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,Ji.;-s6'i rs?-, Two. ' THE MORNING STAR" WILMINGTON, NG TUESDAYFEBRUARY 29, 1916, i - i f , . 4 -4 I 5,' M -- i 1 M , J ' t .: r i f TREATY WITH HAITI IS HOW A REALITY jf vs.. Senate Ratifies the Pact by a Unanimous Vote. TO BE PROTECTORATE United States "Will Take Charge of Af fairs of the Island Republic, Re- - store Peace and Aid In De veloping Resources. Wasington, Feb. 28. - The Senate late today unanimously ratified the treaty with Haiti under which the United States assumes a protectorate over the turbulent island republic, tak ing over control of its finances andpo lice, guaranteeing- its territorial integ rity and undertaking to develop its re sources. The treaty also has been ap proved by the Haitlen congress, and its terms virtually are in operation under the eye of a strong- American marine -expedition. . " ... - . , This treaty was negotiated last year with the D'Artiguenave government, eet up after marines and blue jackets under Rear Admiral Caperton had put down the revolution which overthrew President Vilbrun Guillaume. During the preceding few years, Hai ti had seen eight Presidents deposed, and roost of them murdered or exiled. Guillaume was dragged from the French legation and killed. The possi bility of European intervention to-pro-teet foreign lives and property and in jure. the payment of foreign loans was being discussed when tfe American forces took charge of affairs on the is land Provisions of the "Treaty. The principal articles of the conven tion provide for: x '. American supervision of finances and the collection of customs. American supervision of the payment of the public debt, inquiry into the va lidity of exiting debts andT reorganiza tion of the contracting of future debts. Policing of the republic by native constabulary, officered for the present by Americans. Intervention by the United States f necessary, to preserve order and for guaranteeing territorial integrity and independence. -'- . . I Development of Hatien resources un der American auspices. . - It is .set' forth particularly that the United States shall by its. good offices aid the Hatien government in proper and efficient development, of its agri culture, mineral and commercial resour ces and in establishment of the finances of the republic-on a solid basis. has passed when you have to argue "the evils of the liquor traffic before an in telligent audience. . 1 have never known a single man who was helped by drinking liquor, out i nave Known thousands it has de stroyed.. There is talk now about pre paredness. I pray we may never have a war, but the best preparation we can make for war or peace is to destroy uie cmuuu. . ... .-. v".- , , "ine time is past when a man can do as he pleases in this country. Per sonal liberty does not mean license. Somebody who was doing -as he pleas ed, was responsible for; .they Eastland disaster, when a steamship crowded to its guards sank in the Chicago river A mob of citizens of Georgia were dor tog as It pleased when it lynched Leo M. Frank. ' The time - will come when our respect for law an order will become such that-these things will be impossible. And with, this .reform will come a- change, . in public sentiment throughout the --country which will make" the saloon impossible." : Crime, disease - and multitudinous forms of human misery:- are bred by the liquor traffic according to.th Ten nesseean. The ."only -argument" against prohibition which smacks of plausibiU ty is that prohibition does not prohibit. And the speaker 'declared that prohibi tion does prohibit. . As evidence of this fact he cited the case, of Kansas where most beneficial, results have been ob tained. . . The speaker ; asserted vthat ' liquor played a prominent part in the assas sination of three-of our presidents.; He paid a tribute to the martyred Lincoln and told of his faith in the oaUs'e of prohibition. And the' exrgovernor de clared that nation-wide ' prohibition is coming, urging his fearers . to " lend their efforts to -the cause. Dr. svadener Speaks. Dr. Swadener spoke In part as fol lows: ' " "The citizen is the chief asset of the nation. No nation is greater than the produces. The kind of citizens it drinking of liquor degrades and ren ders inefficient those " who have formed ASSURANCES GIVEN IN LUSITANIA CASE REMAIN UNCHANGED (Continued From Page One.) -1 ar enemy merchantman which has a i right to fire on the submarine which KTWfl kpitw uiwiripp nw warns it, and the German government 4w? KELLET. manager of sets up the contention that equipment A HOPEWEI-I CLUB, OPTIMISTIC and Intention to resist a warning given ' h. BUDinaniiB Qoes not come witnin the definition of defensive armament. Germany contends that a similar viewpoint wa taken by the United States and that it secured assurances Expects to Begin Training; About April 1st With Stronar team. (Special Star Correspondence.) Rockv Mount "NT rv Weh.,28. Man. iFvm xne iianan government tnat its 1 ager