The evening world. Newspaper, April 3, 1917, Page 10

ee 10 ite THE EVENING WORLD, TUESDAY, APRIL 3, 1917. Ito Yead this great, peaceful people into war—into the most terrible disastrous of all wars, civilizattun itself seeming to be in the “But the right 1s more precious than peace, and we shall fight for things which we have always carried nearest our hearts—for PRESIDENT PUTS NO BLAME. ON GERMAN PEOPLE] wc since sctetntchtae ‘ . . . ‘ tr ft i for the rights and liberties of small nations, for “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 pede peep man aa nae treee peeples oa oball WtAG JOE Government acted in entering this war. It was not with their previous knowledge or approval. safety to all nations and make the world Itself at last free. | “To such a task we can dedicate our lives and our fortanes, ¢' ’ eae i ‘ . eee | that we ace and everything that we have, mith the pride of there wie | physteal might of the Nation, bot only the vindleation of right, of buman| peoples can hold their purpose and their honor steady to a common end that the day has come when America Is privileged to ¢pend her blood ] right, of which wo are only a single champlon. and prefer the interests of mankind to any narrow {Interest of their own. her might for the principles that gave her birth and ba en and -, “When I addressed the Congress on the 26th of February last I thought “Does not every American feel that assurance has been added to our peace which she has treasured. God helping her, she car do o other” that {t would suffice to assert our neutral rights with arms, our right to u hope for the future peace of the world by the wonderful and SR — | the seas against unlawful interference, our right to keep our poopie safe things that have been happening within the last few weeks in Russia? argest Popular Price Garment House in New York! against unlawful violence. “Russia was known by those who knew it best to have been always In A i “But armed neutrality, {t now appears, is impracticable. Because sub- fact democratic at heart, {n all the vital habits of her thought, In all the ‘ marines are in effect outlaws when used as tho German submarines have intimate relationships of her people that spoke their natural instinct, thoir % ‘been used against merchant shipping, it {s impossible to defend ships habitual attitude toward life. against their attacks as the law of nations has assumed that merchantmen “The autocracy that crowned the summit of her political structure, long ® would defend themselves against privateers or cruisers, visible craft, giv- a It had stood and terrible as was the reality of its power, was not in fact | ng chase upon the open sea. It is common prudence tn such circumstances Russian in origin, in character or purpose; and now it has been shaken, | grim necessity, indeed—to endeavor to destroy them before they have and the great, generous Russian people have been added, in all their | shown their own tntention. They must be dealt with upon sight, If dealt native majesty and might, to the forces that are fighting for freedom in | with at all. | ig Ave. Corner 18" Street BROOKLYN NEW YORK NEWARK the world, for justice and for peace. Here is a fit partner for @ league | “The German Government dentes the right of neutrals to use arma at of honor. | all within the areas of the sea which It has proscribed, even In the defense “One of the things that has served to convince us that the Prussian sd rene : of rights which no modern publicist has ever before questioned their autoerne: t and conld never be our friend fs that from the ver tured at All 3 St Wednesday or|° p q autoeracy was not and conld ne ow y Featured a! ores America Ss Motive Is Not Revenge | right to defend. ontset of the present war It has filled our ansuspecting communities, and | “The intimation is conveyed that the armed guards which we hav; en our offices of government, with spies a ' ; Hate, but Vindication of Human | placed on our merchant ships will be treated as beyond the pale of law and everywhere afoot against our national unity of co 2 ' j | subject to be dealt with as pirates would be. Armed neutrality is inef- and with Industries and _ Right—Brands U Boat Campaign | fectual enough at best; {n such circumstances and in the face of such pre- SPIES WEB BEFORE WAR SPARTED. as Attack on Mankind. | tensions it fs worse than tneffectual: tt ts Aikely Wt ones to Droddce WRN L|” wtnacen it 19 gow OFlMene that ita apiée were herd even batore the we was meant to prevent; it is practically certain to draw us into the war). without either the rights or the effectiveness of belligerenta, began, and it is unhappily not a matter of conjecture but @ fact proved in| set criminal intrigues | cll, onr peace within | Easter Suits Three Great Groups Specially Priced at 7 \GTON 3.