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SAM NICHOLL'S SPEECH ON THE ARMY MEASURE Mr. Nicholls of South Carolina. Mr. Chairman, before going into my argument I wish to make a statement / The gentleman from New York, (Mr. Lunn) a few moments ago and the gentleman from Texas, (Mr. Eagle) stated that in their opinion the best way to help the German Government was to vote for the volunteer system, and insinuate that those of us who favored the volun cor system uiigut uc m jruiyau'jr with the German Imperial Government. li yon will pardon me for. a personal allusion, I wish to say that that can not be charged to me, for the only brother I had, two years before this Government saw that Germany was wrong, lost his life on the battlefields of France fighting with the British Army. (Applause.) So, Mr. Chairman, I certainly have . no love for Germany. I want to say that I for the first time am in a very strange position. I think my record will bear me out that since I have been in Congress I have stood by the President as .long as I could. I am standing by him now as I see it. I want to say on Military Affairs, and I have served on it for some time, that I be f For All L ^ CASY AND i KILLS LICE. TICKS, PLEAS, RINGWORM, SCRATCHE CASE QERMS AND I NON-IRRITATING. EFF iYOU oan afford to lot at your atock alive. Gat i follow dlraotlona. It will \ and glva the atook a ohano Uaa It In barna, hog pana, < nala?any plaeo where than KRESO DIP la a aoal tar i water. It dooa not burn or *? doaa not bllatar or take tha ti laaa and dooa more than an) batter Investment than to bu tlaks, mites and floaa and p : thagarma. Ona gallon of KRF.SO C whan mlxad with watar. 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Be cause, gentlemen of the committee, ' there is no difference in the bill - which the committee suggests, ex' cept that in the one bill?the committee bill?we give men the right > to enlist inside of the three months i spoken of by the Secretary of War, while the Presidertt is perfecting his i plans for conscription, and if at the : end of that time or the time necessary he has not enough volunteers, he has a perfect right to put conscription into effect and put it in as strongly as he can. A great mistaken idea has gone ; out over this country, and it has gone out through the newspapers, i through the mails, and through the telegraph companies, that the men who voted against the use of the conscription bill from the start are opposing and hindering the admin I AFC TO USE. MITES. FOR MANQE, SCAB, , S, ETC. DESTROYS DIS)RIVES AWAY FLIES. ECTIVE. 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It is no such thing, and { the men who wrote thoee letters and i the newspapers who published those articles had never seen the commit- I tee bill, as is shown by an article in i the Washington Post of Sunday, t 1 They had roasted us, called the mem- 1 ; bers of the committee traitors, and r said that we were not true to the t country, Decaute we were suppuruug * the Dent bill, and then this same paper came out Sunday morning and said that Col. Roosevelt would ' have a perfect right to raise volunteers while conscription was being put into effect, and take them into France. If Col. Roosevelt has that right, why has not anybody the same ' right? And that is all we are contending for. There are a great many reasons 1 why I am opposed to the bill; and there are a great many things in which our bill improves it. In the 1 first place, they say that boys from the age of 19 to 25 shall be called into tie service of this country, and they say further that out of the [ something over 6,000,000 available men possibly 42 per cent of them ' will be put aside for physical or other reasons, and that out of a ; balance of approximately 4,000,000 ; men the first 500,000 troops will be 1 drawn. How do they propose to draw them? They say, "We are go: ing to have the selective draft" What sort of a selective draft are we going to have? The committee has not been able to find out. You do not know what it is. Why did not they cause the exemptions as they are proposed to be put in to be published, as were the British orders % when the war started there? We do t not Know wnat sort ui hu eAcuipnuii they are going to give us, but we do a know this: That under the volunteer r system we can use the exact exemp- 1 tion that can be used under the con- .t scription system. And I say that we * can use it to better advantage, and ? why? Because, gentlemen of the * committee, all that the Government * has got to do is to. instruct the en- 1 listing officers when men are coming to enlist to question them, to find 0 out what their avocation is, to find t out what business they are engaged c in, and if they can better be used ^ at home than at the front, refuse to ^ accept them, and give them a button ( to signify they have offered their services to their country. Now, why from 19 to 25 years of t age? I never heard of as unfair a proposition. t Mr. Lunn. Will the gentleman c yield? ' t Mr. Nicholls of South Carolina. * .