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Volume 7; Number 31.
FAYETTEVILLE, N. C FRIDAY, APRIL 6, 1917 .
Price $2.00 Per Vcok
President Wilson
Makes Address
To Congress
"Gentlemen of the Congress:
'"I have called the congress ir.to
extraordinary session because there
are serious, very serious, choices of
policy to be made and made immedi-
te'ft which it was neither right nor
constitutionally permissable that I
should siume he responsibility
making. ,.
"On the third of February last, 1
officially laid before you the .extraor
dinary announcement of the imp-trial
German governmeut-that vn. mi Af
ter the first day of February it was
its purpose to put aside aii restraint
of Jaw or of humanity and use its
fought cither to approach the: ports
of Great- JSritafa .and Ireland or the
western coast of Europe or any id
the ports controlled by -th enemies
of .Germany within the Mediterra
nean, That had seemed to be the
t'l'kxt of the Germs,!, submarine war
fare earlier ia the war but ainc
. At.riJ ni Ust'yer tfat imperial Cer
jman government had. somtweat . re
a't. r.ij the rummaadors of its un
' it-i ;wa craft in conformity with its
promise then given to us that passen
ger h'ltxU rhould :ot be su:k end that
dt . warning would be givea t sdj
other vessels 'which 'its , jsahmariiicy .
might stek $9 destroy when bo re
tistanie was offered r escape at-:
greeted and care token that their;
irM were (riven at least a fair!
rfjnce to save their lives in thair
opi boats,'' The precautions ; taken
wm proven 'in ..digressing instance
f'.'.r instance in the progress of the
rrif! and unmanly business but a
cruel and unmanly purines but a
etrtain decree of restrabtnt was ob
served. The new pojky ha swept
every restriction aside. "Vessels, of
. every fcifld,. whatever their flair, their
. taetee, their eago, Uidr destina
tion, 'their errand, have been ruth-'
bwly sent to the bottom without
Asi-iling and without thought of help
or mercy for those on board, the ves-
(4 friendly .noutral 'along with
tl'iRf f the lx?i.S;;K:resits. Even hos
pital chilis arsj ,ahip carryinff relief
to the eorely berpaved and stricken
people ft Beltrium, the latter were
provided with afa conduct through
the prescribed areas by the German
-leinnient itself and were 'distin
guished" by upmtstakable marks of
liieRtity, have been tunic with the
urn reklet lack of com passion or
at principle, ' .
i wa for a little while unabji to
believe that such things would in
fact be done by any (irovernment that
i hitherto subscribed to the hu
mr,e practices of civ.iied nations,
biiernational law had its origin in
the attempt to set up some law which
would be respected and observed upon
ht seas, where no nation had ritfM
of domination and where Jay the free
-highways of the werld. By painful
atuzw afu-f atage has. the law been..
t,,;Ut p with meager enouich. re'uHs,
)..... , i, ufvr ail Wivs accomplished
th.it rw.t N- aeeompliihe 1, but al
Wa i'.'n a ".lear view uf what the
heart .! s-'ici:ti f mankind dc
naiit;d. This mm.nlmum of fight the
German pevtir p t baa swept a-,i.!e
'under tho ple.j j' tsliaihui 4vJ ne-i
fixity fJi'd b?.:, ' hal n i wpapunl
which 'it could )- '!
which it is imp-.---it
is empl.iyinjr th-r
lei? to thsi wiui!. a.
m.!f!t v or f - r i i
!.!. Jiiiir ih-st wi-i,-
i 1'c the inii'ii-o.;. i
I am !u.t thir.k!' -'
fcir.H-rty inv.dvtd. in
'riciis a ihiit is, iiit mih
m ami whiUs;ifc dotnt. ,-tinn of the
ii?s tf ion-c.!il.ii;iiii.-, in-.-., women
ai'l chil.biit. fn.iM.l -in- parsuits
which h ivt jtttyfli eVvri j,, the -i.i'.'k-
... ....v ... I.. . , . I
tr. ir m"""' l oin.u ris- hl.ti:ty. reen
deemed OiiuKpnt and baUimate.
rroperty can W naidfor; the live of
ptuet-ftti and tenm i cannot h: ity
j.r.et .Vniun uumrine artae
gtriiii-t cnin.rce ia a warfaie that
ij ftv;.iir.st ninr.fciii.l
"It i Wir ai'iiinjt u ......
