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\ X IV X \ / X X 'T): <• Wednesday, August 8, ISA V THE PRESS AMD STAND ARC V pace three we A Tbe following are a few of th? tiv'oner it* is etulety tl>e less the suf- reasons given by men in position to lering of humanity Jn tlie woild know why this country is at war. i‘ n ‘ 1 llie *»*88 the wxpendhure of life i»f^ ,fc readinF Of thes^ reasons will j and treasure. e suggest others, anti we can sue that j "That is our tir.-t tluty. Tiie pet it is a just \Var, and one which ond is ti> seeTfiat the men whom \vt tnent may pve in lieu of pensions : aside the .immaterial issues anti un- they w ill lie inadequate in cases to , net • .--ary i.-sues and deni alone with provide Idr those who Ore depend-| t at w ! ich upon the men who go to the every v thp people of the Whntry can^well support The readers of Tlte Press and Standard will doubtless appre ciate the splendid thought in these reasons. Woodrow Wilson. “it is plain enough how we were forced into the war. The extraor dinary insuits and aggressions of the Imperial German Government left us no self-respecting choice hut to take up arms in defense of our Tights as a free people and of our honour,as a sovereign government.. The military masters of Germany denied us the right to he neutral. They filled our unsuspecting com munities with viclofis spies and con spirators and sought to corrupt the -opinion of our people in their own behalf. . . . “Much as we had desired peace. It was denied us. and not of our own choice. This flag under which we serve would have been dishon oured had we withheld our holui.*’. (Secretary McAdoo's View*.. Monterery, Pa.. August X—S.-cjv- tarv of the Treasury Wiliam G. McAdeo today in a spexlt bet.* de clared “»c jntend to/viiidh ato and make triunrphant the principles of human liberty if it taVcs dr« t> of blood in the v - n-< <:t American fiV'eman.” The secretary addr's-vd ? fath ering of about Rhh.persmi at a fair for the h-riefit of the. Tl^d rross. held,at the Little KpiScopa' chu-'ch ■near his home herf. Tt e sjtg^eh of the.sern tahy is tth- derstood to have been submitted ♦he president and JU>-ftSve rjXfve'i his approval before. . MjXMpA |, oo left Washington yestp/day^ • The wogld ni^jXts wrdl undej- st.-nd.'* saidsecretary.'’"ttiat ,) is TehtXtl he foptht to-a’ finish ^unjiKjustic^is '^one, untii Hel- giirtU is restored, until guarantee^ a-e ^eciifeiT ihat the tights of the small^pd nations ttpcmi_.lhe face of the. earth shall he respTrfed and held as sacred as the rights of the most powerful.” • Mi. Chairman, ladies and gen tlemen* I am deeply grateful for these generons words of your pre siding officer. We are living in a ter' serious and extraordinary time. It is difficult to realize, as we stand here in this beautiful sun- light. that the stern business of war i> everywhere present, even .though ve do not visualize this reality.* . ‘ We are no less ht war. my f-lends, because we do not see the ,ruel results of battle, because we d ■ ♦not see th? wounded and the rvhr.gK'd l»rought from the field to C nXV'pit <1> to receive the minis- XtiOn- o! the He,' Cross, which- X renVesented here today. ■'W*- ar«- no b ss at war because vv fire not contiguous to the great b Ttlefebls of K-uropO. nor. in elo^e i.-it> t ■ tl)'' great nation- \,v< making common cause tvlx us atftHPsI the- enemies ‘of r and lilmrty in the world. We riu-K r* .-.lize that w- arc in .the iv.idst i • tNy most colossal struggb of all time: \vheh ti e future ot the human iv e. is tv-v in th; b-.hdX wit* civilization itself qiiiA-'.rvrfg in f] o -scale, than ever IrefjX in C < v o:Id s history. ■•We an not vc ivn't- merely for rn Ideal, alCKrtveh nation not go to send io the front, those gallant men, standing betute )ou and whose ma neuvers >uu have just seen upon this green, those splendid fellows, e\er> one of whom is a bene—be cause every man .who wears the uuifonu ot this country is a hero whether lie ge^s ,uputi^ the battle field or not—is to see that thosj men as they go forth are heartened with the knowledge that they car- ny not only the flag ot thew <oun- try and trepresent the honor and might of this free people, that they yarry with them the love and affec tion and the devotion of every man and woman who is left behind and that we intend to-Wtipport them on. 