4
ON FLAG DJ AY
t WILSON TELLS
WHY WE FIGHT
Extraordinary Insults and Ag
gressionsof Imperial German
Government Left Us No Self-
Respecting Choice But to
1. Take Up Arms in De
fense of Our Rights
Military Masters of Germany
Denied Us Right to be Neutral
Filled Our Unsuspecting Communities
With Vicious Spies and Conspirators
They Are Themselves in the Grip
of the Same Sinister Power That
Has Stretched Its Ugly Talons Out
and Drawn Blood From Us When
by Our Arm3 Kaiserism Is Crushed
Our Flag Shall Wear a New Lustre.
Washington, June 14. President
Wilson delivered a notable speech
liere in commemoration of Flag Day
In which he again outlined the posk
tlon of the United States in regard to
the world war. The address is in full
as follows:
My Fellow Citizens: We meet to
elebrate 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 no other char
acter than that which we give it from
generation to generation. The choices
are ours. It floats in majestic silence
above the hosts that execute those
choices, whether in peace or in war.
And yet, though silent, it speaks to
us, speaks to us of the past, of the
men and women who went before us
and of the records they wrote upon
it. We celebrate the day 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 people. We are about
to carry it into battle to lift it where
it will draw the fire of our enemies.
We are about to bid thousands, hun
dreds of thousands, it may be mill
ions, of our men, the young, the
strong, the capable men of the na
tion, to go forth and die beneath it
on fields of blood far away, for
what? For some unaccustomed
thing? For something for which it
has never sought the fire 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
haa seen men, its own men, die on
every battlefield upon which Ameri
cans have borne arms since the
.Revolution?
These are questions which must be
answered. We are Americans. We
in our turn serve America, and can
serve her with no private purpose.
We must use her flag as she has
always used it. We are accountable
at the bar of history and must plead
in utter frankness what purpose it
is we seek to serve.
It is plain enough how we were
forced into the war. The extraordi
nary insults and aggressions of the
Imperial 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
agent diligently spread sedition
amongst us and sought to draw our
own citizens from their allegiance,
and some of those agents were men
connected with the official Embassy
of 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 against
us and to draw Japan into a hostile
alliance with her, and that, not by
indirection but by direct suggestion
from the Foreign Office in Berlin.
'They impudently denied us the use
of the high seas and repeatedly exe
cuted their threat that they would
send to their death any of our people
who ventured to approach the coasts
of Europe. And many of our own
people were corrupted. Men began
to look upon their own neighbors with
suspicion and to wonder In their hot
resentment and surprise whether
there was any community in which
hostile intrigue did not lurk. What
great nation in such circumstances
V' ;.,wvuld not have taken up arms? Much
. v'aa we had desired peace, it was de-
nied us, and not of our own choice.
' .This flag under which we serve would
.have been dishonored had we with
held our hand.
But that is only part of the story.
, I We know now as clearly as we knew
before we were ourselves engpged that
they, are not our enemies. They did
not originate or desire his hideous
war or wish that we should be drawn
into it; and we are vaguely consclou
that we are fighting their cause, as
they will some day see it as well
as our own. They are 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 because
the whole world is in the grip of
that power and Is trying out the great
battle which shall determine whether
it is to be brought under its mastery
or fling Itself free.
The war was begun by the military
masters of Germany, who proved to
be also the mastrs of Austria-Hun
gary. These men have never regard
ed nations as peoples, men, women
and children of like blood and frame
as themselves, for whom governments
existed and in whom governments had
their life. They have regarded them
merely as serviceable organizations
which they could by force or intrigue
bend or corrupt to their own pur
pose. They have regarded the smaller
states, in particular, and the peoples
who could be overwhelmed by force,
as their natural tools and instruments
of domination. 'Their purpose has
long been avowed. The statesmen
of other nations, to whom that pur
pose was incredible, paid little at
tention; regarded what German pro
fessors expounded in their classrooms
and German writers set forth to the
world as the goal of German policy
as rather the dream of minds detach
ed from practical affairs, as prepos
terous private conceptions of German
destiny, than as the actual plans of
responsible rulers; but the rulers of
Germany themselves knew all the
while what concrete plans, what well
advanced intrigues lay back of what
the professors and the writers were
saying, and were glad to go forward
unmolested, filling the thrones of Bal
kan states with German princes, put
ting German officers at the service
of Turkey to drill her armies and
make Interest with her government,
developing plans of sedition and re
bellion in India and Egypt, setting
their fires in Persia. The demands
made by Austria upon Servia were
a mere single step in a plan which
compassed Europe and Asia, from
Berlin to Bagdad. They hoped those
demands might not arouse Europe, but
they meant to press them whether
they did or not, for they thought them
selves ready for th final issue of
arms.
