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o F>' f; ^ ''^"^pAGE FOUR ^ A ^ TheLancaste (SKMl-W i;KKI, Established IH, Published Tuesday an BY Tim LANCASTER NEWS i ljnneastei- S. ^ !?__ UEOIUii; lll'LLA (J Editor atul Man \ The News is not respoi lews of Correspondents rational articles on topii Interest will be gladly i SUikSCKLl'iiON i . Cash in Ailvai f . One Year Six Months * ? Entered as Second ( IBb.. October 7, 1905, at the *BHlr " Lancaster, S. C., under |HjK gress of March 3, lo79. a Country 'Tia cf Th?< of Liberty." t lij TUESDAY, OCTOBI WAr - SAVIN STAM! - ^ CONSTAH lave you bought that + ut Bulgaria may fit , er to quit than to k V* ^ in T' -rr^~+ in. The Germans are dent I their home people tiiat tl Bi - baek. Many of the names in I look like what a print a pieline. to . ? % vx - v There are lot.4 of fell. Iia.1 prefer to light rather t I go to work. and m ? ? The Bulgars, as a ma sire seeing what the (i<* allow themselves to see. + pour t President Wilson as a X . , <- ent was hard to beat a you Aesident he an't he tie 4. ry o "Who would have said burj; 1 ne Wouldn't i.iea for w' Soutli Carolina hovs wen - .... Raising $381 .u<> in I. Is no small task by a in - means. Hut wat'b Ram r Frar , lines, Riiliraria may be give knowing when it is lie and oM being wiring hi admit k nows.J ffr T1 1f dm 11 i nil- .n woman sulfr.ige is dead well d That would he betting t Senator lionet. + Lit" it is any satisfaetb 4 " < raven, of North Carolin that Andrew Jackson \ I } that state, lie is perfectIj 1 so mislead himself, so f< ' concerned. Hfr ? Bfj Kgfr g Til e judge of probate Is said to have issued la J ^ *\ . e 4 oM tiUrates for whi key, f>^ gallons. And there a ' Jt say Columbia is not a g " '* -v > live in. yfrtttmm ' X . + mv' If wo were not aTra |>Ki mobbed by the medicos some others we would sa ? ' opinion "Spanish inflnet: XANC^C ,nK niore nor 1688 than JjAN< fashioned bad cold. THE "Relieved Bulgars i TB.K FJf peace, says a headline THS *H/ ' , * and Courier. We have ; _ are many othera in th THE F* ^ ^ who want peace, but m * ftre afraid to say so. "V / : . ; w A. J \ ' \ - ... PNFWQ THE ALAdBS. ADVANCE. W? The greatest offensive of the war olli is now in progress between Etaln, ex< 52. thi north of Verdun, ana the river Mo up id Friday selle. The advanee of the allied nn ** forctwMias been continuous, though it UOMl ANY. faced Xy steru resista v . The line 'K)! U. ^ v. an . of bsfttie extends for roO miles and stu HAVEN American troops are occupied in all no ager i of this section, boys from New York, th< ! Tennessee. North and South Caro- vei isible forthe||;na being in tlie thick of the light. ws . Short and ... , . .. . , sei I The Hindenburg line has been L'S of general or eeeived punctured in several different places j,a and the American and British forces th 'HICK: are in fierce fighting around St. Queu- 'a! *\co* tin. Tiie British encirclement of . . . . $2.00 j cHIMbrai continues, and the Cana- . 1 00 na (liana have captured the defense ays- ial Class Matter torn of the enemy known as the di Postotflce at Marcoing-Masnieres line as far north act of Con- th as Sailly. Prisoners captured since ph last Friday by the British number nearly twenty thousand. ov 0 The allied troops everywhere con- of tinue t?> make advances toward Met/., the great (lermaii base, which ^ i is fortified for forty miles around. an ?, Sweat Land one place the Americans are less sti 1 than ten miles from this c.ty, but ?u iiR 1, lyiS.j |he War map changes each dav w ith i !i\ - ? > the swiftly moving forces of the al- ^ lies clyse on the heels of the retreating enemy. Material advances have us been made during the past two oi w three days it> Belgium. Flanders and V - sa France, and in Serbia territory is fast being reclaimed, whle in Pales- pa tine the Turkish armies have weak- tin PS ened to the point or almost total 8'r | cessation of fighting back. In llel_ __ I m< Tl W giuin some of the ground which has ^ _ ? _ HI wi-^n u.