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Woodiow Wilson Tells Fellow Americans What German Victory Means to the World. In Great Flag Day Address Pre$ident WiI.on Reviews War Situation, Exposing the Plans for World Con? quest and World Dominion of German Military Caste Intrigue and Conspiracy Still Active in the United States. Washmgtor, June 14.?President Wilson warned the American people ill a Flag Day address on the Wash? ington Monument grounds today that Germany has carried into effect the greater part of her immediate plan ti conquest and now is negotiating a new "Intrigue of peace" designed to end the war while her aggressions are secure. All the central empires, the presi? dent declared, have been cemented into one great autocracy-ridden em? pire, "throwing a broad belt of Ger? man military power and political con? trol across the very center of Eu? rope and beyond the Mediterranean into the heart of Asia." This accom? plished, he said, h is easy to under? stand why Germany is fostering u propaganda for an early peace. "Peace, peace, peace, has been the talk of her foreign office for now a year and more," said the president "A little of the talk has been public, but most of it has been pri? vat?. Through all sorts of channels it has come to me and in all sorts of guises. The military masters under whom Ger? many is bleeding so very clearly to what point fate has brought them. If they can secure peace now with the Immense advantage still in their , hands which they have up to this i point apparently gained, they will , have justified themselves before the German people; they will have gained by force what they promised to gain < by if 1 The president recited again the Ger- 1 man aggressions which drove the j United States to war. He declared \ the purposes tor which American sol- ( dlers now carry the f'.ars and Stripes , to Europe for the first t me in history, are not new to American traditions because realisation of Germany's war aims must eventually mean the un? doing of the whole world. He spoke as follows: "My Fellow Citizens: We meet to celebrate Flag Day because this flag which we honor and under which we serve is the emblem of our unity, our power, our thought and purpose as a nation. It has not other character than that which we give it from gen? eration to generation. ? ? ? We cel? ebrate the date of its birth and from its birth until now it has witnessed a great history-, has floated on high the symbol of great events, of a great plan of life worked out by a great peo? ple. We are about to carry it into battle, to lift it where It will draw the Are* of our enemies. We are about to bid thousands, hundreds of thousands, it may be millions, of our men, the young men, the strong, the capable men of the nation, to go forth and die beneath it on fields of blood fur away ?for what? For some unaccustomed thing. For something for which it has never sought the Are before? American armies were never before sent across the seas. Why are they sent now? For some new purpose, for which this great flag has never been carried before, or for some old. familiar, heroic purpose for which it has seen men, it* own men. die on ev? ery battlefield upon which Ameri? cans have borne arms since the rev? olution? "These are questions which must be answered ? ? ? "It is plain* enough how we weie forced into the war. The extraordin? ary Insults and aggressions of the im? perial German government left us no | self-respecting choice but to take up arms in defense of our rights as a free people and of our honor as a sovereign government. The military masters of Germany denied us the right to be neutral. They filled our unsuspecting communities with vicious spies and conspirators and sought to corrupt the opinion of our people in their own behalf. When they found that they could not do that, their agents diligently spread sedition amongst us and sought to draw our own citizens from their allegiance? and some of these agents were men connected with the official embassy <<t the German government itself?here in our own capital. They sought by violence to destroy our industries and arrest our commerce. They tried to incite Mexico to take up arms aguinst us and to draw Japan into a hostile allegiance with her?and that, not by indirection, but by direct uggestlon from the foreign office in Berlin. They impudently denied us the use of the high seas and repeatec ly executed their threat that they wculd send to their death any of our people who ventured to approach the coasts of Europe ? ? ? What grea: nation, in such circumstances, would not have taken up arms? Much a* we had de? sired peace, it was denied us and not of our own choice. This flag, under which we serve would have been dis? honored had we withheld our hand. '?But that is only part of the story. Vie know now as clearly as we knew before we were ourselves engaged that ve are not the enemies of the German people and that they are not our enemies. * * * They art! themselves in the grip