" " IJ llltll.'l 3,
American hip kav un.k,Am
wbh live- tikin. 1D ,vs whi.h ,(
h:c utiired us very I...DV , i.ril
bee sunk and oveiwhe'med
the
aaters in the name way. There -has
been no ciscriminatiop . The cluJl-lenfe-e
is to rl mankind. Each ta
n must decide for itself how it will
Keen it. The choice v.e make for
nurj.elve must be made with a mod
eration of tounsel and a temperance
of judgment beneSUiag" .ur charac
ter anti our motives as a nation. We
must p'jt excited eelinjr away. Our
motive 'will ...act 'he revenge w the
victorious assertion of the nhysicai
might of the nation but only the vin
dication of right, m buraaa rights id.
which we are only a single champion.
,W hen 1 c' lressed the congress on
the twenty-Sixth February, last, 1
thovght that 'it was . sufficient to as-
; rL jj - it ! i
s
The Senate Passes
ar Resolution
82 To 6
The United States Army is nownd down a line of battle .receiving
equipped with an automobile which
carries a wireless apparatus with it
in the form shown in the illustration.
'This car woul be able to dash Op have been or-Jerei.
my opinion, te .caoscn upon the
sert our neutral rights wi'Ji a-rms, our J principle of universal liability to er-
PEOPLE IS IX. HEIR ?WN
HANDS .
The United States has ne'ver gone
t owar but to estauiisb .or vindicaU
a principle 5f hunian- liberty. ' we
fought apd won in J 776, In in
1808 So we will iight in, 1?!7, ,
Amer:can e'tV.eus'of German birth
!or ancerVv vhould remember ihat 't
and sending messages to all parts of j was to csca ' JuT8ey, t.vri i i'
Ittie line. The War Department has and lack vf .k7.P l.y-lthat tj'
not stated just how. many of them : their for ifatbe. j cajna from GermKry
j to Amen -a. In '.be tr between tne
j United .'tat!' Oi i Germany it will
i '. '" ' ' , . ,Z be their opportunity do-their rart
law in ease of war at least five hun.tfian people. W have no feidihg to- to release thfci? Jcinmen '"vo-.rt
ire4 thousand men, who should, . ia ' irard them but ' one of svmpathy audi the autowaty, tha tyr.-jnny, . the? lack
. f ' . -I- . . . .
fi'ifiuiship. ' It was not upon their of oppo;ur.ity vim j tirove ftoem ft
impulse that Uieir government acted their-ancestors from Germany,
THE FATE OF THE CEBSlAXThe resolution' declaring that :USm
' of w ar exists- tietween . the
Hght to use the seas against unlaw
ful interference, cur jijrhi to kef
our peopSe -safe agwu-jt taiawful
ier.ee,
'JBut armed ueutraliry it pw ap
pears, -ia- ip.ipra;S.!cab!e.-i--Eocawse
submarines are ia effect outlaws
when u.-.ed as the German submarines
have ieea used agviast .ir.ercbaat
shipping it is im'psitble to defend
ships against thci attacks as the law
id na.iious has scm4 that' nter
rbaRtmett W0U4 defend ' themselves
agairtat privateer or cruisers, visabie
craft giving chase upon the open
sea. it is commoa prudence in such
circumstances, gr',m necessity indeed.
to endeavor 'to destroy them befoie
.hey have ithowi) ' iSe.ir own ., inten
tions, , They must jbe, dealt with upon
ight, if dealt with at a!L The Ger
man government denies the right of
neutrals to use trms at all within the
areas of the sea which it has pre
scribed, even .in the defense of rights
which no modern nation has even be
fore questioned their right to defend.
