sacrificed to the juggernaut of a collection agency...
...American -volunteers by the million might go to war for Belgium, but no American conscripts could be employed in such a war unless the results of the war for Belgium would affect the United States...
...You...
...If we ever had any doubt that Sherman was right when he said war was hell, that doubt has been entirely removed in the past six months...
...People Have a Voice THE ACCOMPLISHMENT of this peace is not solely an executive problem, for, while the President is Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy, as I have stated, Congress should make rules governing the Army and Navy, because we are the Congress, and the people in the last analysis govern Congress, and if the people do not govern this one they will the next one...
...Anything that France wants we are for, but we want them to be for something that we are for...
...We declared war for the freedom of the seas...
...But look at it...
...Therefore the United States seeks one thing in this war...
...Bolivar, who laid the foundation of self-government in South America, said he was led by the light of our Declaration of Independence, and all of the little republics that have sprung up and are prospering under the rule of self-government do it in imitation of the splendid example of our fathers and without the aid of the American sword...
...I beg leave, very respectfully—I may say humbly—and in the spirit of friendly counsel and not in the spirit of fault-finding, to say that the determination of whether the German or the French shall govern Alsace-Lorraine or whether they shall govern themselves, as suggested by the despised socialist, is not an American question...
...Not a Collection Agency B'UT I INSIST we are not to be used to collect the money...
...Moore, minister to Colombia, in 1829: It is the ancient and well-settled policy of this Government not to interfere with the internal concerns of any foreign country...
...For God's sake let us quit fighting each other and fight the Kaiser...
...He expects that they will be heard, and the Congress should have the courage to demand to be heard for themselves and for the people...
...People are not for peace at any price, but for peace with honor...
...Against American Doctrine THE PRESIDENT talks about the restora-• tion of Serbia and that the King must be placed back on his throne...
Vol. 10 • February 1918 • No. 2
