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Bryan to A New 1 STATEMENT TO THE ?iirnmui nrnm r mitmrn mum (Associated Press.) "Washington, June 11.?Former "SeeTttary Bryan today issued a stater?*za expressing his gratification over he termed a change in the tone 'ijf ?ve press regarding the American lies* ro Germany. The statement Fiz2k?s"s: "*T am glad to note the change in 'iifcjf fcone of the press in regard to the :w??i? to Germany. From the time the paysrs began to publish forecasts thp iinp-o editors VJIWU tu J WOW1WUJJ ? J?o fa&TW been predicting that the matter *rira3d be dealt with with 'great firmthat Germany would be told r there must be no more delay in fcfe* .acceptance of this country's desBAZids, etc. '"Instead of waiting until the note - Z8&2- issued they put their own con-afcraction upon it in advance and col atntd it to suit their own purposes. It a relief to find the papers now emphasizing the friendly tone of the arctefr and pointing out that it does not .ssKCEssarily mean war. " Something has been gained if the ^nrtrrior journalists at last realize t&a&r the country does not want war, bvxi $iat, on the contrary, it will supTSMKrlxhe president in his effort to find peaceful solution of the difficult jeruidem raised by the use of the Taabmarine against merchantmen." The former secretary, in giving 3iis formal statement, supple strolled it with the following anec <*}ckfce: *AA congressman replying to a jin. sg?> igpeech recently, said: ** 'While I am personally against vrar, I am in favor of the country .fcarwng what it wants. If the country Tfluorts war, let it have war, but let it Jfar-a find out if the country does want wss. If it becomes necessary to asv*i?irain the sentiment of the couun?*5, I suggest that a ballot be taken; : lifit those who want war vote against it atcd let the vote be taken with the trr>3*rstanding that those who vote -war will enlist for war and that who vote against war will not >m- called upon until after those who -vtjufz war have exhausted their effarts.' I still believe," added Mr. Bryan, the right of the people to rule, ao&d think the congressman's suggests*^ might insure deliberate action "cm the part of "the voters." Mr. Bryan was reminded of the t>oggrestion of some o? his friends tasat in c'ase of .war he would be one 1 o? the first to enlist. "*1 do not want to talk about war, 'b"?ccc on one occasion I enlisted to de?*j&d my country on the first day war declared," he replied. (Associated Press) "Washington, June 11.?With the j j.esoance today of a third statement, vats appeal to "German-Americans," 'WoUiam Jennings Bryan was expected io rest his case. T? his second statement, addressed tj> irhe American people and which was issued coincidentally last night the publication or the American rejoinder to the German government's reply to the note following info* inking of the Lusitania, asks the yiabljc to "sit in judgment upon my littdsion to resign rather than share titxponsibility for it." He contends that the American mute conforms to the standards of old system of force, while he is advocate of the new system of jwersuasion and "as an humble fol ienwer oi tne Prince 01 reace pleads taat the United States lead the world ""'iMit of the black night of war into . a3? Kght of that day 'when swords 1 . -ieall be beaten into plowshares.' " .3!r. Bryan expresses confidence ( dtr&x the public will credit him with awworable intentions, but says that j . - ? t'Awl Intentions are not enough. He i a/ids that if the public verdict is ^1 laseainst him, he asks no mercy, de- : - :i!aring that public men must be '< "'willing to bear any deserved pun- i i idvocate Diplomacy ishment from ostracism to execution." (Associated Press Dispatch) Washington, June 11.? William Jennings Bryan, In an appeal, addressed "To the American People", last night asked them to hear him before they pass sentence on his laying down the portfolio of secretary in the midst of international stress. The statement, entitled by the former secretary "as the real issue," is as follows: "To the American People: "You now have before you the text of the note to Germany?the note which it would have been my official duty to sign had I remained secretary of state. I ask you to sit in judgment upuu my uctiaivu w tcsi^'n rather than to share responsibility for it. I am sure you will cred't me with honorable motives, but that is not enough. Good intentions could not atone for a mistake at "uch a time, on such a subject and under such circumstances. If yosr verdict is against me, I ask no mercy: I desire none if I have acted unwisely. A man in public must act according to his conscience, but however conscientiously he acts he must be prepared to accept" w>ii'out complaint any condemnation which his own errors may bring upon him; he mun be willing to bear any deserved punishment from ostracism to execution. But hear me before you pass sentence. "The president and I agree in purpose; we desire a peaceful solution of the dispute which has arisen between the United States and Germany. We not only desire it, but with equal fervor we pray for it, but we differ irreconcilably as to the means of securing it. If it were merely a per sonal difference it would be a matter of little moment, for all the presumptions are on his side?the presumptions that go with power and authority. He is your president; I am a private citizen without office or title ?but one of the hundred million of inhabitants. "But the real issue is not between