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PRESIDENT ADDRESSE Urges That a State of W Has Violated Laws of Her Ruthless Dest Property?Remai at a Crit President Wilson, in his address hefore congress Monday urges that a state of war be declared. He say* Germany, by her inhuman submarine methods, has forfeited the higher claims of civilization and should he regarded as an outlaw by the enlightened nations. The speech is a strong arraignment of the German government and is as follows: "I have called the congress into extraordinary session because there are serious, very serious, choices of policy to be made and made immediately, which it was neither right nor constitutionally permissible that I should assume the responsibility of making. Had Promised Reform. "On the 3rd of February last 1 officially laid before you the extraordinary announcement of the imperial German government that on and after the 1st day of February it waa its purpose to put aside all restraints of law or of humanity and use its submarines to sink every vessel that sought to approach either the porta of Great Britain and Ireland or the western coasts of Europe or any of the ports controlled by the enemies of Germany within the Mediterranean. That had seemed to he the object of the German submarine warfare earlier in the war but since April of last year the imperial government had somewhat restrained the commanders of its undersea craft in conformity with its promise then given to us that passenger boats should not be sunk and that due warning would be given to all other vessels which its submarines might seek to destroy, when no resistjllice \v;is nfFi?rr><l nr r>?r>; inn nt tempted and care taken that their crews were given at least, a fair chance to save their lives in their open boats. The precautions taken were meagre and haphazard enough as was proved in distressing instance after instance, the progress of the cruel and unmanly business, but a certain degree of restraint was observed. The new policy has swept every restriction aside. Vessels of every kind, whatever their flag, their character, their cargo, their destination, their errand, have been ruthlessly sent to the bottom without warning and without thought of help or mercy for those on board, the vessels of friendly neutrals along with those of belligerents. Even hospital ships and ships carrying relief to the sorely bereaved and stricken people of Belgium, though the latter were provided with safe conduct through the prescribed areas by the German government itself and were distinguished by unmistakable marks of identity, have been sunk with the same reckless lack of compassion or of principle. Could Hardly Believe It. <IT + I'm *- i * . i was ior a nine wnnc unanie ro believe that such things would in fact be done by any government that had hitherto subscribed to the humane practices of civilized nations. International law had its origin in the attempt to set up some law which would be respected and observed upon the sea, where no nation had right of dominion and where lay the free highways of the world. Ily painful stage after stage has that law been built up with meagre enough results indeed after all was accomplished that could be accomplished, hut always with a clear view at least of mankind demanded. This minimum of right the German government has swept aside under the plea of retaliation and necessity and because it had not weapons which it could use at sea except those which it is impossible to employ as it is employing them without throwing to the winds all scruples of humanity or of respect for the understandings that were supposed to underlie the inter course of the world. "I am not now thinking of the loss of property involved, immense and serious as that is, but only the wanton and wholesale destruction of the lives of noneomhatants. men, women and children, engaged in pursuits which have always, even in the darkest periods of modern history, been deemed innocent and legitimate. Property can be paid for; the lives of peaceful and innocent people can not be. The present German submarine warfare against commerce is a warfare against mankind. "It is a war against all nations. American ships have been sunk, American lives taken in ways which it has stirred us very deeply to learn of, hut the ships and people of other neutrals and friendly nations have heen sunk and overwhelmed in the waters in the same way. There has heen no discrimination. The challenge is to all mankind. Each nation must decide for itself how it will meet it. The choice we make for ourselves must he made with a moderation of counsel and a temperateness of judgment befitting our character and our motives as a nation. We must put excited feeling away. Our motive will no the revenge or the victorious assertion of the physical might of the na tion but only the vindication of right, of human right, of which we arc only a single champion. J*, 4 \ t- ' WILSON S CONGRESS ar Be Declared?German Enlightened Nations By ruction of Life and rkable Deliverance ical Time. | Armed Neutrality Not Enough. 