—Pres! De © wo Congress is our courts of justice that the intrigues which have more than once come \ ws SRAe BiGG Migotst President Wilson's meanage 1 CoMaTe* "| CALLS FOR DECLARATION OF “STATE OF WAR.” perilously near to disturbing the peace and dislocating the industries of ne | § 00 54 0.98 9 00 / af “There is one choice we cannot make, we are incapable of making: country have been carried on at the instigation, with the support, and even | i “T have called the Congress into extraordinary session because (BEF) Ww vit not choose the path of submission and suffer the most wacred under the personal direction of official agents of the Imperial Government | a are serious, very serious, choices of policy to be made, and made imme- rights of our Nation and our people to be ignored or violated. The wrongs , 4° redited to the Government of the United States. bf diately, which it was neither rixlit nor constitutionally permissible that 1 | against which wo now array ourselves are not common wrongs; they cut “Even in checking these things and trying to extirpate them we have | Four more shopping days—then Easter. It is 4 should assume the responsibility of making. to the very roots of human life, | sought to put the most generous interpretation possible upon them, because high time to purchase your new Suit, and D. 4 “On the 3d of Februry last I officially lald before you the extraordinary | “With a profound sense of the solemn and even tragical character of | ¥¢ knew that their source lay, not in any hostile feeling or purpose of the Price & Co. offer you every inducement —unequalled the step I am taking and of the grave responsibilities which {t involves, but | German people toward us (who were no doubt as ignorant of them as we | " fier the | } announcement of the Imperial German Government that on and a in unhesitating obedience to what I deom my constitutional duty, 1 advise | Ourselves wero), but only in the selfish designs of a Government that did ist day of February it was its purpose to put aside all restraints of 18” OF that the Congress declare the recent course of the Imperial German ( what it pleased and told {ts people nothing. But they have played thetr of humanity and use its submarines to rink every vessel that sou to! ernment to be in fact nothing loss than war agalnst the Government and Part In serving to convince us at last that that Government entertains no os approach either the porta of Great Britain and Ireland or the weetert | people of the United States; that it formally accept the statas of belligerent Tea! friendship for us and means to act against our peace and security at values, exquisite styles and tremendous assortments. . . . coasts of Europe or any of the ports controlled by the enemics of Germany | whieh has thas n thrust upon ft, and that it take Immediate steps not its convenience. That it means to stir up enemies against us at our very 2 within the Mediterranean. ‘only to put the country in a more thorough state of defense bot also to| doors the intercepted note to the German Minister at Mexico City fs elo- “That had seemed to be the object of the German submarine wertare | exert all ity power and employ all Its resources to bring the Government 4\¢ nt evidence. earlier in tho war, but since April of last year the Imperial Goveruinent| of the German Empire to terms and end the war. “We are accepting this challenge of hostile purpose because we know | had somewhat restrained the commanders of its under-sea craft 1 con- “What this will Involve is clear. It will involve the utmost practicable; that In such a Government, following such methods, we can never have & , formity with its promise then given to us that passenger boats should not! co-operation in counsel and actlon with the Governments now at war with friends and that in the presence of its organized power, always lying in be sunk, and that due warning would be given to all other vessels which | Germany, and, as incident to that, the extension to those Governments of | walt to accomplish we know not what purpose, there can be no assured | its submarines might seck to destroy when no resistance was offered oF | the most liberal financial credity, in order that our resources may, so far ag | security for the democratic Governments of the world escape attempted, and care taken that their crews were given at least & possible, be added to theirs. It will involve the organization and mobiliza- FIGHT FOR ULTIMATE PEACE OF THE WORLD be, fatr chance to save their lives in their open boats. Tho precautions taken | tion of all the material resonrces of the country to supply the materials of “We are now about to accept gage of battle with this ‘i were meagre and haphazard enough, as proved in distressing Instance | war and serve tho incidental needs of the Nation In the most abundant and | jiberty and shall, If necessary, spend the whole force of the after Instance in the progress of the cruel and unmanly business, but &| yet the most economical and efficient way possible. and nullify its pretensions pie its power, We are glad, now t certain degree of restraint was observed. } “It will involve the immediate full equipment of the navy in all| the facts with no veil