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*0L. XXXIX
MO UNI AIRY, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY. JUNK 21, 1917.
AO. 40
WILSON WARNS PEOPLE
THAT GERMANY PLANS
AN INTRIGUE OP PEACE.
German people Bleeding Un
der Military Master*—U. S.
Flag Shall Wear New Luater
In Struggle to Make World
Safe.
WnnhinirtoTi , June 14.—America'n
reason for r.endintr her flaR HiramKt
the ft re of the enemy Berne* the ■>«•»
anil thv purpose «he eek* wore stated
anew by President Witfon today in »
flau day addrexs beneath the Washing
ton monument.
Germany'* military masters denied
the United State* the ritrht to fie neu
tral, the Pre i.'lent said, and by extra
ordinary insults and aggression* "left
u* no i»elf-respeetin{f • hoice hut to
take up arms in defense of our richl»i
a* a free people and of oar honor as
a sovereign government."
Now that America has been forced
to war. declared the President, she
bidr her young men forth to ftght
on fields of blood far away fur the
name old 'amiiia •, hmmc pj-no .• for
which it ha* oisa it- nj.-n die on every
battlefield upon wlfc< h Americans
have home aim* since the Revolution,
demoeracy. A yini.-ter power, he »i>id,
which has the (jerm:in people them
selves in it* grip,"now at lint, stretch
ed forth it* ugly talons and drawn
blood from us,"
Tie* Intrigue of I'eace.
"The whole world i* at war," ho
a<M'ed> "bcrigm the whole world is in
■♦he crip of that |«iwer and is trying
out the great battle which hall deter
mine whether it iH to be t>rougnt under
its mastery or fling it-.el/ free."
In giving warning that the German*
actually have carried into execution
their plan to throw a broad !>elt of
military power across the tenter of
F.urope and into the heart of Aria, re
jecting the idea of solidarity of races
hnd the choicer, of people: , Mr. Wil o,i
spoke of the "new in' -v.'uc for peace"
now appearing in many guises at the
request of the Berlin government.
"It can not go further; it dare not
go hack," he said. "It wishes to close
its bargain."
Several hours before the President
spoke, Washington had been drenched
with rain and pelted with hail. All
through the speech rain came down
softly and a secret service man held
an umbrella over the President's head,
while hundreds of umorellas hid the
/aces of most of his hetiiers.
The text of the PrerMent's address
follows:
President's Add reus.
"My fellow citizens; We meet to
celebrate flag day because thin 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 character
than that which we give it from gener
ation to generation. * * * We
celebrate the day of its birth; and
from its birth until now it has witness
a great history, has floated on high
the symbol of great events, of a
great plan of life worked out by a
great people. Wc 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, hundreds of
i thousands, it may be miTlions, of our
men, the young, the strong and capa
ble men of the nsticn, to go forth and
die beneath it on fields of blood far
away.—for what? for some unaccus
tomed thing? for something for which
it has never sought the fire before?
American armies were never before
aent across the seas. Why are they
| sent now? for some new purpose, for
which this great flag haa never been
carried before, or for some old, famil
iar, heroic purpose for which it has
ae«n men. its own men, die on every
battlefield upon which Americans have
borne arms sine* the revolution?
"These are question! which must b«
•nawerjd. • • •
"The war wa* begun by the military
sailMsr •
'master* of Germany, who proved •!«>
'to he the master* of A nutria- Hungary.
I Than* m«n have never raprilal na
tions an people*. men, women, and
i children of Ilka hlonrt i.nH frame aa
themselve*, for whom government*
misted and seen whom (mernmrnta
had their life. They have regarded
them merely an nenrtt-eable nrgamxa
| tion* which they rouli* ny forre or in
trigue bend or rorrupt to their own
purpose, They have regarded the
smaller states, in partlrutar, anil the
people* who rould he overwhelmed hy
forre ax their natural tool* and in
struments of lamination. Their pur
pose has lonif heen avowni. • « •
"The demand* made hy Austria up
on Servia were u mere single step in
n plan whirh c< raparaed Europe and
Aicia, from Benin to Itngdad. They
hoped tho»o demand i miffhl not arouse
Europe, hut tlrey meant to pre them
wliether they did or not, for thoy
thought themselve ready for the final
i sue of arms.
ii«-riniin> m 1'ian* or I onqiii-Hf.
