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WAR WITH MEXICO 115 LAST ; RESORT, SAYS PRESIDENT ADDRESS MAKE EYERY EFFORT TO PREYENT 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 countenance a war with Mexico until there is no other alternative for set tling 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. He 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 honor 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 Government which it will never over look, to defend the territory and peo ple 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 and accepted these obvious things your program of action is still to be formed. When will you act, and how will you act? "The easiest thing is to strike. The brutal thing is the impulsive thing. No man has to think before he takes aggressive action but before a man really conserves the honor by realiz 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 ca 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 weak and destructive neighbor would re flect distinction upon the annals of the United States? "Do you think that it is our duty to carry self-defense to a point of dic tation into the affairs of another peo ple? The ideal3 of America are writ ten plain upon every page of Ameri can history. "And I want you to know how fully I realize whose servant I am. I do not own the Government of the Unit ed States, even for the time being. I have no right in the use of it to ex press my own pass-ions. I have no right to express my own ambitions for the deevlopment of America if those ambitions are not coincident with the ambitions of the nation it self. "And I have constantly to remind myself that I am not the servant of those who wish to enhance the value of their Mexican investments, that I am the servant of the rank and file of the people of the United States. "I get a great many letters, my fel low citizens, from important and in fluential men In this country, but I get a great many other letters. I get letters from unknown men. from hum ble women, from people whose names have never neen neara ana never win be recorded and there is but one prayer in all cf these letters 'Mr. President, do not allow anybody to pers-uade you that the people of this country want war with anybody.' "I pot off a train yesterday and as AT NEW YORK neer, he 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 thea 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 is necessary.' "I am for the time being the spokes man of such people, gentlemen. I have not read history without observ ing that the greatest forces in the world and the only permanent forces are the moral forces. "Force will not accomplish any thing that is permanent I venture to say, in the great struggle which is going on on the other side of the sea. The permanent things will be accom plished afterward when the opinion of mankind is brought to bear upon the issues, and the only thing that will hold the world steady is this same silent, insistent, all-powerful opinion 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 me what the verdict on the seventh of November is provid ed I feel any degree of confidence that when a latter jury sits I shall get their judgment in my favor. Not my favor, personally 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 an nounced that orders have been sent to all department army commanders to suppress all news concerning troop movements. The order follows: "In view of the movements en route to the Texas bor der or in Texas might result in some malicious act that might seriously hamper these movements and also might result in unnecessary loss of life among the troops, it is directed that all concerned be instructed to the effect that no information as to movements of troops is to be given to representatives of the press or any individuals other than the officials of the railroads concerned or the repre sentatives of the American Railway association 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 tion will be supplied by Gen. Funston upon reaching the border. MEXICANS SEIZE MUCH GOLD AND SILVER BULLION Washington. The state department was officially advised that gold and silver bullion belonging to Americans and seized by local Mexican authori ties at Manzanillo totaled nearly $500, 000. The seizures were reported to have begun before the Carrizal inci dent. A protest already has been made to