of the same sinister power that has now at last stretched its ugly talons out and drawn blood from us. The whole world is at war be? cause the whole world is in the grip that power and is trying out the great battle which shall determine whether it is to be brough t under its mastery or fling itself free. "The war was begun by the military masters of Germany, who proved to be also the masters of Austria-Hun grary. These men have never regard? ed nations as peoples, men, women, and children of like blood and frame is themselves, for whom governments 1 sxisted and in whom governments had ^ their life. They have regarded them 1 merely as serviceable organizations 1 which they could by force or intrigue 1 send or corrupt to their own purpose. J They have regarded the smaller 1 States, in particular and the peoples 1 vho could be overwhelmed by force, ' is their natural tools and instruments ' >f domination. Their purpose has 1 long been avowed. ? ? ? "The demands made by Austria ' upon Serbia were a mere Mingle step 1 in a plan which compassed Europe ' and Asia, from Berlin to Bagdad. They hoped these demands might not 1 arouse Europe, but they ueant to press them whether they did or not, for tney thought themselves ready for the final Issue of arras. "Their plan was to throw a broad belt of German military power and political control across the very cen? tre of Europe and beyond the Medi? terranean into the heart of Asia; and Austria-Hungary was to be as much their tool and pawn as Serbia or Bul? garia or Turkey or the ponderous States of the East. Austria-Hungary, indeed, was to become part of the central German empire, absorbed and dominated by the same forces and influences that hod originally cement? ed the German states themselves. The dream had its heart at Berlin. It could have had a heart nowhere else! * ? * It contemplated binding to? gether racial and political units which could be kept together only by force, ?Czechs, Magyars, Croats, Serbs, Ru? manians, Turks. Armenitns? the proud states of Bohemia and Hungary, the stout little com? monwealths of the Balkans, the indomitable Turks, the subtle peoples of the East. These peoples did not wish to be united. They ardently de? sired to direct their own affairs, would be satisfied only by undisputed inde? pendence. * ? * And they have ac? tually carried the greater part of that amazing plan into execution! Look how things sta; d! *** From Hamburg to the Persian Gulf the net Ifl spread. "Is it not easy to understand the eagerness for peace that has been manifested from Berlin ever since the snare was set and sprung? Peace, peace, peace, has been the talk of her foreign ofllce for now a year and more; not peace upon her own initia t.vo, but upon the initiative of the na? tions over which she now d(ems her? self to hold the advantage. A little of the talk has been public, but most of it has been private. Through all sorts of channels it has con.e to me, and in all sorts of guises, but never with the terms disclosed which the German government would 1m; willing to accept. That government has oth? er valuable pawns in its hands be? sides those I have mentioned. It still holds a valuable part of Franc-, though with slowly relaxing grasp, and practically the whole of Belgium. Its armies press close upon Russia and overrun Poland at their will, it cannot go further; it dare not go back. It wishes to close its bargain before It is too late and it has little to offer for the pound of flesh it will demand. "The military masters under whom Germany is bleeding see very clearly to what point fate has brought them. If they fall back or are forced back an inch, the'r power both abroad and at home will fall to pieces like a house of cards. It is their power at home they are thinking about now more than their power abroad. It is that power which is trembling under their very feet; and deep fear has entered their hearts. They have but one chance to perpetuate their military power or even their controlling politi? cal Influence. If they can secure peace now with the immense advan? tages still in their hands which they have up to this point apparently gain? ed then they will have justified them? selves before the German people. * * ? * If they fail, their people will thrust them aside; a government accountable to the people themselves will be set up in Germany as it is In England, In the United States, in France and in all the great countries o the modern time except Germany. If they succeed they are safe and Ger? many and the world are undone; If they fail, Germany is saved and the world will be at peace. If they suc? ceed, America will fall within the menace. We and all the rest of the world must remain armed, as they will remain, and must make ready for the n*?xt step in their aggression; if they fall, the world may unite for peace and Germany may be of the un? ion. "Do you not now understand the new intrigue, intrigue for peace; and why the masters of Germany do not hesitate to use any agency