'the fields of battle with sacrifice# equally as great at home as we call upon them to make upon the battle field. "That uniform, my friends, is to- day—and 1 say it with deJiberafion. I say it advisedly—that uniform fo- v day it the remaining hop^ of liberty, of freedom £if humanity in thy world. God has put tluft burden on Amerua if it may be called a bup, dvn. 1 call it the greatest honbr and the greatest service to- which God ever called a free people. Our .duty is to see that these men as they ent front. , • ' “I hnv* taken occasion to mention this because it is one of the. live subjects that must, koon come up for consideration In, the congress. We must have a healthy public opinion back of it if we are to secure p-rop- e r legislation. I know It is not nec essary to appeal to the American people to* do justice to the brave men who are willing to give their lives in , order that liberty may bo made supreme throughout the world. • OUI means the Institutions." preservation fcliliu Koot.-' I’acilic Poit, Augi»-t ♦V—"As sh>.!> i.s the Sun shall rise tomor row. if this wat ends' with the triumph of Germany, this country vsill become a subject nation,” Tlvis flat declaration was made h^ro today by Klihu Ho»ft. head of the American mission to Russia, which has just returned to the I'niJed, States, at a mass meeting held to welcome thg members of hia party. While voicing tlie warning. "We are in this war for no selfish Mr. Koot expressed no fear of such end;-we are imit as I said before. ] an outcome. them. That fbey are given the^>eit J that the genius of our coupW'y can creat^ and the w ealthvE*£ o”' peo ple can purchase ip.-tlie way of in- s11umentalities-Xnat^—wtll enable then. thpXjvave to give their live.-. gtre them dearly and lo veUXfoniiieflhatingXlvdlltgfe for it. -^"An.ons; th* fking> that wc tnu^r •do :«*r them Is to wee that no man leaves this voubtry. if we can get the b gi-»lati«>n ui, without giv ing rim t,he kiv»..ledge, thav a great, c*netou-.anil humane w-atibn guar at.t*es to bin., not as .. gratuity n. t a- a pension, not as a rh/u ity, hut\i»s a part ot the couipensution. for th* ext a hazardous service to w.hich we have called Ujni—that he shall have the assurance that the loved wmV and tildren. moth. ! and tetlifr or the loveil sister who may be dependent upon him. are not left to the fortuitous chance.pf charity; hut that they ate going tb be ruue ported with all that a nation can give them to shve • the nr from want vrhiU; he is fighting the- battle of his country. ,x "And not only that*: die must go forward v\ith'the ease of mind and the consciousness that we also in tend to give him. if he comes hack maimed, disabled, totally or ptu*' tiatly, the utmost in way «f cbni,- pensatiyn and protection that a na tion can give**tp make hia future as conifoitaMv and "the reniainder of his lif»- as?happy a<:: may .lie |ios. to vindicate outraged American rights and re-establish liberty in the world. America could nof fight for anv cause less noblp that that. From the beginning 0f her history down to the present time America has never fought in any cause cxcep* the cause of human freedom. This is another war for human freedom, in every war America has triumph ed. because God w*as on the side of human freedom and Phe will triumph in this war because she jo again fighting for human freedom. "The world mav.A's well under stand that thisj^jfnt will be fought to’ a finish - until, justice is done, until jjehriunu. is .restored, until i.na.KTnte s arc secured that the go forth a>re mtpplied with every- fhlog that a loving people, tan give lights of the smallest nations upon the fate of the earth shall fce re etteA-ftpvf field ns sacred as.the nc>V- ftf iue TiTtkt powerful W-? Mr. Root’s’address follows; "This special mission is return ing from a long and fatiguing jourr ney to- a new sister republic. This is a diplomatic mission and it is not feasible until we have delivered our message to the StSte Department that we shall Talk about what wv have seen and What we have found. I cannot refrain, however, from saying that we bring, hack from Russia the greatest sympathy and the greatest admiration for that young democracy now struggling to solve problems within a few months that this -country has i*een strug gling to solve for 4<| years and has noh 'imlved. • We bring back the kindliest feejlngs and the greatest respect fur thv Russians; for their high degre^ of self-coiitvol; their ability* for concerted actlofi. We Tiring back an abiding faith that ^ # ^ gr#at. fti^e. self-goveptrrng de- intend thn^ I he new* p* nfe shall be ’ n ocratic government shall be. main tained. si Me. an-i must, give 'llv of lif< it. bis.