persons; it is between systems; and I rely for vindication wholly upon the strength of the position taken. "Among the influences which governments employ in dealing with each other there are two which are pre-eminent and antagonistic? force and persuasion. Force speaks with firmness and acts through the ultimatum; persuasion employs argument, courts investigation and depends upon negotiations. Force represents the old system?the system that must pass away; persuasion represents the new system?the system that has been growing, all too slowly, it is true, but growing for 1900 years In the old system war is the chief corner stone?war which, at its best, is little better than war at its worst; the new system contemplates a universal brotherhood established through the uplifting power of example. "If I correctly interpret the note to Germany, it conforms to the standards of the old system rather than to the rules of the new, and I cheerfully admit that it is abundantly supported by precedents ?precedents in ? C J vviiwtdi in tiiaiattuid ui uiuuu upun almost every page of human history. Austria furnishes the most recent precedent; it was Austria's firmness that dictated the ultimatum against Serbia, which set the -world at war. Every ruler now participating in this unparalleled conflict has proclaimed his desire for peace and denied responsibility for the war, and it is only charitable that we should credit all of them with good faith. They desired peace, but they sought it according to the rules of the* old system. They believed that firmness would give the best assurance of the maintenance of peace, and, faithfully following precedent, they went so near the fire that they were, one after another, sucked into the contest. Never before have the frightful follies of this fatal system been so clearly revealed as now. The most civilized and enlightened?aye, the most Christian of the nations of Europe? are grappling with each other as if in a death struggle. They are sacrificing the best and bravest of their sons on the battle field; they are converting their gardens into cemeteries and their homes into houses of mourning; they are taxing the wealth of today and laying a burden of debt on the toil of the future; they have filled the air with thunder-bolts more deadly than those of Jove and they have multiplied the perils of th^ deep. Adding fresh fuel to *hc .lame of hate, they have daily devised new horrors, until one side in endeavoring to drown non-combatant men, women and children on land. And they are so absorbed in alternate retaliations and in comparative cruelties that they seem, for the time being blind to the rights of neutrals and deaf to the appeals of humanity. A tree is known by its fruit. The war in Europe is the ripened fruits of the old system. "This is what firmness, supported by force, has done in the old world; shall we invite it :o cross the Atlantic? Already the jingoes of our own country have caught the rabies from the dogs of war; shall the opponents : of organized slaughter be silent while . the disease spreads? "As an humble follower of the | Prince of Peace, as e devoted believer in the prophecy that 'they that i i take the sword shall perish with the I sword,' I beg to be counted among I those who earnestly urge the adop| tion of a course in this matter which j will leave no doubt of our governj ment's willingness to continue negotiations with fiprmanv until an ami cable understanding Is reached or at least until the stress of war over, we can appeal from Philip drunk with carnage to Philip sobered by the memories of an historic friendship and by a recollection of the innumerable ties of kinship that bind the Fatherland to the United States. "Some nation must lead the world out of the black right of war into the I light of that day when 'swords shall I be beaten into plowshares.' Why I not make that honor ours? Some day?why not now? The nations will learn that enduring peace can not be built upon war?that good will does not grow upon the stalk of violence. Some day the nations will place their trust in love, the weapon for which there is no shield; in love, that suffereth long and is kind; in love, that is not easily provoked, that beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things; in love which, though despised a? weakness by the worshippers of Mars, abideth when all else fails. (Signed) "W. J. Bryan." Nuf Grass?A Problem for Our Southern Experiment Stations (Progressive Farmer.) The Southern experiment stations have a difficult but important work ! cut out for them by the presence of nut grass or bitter coco which is be coming so prevalent throughout the South. This is not only a very troublesome weed, but so far no satisfactory method of eradicating it has been found. The damage done to stands of row crops, because of the presence of nut grass and the necessity for clearing it out of the young growing crops; the tremendous increase in the cost of cultivation caused by its presence and the fact that it can be put to no good purpose, make nut grass probably the worst weed in the South. Johnson grass makes large yields of excellent hay and Bermuda grass is the best pasture grass we have, but nut grass is only a pest and a very -J. J.1- - -L tivuuic^uiiic uue tit uiau The scientists of the experiment stations should g?t busy on this worst of Southern weeds, for it is up to them to find a practical method for eradicating it. The Pleasures of Life. Kerosene oil will probably get cheaper. The teachers are gone and the young men of Westminster are not sitting up so late these nights to play "rook."