Gen. Carranza. Reports 'of continued seizures An various parts of Mexico reached the department during the day. In most 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 received, to the rep resentations made several days ago to Gen. Carranza. First Troops at Border. San Antonio, Tex. The First Illi nois infantry, Col. Sanborne command ing, arrived at Fort Sam Houston and went into camp. The Seventh New York regiment also passed through San Antonio en route to stations in the Brownsville district. Other New York regiments, including the Seven APPROPRIATIONS BY CONGRESS W BE $1,650,000,000 CONGRESS ANXIOUS TO COMPUTE WORK Financial Preparedness Pro gram Includes Half a Billion for Neutral Defense. House Takes Up Work on Revenue Bill. ARMY AND NAVY BILLS PRINCIPLE IN SENATE Indications Are That Senate Will Largely Accept Proposed ' Increases. Dispose of Agricultural Bill Soon. Washington. Congress is preparing to complete its program of financial preparedness with every indication that appropriations this session will Aggregate considerably more than a billion and a half dollars, at last half a billion of which will be for national defense. According to estimates based on figures compiled by Chairman Fitz gerald, of the House Appropriations Committee, and increases put into pending measures by senate commit tees, the grand appropriation total may reach $1,650,000,000 exceeding by more than $500,000,000 the record of any previous congress. Last week Representative Fitzger ald submitted a statement to the House showing that the grand total for the present Congress based on bills passed and pending, would reach near ly $1,500,000,000. Since then the Sen ate Naval Committee has added near ly $50,000,000 to the naval bill, and the military committee has increased the $182,000,000 army appropriation measure by approximately $100,000, 000. Army and Navy Lead. The principal appropriation meas ures awaiting senate consideration are the army and navy bills. As amended in committee they carry $282,000,000 and $315,826,843, respec tively, and together with the fortifica tions bill, which has passed both houses, would appropriate for national defense more than $622,000,000. There Is every indication that the senate will accept the major part of the pro posed army and navy increases but conferences probably will pare some of them down. The eenate plans to take up the naval bill as soon as the agricultural bill is out of the way probably within a few days. The big building pro gram for 1917 and the provision for a three-year construction policy prob ably will mean a debate of several weeks. Meantime the army bill will come from committee and an effort may be made to pass it as soon as it is ready, setting aside the naval bill temporarily. Ready For Revenue Bill. "With its work on appropriations nearing completion the House is ready to take up the $210,000,000 rev enue bill just introduced. After it is passed the house will be marking time waiting for the senate to catch up. Besides several of the big sup ply measures, the senate has the ship ping bill, the child labor bill, the $2, 000,000 militia relief measure, conser vation measures, the immigration bill and many minor matters to dispose of. If there is to be an adjournment in time for the political campaign, Congress leaders believe some of the measures of the President's legislative program must be sacrificed, probably the immigration and conservation measures. INCREASED PROGRAM NAVY IS APPROVED Committee Recommends Four Dread naughts, Four Battleships and 10 Capital Ships. Washington. Formal approval of the increased navy building program recommended by the senate naval committee in amending the annup.l ap propriation bill passed by the house is given in a statement issued by Sec retary Daniels. The committee, besides framing a program calling for four dreadnaughts and four battle cruisers next year instead of five battle cruisers, only, as provided by the house wrote into the bill provision for completing within three years the general board's plan to add 16 capital ships before 1322. "It marks a radically new policy in the enlargement and increase of the navy," said Mr. Daniels' statement. "It is the first bill that has incorpor ated a continuing policy in the build ing of fighting ships. In his annual message to Congress last December President Wilson placed emphasis upon the need of adopting a continu- rtr Tifl'i 