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IE STICKER'S GENERAL NEWS DEPARTMENT
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HAS NEWS
[A new high school is to be built at
iwood to cost $70,000.
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:e new shell road has been com-
between Silsbee and Beaumont.
well haL been drilled in three
|uth of.Liberty and is produc-
rquaKy of oil.
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ley general's department
a $15,000 issue of Milam
district No. 9.
—i— _
(ey general's department
a $>,500 bond issue of
ion school district
te of the Texas & Pa-
aany at Wills Point
by fire with a loss of
annual convention of
bn's Association of Tex-
\p. Galveston April
Lpriyrf),
id commission has
lexas & Pa5ific and Mis-
& Texas lines to pro-
lepot at Denton.
which was recently
.miles north of Cole-
; into covered tanks.
:ely high grade.
iural Institute at
ceived a car of seed
I was furnished them
to plant about
^mlng season.
annual convention of
isters' Association
Ith annual convention
9tmasters' League will
ieral Wells May 23, 24
ir Ferguson has appointed
Smith of Port Stockton district
ley of the Eighty-third judicial
ict, which was created by an act
the regular session of the thirty-
legislature.
Morehead* of Franklin, Rob-
county, was appointed by Gov-
Fergueon to be judge of the
■fifth judicial district, recently
and comprising the counties
rajutd^Brasos.
■a of the*state food and drug
continue to push the cam-
adulterated vinegar in-
le weeks ago. During
approximately 4,800 gal-
have been seized.
UNRESTRICTED U-BOAT
WARFARE FOR DEFENSE
GERMAN CHANCELLOR PLACES
RESPONSIBILITY FOR WAR IF
UNITED STATES ENTERS.
DON'T WANT WAR WITH U. S.
Dr. Von Bethmann-Hollweg Declares
Submarine Warfare Must ^Continue
and, If America Opposes, She
Will/ Be to Blame.
Citizens of Ochiltree at a recent
raised a bonus of $30,000 to
a line of railroad into the town
;ree. The line which will
into the town will be from
City, Oklahoma; or some point
Rock Island.
bree great casks of liquor, contain-
300 gallons each, a few days ago
wL in from somewhere in the Gulf
' Mexico and were tossed upon the
ch; one cask came ashore at Free-
the other two between Freeport
Aransas Pass, Texas.
The attorney general's department
approved the following bond is-
Upshur and Harrison County
common school district No. 46,
Fannin county road district
19, $15,000; Houston county com-
school district No. 7, $1,200.
sh war veterans on the Texas
have commenced recruiting a
lent for service in the field and to
offered to the government in case
war. Recruiting officers are being
[opened fn all West Texas border towns
along the border of New Mexico
Arizona. It is planned to form the
in three divisions of mem-
young enough for field service.
The board of water engineers at
^ustiR- has granted a permit to the
|er company at San Angelo to con-
a dam across the Concho river
Ipound the storm and flood waters
stream in sufficient quantities
[>ply the city of San Angelo with
for all purposes. The dam is to
I fourteen feet in height. .
has developed that the thirty-fifth
" iture passed two bills which are
illy the same, one being a sen-
11 and the other a house bill, both
section 2 of the law creating
iton independent school dis-
Atascosa county. Both bills
en signed by the governor and
the secretary of state's office.
DXimately one hundred confed-
pensloners died during the past
r, according to Controller Ter-
Eh is a noticeable increase
number of deceased during
^previous quarter. Of the 19,000
lerate pension warrants issued
on the first of March, fully
returned by the post-
erities as undelivered. Of
100 are marked deceased
as change of address.
Berlin, via Wireless to Sayville.—•
"Germany never had the slightest in-
tention of attacking the United States
of America, and does not have such
intention now. It never desired war
against the United States of America,
and does not desire it today," was the
declaration made by the German im-
perial chancellor, Dr. von Bethmann-
Hollweg, in a speech in the reichstag
Thursday.
The chancellor made important dec-
larations concerning Germany's policy
toward the United States and Russia.
"How did these things develop?"
asked the chancellor in speaking of
the relations with the United States.