of false pretense pe them, to fight thas for the HOSPITAL AND RELIEF SHIPS SUNK. respects but particularly in supplying it with the best means of deallng | ultimate peace of the world and for the Hberation of its peoples, the Ger- “Lhe new policy has swept every restriction aside. Vessels of every with the enemy's submarines. It will Involve the immediate addition to the | man peoples included; for the rights of nations great and small and the kind, whatever thelr tlag, their character, their cargo, thelr destination, armed forces of the United States already provided for by law in case of | privilege of men everywhere to choose thelr way of iife and of obedience, their errand, have been ruthlessly sent to the bottom without warning, and | war at least 600,000 men, who should, in my opinion, be chosen upon the; — “Phe world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace mast be | without thought of help or merey for those on board, the vessels of friendly | principle of universal Hability to service, and also the authorization of | planted upon the trusted foundations of politienl iherty. | ; vi teate along with thove of Delligerents. Even hospital ships and ships| *ubsequent additional Increments of equal force so svon an they may be) Wo have no seliish ends to serve. We desire no conquest, no do- carrying relief to the sorely bereaved and stricken people of Belgium, | needed and can be handled tn traluing. |minion. We seek no indemnities for ourselves, no material compensation though the latter were provided with safe conduct through the proseribed | GRANT EVERY AID TO ENTENTE ALLIES. for the sacrifices we shall freely make, We are but one of the champions areay by the German Government Itself, and were distinguished by unmis. “Tt will involve also, of course, the granting of adequate credits to | °F the rights of mankind. We shall bo satisfied when those rights dave wxeble marks of ideatity, have been sunk with the same reckless lack of, Ci vtument, sustained, I hope, #0 far as they can equitably be cure |BEeM as secre as the faith and tho freedom of the nations can make them. co . Jon jaa of Fiadiote SHA i » things woula inj tained by the present generation, by well conceived taxation. 1 aa “Just because we fight without rancor and without selfish objects, was for a@ little while unable to bolfeve that euch things would to 4 : 2 i ’ | seeking nothing for ourselves b at wi i | wos Bs un £968 te whe unable to alee ime cabmetbed to" Tor he |wotalned oo far as may be quale by azaticn beoguse ft ovens to oe |SSIDS S00, shal 1 fel eousdent, condunt eagle Abies mane practices of civilized nations. rary entirely on money ‘porrowed, It is our duty, 1 most respectfully urge, | igerents without passion, and ourselves observe with proud punctilio the Gc axiaraatiosa la bad le ica il vas Foe eae om tion {0 protect our people vo far as wa may against the very serious hardships | Principles of zie and of fair play we profess to be fighting for. fi and evils which would be likely to arige out of the inflation which would have said nothing of the Governments allied with the Imperial ‘Two of the models at $15 Poplins, Gunniburls, Burellas, Wool Velours and Taffetas--in Black, Navy and the newest Easter shades. Sizes 14 to 44 Expert Alterations Free We will positi empt to set up some law ly make deliveries on all ee HY fe x rE eR At na GET rasta bo produced by vast loans, |Government of Germany because they have not made war upon ws or garments requiring alterations before Easter. Fee eee eee eatracserollches Ont Gould to aecorcpliahed, but||_ «(ua cArTvia aut sie measured) by which these tBIGgS Are 9 accom | challenged vs to defend our right and our honor, ie y x4 Easter Coats always with a clear view, at leasi, of what the heart and conscience of plished we should keep constantly in mind the wisdom of {interfering a8 ; ne Austro-Hungarian Government has indeed avowed its unqualified | V Hittle as posatble in our own preparation and In the equipment of our own | !udorsement and acceptance of the reckless and lawless submarine war- esl ed mankind demanded “This mipimum of right the German Goverument has swept aside under the plea of retaliation and necessity and because {t had no weapons which It = could use at sea except those, which It Is linpoasible to employ as it is em- 7 ploying them without throwing to the winds all scruptes of humanity or of respect for the understandings that were supposed to underlie the Inter- course of the world “] am not now thinking of the loss of property involv immense and | meas serious as that 1s, but only of the wanton and wholesale destruction of the}! hope that ft will bi - lives cf non-combatants, men, women and children, engaged in pur- | framed alter very suits which have always, even in the darkest periods of modern history, | which the respoustbili military forces with the duty—for it wl be a very practical duty— up- | fare adopted now without disguise by the Imperial German Government, plying the