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Wilson Opens 1 For De MUST BACK IDEALS WITH SOMc, FORCE KEG A INS PERSONAL APPEAL TO COUNTRY TO RALLY. Says People Demand Action Which Make for Safety of America and Maintenance of Principles. 1 New York, Jan. 27.?President Wilson tonight began his personal appeal to the country for preparedness for national defense. He gave warning that plans for the readjustment of the army must be carried out without delay and solemnly declared he could not predict that the outlook for the United States would be as brigiit tomorrow as today. Speaking at banqueets of the Railway Business association and the Motion Picture Board of Trade, he sounded the keynote of addresses that he will deliver during tile next ten days in the Middle West. LYir. Wilson was in a fighting mood, in a speech early in the day he declared he always accepted an invitation to fisfat. Toni2i.it he told the rail road men he was an advocate of peace and had struggled to keep the United States at peace, but he considered the liberty and honor of the nation even more than peace. >Voe to the Seifish"Woe to any man who plays marplot or- who seeks to make party polirvAY?r?/\w o r>i KHl A.n f oL'ii HViS Ui pel aiauiuuu muiv y*. v? * cedence over can-dor, honor and unselfish, unpartisan service!" said the president in speaking of his defense plan before the railroad men. He declared that the country expects action; this is a year of accounting, and the accounting must be definite on the part of parties and on the part of n-^h n Tl'ichftc tn ATI 1AV C VCI J luuiuuuai " UV - ?? vv the public confidence. "For my part, I nope every man in . l\ic life will get what is coming to fcim," said Mr. Wilson amid laughter applause. The president at both banquets and all during his day's visit to New York was greeted with enthusiasm. On his ride between the hotels where the banquets were held tonight he was es cortd by a Dana ana ine .mulu company of coast artillery of the New York National Guard. Thousands of persons packed l.he streets and cheered him as he went by. In his speech before nearly 1,5001 business men at the railway banquet I he cast aside almost entirely the text j of ine address that he had prenousiv | prepared. lVas Wrong Then. The president admitted that in a j message to the last congress he had said the need for preparedness was not pressing. He declared that he had j learned something in the mean time.j He cited his recent support of a tariff j commission as another instance of a change on his part. J Mr. Wilson spoke of men of high character who were clouding the preparedness issue. He declared they were provincial. He vigorously defended his Mexican policy. He asserted that to invade liiiexico would I mean the losing of the confidence of the rest of the Western hemisphere. Wq /-MtaH tnp of Cuba as an in stance of good done by the United States. | "If we are drawn into the maelstrom which now surges in Europe/' the president declared, "we shall not he permitted to do the high things ?e would prefer." Xust Hare an Army. 'The president defended the continental army p'an drawn up by Secrerary Garrison and said that he did. not care about t'ne details of any plan as long as 500,000 trained men were piovided as reserves under the federai government. He advocated strengthening the National Guard, but said the constitution its-elf put the guard under the states. He added that tiie tnuea States will not turn in the direction of militarism. Outlining why the United States should be prepared, Mr. Wilson said: "We must protect our.rights as a i i don and the rights of our citizens in America and outside of it, as tne consensus of civilized people has defined them; must endure the unem barrassed realization of our political * development within our own borders and must protect the peace and political autonomy of the Americas.'' He added that a national defense means the protection of the country from invasion and also the prevention of flank assault upon "the thing's which we be lieve to underlie our nie. Industrial preparedness, with the military training of students in industrial schools, was proposed by the president. He left consideration of navy plans for later addresses. Business men who formerly relied on protective measures in their deal Campaign fense of Nation I inn/, Ti-i + Vi fnraiorn rvAU'Prs WAfO fTlti /VI til J. \J A V Iq iA JL? V ?? V* V w? V/ ? ? ? 