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t lij TUESDAY, OCTOBI
WAr
- SAVIN
STAM!
- ^ CONSTAH
lave you bought that
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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.
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pour t President Wilson as a
X . , <- ent was hard to beat a
you Aesident he an't he tie
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ry o "Who would have said
burj; 1 ne Wouldn't i.iea
for w' Soutli Carolina hovs wen
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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.
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Lit" it is any satisfaetb
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" < raven, of North Carolin
that Andrew Jackson \
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} 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
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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.
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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 .
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wis born tit THp 1?|{|('K WILL RE for
r welcome to IMPARTIAL .U STICE
ir as we are ha
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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
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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
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TUESDAY, OCTOBER I, 1918.
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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."
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