瑪’’’’蔡斯’’’斯
(MARGARET CHASE SMITH)

’心’言
Declaration of Conscience

    我不’’見’’黨’’’’’’’’’’’’’懼’’’’偏執’誹謗’贏’’’’’勝’’

   1950’’斯’辛’’瑟夫’R’麥’錫參議Ⅸ’動’’場’’’部’中’除’產黨嫌疑分’’’伐’動’’把’’裝扮成’衛’國’’國內’敵’’’’’國’’批評’’’們’’’’據謠言’’’粗暴’’’們’職’’’’’’爲’個’’黨’’麥’錫不’’’’’’’’’“對’産’’’’”’該’’任’’國務’’Ⅸ’’國分’’’們“丟失”’“’棄”’’’國’讓’產黨’’’’’不’有五’’間’’’1950’2月麥’錫首次’稱國務’’滿’’覆分’’’1954’12月’’參議Ⅸ’’參議’’僚們’譴’’’整個國’捲’對 “麥’錫’’”’’’’論’

    ’’內’’’’’’參議Ⅸ’’控’倒’’’’’’’’’’’’’’黨參議Ⅸ’’’’布’’’’爾斯’托比’’’’’’喬’’D’’’’’勒’’’韋’’L’摩斯’’尼蘇’’’’’華’J’塞’’’’’歐文’M’’夫斯’’’’’’羅’’’C’’’里’遜’及’’’’瑪’’’’蔡斯’’’斯’’簽’’反對麥’錫策略’’心’言’參議Ⅸ’’斯(1897’  )’參議’中’唯’’’’’’’’’個’言’’1950’6月1日’參議’爲該’言’’’說’

    議’’生’我’簡單’’’談談’’’國’’’’’’’’國’’’懼’’折’’’種’覺’’導’國’’’滅’’導’我們’國’’’視’’切走’’’末路’’’’種’’’原’’’我們’’’立’’’’機’’’’有成’’領導’領導’’’薄’’’’有’提’’’’’’’議’’’任’諮詢’Ⅸ’’提’’種’需’領導’

    我盡’’言簡’賅’’爲不’’任’’言’’’’’’’’機’’’’’成太’’’’我盡’’言簡’賅’’爲問’太’重’’’’言善’’’’’’視聽’我’講話筒單’’’’望我’話’打動’心’

    議’’生’我’爲’’’’黨’講話’我’爲’’婦’講話’我’爲’’’國參議Ⅸ講話’我’爲’個’國’講話’ 

   ’國參議’’期’’’’’最傑’’’重’’’機’贏’’’’’’’’最’’種’重’’’’質’’’降’’’ ’仇’’中傷’’’講壇’’平’而’種攻’’’國’豁’’’’’’

   ’’’’’啼’’’’我們參議Ⅸ’參議’’論’’’’接’間接’用任’’’方式把’’個’國’不’稱’不’’應’’爲’動機’’ ’’個不’參議Ⅸ’’國’’而那個’參議Ⅸ’國’’’’’我們爲’’’’’’賠’’失’’’倘’我們’參議’對我們’’’說’樣’話’’’’’止’’由’不符’’’’

   ’’’’’我們’’’’’’’用’言攻擊任’’’而’’’分’’’’我們’’’’參議’議Ⅸ’’’’’’’ ’種類’批評’當’’’國參議’有足夠’’’’’’我批評’’我評價’當’’我們應該’夠接’我們“’’”給’’’’’’’類’’’’’擊’

    我’爲’對’’國參議’及’成Ⅸ’說’早’’’該’麽做’’候’’反’’問’’’心’’’我反’’檢’’’我們對’國’民’’務’’’’’’我們’’’’’用’濫用’’個’’職’’’’’’ 

   我’爲’我們早’該’’’’曾’’堅’’’衛憲’’我’爲’我們早該’’’正’憲’不僅提’言論’由’而’提’由陪’團’’’’而不’由控方’’’’’

