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WAR WITH ME) RESORT, SAi IN ADDRESI MAKE EVERY EfFORT TO PREVENT CONfLICT Makes It Plain That He Will Not Countenance Conflict Un til There is No Other Alterna tive For Settling Troubles. WILLING TO SACRIFICE POLITICAL FORTUNES Determined to Carry Out His Convic tions as to What Is Just Course to Pursue-Thousands, He Said, Ap pealing to Him to Maintain Peace. New York.-President Wilson made It plain in his speech at the New York Press Club banquet that he will not eountenance a war with Mexico until there is no other alternative for set tiWng the border troubles. Again he declared that he was ready to sacrifice his own political for tunes in order to carry out his con victions as to what would be the just course to pursue in the situation. Bainbridge Colby, who placed The odore Roosevelt in nomination for the presidency at the Progressive Con vention at Chicago, paid President Wilson high tribute in an address, but did not declare unqualifiedly that he would support him in the coming campaign, as it was reported he would do. In his address President Wilson said: "I realize that I have done a very Imprudent thing; I have come to ad dress this thoughtful company of men without any preparation whatever. * * But gentlemen, as a matter of fact, I have been absorbed by the responsibilities which have been so frequently referred to here tonight. and that pre-occupation has made it impossible for me to forecast even what you would like to hear me talk about. * * Mr. Colby said some thing that was among the few things I had forecast to say myself. le said that there are some things which it is really useless to debate, because they go as a matter of course. "Of course, it is our duty to pre pare this nation to take care of Its tionor and of its institutions. Why de bate any part of that, except the de tail; except the plan itself, which is always debatable? "Of course, it is the duty of the Giovernment which it will never over look, to defend the territory and pee pie. of this country. It goes without saying that it is the duty of the Ad ministration to have constantly in mind with the utmost sensitiveness every point of national honor. "But gentlemen, after you have said andl accepted these obvious things your program of action is still to be formed. WVhen will you act, andl how wvill you act? "The easiest thing is to strike. The brutal thing is the impulsive thing. No man has to think before ho takes aggressive action h~ut before a mnan really conserves the honor by r-ealiz ing the ideals of the nation, he has to think exactly what he will (do and how he will do it. "Do you think the glory of Ameri 4ca would be enhanced by a war of conquest in Mexico? Do you think that any action of violence by a pow erful nation like this against a wveak and destructive neighbor wvouldl re flect distinction upon the annals of the United States? "Do you think that it is our duty to carry sel(-defense to a point of dhic tation into the affairs of another pee ple? The ideals of America are writ ten plain upon every page of Amern can history. "And I want you to know how fully 1realize whose servant I am. I do rnot own the Government of the Unit ed .States, even for the time being. Xhave no right in the use of it to ex press my own passions. I have no right to express my own ambitions for the deevlopment of America if ethose ambitions are not coincident with the ambitions of the nation it self. "And I have constantly to remind myself that I am not th~e servant of those who wish to enhance the value 'f, their Mexican investments, that I mthe servant of the rank and file of the people of the United: States. L 7&." get a great many letters, my fel BThow citisons, from important and in 4tential men in thib country, but I ~4get a great many other letters. I get ~ters from unknown men, from num iwomen, from-people whosa names gltrbeen heard and never will ~~'torded and there is .but on~e 412I all of these letters 'Mr. 40 ot 'allow anybody , peo ea n onft th' 'ICO AS LAST. 