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"LITTLE SHORT OF CRIME TO PLANT ALL LAND IN COTTON 9* Saya John L. McLaurin in Forceful Addre#? at Sumter ?Telia of America'* Part in World war?Makea Lengthy Review of Great Struggle. Sumter. April 21.- Hon John I. ilel.uuriu, former I'1111???I States >eua tor, iJ??l 1 vt*!"???t a here toda> on "Tin1 <V>tton Situation in Isolation to the World, and till1 efT<*et of the War <m Humanity," and for more than an hour held tho undivided attention of a lai'io* and InU'lliKeiit audieine Mr Mel^iurin was here on the Invitation of prominent eitlxeiis of Sumter, who **iinsId? *? IiIiii (la* he.*.t qualified man in tlt?? 'dale to point tla* way thr??UKh the dark elouds that are now tlIiik over Hit* land, and regardless of what has i >nid and written on the siih 1?? t. hi -.peeeh made a profound im prt-.<si<>n <>n nil who heard him. Mr. Mel.a>.riu was lutrodueed hy Senator l{ ij Upps as tla- heat informed man in *%ie MMitli oil ertton and tlnuuee. T'i ? speaker heifftii hy expressing lii-> .hanks to the gentlemen who e.x tend ? 1 to him tla* invitation to s|?eiik here in< inie, hf said, that in all I In* s|h'cc,iis Im- has mad** throughout the state during (hi' past twentv live lear* he hiis never had tin* plea.-aire of ad dit'ssln-; a nun ? i 11 r ? * I! i 111 Wi-ll in formed or more appreeiuH\e audi eitee that lie always timls in Sumter. Ii.\ way of preliminary, too, he took rteeji-dou to siiv that the \ ield of e<>t ton |>er itere, within a radius of T.'i miles of Sumter, wa-v creiiter than in any other urea of espial extent in the i fturld. and tiiat it Sumter |?eop|e would rl??e to the situation as they should, lhe\ would make their town the greatest iiieal ??oft<>u market in the world To ?t.? Ilii>, lie -.aid. I he\ ? eedeil onl\ to ineri-ase their ware house >piii e, eiiliii'u'e their compter faeilitii". and have the hank- nive to the fanner- the fullest l.elinlit of the regional reverie system He explained that under .?? valuation where the farm 'is themselves '(in Id furnish in their narehoii-e leeeipts the Im->>| and most a ? epr;i |,|.? paper f..r e red It at t he He M-i \-e liank-. there was no tea>oii w hi FOR SALE OR RENT. Fori > I In i aere>- of la in! on I lie J Mlaek Kiver Koad. s miles south of' ' 'ainden. formerly I lie property ,.f .i ' II ,\l oselel This laud v.ill I Id | heap for i a- h. i I. A KICK I.AM >. ? F. D. CAMPBELL, Jr. Cotton Buyer I ?!?*-. i ;? t ? ? ii- ?( 11'\ i h<? t'.i I'liii*! - "1 Kershaw iiixl ii'l.joiinii^ count !?*> (hill I hnvo Uikcit i'Vit the interc.sts of AIM \ T >;i 11 k i'ii. of (")i;i 1 li'stoli. <o(t<?n iiHTc-hants iWnirrl.v lrpiv 11?<I !icp? 11y fho 1 :iI?? .1 15 XtiM'?l man. : i n < I will cti<!c:iv.?r in ??m vo I In ? l>iil>li. in fhr <ji lilt' ?'Hiiit'iil in ;i 11! i ? ? r :is f|i<| ni\ pifih'frvsor. Platform Krar of Khamo Itrov Storo LOANS Made on approved country and city real estate. Lonjf terms, low interest. M. M. JOHNSON. Atty., Camden, .S C. NEW GROCERY I v ish t<> a n no unco to my friends and the public that I haw opened a Grocery Store on Main street in the store room one door north of the Pcarce-Younp Hardware Co. and will t arry at all times a complete line of staple and fancy ^roceri?->. A share of your business ui!l hr a j > p r? ? - ciated. Kespectt ully. R. S. WILLIAMS Phone 47. the tocnt banks should not handle such accounts ut oiu' I*T cent over (hi1 discount rate. ^JThla would Iflve tin* niolie) tit the local hanks fur 11 ut iim' of (lit' city ami the country surrounding, an?l if flu* hustiies* jmm? pie would k?? further ami s?*c that the farmer* ko ttop prices f<?r their pro duel, it would l>e hut a short time un til there was a doubling of the volume < >1 hu sinews In the at ores and trebling of ttie rewuinrh of the tianks "I said 1 would talk ul?out the ef f?vt of war oil oottoii." continued Mr Mcl.auriu. "Statistics show that when war come, cotton always goes down tirst and Kta.