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oston Sto “NOW COMES OUR THURSDAY MORNING FEBRUARY 3rd As might be expect- eéd, a great many short lengths of all kinds of goods have accumulat- ed during the past ten days. These will be marked at prices cal- culated to make an im- mediate’ clearance. 0 PULLAR & NIVEN Notice. To Creditors and Noteholders: The First National Bank of Plain- ville, located at Plainville in the State of Connecticut, is closing up its affairs. All stockholders and other creditors of id association are therefore notified 15 'present their notes or other claims against the association for payment. A. A. MacLEOD, Cashier. THE CURRAN DRY G0ODS CO. “Our Great Sacrifice Sale of A. G. Cohen’s Stock With Our Clear- ing Sale. 4 Some Extra Good | Values Tomorrow for the Housewives. 25c¢ 40c Bleached Table Damask. Sale Price Hemstitched Huck Towels, | 19¢ value. 1/ Sale Price. .. 12 /2c Bleached Turkish Towels, ~ 10c value. Bale Price . oores 7c 17¢ #nd19¢ Curtain Scrim, all new patterns 1 21/20 | Sale Price ... sunfast | Window Shades in Linen Hollands, dark green | sand linen color, assorted lengths, 75c¢ value 59c i Sale Price Crochet Bed Spreads, good weight, full size, 98c & $1.39 value. Sale Damask, -All Linen Table 75c¢ value. Sale Price Mercerized Tray Cloths, neat patterns, 19c value ®Sale " 1 21/2(: Price green 69c¢c Sunfast Drapery in and fancy designs, value. Sale Price, yard Kansas City, Mo., Feb, 3—Presi- dent Wilson demanded last night that steps be begun during the present month to back him up in defending | American lives and commerce aboard. His demand met with shouts and ap- plause from an audience of 16,000 pérsons, who waved American flags, leaped to their seats and cheered. When the President ceased spealk- ing, he leaned forward and asked rhe great throng to join him in singing “America.” The band played softly, the audience stood and the words of America's national anthem came in a glorious burst of song. With President From Start. The big crowd was for the President from the start. It waited patiently an hour to see him and cheered itself hoarse in a three-minute demonstra- tion when he appeared. Sixteen thousand heard him; 20,000 were turned away and 10,000 more tried to glimpse him as he left his hotel for the hall. “Why some men in Washington are questioning if we could get the 500,- 000 men for which the government is asking,” he said at one point of his address. “Would they volunteer?” A man in the far end of the ball shouted: “Yes.” A dozen men—a score—fifty- echoed the word, and the hall was in a turmoil. President Wilson smiled an held out his hand. “Why, I believe,” he said as the tumult died, “you could raise the 500,000 men in almost any state. I believe vou could get 5,000 men right here in this audience. “I have been thrilled by the expevi- ences of these last few days,” the President said, “and I will go home to Washington and smile at the gen- tlemen who say the United States is not awake.” Going To Deliver Goo “These gallant men who sit on the hill in Washington and make our laws are going to deliver the goods 2 The crowd cheered. “Don’t misunderstand me; going to deliver the goods you want the goods delivered. The President said the time come for him to ask his fellow they are because had citi- zens to “get up on your hind legs and talk and tell the people who repre- sent you what the nation desires and demands. The thing that everybody in a democracy is listening for is the tramp! tramp! tramp! of the facts. Preserving Peace and Honor. “I have come to ask you what back of me in this task of preserving at once peace and your honor,” the President said. ‘“The judge on the bench has the law back of him with its bailiffs, sheriffs, national guards men and the United States army. but if you ignore in some foreign capital what the President urges as the rights of the people and government of the United States, what is there back of it? “Tt is necessary that I should come and ask you this question, because T don’t know how long the mere word and insistence of your government will prevail to maintain your honor and the dignity and power of the mnation. War May Come. “There may come a time—I pray God it may never come, but it may in spite of everything we can do—upon us when I shall have to ask ‘I have sald my sa; who stands back of it?’ where is that force by which the right v of the United States arc ited and asserted? The President declared the need immediate and that action should be begun within the present month. “] assure you there is not a day to be lost,” he said. Not because there is any special cri but be- cause 1 do not know twenty-fonr hours ahead what will happen. “The future does not depend on us, but upon commanders of ships and of submarines and upon blockades ans “The Busy Little Store” Strictly Fresh CONNECTICUT EGGS 133ce Right Trom the nest, not an egg in the lot a week old. Russell Bros. 301 MAIN STREET |in which he asked his audience NEW, BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1916. WILSON ASKS TO BE BACKED UP TO PROTECT AMERICAN LIVES AND TRADE ABROAD President Leads 16,000 People at Kansas City in Singing of “America”—Gives Warning to Defend Munition Fac- tories Along Atlantic Seaboard. upon many other men, big and little. ..'T have read editorials,” he said, sneering at the number of notes sent abroad by the government and asking ‘why doesn’t the government act?’ And in these same papers I' have seen editorials against the preparation to do anything whatever effective if these notes are to be regarded. Is that the temper of the United States? It may be the temper of some editorial of- fices, but I know it is not the temper of the peodple of the United States.” A wave of applause swept over the gathering. A voice in the gallery cried: “No!” and the crowd vyelled again. Must Defend Atlantic Seaboard . The president presented a warning that most of the munition factories of the United States were on the At- lantic seaboard and that therefore, the nation must be ready to repel the first attack in order to avoid disas- ter. The present army, the president said, was so small that he did not even have enough soldiers to station along the Mexican border to prevent bandits from crossing the line. “I have even felt,” he said, “like asking congress to encourage the re- cruiting of Texas Rangers. We are witnessing a cataclysm and God only knows what the issue shall be,” was the way he prefaced his conclusion, to keep cool, but to uphold the judg- ment in its demands for a larger, more effective means of national de- fense. 16,00 Locked in Hall. Sixteen thousand persons were locked in the great convention hall an t hour before President Wilson began Outside a double ad- to speak here tonight. multitude surged against a line of bluecoats, vainly seeking mittance. When the president entered the hall at 8:23 o’clock the whole throng rose to its feet and cheered. Thou- sands of little Americans flags broke into a flutter and the lights at the rear of the platform flashed red, white and blue. The president began to speak at 8:30 o’clock. Speech in Part. President Wilson’s speech follows, in part: “You will know without my de- scribing it to you, what the task as- signed me has been. It has been the task of keeping the scales so poised from day to day that no man should throw into one scale or the other any- thing which would imperil the peac of the United States, for I have felt t vou were depending upon your government to keep you out this turmoil which is disturbing the rest of the world. You are counting upon me to do more than keep you out of trouble, however. You are counting upon me to see to it that the rights of citizens of the United States wher- ever they might be, are respected by everybody. You have counted upon me to sce that your energies should be released along the channels of trade in order that you might serve the world as the only nation disen- gaged and ready to serve it. You have expected me to see that the rest of the world permitted America thus to prY and exerci her humane and legitimate ener And I have come out to ask you wkat there was behind me in this task. You know the lawyers speak of the law having a sanction back of it. The judge as he sits on his bench has the whole physi- cal force of the natipn back of him. And when he utters a judgment the man against whom it is uttered knows that he dare not re it; but when I as your spokesman and representative utter a judgment with regard to the rights of the United States in its re- lations to other nations, what is the situation? What is the compulsion? What lies back of that? You will say “The force and majesty of the United States.” Yes, the force and majesty of the United States, but it is ready to express itself ? “If vou resist the judge there aro the bailiffs of the court! If you resist the bailiffs of the court there are those who assist the sheriff of the county; if you resist the sheriff, there is the national guard; if you resist the national guard, there is the army of the United States, but if vou ignore in some foreign capital what the pre dent of the United States urges as the rights of the people and government of the United States, what is there back of that? Mere Word of U. “It is nece: ry, my fellow citizens. that I should come and ask you this question, because I do not know how long the mere word and insistence of vour government will prevail to maintain your honor and the dignity and power of the nation. “There may come a time—I pray God it may never come—but it ma in spite of everything we do come upon us and come of a sudden, when I shall have to ask: ‘T have had my s who stands back of me? Where s the force by which the majesty and right of the United States are to be maintained and asserted?’ I take it that there may in your own con- viction come a time when that might. and force must be vindicated and as- serted. You are not willing that what yvour government says should be nored. “I have seen editorials written in more than one paper of the United States sneering at the number of notes that were being written from the state department to foreign gov- ernments and asking: ‘Why does not the government act?’ and in those same papers I have seen editorials - against the preparation to do any- thing whatever effective if those notes A Distinctive Reason What is the chief reason for the superi- ority of Royal Baking Powder? There are several good reasons, but there is one which distinguishes Royal from other baking powders. This reason, which every woman should know, is that Royal