'S PRESIDENT 3 AT NEW YORK 0 neer, 13e said in an undertone, 'Mr. President, keep out of Mexico.' And if one man has said that to me a thousand have said It to me as I have moved about the country. "If I had opportunity to engage thein further in conversation they say 'of course, we know that you cannot govern the circumstances of the case altogether, and it may be necessary, but for God's sake, do not do it unless it iE necessary. r "I am for the time being the spokes- t mian of such people, gentlemen. I have not read histony without observ- V ing that the greatest forces in the a vworld and the only permanent forces )re the moral forces. * * "Force will not accomplish any. thing that is permanent I venture to ay, in the great struggle which is going on on the other side of the sea. rie permanent things will be accom pished afterward when the opinion >f mankind is brought to bear upon the issues, and the only thing that will hold the world steady is this tame silent, insistent, all-powerful .pinion of mankind. "Force can sometimes hold things steady until opinion has time to form, but no force that was ever exerted ex cept in response to that opinion was ever a conquering and predominant force. "I think the sentence in American history that I myself am proudest of is that in the introductory sentences of the Declaration of Independence where the writers say that a due re spect for the opinion of mankind de. mands that they state the reasons for what they are about to do. I venture to say that a decent respect for the opinions of mankind demanded that those who started the present Euro pean war should have stated their reasons ,but they did not pay any heed to the opinion of mankind and the reckoning will come when the settlement comes. "So, gentlemen, I am willing no matter what my personal fortunes may be to play for the verdict of man kind. Personally, it will be a matter of indifference to ie what the verdict on the seventh of November is provid ed I feel any deg'ree of conc ec that when a latter jury sits I shall get their judgment in my favor. Not my favor, person ally-what difference does that make? but in my favor as an honest and conscientious spokes. man of a great national convention. "There are some gentlemen who are under the delusion that the power of a nation comes from the top. It does not. It comes from the bottom." TO SUPPRESS NEWS OF TROOP MOVEMENTS Washington-Secretary Baker gin nouinced that orders have been sent to all department army comnmanders to suippress all news concerning troop movements. The order follows: "In view of the movements en route to the Texas her der or in Texas might result in some malicious act that might seriously hamper these movements and also might result in unneceeenry loss of life among the troops, i(t is directedI that all concerned be instructedl to the efrfect that igo information as to movements of troops is to be given to reptrestentatives of the press or any indIividluals other than the officials of the railroads conceened or the repre sentatives of the American Railway associa-tion located at the various de partment headquarters and mobiliza tion and concentration points." The department also announced that National Guard organizations which start for the border without full complements of field transporta lion wvill be supplied by Glen. Funston uplonl reaching the border. MEXICANS SEIZE MUCH GOLD AND SILVER BULLION Wai.sh ington.-The staite dlepartment was officially advised that goldl and silver bullion belonging to Americans and seized by local Mexican authorl ties at Manzanillo totaled nearly $500, 000. The seizures were reportedl to have begun before the Carrizal inci (lent. A protest already has been madeo to Gen. Carranza. Reports 'of continued seizures .in va,rious parts of Mexico reached the department during the day. In moat cases the property has been left be hind by Americans ,fleeing from the country. There has been no indica tion that the local authorities acted on instructions from Mexico City, but no reply has been received1 to the rep resontations made several days ago to Gen. Carranza. FIrst Troops at Border. San Antonio, Tex.-The First Ili niols infantry, Col. Sanborne command. ing, arrived at Fort Sam Houston and ent into camp. The Seventh New ri regiment also passed through SAntonio en route to stations in ro4wn e disct .Oth on NO RIGHT TO KEEP TROOPS IN MEXICO FOREIGN OFFICE ISSUES MEMOR ANDUM IN REPLY TO LAN SING'S NOTE. 1EPLY RESENTFUL IN TONE demorandum Contains 35 Counts. Denies That Bandits Along Interna tional Boundary Line Have Been Protected.-As to Huerta. Mexico City.