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4:18 p. W, e Post Ofies at Naw Britatn Matter. % part of the oity a month. be sent by mall cents a wonta faedium and prese toers. 19 4t Hoth el mrad: of God, her voice the tion. A war for democracy.” Fight- ing ‘such a; way for the principles so déar to the heart of all free people this nation miuist enlist in the ranks of all those other democracies of the world’ who "are fighting the same monster. The latest' addition to the family of democracy, Russia, shall be encbur-géq by ‘our presgnce at her side.” This is the plan of the Presl- dent. ' This is what thg Congress will undoubtedly authorize, With Bel- gium and France and Russia this 'greatest of all free, nations shall align itself. It will thiow its weight Linto the scale, not for the sole purpose of showing”its mighty strength, nar with the main’ idea'of stamping vie- -toriously over a fallen foe; but tarup- hold the sacred rights for which the men of the Revolution fought and bled. The giant has awakened. The great, proud nation has reached the limit of patience. - It can suffer insult. no longer. War, braught to it by the audacious and selfish schemings of ah] autocratic governmept that cares not even for its own people, shall be met with a war waged on the highest plane of humanity,—a war without passion. 5 : It is well that we remember all through the terrible days ahead that 4lthough we shall be at war with the Imperidl German Government we hold no animus against the German people, President’ Wilson has never failed to draw this distinction. Even in his terrific indictment of that Govern- ment he pauses long enough'to say: “We are the sincere friends of .the German people, and shall desire nothing so much as the early re< 18 | establishment of intimate relations of authorised In the next few now for any youth of ‘who applies for ad- . The Navy is on the ldok- n All those who are phy- 2d and whose condition that they can go in the f“tflll)lent to their fam- ives should accept the oftéred. The young and -enter via the lowest rung n chance to mount to ! Bven ‘Annapolis will ¥n open to those Who after prove themselves, capable - within the - age ' Hmit: was another ‘offer like [Tnited (States Navy. There be a similar one in all the jo the United States Navy needs here is also room for am- ive branches stood Uncle of trouble. - They will now that trouble ..adventuraus. of ; no. better: out-let - for 08 G}nfl than . anyone :“of the national the fation is' awaiting of its brave hearted and jofic. young men should act cen Tor greater activigy.| strength of the fira line of of “WITHQUT PASSION. ' A n in his war address natiohal Congress last ented thé case ~of the ctment of AWtStiacy. We war with Germany . because . Bas 8o willed it. We are at th Germany because Germany far-forgotten - the -dictates of ky that it‘would crush the d to work Its own ends. f i the history of civiiized gov- ‘hias there been such a whole- donment of principles. e has a ‘nation’ so disre- the laws of society. Never wernment of any people been task ‘as. President Wilson it flayed Germany., Nor aid 4he whole . list of facts the, Hohenzollern- dynasty. <President- satd,-however, is . *'show” the course’ of the ' Ratton. ‘What he recounted enough for any .nation to [ those rights for. which it « The* American government t De trué ‘to its trust if it to bring thé Imperial Ger- it to task. 3 e-& war of cenquest, |’ nation has ‘no seifish ends .. Our people desire no ‘e seek no indemnities jolves, no material compen- the sacrifices we shall freely 4re but one of the cham- rights of mankind.” We ing the gage of battle with foe'to liberty.” It there- ‘ this country who halds a grievance mutual advantage between us—how: ever hard it may be for them, for the time being, to believe that this 'is spoken from our hearts. We havd borne with their present government through all these bitter months be- cause of that friendship—exercising a patience and forbearance which would otherwise have been im- possible.” It may indéed be difficult for the German people to believe that there is such a generous people in all the world, a people who, fighting the German government can still hold a spirit of friendship for the German people. Yet this is absolutely the truth. There s not a true American against the German people.. There is not a true American who can view With tolerance the pernicieus actions of -the Imperial Government. = That the President in his address to Con- gress stopped short of - calling - .the rulers of ".h-t nation barbarians is due ohly $o the solemnity of the 00 casjon. have misnamed -them, n the case against them.. has taken the pPlace of ' civilization with the men who order the murder of iunocent men, women and children. Had he done so he Would not i ‘Barbarism ik on the high seas. 2 All the acts of Germany (agajnst this government have been conceived' and committed in cold blood. - They are the outpourings of evil minds. The German people- themselves had inoth- ing to do with 'them. The Im; German Govérnment 18 - alone to blame: /Noothér form of goermmbnt’ but an absolute monarchy would dare tempt such crimes against law and humanity.” A