"Their plan wa to throw a broad
belt «>f German mllHary power ami
political control aero* the renter of
Kurope arwl beyond fh« Mediterrnner.n j
into the heart of Am; and Austria
Hungary Wax to be n* much their j
tool and pawn a/ Servia ami Bulgaria!
or Turkey or the ponderous states of t
the ca st. Au. tria*Hungary, indeed,,
wan to become part of th<* central Ger
man empire, ah orbed and dominated '
l<y the a me forces and influence* that
had originally cemented the German
state* themselves. The dream had its!
heart at Her I in. It could have had a
hc?art nowhere else. * * * It con
templated binding together racial and
political units which could be k*pt to
gether only by force—ezezhs, magyar
Croats, serbs, Rumanians, Turks, Ar
menian*— the proud state.M of Bohemia
and Hungary, the stout little common
wealth.- of the Balkan;;, the irnlomita j
hie Turks, the subtile people* of the
east. These people/ did not wish to
he united. They ardently desired to
direct their own affair:', would be at
i tied only by undisputed indepen
dence. * * *
"And they have actually carried the
greater part of that amazing plan into
execution. Lo< k how things stand.
* * • From Hamburg to the Per
sian gulf the net is spread.
i . ,-v rorced inlo War.
"It is plain enough how we were
forced inlo the war. The extraordi
nary insults and aggressions of the
Imperial firman government left us
no selfrespecting choice hut to take
up arms in defense of our rights as a
free people and of our honor as a sov
ereign government. The military }
masters of Germany denied us the i
right to he neutral. They filled our,
hostile alliance with her arid that,
unsuspecting communities with vicious
spies and consprators and sought to
corrupt the opinion of our people in |
their own behalf. When they found
that they could not do that, their i
l
agents diligently spread sedition i
amongst. us and sought to draw out
own citizens from their allegiance—
and some of those agents were men
connected with the official embassy of ■
the lierman government itself—here'
in our own capitoi. They sought
by violence to destroy our industries j
and arre«t our commerce. They tried ^
to excite Mexico to take up arms t
against us and to draw Japan into a
not by indirect but direct suggestion
from the foreign office in Iierlin.1
They impudently denied us the use of
the high seas and repeatedly executed |
their threAt that they would send to
their death any of our people who
ventured to approach the coasts of
Kurope. • • • What great na
tion in nurh circumstances would not
have taken up arms? Much as we
had desired peace. It was denied us,
and not of our own choice. This flag
under which we serve would have
Iwen dishonored had we withheld our
1 hand.
| "lint that |. only pint of the «toi>.
We know now a* dearly a* wa know
before we war* ouraalva* engaged
that wa ara not (ha enamia* of tha
German people ami that they ara not
our rn«mlm. * * * Thay are
th*m**lva« in tha grip of tha name
•imvter power that ha* now at laat
at retched it* ugly talon* out and
rlrawn blood from u*. Tha whole
world i* at war l>m-au*« tha whole
world ta in the grip of that power
and ia trying out the great battle
which ohall determine whether it i* to
lie brought under it* maxtary or fling
itaclf free.
(ierman Prtff Talk.
"It in not easy to understand the
for peace that ha* man
if• ted from Berlin *ver since the
mtic v an « t and sprung? Peace,
peace, peace has been the talk of her
foreign office for now a year and
OH>re; not u|x»n her own initiative, but
ttjMin the initiative of the nations over
which *he know* herself to hold ad
vantage. A little of the talk ha* been
public hut moat of it has been private.
Through all orts of channels it has
come to me, and in all sorts of guises,
but never with the term* disclosed
whirh the German government would
In* willing to accept. That govern
ment ha^ other valuable* pawns in its
hands beside* those I Tmv. mertioned.
It still hold* a valuable part of
France, though with slowly relaxing
grasp, and practically . the whole of
Belgium* If army pres« close upon
Russia and overrun Poland at their
will. It cannot further; it dare not go
back. If wither* to close its bargain
before it is too late and it has little
left, to offer for the pound of Hush it
will demand.