He then proceeded to answer the ques-
tion by reviewing the causes which led
up to the German use of submarines
in unrestricted warfare.
Declaring that Germany had under-
taken unrestricted submarine warfare
for its defense, Dr. von Bethmann-
Hollweg said:
"If the American nation considers
this a cause for which to declare war
against the German nation, with which
it has lived In peace for more than
one hundred years; if this action war-
rants an increase of bloodshed, we
shall not have to bear the burden of
responsibility for it."
The imperial chancellor referred to
Germany's attitude toward the recent
events in Russia, and recalled in for-
mer times the honored friendship be-
tween the two countries. He said,
however, that this friendship had end-
ed with the death of Alexander II.
Emperor Nicholas had more and
more drifted into the entente's wake
and into pan-Slavic currents and had
finally become a partisan of the war
party, omnipotent under the Russian
autocratic regime.
"Thus," said the chancellor, "in the
-fateful days of July, 1914, the Russian
emperor declined to listen to the ap-
peal made by the German emperor.
"When Russia, in 1905, by the Japan-
ese war and the resulting revolution,
had been involved in distress it was
the German emperor who, on account
of personal relations of friendship, ur-
gently advised the Russian emperor
no longer to oppose the justified
wishes of his nation for reforms. Em-
peror Nicholas preferred other roads.
In Russia, had attention been concen-
trated on internal reconstruction, there
would not have been room for the rest-
less policy of expansion which finally
led to this war and which has changed
the old regime so much that now it is
hard even to do justice to natural,
human pity for the downfallen house
of the rulers.
"Nobody can tell how things shall
i develop, but our attitude toward Rus-
sian events is clearly outlined. We
shall also follow the principle that we
never meddle with the internal prob-
lems of other countries. It now is
maliciously reported that Germany
wants to annihilate the hardly con-
quered freedom of the Russian nation
and that the German emperor wants to
re-establish the rule of the czar over
his enslaved subjects. All these are
merely lies and slander, as I here ex-
pressly state.
"How the Russian nation wants to
construct its home is only the busi-
ness of the Russian nation, and we
shall not meddle with it. The only
thing that we hope is that Russian
foundations may develop that will
make her the strong and firm bulwark
of peace."
"Our relations with China had al-
ways been of the most friendly nature,
and if these relations have actually
been terminated by the Chinese gov-
ernment, I need not tell you that this
is not by the free resolve of the Chin-
ese government, but that it has acted
under pressure of our enemies.
"Financial difficulties which could
not be mastered during the war by
China also played a fair part in it.
Our enemies' object also is to destroy
our trade with China and appropriate
without labor what has been establish-
ed there during many years by Ger-
man efficiency and German industry.
"The result of the war—as I confi-
dently hope—will give us the oppor-
tunity to rebuild what has been de-
stroyed and to rebuild it at the ex-
pense of our enemies. Then our
friendly relations with China will re-
vive, provided that China will pre-
serve until then the necessary force
of resistance against the greed and
egotism of her present protectors."
WHERE WILL IT LIGHT?
III
WARC?
(Copyright.)
DANISH ISLANDS PASS
TO UNITED STATES
Danish Flag Lowered at St. Thomas
and the Stars and Sripes Were
Hoisted.
St. Thomas, Virgin Islands.—The
transfer of the Virgin Islands from
Danish rule to the United States took
place simultaneously on the three
islands at 3 o'clock Saturday. Com-
mander Pollock, the ranking American
officer at the islands, officiated at St.
Thomas, while the commander of the
cruiser Olympia acted in a similar ca-
pacity at St. Croix. Officers and ma-
rines of the cruiser Hancock and the
Danish cruiser Valkyrien formed
guards of honor, fronting on the mili-
tary barracks at St. Thomas, where
the ceremonies were witnessed by
members of the local legislature, of-
ficials, consuls and a large concourse
of people.
Commander Pollock landed from the
cruiser Hancock under a salute of fif-
teen guns and proceeded to the offi-
cers' barracks, where the transfer pro-
tocol was signed, whereupon the Dan-
ish governor proclaimed the transfer
and the Danish flag was lowered amid
salutes and the singing of the Danish
anthem. Commander Pollock then pro-
claimed the cession and the American
flag was hoisted, accompanied by sa-
lutes and the singing of the Ameri-
can anthem.