    不論’’’’’’’’’亦’’’參議’中對個’’質’攻’’’’毀’’個’’生’’’’有什麽實際’’’

   我們’那’’’’’’’’’對’國方式’’’最’’’’’’那’’’’’言’蔑視’國方式’’基本原’’’’’’原’’’’

    批評’’’’

    ’有不’’’’’’’’’’

    抗議’’’’

    ’立’考’’’’

    ’’’’’’不應’任’’個’國公民喪失’’’生’’’’’任’’個’國公民’不應’爲’巧’識’個’不’’’’’’’’’面’喪失’’’’絕生路’’’’我們’個’’有’類’’’? 不’我們誰’不’稱’’’’魂屬’’’’不’’’控’’’’實’’

    ’國’民’’’說’’’’’’’’們’對手’’’’誹謗成’’斯分’’對’種’懼心’們’’憎’’厭煩’’’國’言論’由’今’’’不成樣’’它’’’’’’濫用’’’’’’不’’’該項’’’ 

   ’國’民眼’’’’’’’陷’有’之’’’化’對’’’憎’’厭煩’’’有不少’’證實’’’’譬’’麥’’’’’’斯’’’普隆’’戈爾’’’足’引’’國’圍’不’任’’’’’’疑’’們’那’’未證實’’’聽’’’控’’’’’分’實’

    ’爲’個’’黨’’我對坐’走’’’邊’我’’’們說’’’黨今天’面’’’戰不’’’’’’’它’面’’’戰’當’’’黨成’’’接’戰’’內戰中掘’’不僅’個’’’’支’’劃不’’’情鬥’’’黨’而’成爲’衛統’國’’鬥’’

    今天’我們國’’心’’’’亂’’疑’’’分五裂’’種’’不’’’疑情緒’’國參議’産生’“’’’’’’疑’切”’’’’癌細’’’’’蔓’’今天’我們有’個熱’’’’’支’推’’劃不’’方’’民’黨’’’歷’正’重’ ’’’’黨’次有機’成爲’衛統’’’’’儉’鬥’’ 

   ’任民’黨’’’歷’’爲我們提’’’足’’選’論問’’我們’有必’’’’’’誹謗’’正’爲民’黨’’’’’’’’’給予’有成’’領導’’國正迅’喪失’’’領’’’’’

    民’黨’’日’’日’’’矛’’’重警’’樂’’’證’完’把’國’民’’塗’’’’’’民’’’我國’民’黨’’’’失方’’不’’措’

    民’黨’’’’’’’’’’而’國內對’産’’’’’’動’’’’’重’’Ⅸ’’’機’ ’’給’國而’’失’’’國’民’’任’我們有足夠’’’證實’’’說’’’’’不必用未’證實’’控’’我們’批評’

    ’疑’’’’完’有’由’’國’民’白’’變革’’候’’’’黨’勝對’國’’’’有必’’顯而’見’’’’個國’由’’’’任民’黨’’’管’那麽它’’續’’’

    ’而倘’’個’’黨’’’’’種’’’不正’’’’’不誠實’Ｗ學’那麽用’個’’’’民’黨’’對國’’樣’’難’’國極需’個’’黨’勝’’’’我不’’見’’黨’’’’’’’’’’’’’懼’’’’偏執’誹謗’贏’’’’’勝’’

    我’疑’’黨’’’’’’麽做’’’爲我不’’’國’民’擁’任’’個’’’’’’’國’’’之’’’黨’當’’我們’’黨’’不’’爲贏’勝’而不’’切’’’’’’

    我不’’’’’黨用’種方式’勝’那勝’對’’黨而言’’分’暫’而對’國’民而言’’’著’’’失敗’’疑’它’最終導’’’黨’’黨’’’滅’’而’黨’’障’我們’國’’由’’’’’’’黨’’’統’’

    ’爲少數’’黨’成Ⅸ’我們不’備’’我國’’’策’’’’’我們’實有’’’’任’提’’’’’批評’澄’問’’’’’’’’公民’’動減少’懼’