Democracy, fn its most liberal form, this government cannot stafd fdly by and see All:the rights of . frée people Grushed to the ‘earth. It must align itéelf with the: other democ¥acies of the earth™in stamp- ing ‘out ‘an evil that ‘has. grown to Proportions. ' That is why it will stand by the ‘side of the youngest of 81l democractes, Ruseia, and fight the battle of' civilisation. That is why it will do all in its power to aid France, and,England, and Belgium and all the Entente Allies in overthrowing the one’ last remaining” vestige of man- archial” form of government.: When this has been done the United States will return to the even pursuit of its peaceful dutles, a bigger and bet- ter nation for having taken & hand in the war of humanity against in- { dividualism. There will be mo en- tangling alliances after the fray is| over. This nation will ever keep its skirls free from the soil of Europe. Because it fights on the : side of Russia, and Belgium and France at this time is no reason why it will not lend the first helping hand to the new Germany which must come out of this war. The friend of the Ger- man people, the United States cannot show its friendship better than by driving out of existence the ruling powers of Germany who are even now antagonistic -to the subjects there. This then shall in every sense of the word be a battle for de- mocracy,—a war without passion. The pen may be mightier than 'the sword but-we: niotice that' - the' “olds fashioned ‘method of assault and bat- tery is still in much favor on Euro- pean battlefields, FAOTS AND FANCIES. Darkest Russia is now proceeding to turn on the light.—Atlanta Journal. _ Well, it was only natural for Ger- NEW BRITAIN ‘many to let the St. Louts go through. | +—Hartford Times. , " It fa terfible to think that in Green- land the end of a perfect day is & six months night.—Chicago Herald. Only a’few months more of the three years that Kitchener set as the limit of the war.—Boston Herald. Americans are now engaged in ohe of the greatest get-together move- ments the world has ever seen.—D#- troit Free Press. In the presence of a food shortage the value of that primitive delicacy, dandelion greens, ought to be recog- nized,—Chicagé News. ! ‘Other things being edual the new ‘board’s attitude on the tariff will in all probability be the antithesis of the Pennsylvania idea—Philadelphia Pub- He Ledger. The re-election of President Wilson oost ‘the democrats $2,500;000, but they have often spent more money for less satisfactory returns.—Pitts- burgh Dispatch. Admiral Fiske need not worry. No= body will risk being - overconfident sbout anything after what happened to the republican party last Novem- ber.—~Washington Star. The German withdrawal in France 1s. possible | because the = h; millions of Germany have had their eves fixed unalterably upon the sub- marine campaign.—Newark News. Some ‘people think Kitchener was not drowned after all: If he.is in hiding, he'll soon come out after the Britisifpofficial explanation of the Dardanelles reaches his attention.— Milwaukee News. §s ‘acknowledged to be clever. She may want a finger in the international pie, but she is ' not vearning to be handling any hot chest- nuts to furnish forth some other one’s feast.—Bal{imore American. / : Japan It is conservatively estimated that one. person ‘out of ten shuts the door behind him coming in and that one person out of twenty-five shuts the door behind him going out.—Mont- ‘gomery Advertiser. 1t’is becoming dangerous for con- Sressmen to play with politics now as "f¢ is for children to play with fire. There will be many a political blow- up in the elecuo/na of 1918.—Houston Post. An Incident in 'the Orimean War. “Give us a song,” the soldiers cried, The outer trenches guarding, A When the heated guns of the camp allfed Grew weary of bombarding. The dark Redan, in silent scoff, Ley grim and threatening under: And the tawny mound of the Malakoff No longer belched its thunder.’ ;was a- pause. ~ A Guardsman daia, , *“We storm the fort tomorrows; Sing while we may; another day * Wil bring enough of sorrow." There 1ay along the battery’s side, low the smoking cannon: Brave hearts from Severn, and from ".And from the banks of Shannon. sung of love, and not of fame; Forgot was Britain's glory: yrt_recalled a different name, r" “Annie Laurie.” e o 3 Vbice atter yolce catight up the song, Untit. its’ tender on ;i Rose Jike an anthém rich and strong— Their, Iu:m-vvd ‘gqntb&n. But ‘as’the eokig grew louder, Something Upon the Soldier's cheek ‘Washed off the stains of powder. Beyond the & The bloody s ‘While e How English And once again a fire of hell Rained from the Russian quarters, With scream of shot and burst of shel}’ And bellowing of the mortars. And Trish Nora's eyes are dim For a singer dumb and gory; And English Mary mourns for him 'th‘ sang of “Annle Laurie.” Sleep, soldlers! still ‘in honored rest, Your ‘truth and valor wearing; ‘The bravest are the.tenderest, The loving are the daring. BAYARD TAYLOR Honk! Honk! (New York World.) Connecticut is taking a ' census of motor vehicles in the state for use in the emergency of war and has alteady listed 35,000. It is a fair inference that in this kind of preparedness the country s fit and ready to the last carbureter, SHARP REPORTS 28 - OFF AZTEC MISSING (Continued from First Page.) with & general cargo of grain and freight, has been sunk, according to word received here today by New York agents of the owners, the Wil- son Steamship line. The crew was: landed at Falmouth. 