^o, I can not. When I get through t I will let you have all day. a Why, gentlemen of the committee, b do they limit it from 19 to 26 years? ? Who voted for this war? Did the ? boys who are not even entitled to a t vote have anything to do with it? t You men voted war, and if you vote t to make this 19 to 25 I hope some ' widowed mother will come to you when you go home and say, "Why b do you represent me in Congress? ? Why do you take my boy and fix a P law for him that keeps you at " home?" That is what you deserve, d and there is no way to get around ? it.- Our bill raises that limit, from k 21 to 40 years, and all of you who ? are so bloodthirsty and hate Ger- f many so much can get an opportun- P ity to fight for your country. (Ap- J pluase.) H I am getting tired of newspaper a editors sending out these reports, be cause can you tell me anything that they are going to do to make the war go on after it has started? i Mr. Huddleston. I want to sug- ? n ABBEVILLE \ GREENWOOD d? MUTUAL INSURANCE I ASSOCIATION. t s ' Organized 1891. b PROPERTY INSURED $2,500,000. ? Write or call on the under- * signed for any information J yon may desire about our plan J of insurance. A We insure your property a against destruction by J p tl r ire, Windstorm t] or g Lightning 1 and do it cheaper than any insurance company in exist- p ence. ' d ' - J Jttememoer we are prepared * to prove to you that ours is 0 the safest and cheapest plan b of insurance known. _ JJ Our Association is now li- a censed to write Insurance in t the counties of Abbeville, c Greenwood, McCormick, Lau- d rens and Edgefield. i The officers are: Gen. J. p Fraser Lyon, President, Col- i( umbia, S. C., J. R. Blake, GeL. ? Agent, Sec. and Treas., Green- a wood, S. C. J: DIRECTORS: s A. Q. Grant Mt. Carmel, S. C. s J. M. Gambrell Abbeville, S. C. a, Jno. H. Childs, Bradley, S. C. ? A. W. Youngblood Hodges, S. C. ? S. P. Morrah Willington, S. C. p L. N. Chamberlain, -McCormick, S. C R. H. Nicholson Edgefield, S. C. 2 F. L. Timmerman-Pleasant Lane, S.C ? J. C. Martin Princeton, S. C. u W. H. Wharton Waterloo, S. C. t J. R. BLAKE, 0 V Gen. Agent. _ Greenwood, S. C., Jan. 1, 1S17. |r jest that it is not civilized to use loxious gases. Mr. Nicholls of South Carolina, "low, to pass on, my friends, there s another opposition to this bill of he department, and that is this: Phey say to us, "We have a right to un one recruiting station in your own. When a man comes there to inlist he can be either placed by the inlisting officer in tne National Juard or in the Regular Army. He las no right to designate which he rill take. We will put him in where <re see fit to use him. In other words, le belongs to the Government from hat time on." Now, let me tell you, ve do not know anything about war. do not think any of us know any oo much, including the War College ind the General Staff. (Aplause.) But we do know this, that when a nan goes out to fight for his counry he would rather fight side by side vith his neighbor than with a foriigner; that there is a great incenive for him to fight for his counry when he knows if he is wounded here is somebody there to take care >f him and send word home that he s wounded. And for that reason am in favor of keeping the State mits together. You take a boy Tom Mississippi?I do not think the rovernment would do this, but unler this bill they would have the ight to do it?you take a white >oy from South Carolina and put lim in a negro regiment from Maslachusetts or anywhere else, and you vould not have to go to Germany o have war, for you would get war ight at home. (Laughter.) That is mother reason why I am opposed to he Dronosition from start to finish. Now, gentlemen, let me tell you omething else. The' War College is lot always right. I can recall some ittle history for some of you genlemen. Last year when the Hay >ill was introduced it was opposed ibsolutely by the War College and he General Staff. The original bill tad the backing of the President, rhe President agreed finally, howiver, to accept the Hay bill instead if the Continental Army. At that ime the papers called us all traitors, including my friend from West Virginia and myself. They said we rere traitors for not accepting the ireneral Staff proposition. Now, what would have happened f we had accepted the General Staff ill? The National Guard would tave been dismissed, and the Coninental Army would not have been onstructed; and when the Mexican rouble came up whom in the world rould we have had to send to the >order to protect the Regular Army ,nd to keep Villa from stealing their lorses? (Laughter and applause.) Vben this trouble came up, where is ur