-iu ujr me enemy since 1014 0U ~ has been restored to the Belgians by m< bond? ",e forces of Belgian and British an troops. The French are on the banks id that it is of the Ailette river at the western end eep on. of the Chemin-Des-Dames, and It Is fei apparent that this line of defense pei onstrating toj must be abandoned by the enemy in '? ley can come j,js retreat northward. \vr Stiff resistance has mot the ad pul vance of the allies on the whole of est v,u A" the western front, but a steady ei knows as maI.(.j, jias p,.,.n kept up nc.twith- i,,: aff standing, and large numbers of prisfoi oners, guns and material have been iws who will fn taken, fifty thousand prisoners and han actually three hundred guns have been taken an in Palestine. The Teutonic allies!'>fM I str . , since Julv 18, when the allied often-. itter of fact sul sive began, have lost 300,000 men t mans won t1 taken prisoner by the allies and 20,-j ha 000 machine guns and enormous s'l: peace p.-esi- OUantities of material. oh i rig nd as a war 1 hi: <;i: \i>< kosm\<;?.\<;.\i\, at. The News on more than one octhe II mien- :'s'on 'li,s warned against the grade Th k when the Kvery day or two the daily mi1 , .., , papers chronicle accidents that hap-. r tor pen at such places, usually nccom.ihertv bonds panied bv a list of those killed. r,M manner ot Hltckiiy. the distressing accident j tor aster county which occurred here yesterday morn-| "|f ling did not terminate fatally, but ill I spc - one ot the marvelous incidents ^ Rp( n credit for that it .did not. The crossing tteat | wii ked and for the ( 'ji la w ha Kertfli/ei pt.iiil where liet it after it yesterday's jiccident occurred i ooei a" tli worst in ihp country. View of the track is entirely cut oft by cmat 111 t f hunkmcnfs iiml it is impnv lib* t.- r i tor iill time t|l(. ?pi>r?*;t<-)t of a train from either j re i on nui':i on direction until upon the track More-jotli j over, it is down I i 11. and this wo -Id Mil naturalk make a short stop a lend r?n to liruce 1 matter. a, to bel eve . + rol wis born tit THp 1?|{|('K WILL RE for r welcome to IMPARTIAL .U STICE ir as we are ha (Continued From Page One.) i rnn . .. j aw in Columbia where, who are lending their inval- wo ist week *35, uab,e aid an<1 guidance. 1 have come, rather. to seek an ooportunifv rru aggregating . ., . ?# to p esent to you some thou-'hts 1 re 'ho e who which I trust will serve to give you, ood piace u> in pet naps fuller measure than be- we j fore, a vivid sense of ttie great issues! ths Involved, in order that vou inav ap- ;in . , . . preciate and accept with added enid of 1 emir thiisiism the grave significance of ?n< and perhaps fduty of supporting the govern- in> y that in our nient by your men and your means iza" is noth to the utiaost point of sacrifiee and fo a plain old-1 No man or woman who it? ?ii iian iu.im.y lannn in wilill in 18 War' j rr.eans ran hesitate to Rive to the 'n very limit -of what they have; and it rally want js IIiy riii^Hion here to fry to make it ' in the News rlear onre fnore what the war really roi in idea there means. ' You will need no other ns? e old world s,irm'lation or reminded of your tlif duty. ? ? ? I bel ost of thein ^ * - . .. v "At every turnip of the ,war wo cor gain It fresh consciousness of what las . . v? 'j p f I wm % ? LANCABTOB WKW8, LANCA81 mean to accomplish hy U,.