Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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WHAT raOlAKP? GREAT NAVY HAS DOlTO TO GERMANY. Tt?4? Dflvea From the See, Buttled ?P aad Her Nety ptfeotlve?In the MeeewhUe and Her Allies Heve Prao teoaBy Ua4**erre4>t.?d Vie of the Taking the existing situation, it will' be rqc?gnlsed that up to the ?resent British aea power has accom? plished all that Nslsoi aceomplished far ma country and a dttle mors, that IS to say it ans established the British snpnamney on water beyond question, it hen abolished ths German commerce from the; sea, It his destroyed the Oer warships and undersea boats that have veatered wit I Up r?*ch. it has giv? en to BflfSsh commerce and to Brit lali trenapert the, safe use of ths f>lsssjt| the ssiisnt.onal details df ths sinking of a fear great liners. It is wslf to remember that ths actual per? centage of loss of British shipping from German activities Is far smaller then I* at inflicted by French priva tesas -n the -Napoleonic time and never did the British In the earlier warn with the franco succeed in so completely sn snemy go they ha vi now. Psllowing the earlier precedent, British, ac* newer has nigds It possible for BctUsg) expedition* to operate In Byrope and outside of It In Europe British armies hav? isnqsrsd great help In France and omtrtbutsd to abelish all prospect tfcftt the Qermane can win a decision In tUs West Thsy ?Are permitted the Bet iah ft under a campaign in 'CtylHpoll. which failed as did the several caro mmmsets hen agauaat Weg nleen, Um great cesntelsj* i sd Weir ?ansn. am she same wag has pennitaed ta?, osstcoJ irnnen mt trass* at mmi lalse e*d fta Bgypt tarns Meowing m Iwraiea thrust I Outside the Kuropean and If eat the Bswisfe to anther up an but on*4 of %hs> Gasman aelsalsa; with Hie remaining It within the garsp of ths British when d^hT^they ehoese to eetse tt The wfih Germany as the (Britain of the Pllte dealt with Prance, both of the Mdmrehy and the Umpire. It has { abolished ^tnan commerce, appro? priate* tlertna* sotonteu, ssaled up is. ans) it new from Inflicting upon tne British In and fretn effeotlvs ty akstrf silng with their trade or their teaay Britain la givng financial aid to Hosata and to Italy, she Is giving military aid to France aid she Is en? gaging Germany's Terkkth ally. Her troops, her money, her fleet ars all available for nest wherever German activity calls for Allied effort. By no manne alt of her ventures have been suroissful, tret In the Napoleon Is war there were several Gall!polls, notably on ths Island of Walchersn and In ths ones of Sweden. Even the Spanish affair was for long such a failure as almost to lead to its aban? donment. Tile real obstacle to peace, at the pi smut moment, lies in the fact that Great Brttam has so far been I he sols an?a to profit by the wsr, and her prdftts have been absolute. Germany had mads conquests on land, she has moat of Belgium, a comer of France, muah of Busala, and (with hsr ally) Serbia and Montenegro. But Ger? many aas lest the sea. Not a G*r maw ship can put te aea. and Oer tr.ehy cannot return te the ordinary business of life uatH she can again be? st it to sbtp her manufactures by wa tsr and draw her raw materials by the same routs. Thnar 4? effect .Germany has occu? pied Warsaw. Ufte, and Belgrade, only to less Hamburg and Brsmsn, which ars to aH intents and purposes m British hands, sines they cannot bs used by Oar many. After eighteen months Germany has captured noth? ing that can give her a basts for bargain with Britain. And What Brit? ain holds makes all of Germany's con? quests of little value, She Is, as I hare said before .let the position ef a burglers who has entered a houss and) collected the sliver but cannot get out to dispose of It. Now, anlsss Germany can outlast Britein, er fend seme way te exercise compulsion upen Britain, she n.ust ul? timately go te London and ask for pease .because she must ultimately ? ? her sea commerce, she must .eiy use ths oceans. Nothing is die than te suppose that there Is a market er a future for Germany as a saW? seasalmf empire, even 1 if thai . metre saeeeds from Hamburg te 1. The very character of Ger? ms* duetry makes the sea the neons eary I ay of tr?uspert? and It Is from her trade beyond the frontiers of hsr hat she draws the revenue which keepe her great population llv lag in a racw Wied area. a??>'.