George w. Kelly "King, "as he armed merchant ships leaving Ameri can ports would not fire on submarines which warned - them. The note then sets forth that the is more familiarly known, when seen Saturday ty a Virginia- league sports writer at his home .town, Raleigh, I talked optimistically of his club and German government did not issue its f expressed the belief that there was a ww instructions to submarine com-! great season ahead of the Virginia manders until after it had come into' League. Manager Kelley, though kept possession of confidential instructions j indoors by a-near attack? of pneumonia, by the British government to the com-) has been losing no time in getting his mandersof British merchantmen. It is Magic City ball club together and, denied that armed British merchant : building about the-neucleus of the re ships of any Vdescriptipn are peaceful' serve: of the Virginia League Orphans, traders and it Is declared that the ! he has drawn, upon the best ameteurs armament on , board all of them is too of '.the country and has. borrowed and purchased from1 the majors-' and fast n?inor . league clubs until at this time I he has. practically completed the line- up. or. the team with, wnicn ne win start the season. Manager Kelley declared it his pur pose to start traiiiirie about April 1st, and to have from twenty -to twenty five men in the Hope squad. be used especially for 7 purpose of at- Austrian Snbmarlnea Also Attacked The charge is made , that Austrian Submarines also have been attacked bv armed British merchantmen,, which the note declared are not conforming, and have no, intention of conforming to the assurances given, to the milted States by the British government In a memorandum of August . 25. 19141 bv Sir Cecil SpringrRice, the British am bassador. The German government says it cannot, see how the Ameru.n t New York, Feb. .28. Tex RIckard government, in consideration of these ' and others connected with the promo tion of the forthcoming Willard-Moran bout here conferred today with the New York State .Athletic Commission and agreed to comply ; with all its rules. Thlrtfiftn thniinanri : tfUta fnr tha i ' iu fi...,. i . i. j ' -in rtAA 1 . i uiavbu 'um uewi prtuicu, i,uuu tor THIRTEEN THOUSAND TICKETS FOR THE WILLARD-MORAN BOUT facts, can, regard armed British mer chantmen as peaceful trading ships. The note makes it clear : that the Berlin government believes; Its new in structions to submarine commanders are m accord with the viewpoint ex pressed by the United States in its seats in price from $3 to $25, and the WOULD HAVE NATION DRY IN FIVE YEARS (Continued From Page Onej - what the world might think or say, apd bowed my knees to the thfone ,6f; Qadk Not for Local Option. ' :'. -'; '." , fow--y don't Believe in" local sbption; I am a prohibitionist person-wide, city wide. statewide, nation-wide and world-wide. The liquor traffic is either right or wrong.. If it is right, we ought to stop punishing it. If it is Vrong we ought to stop temporizins with? It. -The question now is not so much . what liquor will do to us, a what we are going to do to it. The time the habit. Eminent scientists have made a chemical ' analysis of liquor, and- they declare it is a photoplasttc poison. It is a habit-forming drug and works insidiously on the human system. "The most common cause for crime J is the liquor system. ; Pauperization is caused largely by the same evil influ ence. In one city where 122 destitute families were found, 118 of. these were attributable to the liquor nabit. The speaker asserted that corruption in politics has largely grown out of the liquor evil. Investigation into the charges of corruption in the Terfe Haute elections-revealed the fact that liquor, was largely responsible for the conditions found- ".'; ... Eighty per center the United States is now dry territory, the speako de- ciarea. m tnis ary territory 7o cent of the population of the country lives. January 1. 1918. when nrohibl- tion legislation became effective in a numJjerof states an. additional 9.000.00Q were placed in dry territory. Nineteen states are now dry.- When 19 more states become' dry the,' fight will be won and the country will have nation wide prohibition. v ' . Declaring that the liquor interests have announced their intention of rais ing ?50,000,e0 to defeat- rational pro hibition, Dr. Swadener appealed to the members of the audience for moral and financial support. A collection oi. sub scriptions and money was taken ahi a substantial sum , realized. . ' " Upon their arrival in the cltv ves- Iterday at noon, Former Governor Pat terson and Dr. . Swadener . were met At the nnlonJ station . in ..Wilmington by a delegation of prominent - Wilmington citizens, am on&i whom were Mr. C. C. Covington, Rev. L. E. Thompson, Rev. M. T. Plyler, Rev. jr. A- Sullivan, Rev. Dr. J. M. Wells, Mr. J. B. Huntington. Rev. Dr. A. D. McClure, Mr. W. A. Mc Girt, Rev. W. Marshall Craig, Mayor P. Q. Moore and, Mr. M. W. Jacobi. They were taken for