nations already at war with Gemany with the materials which | 4nd it has therefore not been possible for this Government to receive Count | they can obtain only from us or by our assistance ‘They are In the field and Tarnowski, the Ambassador recently accredited to this Government by the ld help them in every way to be effective there. Imperial and Royal Government of Austria-Hungary; but that Government shall take the Hberty of suggest! through the several executive | has hot actually engaged in warfare against citizens of the United States rtments of the Government for t consideration of your committees, | on the seas, and I take the liberty, for the present at least, of postponing res for the accomplishment of the several objects I have mentioned, | 4 digcussion of our re ns with the authorities at Vienna. We enter this ‘our pleasure to deal with them as having been) war only where we are clearly forced into it because there are no other thought by the branch of the Government upon | means of defending our righ conducting the war and safeguarding the Nation | THINKS MOST GERMAN-AMERICANS ARE LOYAL. we sh A tremendous assortment of the season's best models— notable alike for their splen- did style and their decidedly low prices. We are confident that these are the best values to be found. 5 349% 545 548% tf been @omed innocent and legitimate. Property can ve paid for; the tives | Wil most directly tall “It will be all the easier for us to conduct ourselves as belligerents in | i . ¥ of peaceful and innocent people cannot be Whilo we do these things, these deeply momentous things, let be]. nigh spirit of right and fairness because we act without animus, not in Stregt Gealk, fies, CALLS IT “WARFARE AGAINST MANKIND.” very clear and make very clear to all the world what our motives ani our) enmity toward a people or with the desire to bring about any injury real ae Venec meats: pane | objects are. My own thought has not been driven from its habitual and) 4) 0 av cntage upon them, but only in armed opposition to an irresponsible | “The present German warfare agalust commerce Is a warfare against 1 be ‘ Patera tha, and 1 do not Gabardine, Poiret Twill and mankind. It Is » war against all nations. American ships have been cunk, | ROrmal courte by the unhappy events of the last two months, A Government which has thrown aside all considerations of humanity and of | Poplin—in. black, navy, all lives taken, in ways which it has stirred us very deeply to Ioarn | Delleve that the thought of the Nation has been altered or clouded by them.) i101. ng is running aM | the new high colores dla American lives taken, y it ha y ply le 6 i k plaids and checks, All sizes WN THE LAST OF NEUTRALITY. We are, let me say again, the sincere friends of the German people, ne thing in mind now that { had ia mind when| and shail desire nothing so much as the early re-establishment of intimate | of, but the ships and people of other neatral and friendly nations have been | HAVES. sunk and overwhelmed iu the wa he sane way. ‘There has been no ‘ihave exact the from 14 to 44. discrimination 1 dressed Uh © on the 22d of January last, the same that J had in| relations of mutual advantage between us however hard it may be for 1 WARK TORE "The challenge | all ma J Pach nation must devide f self dd when I addressed the Congress on 3d of February and on the 26th! them, for the time t »b is {s spoken from our bearts, BROOKLYN STORE Mew Mae $1 St: how it will meet It holee We make for oury must bi fo with of February. Our object now, as then, Is to vindicate the principles of | We have b with their present Government through all these bitter Fulton & Bridge Sts. Marke alseySts. wom oderation of counsel and a temperatencss of iudyment betting our| peace and the Justice Iu the lite of the world ay against selfish and ator! months because of that friendship—exercising a patience and forbearance character and our motives as a Nation. We must put exetted “Our motive will not be revonge ov the siete ling away. | crate power and to set up among the really free and self-governed peo-) which would otherwise have been impossible fon of the | ples of the world such a concert of purpose and of action ay will hence- “We shall, happil tin e an opportunity to prove that friendship -——— forth insure the observance of those principles, in our daily attitude and actions toward the millions of men and women | Neutrality {s no longer feasible or desirable where the peace ot th@) of German birth and native sympathy who live among us and share our life, Child c f F h world {x involved and the freedom of its peoples, and the menace to that] and we shall be proud to prove it toward all who ave in fact loyal to thelr ren Cry tor letcher’s peace and freedom lies in tho existence of autocratic Governments backed | nelghbors and to the Government in the hour of test, They are, most of , \ oS » ‘ i by organized force which is controlled wholly by their will, not by the will| them, as true and loyal Amerteans as