* from this question of tks fu iure, there is; too, the question of th? present, the problem of food and mu? nition* for a war of exhaustion Sea Bower the Decisive EleiaenL Early in our civil war, the North iaolated the South; but it look years to reduce the fortress thus Isolated, and it was always possible for the South by occupying Washington and our eastern cities, to win the war. I But ultimately the blockade was fatal, whan coupled with the failure of the South' to obtain a decision on land. Unless the Germans shall And a way to break the blockade or compel the British to raise it, there seems to me no reason to doubt that the end of I the war Is assured. It is a feet that Germany has so far failed in every at tempt to reach Britain; and her fail? ures have been so costly, that it is difficult.to believe that it is any long* er within German power to compel Britain. Bear in mind, always, that this war is, in Us main issue, a contest between I the Germans and the British. The dispute between the French und the! Germans is limited to a single provi- I ince. Russia and Germany could ar? range their differences by bargain. Italy could bo bought off by a pay? ment in territory* But it la not any question of relatively minor ; mport-1 once that separates Germany andI ttrttaln. On the contrary, Germany I l as asserted that Britain has de I llberately set out to thwart hsr ex-1 panslon, to check her natural growth, and that It is only on the ruins of British sea power that ehe can erect that empire which Is necessary to her existence. I Great Britain on her part, alow tol perceive the challenge, has now tak? en It up as she tqok up the challenge] of Holland, of Spain, and of France 1 both under Louis XIV and Napoleon. I In every one of these cases Britain did j not pause with a victory or abandon] hope when she was left alope to fight. She fought to the end and tol ties destruction of her foes, so far as thalr marine ambitions were concern-1 ?d. because she saw in these ambitions I a peril to her own existence. Today! she has accepted the German chal-1 lange as Rome took that of Carthage. I She la bending her energies and her I power, not to throw Germany back I Within Hot own boundaries in E urope, I but to put an end for a generation at I the leaar. to aU peril at sea. She 1st Stating, not to destroy the Gurman f nation, hut to destroy Germany as a f rival oa.al power and marine com-1 Petitor. j Abaorltod III eur study and Interest In the It nd operations, properly im Pressed by the magnitude of German I victories, we in Arneriea ,ae indeed the l observers in the whole world, have tool little appreciated the truth that the L land operations oave lacked the char- [ acter of a decision; and the fact that L they have lacked this character has[ given to the naval operations an im-1 portanoe tar In excess of those on j shore. British muddling, defeat, die- L aster on land have captured the mind [ of a generation which Is too unfa- I miliar with British history to up pre- I elate that the same things have mark-1 ed every great British conflict and were fatal only in the case of our own War of the Revolution, and then I merely because Britain at ths decls-1 Ivo hour also temporarily lost control of the sea. On the map. the German conquests I make a formidable showing, hut how [ much mors impressive Is the show-1 Ing of the British conquests if you color ths ssaa to nldicate them. Some day Europe will talk peace, put What value will peace have for Germany if I it dose not Include In the terms the fight to use the seas? But how is Germany to persuade Britain to con code this right, if she cannot conquer I It T Does any one suppose that C ,. - many will be able to exhaust Britain before shs Is herself exhausted This is absurd, because Britain la still able to carry on a portion of her Indus? trial life, and her resources in capital far exceed German. As for ruin, when peace is made, If the Britain are able to compel the Germans to give up their merchant marine, even if they are only able to forbid German ships the right to use their harbors and their colonial ports and naval stations as ports of call, In concert with their allies, German ship? ping will be out of the race and the British wll) replace their only rival in the carrying trade of the world, and find her new wealth to replace old. 1 ' Prophecy Is Idle and I do not mean to prophenv. What I do mean to em? phasise 1?, that eighteen months af? ter the outbreak of the war, sea pow? er, navalimn If you please, has so com? pletely baited militarism, that the sit? uation that exists, unless Germany can find some way to modify It, by suc? cess over the British, Insures German defeat exactly as Napoleon's defeat was'Insured when he failed to dispose of sea power and faced the Continent In arms.?From "Sea Power and the War," by FranK H. Slmonds In the American Review of Reviews for Feb? ruary. WANTED?Sw?et potatoes In large quantities. Name your price. The Bumter Packsge Co. 39 N. Main Bt. Sumter, 8. C. m tu gjpp BILL TO CLOSE OUT RICHLAND COUNTY DISPENSARY. To Investigate Southetitsern Under? writers* Association?Exercises tn Senate in Memory of Late Senator Appeit. Columbia, Feb. 1.?The bills pro? viding for the appointment of a com? mission