Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 42, Number 121, 3 April 1917 — Page 8

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the Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. Tuesday, april 3, 1917

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l WASHINGTON, April 3 President Wilson last night asked Congress to declare a state of war existing between the United States and Germany. The news of the submarining of the steamer Aztec was being told from mouth to mouth in the capital, the president appearing before the House and Senate, asked congress to recognize and deal with Germany's warfare on America. The president said war would inviVe co-operation with the governments now at war with Germany including liberal financial credit. The president urged the organization of an army of at lsast 500,000 men chosen upon the prin- . ciple of universal liability to service. m The president made it clear that no action was being taken against the Auslrian government and other nations allied vith Germany. The president spoke as follows: ' "I have called the congress into extraordinary session because there are serious, very serious, choices of policy to be made and made immediately, which it was neither right nor constitutionally permissible that I should assume the responsibility of making. On the third of February last I laid before you the extraordinary announcement of the German government that on and after March 1, it was its purpose to put aside all restraint ? of humanity and use its submarines to fink every vessel that sought to approach the coast of Ireland or Great Britain, or the western coast of Europe or any of the ports controlled by the enemy on te coasts of the Mediterranean. 1 "That had seemed to be the object of the German submarine warfare earlier in the war, but since April of last year he imperial government had somewha .. restrained the commanders of its undersea craft in conformity with its promise, then given to us, that the passenger bo G 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 o escape attempted, and care taken that their crews were given at least a fair chance to save their lives in their open boats.

Dracliitlnn. Mani. 'V"

' " "The precautions taken were meager -and haphazard enough as was proven

far instance In the progression of the cruel and unmanly business. The new policy has swept ever restriction aside. -Vessels of every kind whatever their "flag or their character, their cargo, . their destination, their errand, have ; been ruthlessly sent to the bottom -without warning and without thought ff help or mercy for those on board "the vessels, neutrals as well as bell ige rents. Even hospital ships and those ; carrying relief to Belgium, though the Z' latter were provided with safe conduct ; through the prescribed area by the .;. German government and what marks ;of Identity have been sunk with the came reckless lack of compassion or principle. "I was fora little while unable to be- " 'ieve that such things would In fact

he done by any government that had subscribed to humane practices of civilized nations. International law had : its origin in the attempt to get up some law that would be respected upon the ; eeas where no nation had right of dominion and where lav the free highways of the world. By painful stage after stage has that law been built up, after all was accomplished that could be accomplished but always with a clear view of what the heart and con- . science of mankind demanded. "This minimum of right the German government has swept aside under the Dlea of retaliation and necessity and - because it had no weapons which It could use at sea except these which it It Impossible to employ as It is employing without throwing to the winds .1 all scruples of humanity or of respect for the understandings that were sup-

of

posed to underly the intercourse

the world. "I am not thinking of the loss of the property, immense and serious as it is, but of the wanton and wholesale de-

S. already provided for by law in case of war, of at least 500,000 men who should in my opinion, be chosen upon the principle of universal liability to service and also the authorization of

struction of the lives of non-combat-j subsequent' addition of increments to

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Gray hair, however handsome, denotes advancing age. We all know the advantages of a youthful appearance. Your hair Is your charm. It makes or mars the face. When It : lades, turns gray and looks dry, wispy, ' and scraggly, just a few applications of Sage Tea and Sulphur enhances its appearance a hundred fold. Don't stay gray! Look young! Either prepare the tonic at home or - get from any drug store a 50-cent bot tie of "Wyeth's Sage and Sulphur Com. pound." Thousands of folks recommend this ready-to-use preparation, because it darkens the hair beautifully and removes dandruff, stops scalp itch- " lng and falling hair; besides, no one can possibly tell, as it darkens so naturally and evenly. You moisten a eponge or soft brush with it, drawing this through the hair, taking one small strand at a time. By morning -the gray hair disappears; after another application or two, its natural color Is restored and it becomes thick, glossy and lustrous, and you appear years younger. Adv.