5 It is understood the crew contains no Americans. The sinking is sup- posed to have been about March 28 and presumably in the German sub- marine zone. | gitimate. DECLARATION " ed on Humanity By Ger- many Stirs Congress—An _ Army of 500,000 Urged. Owing -to the late hour at which President Wilson’s address to con- gress was réceived last night, it was ‘Washington, April 3.—The address delivered by President Wilson to a joint session of congress late last night is as follows: “I have called the congress into cx- traordinary session because there are serious, very serious choices of policy to be made, and made immediately, which. it:‘was neither right nar con- stitutionally permissible that I should assume the responsibility of making. “On_the third of February last, I officially laid before you the extra- ordinary announcement of the Imgerial German government that on and after the first”day of February it was ita purpose to put aside-all restraints of law or of humanity and use its sub- marines 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 German submarine warfare ear- lier in the war, but since April of last year the -imperial government had s.mewhat restrained the commanders «f its under sea 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 subma- rines might seek to destroy, when no resistance was offered or escape, at- tempted 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 meagre and haphazard enough, as was proved in distressing instance after instance in the progress of the cruel and un- manly business, but a certain degree of restraint was observed. “The new policy has swept every. restriction aside, Vessels of every kind, whatever their flag, their char- acter, their carge, their destination, their errand, have been ruthlessly sent to the bottom without warning, and without théught of help or mercy for those on board, the vessels of friendly neutrals along with those of belligerents. Even hospital ships and ships car- rying ‘relfef to the sorely bereaved and stricken peoplé of Belglum, though the latter were provided with safe conduct through the proscribed areas by the German government it- self, and were distinguished by unmis- takable marks of identity, haye been sunk with the same reckless. lack. of compassion or. principle. 'I was un- able for a little while that such, things would iIn. fact be done by amy government that had hitherto subscribed to the humane practices of civil nations. Inter- national law hpd its origin in the at- tempt to seét uUp some law, which would be respected and ol rved upon the seas, wheré no natio; ad. right of dominion and where. la¥ the free highways of the world. . By painful stage after stage has that law been built up with meagre . eno: results, indeed, after all was accomplishéd that could be accomplished, but i ways with a clear view, at leutk of what the heart and conscience kind demanded. s “This minum of right the* government. has swept aside ¥ the Dlea of retaliation ‘and necessity and because it had no weapons which it ‘could use at smea -exgept these, ‘which it is impassible to employ as it is employilng them without throwing “winds all scruples of hu- or. of respect for the under- that were supposed to un- derlle the intercourse of the world. “I am not nmow thinking of the loss of property involved, immense and serfous as that is, but -only of -the wanton and wholesale destruc- tion of the lives of non-combatants, Tuen, ‘women and children engaged in pursuits which have always, even in the darkest periods of modern his- tory, been deemed innocent and I Property can be paid for; the lives of peacefu]l and innocent pecble cannot be. : . ‘“The present German warfare against commeree is a warfare against ‘a’ war against all nations. . American ships have .been sunk, American lives takenm, in ways which!have stirred us very deeply to dearn of, but tHe ships:and people of Qther neutral and friendly nations supk and overwhelmed -in the waters inthe 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 ourselves must be made with.a moderation of counsel and a temper- ance of judgment befitting our char- acter and our motives as a nation. We must put excited feeling away. “Our motive will not be revenge or the victorious assertion of the physi- cal might of the nation, but only the vindication of right, of human right, of which we are only a single cham- plon. “When 1 advised the congress on the twenty-sixth 6f February last.I though it would suffice to assert our neutral rights with arms, our right to usc the seas against unlawful inter- férence, our right to keep our people .safe against unlawful violence. But armed neutrality, it now appears, is impracticable. 