to wind up th<) affairs of the Richland county dispensary system and allowing the commission to sell the surplus stock of liquor on hand outside the State were passed to third reading in th* house this morning. A resolution for legislative investiga? tion of the Southeaster! Underwriters* association was presented to the house this morning. The appropriation bill was made a spe61al* order for 10 o'clock in the | morning. A hearing will be given manufac? turers tomorrow afternoon at 4 o'clock by the senate commerce committee on the bill providing for the time for operating automatic machinery in tex? tile plants. The senate this afternoon held ex? ercises in memory of the late Senator Louis Appeit, of Clarendon county. NO TIME EXTENSION. Columbia, Feb. 1.??-AH1 requests for the extension of time for the payment of State and county taxes until March* 1 were refused by the lower house last night by a yea and may vote of 47 to 43. A number of counties ap? plied for relief, but each met the same fate as the general bill.11 Jesse W. Boyd of Spstrtanburg, who led the opposition no the several hills, maintained that thsy would' necessitate a complete revision of the tax books and that tholr enactment would not Work for the benefit of the-] small taxpayer. The counties that sought indi? vidually an extension of time, all be? ing refused, were: Jasper, Florence, Abbeville, Newberry, Greenville, Clar? endon and lAurens. HOUSE GOES AFTER MEMBERS ? HOLDNG TWO OFFICES. Columbia, Feb. 2.?The house of representatives seem determined to "go after" Its members holding two offices, which is prohibited by the constitution. Rvjolucionti were adopt? ed this morning calMug on the attor? ney general tn report to the house during this session representatlves holding any other office and asking the Secretary of State for the com? mission of all trustees of State col? leges and whether or net any of them are - members of the house. There -has j been some editorial comment lately da members of the legislature ac? cepting trusteeships In these institu? tions. * " The State highway commission bill providing for a license tax on automo? biles for road Improvements was kill* ed In the house by a vote of GO to 37. This vote effectually shelves all other like measures. Messrs. Dixon, Charles and Odom of the house were appointed by the speaker as a oommittee to investigate insurance rates In South Carolina and report them to the genera lassembly during this session. ! HOUSE STANDING RY BILL. Columbia, Feb. 2.?The house Is standing pretty well by the appropria? tion bill as reported from the com? mittee. Amendments providing for an Increase In the salaries of the as Blatant attorney general and the in? surance actuary were refused and the house would not allow 326,000 for paying the federal government for the Joss of arms and equipment by I the State militia. The senate this morning killed the bill abolishing the State tax commis? sion and passed to third reading the measure providing for a board of re? view for ths body. The bin abolishing cock fighting anywhere in Sooth Carolina passed and the measure enauUng State-wide prohibition was sent to the house. Columbia, Feb. 3.?The Verner bill, providing for the abolition of free [scholarships and tuition, In its orig? inal form Was hilled m the senate this morning. However, an amendment by i Senator Padgett requiring the fiscal [agent of the State Board of Chari? ties and Corrections to pass on the eligibility and financial standing of applicants for scholarship and tuition in State colleges was passed by a vote of 30 to 10. This scholarship matter has been under debate both in the house and the senate and In the public press since the legislature con* vened. Free tuition and scholarship* are retained In State Institutions under the present measure, but safeguards [are thrown around the granting of them. The house made speedy work In passing the appropriation bill and apaln went on record as desiring the committee bill to pass unamonded as far as possible. The house refused to provide for new offices and would nut allow increase In salaries. ?ot B? mm. i PRESIDENT WANTS BACKING OP PEOPLE IN HIS FIGHT FOR LIVES AND TRADE OF NATION. Kansas City, Feb. 2.?-President Wilson demanded tonight that steps be begun during the present month to back him up in defending American lives and commerce abroad. His de? mand met with shouts and applause from an audience of 10,000 persons, who waved American flags, leaped to their feet and cheered. The big crowd was with the president from the start. Whsn the president ceased speaking he leaned forward and asked the great throng to Join him in singing "America." The audience stood and the words of the national anthem came in a glorious burst of song. "Why, some men in Washington are questioning if we could get the G00t 000 men for which the government is asking," he said at one opint of his address. "Would they volunteer?" A man in the far end of the hull shouted his answer over the heads of the crowd: "Yes," he cried. A dosen ?a score?GO echoed the word and tho hall was in a turmoil. President Wilson then held out his hand. "Why, I believe," he said as the tumult died, "you could raise the G00,. 