    ’爲’’婦’’我’’’母親們’’’們’’’們’’’們對’們’’’’參議’’論中’’’攻’有’’覺’’我’用“’論”’詞’’’’’熟’’’

   ’爲’’’國參議Ⅸ’我對參議’’用’公’講壇’散’不’’任’’’聽’’傳’’’’’’豪’對’走’’’側’’忌憚’’’未’證實’’控’我’’’’’豪’對走’’’’邊顯’’裝腔’勢’不莊重’’旨’報’’反’’我’’’’’豪’

    對參議’’’用’’’中傷’場’’用’’犧’’’’’’國’統’換’’’’’’場’’我’’不’’對我們’參議’議Ⅸ’’誹謗’’’’’把我們’’藏’國’豁’’’’’’’面’穩坐參議’議Ⅸ’不’任’批評’我’’’’’豪’

    ’爲’個’國’’我’不’望’個民’黨’’’飾太平’’’掩掩’’不’望’個’’黨’誹謗’’’’’’迫’’

Mr. President, I would like to speak briefly and simply about a serious national condition. It is a national feeling of fear and frustration that could result in national suicide and the end of everything that we Americans hold dear. It is a condition that comes from the lack of effective leadership either in the legislative branch or the executive branch of our Government. That leadership is so lacking that serious and responsible proposals are being made that national advisory commissions be appointed to provide such critically needed leadership.

    I speak as briefly as possible because too much harm has already been done with irresponsible words of bitterness and selfish political opportunism. I speak as simply as possible because the issue is too great to be obscured by eloquence. I speak simply and briefly in the hope that my words will be taken to heart.

    Mr. President, I speak as a Republican. I speak as a woman. I speak as a United States Senator. I speak as an American.

    The United States Senate has long enjoyed world-wide respect as the greatest deliberative body in the world. But recently that deliberative character has too often been debased to the level of a forum of hate and character assassination sheltered by the shield of congressional immunity.

    It is ironical that we Senators can in debate in the Senate, directly or indirectly, by any form of words, impute to any American who is not a Senator any conduct or motive unworthy or unbecoming an American－and without that non Senator American having any legal redress against us－yet if we say the same thing in the Senate about our colleagues we can be stopped on the grounds of being out of order.

    It is strange that we can verbally attack anyone else without restraint and with full protection, and yet we hold ourselves above the same type of criticism here on the Senate floor. Surely the United States Senate is big enough to take self-criticism and self-appraisal. Surely we should be able to take the same kind of character attacks that we "dish out" to outsiders.

    I think that it is high time for the United States Senate and its Members to do some real soul searching and to weigh our consciences as to the manner in which we are performing our duty to the people of America and the manner in which we are using or abusing our individual powers and privileges.

    I think it is high time that we remembered that we have sworn to uphold and defend the Constitution. I think it is high time that we remembered that the Constitution, as amended, speaks not only of the freedom of speech but also of trial by jury instead of trial by accusation.

    Whether it be a criminal prosecution in court or a character prosecution in the Senate, there is little practical distinction when the life of a person has been ruined.

    Those of us who shout the loudest about Americanism in making character assassinations are all too frequently those who, by our own words and acts, ignore some of the basic principles of Americanism－

    The right to criticize.

    The right to hold unpopular beliefs.

    The right to protest.

    The right of independent thought.

    The exercise of these rights should not cost one single American citizen his reputation or his right to a livelihood nor should he be in danger of losing his reputation or livelihood merely because he happens to know someone who holds unpopular beliefs. Who of us does not? Other wise none of us could call our souls our own. Otherwise thought control would have set in.

    The American people are sick and tired of being afraid to speak their minds lest they be politically smeared as Communists or Fascists by their opponents. Freedom of speech is not  what it used to be in America. It has been so abused by some that it is not exercised by others.