a short tour of the city in automobiles and then re turned to their hotel for dinner. memorandum proposing a modus Vivendi to the Entente Allies, for the disarmament of merchant ships. it declares that German submarine commanders have been so instructed that they will not destroy av merchant ship on a question bf armament, unless It is known positively that such arma ment exists. The declaration that prev ious pledges would not be revoked also is formally-given. The efforts of the United .States to have the belligerents acree to? a modus vlvendl which "would cau$e all1 mer chant ships to be disarmed, it is de clared, are welcomed by Germany. Then follows; declaration that the German government, will no longer air low its submarines to be made the ob ject of attacks in violation of the prin ciples of international law and that, therefore the new instructions will not be postponed or modified. - j Appended to the communication. etorff, was a list of about 20 incidents where it is charged German and Aus trian submarines have been attacked bv merchant men armed ostensible -for "defensive purposes. No Precedent Established. In regard to the reference - made in the note permitting Italian ships to sail from American ports, it was said at the State Department that it should be clearly understood that the pledges were required to meet special cases as they arose and that it was not intend ed to establish a precedent or lay down a rule.- -Officials, also declared emphatically that Germany had' not fbe.en asked to postpone or change , the new orders t -er nival eximmanders. They expressed wonder that such a statement- had .been included in the It was explained in Teutonic quarters that thsinformatfoa contained in the note other than that, applying directly to the reiteration of assurances given in the Lusitania case, was " given for the information of the State Depart ment, it oelng known that'thers was some delay In receiving from -Berlin the . complete appendices to the Ger man memorandum. remainder for standing room. All the, money taken in will be sub ject to the orders of the commission, m order that 'no one may -attach the purses of the .fighters, the commission will not make public the name of the stake holder. CARTER LEADS IN FIRST DAY OF SPRING GOLF TOURNAMENT ' Pinehurst, N.'C. Feb: 28. P,hflip Car ter; of New York, with a card of 76 for the first 18 boles, led in the open ing day's qualifying round of the 12th annual spring golf tournament which began here today. Two hundred add twenty-seven players, the largest num ber on record, are participating in the tournament. ' GIANT CHAMPION AND HIS MANAGER. . - ! 1 - Hid Appleton, Wis.,; Feb. 28.-rThe state boxing commission today . ruled that Battling Nelson was "too far gone" to box Ad Wolgast to whom he lost the iigntweight .championship.; They had oeen roateneq tto box here April 12. - - . Bt. Louis. yv Feb. 28 Field Jones, manager of-fthe St. Louis . Americans, and 20 players left here tonight for Palestine. Texas, where the team will oeen matched, to box here April 12. . . e v 1 1 ! ''.'. . . HENRY JAMES. DISTINGUISHED NOVELIST, DIES IN LONDON Automobile Dealers' Convention or the Carolinas : March 6th , We'have a red letter for the auto-; mobile, dealers oi the Carolinas, and ewe are going to deliver it in person. 4 Uttderscore' March; 6th 'on your charge of Chalmers selling divi sion, "will be at the convention. He wiirtell you. the whole story. He will tell you what he knows about calendar and make your plans' to felling automobiles ; how he sold be in-Charlotte.- It is going to be easier than ever to market Chalmers cars. ; - Hugh Chalmers, Jias evolved a plan for finaHclng Chilmers deal- ers. - i - ' :-. v .. ; "v ; it . . ' V --.' A- . -i- ' - -He-has made it possible to sell v - Chalmers cars on convenient; terms at.bankers' rates! of interest.; j Paul ; Smith, . vice-president in 22,000,000 worth of Chalmers ,; cars in 40 minutes,, one day last : ;Novembert . ' ' If you sell motor cars, or think you could sell motor cars) you wanl to be in Charlotte for the roll call. We invite you to be our guests. There will be unusual entertain ment features, something on the programme besides shpp talk. REMEMBER THE DATE CHARLOTTE, MARCH 6 CHALMERS MOTOR COMPANY li Wm'Bwb in America But Ha4 Lived ,. in England Forty Tear. V-.. Tom Jones. This photograph of Jess - ' Jes WUlard. ' .Thl photograph of Jess Wlllard. bout with Frank Moran.' WlUard says giant champion of the world, and his he weighed 26S . pounds. 