'j:sed by Mr. Wilson. He said American business men should be able to ! held their own against the world. In his address before the Railway Business association banquet President Wilson said he considered it a privilege "to be permitted to lay before you some t'nings to which we ought to j give our most careful and deliberate1 IL-i.'iioiuci a uuii. The Paramount Question. i "The questions, it seems to me," he' : said, "wwhich most medands clarification just now is the question to which jour toastmaster has referred?the question of preparation for national defense. "I say that it stands in need of clar-1 ! ification because, singularly enough, j | it has been deeply clouded by passion j -* ? I ana prejudice, it is very biug'uiai iuai a question t'ne elements <5f which are so simple and so obvious should have been so beclouded by the discussion of men of high motive, men of purpose as handsome as any of us may claim, and yet apparency incapable of divest-! iLg themselves of that sort of provin; cialism whica consists in thinking the j contents Df iheir own minds to be the I * *? f o rviin,-? th a WOTl d j Cl/Illt'iltd JL tllO U iuu Vi. ?. I For, gentlemen, while'America is a very j great nation, while America contains all the elements of fine force and accomplishment, America does not consiitute the major part of the world. *We live in n world which we did \ | not make, which we can not alter.' * * j j It would be a hopeless piece of pro| vincialism to suppose that because we I think differently from the rest of the | world we are at liberty to assume that the rest of the world will permit us to enjoy that though without disturbance. "It is a surprising circumstance also that men should allow partisan feeling! or personal ambition to creep into t'ne discussion of this fundamental thing. Hew can Americans differ about the i safety of America? Old Nations United. "And I, for my part, am ambitious | j that America should do a greater and ! i more difficult thing than the great na-j tions on the other side of the water, have done. In all the belligerent I countries men, without distinction of j party, have drawn together to accomplish a successful prosecution of trie war. It is not a more difficult and a more desirable thing that all Americans should put partisan preposession aside? * * * "Only the other day the leader ofj the Renublican minority in the house j I "" ~ . j of representatives delivered a speech 1 i chat showed that he was ready, and | | ! I take it for granted that the men | behind him were ready to forget party I lines in order that all men may act I with a common mind and pulse for | tbe service of the country. And I want upon this first public occasion j to pay my tribute of respect and obli-1 gation to him "I find it hard indeed to approach this subject without deep emotion, gentlemen, because, when we speak of ? America and the things that are to be conserved in her, does it not call a wonderful picture into your mind? i v/niricr Think of the 1HC1 1\,CL i O JVUMQ WW---. _ __ great treasures of yout'n and energy and ideal purposes still to be drawn from the deep resources from which this nation has always drawn its light. * * * Duties of America. "Think of the position into which America has been drawn almost in spite of herself, by the circumstances of the present day. S'ae is forced, whether she will or not, in the days i?rmAdiatplv ahead of us, to furnish the world with its chief economic guidance and assistance. "It is ver\* fine to remember what I ideals will be back of that assistance. 4. i Economic assistance in itseir is 1101 necessarily handsome. It is a legiti-j mate thing to make money. Money! brings with it power which may be J well or ill employed. And it should I be the pride of America always to | employ her money to the highest purpose. And yet, if we are drawn into moaicfmni that now surees across L 11 C XiiOrVlUWl Viu V?WW- ?? .. w the water and swirls even in the Western region of the world we shall not be permitted to keep a free hand td do the high things that we intend to do. And it is necessary that we should examine ourselves and so order our selves that we can make certain mat the tasks imposed upon us will be performed, and well performed. "America has been reluctant to matcn Iier wits WICU me rest yj. tut; world. When I face a body of men like this, it is almost incredible to remember that only yesterday they were afraid to put their wits into free com-1 petition with the world. The best 1 ? +a I Drains ill Lilt; WVliU ai.iaiu w muvv/u brains with the rest of- the world. We have preferred to stand behind protecting devices. And now, we are thrust out to do, on a scale never dreamed of in recent generations in America, the business of the world. We can not longer be a provincial nation. >ot That Question. "Let no man dare to say if he would speak the truth that the question of preparation for national defense is a question of war or