Read the excerpt from Senator Norris’s speech before the Senate in 1917. We are taking a step today that is fraught with untold danger. We are going into war upon the command of gold. We are going to run the risk of sacrificing millions of our countrymen’s lives in order that other countrymen may coin their lifeblood into money.

Which best summarizes the argument in the excerpt?

The United States must raise money to build an army.
The United States will benefit financially if it enters the war.
The United States is wrong to consider money before soldiers.
The United States must enter the war to protect itself financially.