\s down longer than any ? ?tiler article of ?<oiiiuven v Peopli? inuit eat ever) day < ?n the other hand, cotton dually goes higher and -lay* up loiM?*r than any other pro duct ?'otton has not yet gone as high. ndatiwH, as urn in. meat ??i metal*. and under this rule it must g< i higher ami remain longer. Tin reason for this is the tirst drop cur tails production mid high priced f??od forces more land into i<ralu and stock If war ?'??utilities a cotton famine b as sure as fate. Ins-ause the reserve -lock is iisctl up and tin* clothes oil ha in I aic w'i 'I'll out. Thele i- another rule that never fails to w oi k out. War mean - tntla lli.il I i ? ? iji credit inoiieV I never hint I lie shrillest dolll't ill 1 !> 1 t ilf to what !he nidation sure to e.mie meant in | (trices ot cotton. I have a eoiisidera Me |M?rtn>n of ms 11)1 I crop \et, and I know "f several wise men in Sumter v\h<> f?'lesaw it as 1 dlil 1 congratu late them. The prh-c of cotton will he determined hy the /rice at whleh we who have the spots turn it loose I said w hen cot ton w as in cents |>er pound that it was worth cents compaied with the oilier pnaluets and I am of the same mind now. In 1!*1 i the middleman reaped a tremendous prolit. Intoxicated with their -ins-ess thev sold more cotton ahead than has l?een made in 1 *.? I*S and we farmers are in a position to even up with them The .New York future market has heen manipulated -hainelessly to break the spot market They ran it down under l.'t eents. hut the markets (?f the South refused to follow and now we are at the L'O eents level again. The submarine warfare has interfered with shipping and raised the insurance rates or cotton would now he o cents jkt pound lilgh e. The eiitrv of the I'nited States will undoutdedly shorten the war. Some wiij will he found to abate the -uhmarino uuisam-e. 1'oth the sub ! marine and airship are America's in vent ions, and once the inventive ( L'euiiis of this country is foeussed on i the proposition there will be found Uj wa\ i< lamile it. It may he that ves- j -els will only leave in great Meets con voyed l>v i?:leships, with numerous | destfoxei- . d aci'?.f>lalies. Kngland | mil l have cotton and some means will I i" pr- vu'ed. The I nited States will j need ;-t lea-' one half of the cotton oil | hand f. r the manufacture of ?\ 1 plosives, uniforms, tents and otherl it-. I vav\ the statement that ; munition concern had used up ;i j i>n i?ales of cotton since the wart began The plant at Hoj?ewcW. Va . i had the product of i ipiarter of a mil , lion bales of ...ft.-n on hand at one time la-f -iiiumer It takes an aver-' ? Iw'e of 'J 1 acres to lliak" one bale of coti. ii ami one di-charire of a Hi inch I L'lm consume- !t. ("otton will be hiirh for m-i > :a 1 v.mi-, for the following rea -efls ' "1-t The -. if, jtv and high price' of I -1 u !l - f <r ???- curtailiuent of | a? reitu'e. L'nd I'he ab-ein-e of imini- j i.* !*: 11 i ? ??? and ? all for army recruits! make- a :oii-faiitl.v .ucrea-ing labor1 sliiK'tau'e ,'ird There ja shortage ! of good-- and the mills have practi?iilly ' no reserve siipplx of raw material, ith The entry of the t'nited States; means an expansion of the home murker which will at least ofYset the loss of the central Kurojiean market. It require- 1'..iir time- a- many clothes for arm.v i- it dues for the same men in ? ivil lite, and it i> all heavy ma terial. requiring more cotton for it< manufai tuie r.tli The inflation of the < unvh. v nin-l continue a-- Ions a* tin* war laMs. The dollar will buy le-< ami li'vs of all pr???11n-t ineluditii;| cotton. Money ijets cheajier and thin;^ *t dearer in war. 11' a man lias 111? ? 11?