Their plan was to throw a broad
belt of German military power and
political control across the very centre
of Europe and beyond the Mediterran
ean into the heart of Asia ; and Austria
Hungary was to be as much their tool
and pawn as Servia or Bulgaria or
Turkey or the ponderous states of
the East. Austria-Hungary, indeed.
was to become part or tne central
German Empire, absorbed and domi
nated by the same forces and in
fluences that had originally cemented
the German states themselves. The
dream had its heart at Berlin. It
could have had a heart nowhere else!
It rejected the idea of solidarity of
race entirely. The choice of peoples
played no part in it at all. It con
templated binding together racial and
nolltical units which could be kept
together only by force, Czechs, Mag
yars, Croats, Serbs, Roumanians.
Turks, Armenians, the proud states
of Bohemia and Hungary, the stout
little commonwealths of the Balkans,
the indomitable Turks, the subtile
peoples of the East. These peoples
did no wish to be united. They ar
dently desired to direct their own
affairs would be satisfied only by un
disputed independence. They could
be kept quiet only by the presence
or the constant threat of armed men.
They would live under a common
power only by sheer compulsion and
await the day of revolution. But the
German military statesmen had reck
oned with all that and were ready
to deal with it in their own way.
And they have actually carried the
greater part of that amazing plan into
execution! Look how things stand.
Austria is at their mercy, it has
acted not upon its own initiative or
upon the choice of its own people
but at Berlin's dictation ever since
the war began. Its people now de
sire peace, but cannot have it until
leave is granted fvorp Berlin. The
so-called Central Powers are in fact
but a single Power. Servia is at its
mercy should its hands be but for
i moment freed. Bulgaria has con
sented to its will and Itoumania is
overrun. The Turkish armies, which
Germans trained, are serving Ger
many, certainly not themselves, and
the guns of German warships lying
'Ti the harbor at Constantinople re
mind Turkish statesmen every day
that they have no choice but to take
their orders from Berlin. From Ham
burg to the Persian Gulf the net is
spread.
Is it not easy to understand the
eagerness for peace that has been
manifested from Berlin ever since the
;;nare was set and sprung? Peace,
peace, peace has been the talk of her
Foreign Office for now a year or more;
not peace upon her own initiative, but
upon the initiative of the nations over
which she now deems herself to hold
the advantage. A little of the talk has
been made public, but most of it has
been private. Through all sorts of
hannels it has come to me, and in all
sorts of guise3, but never with the
terms disclosed which the German
Government wouia De wmmg iu "--1
cept. That government has other'
valuable pawns in Its hands besides I
these I have mentioned. It still holds
x valuable part of France, though with j
lowly relaxing grasp, and practically J
i in; a
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 l
Germany is bleeding see very clearly
to what point Fate has brought them.
If they fall back or are forced back
an inch, their 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 mili
tary power or even their controlling
political influence. If they can secure
peace now with the immense advan
tages still in their hands which they
have up to this point apparently
gained, they will have justified them
selves before the German people: they
will have gained by force what they
promised to gain by it: an immense
expansion of German power, an im
mense enlargement of German indus
trial and commercial opportunities.