peace, j If there is one passion more deep/ seated in the hearts of our fellow j countrymen than another it is the j passion for peace. ' ' ' There is j no desire on the part of any thought- j fill and conscientious American to take i one foot of territory from another na-j tion in the world. And I myself share | to the bottom of my heart that pro- J found love for peace. I have sought j to maintain peace against very great. | and sometimes <\ery unfair odds, and j I am ready, at any time, to use every IT- ^in in 111 rt * r\ CllrtVl I pu v> Ci tuat in iiiTr cvy tvcin ou^u. a catastrophe as war coming upon this country. "So that it is not permissible for anv j f man to say with anxiety that the de-' fense of the nation has the least tinge j in it of desire for power which can be used to bring on war. But, gentle- j men, there is something that the Americans love better than they love peace.! Thpv 1 av.a tha nrinr.inles unon which.1 their political life is founded. "They are ready at any time to fight; for the vindication of their character j and their honor. (T.hey will at no time seek a contest, but they will at! no time cravenly avoid it. Because if! there is one thing that the country! ought to fight for and that every na-i tion ought to fight for it is the in-j tegrity of its own convictions. iWe can | not surrender our convictions, i wouia rather surrender territory than sur-! render ideals. And because we hold' certain ideals we have thought it was j right we snould hold them for others! as well as for ourselves. One Purpose ProTed. "America had been willing to fight1 fnr +V10 lihprtv of othPTS ?S Well as ! for its own liberty. The world sneered I when we set out for the liberation of I Cuba, but the World does not sneer any longer. * * * "And, whether by one process or! another, we have made ourselves in j some sort the champions of free gov- j ernment and national sovereignty in both continents of this hemisphere.1 So that there are certain obligations, which every 'American knows, that we | have undertaken. The first and pri- j mary obligation is trie maintenance! of the integrity of our own sovereigD- j ty * * * xhere is also the maintenance of our liberty to develop -our j political institutions without hindrance1 and last of all, there is the determina-! tion and the obligation to stand asj the strong brother of all those in this' hemisphere who will maintain the same principles. "May I venture to insert here a pa- ( renthesis? Have- any of you thought; of this? We have slowly, very slowly! indeed, begun to win the confidence of, tho <5tntAs. of th^ American hem- I isphere. If we should go into Mexico' do you know what would happen? All! the sympathy of the rest of America would look across the water and not! northward to the great republic which we profess to represent. The Real Danger. "And do you not see the consequences that would ensue in every international relation snip? Have the gentlemen who have rushed down to, " ? ' a ? 1 U Washington to insist tnat we suuuiu go into Mexico reflected upon the pol-1 itics of the world? Nobody seriously, supposes, gentlemen, that the United i States needs to fear any invasion of \ its own territory. What America has j to fear, if she has anything to fear,' are flank movements upon her reg-; nant position in the Western hemisphere. Are we going to open the gates: or are we going to close them? For' they are the gates to the hearts of: our American friends to me souui on , us and tne gates to the ports within' their spirits and you ha\e won the only sort of friendship and the only; sort of safety that America covets. * * , But, gentlemen, we must find means: to-do the things which are suitable to ' the time and suitable to our own | ideals. Perhaps when you learned thatj I was expecting to address you on cne : subject of preparedness you recalled the address which I made congress . I something more than a year ago, in j which I said that this question of mil-! itary preparedness was not a pressing question. But more than a year has j gone by since then, and I would be' ashamed if I had not learned some-1 thing in 14 months. The minute I i stop changing my mind, with the' change of all the circumstances in the world I will he a back number. Another Change. I "There iisi another tiling about which I have changed my mind. A: year ago I was not in favor of a tariff i board and I will tell you why. Bej cause then the only purpose of a tariff j "But the circumstances of the pres ent time are tnese: i uere is guiug vu. in the world, under our eyes, an ecoI ; nomic revolution. No man understands I that revolution. * * * And members i of congress are too busy, their duties t \ are too distracting to make it possible within a sufficiently short space of time for them to master t'ne change that is coming. * * * "But that is another parenthesis. : What I am trying to impress upon | yo.u now is that I can not tell you what ' Lhe international relations of this J | country will be tomorrow, and I use J | the word literally. "America will never be the aggressor; America will always seek, to the last point at wmcn ner nonor is in-; -. olved, to avoid the things which dis- ; turb the peace of the world. But! America does not control the circum- j stances of the world and we must be j sure that we are faithful servants of,' those things which we love and are! ready to defend them against every j contingency. * * * It goes without saying that one thing this country j never will endure is a system that can j be called militarism. But militarism! consists in preparing a great machine' whose only use is for war. * * * And j I do not believe that the creation of, rin innf Jr? rt *> iv* rtA A f 1 sum au IUSU U-UICUL <ui urauiauie ui peace. "America is always going to use her army in two ways. -She is going to use it for the purpose of peace and rI-p i<; o-nincr tr> iisp it as n mnnlpiifli WW ~ ? WW for expansion into tiiose things which she does believe in, namely the preparation of he:* citizens to take care of ( themselves. The Other Side. 'tt.here are two sides to the question of preparation. There is not merely the military side, there is the industrial side. We ought to have in t'nis country a great system of industrial and vocational educational training under the guidance of and with federal aid, in which a very large percent age oi me youiii oi mis cuumiy wni be given training in the skillful use and application of the principles of science in manufacture and 'business. * * * "But, gentlemen, you can not create such a system rapidly. It has got to be built up. And there is something to be done in the meantime. We must sp.p. to it that a sufficient body of citi izens is given the kind of training which will make them efficient'for call into the field in case of necessity. * * * (Thin of asking men, who can be easily drawn, to come into the field, crude, ignorant, inexperienced, and merely furnish the stuff for camp fever and bullets. * * * And so it seems to me that it is our manifest duty to 'nave a proper citizens reserve. "I am not forgetting our National Gnard. * * * As governor of New Jersey I was brought into association with what I am too glad to believe was one of the most efficient portions of the National Guard of the Uni'ed States. I learned to admire the men, to respect the officers, and to believe in the National Guard. And I believe that arm of the our national defense should be built up and encouraged to the utmost. But you know that under the constitution of the United States it is -under the direction of more than two score states and that it is ndt permitted for the national government ? J! /3 m A?+ /?n^ Aftroni IU <lireCL its UCVCiwp.uvui. aiiu Vigauization, and that only upon occasion of ap:ual invasion has the president of the United States the right to ask those men to leave their respective states. I for my part am afraid that there is no way in which that force can be made a direct resource as a national reserve under national au thority. Need Trained Reserve. "What we need is a body of men trailed in association with units of the army, a body of men organized under the direction of t'ne national authorities, subject to the immediate call to arms of the national authority and yet not drawn from the peaceful pursuits which have made 'America gTeat and must keep her great. ti T ? VN f ? r- o rvP O n TT Ar?D i am IIUL a, yai mscm \jl cwj wuv plan. * * * But what I am for, and what every American ought to insist upon, is a body of at least a half million trained citizens who will serve under conditions of danger as an im mediately available national reserve. "I am not saying anything about the navy because I don't want to go to sea. I want to stick to the one theme tonight because for some reason there is not the same controversy about fhe navy there is about the army. The ~ " ---- " - nKn'mio nri/? QOoil V 11 Tl P T* Q f fYTwl ll<XV<y lO Ul/I'lUUO ?t"U. I.UU1'; uuuw.u..,.