-> In* 11:i? I better hn\ .'ottoii. ???uii. wheat ? ? r an\ other -JiLlidai'iJ product, if w HT a>l\a:i> ?' while lii- money will shrink in value from tlit* decrease in it-: pur?-lia^iii-_r j lower i>n every de < line f 11?'r*? is btivinu' by 1?? a< 1 i11tr trade interot. while tin* selling i- almost ? ?: 11 ?r? ? I y -) 'fti la I i\ <? in it- character. The (i ?< ?) 11111 a I -itnation i- wry stroiis*. < in April 1-t the Mock in New Vork wa- ar 'iimi'l v.inhi bale-. tin- lowest that 1 <an ri*?-ii 11. It wa- tin* sh<?rt interest in March which caused the advance and t!i? ? r?? i- a larger one in May. .lu'.y i- tin- month when the tire work- arc dm- to cine Tlx- -hurt int. rc-f in that month lnn-t be etior ni>ui- iv- trader- have I veiling . 1111 > to 11? ??! ?_r?? ]itircha-c- ..t' March. Ma> unl (? '.?Um' What will lln-y doV More ctt i ?: i |ui--.'> into <?. .n-nni) >f h <ti even ?1 j i \ and -t.? k- decline. that wIhmi Hie-.- -hurt- attempt t?? cover their .Inly tliev will hi! the market up .'it theni-eive- Sj.t - in tli<- S.iiith are hu'hei than the\ i-e ? j1?:? >I ia Xew Y>>rk "The tii.al u'innii,_' lejx.rt -how - that the a _'ri< ni: lira I ? l?*i?. i rtniei,; ..\cr e-t imateil the cr>>j> ?botp -jim iMMi 1-ale- Tl.<'-e i- one da;, jet' in ail t ft:-. We 111}! > 'erupted to J.' ."1 [,! ? ??. f t??! 1 '? d i,< ? onr f.N?| -u;>|?*y Those are war t .:n? - Wheat ha- h.-eri in w i: a- hiiTh a- St per I ? 11 -? a: ! . i J i - ? : ;->r?MIu<-{- n ; r--jM.rti.?n. I!' I kn.*w < I oa w ? d 1.1 S ] j m ? r p. ?'iti I : ? \ t t'a .! I w oi;: -?i.l ra i-e :n \ ? ? .?:-?I : a t at lioT:,. I am ; ? i_* at: ?e "f ^rrair. ? tery a r - of t:..n tad the ma w ;i ? !<"?- !.<>? . I i : | - ..able to nice: di-a-ter I Mi "T i ?? t ;?ea rh - -1 hli_'h a- it will !??? U.i ->? \ou:- meat, cor: jH.tat.M-- a;.! ;?a ' ??.Tow all the rot top > on > a I s .tjth i .irolina may face a famin. tin- w ar continues a \ear !oii:er > i!h American oonntrie- are already ;? i? ;n_r I tnbar.roes <.n the ex[M.rtiiti<?n ..f f .<x!-tnfT Production is greatly < ur taib-d in I *1 i roj .e and th-f-e va-t a" ?: : ?}-' '??? : 'I a:.'I r> t i-- ired w i.: U> fed, vveu If you uud I k?> hungry. These armies and (ho British flwt stand l?etwH*n us and tin* dentruction of souie of our sea com at cities, <>?r navy Is inadequate to protect our greut coast line. It Ih not only sensl* hlu, hut a (uitrlutic duty for each *me of us to raise a surplus of food. The man who under these circumstances plants all of his land In cotton ought t<> th' dealt with by law. It Is little sh??rt of u crime. ? I doubt if Sumter county can fc?<d lt>elf for .'10 days. Now listen my friends, when the railroads are taken li.v the government to traiiM|>ort troop* and war supplies, you will find it hard to kcI ears for carrying your food stutY.s, and when wheat, corn and meat are scarce, and the government goes to commandeering it to feed armies here and in Kijrope, some of are going )iii11kr\ if we don't raise a ftN>d supply '*1 home. "Most people do not think, Just th?ok at i' The average balance of trade In favor of the Fulled State*, prior [ to ilir war, wiri .">00 million dollars It | Is now four times that, two billion dollars annuall.t drawn in here from j abroad. This two Idllion dollars Is , good yellow gold. It Is the hfisi> upon | w hleh several times that much cur ivney <au he Issued under our hank ing s.Nstem. In addition to this the new federal reserve system provides for commodity loans .?n warehouse re-' eipts for w heat,' cotton, corn or cat-j lie. Why wouldn't cotton and every thing rise advance in price'/ In I!