( Wh^p ^that ,all who si r hope and expectations ate most'table shall come ;lted wo think more deilnitely pay the price, th iu before of the Issues that hang procure it; ant! on it and of th% purpose^ which also, to create i ist be realized by means of it". For the only instrut has positive and woll defined p.ur- can be made ce ses which we djd not determine ments of the* pi d which we cannot niter. No and fulflHed.. itesman or assembly created them; "That price ii statesman or assembly can alter 'every item of th jm. They have arisen out of the ter whose intei ry nature and circumstances of the not only impar ir. The most that statesmen or as- the satisfaction tnbliea ran do is to carry them out pies whose fort I be false to them. They were per- That lndispenst ps not clear at the outset; but Ir a league of i ey are clear now. The war has i covenants that ited more than four years and the Without such a tole world has been drawn into J which the peace The common will of mankind guaranteed, pet s been substituted for the particu- upon the word r purposes of individual states. In- upon that word vidual statesmen may have start- have to redeem the conflict, but neither they nor what happens a eir opponents can stop It as they. by what followi ?ase. It has become a people's war, "And, as I se d peoples of all sorts and races, of j of that league erv degree of power and variety clear definition fortune, are involved in its swe?p- j a part, is in a s g process of change and settle- tlal part, of the ?nt. We came Into it when its self. It cannot aracter had become fully defined formed now, it <1 it was plain that no nation could , new alliance co [in dapart or he indifferent to its associated agair it come. Its challenge drove to the Must f?w art of everything we cared for and I "It is not HI red for. Our brothers from manv formed after tli rids, as well as our own murdered necessary to g ad under the sea. were calling to and the peace i , and we responded, fiercely and as an afterthou course. speak in plain "Tito air was clear about us. Wo, must be guarant w things in their full, convincing be parties to th oportions as they were; and we ises have prove< vp seen them with steady eyes and means must be changing comprehensions ever, with the peace ICO W?> n rpnnf n/1 ~' 11 ' * * * . mo mnurn in niH mnnve max soi; tr as farts, not as any group of'would bo folly t ?n either hero or elsewhere had de- to the subsequ ed them, and we can accept no of the governmf tcome which does not squarely stroy Russia ai ?et and settle them. Those issues "Rut these g a these: disclose the wh The Issues of the War. tails are needed "Shall the military power of any less like a thei tion or group of nations he suf- practical progra ed to determine the fortunes of some of the pai >plos over whom they have no right them with the p rule . xccpt the right of force? {cause T ?nn "Shall strong nations he free to as representing one weak nations and make them terpretation of I iiject to their purpose and inter- gard to peace: ? I Rash "Shall peoples he ruled and dom-' "First, the im ited, even in their own internal out must invol ..nr., Hv in uurary ana irresponsible , Between those t re or by their own will and be just and thos Dire? wish to be just. "Shall there be a common stand- that plays no 1 of right and privilege for all no standard but iples and nations or shall the the several peof ong do as thev will and the weak "Second, no s Ter without redress? terost of any s "Shall the assertion of right bo group of natioi phazard and by casual alliance or basis of any pa ill there be a common concert to which is not con lige the observance of common mon interests of hts? I "Third, there Must He Settled Forever. alliance or speci 'No man, no group of men. chose derstandings wi se to be the issue of the struggle, common family ey are the issues of it: and they tions. ist he settled?by no arrangement "Fourth, and compromise or adjustment of in- there can be nc ests. but definitely and once for all nomic combin 1 with a full and unequivocal ac- league and no dance of the principle that the in- form of econom est of the