After prayers by the Moravian bish-
op, Rev. Dr. Greider, and the bishop of
Porto Rico, Commander Pollock an-
nounced himself acting governor of
the Virgin Islands of the United States
of America. Many in the crowd wept
during the profound and impressive
silence that following the hoisting of
the American flag.
COST OF FOOD MORE
THAN AVERAGE WAGE
Expressed in Purchasing Power the
Working Man's Pay Has
Decreased.
Washington.—The annual food bill
of the average family has grown from
$339.30 in 1913 to $425.54 at present,
the department of labor announced
Friday in a review of food prices. In
ten years, the department's experts
estimate, the advanco in the cost of
food has so far outstripped wage in-
creases that the workman who drew
$3 a day in 1907 now finds himself just
69c a day worse off.
The heaviest increase in food prices
during the last four years is shown in
potatoes, the cost of which has risen
from $18.96 to $44.69. Other large in-
creases are in eggs, from $33.01 to
$43.07; flour, $15.12 to $25.40; butter,
$45.72 to $54.78. Of the whole list of
foods, only sirloin steak and round
steak are cheaper than five years ago.
In the period from January 15 to
February 15 food prices took a 4 per
cent jump. Onions led with a 77 per
cent increase, potatoes vent up 30 per
cent, eggs alone decreased in price.
It is/ estimated that if a dollar's
worth of food bought in 1907 weighed
ten pounds, it would weigh today a
trifle more than seven pounds.
"Despite the average increase of 19
per cent in wages an hour in the last
ten years," says the department's
statement, "and despite a cut in hours
worked of 4 per cent, the rising cost
of foods has operated to reduce the
pay of the American working man
about 16 per cent, expressed in terms
of food his dollar will buy.
Menocal Troops Landed.
Havana.—Cuban troops under Colo-
nel Varona landed at Caimanera Wed-
nesday. They met with no resistance.
VILLA DEFEATED IN AN
ATTACK ON CHIHUAHUA
n a Desperate Attempt to Capturr
City Loses Heavily in Men
and Horses.
Chihuahua City, Mex.—Francisco
Villa at the head of a cavalry force of
3,500 men made a determined attempt
Friday to eapture Chihuahua City, but
was driven back with the loss of 500
prisoners and 350 in killed and wound-
ed.
The attack, which had been expected
by the garrison force, was launched at
5:30 o'clock Friday morning in the di-
rection of Quinta Carolina, north of
the city, and spread rapidly to the
Santo Nino railway station, the houses
of the Pierce Oil Company and the
abandoned city cemetery.
The battery on Santa Rosa Hill, the
key to the city, which Villa took by a
rush in his successful attack last No-
vember, opened fire on the attackers,
aided by a cleverly placed battery at
the Central railway station. General
E. Hernandez, by executing a flank
movement, broke up one end of the
Villa line and took 200 prisoners.
Colonel Mora, intrenched in the old
cemetery, repulsed three charges by
the enemy troops. The Villa*prisoners
taken ithere raised the total to 500.
Besides this over nine hundred saddle
horses, three machine guns and a
quantity of arms were captured.
From an order of the day found on
a prisoner, Villa's expedition is shown
to have numbered 3,500 men, all cav-
alry, which was only half the size of
the defending Carranza forces, whose
losses in dead and wounded amounted
to the comparatively small number of
120 men. '
The Carranza officers do not assert
the victory was decisive, although it
caused the enemy to flee in disorder.
Villa was reported to be in personal
command of the attack, but remained
at safe distance from the scene of fire.
VUla's men were well provided with
ammunition, but lacked food and cloth-
ing and suffered on the battlefield
from need of water, as all of the
streams are dried up at this seasoD
of the year.
PRESIDENT WILSON'S
ADDRESS TO CONGRESS
VIEWS RELATIONS WITH GER-
MANY AND ASKS THAT CON-
GRESS DECLARE STATE OF WAR
EXISTING.