national defense? It is the Naional Guard. The very organization hat is kicked around is the Army hat they want to defend themselves nth. | Now, the only word that I have icard that appeals to me as practical rom the standpoint of those gentlemen who favor the conscription bill i this: They say they wish the Presient had come over and that we ould have gotten together. God nows, we all wish that. But they ay, "We believe in standing by the 'resident, becaue if we do not and t goes out to Germany that we have ot stood by the President it will ave a bad effect." I grant you that, bsolutely. But there is another iew to take of that. This country eretofore has always fought ' its rars with volunteers to start with, liis country has had as brave and s patriotic men as ever went to the ront in an army. Suppose that Gerlany is informed that after war as been declared the President is orced to compel men, to fight Will hey then think that the sentiment f this country is behind the Presient? (Applause.) Which is the rorse of the two evils, my friends? "Oh," they say, "England has con cnption." Of course England has onscription after 5,000,000 volunsers went to the front, just like the rnion Army and the armies of the outh were conscripted in the War etween the States after years of ghting. But it was five years beore they had to conscript Canada, rhich has had to do most of the ghting, or as much of it as any one ranch of the British Army, has ever yet resorted to conscription. Lustralia, than whose troops there re no better in the world, has not et resorted to conscription, and the Lustralians are doing their part in iiis war. Mr. Gardner. Mr. Chairman, will le gen-leman yield? The Chairman. Does the gentlelan from South Carolina yield to le gentleman from Massachuetts? Mr. Nicholls of South Carolina.' do. Mr. Gardner. The gentleman does ot overlook the fact that Canada L ays $33 a month to each of its soliers and $20 for separate allow- = nee? Mr. Nicholls of South Carolina. ^ ih, I had not overlooked that fact; ( ut I hope the people of Canada do t] o fight for money, but for love of a ountry, as our people do. (Ureat jj pplause and cheers.) ti Now, gentlemen of the commit- a ee, they can not tell me that the g itizens of this country are any more g isloyal to their flag than are the 0 itizens of Australia and Canada, fi 'hey make one other point that, h ossibly, I think, should be answered; ii 'hey say, my friends, that we will ti jse time; that if we do not put the tl onscription act into effect at once A re will not be able to raise this \ rmy. What do they base that on? n s there a man of any practical sense si hat can convince you that, if we it tart out to get men under a concript act and other men come in ti nd voluntarily offer to fight while he others are being prepared to be ti onscripted, we will not have more e len than we started with? It is o urely a question of figures. a Thev sav that the bov from 19 to e 5. ought to do the fighting for this g ountry, and they say that the rea- u on why we should not have a vol- n nteer system and a conscript sys- s; em united is because the boys?as ij ne officer gave me as a reason? p irould be jibing each other and laking fun of each other and quar- I eling in the ranks about it. Now, E M WPw^mSM', I i fiSBffiH 1 Co{ I 4, -: '. . .< Say: 'Varsity F These word; will bring yoi suits for spring men and m young style, three buttons; lapels and I . wool fabrics. Tina TTnvt JL JUL lA/t V A_/ VrvU ZafceZ is sewed ii small thing to I thing to find. RosenbergM Departmer rho ever heard of such an army? ^ Lughter.) Do you mean to tell me 81 lat the officers of the American ^ -L i-v-- * * +v,o v,oftio ? iTJliy Ull tUC XiUiiW) vii v?4v mm?mv i ~ ne. are going to allow their men si 3 fight about who was conscripted d< nd who volunteered? They are not ? oing to do it. Our bill is merely it iving a chance to men over the age f 25 to have the opportunity to ght for their country. There are undreds of them who want to do it 1 my own State. I know they want o do it; and in my State they have lie feeling that a conscript is a slave knd I want to ask you this question: 1/ould not this be a great Governlent to go to Germany to free laves with an army of slave3 to do ; with? (Applause.) Now, gentlemen of the commitee, there are other things that I $ rould like to talk about, but my ime is about up. In this matter, ither way it turns, in my judgment, b' n both sides of this controversy, we re trying to give the President verything he asked for. We did ive him every dollar he asked of s, and we are giving him every lan he has asked for, and under our ystem we will give him a few more f he will just accept them. (Ap- r lause.) I do not love the German people, hate their methods. I admire the English nation. 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