>11 j the country was paralyzed by the eon traction of credit and acariit.v of nioi^ey. Now like King Midas w >? seem in danger of being smothered under an avalanche of wealth. Our atten tlon has been so centered upon the war and Its tragic hap]>ening-. that few of us realise that a tremendous financial revolution lias occurred right lu re in the Fuitcd States. It is to l>e ho|H*d that our helnji drawn into the war will not turn tin hands .if the (lock backwards Tin Federal reserve and the Farm loan acts, mean that for the tlrst time in history, the producer is in a position t ? demand the use of money a- a me dium for the exchange of Ins pro duets. Not jjs a favor but a> a right. Il means that tile time has come when 'and i< to be recognized as the basis <f all wealth ami he who owns land must, be able to borrow money at the -ame rale of interest as he who owns bonds. In the future there must be no discrimination against producers and non producers. The Wilson ad ministration has done a wonderful scr vice for the farmers, a greater service than any government since the forma tion of the republic. The millions of the producers and creators of real wealth need n<? longer cringe and cower before money lenders. In the future National Hanks will not be pel in it ted to monopolize the function in issuing mon ey. sii as to control prices h\ con tracting or expanding at their pleas: ure the credits of the country. The fanner can go with his head up. not as a begging suppliant, for the use of money for which he is prepared to give good security The money of this country belongs to the people of this country It is created I y their agent, the government without who-c faith it would not be money Kach citizen is a unit of the jniwer which creates tin' dollar, and through law he obligates himself and his property to redeem !iis proportionate share .if that dollar. This war has completely exploded the gold fallacy. If i-- products, not gold which carrv tin- i'I'i1111r\ i>ii. i?ur real wealth is iinl go!:. it i- I::11? 1. stink. cotton corn, wheat. iron, steel mill copper. the things that go to clothe and feed mtviiiii of tin* dollar. Hi* is its crea ti?r. Hi- labor or his proi>erty is nit?rt? itnix'ftant than t ho ?1??11:i r which i- a mere medium of exchange Tin* \aitie ??f a dollar does not dejiend ii|?>ii a hanking sy-tem of gold re serve. These arc i*iiIir?*ly artificial. The dollar dc|?ends for its value U|HIJ| tin- products drawn from the farm, mine and factory by the sweat of la bor. "Kver ^inee lstlfi we have a money system diseriminating against the prinlucers in favor of non-producers. It has made farming the most iimvr tain business on earth, when it should he the most stable and certain, he cause it is fundamental It lias driv en the brightest and most ambitious boys to the city, leaving till? farm more and more to the dullard ami in co'm|K'tent. Labor in the country i- scarce, while the towns are over crowded with non-producer*^ earning a precarious living. ?The earth umm support each in dividual and foundation ,,f all wealth. Kven though a man lives in the heart of New York City, lie -till bears a direct relation to the definite piece of land from which is drawn his food and clothes. The tesf of his useful ness from an economic point of view, is what do,?s lie put back into the world's common -tore house in re turn for "what he takes out of it as a consumer. The great cities have a luxurious spendthrift cla<-, and a busi ness system, where men prosper not by merit, but through superior cun I ning Men overcome and crush each I other in a mad struggle t<> Hdjulre [wealth created by . fliers. There are not nation builders or nation savers You will find them hi the ?piiet coun I tr\ places ,.f the land wjieiv men think -oi.rrly, !^vc temjH'rafely and have time to commune with Hod ,i:i the tempi** I of the untarnished ski.--. Thomas .Tcf ferson said more that, a century ago I that great j die- were .ike earners ent I ing lite lift out ot a nation. The stu | dents and sfatc-men have bi'come alarmed at the growth of the citie I compared to umtry. They are I incre.is tig in population nearly twice as f.