CALLS FOR LARGE ARMY
The President Made It Clear That We
Do Not Want War Upon the German
People—Belief in Loyalty of Nat-
uralized Americans.
Onion Men Fear Car Shortage.
Washington. — Rio Grande valley
onion growers are fearful lest the pres-
ent car shortage will cause them heavy
losses this month in delaying the mar-
keting of their crop.
Complaints from the onion growers
in the vicinity of Laredo, Crystal
Springs and Carrizo Springs were re-
ceived by Congressman Garner, who
took the matter up with the interstate
commerce commission. f
Commissioner McCord, who is in
charge of the work of relieving the na-
tionwide shortage, said an investiga-
tion will be made immediately with
the hope of supplying enough cars to
promptly move the onion crop, which
will begin reaching the market the
first week in April.
It has been suggested that while the
various Texas lines attribute their
shortage to the withholding of their
cars by the Northern and Eastern
lines, adjustments would be facilitated
if the Texas lines would release cars
belonging to other roads.
Large Lumber Deal Consummated.
Orange, Tex.—A deal was consum-
mated Friday whereby R. W. Weir
and B. F. Bomier of Houston contract-
ed for the stumpage on 86,000 acres of
virgin pine timber land from the
Lutcher & Moore Lumber Company of
Orange. These lands are situated in
Newton and Sabine counties, and are
covered with what is said to be the
finest virgin pine forests in Southeast
Texas. The consideration in this deal
is estimated at from $9,000,000 to $11,-
000,000.
Washington.-—President Wilson deliv-
ered his address before the joint session
of congress Monday night as follows:
"I have called the congress into extra-
ordinary session because there are seri-
ous, very serious, choices of policy to be
made, and made immediately, which it
was neither right nor constitutionally
permissible that I should assume the re-
sponsibility of making.
"On the 3d of February last I officially
laid before you the extraordinary an-
nouncement of the imperial German gov-
ernment that on and after the first day
of February it was its purpose to put
aside all restraints of law or of human-
ity and use its submarines to sink every
vessel that sought to approach either the
ports of Great Britain and Ireland or
the western coasts of Europe or any of
the ports controlled by the enemies of
Germany within the Mediterranean. That
had seemed to be the object of the Ger-
man submarine warfare earlier in the
war, but since April of last year the im-
perial government had somewhat restrain-
ed the commanders of its undersea craft,
in conformity with its promise then given
to us that passenger boats should not be
sunk and that due warning would be given
to all other vessels which its submarines
might seek to destroy when no resistance
was offered or escape attempted, and
care taken that their crews were given
at least a fair chance to save their lives
in the open boats. The precautions taken
were meager and haphazard enough, as
was proved in distressing instance after
instance in the progress of the cruel and
unmanly business, but a certain degree
of restraint was observed.
"The new policy has swept every re-
striction aside. Vessels of every kind,
whatever their flag, their character, their
cargo, their destination, their errand,
have been ruthlessly sent to the bottom
without warning and without thought of
help or mercy for those on board, the
vessels of friendly neutrals along with
those of belligerents. Even hospital ships
and ships carrying relief to the sorely
bereaved and stricken people of Belgium,
though the latter were provided with
safe conduct through the proscribed areas
by the German government itself, and
were distinguished by unmistakable
marks of identity, have been sunk with
the same reckless lack of compassion or
principle.
"I was for a little while unable to be-
lieve that such things would in fact be
done by any government that had hither-
to subscribed to the humane practices of
civilized nations. International law had
its origin in the attempt to set up some
law which would be respected and ob-
served upon the seas, where no nation
had right of dominion and where lay the
free highways of the world. By painful
stage after stage has that law been built
up with meager enough results, indeed,
after all was accomplished that could be
accomplished, but always with a clear
view at least what the heart and con-
science of mankind demanded.
"This minimum of right the German
government has swept aside under the
plea of retaliation and necessity and be-
cause it had no weapons which it could
use at sea except these which it is im-
possible to employ, as it is employing
them, without throwing to the winds all
scruples of humanity or of respect for
•the understandings that were supposed
to underlie the intercourse of the world.