The intimation ' is conveyed that the
aiiried guards whiih we have placed
en our merchant ships will lie treated
i's beyond the pale c( law and sub-
itfet to be dealt with as pirates would
be. Armed neutrality is ineffectual
enough at bei-t; in such ciixum
stances and in the face of such pie
tensions; it ia piattU'a'ly certain to
draw us into the war without cither
the right or the effectiveness of bel
ligerents. There is one choice we
cannot make, wa are incapable of
making; we will not choose the path
or submission and suffer the most
nacred rights of our nation nn.l our
people to be ignored or violated. The
wrongs against which we now nray
ourselves are not wimmon wrong's'-
vice ar.d also the authorization of
subsequent adltiunal ineremnts of
etjuaJ. force as scon as they may be
needed and tan be handled in train
ing, it will involve also of couige,
in entering ;thi?Var. It was not Fightng under the flag of their
with thair prf vi ius- knowledge or ap- j adopted country in this war the will
proval. It was a war determined up- be fighting to free Hie German Wo
on in the oil, unhappy days whenp''', to make possible the continued
peoples were nowhere consulted by 'existence of the German cation.
the granting of adequate- credits to; their -rulers and ware were' provoked L'et no one overlook this- it must.
Statesand Germany was pftsed iK.
the. Senate tonight by a -vote f S?
to - 6. ft 'gees', to the - House, whesf
debate will liegia tomorrow snvnSag
at 10 o'clock to ci.ntir.ue until actio
is taken. s .
Senators who cast- t'le egatie
vot-eg were: Gronna, JJurth "Dakota;
LaFoilotteJ Wiscont.in; Narris, JV'a-"
braska; Lane,. Oregon; Stoaei' - Mis
souri; and VarJaman, Wi.ii.ssippC
The resoluGon drafted after consul
tation with the State Pepsfjnent x4
already accepted by the liause Co"'
mittee, says the state of war thru.
upon the United States by Gei:tia:y.
is formally .declare and diriH'ts tbe
President -to- employ the entice .mili
tary and naval forces n vi ;Uo resour
ces of .the governm'f .r ' tarry at
war and bring it to a .-.: esful U
mlnation.'
it -is the
the government, sustaused, I hope, so and wage! in the interest of dynas tne .determination as
far as they can quiUbly be sus-jties or cf little groups of ambitious Pm duty, of . the democracies that
laired by the present generation, by I men who were accustomed to us?e s-e fightirfg Germany to continue to
democfatizeJ
wc'l conceived taxation.
i say sustained so far as amy be
equitable by taxation, because it.
seems -to me that it would be most
unwise to bae the credits which will
now be reeessary. entirely on monsy
borrowed. It is our duty. I most re
Fpectfully urge',to protect our peo
ple against the vary serious hardships
and evils which would be likely to
arise out of the inflation which, would
be produced by, .vast loans.
'In carrying out the measures by j it may be, from generation to genera
wmcn mese tnings are to oe aceom
their fcilov.jr.vR as pawns and tools. 'ht. until German?-
$elf -governed nations do not fill . or utterly ruined.
their neighbor states with spies or Nothing, less will' insure the -ft
set the coarse o.f intrigue to ' bring', tare safety of the world. :
about , some critical posture of af-j Autocratic. Prussian mi'litaritm
fairs which will -''give them an oppor-;neel hope for no mercy or eonsidera-
tunity to strike and make conipiest ' t;on rrom the nations that have had
Such designs c? n- be successfully , to war gut . to establish-. or vindicate
worked out only under cover and .fense of the' world's liberties.
where no one has the rifc'ht to ask) 't must ana wui tm uni--!K-t so
questions, umiingly contrived plans completely that it will disappear for
j of deception or aggression, carried, ever from the face r the earth
pliihed we thould keep constantly in
mind the wisdom of interfering as
little aa possible in our own repara,
tion and -in the equipment of our own
military' forces with the duty for it
will be a very practical duty of sup-
plying tne nations already at war
with Germany with the materials
which they can obtain only from us
or by our assistance. They are in
te field and we should help them in
every way to be" effective there.