"The military master* under whom
(iermany i* bleeding see very clearly
to what point fate ha« brought them.
If they fall hack or are fcrcf l back an
inch, th' ir power both abroad and at
home will fall to piece- like a hou*c of
card*. It i> thi'ir power at home th«*y
are thinking about now more than
their power abroad. It is that power
which is trembling unnler their very
r*eet; and deep fear ha < entered theii
learts. They have but one chance to
perpetuate their military jwmer or
even their controlling political in
fluence. If they can .secure peace
now with the immence advantages
still in their hands which they have up
to this point apparently gained, they
will have justified themselves before
the German people. • • • If they
fail, their people will thrust them
:i-nle; it government accountable to
the people themselves will tie net up in
Germany as it has lieen in Kngland.
in the United States in France, and
in all the great countriesof the modern
time except Germany. If they suc
ceed they are safe and Cermany and
the world are undone; if they fail Ger
many is i.aved and the world will he at
peace. If they succeed America will
fall within (he menace. We and the
••est of the world will remain armed,
as they will remain and must make
ready for the next step in their ag
gression; if they fail, the world may
unite for peucp and trcrmnny may lie
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
promises to effect their purpose, the
deceit of the nations? The present
particular aim is to deceive all those
who throughout the world stand for
the rights of peoples and the self-gov
ernment of nations; for they see what
immen-e strength the forces of justice
and of liberalism are gathering out of
this war. They are employing liber
als in their enterprise. They are us
ing men, in Germany and without, as
their spokesmen whom they have hith
erto despised and oppressed, using
them for their own destruction—M>
cialisu the leader* of labor, the think
ers they have hitherto sought to si
lence. l et them once succeed ami
these men, now their tools, will be
ground to powder bmnlh the wtlfllt
nf the pnt military umpire they trill
have net up; th« revoluttonwU in Rus
1 <ii will ha rut off from aturor or co
operation in went Rurupc and a coun
ter revolution fonterwl and upportad;
Germany herself will loaa har clianro
of freedom; and all Europe will arm
for tha naxt, tha final airuggle.
The Sininter Intrigue.
"The ainiiiter intrigue in being no
leu* art ively rondurtad in thin roun
' try than in Ruxaia and in avary coun
1 try in Europe to whirh tha agcnU and
dtipa.i of the imperial German govern
' merit ran ifet acres*. That govern
■ unit ha* many spok—men here, in
! place* h itch and low. They have
(learned discretion. They keep within
the law. It in opinion they utter now,
'riot edition. They proclaim the lib
eral purpose* of ih.'ir master*; de
clare thin in a foreign war wh rh ran
touch America with no danger to aith
|er her lands or her in.*.tituUnn»; net
Kr :rland at tl • center of the stage ami
talk of her ambition to .udert eco
nomic domination throughout the
world; appeal to our undent trnlition
of isolation in the politic- of the n:i
tion ; an«l seek to umlermine the gov
ernment with falxe profession* of loy
alty to it.i principle*.
"lint tnry will make no headway.
The false betray themselves always
in every accent. It is only friend
ami parti arm of the •»-rman govern
ment whom we have already identified
who utter the«e things di*gu,-e disloy
alties The farts are patent to all th<:
world, ar.d now where are they more
plainly een than in the United State..,
where we are accu tomed to ileal with
the bi'l. and not with sopiustrw* and
the (treat flKfTtlir rfart/T.i out above
all the re t in that this i* a people's
war, n war for freedom and justice
and self u vrrnment amongst all the
nation ; of the world, a war to make
:he w .iM fafe for the peoples who
live upon it and hu —made it their
<>wn, the fJurman people themselves
im-luded; and that wi.h u.- rests the
choice to break through all the.ie
hypothec and patent cheats and
'na ■ kof brute force and help ret the
wurldfree, or else stand aside and let
it li^^kiir.atol a long age through by
ht-'.-^^miht of arms and the arbitrary
choices of self conrtitu.ed masters, by
tha nation which can maintain th<;
biggc-1 armies and the most irresisti
ble armament- a power to which the
■vorld ha- afforded 110 parallel and in
the foce of whic'i political freedom
must wither and perish.