weakest is as sacred as ion except as th interest of the strongest. penalty by excli 'This is what we mean when we kefs of the wor ?nk of a permanent peace, if we the league of ?ak sincerely, Intelligently. and means of discipl lb a real knowledge and com pre- "Fifth, all i is'on of the matter we deal with meets and trea 'We are all agreed that thee can ""ls' made no peace obtained by any kijid of '''"'V* the re? gain or compromise with the gov- War intent of the central empire, he- "Special allia t e we have dealt with them nl- rivalries and It dv and have seen them deal with the prolific sour ler governments that were parties world of the pia t' is Hrugg'e. at Brest T.ltovsk and produce war. 1 ( barest. They h ve convinced us cere as well at it they are without honor and do that did not excl ( intend justice. They observe no and binding ferr tenants, accent no principle but "The confiden ce and their own interest We can- ((iro f0 speak fo t 'come to terms' with them They matters does n ve made it impossible The rjer- traditions merelj n people must by this time he fullv principles of are that wo cannot accent ttie ? r- V>||| < || ?l! IlilVP I rd of those who forced this war followed. In tl r>n us. We do not tl;!nli the same which I .say th? inirhts or spetk tho same language will enter l"to agreement. moots or- undo "It Is of cap:ta! inino> hnrn that 'eiilar nat'ons. should also l#? explicitly agreed the United Stal? it no peace shall he obtained by sume its full sh V kind of com nrom iun ov o i * '? ,w ?' ?i wm?'im?;ui iui lilt? Ill II i VI11? II the prln i 'os wo h'lvo avowed ai covenants and 1 princij (>s f-.r wb'.ch wo a < f. 'it- which peace mus t. There should exist no doubt still road Wm Diit that. T am, therefore, going warning ngnlnsi take the liberty of spoak'ng with ances' with full ' utmost frankness about tlie prac- an answering pn al implications that are involved clal and limited It. and we recognize For V>en?iio of Nations. of a now day ii "If It be in deed and in truth tho tnltted to hope f nmon object of the governments which will avoic toclated against Oermany and of olenr tho air of t nations v|iiom thov govern, as I m?n understand love it to ho. to achieve by the nance df ooramo nlng settlements a secure and have made ting poace, It will be necossary international alt ; & y v rats. c. t down at the peace | A t ready and willing to I1.^ e only price, that will I ready and willing, i n 8ome virile fashion, y ^ nentality by w-hich it \ rtain that the agree- HA VP \ sace will^be honored T ti 1 \ i s impartial justice in e settlement, no matrest is crossed; and tial Justice but al3?? ??7 i of the several peo- yV /VV unes are dealt with. ? ? ??C? ible instrumentality , \ lations formed under \ will be efficacious. V Aj n instrumentality, by fJl T i of the world can be ice will rest in part of outlaws and only For Germany will her character not by m t the peace table but Mm >e It, the constitution of nations and the of Its objocts must be IS THE I iense the most essen> peace settlement It- EITT'1 be formed now. If VVjYai would be merely a / nflnod to the nations P ist a common enemy. / urnntec Peace. / [ply that it could be / ? e settlement. It is / uarnntee the peace: / annot be guaranteed / ght. The reason, to / terms again, why it / eed. is that there will V e peace whose prom / 17 /V :1 untrustworthy, and / MJmAwmmK "i found In connection / settlement jtself to F rjftf. iree of Insecurity. It o leave the guarantee ent voluntary action > mts we have seen de- | | ^ id deceive Rumania II eneral terms do not -???? olo matter. Some de- ?? i ? to make them sound haj| create,j( not, of course, becai sis and more like a - uuuuieu wnemer m? leaaers 01 m. These, then, are .. , , ... . . great nations anil peoples with w rtieulars, and I state . . . ... we are associated were of the i treater confidence be- . . . ... i m mind and entertained a like puri them nuthoritntivelv ... . , .. , . bui oecause the air every now this government's in- . . . . , , . again gets darkened by mists its own duty with re- ..i . ... , . groundless doubtings and misc ? _ ous perversions of counsel and i of Peace. .. , , ., necessary once and again, to 8' ipartial Justice meted .. ,. ?..?