2 “Because submarines are iu effect to Dbelleve. | purpése ana, ot n:c;uz‘n #s will hence ‘forth insure the obse ) of those outlaws when used as the submarines. have been ‘us¢d again merchant shipping, it is impossible to defend ships against their attacks as the law of nations has assumied that merchantmen would . defend them- selves against privateers or cruisers, visible craft giving chase upan the open sea. “It is common prudence in such circumstances, grim necessity 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 within the areas of the sea which it has proscribed, even in'the defense of. rights which no modern publicist has ever before questioned their right to defend. The ‘intimetion is econ- veyed that the armed guards which we have placed on our merchant ships will be treated as beyond the pale of law and subject to be dealt with ‘as pirates would be. Armed neutrality is ineffectual enough at pest; in such circumstdnces and in the\face of such pretensions it is worse than ineffec- tual; it is likely once to produce what was meant to prevent it; it is prac- \tically certain to draw us Into - the war without either the rights or the effectiveness of belligerents. “There is one choice we cannot make, we are incapable of making; we will ‘nat choose the path of sub- mission and suffer the most sacred Tights of our nation and our people to be ignored or violated. The wrongs against which we now array our- selves are not comman wrongs; they cut to the very roots of human life. “With a profound sense of the solemn and even tragical character of the step I am taking and of the grave responsibilities which it in- voltes, but in unhesitating obedience to what I deem my -constitutional duty, I advise that the congress de- clare the recent course ef ‘the imperial German government to be- in fact nothing less than war against the governmeng and people of the United States; that it formally, accept the status of belligerents which has thus been thrust upon it and that it take immediate steps not only to put the céuntry in a more thorough state of defense, but also to exert all its power and employ all its resources to bring the governmeént of the Ger-|. man’ empire ‘to terms and end 'the war. - 5 ~“What this will involve 1s -clear. It will involve the utmost practicable co-operation:in counsel and _action with the governments now at war with - Germany -and, as incident ta that, the extension to those govern- ments of the most liberal financial credits, in order that our resources may, so 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 inci- dental needs of the nation . in . the mgst abundant, and.yet the most eco- nomical and efficient, way possible. “It will involve the immediate 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 chosen upon the prin- ciple of universal liability to service, and ‘alsé the authorization of subse- quent additional increments of equal force so soon as they may be needed and can be handled in training. “It will involve also, of course, the granting of adequate credits to the Bovernment, sustained, I hope, so far as they can equitably be sustained Ly the present generation, by well con- ceived taxation. I say sustained %o far as may be equitable by taxation /| because it seems to me that it would be most unwise to'base the credits which will now be necessary entirely ey borrowed. It is our duty, I, lly urge,; to protect our. People o far as we may against the very serious hardships and evils ‘which would be likely to arise out of the inflation which would be produced by vast loans;: “In carrying out the measure by which these things are to be, accom- plished we should keep constantly. in mind the, wisdom™ of intérfering as little as possible in our own prepar- ation and in the equipment of our own military forces' witli the duty— for it will be a very practical duty— of supplying the nations’already at war with Germany with the mater- jals which theéy can obtain only from us or by our assistance. They are in the fle}d and.we should help them in every way to be effective there. “I shall take the liberty of sug- gesting, through the several executive departments of the government, for the consideration of your committees, measures for the accomplishnent of the several objects I have mentioned. I hope that it will be your pleasure ta deal - with them as having been framed after very careful thought by the branch of the government upon which the responsibility of conducting the war and safeguarding the nation will most directly fall, g “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 the unhappy events o7 the last two months, and I do not believe that the thought of the na- tion has been altered or clouded by them. “I have exactly the same things in mind now that I -had in mind when I addressed tle senate on the 22nd of January last; the same that I had in mind when I addressed the congress on the third of February and on the 26th of February. Our object now, as then, is to vindicate the principles of peace and the justice in the life of the world as against selfish and auto- cratic power and to set up amongst the really free and self-governed peoples of the world such & concert of principles. 