Baking Powder is made from cream of tartar, which comes from grapes. This means a healthful fruit origin. It means natyral food as distinguished from mineral substitutes used in other baking powders. There is no alum nor phosphate in Royal Baking Powder. ROYAL BAKING POWDER CO. New York are not regarded. Is that the temper ' of the loss of the Japanese by disease of the United States? It may be the temper of some editorial offices, but it is not the temper of the people of the United States. Ready for Duty. “I came out upon this errand from Washington, and see what happened. Before I started everybody knew what errand I was bound on. I expected to meet quiet audiences and explain to them the issues of the day, and what did I meet? At every stop of the train multitudes of my fellov citizens crowding out not to see the President of the United States mercly —he is not much to look at—but to declare their ardent belief in majesty of the government which he stands for, and for the time baing represents, and to declare in one tashion or another, if it were only by cheers, that they stood ready to do their duty in the hour of need. “I have been thrilled by the ox- periences of those few days, and I shall go back to Washington and smile at anybody who tells me that the United States is not wide-awake. But gentlemen, crowds at the sta- tions, multitudes in great audience hails, cheers for the government, the display of the emblem of our nation, the Stars and Stripes, only expresse: the spirit of the nation; it- does not express the organized force of the nation. And, while I know and knew before 1 left Washington, what the spirit of the people was, I have come out to' ask them what their organization is and what they intend to make it. “Modern wars are not won mere numbers, by mere enthu by mere national spirit. They won by the scientific conduct o the scientific application of irre: force. And what is there behind the Pres- ident of the United States? Army and Nav, “In the first place, there is a navy, which I am very proud of, a navy which, for its numbers, I believe to be the equal of any navy in the world. But look at the great sweep of our coasts. Mind you, this war has en- gaged all the rest of the world outside of South America and the portion of North America occupied by the United States, and if this movement begins to creep in toward both coasts, and here are thousands upon thousands of miles of coast. And do you think that a navy that ranks fourth in the world in force is enough to defend the coasts and make secure the terri- tory of a great continent like this? “But on land, what stands behind the president, if he should have to set out in yolr behalf to enforce the de- mands of the United States for respect and right? An army so small that are war, tible I have not had men enough to patrol ; the Mexican border. The Mexican border is a very long border, I admit; it runs the whole southwestern length of Texas and the whole southern length of New Mexico and Arizona be- sides; but what is that single border to the whole extent and cost of the United States? men enough to prevent bandits from raiding across the border of Mexico into the United States. It has been a very mortifying circumstance, in- deed. T have been tempted to adyise congress to help Texas build up its ' little force of Texas Rangers; and now, if you please, because I am ask ing the congress to give the govern- ment an army adequate to the uses of peace, to the uses of the moment, some gentlemen go of military establishments. They see phantoms, they dream dreams. Militarism in the United States spring- ing out of any of the proposals of the administration—why a man must have a very strong imagination, in- deed, to conceive any such nonsense as that. [ am not asking, the ad- ministration is not asking, to ‘be backed by any bigger standing army than is necessary for the uses of the momen anish American War. “Do you remember the experiences of the Spanish-American war? That was not much of a war, was it? It did not last very long. You remember the satirical verses that some newspaper- man wrote about it ‘War is rude and impolite, it quite upsets a nation; it's made of several weeks of fight and years of conversation’ A war which was parodied in verse, and yet what happened? You sent thousands of men to their death because they were ignorant. They did not get any fur- ther than the camps of Florida. They did not get on the water, even, much less get to Cuba, and they died in the camps like flies, of all sorts of camp diseases. Why, the percentage of our loss in that war by disease in the camp was greater than the percentage | are called for in the case of war, we the ! : United States, but think of what must i should have to turn to you and say: And T have not had | and battle in their war with Russia. “Do you want to repeat that? And while that is going on, what might happen? What sort of disaster may come to you while you are trying to make an army out of absolutely raw material? Why, it seems almost ri- diculous to say how little the present administration is asking for. It is asking that 500,000 men be asked to Yolunteer to take a little training every year for three years; not more than two or three months out of the year, in order that when volunteers may have men, at