"I am not now thinking of the loss of
the property involved, immense and seri-
ous as that is, but only of the wanton
and wholesale destruction of the lives of
noncombatants and men, women and
children engaged in pursuits that have al-
ways, even in the darkest periods of
modern history, been deemed innocent and
legitimate. Property can be paid for;
the lives of peaceful and innocent people
can not be.
"The present German submarine war-
fare against commerce is a warfare
against mankind. It is a war against all
nations. American ships have been sunk;
American lives taken in ways which it
has stirred us very deeply to learn of,
but the ships and people of other neutral
and friendly nations have been sunk and
overwhelmed in the waters in the same
way. There has been no discrimination.
The challenge is to all mankind. Each
nation must decide for itself how it will
meet it. The choice we make for our-
selves must be made with a moderation
of counsel and a temperateness of judg-
ment befitting our character and our mo-
tives as a nation. We must put excited
feeling away. Our motive will not be
revenge or the victorious assertion of the
physical might of the nation, but only
the vindication of right, of human right,
of which we are only a single champion.
"When I addressed the congress on the
26th of February last I thought that it
would suffice to assert our neutral rights
with arms, our right to use the seas
against unlawful interference, our right
to keep our people safe against unlawful
violence. But armed neutrality, it now
appears, is impracticable.
"Because submarines are in effect out-
laws when used as the German subma-
rines have been used against merchant
shipping, it is impossible to defend ships
against their attacks, as the law of na-
tions has assumed that merchantmen
would defend themselves against priva-
teers or cruisers, visible craft giving
chase upon the open sea. It is common
prudence in such circumstances, grim ne-
cessity indeed, to endeavor to destroy
them before they have shown their own
intention. They must be dealt with upon
sight, if dealt with at all.
"The German government denies the
right of neutrals to use arms at all with-
in the areas of the sea which it has pro-
scribed, even in the defense of rights
which no modern publicist has ever be-
fore questioned their right to defend.
"There is one choice we can not make,
we are incapable of making: We will
not choose the path of submission and
suffer tlie most sacred rights of our na-
tion and our people to be ignored or vio-
lated.
"With a profound sense of the solemn
and even tragical character of the step
I am taking and of the grave responsi-
bilities which it involves, but unhesitat-
I tng obedience to what I deem my con-
stitutional duty, I advise that the con-
gress declare the recent course of the
imperial German government to be in
fact nothing less than war against the
government and people of the United
States: that it formally accept the status
of belligerent which has thus been thrust
upon jt. and that it take immediate steps
not only to put the country in a more
thorough state of defense bat also to
exert aK its power and employ all its re-
sources to bring the government of the
German empire to terms and end the war.
"What this will involve is clear. It
will involve the utmost practicable co-
operation in counsel and action with the
governments now at war with Germany,
and as incident to that the extension to
these governments of the most liberal
financial credits in order that our re-
sources may so far as possible be added
to theirs. It will involve the organiza-
tion and mobilization of all the material
resources of the country to supply the
materials of war and serve the incidental
needs of the nation in the most abundant,
and yet the most economical and efficient
way possible. It will involve the imme-
diate full equipment of the navy in all
respects, but particularly in supplying it
with the best means of dealing with the
enemy's submarines. It will involve the
immediate addition to the armed forces
of the United States already provided for
by law in case of war at least 500,000
men, who should, in my opinion, be chos-
en upon the principle of universal liabil-
ity to service, and also the authorization
of subsequent additional increments in
equal force so soon as they may be need-
ed and can be handled in training.
"It will involve als o, of ocurse, the
granting of adequate credits to the gov-
ernment, sustained, I hope, so far as they
can be equitably sustained by the pres-
"ent generation by well-conceived taxation.
I say sustained so far as may be equit-
ably by taxation because it seems to me
that it would be most unwise to base the
credits which will now be necessary en-
tirely on money borrowed.
"1 shall taKe the liberty of suggesting
through the several executive depart>
ments of the government for the con-
sideration of your committees measures
for the accomplishment of the several
objects I have mentioned. I hope that it
will be your pleasure to deal with them
as having been framed after very careful
thought by the branch of the government
upon which the responsibility of con-
ducting the war and safeguarding the
nation will most directly fall.