1 "When I addressed the congress c ' the 2(>th of February, last, I thougl ' that it would suffice to assert our nei tral rights with arms, our right 1 use the seas against unlawful inte ference, our right to keep our peop safe against unlawful violence, armed neutrality, it now appears, impracticable, because submarin< are in effect outlaws when used as tl ' German submarines have been use against merchant shipping, it is in ' possible to defend ships against the attacks as the law of nations has a: sumed that merchantmen would d< fend themselves against privateers ( cruisers, visible craft giving chas upon the open sea. It is common pri dence in such circumstances, grim n< cessity indeed, to endeavor to destrc I them before they have shown the i own intention. They must be dea i with upon sight, if dealt with at al The German government denies tl ; right of neutrals to use arms at a i within the areas of the sea which ! has prescribed, even in the defense < rights which no modern publicist ha i ever before questioned their right < defend. The intimation is conveye that the armed guards which we ha\ placed on our merchant ships will 1 treated as beyond the pale of law an subject to be dealt with as pirate would be. Armed neutrality is ine fectual enough at best; in such cii jcumstances and in the face of sue I pretensions it is worse than ineffe< tual; it is likely only to produce wh; lit is meant to prevent; it is pract i j cally certain to draw us into the w; ..MfVisMif j-t .. tuvui siurci in*-- ur me e fectiveness of belligerents. There one choice we can not make, we ai incapable of making: we will n< choose the path of submission an suffer the most sacred rights of 01 nation and our people to be ignore or violated. The wrongs again: which we now array ourselves are r, common wrongs; they cut to the ver roots of human life. War Against United States. "With a profound sense of tli solemn and even tragical character c the step I am taking and of the grav responsibilities which it involves, bi in unhesitating obedience to what deem my constitutional duty, I advis that the congress declare the recer course of the imperial German go\ ernment to be in fact nothing lef than war against the government an people of the United States; that formally accept the status of belligei ent which has thus been thrust upo it and that it take immediate step , not only to put the country in a moi thorough state of defense but also t exert all its power and employ a its resources to bring the governmer of the German empire to terms an I /111/1 +1*1/1 IITOI. "What this will involve is clear. ] will involve the utmost practicabl cooperation in counsel and action wit the governments now at war with Gei many and as incident to that, the e? tension to those jrovernments of th most liberal financial credits, in ordc that our resources may so far as po.< sible be added to theirs. It will ir volve the organization and mobilize tion of all the material resources r the country to supply the materials r war and serve the incidental needs c the nation in the most abundant an yet the most economical and officio! way possible. It will involve the in mediate full equipment of the navy 1 all respects hut particularly in su| plying it with the best means of doa inp with the enemy's submarines. "It will involve the immediate a! dition to the armed forces of Untie Instates already provided for by law i | case of war at least .100,000 men, wh j should, in my opinion, be chosen upo the principle of universal liability t service and also the authorization c subsequent additional increments r equal force so soon as they may h needed and can be handled in truir inpr. It will involve also, of co.irs< the granting of adequate credit's t the pcovernment, sustained, I hope, s far as they can equitably he sustaine by the present generation by well <*or ceived taxation. "I say sustained so far as may Ij equitable by taxation because it seem to me that it would be most unwise t base the credits which will now h necessary entirely on money borrow ed. It is our duty, I most respect full urj?e, to protect our people so far a we may aprainst the very serious hard ships and evils which would be likel to arise out of the inflation whic K 1 1 1 ? nuuivi uc imiiiuccu uy vast loans. Must Supply Allies. "In carrying out the measures b which these thinprs are to be accorr plished we should keep constantly i mind the wisdom of interfering: a little as possible in our own prepare tion and in the equipment of our ow military forces with the duty?for i will be a very practical duty?of sur plyinpr the nations already nt war wit Germany with the materials whic they can obtain only from us or b our assistance. They are in the fiel and we should help them in every wa I to be effective there. "I Rhall take the liberty of suggesting through the several executive departments of the government for the consideration of your committees ^ measures for the accomplishment of J the several objects I have mentioned. I hope that it will be your pleasure to deal with them as having been framed after very careful thought by Y the branch of the provernment upon which the responsibility of conducting the war and safeguarding the nation will most directly fall. "While we do these things, these deeply momentous things, let us be very clear and make very clear to all the world what our motives and our objects are. My own thought has not been driven from its habitual and normal course by the unhappy events of the last two months and I do not ,n believe that the thought of the nation j 1 has been altered or clouded by them. ? "I have exactly the same things in mind now that I had in mind when I (> addressed the senate on the 22nd of ; . January last; the same that I had in ; ls mind when I addressed the congress ;s on the 3rd of February and on the\ J'J 2Gth of February. Our object now,, >( as then, is to vindicate the principles ! ?" of peace and the justice in the life of Ir the world as against selfish and auto- ; cratic power and to set up amongst the really free and self-governed peopies of the world such a concert of ,e purpose and of action as will henceJ" forth insure the observance of thosu principles. "Neutrality is no longer feasible or ( !y desirable where the peace of thej world is invaded and the freedom of j its peoples and the menace to that . peace and freedom lies in the exist- j .' ence of autocratic governments backed 1 by organized force which is controlled wholly by their will, not by the will ls of their people. We have seen the last of neutrality in such eirsumstances. Beginning New Age. e "We are at the beginning of an )Cj age in which it will he insisted that the same standards of conduct and ).s of responsibility for wrong done shall be observed among nations and their governments that are observed among the individual citizens of civilized " states. . "We have no quarrel with the German people. We have no feeling to11 ward them but one of sympathy and !' friendship. It was not upon their im18 pulse that their government acted in ? entering this war. It was not with their previous knowledge or approval. 