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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.
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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
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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)
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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.
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If Cross, Feverish, Sick. Bilious,
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A laxative today saves a sick child
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Look at the tongue, Mother! If
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Beware of counterfeit fig syrups.
Ask your druggist for a 50-eenL bottle
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