Their prestige will be secure, and with
their prestige their political power. If
they fail, their people themselves will
thrust them aside; a government ac
countable to the people themselves
will be set up in Germany as it has
been in England, La the United States,
in France, and in all the great coun
tries of the modern time except Ger
many. If they succeed they are safe
andGermany and the world are undone;
if they fail Germany id saved and the
world will be at peace. If they suc
ceed, America wih fall within the men-
ice, we ?nd all the rest of the world
must remain armed, as they will re
main, and must make ready for the
next step in their aggression; if they
fail, the world may unite for peace
and Germany may be of the union.
Do you not now understand the new
intrigue, the intrigue for peace, and
why the masters of Germany do not
hesitate to use any agency that prom-
ses to effect their purpose, the deceit
of the nations? Their present partic
ular aim is to deceive all those who
througnout the world stand for the
rights of peoples and the self govern
ment of nations; for they see what
immense strength the forces of jus
tice and of liberalism are gathering
out of this war. They are employing
liberals in their enterprise. They are
using men, in Germany and without,
as their spokesmen whom they have
hitherto despised and oppressed, using
them for their own destruction,
oclalists, the leaders of labor, the
thinkers they have hitherto sought to
silence. Let them once succeed and
these men, now their tools, will be
ground to powder beneath the weigtt
of the great military empire they will
have set up; the revolutionists in
Russia will be cut off from all succor
or co-operation in weste"n Europe and
a counter revolution fostered and sup
ported; Germany hersel! will lose her
chance , of freedom; and all Europe
will arm for the next, the final
struggle.
The sinister intrigue is being no less
actively conducted in this country
than in Russia and in every country in
Europe to which the agent3 and dupes
of the Imperial German Government
can get access. That government has
many spokesmen here, in places high
and low. They have learned discre
tion. They keep within the law. It is
opinion they utter now, not sedition.
They proclaim the liberal purposes of
their masters; declare this a foreign
war which can touch America with no
danger to either her land3 or her in
stitutions; set England at the centre
of the stage and talk of her ambition
to assert economic dominion through
out 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 betray 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 facts are patent to all the
world, and nowhere are they more
plainly seen than iD the United States,
where we are accus tomed to deal with
facts and not wit'i sophistries; and
the great fact thai stands out above
all the rest is that this is a Peoples'
War, a war for freedom and justice
and self-government amongst all the
nations of the world, a war to make
the world safe for the peoples who live
upon it and have made it their own,
the German people themselves in
cluded; and that with us rests the
choice to break through all these
hypocrisies and patent cheats and
masks of brute force and help set the
world free, or else stand aside and let
it he dom'nated a long age through by
sheer weight of arms and the arbitrary
choices of se'.f-constituted masters, by ,
the nation which can maintain the big- l
gest armies and the most irresistible ;
armaments, a power to which the ,
world has afforded no parallel and in
the face of which political freedom
must wither and perish.
For us 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
are ready ' to plead at the bar of
history, and our flag shall wear a new
i,lstre, once more we shall make
ood our liveg an(i fortunes the great
h we wwe and
new glory shall shl .e In the face of
our people.
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DELIVERED TO HEW
T
RUSSIAN PEOPLE WILL FIGHT
WITH ALLIES FOR LIBERTY,
FREEDOM AND HAPPINESS
OF WORLD.
CONSIDER WAR INEVITABLE
AND WILL CONTINUE IT
Such Is Foreign Minister Tereschten
ka's Ringing Response to America's
j Message to Russia, Delivered By
I Special Ambassador Root, Head of
American Commission.
I Petrograd, via London. "The Rus
sian people consider war inevitable
and will continue it. The Russians
have no imperialistic wishes. We know
that you have none. We shall fight to
gether to secure liberty, freedom and
happiness for all the world. I am
happy to say that I do not see any
moral idea or factor between Amer
ica and Russia to divide us. We two
people, Russia fighting tyranny, and
America standing as the oldest
democracy, hand in hand, will show
the way of happiness to nations great
and small."
i These ringing words, expressing the
attitude of the Russian government
toward American and the American
mission headed by Elihu Root, were
voiced by M Tereschtenko, minister
of foreign affairs, responding for the
council of ministers to Mr. Root's ad
dress of sympathy and good will on
the part of the American government.