-. The army apparently is very difficult to comprehend and understand. We. have a traditional 'prejudice against armies which makes us stop thinking the minute we begin talking about them and we suppose that there can not be an American system in this instance, but that it must be the European system and that is what I, for | one, am trying to divest my own mind of. The navy is so obvious an instru, ment of national defense that I believe i that with, the differences of opinion j about detail it is not going to be diffi- j j cult to carry out a proper and reason- j 1 able program for the increase of the t j navy. "But that is another story and you (know I ha/ve to give a good many ^ speeches in the near future, and r must save something for subsequent days. My theme tonight is national defense on land. I do not want to leave upon your minds the impression that I have any fnxiety as to the outcome, for I have not the slightest. Must Do Right Thing. "There is only one way that parties and individuals win the confidence of this nation and that is to do the chings that ought to be done. The facts are going to speak for themselves, and speak louder than anybody who controverts them. "No political party, no group of men, can e'.er disappoint America. iThis is a. vpsr of nnlitioal aroountins: and the Americans in politics are rather expert accountants. "So man is going to "hide behind any excuses. The goods must be delivered or the confidence will not be enjoyed; and for my part I hope every man in public life will get what is coming to him. "But if this is true, genetlemen, it is because of the things that lie down at the very roots of our life. America refuses to be deceived about the things which most concern her. national i I honor, national safety. All have confidence in everything that she represents. "It is a solemn time when men moist examine not only their purposes but their hearts, when men must purge themselves of individual ambition, when men must see to it that they are ready for the utmost self-sacrifice in j the interest of the common welfare, j Let no man dare be a marplot. Let no man bring partican passion into these great things. Let men honestly debate the facts and courageously act! upon them and then there will come a J day when the world will say: 'This American that we thought was full of a multitude of contrary ideas, now speaks with the great volume of the heart's accords and that great heart j ~ T%A"V? ^ ?+ +T-> /I TYiArol U1 AIXltM lCct lias UCTLL1I1U 11/ Cll?5 U1VIU1 force of righteousness and the hope and the liberty o? mankind/" President Wilson was busy from the time he arrived early this morning until he left at midnight for a brief period in Washington before departing for the Middle West to speak for preparedness. In addition to attending two banquets tonight, the president shook hands with a group of suffragists and took two automobile rides. Insistence that the American people j love peace, but must be treated justly and must harmonize international racial and religious differences marked his address at noon before a conference of 1,500 New York clergymen of all denominations. He declared that peace is inconsistent with the violation of principle and the loss of respect. The president did not repeat his now famous phrase "too proud to fight," but asserted belligerently that "I alwavs accent, nerhaos by some im pulse of my native blood, the invitation to a fight/' He added that he hoped he always fought in "knightly fastion" that he did not "traduce 'nis antagonists," and that he fought witft the intention of converting them. During the morning the president repeated his oppositions to action by the federal government on the woman suffrage question when speaking to a delegation of 200 members of the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage who called at his hotel and would not leave until he saw them. He reiterated his position that he would help the cause in individual states whenever he could. I LAXD FOR SALE. As ' heirs-at-law of ' Mrs. Carolina Cook, we will sell at public outcry at Newberry court house on salesday in February, 1916, immediately following sales by the master: One acre lor in the town or .prosperity, fronting on Main street and adjoining lands of Mrs. Delia Snealy on the south, the Baptist church lot on the west and land of H. J. Rawl on the north. Terms of sale cj.=h. Mrs. Sallie Wicker, D. B. Cook, Mrs. Texanna Wicker, E. M. Cook, Mrs. Namy Wicker. 