"I have exactly the same things in
mind now that I had in mind when I
addressed the senate on the 22d of Jan-
uary last; the same that I had in mind
when 1 addressed the congress on the
3d of February, and on the 26th of Feb-
ruary. Our object now, as tnen, is to
vindicate the principles of peace and jus-
tice in the life of the world as against
selfish and autocratic power and to set
up amongst the really free and self-gov-
erned peoples of the world such a con-
cert of purpose and of action as will
henceforth insure the observance of these
principles. Neutrality is no longer fea-
sible or desirable where the peace of the
world is involved and the freedom of its
peoples and the menace to that peace and
freedom lies in the existence of auto-
cratic governments backed by organized
force which Is controlled wholly by their
will, not by the will of their people. We
have seen the last of neutrality in such
circumstances.
"We have no quarrel with the German
people. We have no feeling toward them
but one of sympathy and friendship. It
was not upon their impulse that their
government acted in governing this war.
"Self-governing nations do not fill
their neighbor states with spies or set
the course of Intrigue to bring about
some critical posture of affairs which
will give them an opportunity to strike
and make conquest. Such designs can be
successfully worked only under cover and
where no one has the right to ask ques-
tions.
"Cunningly contrived plans for decep-
tion or aggression, carried it may be
from generation to generation, can be
worked out and kept from the light only
within the privacy of courts or behind
the carefully guarded confidences of nar-
row and privileged classes. They are
happily impossible where public opinion
commands and insists upon full informa-
tion concerning all the nation's affairs.
"Does not every American feel that
assurance has been added to our hope
for the future peace of the worid by the
wonderful and heartening things that
have been happening within the last few
weeks in Russia?
"Russia was known by those who
knew it best to have been always in fact
democratic at heart in all the vital
habits of her thought, in all the intimate
relationships of her people that spoke
their natural instinct, their habitual at-
titude toward life.
"The autocracy that crowned the sum-
mit of her political structure, long as it
had stood and terrible as was the reality
of its power, was not, in fact, Russian
in origin, character or purpose, and now
it has been shaken off and the great,
generous Russian people have been add-
ed in all their native majesty and might
to the forces that are fighting for free-
dom in the world, for justice and for
peace.
"One of the things that has served to
convince us that the Prussian autocracy
was not and could never be our friend is
that from the very outset of the present
war it has filled our unsuspecting com-
munities and even our offices of govern-
ment with spies and set criminal intrigues
everywhere afoot against our national
unity of council, our peace within and
without, our industries and our com-
merce.
"Indeed, it is now evident that these
spies were here even before the war be-
gan, and it is unhappily not a matter of
conjecture but a fact proved in our courts
of justice that the intrigues which have
more than once come perilously near to
disturbing the peace and disturbing the
industries of the country have been car-
ried on at the instigation, with the sup-
pprt and even under the personal direc-
tion of official agents of the imperial
government accredited to the United
States.
"Even in checking these things and
trying to extripate them we have sought
to put the most generous interpretation
possible upon them, but we know their
source law not in any hostile feeling or
purpose of the German people toward us
(who were, no doubt, as ignorant of them
as we ourselves were), but only the self-
ish designs of a government that did what
it pleased and told its people nothing.
"We are accepting this challenge of
hostile purpose, because we know that
in such a government, following such
methods, we can never have a friend:
and that in the presence of its organized
power, always lying in wait to accom-
plish we know not what purpose, there
can be no assured security for the demo-
cratic governments of the world.
"We are now about to accept the gauge
of battle 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. We are
glad now that we see the facts with no
veil of false pretense about them, to fight
thus for the ultimate peace of the world
and for the liberation of its peoples, the
German peoples included; for the rights
of nations great and small, and the privi-
lege of men everywhere to choose their
way of life and of*.obedience. The world
must be made safe for , democracy. Its
peace must be landed upon the trusted
foundations of political liberty.
"We have no selfish ends to serve.
We desire no conquest, no domination.
We seek no indemnities for ourselves, no
material compensation for the sacrifices
we shall freely make.
