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Show Ik SENATOR SMOOTS f I VIEWS j Just back from Washington, and j Eur-charged with .war sentiment, Sen- ator Reed Smoot says: "The time is now here when there ( ' Is but one place for the American citizen. citi-zen. He must stand up for America', do all he can for the victory of his country, or he must take his place j with -her enemies. An attempt by any-' any-' jUJ,l.'Jf w . I, H f 1 1 ,1 i i rMggg I I II ono anywhere, upon, any occasion, to weaken the arm of America in the preaont struggle renders aid and comfort com-fort to Germany and he ia an onemy to his country. And IhlB applies to any person, occupying any position, no matter how humblo or exaltod." "It is true," said Senaior Smoot, "that Senator LrfiFollette bitterly opposed op-posed legislative acts that scorned vital to the interests of the country in its present condition, but I do not count him a Republican. He is a La-Follotte La-Follotte partisan and a political renegade." rene-gade." Tho senator feels that this country submitted to more abuse thnn any other nation of equal power would have endured, and he thinks Avar should have been declared earlier. Ho says: "Not until every effort had been exhausted ex-hausted to have Mexico make war upon us," Senator Smoot said, "with a promise of a part of our country as a reward: not until our country was filled with spies, supplied with Gorman Gor-man gold, to secretly encourage all discontented elements, with tho hope of creating an insurrection and thus paralyze our army and render it Impotent Im-potent as a power to defense; not until un-til they sunk ship after Bhip upon which Americans wore rightfully and lawfully travoljng, sending them to untimely graves; not until tho Lusi- tanla was sunk, sending down 116 men, women and babies, all Americans, Ameri-cans, like trapped rats, and not until one thousand other brutal and inhuman inhu-man acts had been committed against American citizens and a studied violation viola-tion of all treaties and international law, morality and universal rights of humanity were carried out, did America Amer-ica choose war to vindicate herself." Our patience should commend us to tho neutral world. It may be a fault, but it is a halting on tho side of right. |