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L- ANOTHER STATEMENT B MADE BY MR. BRYAN: ASKS AMERICANS TO HEAR HIM %L BEFORE PASSING SENTENCE. Confident, He Says, TWit Public Will Credit Him With Honest Inten- | [lions in Resigning?Washington, June 1/L'.?William | Jennings Bryan, in an appeal addressed "To the American People," tonight, asks them to hear him before they pass sentence on i' is laying' down the portfolio of secretary in the j k midst of international stress. B Confident t':at the public will credV it him with honorable intentions, Mr. Bryan frankly says that good intenItions are not enough and that if the , public verdict is against him he asks no mercy, asserting that men in public life must be "willing to bear any deserved punishment from ostricism to execution." Interpreting t?e American note to l? r.ormanv rm snhmarine warfare. > - - ? which he refused to sign, as con-1 forming to the ''old system" of diplo-i matic standards, precedents for wibichi "are written in characters of blood upon almost every page of human history," and characterizing himself as a champion of the new system?persuasion instead of force?and as "an humble follower of the Prince of Peace," the former secretary of state j pleads for t)':e United States to lead; the world 'out of the black night of war into the light of tihat day 'when swords shall be beaten into plowshares.' " Another Statement. > Tomorrow Mr. Bryan will issue another statement, an appeal, he says, i to "German-Americans." The nature! i of this appeal he would not discuss, j F But with the issuance of the third i ' statement since his designation the MAAftAfort* core ha Tl'lll hA iV/I JjULCI acvictaij Ou; o MV - v ready to rest his case. "Of course I shall always be ready to talk when tb^ occasion arises and I think it necessary," Mr. Bryan declared. The statement tonight, entitled by .the former secretary "The Real Is[ sue," is as follows: l "To American People: "You now i.ave 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 j judgment upon my decision to resign | rather than to share responsibility for j it. I am sure you will credit me with inonorable motives, but that is not enough. Good intentions could not atone for a mistake at such a time, on such a subject and under such circumstances. If your verdict is against me, I ask no mercy; I desire none if I fcave acted unwisely. A man in public life must act according to his conscience, but however comscientiously he acts, he must be preK ? - n IThi$ ^aek jjj Conj"aIn$ ;! mar|y L^own ["op- jjijj ied liflhj" Li5?uif"$ jS "1-j a J" have "ha[' ["an- Jjl j"a 1 izirjg odop |lu|- V fx pas!"r|es ftaf s; 5uppa55 ["("i? ap" o" jS; J"l-|? p p ? rj e h eh?"; eak?5 j"haj" m? j" ? |" away in j-up^nrj? Jij fioodnj?55 in one'5 jCjj J"J mou ft- F?r ihls ^ iji a 5aek oj ijj* 'b D1 1 S ft'S'nfi KUi 2S K ,V Remember the Sack. S[ \ ? Ask for Rising J"un. ji m C Others may guarantee their flours, LIJ iff but Rising Sun guarantees results ? |" \ \ V v \ si j I ^ ill!! i llill pared to accept without complaint any condemnation which his own errors may bring upon him; he must be willing to bear any deserved punish- j ment from ostracism to execution. But j hear me before you pass sentence. One in Purpose. ami J T A/rt?AA ir> nnr I 1 lie yieSiUCill. emu l a6icc ill yui - j pose; we desire a peaceful solution' of the dispute winch t'.as arisen be-j tween 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 se- j curing it. If it were merely a per- ^ sonal difference it would be a matter of little moment, for all the presump-1 tions that go with power and author-1 ity. He is your president; I am priti'i f n All f s\y* fiflo VYIUiV/Ut UliiVU \Sl but one of the hundred million of in- ' habitants. "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 gov- j ernments employ in dealing with each other there are two which are pre- j eminent and antagonistic?force and j persuasion, r orue speaks vwuu m m- j ness and acts through the ultimatum; j persuasion employs argument, courts ! investigation and depends upon nego- j tiations. Force represents the odd ! system?the system that must pass away; persuasion repreents the new system?the system that has been growing for 1900 years. In the old system war is the chief cornerstone? war which at its best is little better than war at its worst; ti':e new system contemplates a universal brotherhood established through the uplift ing power of example. According to Old System. "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 written in characters of blood upon almost every page of human ihistory. Austria furnishes the most recent precedent; it was Austria's firmness that dictated the ultimatum against Servia, which set the world at war. Every ruler ! now participating in this unparalleled conflict has proclaimed his desire for | peace and denied responsibility for i the" war, and it is only charitable | that we should credit all of tlfcem | 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 - * At. /vP oest assurance 01 me mcuuLtruauct; ui peace and faithfully following .precedent they went so near the fire j ti'at they were, one after another, | sucked into the contest. Never before j have the frightful follies of this fatal j system been so clearly revealed as j now. The most civilized and enlightened?aye, the most Christian of the i nations of Europe?are grappling with each other as if in a death struggle, j They are sacrificing the best and i j bravest of tfceir sons on the battle- \ I field; they are converting their gard-j ens into cemeteries and their homes, into houses of mourning; they are | taxing the wealth of today and laying j a burden of debt on the toil of the j future; they have filled the air with j thunderbolts more deadly than tfcose of Jore and they have multiplied the perils of the deep. Adding fresh fuel {Self psing, ar^ !S Sj jj-ounJ Ly j"h? |a- 3ji mous F??J S! i Nh ville, Jenn. an J to the flame of hate, they hare daily devised new horrors, until one side is endeavoring to drown noncombatant men, women and children at sea, while the other seeks to starve noncombatant men, women and dhildren on land. And they are so absorbed in alternate retaliation and in competitive 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. Fineness and Force. "This is what firmness, supported by force, has done in the old world; shall we Invite it to cross tftie Atlantic? Already the jingoes of our owncountry 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 tlhej }??, , 111?1 J: J \1 W The 2 in It 1L Vi Lasting. R&inHHBBI Prince of Peace, as a devoted belie\er in the prophecy that 'they that take the sword shall perish wifc'hi the j sword.' I beg to be counted among' those who earnestly urge the adoption of a course in this matter whidi will | leave no doubt of our government's willingness to continue negotiations | with Germany until an amicable understanding is reached or at least un- J til the stress of war over, we can appeal from Philip drunk with carnage j to Philip sobered by the memories of an historic friendship and by a recollection of the innumerable ties of kin-{ ship that bind the fatherland to tfcej United States. "Some nation must lead the world out of the black night of war into the light of that day when 'swords shall be beaten into plowshares.' Why not make tftat honor ours? Some day ( ?