> . all the irresponsible talk about i ve no discrimination ... . , , intrigues and weakening morale o whom we wish to , ., . ,, doubtful purpose on the part of t e to whom we do not, . .. .. .. , , .. . , in authority utterly, and if nee It must be a justice I / , . . unceremoniously. aside and favorites and knows . ... . , , ,. , ... things in the plainest words thai t the equal rights of . . , i . . , he found, even when it is only ti lies concerned . , . , , , over again what has been said be pecial or separate In- .. ,,,,,,, , ., quite as plainly if in less unverni ingle nation or any . , terms, is can be made the ? . . . .. ... _ , .. ... As I have said, neither I nor rt of the settlement .. . . , ... , ! other man in governmental aut sistent with the com- . . , . .. . , I ty created or gave form to the It I ,.f lhl? ..... - I V 1 1 I w. ...... nui . A uavc m in |? iv rCT|IU can he no league or|,o thom w|fh 8Uch vislon aa l c al covenants and un-LoniInan(1. niltI have respo ith tne general and , , ... , .. ... jpladlv and with a resolution thai of the league of na-i , ?, I grown warmer and more confidei I the issues have grown clearer more specifically, . , , . .. . 'I clearer. It is now plain that > special, selfish eco- arG jsst,,,s which no man can pei ations within the ljnjpgB jt wilfully. I am bout ? niphoim nt of an flKht for them, and happy to flgti ic boycott or exclus- j as (iniP and circumstances e power of economic rovPa,Gd them to mo aa to ftll itsion from the mar-, wor,d 0ur enthuslaa?n (?,> lll,l> prows more and more irresistibl nations its?-)f as a gtand out in more and 1 in<- and mntrol. vivid and unmistakable outline. nternational apree-i ties or every kind ln,? Cloa** A,ray* known, in their en- "And the forces that fight for t t of the world. | draw into closer and closer array ? . pani/e their millions Into more Iroiluccrs. , , more unconquerable might, as nee and economic ...... , . th upht and purpose of the pe< ostillties have been .. , engaged.ce in the modern ns and passions that '' 'R "ie pec'ullaiity of this f t would he an lnsin-iwnr ,hat wh,le statesmen have a i an Insecure peace et* 1o (,,st about four definition luilo them in definite ,h,'ir Purposes and have somet i seemed to shift their ground _ , _ the.r point of view, the thougli ce with which I ven-; . , , ,, the mass of men, whom statemer r our people In these . . supposed to instruct and lead, ot spring from our, ... ,, , grown more and more unclou f and the well known ? , . ... more and more certain of what International action .. t .. . ... . .. . that they are fighting for. Nati ilways professed and, ' ... . 1 (purposes have fallen more and 1 le same sentence In , , . . .. . _. . 'into the background and the com it the United States, , , purpose of enlightened mankind the special arrange-'' , ... , taken their place. The council standings with par- , , ^ .. ? plain men have become on all h l?t I O S ' V lilun t li:i mi 'f s'mple and straightforward ;s is prepared to as-. .. . .. ,, ,, .... more unified than the councils o ,are of responsiiiility ...... ? ??. . ? . . -phisticated men of affairs who anee of the common ..... , . ,. retain the Impression that they understand'nss upon . . , . ... playing a game of power and pla t h"Mceio ?h rest We . ' , . ... . . . . , . . for higher stakes. That is why I shington's immortal . . ....... ... said that this is a people s war, t