"For us there i hut one choice.
Wr have made it. Woe be to the man
or group of men that seeks to stand
in our way in this day of high resolu
tion when every principle we hold
dcare.' t is to lie vindicated and mad?
so.-tire f.-<r the salvation of the nations.
We arc ready to ple-id at the bar of
hi story, and our flag r'lall wear a new
luster. Once more we shall make
good with our lives and fortunes the
en-iil faith to which we were born,
and a now glory shall shire in the fa.-e
of our people."
Public Pays Twice Canned
Goods Cost.
<1iieago, June 12.—Speculation in
canned goods must he stopped by the
government if the public is not to be
robbed, an official of a Chicago whole
sale grocery house declared today,
lie said that speculators are making
100 per cent, profit on corn, peas and
tomatoes for which the public is now
paying virtually double prices.
Teas retail for 25 cents a can, and
tomatoes and corn, which formerly
sold at 12 1-2 to 15 cents a can, now
bring 20 to 25 cents. This wholesaler
says the speculator* buy canned corn
at <12 1-2 cents a dozen, tomatoes at
!M» cents and peas at 75 cents, which
they s^ll at fl.50 to 12.10.
"Allowing," he said, "for the high
cost of tin cans and rases. No. 3 to
matoes cost the canner 80 cents, pea*
62 1-2 cents and corn 6? cants a dot
SMALL INVESTORS SAFE.
It Mar b* Several day* Before
til* Total Subscription* to
th« Greatest Loan in Ameri
can History Becomes Avail
able.
Washington, June lrt.—Secretary
MrAdoo announced tonight that no
part of the great oversubscription to
the liberty loan would he accepted,
and that hi* statement of May 10, in
vyhirh he declared that the i**ue wnulil
lie limited to liJ.IHMI.IHHI/Mm, stood
good now at then.
Mr McAdoo's announcement will re
sult in paring; down hundred* of the
larger loan* until the total reaches
the »2,00A,(M>9,M0 limit. The over
subscription will not fall, it -eem»d
certain, belo* f7CN),000,000 and il may
go a* .high a. $!»00,000,000.
The grand total of Nuhscription* re
ceived at reserve hank* up to noon
Friday, the dotting hour, will not las
Known until Monday at the earliest.
The total of subscription* that reached
the federal reserve hank* after the
hour probably wili not nr known until
after that.
In disponing of reports that the
amount of the i --ue might l»e enlarg
ed to include all offer*, Mr. MrAdoo in
a statement said:
"Allotments of liberty bonds will
not 1* made in excess of the $2,000,
000,000 offered. I announce*! ttos on
May 10, when the detaris of the loan
were first published.
"I have asked the reserve hanks to
tabulate separately, ami on supple
mentary list*, the subscriptions r«- j
ceivwl yesterday, J up* lo, afternoon,
in order that I may be in a position to
consider, in making allotment of the
two billion dollars of bonds, those ap
plications which, through no fault of
subscribers (either because of delay
on the part • f the bank or trust com
pany transmitting them, or conges
tion of the mail* or at the doors of the
federal reserve bank-, at the moment
at closing I, were recorded on time.
"It is impossible now to foretell
what decision will be reached in thin {
matter or to determine the basis upon
which allotments will be made until
substantially definite returns have
been received from the several re
serve lianks.
"1 shall avail m>>elf of the right re
served in the circular offering the
bonds, to allot in full upon applica
tion* for smaller amount* of bond*
ami to reduce allotement* on applica
tion* for larger amount*, a* *uch ac
tion will l>e clearly in the public inter
est."
Mr McAdoo too acknowledged with
appreciation the work of the many
forces of publicity which aided, in the
flotation of the loan.
"The liberty loan campaign," he
said, "was essentially one of educa
tion and without the generous and pa
triotic support of the press of the na
tion, the hope of those in charge that
it would be a popular loan would not
have been realized.
"At a time when news -pace was at
a premium, the liberty loan was fea
tured at length. The foreign lan
guage press, in 36 languages, gave
daily proof of the undoubted loyalty
of peoples of foreign birth."
"Hell Made in Germany."