-The Foreign Office isued a memorandum in reply to Sec etary Lansing's recent note, in which he correctness of assertions in the ommunication - )from Washington tere repeatedly *denied. The memor ndum declares that the United States ad no right to maintain its armed orces on Mexican soil. The memorandum contains 35 ounts. Although not in the form of direct reply to the Washington note t is considered equivalent to an an wer to that. document. It expresses urprise that the Washington Govern nent should have been pained at the one and the contents of the Carranza locument, since it maintains that the Jnited States has sent to the Constitu ional Government not only one, but nany discourteous and even overbear ng notes. Emphatically reiterating the Mexi ,an Government's position denying the right of the United States to keep irmed bodies in Mexico, the memo randum denies energetically that the Mexican Government has protected bandits who had committed depreda tions in the United States Blame for the Santa Ysabel massa cree is placed on the so-called impul sive and irascible disposition of Char les Watson, general manager of Cushihuiriachi Company; and General Scott and General Funston are accus ed of bad faith and lack of honor in misleading General Obregen in an alleged evasive reply regari ing the crossing of American troops h to Mex ico after the Glenn Springs raid. The memorandum asserts that while it is true that the United States ar rested lGeneral Huerta, the motive which prompted the act was not a purpose of a~iding the Constitutionalist Government, but because. the United States feared that GenerallHuerta was plotting with Germany. The note concludes by declaring that the presence of American troops 1' Mexico invites rather than pre v ts bandit raids along the border. SOUTHERN BANKS SHOW THE BIGGEST INCREASE Comptroler of Currency's Report Shows Large Increase In South. WashIngton.-A report just made public by the comptroller of the cur rency on deposit accounts in national banks May 1, 1916, shows that the Squthern States led the nation in the lar-gest percen'tage of increase since June 30, 1910, Tennessee ranking first and South Carolia second. North Carolina occupies sixcth place. The Southern States June 30, 1910, was tional bank adcounts for each 991 of population. The number of depositors in the Southern Staated' June. 30, 1910 was 1.272,746. Oni May 1, 1916, this had been increased -to 2,814.508, the in creasing being 1,541,762, or 121 per cent. In Tennessee the increase In six years was 251 per cent or fropn 73,329 depositors in 1910 to 257,508 in 1916. The na-tional bank depositors in South Carolina incrensedl 217 per cent or from 39,217 in 1910 to 124.423 in 1916. Oklahoma increased 188 per cent, Idaho 169 per cent. Virginia 155 per cent and North Carolina 152 pei- cent. EXTRA PAY FOR SERVICE ACROSS MEXICAN BORDER Washington.--Extra pay for foreign service will" be allowed the American troops serving across the borde' uin decr a decision by Comptroller War wick of the treasury. Enlisted men will receive 20 per cent addi-tional and officers 10 :'er cent, FRANK MUNSEY BUYS THE NEW YORK SUN New York.-After 23 years of unsuc cessful effort to establish a propri 'tary news gathering and distribut:ing organization in opplosition to tho co op~erative form of the Associated Press, The New York Sun has just been sold to F'rank A, Munsey, a member of the Associated Press, ana beginning at once wvill no longer try t'o gather its owvn news and will receive the service of the dominant organization, SENATE PASSES ONE OF BIG DEFENSE MEASURES. Washington.--The fortifleations ap propriation bill, one of the Adminis tration's three bIg dlefense measures, was passed by the Senate and sent to the House for con ference. Its total had been reduced from $34,300,000 as it passed the H~ouse to $26.600,000. The .bill provides for both coast and fleh1.artillery. ordntnce and amthutit tiot. 'Xst year's appropriaf4n THE WEST IV (Copyrighti ICT WAS INSULT TO FLAG I ALSO INVASION ON RIGHTS OF I AMERICAN CITIZENS SAYS LANSING. No Mincing of Words In America's Answer to Austria Regarding Attack on Petrolilte. - Demand Apology, Punishment and Indemnity. Washington.-The American rejoin. ler to Austria regarding the Auhtrian submarine attack on the American steamer Petrolite, made public by the state department, describes the act as a "deliberate insult to the flag of the United States and an invasion of the rights of American citizens," and re juests a prompt apology, punishment At the submarine commander, and payment of indemnity. In vigorous language the communi 3ation sent a week ago, makes it clear that the United States government >elieves the facts of the case entirely 1ifferent from that which the Aus 'Ian submarine commander reported hem to be and that immediate amends tre expected. The Austrians claim txat the Petrolite's captain voluntari ly gave up supplies taKen from the steamer by the submarine command Br is flatly contradicted, as are the Mlaims that warning shots were fired cross the Petrolite's bow before she Was shelled and that her appearance was such as to justify the submarine a .ommandcr in mistaking her for a t ,ruiser. -lUGHES AND ROOSEVELT P ARE IN FULL ACCORD After Two Hours and Half Confer- P ence Republican Nominee An- " nounces Peace Pact. h New York.