"I shall take the liberty of suggest
ing, through the several executive de
partments of the government for the
consideration ofv your committees
measures; for the accomplishment of
the several objects I have mentioned.
I hope that it will be yor 'pleasure
to deal with them -as having been
framed after very careful thought by
the branch of the government upon
which the responsibility of conduct-
they out tj the very roots of human ling the war and safeguarding the na
life. j tion will most directly fall.
'While we do these things, these
deepy momentous- things, let us be
the world what our motives and our
the worl what our motives and our
object are. My own thought, has
nut been driven from its habitual an,,!
normal course by the unhappy event
'With profound sense of the sol-,
eren and even" tragical 'character of.
the step I am taking and of the grave
responsibilities whV.t it involves, Vit
in unhesitating obedience to wba i
iei m my constitutional, duty, 1 ad
vise that the rr.'.ngress' declare the re
cent course of (lie Imperial German of the last two moi.ths, anil Ifldo not
srmernmeui to be in fart nothing I.-h j Imlieve that the thought of the nation
than war ugainst he government a.i 1 has been altered or clouded by them,
people of the United States; that i: j I have exac tly the same things in
formally accept the status of In lli r-j mind now that I had in mind ivln-n 1
f -urn whk.a 1. is this ?en th'ust addressetl the Senate on the twenty .
on it) and that it take steps md'of January last; the same
not only to put the country in' a more., that I had in mind when 1 a'ddressad
iUruu.k ttate of uuchhe but ab'o to j the congress on the third of February
p- ert all it power r.nil emidoy ail of! and on the. twehtj'-sixth of February,
The world will no Ionizer tolerate
tion. can be worked out and kept the existence of a nation tnat per-
from the light only within the pji- mits .itself to be governed by a caste
vacy of courts or behind the care- which Is without conscience and which
fully guarded confidence of a narrow refuses to subscribe to those human
and privileged class.. They are hap-'Rid divine laws which are the key-
pily impossible where public opinion note of the arch of modern eiviiiza-
commends an insists upon full infor-jfson
mation concerning all the nation's; It rets entirely with the German
affairs. , ! people themseivog whether or not
". - ,-, , . . ' they go down to destruction with .their
A siaeauiast, concert tor peace tan government
So long as the German people con
tinue to give slavish loyalty to an 1
never be maintained' except by a part- i
nership of democratic nations. No
autocracy can be -trusted to keep ke common case witH tncir fHye
taun wumn it or oo.-erve us cove- ..,.. ..... , . , , , - ,
, , , , , I leaders they will be doomed to be
nanl8. may ue a league o nonor, 0Velt3k?n ,by th sr.lre fata wki(l
a partnership or op.mon. r, a!ways 0Vrtakt,s tbft ol)t
would eat its vita) "away; the plot-1 jaw .
tings of inner circles who could planj ' The 3t jon'. that arc fi htil, Ge,..
what they wou d and render account j many 'ean make no djstilM.tion . he.
to no one would be a corruption seat-1 .,,.. ,l ,.,i,i
. . , '. tween the ruthless military autocrats
td at its very heart. Only tree peo- ...u,, . . .
u "no rule Germany and the German
pie can hold their purpose and their ! -i- , , ,
. f v r . people, so long an the German peopie
honor steady to a common end fJ ' it,ma.i.. , i. i- .
.... , . . , , themselves make no distinction. -
prefer the- interests of mankind to T,lfi nMBO : ....
ing the United -.States, cannot con-.
ance has been abandoned to our hope . . , .