if they had never knowm any other of their people. We have seen the last of neutrality in such elreumstances. | fealty or alleglance, They will be prompt to stand with us in rebuking and “We ave at the beginning of an age in which it will be insisted that the | restraining the few who may be of a diiferent mind and purpose. |same standards of conduct and of responsibility for wrong done shall be “Ef there should be disloyalty, {t will be dealt with with a firm hand 219, 221, 228, 225, 227 | 164, 166, 168 and 170 Grand Street | Smith Street observed -among nations and thelr Governments that are observed among} of stern repression; but if it lifts it head at all, it will lift it only here and Cor. Driggs Ave. BROOKLYN Cor, Wyckoff St. | the individual citizens of civilized states, there and without countenance except from @ lawless and malignant few. GOODS DELIVERED ANYWHERE IN GREATER NEW YORK “We have uo quarrel with the German people, We have no fecting | ‘It is a distressing and oppre duty, gentlemen of the Congress, CASTORIA . toward them but one of sympathy and friendship, It was not upon thelr] which I have performed in thus addressing you. There aro, it may be, Always Bought has borne the sign: j{mpulse that their Government acted in entering this war, It was not with | many months of flery trial and saeritice ahead of us, It is a fearful thing Be eee eer anade dundee his | their previous knowledge or approval. | personal supervision for over 80 years, Allow no one “It was a war dotermtned upon as wars used to be determined upon ip decelve you in this. Counterfelts, Imitations and the old, unhappy days when peoples were nowhere consulted by thelr LESS MEAT IF KIDNEYS HURT OR Be Oe TARE OTe BNE arperiens nis, and endanger the [rulers and wars were provoked und waged in the interest of dynasties or ealth 4 | of little groups of ambitious men who were accustomed to ut their fellow YOU'RE BACKACHY AND RHEUMATIC What is CASTORIA — [seernenrv ions | Castoria is a ri jo Deposit eekly | Opens a NewClothing Account | DRESSERS| _ Big Steel Bed Sale nT AR?) sion 4” rmless substitute for Castor Oil, Pare- | “Self governed nations do uot till thelr neighbor states with sples or set, i H a” and Soothing Syru It contains neither the course of intrigue to bring abont some critical posture of affairs which abae - mir) CSE ¢ nor other tie substance, For iit give them an opportunity to strike and make conquest. Such designs | Meat forms uric acid which clogs | ‘he channels often get sore and irri- NAY a f y yearn it | tated, obliging you to seck relief two EAN can be successiully worked only under co causes Rheumatism } i ot Constipatior r and where no one has the} Kidneys Diarrhoea; ullaying Feveris arising therefrom right to ask questions, and by regulating the Stomach and Bowels, aids the as- ‘Cunningly contrived g lor three times during the night and irritates Bladder. { To neutralize these irritating acids, — tu cleanse the kidneys and flush off the lans of deception or aggression, carried, tt may| similation of Food; giving healthy and natural sleep. ar a 1 n . | body nous r gel a " 4 4 hy ry Me gg he ped ye, from generation to generation, can be worked out and kept from the) 8 urinous waste get four ounces The Children’s Peuaces—The Mother's Friend, Night only within the privacy of courts or behind the carefully auarded| , If you must have your meat every jof Jad Salts from any pharmacy here; The Kind You Have Always Bought coutidences of a narrow aad privileged class. They are happily tmpossible | Gays Bak lt Bit Hush you Midueys wiih Sina’ nh SAbLRORD EN An & pias of where public opinion commands and insists upon full information cons thority who tells us that meat forms | and your kidneys will then act fine. 9 Ones in hen opeaing a ‘ Bears the Signature of cerning all the nation’s affair Juric acid which almost paralyzes the This famous salts is made from the | vsk te eo at : “a : ef iS . coe Pade pay kidneys in their efforts to expel it lacid of grapes and lemon juice, com- PEN MONDAY AND SATURDAY EVENING! AUTOCRACY CANNOT BE TRL STED TO KEEP FAITH, from the blood. They become sh iy bined with lithia, and has been used ile “A steadfast concert for peace can never be maintained except hy ai and weaken, then you sulfer with a for gener ations to Aush and stimulate - 7 = . ‘i s I : lull misery in the kidney region, sharp (sluggish kidneys, also to neutralize the } partnership of « atic nations, No aut Government could be ¢ n p (sl kineyss also to neutralise the 5 d WwW 1d W Wo k Ya | of e ‘° trusted to keep faith within it or observe Its ¢ ty. It must be a league hi"! the back oF sick leedachs, | Ceri ee en ee teitates, SUM ay or ants or it In Use For Over 30 Years amo vartennnpotinin, atrigue wden te val away: tbe Louie wen twtr mj dad lly meng cao . CEMTAUR COMPANY, WEW TORK J count to no one would be a corruption ted at its very heart. Only si urine gets cloudy, full of sediment, |vescent lithia-water drink.—Adg@. | on a orning $$$ $$$ TT