ants, men, women and children engaged in pursuits which have always even in the darkest periods of modern history been deemed innocent. Property can be paid for; the lives of people and Innocent people, cannot be. Is War Again6t Mankind. "The present German submarine warfare against commerce is warfare against mankind. It is war against all nations. American ships have been sunk, American lives taken in ways which it has pained us very deeply to learn of, but the ships of other neutrals 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 is to meet it. The choice we make for ourselves but is must be made with a moderation of counsel and the kindredness of judgment befitting our character as a nation. We must put excited feeling away. Our motive will not be revenge or the victorious assertions of the physical might off the nation but only the vindication of human right, of which we are only a single champion. . Suffice for Rights. "When I addressed the Congress on February 26 I though it would suffice to assert our neutral right with arms 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 outlaws when used as the German submarines have been used against merchant shipping it is impossible to de

fend ships against their attacks as the ;

law of nations has assumed that merchantmen would defend themselves against privateers or cruisers, visible craft given chase on the open seas. It is common prudences in such circum

stances, grim necessity, necessity in

the forces so soon as they may be needed and can be handled in training. It will also involve the granting of adequate credit to the government to sustain so far as they can equitably be sustained by the present generation

by well conceived taxation,

eration to generation can be worked out and kept from the light only within the privacy of courts or behind the carefully guarded confidences of a narrow and a privileged class. "They are happily Impossible where public opinion commands and insists

i upon full information concerning all

the nation's affairs. A steadfast step for peace can never be maintained except by a partnership of democratic nations. No autocracy could be trust

ed to, observe its covenants. It must

"It Is our duty to protect our people ! be a leaoue of honor, a DartnershiD of

so far as we may against the serious ! opinion. Intrigues would eat its vitals hardships and evils which will be like-j away; tne pickings of inner circles

ly to arise out of the inflation which Who could plan what they would and

would be produced by vast loans

"In carrying out the measures by which these things are to be accomplished we should keep constantly in mind the wisdom of interfering as little as possible in our own preparation and in the equipment of our own.miiitary forces with that duty for it will be a very practical duty of supplying the nations already at war with Germany with the materials which they can obtain only from us or by our assistance. They are in the field and we should help them in every way to be effective there. ''While we do these things, these deeply momentous things, let us be very clear and make very clear to all the world what our motives and our objects are. My own thought has not been driven from its habitual and normal course by he unhappy events of the last two months and I do not believe that the thought of the nations has been altered'or changed by them. "I have exactly the same thing in mind now that I had in mind when I addressed the senate on the twenty-

second of January last

renaer account to no one would be a corruption needed at its very heart. Only, free people can hold their purpose and their honor steady to a common end and prefer the interests of mankind to any narrow interest of their own. "Dees not every American feel that assurance has been added to our hope for the future peace of the world by the wonderful things that have happened in the last few weeks in Russia? "Russia was known by those who know it best to have been at least democratic at heart in all the vital habits of her thought, in all the intimate relationships of her people that spoke their natural instincts, their habitual attitude toward life. . "The autocracies that crowned the summit of her political structure long as it has stood, and terrible as was the reality of its power was not in fact Russia in purpose; and now it has been shaken off and the great Russian people have been added in all their native majesty and might to the forces that are fighting for freedom

in the world, for justice and for peace

"I shall take the liberty of suggest- Here is a fit partner for a league of

ing through the federal executive department for the consideration 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 uponjernment with spies and set criminal

honor.

"One of the things that has served to convince us that the Prussian autocracy 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 gov

which the responsibility of conducting

deed to endeavor to destroy them be-, the war and safeguarding the nation

IF BACK HURTS USE SALTS FOR KIDNEYS

. Eat less meat If Kidneys feel like lead or Bladder Bothers you Meat ' forms uric acid. Most folks forget that the kidneys, like the bowels, pet sluggish and clog- - ged and need a flushing occasionally, t-lse we have backache and dull misery la the kidney region, severe headaches, rheumatic twinges, torpid liver, acid - 6tomach, sleeplessness and all scrts of bladder disorders. ' You simply must keep your kidneys active and clean, and the moment you feel an ache or pain in the kidney region, get about four ounces of Jad Salts from any good drug store here, take a tablesponful In a glass of water before breakfast for a f v-w days and - your kidneys will then act fine. This famous salts is made from the acid of ""grapes and lemon juice, combind with - lithia, and Is harmless to flush clogged ? kidneys and stimulate them to normal t activity. It also neutralizes the acids .r In the urine so it no longer irritates, thus ending bladder disoreds. r Jad Salts Is harmless; inexpensive; fv makes a delightful effervescent lithia- - water drink which everybody should take now and then to keep their kidnevs clean, thus avoiding serious com- j

v plications. . A well-known local druggist says he : sells lots of Jad Salts to folks who be;,lievo in overcoming kidney trouble : while it is only trouble. adv.

fore they have shown their intention.