The American ambassador, David
Francis, presented the Root mission to
the ministers in the Marinsky palace,
explaining that the members of the
mission had come to Russia to dis
cover how America can best co-operate
with its ally in forwarding the
fight against the common enemy. The
presentation was very formal, only a
few Russian officials and the mem
bers of the American embassy at
tending. Mr. Kerensky, the youthful
minister of war, just back from the
front, wore the khaki blouse of a com
mon soldier.
The ministers listened with rapt
attention to Mr. Root's address.
Mr. Tereschtenko rose from a sick
bed to attend the presentation and
responded without notes, expressing
great joy in welcoming the commis- j
sion from America. He said that Rus
sia's revolution was based on the won
derful words uttered by America in
1776. He read part of the Declaration j
of Independence and exclaimed: "Rus-,
sia holds with the United States that '
ail men are created free and equal!"
Mr. Tereschtenko said Russia faces '
two problems, the necessity of creat-1
Ing a strong democratic force within .
its boundaries and the fighting cf an
external foe. Then he declared for
war and expressed unbounded confi
dence in the power of Russia to meet
the situation.
Mr. Root said:
"Mr President and members of the
council of ministers: The mission for
which I have the honor to speak is
charged by the government and peo
ple of the United States of America
with a message to the government and
people of Russia. The mission comes
from a democratic republic. Its mem
bers are commissioned and instructed
by a president who holds his high
office as chief executive of more than
one hundred millon free people by
virtue of popular election.
Freedom Above Wealth.
"For one hundred and foriy years
our people have been struggling with
the hard problems of self-government.
With many shortcomings, many mis
takes, many Imperfections, we still
have nvWained order and respect for
law. Individual freedom and national
Independence. Under the security of
our cwn laws, we have grown In
srength and prosperity. But we value
our freedom more than wealth. We
le liberty and we cherish above all
on'- poessions the ideals for which
!" father foucflit and suffered and
eaeHfifPfi that America might be free.
"We believe in 1h com net en ee of
the rower of democracy and in our
heirt of heart abides fa 'th in the
coming of a better world in which the
humble and oppressed of all lands
mav be lifted up by fashion.
"The news of Russia's new-found
freedom brought to America univer-
sal rati '""action and joy. From all the
land svnmnfhy and hone went out to
the new sister in the circle of democ
racies. And the mission Is sent to ex-
U-Boat Sinks Freighter.
New York. News of the destruction
of the big French freight steamship
Mississippi by a German submarine,
with z. ioss of one of the merchant
men's crew, was brought here by of
ficers of a British freight vessel that
arrived from a French port.
The Mississippi, of 6,667 tons gross,
was torpedoed and sunk about 145
miles out from the port of Brest,
France, on June 2, according to the
British ship, which rescued forty
dft"i!n officers and seamen from open
Mil
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RUSSIA 6
press that feeling.
"The American democracy sends to
the democracy of Russia a greeting of
sympathy, friendship brotherhood,
God-speed. Distant America knows
little of the special conditions of Rus
sion life whidh must give form to the
government and laws which you are
about to create As we have devel
oped our institutions to serve the
needs of our national character and
life, so we assume that you will de
velop your institutions to serve the
needs of Russian character and life.
"As we look across the sea, we dis
tinguish no party, no class. We see
great Russia as a whole, as one
mighty, striving, aspiring democracy.
We know the self-control, essential
kindliness, strong common sense, cour
age and noble idealism of the Russian
character.
"We have faith in you all. We pray
for God's blessing upon you all. We
believe you will solve your problems,
that you will maintain your liberty,
and that our two great nations will
march side by side in triumphant
progress of democracy until the old
order everywhere has passed away
and the world is free.
One Fearful Danger.
"One fearful danger threatens the
liberty of both nations. The p.rmed
forces of a military autocracy are at
the gates of Russia and the allies. The
triumph of German arms will mean
the death of liberty in Russia. No
enemy is at the gates or America, but
America has come to realize that the
triumph of German arms means the
death of liberty in the world; that we
who love liberty and would keep it
must fight for it, and fight for it now
when the free democracies of the
world may be strong In union, and
not delay until they may be beaten
down separately in succession.