least 500,000 of| them, who know something about the , use of arms, something about the sani- tation of camps, something about the organization and discipline of war in the field and in the trenches. “And there are men in congress asking: Can you get the 500,000 men? Will they volunteer? Why, I believe you could get them out of any one state in the Union. You could almost get 5,000 of them out of this audience. But do not forget that that is not all there is to this problem. Suppose that 1 knew that back of the insistence of the Unitea States upon its rights was a great navy that ranked first in thel world and a body of men trained to arms adequate at any rate to fend off any initial disaster to the United States while we were making an army ready. That would be only the be- ginning. Munitions Factories. There are other things that we have been very much concerned about in Washington and we are taking steps to attend to. The railroads of this country have never been drawn into the counsels of the government, never until recently, in such fashion as to make plans for co-ordinating all of them to transporting troops and trans- port provisions and transport muni- tions in such a way us to be the effec- tive arteries of the red blood and en- ergy of the nation; never until re- cently, though we are beginning to do it. We are taking counsel with re- gard to that now; but, mark you, the munitions of war are made in this country almost exclusively near, the borders of the country and for the most part upon the Atlantic seaboard, and any initial disaster to the force of the United States might put the greater part of them, if not all of them, in the possession of an enemy. So that you see the circle of my argu- ment leads right ba to the necessity for a force of men who can prevent an initial disaster so that there will be no first invasion—a first disaster. “I have been wringing my heart and straining every energy of mind and heart that I have to preserve the honor and integrity and peace of the lie back of my thoughts. I know what you want me to do. T would be ashamed if I Gid not use the ut- most powers that are in me to do it. But suppose that same morning I “Fellow citizens, I have done as much as I can, now I must ask you to back me up with the force of the nation,” and suppose that I should know be- fore T said it that T had not told you tonight. Do not suppose. however, that I am afraid that it is not going to be done. “I am a believer not only in some the nation than to all the vocal orators in the land. But there are times when Bage-Allen & o. (INCORPORATED HARTFORD Intreductory S ale of Men's High Grade Shirts New Shirts, One of the Leading Makes, for This Sale 69c We have received, for 89¢c sale on Tuesday, a display of men’s shirts, from one of the leading manufactur- ers of high grade shirts. signs for Spring. Made of and other materials; with reinforced yoke, krench cuffs; extra full body—perfect fitting. All new, of the latest de- percales, woven suisettes, stiff _or The manufacturers guarantee that the colors will not fade. We show a fine assortment of patterns. All sizes from 13V/c¢ to 18. These shirts will be put on sale at two prices, 69c ard 89c. They are less than are usually asked for odds and ends at clearance time. See window display. Owing to the very low prices at which these shirts will be sold we cannot send them C. O. D. or on approval. None exchanged. rather listen to the still small voice that comes out of the great body of I must come out and say ‘do not let the voice be too small and too still’ when I must come and say ‘fellow citizens, get up on your hind legs and talk and tell the people who repre- sent you, wherever they are, in your state capital or in your national capi- tal what it is that the nation desires and demands.’” Because the - thing that everybody is listening for in a democracy is the tramp, tramp, tramp of the facts.” Right to Travel Abroad. Topeka, Kas., Feb. 3—President Wilson yesterday asserted the right of Americans to travel abroad and their right to send food, cotton and manufactured products to peaceful populations “in open neutral markets’ and “wherever the conditions of war make it possible to do so under the ordinary rules of international law.” “It may be necessary to use the force of the United States to vindi- cate the rights of American citizens to enjoy the protection of interna- tional law,’” he declared emphatically, in a speech here. He urged the sup- port of the people of Kansas in pre- paring that force for use, if neces- sary. Given Friendly Farewell. When the president arrived in To- veka, the applause which greeted him was scattering. When he left To- peka, thousands roared a friendly farewell. “There is nothing you would be quicker to blame me for than for neglecting to safeguard the rights of Americans, no matter where they might be in the world,” sald the president. ‘““There are perfectly clear- ly marked rights guaranteed by in- ternational law, which every American is not going to abide the hibitual or continued neglect of these rights. ‘““We have a right to send food to peaceful populations wherever condi- tions of war make it possible to do so under the ordinary rules of war. We have a right to supply them with our manufactured products.” Monroe Doctrine. The