Henry T Helgesen Late a Representative From North Dakota Memorial Address
Henry T Helgesen Late a Representative From North Dakota Memorial Address
2d Sess Us 48th Cong
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Yet Mr. Helgesen did not hesi- tate to place himself in such minority. At a time when we were drifting nearer and nearer war Mr. Helgesen introduced in this House a resolution demanding a refer- endum of the people of the United States on the question whether or not war should be declared. This resolu- tion — the last one ever introduced by Mr. Helgesen — was read into the Congressional Record by him, and in its support he said: Mr. Chairman, believing that the people of this Nation have the ri...ght to be consulted and to determine for themselves whether or not they want to become a party to the wholesale slaughter now going on in Europe and offer their sons as a sacrifice to the modern barbarous and inhuman engines of destruction used by both sides in that conflict, I am introducing the following reso- lution. If the element which insists that war is the only way by which we can honorably settle our differences with the belligerents in Europe finally succeeds in involving us in that terrible conflict, no [29] Memorial Addresses: Representative Helgesen father, no mother, and no American boy who will be sacrificed in the trenches in Europe will ever be able to truthfully say that I have not done my utmost to save them from such a fate, or that I have not tried to give the people of the Nation an opportunity to determine for themselves whether or not they believe that war is the only honorable means by which we can deal with the situation now confronting us.
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