<i tino -- or p \.< htnt< ‘t b>- > Ob ’*- fal.! x on* r-i«i- c- - in ane.- con.j. ro'-T Wv i ,pt|..n to tt n ded bv in addition to tha* "him - ins: u pt-n v - a reasonable meas ranee at ra'tes tha* the normal rates Pu , • b. . • ;se w lieu a loan o* *cotyAcaudee-Vil' t» b\ l i- - govet nuA-nt. ir- ■ tj>- o. (.up iMou/in w hi( h rbiied'ill j e;.! */t lines and M..M th* /ceve-rnmen* . ‘it'^urahnity I!®- can i/i ary lif.- ir.sur- m <'jr t*1 it prohibitive ■cr.n/P -i ,>ns'tly take ex- thc me- is--I rates <te- /*, l *. in- n n<e com-. n.-nie r the American | a < omp/h vrar unless theje w^g hii ideal, and a noble ideal b o k of it. but along wdtb that we are at war becaqise tb^i* sacred tight- of-vAmerba. conf*|anTly. violated \jy the face of repeated warnings, have tb*Tmrhtf efl 'that ev^jv outrag'd American freeman sfi^ld -Eisp to his feet and strike. v •:lt is'well that we shoulflorealize, pu friends, that America ‘fkl not come ihto this war Hgl'tly, tliahth'' provocations were s<* creat. so loivg continued and ko repeated that w-*^ Wer« forcetl as a self-Vesftecting peo ple to take up arms. « “We have „ taken up arms no- alone because we intend to vindi cate our violated rights, but also because we intend to restore pear.- to suffering humanity. We intend lo establish peace upon the basis of justice, so that it will he stable, and so that the free peoples of th - warth may never'again he faced bv any such menace as that which ha- endangered the peace and securitv of civilization for the past 4o years through the despotism of this mili tary autocrjRy o*f German* “I would have you believe, mv ffiends.xj would have you realize that warsiyanno^ be won by tim> Idity. Nation? do not go to^rip** because they do not want to fight.. They do not go to war because thev want to escape battlX Thev go to war because they, intend to ficht for the purpose of restoring peace- You cahnot girt peace- in a situation of this kind except bv two methnds.- Onr- is the submission of cowards; • the other i? the resistance of free men and the blood of America rise* U5> and save that the response of freemen will again restore oeace to the’ woVld* and vindicate Outraged rlvilizatron and outraged humanity. “We have many things to do. First of all we must realize out duty in the circumstances. It is oyr duty to fieht with .all of ou r might and tnaifl to organize the re sources of this great nation so that for humanity's sake we ttnv bring this conflict to a quick decision. The ^au«e thev satire rate they sSk. Rut the havudv rendered that jiynble. owes him th< y(\ ink in-ui.tm < a? uM v ii th,. lowest possible rat*- in orde- tb it he n.aj make Tuture pro- v'<i»n fot- his familv No maftir what compensations the gpvern- -t iburt*- for the, ri-k goyrrn ni.en * man nut in- d lit V of Slltl- ;i ,i o. -onr:i |b‘ establi?he4* upon- Hie tui.-if* of jus ticer bt'anse there Can be fid Jus tice in the world until ih!? rights of lije wt;i’; are made Just as strong ns^the llglits of the-most powerful. "We intend to let the world un- det-laflfl t’ t th» statute of/liberty in the h Clioi of New York iha* her kon-' to ti e im oniinC . traveler ff ta ad! Dittfs of the world is not •> gx«v**n' imaet . we intend to make th* siafufe i'i- living. l*renthinK - oti.