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NOME, ALASKA, APRIL 23, 1917.
THE FILIBUSTER.
Ret it never be said that the Sixty
fourth congress refuse to support the
president of the United States in rea- 1
socable measures for the protection
of the honor and the preservation of
the vital interests of the nation.
A half dozen senators in a dis
graceful, causeless filibuster presented
a vote on the question of supporting
the president. The names of these
gentlemen are:
WiUiapr J. Slone, Robert iR Ra
Follette, Asle J. Gronna, Albert B.
Cummins, John V. Works.
These gentlemen, through their
abuse of parliamentary privileges,
managed lo talk, congress inactive
until noon, March 4, when it expired
by constitutional limitation.
The senate was in favor of passing
liio resolution authorizing the presi
dent to equip merchant vessels with
defensive armament and to use other
instrumentalities for the protection
of American lives and property while
engaged in legitimate travel in the
recognized ocean commerce routes.
When the evil design of Stone and
Ra Follette became known, seventy
members jof the senate went on
record by signing a manifesto in
informing the country of their will
ingness and wish to uphold the presi
dent. These included forty-six of the
fifty six democrats and thirty of the
forty republicans—an overwhelming
majority of both parties in the senat.e
The defeat of the neutrality resolu
tion represents a victory for vicious
obstructionists. It demonstrates once
more that the will of the majority
of the congress, representing as it
may the will of the nation, may be
defefated by one or two individuals,
who place more value on their per
sonal views and individual interests
than on the judgment of the major
ty. Upon the minds of these fili
bustering senators the fact that the
lower house had voted to stand by the
president by the majority of 400 to
13 had no effect.
The motives for the fllfilbus'.er are
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! not important, but they are generally
• known. Senator Stone was one of
the political managers of the admin
istration who just prior to the elec
tion last November was discovered
in New York soliciting the support ot
the publishers of German-American
newspapers and other German-Amer
ican leaders. He was chairman of the
foreign relations committee and as
such was the administration's leader
in all projects in internationlal af
fairs submitted to or coming under
the notice of congress.. His deser
tion of the president at the last min
ute is puzzling. Mr. La Toilette's
pro-alien sympathies have long
ceased to be a secret. The bitter
partisan speech of Senator Works de
livered in tho senate a month ago
i was a warning to the country of the
course he would pursue when the
question.of asserting the voice of the
nation in behalf of the fives of its
citizens was called .His participa
tion in the filibuster was the last act
of his official career.
The effect of the work of the fili
buster upon the American people wYll
not be srious. They know the power
of two or three individuals to talk an
important legislative project to death,
and they know the character and the
motives of thp men who joined in
the latest discreditable act of this
practice. But it will hurt the .nter- !
‘ ests of the United States with for- j
t ign nations. The people of L'urope |
do not understand that a filibuster of *
| an insignifiefiant minority may pi. y ]
with the fate of a nation
It will injure Immeasurably the case I
I of the president ylth Germany. It will I
be retailed to the German people that j
congress refused to support the presi- -
dent in arming merchant ships. In
just so far as the deeds of Stone, La
Toilette and their smalt coinpan / have
taken force from the president’s words
* and witnlmid it from Irs hands they
have been rr ti-American. If they
have done something to cau--e the
German government and people to
miss any ot the significance of the
president notice that the r gh's of
our citizens must be respected, they
have increased the danger of actual j
war; for they will have made it ne- I
cessary to resort to means that can- |
not be mistaken.
It will be well for all nations toj
know that it is the sentiment of the
great majority of the members of
congress and of the people that no
nation can presume to bar Aipertcan
citizens and American commerce from
any part of the hgih seas by threats
and deeds of indiscriminate murder.
JAILS FOR EDITORS.
Chapter 1, section 3, of the senate
"bill to define and punish espionage
for other purposes" tuns as follows:
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"Whoever, 'in time of war, shall, by
any means or in any manner, spread
or make reports or statements, or
convey any Information, with intent
to cause disaffection in or to interfere
"ith tile operations or success of,
the military or naval forces of the
t inted States, or shall willfully spread
or make false reports or statements
or convey any false information cal
culated to cause such disaffection or
| interference, shall bo punished by a
I line of not more than $10,000 and by
imprisonment for life or any period
less than 30 years,"
Attention ought to be called to the
fact that it is not necessarily false
reports or statements, or malicious
reports or statements, but any re
ports or statements which in the opin
ion of partisan Judges might interfere
with war operations may, under tiffs
bill, be treated as criminal. Honest
criticism could be punished by life
1 imprisonmnent. If this law had been
in force and enforced during the slvil
war Horace Greeley and an army of
lesser editors could have been made
| to end their lives behind bars. If it
[ is ever enforced in the United States
1 the national press associations will
| lie able to hold meetings *n jail and
hardly miss a member.
FREE SPEECH FOR EXTREMISTS.
It cannot be denied that people of
pro-German sympathies have made
as much use as they could of the
pacifist movement. It would be
strange if they had not done so. The
best causes are not free from misuse.
The Christian reilgion has been the I
occasion for some of the bloodiest |
wars in history. The progress of!
democracy and liberty has been ac
companied by certain crimes com
mitted in Iheir names. But the at
tempt to use a movement for private
ends does not condemn the move
ment. If it did President Wilson
would be to blame for the excesses
for which certain reactionaries have
found excuse in his action toward
Germany. But no one does blame him
for those excesses.
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The genuine pacifist leaders in the
United States have conducted them
selves with loyalty and dignity. Dr.
David Starr Jordan, who hs our near
est prominent neighbor among them,
has unhesitatingly conceded the ne
cessity which forced Mr. Wilson to
miss the German ambassador. The
pacifists concurred for the most part
with the principles of Mr. Wilson’s
speech of January 22, and have been
trying to help him carry them out
without going to war with Germany.
They are no more d'tsloyal to Mr.
Wilson than the republicans who
voted for Mr. Hughes, and no more
disloyal to their country than the
democrats who voted to repeal the
frco tolls provision in the Panama
canal act. They are exercising the
right of free citizens in a free coun
try to bring to bear what influence
they can on the conduct of their gov
ernment.
Some radicals on the pacifist side
have made wild statements; so, too,
have some radicals on the militarist
side. It is not good Americanism
to 1)0 Intolerant of these radicals.
There is an easily recognizable radi
cal type of mind, and at times like
these it always leads its possessor
to one extreme or another. General
ly the extremes cancel each other, and
’it is the middle way that is followed
What is good in an extreme view will
prevail soon or later, anyway, despite
opposition; what is bad is likely to
be nourished by opposition and to
dissipate itself ‘if given free vent. To
let pacifists and militarists thresh
things out by free talk is better than
letting the pacifists suppress the mil
itarists by force or the militarists
suppress the pacifists by force. As
for the pro-Germans they cannot do
any harm if thev merely talk, and if
they break laws there are policemen
enough to arrest them.—San Francis
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