"."i" i man fifiipit; ri.ll, e repu-
which has
it exists to
M i' tht
my narrow interest of their own.
Does not America feel that
ea except those i its resouites to bring the government! "'"'r o'njot now, as then, is to via
!
thout throw- S v.ar,
the under.
,',-ed to uii
he woiiit.
lhf loss of
h- aiul se-
i-f !ht wan-'
"V h:.t ! x i l nvi 1
will invob.e (he utmost
en-om-r it ;on in coiinsi)
with the ; nments now' at war
with Germany, and, a? iwriib-nt to
that, the extenfu.n to those irovcrii
ments of the most lib-rat financial
"relit;; in order ti.at our reso-ixcee
s.iv. so far. a pass-tile be added to
theirs. U 'vvi'.j'.'j-'vjv? 'ho ovgai.ixa
tion and mubiiiation of all the m:i-re;-'al
reourc cf the country to
supply t"c materials of war i d
-erve the fnciuent ami need of th
in the m ist abun-lHii. yn the
m-ist e '.-Homiu! atid eiJictent way
imsi'dc. it v, ill 1i,vo!e the imine
..:a'.e foil e'vip-":! f the navy in
J tea into the life of the world a,
e is cleat It'i against the ,selfi$h and autoi-r'ahv
.. practicable powers and to' set up amerg-t -the
and 'if. I i,i really five and Self -ttroveiued :-oplv-
of the wurll si. h a i ev tit M pu"-
pose and of ae'ion a !'! honvi
ensure the obscrvanc of those - prin
ciples, .Neutrality ' is n hnger
feasible r titisirabte where the peace
of the world is itivoive 1 an i the free
dom of its peoples, ail the, menace
to that peace aid freedom bo-, in the
existence of autocratic fov-e v.hieh i
controlled wholly- by their will. ivt
by the wil of their peope. We -have
seen the. last of neutrality io such
cireumslames. V.'e are at ihc U
ginning of an ate hi whuh. it wilt !
insisted thai the sumo standards oT
for the future peace of the world by
ilte wonderful ond ' heartening .things
ihat have been hn Mcnmg within the
iast few vvuks in T a ii I I n
by those whin i t i i i
'...en aswavs. in fact ilemocr.u at
heart, in ail the. viial habits cf
thought, in an the intimate ri ia i..:;--h:ps
of iter neople a at rr. uin -natural
instinct, their habi:;;u .at'.:-.
; tide 1 ti w t I 't 11
that noviii 1 I' n i i
ticaj structure, imitr as ic had- s-omu
itd terrude was the reautv ii ;..
power, was n..t :n fe t ii : i.i::
''i'jit i 1 i r (.
j it has l 1 1 ' 1 ' i t
I ivenei 1 1- 1 i b i
in all hi i i i m in i i i it 1
to the forces that are fiuhii-r f..r
tiee-iom in the -wo 1,1 for justice a . ;
f ir pi'tice. Here is v. fit partste" i .
j .i leairue of honor. ' j
I
iltate-.t the government
enshived them,
The German nation as
d iv u a mi iiu 1 1 iln
VlOi'l.l.
I. -violates iU saitred p'ede
' i-eru ccsni in tne most
s: in-avae
Action in the , i t sst
ter 11. o'clock at d i a c 1 atJ
that, had lasted von iiue 'I
o'clock this- moniiPL'. iiu; clizuaj;
was .reached late I 'c r ).
when Senator S h V i ' am
denounce- a spcub it 'i I-
I'ol'ette as more ltd, ' I trr xm j
Bethmann-ifollweg than ol an Amet--
ic.an Senator, ' ? "
Senators Show Deep I.iv.otioti
The passage , of 'the resi..ic..-:on -waa
not marked by any outburst from the
galleries, and on. the. floor the Sep-
tots themselves -were uti'usuaHy gra?
and tjuiet. Many of .them -answer-,
cd to their names in voices that act--'
tually qvvered wi,n emotion.