Monroe Doctrine was spoken of as a handsome guarantee by the United States of the rights of na- tional and popular soverelgnty on there are the ordinary restraints o ated by a state of war, we ought recognize those restraints; but th world needs the wheat of the Kans flelds and the other great flowerin acres of the United States, and heve a right to supply the rest of i world with the products of the flelds. We have a right to send foo to peaceful populations whenever an wherever the conditions of wi make it possible to do so und the ordinary = rules of inte tional law. We have a right supply them with our cotton to clof them. We have a right to supp| them with our manufactured pi ducts. Rights to Extend Trade. “So far as there are vehicles carry our trade we have the right extend our trade for the assistance the world. For we have not be selfish in this neutral attitude of o I resent the suggestion that we been selfish, desiring merely to mal What would happen if there were great nation disengaged from th terrible struggle? What would pen if every nation were consumidg its substance in war? What wol happen if no nation stood ready assist the world with its finances @ to supply it with its? We are m indispensible now to the nationsi war by the maintenance of our pei than we could possibly be to eithi side if we engaged in the war i therefore, there is a moral obligs laid ‘upon us to keep out of this if possible. But by the same (ol there is a moral obligation laid uj us to keep free the courses of commerce and of our fnance, and believe that America stands ready vindicate those rights. “But there are rights higher thi either of those, ' higher than rights of individual Americans oM side of America, higher and greaf] than the rights of trade and of e merce. I mean the rights of ‘m Kind. We have made ourselves guarantors of the rights of natio gevereignty and of popular soverg ty on this side of the water in b continents in the western hemisph You would be ashamed, as I Wo be ashamed, to withdraw one Ini from that handsome guarantee, it is a handsome one.” SOHEPPARD-CHRISTINGER. this side in both continents of the Western Hemisphere. Nothing sus- tains the honor of the United States in respect to this long cherished pol- icy, the president said, but the moral and physical force of the United States. He spoke of the spirit shown by the nation in freeing Cuba and added that “the American people feel the same way about the Philip- pines, though the rest of the world does not yet believe it.” The president later spoke to an overflow meeting in the Topeka Hizh school. He mentioned the camps of the men who talk, though not all of them, but also in that vast body of citizens who do not ¢ talking and I would a great deal do held last summer in connectioh with military posts and said more camps should be established and that the men should volunteer to go to them in sufficient numbers so that if war S o | DOUBLY PROVEN | New Britain Readers Can No Longer Doubt the Evidence. testified Told of quick relief—of undoubted | | The facts are now complete—the It forms convinecing proof of merit. Mrs. John E. Dean, 43 Cottage Place, New Britain, says: “My kid- neys were inactive. I suffered from | backaches and headaches. At 1 was dizzy and nervous. Doan's Kid- ney Pills, procured at Clark & Brainerd Co.’s Drug Store, cured me. Another of my family was cured of weak kidneys and a lame back Doan’s Kidney Pills.”’ Over a year later, Mrs. Dean said: | “We still use Doan’s Kidney Pills in our family. I am glad to confirm them some time ago.” Price 50c, at all dealers. Don't simply ask for a kidney remedy—get Doan’s Kidney Pills—the same thiat Mrs. Dean has twice publicly recom- mended. Foster-Milburn Co., Props., Buffalo, N. Y. those rights. near the ports as some other Ameri- cans you do not travel as much and i you times | o of legitimate errands of errands of business for the ments, are making America world. by | disturb the world. quicken the world, and their travel here and there ought not to be impeded by a rek- | the statement I gave recommending |less | gation. ever came to the United States, thers would be a nucleus for the army. The President said, in part:i— | Speech in Part. | “There is nothing, you would be quicker to blame me for than fo~ neglecting to safeguard the right of Americans, no ' matter where they might be in the world. There are per- fectly clearly marked rights guaran- teed by international law which every American is entiled to enjoy and America is not going to abide tha habitual or the continued neglect of Perhaps not being as infinite num- relief, govern- of every sort whirh useful to the Americans do not travel to They travel to processes of the inter- the do not realize the errands change of life and of goods in disregard of international ol | another thing that we | cught to feguard and that is our | right to sell what we produce in the | open neutral markets of the world. Where there is a blockade, we recog- nize the right to blockade; where | “There | It Julius Scheppard of 131 Kensingt avenue and Miss Louise A. Christi of 165 Greenwood street were m ried at 3 o’clock yesterday afterne at the home of the bride by Rev. A tin W. Gaudian of St. John's Germ church. 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