-r iou-nes- of a noble-and uplift- Anie’i<a. We Interfd to vindi tX aiiii mak.’ triiimphattr the pf]n eipies- of humait liiiei tv if it take*- * • v * * i y <i:Xp of, blood in the veins of <‘v *ri Amerie.in. freeman.” /*'■ " # ‘ rt ■ ' nations Senator Roraft. ^ ** Warei Tmtli. w>t To an impassioned sp*Xh -fn the Senates ji tor 1 tor a Ik or' Maho. sounder i warning that Americans were too i omplacent over the part then country was playing in this war. an l that ^hevyhiist awaken to the stern reality that America faced a gr6ve v perit. / Senator Ror/h challenged the <ry /hat Aniethsr was figiiting for the democratiz/Mrtn -of Ku^ppe. He-in- 5i?t<d th/t tlie i’nited State? was waging/Awnr now foi the preserva tion iA it - ow n defimcrai v, and that thh/fact innst he unmistakably ini tyes-ed iijiop all Americans. "There i-X/ longe r- n Kunquyff v’u,r; it is ,an Atru'ric.in'war." S* natot Roraji. ’ And lie itt cj^f fHa* ins vjevr tht-^^t’ as it WOMAN GOULD HARDLY STAND .’;\ ’ — Restored to Health by Lydia E. Pmkham’s Vegetable Compound. . • ./ ' XXwX, Fulton, N. Y.-w* Why will women pay out thulr money for treatment and v receive no benefit, j when #o many have proved that Lydia E. Pinkham’# Vege table Compound will make them well? For over a ▼ear I suffered so from female weak ness I could hardly stand and wis afraid to go on the street alone. Doc tors said medicines were useless sad only an operation would help me, but Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound has proved it otherwise. I am now perfectly well and can do any kind of work. _ JJrs. Nellie Phelps, care of R. A. Rider, R.F.D. No. 6. Fulton. N. Y. We wish every woman who suffers from female troubles, nervousness, backache or the blues could see the let ters writun by women made well byLy- <U E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound. U you have bad symptoms and do not undemand the cause, write to the Lydia E. Pink ham Medicine Co., Lynn, .. for helpful advice given free. Air.i'H iht ene-iy v.-er* 11* thut* iuX: .tA tajl>- J" 1 • I ' t*' .1 W (in'll lilt! ■in-'* UUtil At*•: -.i J *iT \< . «- : * • ivi-h-jj. X •uK R' n: ttM .'j N .Xl ■W ili not * i/rmoli*!«il untifi Xmti'i-N ha? tli!*u<ii Hu- w ho!*- f*i-r.t o' I > r'owiu^/fnio'tfat- conflict. r. I’refjiilihit. I can <m)\ p. t*/ niy.-olf. and tny-elf alon* -pt'.ikfng for mvsol’ I tlifl mq mu- for war out of vunpathy for Kran«- . a- much as I s\ iwpathizo frith het greaft' a? I admir* tlfat bniyi* anil chivalrous ju-pph . 1 vot* t| ro wai hocnusc our nwp pPoph ha<! beent‘milnl**red anti ht*c;iUse w-*- wtr warned that the slaughter wa- t. ho renewed. Kndcr that condition of .affair? I could not see anyfhiin-. in' the future othe> t.han coptirtu'/l wrongs,and outrages. .,hutiiMiation-. and a compleic national dt*g!'e.lo tion. I didn’t vote for Vnr. Sir to spread democracy throughout Ihi rope' although .in common with nj* i on n try men I presiitrle I should ho Clad to see every Ring and Fmpero an’tl Prince exiled from among’-men and tin last vestige of dynastic pow er a*went into tjie refuse of hifitprv. } voted for TCar to make safe ou own hlesstfd republie. trt -give djg^ nity and honor and security of this democracy of ours I believed that self-respect was Indisncnsatdo to the life of a democracy; that while oth er nation? might continue on in hu miliation and degradation, a de mocracy without self-respect could not long endure. “I believed that- a repuhlu- which exists alone and only in the affffec- tions of its citizen® eonld not long, survive the dav when It refused to Affendt the rleLtf? and protect the live® of Itq citizen/, and for that reason and for no other under the' «nn I voted for war: anil from tha* hour, in niv judgment, it herame an American w;nr. to be continued no on American Jtrinrjples. and to he discontinued whpwevei American in terests said so. Tj wax no longer a European war to readjust territory, to rehabilitate nation®, te spread democracy in Europe, byt ifXas an American war *o establish once and for all that while slow to wrath we are swift to avenge which imperil the dfves of oupN-iti- zen® and the institutions nndtsr which we live. And. Sir. the soon er we realize that it I? upon these Issue? that war was declared', and fer the preservation of these issues, that war must he continued, the euleker the Senate of the Fnlted State? and the Congress «riK put In Russia, almost w ithtiy sound n! tlie putis I thlnk. w**- gi/.a little m arer to tli»- iTiith.,, In this great war. uptdi whith outXtuunh V bos (i'i' barked. a dye per realization l! an flu peopl* erf th* rhited Stales .ippiecialc. Mr’ s ?'