"I have said nothing of the govern-
ments allied with the imperial govern-
ment of Germany because they have not
made war upon us or challenged us to
defend our rights and our honor. The
Austro-Hungarian government has in-
deed avowed its unqualified indorsement
and acceptance of the reckless and law-
less submarine warfare adopted without
disguise by the imperial government and
it has therefore not been possible for
this government to receive Count Tar-
nowski, the ambassador recently accredit-
ed by this government by the imperial
and royal government of Austria-Hun-
gary.
"It will be all the easier for us to con-
duct ourselves as belligerents in a high
spirit of right and fairness because we
act without animus, not in enmity to-
ward a people or with the desire to bring
any injury or disadvantage upon them,
but only in armed opposition to an irre-
sponsible government which has thrown
aside all considerations of humanity and
of right and is running amuck.
"We are, let me say again, the sincere
friends of the German people and shall
desire nothing so rr.uch as the early re-
establishment of intimate relations of
mutual advantage between us. We have
borne with their present government
through all these bi'.ter months because
of that friendship—exercising a patience
and forbearance which otherwise would
have been impossible. We shall, happily,
still have an opportunity to prove that
friendship in our dai.y attitude and ac-
tions toward the millions of men and wo-
men of German birth and native sympathy
who live amongst us and share our life,
and we shall be proud to prove it toward
all who are in fact loyal to their neigh-
bors and to the government in the hour
of test.
"It is a distressing and oppressive
duty, gentlemen of the congress, which
I have performed in thus addressing you.
There are, it may be, many months of
fiery trial and sacrifice ahead of us. It
is a fearful thing to leac this great peace-
ful country into war, into the most ter-
rible and disastrous of all wars, civiliza-
tion itself seeming to be in the balance,
but the right is more precious than peace
and we shall fight for the things which
we have always carried nearest our hearts
—for democracy, for th■? right of those
who submit to authority to have a voice
in their own governments, for the rights
and liberties of small nations, for a uni-
versal dominion of right by such a con-
cert of free people as shall bring peace
and safety to all nations and make the
world itself at last free. To such a task
we can dedicate our lives and our for-
tunes, everything that we ire and every-
thing that we have, with the pride of
those who know that the day has come
when America has been privileged to
spend her blood and her might for the
principles that gave her birth and happi-
ness and the peace which She has treas-
ured. God helping her, sne can do no
other."
Why That Lame Back ?
Morning lameness, sharp twinges
when bending, or an all-day back-
ache; each Is cause enough to sus-
pect kidney trouble. Get after the
cause. Help the kidneys. We
Americans go it too hard. We
overdo, overeat and neglect our
sleep and exercise and so we are
fast becoming a nation of kidney
sufferers. 72% more deaths than
in 1890 is the 1910 census story.
Use Doan's Kidney Pills. Thou-
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A Louisiana Case
Jules O. Ayrand,
Barton, La., s a y s:
"For years I had kid-
ney complaint and auf-
f e r e d terribly. The
kidney secretions
burned in passage and
the pains in my back
were so bad I couldn't
stoop. I slept poorly
and grew thin and
emaciated. Doctors
failed and when I
heard of Doan's Kid-
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They cured me and X gaine
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Betraying Sister's Secret.
"Sis," cried a boy, bursting into the
parlor, where a young lady was seated
on the sofa with her best young man.
"Yes, Willie," was the young lady's
reply, as she drew the small brother
to her side and kissed him. "What do
you want?"
"I want to tell you something."
"All right, go right ahead."
"Won't you care what I say?"
"No, I guess not"
"Well, then, I know why you
me every Wednesday night."
"I kiss you because I love you,
lie, of course."
"That ain't the reason, sis!"
the boy edged slowly toward the
door. "You kiss me so George can
see what he Is missing."
Fascination of the Unknown.
"My dear, I had the most thrilling
moment of my life last night at a res-
taurant. The electric lights went out
unexpectedly and he kissed me—a long \
delirious kiss."
"Who did?"
"Who? I don't know who? That is
why it was so thrilling."
Steady.
"Is he a man of steady habits?"
"Oh, very. Especially his drinking."
A habit may be good or bad accord-
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you.
Steady
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