<wi y not now??the nations will learn that enduring peace cannot be : built upon war?that good will does , not grow upon the stalk of violence.1 Some day the nations will place tneir . trust in love, the weapon for which i there is no shield; in love, that suf-j fereth long and is kind; in love, that is not easily provoked, that beareta- j all things, believetn all things, hopeth J all things, endureth all things; in1 love which, though despised as weak-! ness by the worshipers of Mars,, abideth when all else fails. (Signed) "W. J. Bryan." WLen Mr. Bryan met newspaper mpn at his 'hnffiA to srivp out his State-! ment, he was clad in a military looking khaki riding suit, having just re- i turned from a horseback ride in the country. "I rode out in the woods today,". he said, "and chopped down a tree, j Chopping is my chief exercise lately." j Asked ifcow big the tree was, he said j it was 18 inches thick and added that Le thought wood chopping the finest exercise in the world. finiv fine MBHOMO OUININfc" To get the genuine, call for fall name, LAXATIVE BROMO QUININE. Look for signature of E. W. GROVE. Cures a Cold in One Day. Stops cough and headache, and works oft cold. 25c AMERICA ASKS JUSTICE AT THE HANDS OF GERM AM (CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1.) man admiralty to its commanders at sea to have recognized and embodied, | as do the naval codes of all other na! tions. and upon it every traveler and 1 seaman had a right to depend. It is upon this principle of humanity as well as upon the law founded upon this principle that the United States must stand. "T:e government of the United States is ifrappy to observe that your ! excellency's note closes with the intimation that the imperial German government is willing, now as before, to accept the good offices of the United States in an attempt to come to an I understanding with the government of Great Britain by which the character and conditions of the war upon the sea may be changed. The government of the United States "would coni sider it a privilege thus to serve its friends and the world. It stands ready at any time to convey to either government *ny intimation or suggestion the other may be willing to have it convey and cordially invites the im1 perial German government to make use of its serivices in this way at its convenience. The whole world is concerned in anything that may bring about even a partial accommodation of interests or in any way mitigate rne terrors of the p-esent distressing conflict. 1 Looks for Justice. j "In the meantime, whatever arrangements may (happily foe made between the parties to the war and whatever may in the opinion of the imperial German government have been the provocation or the circum -Stanuai jusuncauon ior me past of its commanders at sea, tfoe government of the United States confidently looks to see the justice and humanity of tfce government of Germany vindicated in all cases where Americans ihave been pronged or their rights as aeutr&ls> involved. ."The. government of the United States, therefore, earnestly and very i 1 Shine Brings the Smile of Satisfaction! In the "Easy-Opening" Box. F. DALLEY CO., Ltd., BUFFALO, N. Y., I solemnly renews the representations j of its note transmitted to tne imperial German government on the loth of May and relies on these representations upon the principles of humanity, the universally recognized under-! standings of international law, and | ti e ancient friendship of the German nation. "The government of t'.'.e United: States can not admit that the promul- 1 gation of a war zone from which neu- j tral ships have been warned to keep away may be made to operate as in j any degree an abbreviation of the rights either of American shipmasters ; r\T? r\f ImonV'On /^iri^One Kniin/^ n71 I \J I UL XX1HV/1 ivw-n V-lwi/JV/iikj wuuiiu v? I lawful errands as passengers on merchant ships of belligerents nationality. It does not understand the 1 imperial German government to question those rigt:ts. It understands it, also, to accept as established beyond question the principle that the lives i of noncombatants can not lawfully j or rightfully be put in jeopardy by i the capture or destruction of an unresisting merchantman, and to recog nize the obligation to take sufficient! precaution to ascertain whether a' suspected merchantman is in fact of j belligerent nationality or is in fact, carrying contraband of war under a 1 neutral flag. The government of the United 'States therefore deems it reasonable to expect that ti e imperial German government will adopt the j measures necessary to put these prin-' ciples into practice in respect of the j safeguarding of American lives and American ships and asks for assurance that this will be done. fftie-rnidt "Rohprf "Lansing*. '"Secretary of State ad Interim." 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In reiterating tfcat she is ready to ; pay damages for losses to American ! citizens occasioned by the sinking of 1 t)'.:e Frye, Gerfldfrny insists that a prize ; court first must pass on the case, j The argument advanced by the United j States that a. prize court is unneces: sary since compensation is promised | whenever there is a treaty violation : is rejected. The liability for the sinkI I * - -m I j ing in Lilt' r rjt: is suu auunntu uuv, , 1 Germany contends the case was not i I "a violation" of the treaty. ! It is considered certain the American government will not acquiesce in i the new interpretation given tJbe treaty j by Germany. Under the general prin- | ciples of international law the right j to destroy a prize is granted only in extreme military necessity when the cargo is certain for condemnation and officials here eontend that th? German commander wfbo examined the papers of the Frye -did not hare indubitable evidence concerning the character of tfce cargd. 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