The Literary digest history of the world war, compiled from original and contemporary sources: American, British, French, German, and others . owedattitude toward our citizens onthe high seas as one of virtualwarfare saw in these filibus-terers men who, in the verymoment of attack, had snatcheda weapon of defense from thehand of their , on the other hand, who regarded armed neutralityas an invitation to war rather than a defense against it, andwho considered no price too high if it brought peace, didnot hesitate to make dark allusions to British gold, to asubsidized press, and
The Literary digest history of the world war, compiled from original and contemporary sources: American, British, French, German, and others . owedattitude toward our citizens onthe high seas as one of virtualwarfare saw in these filibus-terers men who, in the verymoment of attack, had snatcheda weapon of defense from thehand of their , on the other hand, who regarded armed neutralityas an invitation to war rather than a defense against it, andwho considered no price too high if it brought peace, didnot hesitate to make dark allusions to British gold, to asubsidized press, and to the greed of munition-makers. Colonel Henry Louisyille Courier-Journalconsigned the obstructionists to an eternity of execration,and the Chicago Herald saw them damned to everlastingfame. One of the Senators was hanged in effigy in aState near his own. Another received as a gift thirty piecesof silver. To a third was sent from his own State an ironcross weighing forty pounds made by a-blacksmith and bear-ing an inscription, Lest the Kaiser forget. State legisla-tures passed resolutions of condemnation similar in intention. Alfred Zimmerjianx 19 ON THE WESTERN FRONT to that of the Kentucky Senate, which denounced filibust-erers as disloyal, traitorous, and cowardly. At a patrioticmass-meeting held in New York under the auspices of theAmerican Rights League, the venerable Lyman Abbott wasgreeted with roars of approval when he called the tilibuster-ing Senators Germanys allies, sayi^ ?; Germany hasmade and is making war upon America and her allies inthe United States Senate have violated-tlie unwritten law ofall honorable assemblages. They have violated their trust totheir country and have done their best to deprive us of ourrightful protection. Traitors! Hang them! shoutedback men in the audience. Whatever may have been themotives of the fdibusterers, their action evoked much en-thusiasm in the German press. The Frankfurter Zeitunghailed them as tine Americans who
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