1-21-28&2-4 Change of Schednle. Columbia, Jan. 13.?Columbia, Newberry & Laurens railroad, announces the following changes- in schedules, effective January 17, 1916, for trains Nos. 13, 54, 51, and 55: Train No. 13 will leave Laurens at 3:25 p. m., arriving Columbia, Gervaia street, 7:38 p. m.. The following stations will be -discontinued at flag stops: Brand, Gary, Jalapa, Slighs, Hilton, "White Rock, Ballentine, Leapharts. ? ? " 1 Tram i\o. 04 win wiu-llluio, Gervais street, 5:05 p. m., arriving iiaurens at 8:18 p. m. Train No. 55 will leave Laurens at 8:38 a. m., arriving at Columbia, Gervais street, 11:32 a. nr. Train No. 51, operated Sunday only, will leave Laurens at 4j30 p. <m. arriving Columbia, Gervais street, 7:38 p. m. (TiJie following stations will be made flag stops for train No. 53, due to leave Laurens at 2:00 p. in.: Slighs, Hilton, Leapharts. \ rn ? lO ttr "11 An of oil C.ho jl ram inu, jlo w 1u stup ac gii kjkanvuu to discharge passengers from points J beyond Laurens and Clinton, S. . The following stations will be discontinued as flag stops for mixed train Xo. 12, due to leave Columbia at 3 a. m.: Leaphart, Irmo, Ballentine, White Rock, Hilton. Chapin, Slighs, Jalapa, Gary, Brand. OAKLAND MILL STOCK FOR SALE. Aj If not sold before at private sale, ^we ' will offer for sale, to the highest bidder, for cash, before the court nouse dcor, at Newberry, S. C., on the first Monday in February, 1916, just after the Master's sales, five shares of the capital stock of the Oakland Mills, of the par value of $100.00 per share. BLEASE & BLEASE, Attorneys. jjj THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, k COUNTY OF NEWBERRY. 41 COURT OF 'COMMON PLEAS. Vinla "YfrLpfln Plaintiff. against B. W. Crouch, Bettie Havird, B. B. Hair and the Bank of Prosperity, Defendants. Under order of the court herein, I will sell at public auction at Newberry, S. C.; during the legal hours of sg,le,to the highest bidder therefor, on Mon day, being salesday, February 7, 1916, All that tract or parcel of land lying and being situate in the town of Prosperity, county of Newberry and State ' * of South Carolina, containing twentyfive acres, more or less, exclusive of one acre of said tract, heretofore purchased by B. B. Hair, and lying on the east side of the Southern railway, and adjoining lands of Samuel Bowers, L. C. Kibler and others; said tract of land being the same upon which for i years B. B. Hair resided, and known as the Clarissa Bridges land. Terms of sale: One-third of the pur- 9 chase money to be paid in cash, the balance in two equal annual installments, upon a credit of one and two 4 years, with interest from daiy of sale at the rate of eight per centum per annum, payable annually, the credit portion to be secured by bond of the purchaser and a mortgage of the prem-/ ises sold, with leave to the y.irchaser to anticipate payments in whole or in * part. The bonds and mortgages for the credit portion must provide for a ten per cent attorney's fee in case said bonds and mortgages are collected by suit or placed in the hands of an attorney for collection. The purchaser, upon the acceptance of his bid, must deposit with the master in cash or by a certified checfc the sum of two hundred dollars, and comply fully with the terms of sal? within ten days from day of sale, or the premises will be resold upon the > first convenient salesday thereafter at ^ the risk of the former purchaser. * w The purchaser, upon complying with fhA fprm.s of must insure the buildings upon said premises and assign the policy of insurance to the master as additional security. j The purchaser must pay for papers, recording and revenue stami>s. H. H. RIKARD, H Jan. 17, 1916. Master. STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, COUNTY OF NEWBERRY. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. Elijali Irvin, Lizzie Wright, Cora Fant, Corrie Sanders, Timothy Irvin, HatITjImiiTiHc GoroVi Trvin -artA 11^. UiiUU, IfWAMU, wv^v. _ ww ert Irvin, Luther Irvin, Johnie Adger, by B. V. Chapman, their duly appointed Guardian ad litem, Plain- . i tiffs, vs. Jos. H. W. Morris, Defendant. Under orders of the court herein ! TA'ill sell at public auction before the court house at Newberry, S. C., during the legal hours of sale to the highest < bidder therefor, on Monday, February A 7, same being salesday in February, 1916, All that certain piece, parcel or lot of land lying, being and situate in the town of Helena, county of 'Newberry, < State of South Carolina, containing y one acre, more or less; bounded on the northwest by a street dividing said lot from lands of James Ray; on northeasi by lands of D. S. Greenwood; southeast by lands of Fayette Penny, and on the south and southwest by a street dividing said lands from the lands of Fielding Wright. j Terms of sale. All of purohase money to be paid in cask, the purchaser, upon the acceptance of his bid, must deposit with the master, in cash or by certified check, the sum of one hundred dollars, an-d comply ruuy wnn cue terms of sale within ten days from day of sale, and in case <he fail to do so then the premises will be resold upon the first convenient saleeday thereafter at the risk of the former purchaser. Purchaser must pay for papers, recording and revenue stamps. H. H. RIKARD, January 17, 1913. Master.