10,000 MILITIAMEN ON RIO GRANDE. . San Antonio, Tex. More than 19,000 National Guardsmen are either at border stations or to near that they could be moved right to the line within a few hours. It was believed that within three days the entire movement would be more than half completed. Eight Ameri can Consular officers, have been removed from their posts In a report to the senate on the three year, five hundred million dollar nevy building program Senator Swansea for tlhe naval committee, laid stress on its recommendation that the navy general board plane be hastened to completion. "It seemed to tibe committee,", says the report, "that the program for five years proposed by the general board is not sufficdent to bring the naval force of the United States to the po sition which they ought to hold among the navies of the world at an early enough period. The committee, therefore, reduced the time covered by the program from five to three years, the committee being convinced that the sooner we could get an ade quate navy the better as the navy must always be our first line of defense and we have two great coasts to defend. The building program includes building of 157 ships prior to July 1, 1919, 66 of them to be begun as soon as practicable, including eight capital ships. Of reorganization of the na val militia, the report says: "The committee realized that it was very important that the naval mi litia should be put on an equal basis with the National Guard. Unless this was done, the naval militia, which is now an important part of our naval es tablishment, instead of Increasing would be lessened, as more induce ment would be given to enter the Na tional Guard than the naval militia. The committee recommends legislation which puts the naval militia upon equality with the National Guard. "It also imposes upon the naval militia the same, requirements in re spect to drill and services thait are re quired for the National Guard, and they are subject to the call of the president in case of emergency of war, similar to the National Guard." PLEDGE SERVICE TO CARRANZA GOVERNMENT Citizens In Various Parts of Mexico Offer to Enlist for War. . Mexico City. Telegrams declaring adhesion to the Carranza Government and offering contingents of from 200 to 2,000 men each, continue to pour into the Central Government from various parts of the republic while ac counts of popular mass meetings and speches against invasion are crowding all the telegraph lines. At Tuxtepec, Oaxaca, the manifestants, after a pop ular meeting at which orators spoke for war, crowded into the telegraph office and offered the services of all able-bodied men of the town to Gen eral Carranza. Meetings of students have been held in Puebla, Queretaro, Quadala jara, Guadaloupe, Hidalgo, Morelia, and many other points at which adhe sion to the government was pledged. As an offset to these warlike demon- i strations, Mexican women, under the leadership of Senarita Hermila Galin do, editor of the newspaper, La Mujer Moderna, (The Modern Woman), are supporting the Women's Peace Party of New York and have corresponded with Margaret Lane of New York in an effort to aid in bringing about a peaceful aoli'tion of the difficulties ' existing between the two nations. LANSING ASKS HOUSE FOR ADDITIONAL FUNDS. Secretary Wants $300,000 at Once to Get Americans Out of Mexico. The Appropriations Committee of the House faces another phase of the Mexican trouble. Secretary Lansing called for an additional $300,000 to get Americans out of Mexico. In a mem oraundum dated June 28 accompany ing the estimate he said: "The conditions are such at the present time that, in my opinion, it is highly desirable that every American citizen should leave Mexico at the earliest practicable woment. The ap propriation made heretofore by Con gress for assisting Americans In leav ing Mexico is exhausted, and I urge that the amount above mentioned be i expedited as much as possible." TELL OF MEXICANS FIRING ON OUR SOLDIERS. Galveston, Texas. Two American sailors from the scout cruiser Salem were wounded during a clash with ' armed Mexicans at Tampico, accord ing to passengers arriving on the Wolvin liner Dade from Vera Cruz. They received their information from ' passengers on the Ward liner Mont- j erey, bound from Tampico to Vera ' Cruz. The Monterey's passengers said, ac cording to the Dade arrivals, that two small boats from the Salem approach