000 men in almost any State. I believe you could get G.ooo men right here in this audience. "I have been thrilled by the expe? riences of these last few days," the president said, "and I w|U go home to Wash*-gton and smile at the gen? tlemen \\uo say the United States is not awake. "Those gallant men who sit on the hill in Washington and make our laws are going to deliver the goods?" the crowd cheered. "Don't misunder? stand me, they are going to deliver the goods because you want the goods delivered." 1 The president said the time had come for him to ask his fellow clti xens to "get upon your hind legs and talk and tall the people who repre? sent you what the nation desires and demands. The thing that every? body in a democracy Is listening for |S the tramp, tramp, tramp, of the facta! , "I have come to ask you what Is back ol me In thia task of preserv? ing ?U once peace and your honor," the president said. "The judge on th<? bench has the law back of him with its bailiffs, sheriffs, National Guards? men and the United States army but is some foreign capital what the president urges as the rights of the people and government of the United States, what is there back of it? "It Is necessary that I should come and ask you this question because 1 don't know how long the mere word and insistence of your government Will prevail to maintain your honor and the dignity and power of the na? tion. There may come a time?I pray God it may never come, but it may in spite of everything we can do?upon us when I shall have to ask: *I have said my say; who stands back of it?' Where is that force by which the right and majesty of the United States are to be vindicated and as? serted?" The president declared the need was immediate and that action should be begun within the present month. "I assure you there is not a day to be lost," he said. "Not because there is any special crisis, but because I do not know 24 hours ahead what will happen. "The fpture does not depend op us, but upon commanders of ships and of submarines and upon blockades and upon many other men, big and little. "I have read editorials," he said, "sneering at the number of notes sent abroad by the government and asking why don't the government act; and in these same papers I have seen edi? torials against the preparation to do anything whatever effective, if these notes are to be regarded. Is that the temper of the United States? It may be th?. temper of some editorial of? ficials but I know it is not the temper of the people of the United States." A wave of applause swept over the gathering. A voice in the gallery cried 4No!" and the crowd yelled again. The president presented a warning that most of the monition factories of the United States were on the Atlantic seaboard and that therefore the nation must be ready to repel the first at? tack In order to avoid disaster. The present army, the president said, was so small that he did not even have enough soldiers to station along the Mexican border to prevent bandits from crossing the line. "I have even felt," he said, "like asking congress to encourage the re? cruiting of Texas rangers. We are witnessing a cataclysm aaid God only knows what tho issue shnll be," was the way he prefaced his conclusion In which ho asked his audleitce to keep cool, but* to uphold the judgment of tho government In Its demands for a larftrr, more effective means Of na? tional defense. ^ CHEVROLET ?????wiil-wu ?? Gar Load Will Arrive Feb. 15th. Ask for a Demonstration. This is the Modern Car at a reasonable price. It will prove its worth in service. $490.00 F. O. B. Flint, Mich. Electric Starter and Lights $60.00 Extra. L. D. NETTLES & CO. Office City National Bank Building. The Bailey-Lebby Company Machinery, Mill and Plumbing Supplies, AUTOMOBILE TIRES AND ACCESSORIES. AGENTS FOR c2?pWsire CELEBRATED G. Sl J. TWES. CHARLESTON, S. C. VOLUMES Might be Written on how to save and why, but they're not necessary. You KNOW you should save and that a start should be made ?make it to-day at our Savings Department, we'll compound the 4 per cent. Interest regularly. The National Bank of Sumter, ESTABLISHED 1889 "SAFEST FOR YOUR SAVINGS" The National Bank of South Carolina The Bank with the Bin Clock. The Bank with the Big Capital, and Surplus. Correct Time and Correct Methetfe Resources $905,000.00 We want 1000 new accounts during the year 1916. Let yours be among them. C. 6. ROWLAND, 6. L. WARREN, Pres. Cath'r.