"See, America sends another mes
sage to Russia that we are going to
fight, and have already begun to fight,
for your freedom equally with our
own, and we ask you to fight for our
freedom equally with yours. We would
make your cause ours and our cause
yours, and with a common purpose
and mutual helpfulness of a firm al
liance make sure of victory over our
common foe.
"You will recognize your own senti
ments and purposes in the worlds of
President Wilson to the American
Congress, when on the second of April,
last, he addressed a declaration of
war against Germany. He said:
" 'We are accepting this challenge of
hostile purpose because we know that
in such a government (the German
government) following such methods,
we can never have a friend; and that
in the presence of its organized power,
always lying in wait to accomplish we
know not what purpose, there can be
no assured security for the democratic
governments of the world. We are
now about to accept the gauge of bat
tle with this natural foe to liberty,
and shall, if necessary, spend the
whole force of the nation to check and
nullify its pretensions and its power.
"Safe For Democracy."
" The world must be made safe for
democracy. Its peace must be plant
ed upon the tested foundations of pli
tical liberty. We have no selfish ends
to serve. We desire no conquest, no
dominion. We seek no indemnities
for ourselves, no material compensa
tion for the sacrifices we shall freely
make. We are but one of the cham
pions of the rights of mankind. We
shall be satisfied when those rights
have been made as secure as the faith
and the freedom of nations can make
them.'
"And you will see the feeling toward
Russia with which America has en-
1 tercel the great war in another clause
of the same address. President Wil
I son further declared:
I " 'Does not every American feel that
assurance has been added to our hops
for the future peace of the world by
thj wonderful and heartening things
that have been happening within the
last few weeks in Russia? Russia was
known by those who knew her best to
, have been always in fact democratic
'at heart in all the vital habits of her
1 thought, in all the intimate relations
ships of her people that spoke their
natural instinct, their habitual atti
tude toward life.
" 'The autocracy that crowned the
summit of her political structure, long
as ft had stood and terrible as was the
reality of its power, was not in fact
Russian in origin, character or pu
pose, and now It has wen shaken
.tnd the great generous Russian pecJ
m.vo oeen auueu, m a.u im-n no
majesty and might, to the forces
are fighting for freedom in the w
for instice and for peace. Here
f;t partner for a league of bono
Partnership of Honor.
"That partnership of honor in
great struggle for human freedom
oldest, and greatest of democra
now seeks in fraternal union with
voungest. Practical and specific met'
ods and the possibilities of our allie
co-operation, the members or tne mis
sion would be guid to discuss with the
members of the government of Rus
sia." Will Stimulate Business.
Washington. Every means of stim
ulating business should be used now,
says President Wilson in a letter to E.
P. V. Ritter, of t.. Merchants' and
Manufacturers' exchange of New York
city, just made public. Mr. Ritter
wrote the Presiden concerning the
advisability of holding commercial
conventions during the war.
Food Legislation to Front.
Washington. Food control legisla
tion now has the right o.' way in Con-J
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BAPTIST SEASIDE ASSEMBLY
Program For Christian Workers' Train,
ing School at Wrlghtsville Beach
June 27-July 4.
Raleigh. General Secretary E. L
Middleton, of the Baptist Seaside As
sembly, has brought out a handsome
ly illustrated program of the third ses
sion of the assembly which is to be
held at Wrightsville Beach June 27 to
July 4. The assembly is designated
"A summer training school for Christ
ian workers,'' and is held under the
auspices of the Baptist State Conven
tion. Governor Bickett is on the program,
together with some of the leading fig
ures of the Baptist denomination, a3
follows :
Dr. A. T. Robertson, professor of
New Testament, S. B. T. Seminary,
Louisville, Ky.; Dr. Weston Bruner,
pastor of Tabernacle church, Raleigh;
Dr. R. D. Gray, corresponding secre
tary of Home Mission Board, Atlanta,
Ga.; Dr. R. F. Y. Pierce, pastor North
Baptist church, New York City; Dr.