?Tugaloo Tribune. Your Cough Can Be Stopped TToino* f a * * r?V> 4-c av_ posure, sudden changes, and taking a treatment of Dr. King's New Discovery, will positively relieve, and in time will surely rid you, of your Cough. The first dose soothes the irritation, checks your Cough, which stops in a short time. Dr. King's New Discovery has been used successfully for 45 years and is guaranteed to cure you. Money back if it fails. Get a bottle from your Druggist; it costs only a little and will help you so much. Mr. Farmer, see Rosenberg Ware house Co. for cement and peas. MMffll (Cor. of Associated Pfress) Hamburg, April 30.?Germany is patching up and mending her broken soldiers with remarkable speed at the new "Krankenhaus" in Barmbeck, a suburb of Hamburg. This great hospital, which covers .several acres of ground, was completed early last fall at a cost of many millions of' marks, and has a capacity of 2,000 beds. Nine hundred of them now contain soldiers. The most interesting part of the hospital is the orthopaedic institute, where the soldiers are being massaged and bathed and exercised back into usefulness, either on the battlefield or in private life. A heretofore unheard of percentage does get back the use of paralyzed limbs and damaged functions. When the bullet, shrapnel or shell wound that put the soldier out of business has healed it leaves him disabled in almost as great a variety of ways as there are wounds, and frequently with greatly impaired ability to walk or run, or to use his hands, i arms and fingers. 1 * ' ? i - # According to me nature 01 nis disability, therefore, he is first given a series of baths?mud, sand, hot air, hot water, acid, light and electricity. He lies for hours in a bath tub of rich, black, hot mud, or he sits in queer looking receptacles, while hot sand pours down onto him and makes his nerves tingle. He is lowered on a chair by means of a pulley into water as hot as any man can stand, and after a time, under the soothing, softening influence, he is able to move limbs that before were immobile. He sits with an arm in an acid bath or with electricity coursing through his system until gradually he becomes more supple. Then he moves into a room filled with fantastic instruments, each designed to give play to some particular muscles. If it is a leg that has gone out of commission he mounts a machine not unlike a bicycle and pe I dais for hours until at last he has won back the use of his limb. To Aid Breathing. If a bullet has lessened the soldier's ability to breathe he is suspended by straps under the arms and slowly drawn upward by a sort of hoist which facilitates his inhalations. He learns how to crook his knee, twist his wrist, raise his arm and turn his head. So prominent a part does the use of the vacuum play that there is a "vacuum room" where the convalescents sit, one with a vacuum on a part of his arm, pulling up the flesh _ 1 i. _ j .ii ii ii aoout a wouna, otners witn me machine on their back:?, their legs, on almost every part of their anatomy. There are countless patients with arms or legs that have stiffened in peculiar ways. One finds there, also together in a big room, with odd looking mechanical contrivances strapped to arms or legs? contrivances that can be tightened so as to bend the arm a fraction of a centimeter more at a time until joints have been coaxed back into the habit of moving. As the rmf.ient. lies nrt n hoH wifVi a wounded knee that must be raised a wooden contrivance with screws, under his leg, performs the duty without the usual pain of such an operation. Or a pulley arrangement on the wall behind him lifts his arm and turns it in an arc. So frequent are the operations in the Barmbeck hospital that the huge operating room is served by a double window connected with the antiseptic chamber. Instruments are passed out one window, cleaned and passed back through the other, where another patient may be ready. A group of a dozen correspondents, many of them men who had frequently been at the front, had been uncler fire and who had had an opportunity to see some of the horrors of the battlefield, recently visited Barmbeck. To a man they agreed that the patients in the hospital, with their twisted and distorted limbs, wearing their queer contrivances for restoring the use of their limbs, were infinitely more sorrowprovoking than the dead soldiers on the battlefield. But the most terrible of all was a soldier who had nothing the matter with his limbs at all?but who had illusions that he had been terribly wounded, and who dragged himself around on crutches, his face terribly distorted by the pain he thought he felt from the bullets that never had struck him. ^ ^ ^ THIS SI w tatt Y\j u iiici as livable as 3 ?if you have FECTION Oil 1 i wood-box, no ashto bother with. A chen, and half the The NEW PEF quick and handy li lights instantly, ar volume of heat. just by raising or lo It is easy to operai and easy to re-w women say it's "g with kerosene oil. Ask your dealer t NEW PERFEC stoves with one, four burners. N NEW PERFECT especially made i stove#. Ideal fc baking. Use Aladdin \ or Diamond to obtain the bes< Stoves, Heaters STANDARD^ Wiuhinf ton, D. C. (New Ja Norfolk, Va. (BALTIMI Richmond, Vfc | PROLONG LIF 1 marc L \ A Harmless Vege 2 with no Injui ! | DOES AWAY WITH t | Grigsby's Liv-Ve j Recommended b We Have No Such Courage. 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