-Charles E. Hughes, Re publican presidential nominee, an flounced at the end of an interview h with Theodore Rosevelt, which lasted h for more than two and a half hoursc that he and the former president were In "complete accord." Mr. Hughes issued the following n statement:a "I was very much pleased with Colonel Roosevelt's let-ter of endorse ment, and lie has expresedi himself in1 a very kindly way with respect to my k telegram to the progressive commit-d tee. I wanted to talk with Colonel h Roosevelt fully with respect to the is sues of the campaign and asked him to dline with me so that we might have F that opportunity. He dined with me and we had a very delightful inter view. We talked 'very fiully over all C matters and are in complete accord. rho evening has been a very pleasant one." It is understood that col- Iloosevelt told Mr. Hughes that he would co- t operate heartily with him in any of his I plans, even to the extent of making a 3 speaking tour if Mr. Hughes so e desired. CASEMENT'S TRIAL AS TRAITORr IS FILLED WITH SENSATiONS. t London.--A day filled with sensa tional incidents at the trial of Sir I Roger Casement for treason was bought to a sudden and dramatic< close when Sergeant Sullivan, Sir Roger's leading attorney, collapsed in I the midst of an impassioned summing < up. AGED BURGEON OF MEXICAN WAR ILL.4 *ashington.--.Dr. Francis Sorrell, a surgeon in the United States Army I hiuring the Mexican war and in the I Conflederate Army (luring th'e war be- r tween the atates, is critically ill at his t Ixomle here. He is a native of Savan-. itah and 89 years old. ITALIANS ARE REGAINING1 MUCH LOST TERRITORY. London-Gains of additional ground by the Italians from the Austrains, by a Lhe French fr-om the Germans north- a ast of Verdun, and by the Germans e ~rom the Russians in Volhynia are 11 xhronicled in the latest official com- C nunications issued by the Italian, bi 'rench and Austrian War Offices. In~ a Lddition, it. Is stated that' the Aus- e rani are still holding ao lIewg i toR irC CALLING' EW RAID ON BORDER AEXICAN BANDITS RAID RANCH NEAR HACHILA, N. M., KILLING OWNER. ossee of Ranchmen and Citizens As. sisted By American Cavalry Are In Pursuit.-Will Cross Border Into Mexico if Necessary. U. S. ALREADY HAS 44,600 TROOPS IN SERVICE FiLLD. With Gen. Pershing in Chi huahua ................15.000 At the base at Columbus,4 N. M. ............... . 2,500 At Douglas and Noga!es, Ariz. ............... . .. 2,500 At Fort Bliss and Can's Cot ton, El Paso .............. 3,500 At Fort Sam Houston. San Antonio ................. 4.500 Between El Paso and Eagle Pass ............... .... 1,500 At or near Eagle Pass ..... 1,000 At or near Laredo ...... .. 5.000 At or near Brownsville...... 9,000 Total ...................44,bOO Columbus, N. M.--American caval ymen assisted by posses of ranchmen nd citizens of Hachita and nearby )wns are pursuing bandits who had ided a ranch about 35 miles south est of Hachita, N. M., killing William arker, the owner, and Mrs. Alice arker, his bride of five months. The district being remote, no re 3rt had reached Colonel Sickle, com anding the border patrol here, at a te hour, but it was assumed that 1e raiders had crossed the frontier erhaps with the pursuers close be ind. According to stories reaching sre the bandits are Mexicans who re mntly committed numerous minor de reciations in the district. Parker, om whom Mexican' bandits stole a umber of head of stock last week, ttempted to drive them off, but was >rced to retreat to the ranch house. he maurauders followed, broke irough the door and murdered Par er and his young wife. They are aid to have made their way south riving a number of cattle and horses efore them. AID MAY SERVE TO - BRING CRISIS TO HEAD eneral Trevino Has Practically Com pleted Disposition, of Troops. Eil Paso, Texas.-Excitement here ver the Mexica~n controversy was re. owed with the receipt of news of tie bandit raid across the border near Iacehita, resulting in the murder of Villiam Parker, American ranchman, nd his wifd. The general sentiment eemed to be that the incident demon. trated anew 'the inability of the Car anza government to offer any pro ection to the American frontier and 'ould serve to bring matters to a tead quickly. Mexican reports indicated that Gen 'rid Trevino, commanding the Car. ainza army corps of the North, has ractically completed the disposition if his troops in preparation for possi. ~le hostilities with the United States The command, the strength of which 'ariously is estimated from 25,000 to 0.000 men, has been distributed along he two railroads to Chihuahua, 'the lexicani Central and the Mexican 'orthwestern, and in 'the Santa Maria liver Valley, in such a way as to ienaco the