H. M. Wharton, preacher, author, lec
turer, Baltimore, Md.; Dr. John Roach
Straton, pastor First Baptist church,
Norfolk, Va.; Dr. W. L. Poteat, presi
dent Wake Forest Colege, Wake For
est; Dr. W. M. Vines pastor First Bap
tist church, Charlotte; Dr. R. T. Vann,
secretary of Board of Education, Ral
eigh; Dr. W. C. Barrett, pastor Baptist
church, Gastonia; Dr. C. D. Graves,
pastor Baptist church, Wake Forest;
Dr. Fred D. Hale, pastor Baptist
church, Lexington; Dr. C. L. Greaves,
pastor Baptist church, Lumberton ; Mr.
E. L. Wolslagel, singer with Home
Board evangelist, Asheville; Hon. John
A. Oates, president Baptist State Con
vention, Fayetteville; Miss Annie L.
Williams, field worker of Sunday
School Board, Birmingham, Ala.; Miss
Bertha Carroll, corresponding secre
tary W. M. U. Convention, Raleigh;
Mrs. W. N. Jones, president State W.
M. U. Convention, Raleigh; Mrs. H. T.
Pope, Lumberton; Mrs. H. C. Moore,
Raleigh; Mrs. W. J. Jones, Salemburg;
Miss Ruth Caldwell, Lumberton; Mrs.
W. B. Muse, Wilmington; Acme
Quartet, Wilmington.
Rocky Mount Too Far North.
Rocky Mount. Major-General Wood
has written the secretary of the local
chamber of commerce to the effect
that the 1,500 acre tract offered by
Rocky Mount for a cantonment camp
for the training of units of the selec
tive draft army, that this tract is out
side of the prescribed area laid off for
the training camp to be established
somewhere in North Carolina. The
general said that Rocky Mount was
too far north for the camp and was
outside of the territory which the
camp will cover and will come under
the territory allotted to the Peters
burg, Va., camp.
Tar Heels Appointed.
Washington. The following young
men in North Carolina have accepted
appointments to the officers' reserve
corps; Maj. Charles O. Laughinghouse,
Greenville, medical corps; Capt. Wil
liam Pinkney Herbert, Asheville, med
ical corps; First Lieut. Benjamin F.
Cliff, East Flat Rock, medical corps;
First Lieut. Glenn Long, Newton, med
ical corps; First Lieut. Russell S.
Beam, Lumberton, medical corps; Sec
ond Lieut. Rosser Lane. Wilson, veter
inary service; Second Lieut. A. Alex
ander, Raleigh, veterinary service.
Directors State Home Meet.
Fayetteville. The directors of the
state home for widows of Confederate
veterans, held their annual meeting
here and re-elected Col. Jas. A. Bryan,
New Bern, chairman; George M. Rose,
Fayetteville, vice chairman; J. A. Tur
ner, Louisburg, secretary, and adopted
plans for improvements which will in
crease the equipment of the home and
add to the comfort and convenience of
the inmates. Mrs. Hunter G. Smith,
Fayetteville, was re-elected chairman
of the woman's advisory board.
Tobacco in Wayne.
Goldsboro. According to reports
brought to this city from farmers all
over the county the tobacco crop in
e is looking most promising and
e considerably increased over
ason s yieui. me tarmers are
ing to receive high prices for
Lden weed, and If the estimate
buyers count for anything,
not be disappointed.
CAROLINA BRIEFS.
nts are locating a nuta-
s throughout the state.
lve caver said last
ad over a million fisK
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severed all
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the 1917 class.
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nual session at Wilmington re-elected
old officers and selected Raleigh as
next meeting place.
W. J. Bryan who is now at his sum
mer home in Asheville is delivering a
number of addresses there.
J. T. Edwards, a lawyer of Ruth
erfordton, submitted to the charge of
criminal assault with intent to com
mit rape and was sentenced by Judge
Lane to serve 6 years in the state pen
itentiary, pay all costs and forfeit his
License.
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