entangllng alM- . . , a statesmen b. comprehension and rpose. Hut only spe-, "Statesmen must follow the r I alliances entangle; : ned common thought or be brok s and accept the duty . Burnen Upon. Statesmen, i which we are per-, "I take that to he the signlflc 'or a general alliance of the fact thaJ^assomlilieR*S<id i 1 entanglements an<l ciations of maW kinds inade^ the world for com- plain ^oijtaduy people have' ings and the malnte- niandenVilm oat every time n rights. together, and'are *tlll defnaftt this analysis of the that the loaders of their goverr^ni nation which the war declare td ffiem plainly what It fd I * I TUESDAY, OCTOBER I, 1918. ?????? ?! ! I W OU BOUGHT 1 TOUR 1 Savings in imps ? IQV/ JEST TIME TO jfr FIL YOUR V LEDGLK ? ' * 3HQ The \ ^ f Lancaster aster, S. C. ^ tiuse 1 actly what it Is, that they were seek- Hil ! the ing in this war, and what Orey think JBJ horn the items of the final settlement " same should be. They are not yet satisfied pose, with what they h^ve been told. They and still sccrn to fear that they-are g*tand ting what they asked for only in hlev- statesmen's terms?only in jhe. terms 'v It is of territorial arrangements and dl- \ I weep vision of power, and not in terms of m >eace broad-visioned justice and mercy and 1 and peace and the satisfaction of thosflfa| hose deep-seated longings of oppressed^ a ue distracted men and women and ensay slaved peoples that seem to them the U t can only things worth fighting a war for A > say j that engulfs the world PerhapjM^^^^ fore, statesmen have not always recognizeigg^HpllI shed this changed aspect of the whole world of poliey and action. Perhaps ^ 1 any they have not always spoken in di- 'jLF horl- rect reply to the questions asked be- v* ?bugs cause they did not know how search- Wk nded ing those questions were and what A, ould sort of answers they demanded. nded "Hut I, for one, am glad to attempt the answer agnin and again. In the F * I at as jl0pe that 1 may make it clear andJf ? I and (.|,.arer that my one thought is to sat-? gn they |sfy those who struggle in the ranks ^ ?1 rvert an(j aro> perhaps above -rll others, % i entitled to a reply whose meaning ndf lt 'or one can have any excuse fq? misuu 1 derstanding. if he understan<||| *' , the | lanpuapje In which it is spokert or M iiiv-ui Hdn'ieono to translate it correctly W 'c as Into his own. * 4b more -T ^ No "Terms" Wanted. "And I believe that the leaders t hem l*,e governments with which we rfpk I , or_ associated will speak, as they havt^C /J V and occasion, as plainly ns I have tried to they spet>H. I hope that they will feel free * pies to sny whether they think that I am ' in any degree mistaken in my Inter- 'M treat Dreta,,on ?' *he Issues involved or lt^^#*^> em- ,nv ,n,rl>n8e with record to the moan-SSJ is of ',y xvhich a satisfactory settlement oJB lines t'u,s<> Issues may be obtained. U"if^B ind b'irpose and of council are as ii^B it of P?rnlively necessary in this war aB was unity of command In the battl^l / i arc j field; and with perfect unity of pur-^^ poee and council will come assurance * It Is of con,l),e,e victory. It can be had ^ J onal 'n no other way- 'Peace drives' can ^B more b? offoot,ve,y neutralized and sllenc- 9 JK" ed only by showing that every vie*, mon has y nat.ona associated against mL^ . r'erma"y brtrgs the ons nenrer BT'B , the sort of reace which will bring ^MiHc ndf Mm and so, 'ir,,y an<? recsstyance to all n?opies and make the recurrence of jn,! other such struggle of p'biless force * and bloodshed forever impossible * that nothing else enn. Oermanv ,Y'nK constantly intimating the 'terms' s?flB|B^ 1,1 will accept: and always finds that Jhfi-JpM , no world does not want terms. It wleheA * . the flnal triumph of justice and fall ,arl" dealing." fUiie ? ''??- .v'TOW'rwcEa?joiSS^^to. - > V - * > >4. /