ed the Tampico jetties and were fired on by Mexicans from the shore. The Americans returned the fire. Two Americans were slightly injured, they s?'d. although it could not be learned whether any Mexicans had been hit. STATE LAWYERS ADJOURN A. L. Brooks of Greensboro Is Elected President. Delegates to National Convention Named. Wilmington. The eighteenth annual convention of the North Carolina Bar Association, in session at Wrightsrllle Beach came to a close after the elec tion of officers. Place of next meeting Is to be decided later by the executive committee. Officers were elected as follows: President A. L. Brooks, Greensboro; Brat vice president, H. L. Lyon, Whites ville; second vice president, Henry Parker, Ashe ville; third vice president, E. L. Galther, Mocksville; secretary and treasurer, Thomas W. Davis, Wilmington, re-elected. The proposed employers' compensa tion act was approved after consider able discussion and will be presented to the next legislature for action. It provides a standard amount to be paid by the employer to the employe in case of injury to the latter. J. S. Bragaw, Washington; Mark Brown, Asheville; Miss Julia Alex ander, Charlottte, were named as dele gates to the annual convention of American Bar Association. Judge W. M. Boyd- of Superior Court made an address on "The Courts and the Lawyers," in which he suggest ed many changes in the present supe rior court benefit Judges and other of ficers. President Skinner was instructed by the meeting to forward a telegram to Congressman E. Y. Webb In Wash ington of the Judiciary Committee no tifying him that the North Carolina Bar Association favored the establish ment of a Federal Court of Appeals In Asheville. Senator Overman Falls on Floor. WTaahington. Senator Overman of North Carolina occupied the floor of the senate in & novel way. Hie seat Is next to that of Senator Stone. Sena tor Ashurst was conversing with Sena tor Stone, when the latter thought he saw out of the corner of his eye some one trying to pass and he tried to help him by pulling Senator Overman's chair out of the way. Instead of some one attempting to pass, Senator Overman was about to sit down. The kindness of Senator Stone, however, decidedly upset Sena tor Overman's plans and the North Carolina senator sat down on the ffoor with a thump. Only his senatorial dignity was hurt. Money For N. C. Roads. Washington. The confirmation of the National highway bill by the sen ate was cheering news to North Caro lina good roads' enthusiasts. North Carolina's apportionment of the $75, 000,000 Federal aid for road construc tion will roughly approximate $100,000 according to an estimate of D. H. Wlnslow, United State highway main tenance expert. Density of population and the road mileage of the state will be the basis upon whlcn North Caro lina will qualify for a fat allotment. Spencer Will Build Church. Spencer. The Spticer Methodist church has started a building cam paign and raised $5,400 the first day. The campaign will be continued for some $ 20, 000 wanted to erect a new house of worship. A score of leading citizens are making the canvas. Sub scriptions ranged up to $1,000 each at the first service, the Woman's Mis sionary Society leading. Some of the locomotive engineers are giving $500 each to the fund. North Carolina Appropriations. Washington. The Sundry civil bill which passed the senate carried items amounting to $747,000 for North Caro lina. Senator Overman secured ap propriations as follows: For continuing the building at Bur lington, $31,000; Shelby, $20,000; Wil mington, $85,000; Wilkesboro, 8,000; renting a building for postoffice at Charlotte, $3,500; for the Harbor of Refuge at Cape Lookout, $600,000. North Carolina Leads. Washington. North Carolina leads the country in the number of Irish pota toes shipped this season the total lumber of carloads being 2,549. South Carolina shipped 1,147. South Caro lina shipped four carloads of tomatoes and one of peaches one day recentlyl NORTH CAROLINA BRIEFS. A farm survey of Stanly county Is being made by Federal experts. The House Judiciary Committee favorably reported a bill establishing a regular term of the Circuit Court of Appeals at Asheville, N. C. Catawba County Agent H. B. Mask plans to take a large number of Ca tawba farmers to the State Test Farm in Iredell county, July 21, when the county agents from all the counties in the western part of the state