** Ji"" why all the world i? at war. \\\> .ee*- that for ton tutors w«- have lu-en .litiildin*! up a f°! civilization, f \Vx' i tyt- fonijlv helietjal that the world ; . gnvuing fttoi ■ humnnix. more iti®! \Ve have believed that the td i dark days of tyranny and * ruel- e passing away and that the Of Ihe earth had entered into a solemn covenant to keep alh- 1 thj-se divine principles under wltlclt w*. propose Jo live. We see now more clearly than ever a great miR/ fary power, a great military au/ot - racy proceeding upon the pi in/ipies ^Tf-tkf^datk anil cruel pajir thrown tng down the-gauntlet tydthe lllierty -of phr day. _ We Xey- Germany re- pibliate the rule oKmornlity^amuttg n.irtons the himHng'faith of treat ies without A^hfcl’ the so<i«*ty_, «+f nations’capfiot emlure, .Wd se the?.- pn4feiples t .rst aride w ith cyn leal U/fiflfience. Tile prim iplt-< of liliy/rrXn*! slavery. of good and o<il are lot k« il fitti ng in mortal struggle W see tivat ., the tirin ciple- i f *fin flitJiots !:ti!?t go dov e befoi * t! • ina'i ' of’ tliiA G- iin’M Mt.Inc' »r-.l.' s« tic triuU'phahl ‘hood Of O'l’ W-pifltlil-^fVP To Turn H*-i*‘. “Ay ' ’-'Iv as flu- sun V all '!-• tooio-v* it flii- war t-",*}'. With It - tf'lijmi*' of C’oVmnry this (oiir:t!\ will I.* ■ ofu* .* ubjei t nation f< i thp t'-mpi't.-iTaont < f .tho Gr ritiau ruting pow*-! xvjll turn fro this,- pn: j*h- v th Id . tiii rich a’--! \ r spa?-* ' *kt 'tho wi st« to tioinisp'.' - • ‘'Li-a'o your‘w«-alth on,tli<- sfdi - walk’ rrml tinst tiiat t!>- nassin-. ♦iilcf.wil! noirrmtc4C.it: si-nd fo-i' your richlv laden ships (nH4-JLrp**t that tlw. pirates' xvijl 1<-* thi-tu pa ns Well a® trust thal s<<tvrft> will come with German vtHorv “There will he orphan? atiil fh*n* will he widows’ liomcs. Tha-re w ill he doubt and almost despair v but- j in the end there will h* a pr* at tc*-*' country, remade in the. spirit of oiYrJ fathers b> carry liber fry and justice through the world. “We are in this war and have got to go on witiy/it It i® not for us to worry about the etuis*- of wpr or why we should he in this war. It is pot a time for wbvs and where fores. We must realize that th-* time has come- when v A ip erica n lib erty and justice and the Independ ence and freedom of every one of u? i* the stake for which we mu«t fight." l.iver Trouble. "I am bothered with liver trouble about twice # a year." writes Joe Dingman. Webster City. Iowa. “I have pains in my wde and hack and an awful soreness in mv stomach. I heard of Y'h am her loin’s Tablets and tried them. Ry the time I had used half a bottle of them I was feeling fine and had no sign? of pain." Obtainable everywhere. • P. R. Bridge and snns % Howe.ll and Dewey, and daughters. Misses Adrie and Essie, were in town Sat urday. Miss Essie has Just return ed from the State Summer school at Winthrop. t'nre for Fhojera 'I or bus. “When our little hov, p^w seven years old, was a baby tie was cured tho?*. thing®' of cholera morbus by Chamberlain's C-Olic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Rem edy,’’ writes Mrs. Sidney Simmon*. Fair Haven. N. Y. Since then other members of my • family have-used this valuable medicine for colic and bowel troubles with good satisfac tion «nd I gladly endorse it as \ remedy of exceptional merit." Ob tainable everywhere. K?t/ can get it at Our Hardware* Store satPN ms 7 files AWLS HASPS TWINE TAOCS HOOKS TACKS FILES «U*S PIUUH w»*e BITS CIWIETS *PRt /.! ,/ locus knives Ts CAsriES toni bivets wajme* m l\ WE WON’T TELL YOU “WE .V^E JU*ST OUT OF IT” WHEN YOU C OME TO US FOR HARDWARE. WE CARRY THE STOCK, BECAUSE WE KNOW WHAT YOU ARE LIKELY TO WANT AND WE CAN FURNISH yOU WITH EVERYTHING YOU NEED. - “ X S’/;-' V. • ... > ALTHO WE KEEP OlTl STOC K UP WE KEEP THE PRICES DOWN. NO. 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Contain* Caacara Bark, Bine Flag Root, Rhubarb Root, Black Root, May Apple Root, SennaLearea and Pepam. Combinea strength with pala table aroaaatic taste. Doea not gripe. 90c Mis* Fdith Fraser is visiting her - aunt. Mrs. E. R. Rivers, at DeCa- tnr. Ga. Bhe will be away the balance of August.