1 It was war determined upon as wars " used to he determined upon in the old, unhappy days when peoples were no^ where consulted by their rulers and l(^ wars were provoked and waged in the ^ interest of dynasties or of little groups of ambitious men who were accustomed to use their fellow men as pawns ie and tools. >f "Self-governed nations do not fill re their neighbor states with spies or set it the course of intrigue to bring about I some critical posture of affairs which ie will give them an opportunity to make it conquest. Such designs can be suc7 cessfully worked only under cover and ;s where no one has the right to as*5 id questions. it "Cunningly contrived plans of der ception or aggression, carried, it may n be, from generation to generation, <<? can be worked out and kept from the e light only within the privacy of courts o or behind the carefully guarded confi1! dences of a narrow and privileged it class. They are happily impossible id where public opinion commands and insists upon full information concernIt ing all the nation's affairs. Ie "A steadfast concert for peace can h never be maintained except by a partr nership of democratic nations. \'o c- autocratic government could be tr.:<tie ed to keep faith within it or observe r its covenants. It must be a league of honor, a partnership of opii m. l- Intriprue would eat its vitals aw v: i- the plottinirs of inner circles who >f could plan what they would and r nif dor account to no one would ho a < >f runt ion seated at its very heart. O: ly <1 free peoples can hold their purpose it and their honor steady to a common i- end and prefer the interests of m nT, kind to any narrow interest of their own. !- Hope for the Future. "I)oos not every American feel thav I- assurance has been added to our hope 1 for the future peace of the world !>y n the wonderful and hearteniiur thimrs o that have been happening within the n last few weeks in Russia? Russia was o known by those who knew it best to if have been nlwavs in fact democrat i if nt honrt, ?n all tho vital habits of her o thought, in all tho intimate relationi ships of hor people that spoke their *, natural instinct, their habitual attic tude towards life. o "The autocracy that crowned the d summit of hor political structure long i- as had stood and terrible was the reality of its power, was not in fact 0 Russian in origin, character, or pur* pose; and now it has been shaken otT 1 and the great, generous Russian peoe pie have boon added in all their nar tive majesty and might to the forces y that are fighting for freedom in the s world, for justice and for peace. Here is a fit partner for a league of honor, v "Oni of the things that have served h to convince us that the Prussian autocracy has not and could never be our friend is that from the very outset of y the present war it has fdled our un_ -"onecting communities and even our n offices of government with spies and s set criminal intrigues everywhere afoot against our national unity of n council, our peace within and within out, our industries and our commerce. "Indeed, it is now evident that its u spies were here even before the war Vj began: and it is unhappily not a mat v t~r of conjecture; hut a fact proved d y (Continued on pafce six) * fc JONES VILLE Jonesvillc, April J.? No doubt one of the most momentous events that ever came to our great nation will occur today?the declaration of war with Germany. I think of it as an awful event. Our country can protect itself without declaring1 war, but they ; are going to do it and the cost in life and property will be untold such men | as Tillman, Roosevelt and Taft will rush our government into an awful war, a war that our government is not prepared for. Two families of negroes have lately left Jonesvillc for the North and others are talking of going. The plows have started and are putting in good time and with favorable weather farmers would soon be in good shape with their work. Mr. Vernon Askew was in Jonesvillc Monday. Mr. Frank Gillerland of Spartanburg was in our town on business Monday. Mrs. Martha Knox, who has been on an extended visit to the family of Mr. W. E. Alman at Tampa, Fla., has returned to her home at Jonesville. Mrs. W. A. McWhirter and (laughter, Miss Lucile, left Saturday night for Birmingham, Ala., to see her danehter Mnrlcn vuhn o M Bennett from Birmingham a few months since. Mrs. McWhirter read a telegram that her daughter had been operated upon and was not expected to live. Mr. D. Belton Free, who lives three miles above Jonesville, was KO years of age Sunday and he celebrated his birthday with a few of his friends and a good dinner. Mr. Free enjoys very good health and he bids fair to see many more birthdays. Mr. J. II. Webber made a flying trip last week to Greenville and Honea Path. Rev. D. E. Camak of Spartanburg will speak in the Methodist church here Sunday morning. His subject will be a financial one, the raising of three hundred thousand dollars by the Methodists of South Carolina for their three colleges?WofTord, Lander and Columbia college. Telephone. MOTHER! DON'T TAKE CHANCES IF CHILD'S TONGUE IS COATED If Cross, Feverish, Sick. Bilious, Clean Little Liver and Bowels. A laxative today saves a sick child tomorrow. 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