will gather. A rural delivery route ha3 been established at Bear Creek. Seventy-five dressed chickens and so many cakes went from Hickory to Camp Glenn for a Fourth of July din ner for the members of Co. A, Firs) N. C. infantry. Work has begun on the eight-inch pipe line and pumping station that will be needed for the new million dollar underwear plant at Leaksville A settling basin to hold 300,000 gallons of water will be buHt of concrete. A hail storm did considerable dam age in Alexander county a few dayr ago. LATE NORTH CAROLINA MARKET QUOTATIONS Weetern Newspaper Union News Service Prices Paid by Merchants for Farm Products In the Markets of North Carolina as Reported to the Division of Markets for the Week . Ending Saturday, June 24. Corn, 96c bu; oats, 51c bu; peas, $1.20 bu; soy beans, $1.25 bu; Irish potatoes, $4.50 bbl; sweet potatoes. $1.25 bu. Western butter, 35c lb; N. C. but ter, 31-33c lb; eggs, 20c doz; spring Hiickens, 20c lb; hens, 12c lb. Charlotte. Cotton, middling, 12c; corn, 95c bu; oats, 63c bu; peas, $1.15 bu; soy beans, $1.50 bu; Irish potatoes, $3.50 bbl; sweet potatoes, 75c bu. N. C. butter. 33c lb: eesrs. 22c doz: spring chickens, 22c lb; hens, 15-17c lb. Durham. Cotton, middling. 12c: corn. 95c bu; oats, 53c bu; peas, $1.25 bu; Irish potatoes, $5 bbl. Western butter. 35c lb: N. C. but ter, 30c lb; eggs, 27c doz; spring chickens, 25c lb; hens, 10c lb. Fayettevllle. Cotton, middling, 12c; corn, 94c fa; oats, 62 bu; peas, $1 bu; soy feans, $1.60 bu; Irish potatoes, $3 6bl; sweet potatoes, 76c bu, Western butter, 35c lb; N. C. but ter, 38c lb; eggs, 20-22c doz; sprint chlckene, 20c lb; hens, 10c lb. Goldsboro. Cotton, middling, 12; corn, 85c bu; sweet potatoes, 75c bu. Eggs, 20c doz; sprmg chicfcZAi, HO lb; hens, 17c lb. Greene br&. Cotton, middling, 13c; corn, 90c bu; oats, 50c bu; peas, $1.35 bu; soy beans. $1.65 bu; Irish irtoes, $4 bbl; sweet potatoes, 70c b( Western butter, 35c lb; N. C. but ter, 35c lb; eggs, 20c doz; spring chick ens, ,20c lb; hens, 14c lb. Greenville. Cotton, middling, 124c; corn, 80c bu; oats, 60c bu; peas, $1.30 bu; soy beans, $1.40 bu; Irish potatoes, $3.5 bbl; sweet potatoes, 60c bu. Eggs, 20c doz; spring chickens, 40c each; hens, 40c each. Hamlet Cotton, middling, 12c; corn, $1 bu; oats, 60c bu; pees. $1 bu; Irish pota toes, $4.50 bbl. N. C. butter, 32c lb; eggs, 20c doz; spring chickens, 22c lb; hens, 15c lb, Lumberton. Cotton, middling, 12c; corn, $1 bu; peas, 90c bu; Irish potatoes, $3 bbl; sweet potatoes, 75c ba. Western butter, 34c lb; N. C. but' ter, 35c lb; eggs, 20c doz. Maxton. Cotton, middling, 12c; corn, $1 bu; oats, 57c bu; peas, $1 bu; soy beans. $1.50 bu; Irish potatoes, $4 bbl. Western butter, 35c lb; N. C. but ter, 35c lb; eggs, 22c doz; spring chickens, 24c lb; hens, 12c lb. Monroe. Cotton, middling, 13c; corn, 95c but oats, 55c bu; peas, $1.25 bu; soy beans $1.40 bu; Irish potatoes, $4.50 bbl. N. C. butter, 30c lb ; spring chickens,. . l5-30c lb; hens, 40c each, eggs, 18c dot. New Bern. Cotton, middling, 12c; corn, 90c. bu; oats, 60c bu; peas, $1 bu; oy beans, $1.10 bu; Irish potatoes, $4 bbl; sweet potatoes, 75c bu. Eggs, 20-24c doz. Raleigh. Cotton, middling, 12c; corn, 95c bu; oats, 53c bu; peas, $1.10 bu; Irish potatoes, $3.50 bbl; sweet potatoes, $1 bu. Apples, $4.50-$5 bbl ; Western but ter, 34c lb; N. C. butter, 32c lb; eggs,. 25c doz; sprmg chickens, 40c each; hens, 55c each. Rocky Mount. Cotton, middling, 12V2c; corn, 90c bu; oats, 48c bu; peas, $1.25 bu; Irish potatoes, $3 bbl. Apples, $3 bbl; Wrestern butter, 35r lb; eggs, 25c doz; spring chickens, 40v each; hens, 55c each. Scotland Neck. Cotton, middling, 12c; corn, 92c bu; oats, 55c bu; peas, $1.25 bu; soy beans, $1.35 bu; Iristi potatoes, $3.50 bbl; sweet potatoes. 75c bu. Western butter, 35c; N. C. butter, 35c lb; eggs, 15c doz; spring chick ens, 21c lb; hens, 12c lb. Winston-Salem. ' Corn, S5c bu; oats, 50c bu; peas, $1.30 bu; soy beans, $1.50 bu; Irish po tatoes, $4.50 bbl. N. C. butter, 31c lb; eggs., 21c doz; spring chickens, 20c lb; hens, 13c lb ' Norfolk, Va. Cotton, middling, 13c. Chicago, III. No. 2 white corn, 73-76 c (delivered h Raleigh 88-91c); No. 2 yellow corn 77-77 (delivered In Raleigh 88-92c). Butter, 23-28c (cr.amery); egg? 21-22iic (firsts). New York. Irish potatoes, $3 37-$3.S7 bbl; iweet potatoes, 75c-$1.30 basket. Butter, 29-29c (extra); eggs,
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