| Show C 1 1 Ill I H Stand tanu by D Wilson VY Says Ss Republican Sen Senator t r 2 WASHINGTON Feb 25 Senator Senator Lodge ranking Republican member of the foreign relations committee declared in a statement today that he was in full accord with President Wilsons Wilson's views on the submarine issue as expressed in his letter to Senator Stone and that he would stand standby by the president 7 t L u iThe i The president tak takes s the precise precise position that have taken and have been Jeen urging in for forthe the last eighteen en months said said Senator Lodge Of Of course I shall stand by him himi I agree fully with what he say says I believe it wo would ld proclaim us to tl the world as cowards to tell our citizens that they must not exercise their undoubted undoubted undoubted un un- un- un doubted rights rights- and arid that i if they do we shall not protect them A nation that will not protect it its citizens protect itself and if it democracy y fails falls to protect itself how can we e hope hop to tu live The president says What we weare are contending for in this matter is s. s of f the very essence of th the things that have hav made plade AmerIC Amer- Amer IC ica aj as sovereign Sh can ot yI yield ld them c her lier impotency as a nation a and lm making virtual surrender of her independent independent in independent in- in dependent position among the nations of the tile world With this also I I-am I am in full accord It is is' the doctrine doctrinal I have preached d all my life and I am with the president who sets it forth and stands by It it Telegrams to congressmen from William Jennings Bryan s 's sup supporting p p- p porting the movement for warning Americans off armed ships began began be be- gan arriving today Representative Bailey of Pennsylvania received received received re re- re- re one and planned to to- read it from the floor Representative Bailey after a conference with Majority 1 Leader Kitchin however simply made public the telegram which follows I I honestly hope that congress will speedily announce legisla legislation legislation tion refusing passports to Americans traveling on belligerent ut ships or refusing clearance to belligerent ships carrying American passengers S No owner of belligerent ships will claim that he has the right to safeguard a contraband cargo with American lives and no citizen should be permitted to endanger the peace of the nation at a time like this Ours is the greatest of the neutral nations and probably will be the mediator when the time comes for mediation It would be be a crime against civilization as well as against our own people to become involved in this war and thus thua loan our army and navy to toa toa a European m monarch to to use in settling his his' quarrels If congress has the right to declare war it certainly has the right to promote peace by restraining citizens from taking unnecessary unnecessary unnecessary sary risks A mayor keeps the people of his city out of ot the dangel danger dan dan- gel ger zone during a a. riot Can Cn our government afford to tb do less when the world is in riot That is right Representative Bailey quoted Mr Kitchin as assaying assaying assaying saying when he read the telegram |