that prom? ises to effect their purpose, the deceit )f the nations? Their present partlc jlar aim is to deceive all those who :hroughout the world, stand for the *ights of peoples and the self-govern nent of nations; for they see what mmense strength the forces of jus ice and of liberalism are gathering )ut of this war. They are employing Iberals in their enterprise. They are jsing men, in Germany and without, is their spokesmen whom they have lltherto despised and oppressed, using hem for their own destruction?So dalists, the leaders of labour, the hinkers they have hitherto sought to Hence. Let them once succeed and hesc men, now their tools, will be rround to powder beneath the weight ?f the great military empire they will iave set up; the revolutionists in Itus >la will be cut off from all succ*or or :operation in western Europe and a ounter revolution fostered and sup >orted Germany herself will lose her ?hance of freedom; and all Europe vill arm for the next, the final strug? gle. "The sinister intrigue is being no ess actively conducted in this country :han In Russia and in every country n Europe there to which the "agents md dupes of the imperial German government can get access. That gov ?rnment has many spokesmen here, in [daces high and low. They have learn? ed discretion. They keep within the Law. It is opinion they utter now, lot sedition. They proclaim the lib? eral purposes of their masters; declare this Is a foreign war which can touch America with no danger to either her lands or her institutions; set England it the centre of the stage and talk of her ambition to assert economic do? minion throughout the world; appeal to our ancient tradition of isolation in the politics of the nations; and seek to undermine the government with false professions of loyalty to its principles. "But they will make no headway. The false bertay themselves always in every accent. It Is only friends and partisans of the German government whom we have already identified who utter these thinly disguised disloyal? ties. The faetS are patent to all the world, and nowhere are they more plainly seen than in the United States, where we are accustomed to deal with facts and not with sophistries; and the great fact that stands out above all the rest is that this is a peoples' war, a war for freedom and justice E?nd self-government amongst all the nations of the world, a war to make the world safe for the peoples who live upon 't and have made it their own. the German people themselves included; and that with us rests the choice to break through all these hy? pocrisies and patent cheats and masks of brute force and help set the world free, or else stand uside and let it be dominated a long age through by sheer weight of arms and the arbitra? ry choices of self constituted master.-;, by the nation which can maintain the biggest armies and the most irresisti? ble armaments?a power to which Urn world has afforded no parallel and In the face of which political freedom must wither and perish. "For ns there Is but one choice. We have made it. Woe be to the man or group of men that seeks to stand in our way In this day of high resolution when every principle we hold dearest is to be vindicated and made secure for the salvation of the nations. We air ready to plead at the bar of his P&Jm Beach,. Keep Kool, Mohair and Silk Suits For Mid-Summer wear at $6.50, $8.50, $10.00, $12.50, $15. Have just received an assortment of NEW PATTERNS I The Sumter Clothing Co. tory, t.nd our flag Shall wear a new lustre. Once more Ave shall make good with our lives and fortunes the great faith to which we were born and a new glory shall shine in the face of our people." MR. DA BUS DISCUSSES MARKETS. lie Take? the Position That Chamber of Commerce Should Arrange for Markets for Farm Produce. Editor Daily Item. Mr. E. I. Rcardon need not spill ink over two columns to explain why the Chamber of Commerce can not find a market for my 50 bushels of choice Irish potatoes. It is just simply that our business men do not know how to find an outlet for our surplus crops, and would prefer to make a profit on stuff brought in in the regular channels of trade that have been developed, than to make the same profit on our produce where they have to find an outlet for it. In other words they have no initiative. If there had really been any market work done at all in keeping with the grow foDd propaganda the Chamber of Commerce could have told me in an hour where and at what price my potatoes could be sold. It is "stuff" about their not being in barrels. Po? tatoes are sold in bags as much or more than in barrels. When I see quotations of potatoes at $ Ii.00 and more per bushel, I would like to know way just as soon as I offer any at $3.00 I am told I want a retail price for my lo-.? Now I am not going to quarrel with ai y one, but I repeat that the men who are in business are the ones to find markets for our crops. If they do not, then please quit giving so much free advice to farmers about what to plant. It is either "put up or shut up" to use the gambler's par? lance. And I offered the potatoes through the Chamber of Commerce, and am writing this letter to put the business men on notice that we who grow the crops want to see some results. To fall down on tin; first BO bushels of potatoei offered docs not promise much for the corn, rice, hay, syrup, etc. market that has been promised so confidently by leading business men oi Sumtcr. ( I am offering my po? tatoes to the people here at home that are paying ?