American line communica ion and present an obstacle to a pos ible American drive toward Ubihua. iia City, 4,000 TROOPS ON WAV, TO GENER*AL PUNSTON. New York-At the urgent request f General F~unston orders were is. ued by Major General Leonard Wood. emmander of the Department of the at, for Pennsylvania and District of olumbia troops to entraji. for the order at the earliest possible mo Lent. It wgs believed at headquaz u. rs that many Would move to border )One, The Perihtsfvana tnon. wer. VAL.POINT HAS NOT BEEN SETTLEb THE WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT AWAITS FULL COMPLIANCE. OF DEMANDS. CHASE OF BANDITS AN Ussus Return of Prisoners Clears Atmos phere Pending a Satisfactory An swel to the Moo % Far-Reaching Re ' quirement. - Continue to Move Troops. Washington.-The Washington Gov ernment still awaited full compliance with its demands by the do facto auth orities of Mexico. Release by Gen eral Carranza's order of the American prisoners taken at Carrizal has avert ed the probability of immediate re taliatory steps. It is possible that it has also helped to pave the way to ward an attempt at peace settlement of the whole border situation. High officials made it very clear, however, that the vital point at issue, the future attitude of Mexican forces toward American troops in northern Mexico. engaged in guarding the border and pursuing bandits who raided Amer. can territory-remains to be settled. The State Department had no ad vices as to when a diplomatic reply to its demands might be expected.. Pending a satisfactory answer toit. second and more far-reaching require ment, the United States will continue, to hurry troops to the border and to. take every step necessary in prepara tion to carry out its purposes by force of arms. Intimations have come, it is under stood, that Carranza intends to back up the orders isped to General Tre vino directing that American troops. be attacked if they moved in q.ny direction in Mexico except toward the: border. Officials are fully prepared. for a reply of that character, despite. the fact that the prisoners at Carrizal have been promptly surrendered on demand. They expect, however, that the reaffirmation of position will be made in a note free from hostile lan guage and continuing the discussion of the advisability of the withdrawal. of American troops from Mexico. Apparently Secretary Lansing is de termined to get a clear statement of intentions on which action by the United States can be founded. Carranza officials profess an earnest desire to avoid a clash, however, and a further struggle to fix diplomatically responsibility for hostilities that may come is foreshadowed. Mr. Lansing made it clear to Ignacio ,alderon, Minister from Bolivia, that pending a formal r ranza Government ', . )ffer of mediation ui ible to the United Y DEATH PENALTY PRONOUNCED ON SiR ROGER- CASEMENT Irish Agitator and Leader of Separist Party Guilty of High Treason. London.--Viscount Reading, LorG Chief Justice of England, with the black cloth-by tra4dic . called a cap -spread over his head nd his two as sociates . in scarlet gowns, likewise black-capped, pronounced the sen tence of death for high treason on the Irishman, Sir Roger Casement, half an hour after the foreman of the jury, in a shalking voice, gave the cerdic~t of guilty. Sir Roger addressed the court, reading his final statement, with the explanation that he wished it might reach a much larger audience than the one before him, and particularly the people of America, from whom had come many messages of sympathy to him and whose own strugg'le for liberty, he Bald, always had been an insipiration to Irishmen. Sir Rogers' auditors, among whom were Viscounit Bryce and many other prominent men and women, listened in deepest silence, some moved to tears. .The prisoner' declared he did not. regard trial by Englishmen in an English court as a tri.al by his peers,. to which he was entitled. PERMISSION GIVFN TO REMOVE BODIES Mexico Ciy --Minister of . War Obregon instructed Gen eral Trevino, the Mexican com-. mander at Chihuahua, to in form Consul Garcia at El Paso that no Impediment would be placed in the way of the Ameri can authorities if they desired to remove the bodies of the American troopers killed at Car rizal to American territory. HIUN DR EDS OF EX. 'J. 5. MARiNES VO! UNT'-: I WVashngton.Althqugh -t'a State~s Marine Corps has no a'erAve, hundreds of former memnbernt havn vol mteliered for service is the o)V cor'ps n (-asfe of emergency,' it Wan announc, 'd at Marine Corps heab Xt'rs. The. \farine Corps formn ti line~ of ille "ional mobbilo efease uLt iiir vol 'ste a N t a~~Lc(k acjo F10p W 11If4~ aees j19 d ~~ dun'