They must be dealth with upon sight if dealt with at all. The German government denies the right of neutrals to use arms at all within the area of the sea which it has prescribed, even in the defense of right which no modern publicist has ever before questioned their right, to defend. The intimation is conveyed, that the arms which we place on our ships will be treated as without the pale of law. Armed neutrality is ineffectual as its best; In such circumstances and in the face of such pretensions it is worse than Ineffectual. It is likely at once to cause what it was meant to prevent. It Is practically certain to draw us into war

without the right of belligerents. "There is one choice we can't make we are incapable of making. We will not choose the right of submission and suffer the most sacred right of our nation and our people to be Ignored or violated. The wrongs against which we array ourselves are not common wrongs. With a profound sense of the solemn and the tragic step I am taking and of the grave responsibility which it involves but in unhesitating obedience of what I deem my constitutional duty, I advise that

the Congress declare the recent course of the Imperial German government to be in fact nothing less than a war against the government and the people of this United States; that it formally accept the status of belligerent which just has been thrust upon It. and that it take steps not only to put the country in a more thorough state of defense, but exert all its powers and employ all its resources to bring the government of the Germans to terms. This will involve the utmost co-operation In council with the governments now at war with Germany, and, as incident to that, the extension to those governments of the most liberal financial credit in order that our resources may, eo far as possible, be added to theirs. "It will involve the organization and mobilization of all the material resources of the country to supply the materials of war and serve the incidental needs of the nations In the most abundant and yet the most eco

nomical and efficient way possible. It will involve the full equipment of the navy and particularly in supplying it

iwith the best means of dealing with

the German submarines. "Itwill involve the immediate addition to the armed forces of the U.

will most directly fall. "The things I had in mind when I addressed the Congress on the 3rd of February and on the 26th of February are the things I have in mind now. "Our object now as then is to vindicate the principles of peace and justice in the light of the world as against selfish and autocratic power and to set up amongst the really free and self-governed people of the world such a concert of purpose and of action as will henceforth insure the observance of those principles. Neutrality Is no longer feasible or desirable where the peace of the world is in

volved and the freedom of their peo-

intrigues everywhere afoot against our

national unity, our peace, within and without, our industry and our commerce. "Indeed it is evident that Its spies were here even before the war' began and it is unhappily not a matter of conjecture but a fact proved in our courts of justice that the intrigues which have been more than once perilously near to disturbing the peace and dislocating the industries of the country have been carried on at the instigation, with the support, and even under the personal direction of- official agents of the Imperial government, accredited to the government of the United States. "Even in checking these things and

in suppressing them we have tried to

were no doubt a ignorant of them as we ourselves were) but only in the selfish designs of a- government that did what it pleased and told its people nothing. But they have played their part to convince us that their rulers entertain no real friendship for us and mean to act against our peace and security. That It means to stir up enemies at our very doors, the intersepted note to the German minister at Mexico City Is eloquent evidence. "We are accepting this challenge of the hostile powers 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 accomplish we know-not what purpose there can be no assurance for the democratic government of the world. We are now about to accept a gage of battle with this natural foe to liberty and shall if necessary send the whole force of the nat'on 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 for the ultimate peace

of the world and for the liberation of its people, the German people included, for the rights of nations, great and small, and the privilege of men everywhere to choose their way of life and of obedience. "The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be credited on the trusted foundation of political liberty. We have no selfish ends to serve. "We desire no conquest, no dominion. We seek no indemnity for ourselves, no material compensation for the sacrifices we shall freely make. We are but one of the champions of the rights of mankind. "We shall be satisfied with those rights and then as secure as the place and the freedom of the nation can make them. Just because we fight without rancor and without selfish objects, seeking nothing for ourselves but that which we shall wish to share with all free people we shall, I feel confident, conduct cur operations as belligerents without passion and ourselves, with proud punctilliousness to observe what we profess to be fighting for. "I have said nothing of the governments allied with the imperial government of Germany because they have not made war on us or challenged us to defend our rights and honor. The Austro-Hungarian government has Indeed avowed its unqualified endorsement and acceptance of the reckless submarine warfare adopted now without disguise by the imperial German government and it has therefore not been impossible for this government to receive Count Parnownkl, the ambassador accredited to this government. But that government has not actually engaged in warfare against the citizens of the United States on the seas and I take the liberty for the present at least of postponing a discussion of our relations with the authorities at Vienna. Ws enter this war only where we are clearly forced Into it, because there are no other means of defending our rights. "It will be all the easier for use to conduct ourselves as belligerents in a high spirit of right and fairness because we act without emnity toward a people or with the desire to bring any injury or disadvantage upon them, but only in armed opposition to an irresponsible government which has thrown aside all considerations of humanity and of right and is running amuck. "Weare, let me say again, dear friends of the German people and shall desire nothing so much as early establishment of intimate relations of mutual advantage between us however hard it may be for them, for the time