   The American people are sick and tired of seeing innocent people smeared and guilty people whitewashed. But there have been enough proved cases, such as the Amerasia case, the Hiss case, the Coplon case, the Gold case, to cause Nation-wide distrust and strong suspicion that there may be something to the unproved, sensational accusations.

    As a Republican, I say to my colleagues on this side of the aisle that the Republican Party faces a challenge today that is not unlike the challenge which it faced back in Lincoln's day. The Republican Party so successfully met that challenge that it emerged from the Civil War as the champion of a united nation―in addition to being a party which unrelentingly fought loose spending and loose programs.

    Today our country is being psychologically divided by the confusion and the suspicions that are bred in the United States Senate to spread like cancerous tentacles of "know nothing, suspect everything" attitudes. Today we have a Democratic administration which has developed a mania for loose spending and loose programs. History is repeating itself―and the Republican Party again has the opportunity to emerge as the champion of unity and prudence.

    The record of the present Democratic administration has provided us with sufficient campaign issues without the necessity of resorting to political smears. America is rapidly losing its position as leader of the world simply because the Democratic administration has pitifully failed to provide effective leadership.

    The Democratic administration has completely confused the American people by its daily contradictory grave warnings and optimistic assurances, which show the people that our Democratic administration has no idea of where it is going.

    The Democratic administration has greatly lost the confidence of the American people by its complacency to the threat of communism  here at home and the leak of vital secrets to Russia through key officials of the Democratic administration. There are enough proved cases to make this point without diluting our criticism with unproved charges.

    Surely these are sufficient reasons to make it clear to the American people that it is time for a change and that a Republican victory is necessary to the security of the country. Surely it is clear that this Nation will continue to suffer so long as it is governed by the present ineffective Democratic administration.

    Yet to displace it with a Republican regime embracing a philosophy that lacks political integrity or intellectual honesty would prove equally disastrous to the Nation. The Nation sorely needs a Republican victory. But I do not want to see the Republican Party ride to political victory on the Four Horsemen of Calumny―fear, ignorance, bigotry, and smear.

    I doubt if the Republican Party could do so, simply because I do not believe the American people will uphold any political party that puts political exploitation above national interest. Surely we Republicans are not so desperate for victory.

    I do not want to see the Republican Party win that way. While it might be a fleeting victory for the Republican Party, it would be a more lasting defeat for the American people. Surely it would ultimately be suicide for the Republican Party and the two-party system that has protected our American liberties from the dictatorship of a one-party system.

   As members of the minority party, we do not have the primary authority to formulate the policy of our Government. But we do have the responsibility of rendering constructive criticism, of clarifying issues, of allaying fears by acting as responsible citizens.

    As a woman, I wonder how the mothers, wives, sisters, and daughters feel about the way in which members of their families have been politically mangled in Senate debate―and I use the word "debate" advisedly.

    As a United States Senator, I am not proud of  the way in which the Senate has been made a publicity platform for irresponsible sensationalism. I am not proud of the reckless abandon in which unproved charges have been hurled from this side of the aisle. I am not proud of the obviously staged, undignified countercharges which have been attempted in retaliation from the other side of the aisle.

    I do not like the way the Senate has been made a rendezvous for vilification, for selfish political gain at the sacrifice of individual reputations and national unity. I am not proud of the way we smear outsiders from the floor of the Senate and hide behind the cloak of congressional immunity and still place ourselves beyond criticism on the floor of the Senate.

    As an American, I am shocked at the way Republicans and Democrats alike are playing directly into the Communist design of "confuse, divide, and conquer." As an American, I do not want a Democratic administration white wash or cover up any more than I want a Republican smear or witch hunt.

   As an American, I condemn a Republican Fascist just as much as I condemn a Democrat Communist. I condemn a Democrat Fascist just as much as I condemn a Republican Communist. They are equally dangerous to you and me and to our country. As an American, I want to see our Nation recapture the strength and unity it once had when we fought the enemy instead of ourselves....

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