'St HHrr, i.om jones -wno is not a Liliputian, but an upstanding man of 190 pounds was taken a Xew hours after they bad reached New. . -York .City look more. .. He -has recovered from, his sickness , whiiai; .detained, him in Cht cago for two Jweeksfter . articles . for the .con,test;wfere siSned. - ' r - j ' v. FACILITIES SHOULD BE ONLY HINDRANCE (Continued From Page 'j. One.) ger. I am not so sure we will never have a war with England." V Admiral Knight said the battle crui sers and scouting craft were the things needed vitally to make the present fleet oi areaanaugnts effective. - Tnefaoill ties of the country should be stoned Immediately, he said, to provide at least six battle cruisers iand -eight scouts. Nine battle cruisers , would be better he thought, but with six arid 25,000 additional men, the navy would be In efficient shape within two or: three years within the limits Of its numbers. The world produced, he added, n bet ter ships, Officers or men, than those in the American fleet. He said , Secretary Daniels had done much for the war col lege, more than any of his predecessors, and that the institution was -.being brought to a high state of -usefulness, not in preparing, war plans, .J?ut in training the men who did prepare clans and who exercised high commahds.' As a part of the 1917 programme, the admiral urged that Culebra island, off the, eastern end of Pprto Rico and the farthest outpost on the road from Eu rope to the Caribbean, should be wwd an impregnable fortress where the fleet might be based. Guam, in the Pacific, he thought, should be similarly a uin- ped, and each base should have & huge noaung ary aoCK. ' .; As to Submarine Defense. Admiral Knight disagreed with the suggestion that the eoasts-of the Unit ed states could be rendered - secure from attack by assembling a, chain of suDmarmes along the shores. - i 8T0BM MOTES EASTWARD; Attended by Rains and Snow in North Iondon Feb. 28. -Henry James, the "'"""n 'w t-ouay., ir. James was oorn, an American? but died, a Britlsfi subject IfT "JtUyA 1915; . be took ' the ot.th of allegiance to the' Croc ex- """s iui no naa uvea ana woricea in England for forty years and hab! developed such an attachment for th country and sympathy with its people I that h. Hacf..J ' .1 . . . . I u"bu Mil u w hib moral weight and personal allegiance into the British cause in the European war. The distinguished novelist, critic and pla wright was born in New York, April 15, 1848. His father, Henry James, Sr., was noted as a writer on ethics and religion; and his- younger brother, William, was later to become distin guished as a psychologist. The family was possessed of an ample fortune; tlf foundation of 'which was" laid by the novelist's grandfather, - of Scotch-Irish descent, who- migrated from Ulster soon after the revolutionary war and became a successful merchant at Al bany, N. Y. WHISKEY BREATH ROUTS COURT. j " Judge Feared Intoxication From Prox imity of Defendant. (New York World.) Mrs. Harry Magnes, who is sepa rated - from her husband, a salesman of 177 West One Hundred and: Second street, caused his arrest for annoying her. . - She was busy relating- her trou bles to. Magistrate 'Appleton, in the night court, when the young husband broke in with: "Haven't I met you before, judge?" "Not to my knowledge," answered the magistrate. 1 "Yes; you did,"- said the wife. "It was in Harlem court, where you threat ened to send him away, but r forgave J mm. - - Mrs. -Magnes' story was punctured by frequent interruptions by her hus band, who moved up to- the bridge and finally stood directly In front of the magistrate. - "Til adjourn this case untH Monday," the magistrate finally said. ."If I smell this defendant's breath much more I'll be too drunk to hold court." W m II A Mil AND TSie Sale- Not tv;)h ! Carolina and Other States. v Washington, , Feb. 28. Tbe ' storm from the southern Rocky Mountains has moved to Alabama, thS wather bureau' announced tonight, and it was attended today by rains In.' the Gulf states and snow in-Tennessee, I North Carolina .nd - the Middle '- Mississippi and lower Ohio valleys. Indications are that the-storm ; will- niove northwest ward and be attended, by rains' Tuesday in' the Atlantic ' states, snow v and, rain in the Middle Atlantic states and snow in Tennessee and .Ohio valley.; - ,-. ELL-ANS Absolutely Removes Indigestion. One package7 proves it 25c at all druggists; tug OLIB 1 l.E REMEDYFORSV3EN. 11-- AT YOtlR DRUGGIST l JJ "(DHUi Old te-.;; NDICATIONS clearly point to a big demand for the IL Colon E. Kerr Farms which we first announced Sun day, but the sale of which does not begin until tomorrow: Wednesday, . -T""""" " 1 1 1 , - 1 i '" t ' i Although we'have had numerous re)quests, we have steadfastly refused to reserve, or receive money in part payment ?or any special farm, and all will share and share alike when the sale starts tomorrow morning. As stated beforethis property is the most desirable, aVailable land to be had in the county. You haye read whkt the Farm Demonstrator hdd to say of the type of soil; the location shows for itself. Sizes range all the wayrom 3 to 10 ares; prices from $500 to $1,000. Liberal discount for cash. See the property; talk to us about it ?Phone 1220 "Poster & Go. : .v.- : . . - t . 112 Princess Street S6syfrBuisies LptalsGet Rfesults to c begin training: for tbe tenroundL. - I M 'II' I ' II 'I I I , . r Isi t ' J ft
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