7 s “Neutrality is no longer féasible er desirable where the peace . of the world is involved and the freedom of Its peéoples, and the menace to , that peace and freedom lies In the exist- ence of autoératic governmients 'ked by organized force which is ‘eontrolled wholly by their will, not by the will of their people. ? 'We are at the beginning of an age in which it will be insisted that the same standards of conduct and of responsibility for wrong done shall be observed among nations and their governments that are observed among the jindividual citizens of civilized states. “We have no quarrel with the Ger- man people. We have no feeling towards them, but one of sympathy and friendship. It was not upon their impulse that their government acted in enteri: this war., It was not with their previous knowledge-or approval, v “It was a war determined upon as wars used to be determined upon in the o0ld, unhappy days when peoples ‘were nowhere here consulted by their rulers and wars were provoked -and waged in the 'Interest of dynasties or of little groups of ambitious men who were accustomed to use their fellow men as pawns and tools. “‘Self-governed 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 nly under cover and where no one Bas the right to ask questions. “Cunningly contrived plans of de- ception 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 con- fidences of a narrow and privileged class. They are hgppily impossible where public opinion commands and insists upon full information concern- ing all the nation’s affairs, “A. steadfast concert for peace can never be maintained except by a part- nership of democrgqtic nations. No autocratic government could be trust- ed to keep faith within it or observe its covenants. It must be a league of honor, a partnership of opigion. In- trigue would eat its vitals away; the plottings of inner circles who could plan what they would and render ac- count to no one would be a corrup- tion seated at its very heart. “Only -free people can 'hold . their purposes and their honor steady to & common end and prefer the inter- ests of mankind to any narrow inter- est of their own. “Does not every American feel that assurance has been added to our hope for the future peace of the world by the wanderful and heartening things that have been happening within the last few weeks in° Russla? . Russia was known by those who knew it best. to have heen always in fact demo- cratic at’heart in all the vital habits of her thought, in all the intimate re- lationships‘of her people that spoke their natural instinct, their habitual attitude toward life. The autocracy that crowned ‘the summit ef- her- po- litical structure, long as it had stood and terrible as was the reality of its power, was not in fact Russian in origin, character, or pur and now it- has been shaken off and the great, generous Russian, people have been added, in all their naive majesty and might,’ to the.. forces that .are fighting for freedom in the world, for Jjustice, and for peace. :Here is a fit partner for a League of Honor, ‘One of the things that has served to convince us that the Rrussian au- tocracy was not and could never be our friend is that from the very out- set of the present war it has filled ur unsuspecting cummunities, and even our offices af government, with spies and set criminal intrigues everywhero afoot against our national unity of counsel,: " peace within and with- out, gifes and ~ our com- merv 1 it is now evident that 1ts: ‘spies here even before the war began; and it is unhappily not a matter - of cofijecture,. ‘but a fact _proved iIn our courts of justice, that the intrigues, which have more than once come perilously: near to dis- turbing the' peace and’ dis] he industries. of the country, ‘have been carried on at the instigation, with the support, and 4 ‘under the personal direction of icial agents of the Im- perial government, accredited to the government of the United States.: “Even in checking these things and trying to them we have sought to put the most generous inter- pretation ble upon them because we knew thelr source lay, 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 in the selfish designs of a government that did. what it pleased - and. told fits people nothing. But they have played their part in serving to convince us at last that that .government enter- tains no real friendship for us, and means to act against our peace and security at its convenience. 'That it means to stir up enemies against us at our very doors the intercepted note to the German minister at Mexico City is elogquent evidence. We are accepting this challenge of hostile purpase because we know that in such a government, following such methods, we can never have a‘friend; and that in the presence of its or- ganized power, always lying in walit to_accomplish we know not what pur- pose, can be no assured security for the democratic gavernments of the world. We are now about to accept the guage 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 gléi, now that we see the facts with na 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 privilege; of men everywhere to choase their way of life and of obedience. “The world must be made safe for demoeoracy. Its peace must be planted upon’ the tested foundations of po- for ourselves, no matetial com . tion for the sicrifices we shall freely make. We are but.one-of the chamy plons of the rights of mankind. Wg shall be led * when those 1 have been made as secure as the fal and the freedom of nations can makg. } them. o ) “Just because we fight without 3 cor and without selfish abject, seeky ing nothing for ourselves but what w# - shall wish to share with all fre§ Deoples, we shall, I feel confidenty conduct our operations as belligerents without passion and ourselves observ with prdud punctilio the principles right and of fair play we profess id be fighting for. S “I have said nothing of the ge ernments allied with the Imperial gov+ ernment of Germany because they have not made war upon us or chald lenged us to defend our right !an our honor. The Austro-Hu government has, indeed, avowed it# unqualified indorsement and accepf ance of the reckless ad lawless subs marine warfare, adopted now without, disguise by the Imperial German gov-. ernment, and it has therefore not been: 'possible for this government to receive Count Tarnowskl, the ambassador re< cently accredited to this government, by the Imperial and Royal govern«i ment of Austria-Hungary; but that: government has not actvpally engaged in warfare against citizens of the United States on the seas, and I take. the liberty, for the present at least, of postponing a discussion of our rela: tlons with the authorities at Viennas We enter this war only where we are clearly forced into it because there are no _other means of defending our “It will be all the easier for us ta; conduct ourselves as belligerents in & high spirit of right and fairness be-" cause we act without animus, not witlf, enmity toward a people or with th desire to bring any injury or disad vantage upon them, but only in armed" opposition to a .irresponsible govern<: ment which has thrown aside all con: siderations of humanity and’ of righ! and is running amuck. - ¥ “We are, let me say again, the sin<’ cere friends of the German people, and shall desire nothing so much IJ the early re-establishment of intimate: relations of mutual advantage between. us, however hard it may be for them for the time being to beleve that this(’ is spoken from our hearts. We have borne with. their present government: through all these bitter months bes cause of that friendship, txercising & patience and forbearance which would otherwise have been, impossible. - - “We shall happily still have an op. portunity to prove that friendship in our daily attitude and actions toward . the millions of men and women'of Ger-» man birth and native pathy. who : live among us and share our life, and we shall be proud to provs-lt;w'arz all ‘who, n fact loval to "’ thel neig! ul to_the government : ,,f the hour of test. They are most of | them as true and loyal Americans as ‘| if they had never known any other.| fealty, or alleglance. They will prompt to stand with us in rebuking and restraining . the. few. who. be miing :‘na'mrpd.? ] I of a different. there should be disloyalty, it will: dealt with with a irm hand of repression; but, if it M all, it will'iitt it only here and without counten: a lawless and malj, “It is a distressig duty gentlemen of thy ¢ I have performed in you. There are, it months of flery trial i ahead of us.\'It is g fearful ‘thii lead this great, peaceful peopl war, into the most terrible and 'muul of all wars, civilisation seeming to be in the balance. “But the right is more than peace, and we shall things which we have always carried hearest our hearts—for democrgoy, for the right of those who submit to authority to have a voice in their own goyernments, for the rights and, libers: tles of small nations, for a' universal flgmlnlon of rikht by such a eon of free people as shall and safety to all’ natiom nl.x:d' mmm 3 the world i at last free. ok “To such i 'task we can dedicate our lives mi 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 principless: that gave. her birth .and ' and the peace ‘which sh ured. 5 s > 'God helping her, ‘sh other.” PRIMARIES IN\BAY STATE. . Mase. Selccting Onndidates. for Dele: gates to Constitutional Convention. Bonon.. April 3.—Primaries for the selection of candidates for delegates . to the constitutional convention to ‘| be held on June 6 took place through- out the state today. The ‘election will“"occur on May 1. N The convention i1s to be made up; oI 820 delegates For the sixtegen po- sitions' of delegate-at-large, fifty-two candidites were on the ballot today. The thirty-two receivilig the highest vote in the primaries will secure places on the ballot at the election. Similar procedure will obtain in the' choice of other candida: ' ? large have been made up: o tests today were largely local and ivdividual. CAUGHT STEALING AUTO. Bristol, April 3.—Walter Saport of, Hartford, 21 years old, was held: bor the superior court after a city couts:® ‘hearing today on charges of burglary. It is alleged that he was. caught in the act of attempting to'drive an auto- mobile out of a local garage early to- day. After his arrest he is maid to have admitted having made a similar attempt at another garage but had to give it up as the machine there was a steamer and he could not drive q’:‘r e