The galleries were filled to etc)
flowing, and on the floor, back td the
Senator' seats were almost half the
membership of the House. J.-') tbt
diplomatic gallery was Secretary Laa
sing, Counsellor i'o::i, of the S'ai
Department;- Minister Oalderon. cf
Bolivia, and Minister Ekengretf, " (
Sweden.. .Earlier in the. evening Dp.
Rttter the Swiss Minister in ebtrw
e-f German interesth In this coontrj,
had been theie. - . .
Secretary McAdoo was on the Howr
uurtng the last few hours of tat
lebate'
As the last riame was called isiiS,
the clerk announced the vote 82 t
fi, there was hardly s murmur of "applause.
The great crowd was awed by tb
solemnity of the occasion, and sober
ed by the speeches they had hparil.
After the vote WUi anjioujieeil,' tb...
-Senate remained in i,e,s.-ion only a far
minutes. I he galleries began to ema-
ty at oiu-e, and the ' Senators thenv-
elvts, tii e l out by the long day, lift -
luicKiy.
Tin: Senate, adjetrm-d until Fridnf-
to awaa action ot tne Hou,-;e.
Ad six o; tne benators who vote
gainst the resolution were nieinbir.-j.
i the . giiiuii ot twelve whien detetr-
I I (
giiiup ot twelve whicn
a.ine.l iieuiiaiiiy bin
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Peace,
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whi
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at" jus
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pnv
, is
a'l ref e:ts b ii artk-a!arjy in sup-J conduct and of responsibiPty for
vying with the best meaf of 1 wrong, done' shall be observed among
-.i. i'jir.g vsS'j- the vWiyV siibmaii-i--,J nations and their governments that
I; vi ill in otve ihe inimeoiate ad-H-lare observed among the individual the intrigues whit!, nave more
One of the things that has scrvi. ;
io.ctitiviiue us that the I'i-ucstan atit-m-i-acy
was not and could never
i.ur frivo-i is that r :n the very uir
set of th present war it has filio .
oir .uii-'.i-o.-i tine -mm'.initie3 and
i vvii "tir office ' government, with
--sties ah set trinumsl intrigues everj
nheie ;ifoot against ur national un
ity of counsel', or peace, within an!
without, our indus.ries and our com
merce, lndeod it is mv evident that
is spios were be'.e eea before the
war leaan; and it is - unhappily not
a matter, of conjuncture but a fact
proved in our courts of jus'ace that
t-' JDi Nt !-, tt
' t.ruM.w.v
Mit
IM'ti'E
l!Y TilJ
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'.h.u:i
tib'Mi i f a it mi' m
l.iu ti ! v i nil t,IM KT S',
7 'THE tIU: is no bnaled in
the F.R. biiiWiua at Ittl (.reeii
Micet and while, all tit the ma-
chinrry is up and ready to rim
it take i.iiuu da get
ever thins straight, but titter
uiv
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ti.e
' t iernu-.n
i'irt p;rl-
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a;. tho it.i-s
a: they i nv.
'.b bis'. f.-A
evi-teitci of
iii.ixi ,! 1 -to
of .Ai-iil;!i..
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this ek the paper I on "
.ttm(f and carry the local h.ipucii-
tha.t. J'-intts- a, well as the latext turciien " , 1 .K-:a!
ncm-. . . " o. ;w
' 1 j Ai i t
ol. but the shin .-in. inopi wf oih.-r i ( to thv aimv furei of the hnit-f citizens of civilized states. once come perilously m-ar to disturb-
iiiiitrat od - V, icn.lly i,MtinuS bav ' e 1 - State' ecoy ..lovde-l for Vy "We have no fpuit icl ' ith the t'.er- t'oiitinue .1 -on IVc Thrvci
t-. Ve.teial
ra'n.-hljje fit i -
f tbi --tie to .;;.! ; vtuaur
-f nur.v'i.ii tr.t Uuiifd .t.
-te r:etjfts.
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