\<: m- the country. The only waj ; to check 111is-t 1- to make the farms so profitable that people living >>n thnn ha\e .'oinf r: . .ju.i; to -lie man in town. ? ,,'..oi!rc.v Wi,.i. i ha- -:ar;.'d upon the right : id ' ? dr\e|op agriculture b\ makii.g ?n-di:- eri-y and money ob:<t.i .!? ? through farm loan banks. I d' t. ? k what M i- war wi.l do to ? he. k i* I do that ? very great ?.ir .a . i ton has been the means of !? 11r111:.i?>g the j>eo[Je with a false sys '?"?i . f , ? ..nice The motiled Interests alwa>- i-e the national jn-ril to forii' ahantageou- term- for themselves .1 P Morgan. .1 r . i- credited with hav ing m i li- more m >ne\ sin<-o 1014 thai I I* Sr >11 1 i . ,i Mfetlme and W? thought J. I*. Hr. WHH H Coll**MHUM. Such men always |x>so h? public Inme factor*, waving the couutry, hut umhr cover they never full to drive the hardest bargains. "There Is one factor about thl* war which Is unlike any other. It la btflnj? fought entirely on credit, and It would Hfcui thai the |>olnt of exhaustion for all concerned Is not far off Men have quit thinking 111 million*. The bond I* Mies are In billions. The accumulation* of many generations have Is-en destroy ed, and a mortgage for all time placed 111m>11 the labor and property of genera Iitins yet nnborn. The last world war was when France ran mad under Na poleon. The French wars, however, practicall> |>ald their own way. Najx^ Iron used funds derived from taxation and forced levies oil the conquered countrles. All of the nations in this war are mortgaging posterity, and burn ing the money up in powder smoke. "In the March number of llariwr's Magazine, Mr. Joseph F. I'avis gives some astounding figures on the cost of the war. It Is costing all the nations, 11!? millions dollars a day. The ag gregate earnings of all the people in all the countries Is L'l million a day, ?.?> tlnit for every day that the war con tinues they spend five pines the dally earnings of the jieople. In the first two years of the war the governments t tor rowed h) billions of dollars. This va>t amount <>f course will never be repaid, but the intercut must Is' met unless there Is a wholesale repudiation i?> the nations eoiieeriicd. which is un thinkable. If the war finishes out an ?ah?-r year, the debt will be about 1<K> 11i 11 i,>n dollars, to which must be add ed thirty billion for the debts existing when witr was declared. This uiaktvs Kio l.illion which is greater than the total wealth of either Fngland or Ger many ami more than the vunbilled ?ealth of Italy and France. If will t;ik? ? per cent annually out of the dollar for every man. woman and child in all of the warring countrie- to pay j the interest. The flower of all the nh-I tJons is being killed or . rippled so how, will the people pay 'J-r> per cent on the; dollar in interest, maintain their gov ernment. pay war pensions and have! anything left to live upon It certain- j ly looks as if it would be ImiMissihle I Jo continue to maintain standing arm ies ? ? 11 a large scale. The interest on "bis debt will be six times greater than all taxes collected in the British em dire during the last year of |wace. All ?f the taxes collected. Federal, state, towns and counties in the Fnited States last year was fifteen hundred million dollars and 111i~ would not pay the in ? crest one year at I j?er cent on Great ''ritain's share of the way debt. NN hat Iocs it all mennV "Are the Nations of the world Unit oil suicide? Mut yesterday scientists' ere bu-y hunting disease germs and j making serum to prolong human life, j We were building ho- pita Is and asy- j 'uin-. providing retreats for the aged j and doing all in our pow er to relieve , suffering ami banish disease. Sudden- ! I v the flames of w ar burst forth, so | 'hat men si*e each other's faces by the, l