"If hell were turned upside down,
you would find 'made in Germany'
stamped on the bottom," in Billy
Sunday's latest attack upon ike Kai
ser.
"Germany will b« cross-eyed ha
fore she is thn ugh watching what we
are doing," he t dded.
Sunday announced to his audience
of 18,000 his su mcription of |2,r>,000
to the Liberty loan. j
"111 never buy auything made in j
Germany again," Billy added. "I'm
through with that Gertsany it
watching this loan closer than any
thing they have watched before."
TWO MINUTE BATTLE IS
WAGED ON WEST FRONT
It Took British Jutt That Long
to Carry Out Of. ««uit« and
Gain Nearly a Mile.
' Britwh Headquarter* ui Franca,
June via l^imlon, (By \imtmd
Praaa.)- The war'n latent develop
ment in a two-mmutr l»attlr.
It took the Britmh just that lone te
rapture three-quarter« of a mile of
tranche* on Infantry hill, east of
Monche-Le-Preux. Thur-day morning.
The time for "igoinfg u«*r the top**
wan *et. for 7 :X> and at 1:21 rockets
iifnaJ'-f! th»> fact all along the line at
tackoH that the objective* had :»een
taken.
The Brit h u,\r out of their
t.emh.*< in h »ad daylight without a
iny\r. *ho< of artillery preparation
ha\ »£•„•* I »*cn fired, n i<d aero** No
Ma' 4 I .it r11, urpri*ed the German
: i ■ »>n at hreakfa<t and t/mk thrse
fft* er and 1? > other prioner: with
«.ut this tightest etfort.
It wa. r.iy after they had wt.ijti
pli had a 1 this that th«- British bar
.'.n pt»4 "il beh.d the German
in order to cutoff any possi
ble relief «>r immediate counter-attack
from that dirrectfah. There were on
ly two British caxualti*-1 and on ac
count *f the .ire; >1 rr, mparatively
•few li»rmat... 1 h» enemy machine
gun rapturait had r of fired a lingla
rotirvl dti/ing the attack.
One party of German "fficers at
breakfast in a 'tutrout refu ed to take
seriously then udden appearance of the
Briti-h "tommies" at the entrance to
their underground timing room and
their demand of rorrender. and made
for rifles and piatol*. A hand gre
nade toured among them closed the in
cident.
1 .liter in the day the (iermanj were
seen assembling for n counter attack.
The Kritiih waited unt:: they had as
semUed in large number* and then
turned a torrer.t of artillery-fire upon
them, inflicting heavy |o»-es. Ii wax
not until Friday morning that tha
German attempted anoltier counter
attack. And then they succeed only
in taking a -mailer outpost which had
l>een • ••latdished in front of the new
ly won positions.
On the Me-.sines front comparative
puiet reigns, the Germans have fallen
bark to a line running due north from
Warneton. Thin absolutely flattens
the WyUchaete salient in which the
Germans established themselves in
October, 1910, and whirh completely
protected the curving Messines-Wyst
chaete ridge, from which the enemy
made life miserable in the low lying
Ypres salient held by the British.
Artillerymen recently taken prison
er says that many long = ange guns
now being used by the Germans have
been taken from warships. One pris
oner said his guns were from the Kai
ser Barbarossa, while many others
were from the same class of ships.
The feeling between the German in
fantry and artillery is becoming more
intense, and there is general com
plaint of insufficient guns.
Failed to Register and Waa
Shot While Fleeing.
Virginia. Minn., June 12.—Nick
I.urona, said to be a .nember of the
Industrial Workers of the World, waa
shot here today while attempting to
escape from the custody of officers
who had arrested him on a charge of
not registering last Tuesday. Ilia
wound is believed to l>e serious. The
list of men arrested in this neighbor
hood for failing to register istxpect
ed to reach 50 by midnight. Nina
were arrested yesterday at Chisholm.
Several are held at brainerd, all
said to he members of the 1, W. W.
Big Loan to Great Britais.
Washington, June 14. An addition
al $25,000,000 was loaned by the gov
ernment to Great Britain today, bring
ing the total British loaa op
000.000 and the total for all the alltaa
op to fi)4»,000,000.
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