>?? to 7a cents for western meal and grits at IT? and M7 1-3 cents per peek, or one dollar for culls, per? fectly sound, but under size, and 11.50 for choice potatoes.) And l fear they will be just as unprepared ne\i falJ as they are no v. I told the com? mittee of public safety that by July 1st this section could feed itself and have a surplus. I did not think it could by June 1st, but it can. As to how much we will help feed other less favored sections depends on the price we can get. E. W. Dabbs. LITTLE WILLIE IS PASSING. Something Due to Happen to Speed I ana He- Who Use Cut Outs. Judging from a few remarks cas? ually spoken, there are apt to be some citizens on the mourner's bench at the Recorder's court in the near fu? ture. They are those who have re? fused to heed the warnings published by ihe Chief of Police and also to he found In the traffic ordinances, for? bidding the use of? cut outs on motor carl and motorcycles. This unneces? sary and disgusting practice, seems to have for its sole excuse, the purpose of disturbing and annoying others and to announce, that little Willie is pass? ing by in his car "don't you know." It is to be hoped that the police force will be able able to capture a number of these submarines who wantonly and without just cause violate the rights of others to pass a peaceful ex? istence. "B, A." Entertained. Dr. and Mrs. Warren Burgess enter? tained the "B. A." Club on Friday evening at their home on West Cai houn street. Shasta daisies were ef? fectively used in the decoration of th< attractive rooms where tables wert placed for bridge. Mrs. Leon Scott won top score and was presented with the prize?a bridge set. After cards were laid aside, a salad course, fol? lowed by refreshing ices, was served. Those pnsent were Mr. and Mrs Baynard Yeadon. Mr. and Mrs. Ben? jamin Hodges, Mr. and Mrs. Hey? ward Crowsor, Mr. and Mrs. Leon Scott, Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Court wright, and Mr. Wilson Green. Mr. W. B. Cooper, a large exporter of cotton of Wilmington, x. c, is In tow n today. The British government has sup? plied over 8,000 artificial limbs to maimed soldiers since the commence men! of the European war. Welcomed In New Orleans. New Orleans, June 14.?The mem? bers of the Italian war mission were enthusiastically received here today TO PASS $2,000,000 MARK. Charleston Business Men Pushing Sale of Bonds. Charleston, June 13.?Prospects were bright this afternoon for Char? leston to pass the S2,000,000 mark in Liberty bond subscriptions as the banks alone had late today received $1,243,450 in subscriptions and a large committee of business men were plac? ing numbers of blocks of $5,000 in subscriptions among employers. Official figures show that since the beginning of the war England's Im? portation of cotton hosiery from America and Japan has more than doubled. This morning nine members of the .National Guard, the last detachment to leave Hemini where they have been guarding the big bridge down there, passed through the city on their re? turn to headquarters in Columbia. : i ~ ss Permanent Embassies. It was not until the close of the fif? teenth century that the permanent em? bassy became at all common, and no; until the end of the sixteenth that: it became a generally recognized insti? tution. In 1487 Dr. Roderigo Gon desalvi de Puebla was appointed per? manent Spanish ambassador to Eng? land, and, as he was still In London In 1500, the Spanish embassy in the British capital must be regarded as the oldest among the permanent em? bassies of the world. ; i - III ji-tj Dangerous. Friend?"So you allowed that con? ductor on one of your own cars to jostle and talk back to you all he pleased! Why didn't you tell hlra who you were? That would have settled him." President of Traction Company; -?"Yes; and it would have settled me. He might hnve told the other passen? gers."?Puck. Baby Words Rule Songland. The simpler and clearer a lyric Is, the more chance it has of getting across. To carry simplicity to Its limit, words of one or two syllables are al? most Invariably essential to r. popular song hit. The writer has to think in the same terms as the great mass of the people.?American Magazine. Chance for All. There Is opportunity for almost everyone to be superior if superiority consists In performing some kind of useful service in an exceptional man? ner. There Is almost certain to be some direction In which an individual or a race may bo of greater service than lu others.