glare that blazes down from thej mid night >ky while their ears arc deaf-j ened by the roar of mighty cannons, j 'very human impulse is gone and sa-! tanie cruelty reigns supreme. Wojnen j ilid ehildren are murdered, whole nil- ? Ions an* exterminated, deported asj -laves or driven like Insists to the for-; ?st. The civilization of a thousand vears with twenty centuries of Chris tianity vanished over night. I reiub ling on every lip. the question is it Ar mageddon? I find that Armageddon means 'the great destruction.' the final eoiitlict. the judgment of <!od. It may * be that America is now taking her olace ou that great field of Armageddon foretold in holy writ and dimly seen by poet and painter where the final battle shall come lietween error and truth, and in which man's immortal soul finally conquers his brute nature. I do not know but these are grand and awful times, something colosall.v good or colosally evil is bound to come of such a tremendous upheavel. Wher ever I go. whether in the quiet of my farm or on busy Wall Street. I sense a feeling among the people that something of appalling magnitude must happen ere long. A mystical sense of ImjMMiding trouble has hung over us like a dark shadow ever since the Iaisl tania went to her ocean grave. This universal feeling, half doubt and half fear, this wistful peering into the future, this vague dread of the un known tomorrow is at once a warn ing and a -all from God for action. It is eas\ to see now that it would have noci: better for this country to have gone to war when the I.nsitania was st ?ik. We would have at least been prepared to defend ourselves. No sensible man wants war. for two years President Wilson has used every means to avofd war. but Germany has rejieatodly broken her promises and while professing friendship has con spired with Japan and Mexico to at tack and dismember our country. A Mexican army officered by Germans filled with lust and love of plunder, are threatening Texas with the fate that came to Belgium and France. Con gress has spoken for the fieople. There - no room for divided allegiance. We bad British Tories during the Kevolu "" 1 - ? (binary war. One tlilril of all the colonies were ToilM In 1775, Tbfy raised regiments him! joined the Brlt IhIi and joyouxly shot <J9*wn their own neighbor*. They organized the In diana and brought them down ou Lho white settlers In Pennsylvania and New York. 1 believe the great tuatui 6t German-Americans are loyal to the ('lilted States and that the Genuuu Tories who art* organizing in Mexico will moot the fate they deserve. The iiuiii who proven traitor to the coun try that lias given him shelter from old world opprewdon will hand a leg acy of infamy dowu to his de#ceml antK, that will last longer than the contempt visited u|>on the British To ries of long ago. "1 approve the attitude of presi dent Wilson and 1 ain In favor of the United States raising an army of two million men for self defense and mak ing our navy second to none. 1 aui ready to do my part ami make sileb sacrifices as I am called upon for, 'I bolicve"that (his Is a fight i>etween militarism nnd democracy. The soul of Home lives today in Germany. The very (irle of kaiser comes from the word Caesar. The spirit which that name represents was born In Home HO'centuries ago. It -swept over the earth then and no country failed to pa.v ltoman tribute. All roads led to l{<?me. The name militarism again threatens the world. I'pder the lead ership of a modern Caesar it Is hurl ing its power In every direction. It has organized the Mahometan world and threatens (lie United States with Japan and M?