being, to believe that this. Is spoken from our heart. "We have borne . to their present government , through all these bitter months because of that friendshipexercising a patience and forebearance which would otherwise have been Impossible. We shall, happily, still have an opportunity to prove that friend-! ship in our daily attitude and action toward the millions of men and women of German birth and native sympathies who live among us and share our life, and we shall be proud to prove ft for all who are in fact loyal to their neighbors and to their government in the hour of this crisis. "Most of them are as true and loyal Americans as if they had never taken another oath of allegiance. "They will be prompt to stand with us in rebuking the few who may be of a different mind and purposes. If there should be disloyalty, it will be

dealt with a firm hand of stern repression; but, if it lift its head at all, it I will lift it only here and there and ! tuif kMi4 smim4ai rrm vant sasm i

lawless and malignant few. "It is a distressing duty, Gentlemen of 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 lead this great people into war, into the most terrible and disastrous of all wars, civilization 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 Democracies, for the right of those who submit to authority to have a voice in their own government, for the rights and liberties of small nations, for a universal domination of rights by such a concert of free people as shall bring peace and safety to all nations and make the world itself at least free. " "To such a path we can dedicate our lives and our fortunes, everything that we are, and everything that we have, with the pride of those who know that the day has come when America is privileged to spend her blood and her might for the principles that gave her birth and happiness and the peace which she has treasured. "God helping her, she can do not other."

SENIORS SCORE HITS

FOUNTAIN CITY, Ind., April 3. Seniors and Juniors of the Fountain City high school scored with their presentation of "Deacon Dubbs." Specialties were Introduced by Russell .Connor and Mies Odessa Brown. The cast expressed its appreciation to Forrest McGilrard who coached and directed the production. The Harold B. Williams concert orchestra appeared to good advantage. The next class affair will be the commencement exercises on April 25.

Masonic Calendar

Tuesday, April S. Richmond Lodge No 196, F. and A. M. Stated meeting. Wednesday, April 4. Webb Lodge. No. 24, F. and A. M. Called meeting; work in the Fellow Craft Degree.

PROMOTE CONSERVATION OF HOME RESOURCES

OXFORD, O., April 3. To promote the conservation of domestic retources, the Woman's Club will distribute $25 in prizes for the best display of home-raised and home-canned garden products, other than tomatoes. The offer is open to the women of the township, and the display will be held in November.

The British Railwaymen's Visilanc Committee has decided to ask tor ac increase of 52.50 a week ,in their wages.

A recall election for general secretary of the International Association of Machinists will be held soon

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Umbrella and overshoes

A protect against bad weather

when you have them with you but often you are exposed to rain or sleet unprepared, a cold follows and you are stuffed up, VOU sneeze and cauah and

feel grippy. Dr. Kings New Discovery will promptly break up the cold. This famous old remedy has been in thousands of family medicine chests since 1869. Your druggist has sold it for years. Get a bottle to-day, children and grown ups find it pleasant to take and effective. Try it.

Easter

pies and the menace to that peace and j put the m08t generous explanation upon

freedom lies in the existence of autocratic government backed by organized force which is controlled wholly by their will, and not by the will of their people. "We have seen the last of neutrality in such circumstances. "We are at the beginning of an age In which it will be insisted that the same standards of conduct and of responsibility of wrongs done shall be observed by nations and their governments that are observed among the individual citizens of civilized states. We have no quarrel with the German people. We have no feeling for them but one of sympathy. It was not upon their impulse that their government acted in entering this war. It was not with their previous knowledge. It was a war determined upon as wars used to be determined upon in the old days when the people were nowhere consulted by their rulers and wars were provoked and waged In the interests of dynasties or little groups of ambitious men who were accustomed to use their fellow man as pawns and tools. Selfgoverning nations do not fill their neighbor states with spies to bring about some critical position of affairs which will give them an opportunity to strike and make progress. Such designs can be worked only under cover. Cunningly devised plans of aggression, carried, it may be from gen-

them because we believed their pur

pose lay not in any hostile action of the German people against us (who

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At Finney's

When the "kiddies" awaken on Easter morn, they will be overjoyed to find some of Finney's delicious Candy Rabbits, Chocolate Eggs, Cream Center Eggs, Fruit Eggs, or a Basket filled with Assorted Easter Candy. "Due to the high price of Sugar, etc., our stock of Easter Novelty Candy is very limited and it will pay you to buy early if you want some of this Candy for the little tots.

For the grown-ups or that dear girl we have handsome Box Candy that will fill their hearts with joy. It's good and pure and just the kind of candy they will like.

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