*xlco. If the kaiser was merely a man hi.s power would long ago have crumbled, but he is more than a man, he is an idea. The idea of imi>erial Home was law and un questioning obedience to law. Julius Caesar was its embodiment. How like German Kultur, with the kaiser is its ideal. The materialism of Rome finds its counterpart In the rational ism of Germany. At stated ix'riods this grim spectre of Caesar stalks forth with its dark shadow of mili tarism and deluges the earth in blood, before it shatters Its strength against the ever growing spirit of Democracy. Napoleon was a real Caesar. Born in a great revolution without family or friends, his genius gathered its mighty forces about him. He hurled his armies across the Hhine and the Danube into the'very heart of ltussla. His banners bore the name of Napol eon, not France, just as the legions of Caesar bore his name, not Home. The utterance of the kaiser claiming that he is resjionsible not to the Ger man i>eoplc, but to God alone is the same spirit. Napoleon seized France by the throat and led her where he would. Three million of her sons laid down their lives at his command. For LT> years his ariniev marched to and fro making one bloody battle ground of Europe. Finally the dark tragedy was over." Napoleon, chained like the wild beast to a rock in mid ocean and France in tile dust under the armed heel of every nation in Europe A like fate awaits Germany, and I am sincerely sorry for the hard working good people <>f that country saerficed by ambition. ?The German* t who were developing n a For 30 year* It w?H <hUlM ours, that all tbo nation* , and ready to dUmt?eher 'Phe wed of wax I NtotJK'he, Bernhardt, You I otherx boldly > iaiwod ty mans were a *up*r rm* k, a HUiwrxuau tltted to K<td frlKht fulness to forvo V* upOQ ull tlu* nations. yt tion bellovw! (his and t? one man auil one womau Serbia was tho spark itu flaiue. It Ik a <-hallenst? t, for the domination of tin Is the same doctrine, .'U UlKht," that whh xos, Alexander. Oaenar/1 Mahomet, Napoleon ami conqueror. Tlu? Ot-rinuu ?>stly believe they huvo b? believe?that they can a pllsh their dentiny by Hoo and' they proclaim the frlpthtfulness for all who l?ath. They Intend to wtD and force German Ideals u| their Kru|>p puns und subt 1* a terrible faith, when b< German efficiency and the i tpnration of -40 years. 1 "I rememlHM' about 25 reatJlnR a hixnvIi of Hls^ 1 consider one of the worl< statesmen. This speech wj on his 70th birthday, nud much struck with it th?? ?hI it in a scrap t*>ok. ^ apporved of annexing I,orrain<\ His -roat min trouble for Germany. After of Frederick, when the pry came to the throne, he lttamark as soon as ho c old man lived on his esti his birthday, a i?reat crow< to pay their resets. In he lined this phrase, that? ed Hot the whole world f come the furor teutonics of what is happening B(ni as If the old man know ] Ix?t us not deceive ourselves teutonlcus. backed by th amazing resources, aiid or of the empire will irive I'net tussle of his life. The kai^ a new map of the world suit of that object he treaties are 'mere scraps and he who is not for me me and must he wiped out overbearing and cruel docj it will take hard blows faith of the German neoph tered in this ideal. They million men under arms, and take much stock in the 5 stories. As loin? as derm possession of the Balkans w of railroad to Constantliiopl fur into Asia, they caiiD.M \* "There was never i time w :t: more important, to avol l.nj.* .foreign alliances* Ann the men and money. Wo an ??d by a great ? n on Inith we should adhere t?? doctrine. We <:in ^o-oj>orat did in the Hoxer trouble in ( that is as far ms we slwuli (rontinued on I,u<t Pa Never Watch a Watch -TRUST Your watch can not control time?it simply record! It should be trustworthy. If it isn't, you can not all to depend upon it. We Sell Watches You Can Trust A number of standard makes to select from?sti| and novelties. Give us a chance to put you on time and keep i there. G. L. 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