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FRIDAY, JANUARY 28, 1916.
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M V ?? i fVT ** tSOO Vnrk (Itr, Ma-waafk. Uruej Htj,
I /.l I i V la?."! I ??^ Hobokrn. r,l?-?lifr* Tw? Onu.
Crisis May Come "To-morrow, ' ' President Warns;
Nation Should Arm at Once to Defend Ideals
WOODPREDICIS
PERIL FOR U.S.
NWAR'SWAKE
Invaders Could Cut
Off East and Hold
Nation at Bay.
USES SHORTER
THAN IN FRANCE
i
Germans Call Attack Easy.
Says Col. Glenn-2.000,
* "000 Wen Needed.
,;?:??? IBBCI ' I HOUBB Mili
mCn? no* yajor ?en'
? *?;o< "'a
-
-wf ni Dl vrfir- h
world."
. who appeared at the
my In
a main the
- he pi -*h*enba
?; ? -. Co??!???.
h -aid '? Hrmy ?f
I a Un? from Boston
rt the close,
tack, ho
..nul of
SAO.0O0 men
:. thirty
?T5. , ,,
1.20,000, fully;
.n.r.ed e
i? !*s?t ! behind it,
rfi ? I? meet,
?**?? rav>'i
b? ele*.?ed ft* fourth 'in ?ghtinsc em- ;
t;rC7, U . ? ' n0t mR'n*
tain cor.:-. : "'r'd the i
CCIS'.S.
Amy Les- than Half Strength.
lit tnru Lb i " r'-<-""r-- src?
raen.?General Wood told the committee, ,
??it ?ere It ordered 1 Invade Mexico
? the present ' " c.-.vr.'.ry
tzi ?.rt.?ery would taha th? Held at
dnth-. ball ? air 1 ill lirenfth. "Be-1
(en | reserve II enrollad," Genernl
tflfcl ft; . ihonld he
m??t\ rq
toexf*-] ? forces, he con-1
"tr-ed, ?M to land on
?.tie- ?.-' Atlantic - ' Be coasts.
E? urged Um adoption of enlistment
I?**".*, whir- ? . attract a higher
P*it of rnen to the army, and said if
la Halted ecame involved in
"i* *?;::-. a - - nation il would
k?**'r ?;?;-. - men.
"Do yc-; ? ppine Isl
I-'ih'i eennti n inn Hay.
"Ye? u on the
? .: nson forces
Beaeral the conti
around
'
"Tl
and a make?
th the
eon! nental army
?.. the
? why Imild up a
?H? foret
**?' ud ii ul, v. ithout a ihi
I e an
*?*--; r.u:
I. S, Eaay to Invade.
hip declara
ense to say it
? . ? ' '
h an expedi
? all.
, ????ora ir. v . preparing to fight?"
^??od know !" r,.ri;,.d the fcnaral.
* ?re | . . , .. _.,?,... We
???i i >.h typhoon
?ou, and He will
_7 ?*?* ' ..,,., ?a lilt? a
:? ?.ontro!
:.,"f"'?' have to be m?de
ujJP**} rea to which the
:. c would be
**ml '
Ur.'i'.y* *"?' Wi,r muhitions manu*
aboard
?_ ???? Prai ? Sound,
. be, he said.
?r..rn the de
: rom tne tie
ti ke at th?
! wealth an?
factoriea an?
Yarlr ,'ffort ???I?' ' *" '?"?'? -NVw
"On ' '" "
?.f,-a'ct.v ?? out of thl ?re I
m T 6Mt ? will be bach
?Wita ','"' "" o? pre-hietorie man."
tOWt,d '' ' '"1 I*???"?**?*
?? jj, r:. anufacturing west
.-?.?i.". IV'?. ?? afeauard
G,V ''"' ; '
ia|l;r'"/ favored bav?
S?l(j a'f ' n I1'1' "? t!"'
? llery, up to
--ans, mounted
_et?o? "IM|M:iMI M ? \|?s oil K
. I'M.M
""??daji? *??? "->? V"lM* dully nth?!
I'wajr.
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!
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Pans?es and Blizzards Season
Weather Hash U. S. Gets for Day
-
Warmest January 11 on Record, with ?Mercury at 66 Here?
?Alaska Children Go Barefoot, While Dululh Is
Snowbound?Cold Wave Coming.
Some irresponsible hand turned on
every faucet in the Weather Hureau
ye.-ter.lav and deluged the? country
with a scrambled assortment of sun?
shine, snow, hurricanes, zephyrs, sum?
mer blasts and tvintry storms.
The medley was so eonfusintr that
it may be several days before the
weather expert? onn readjuit affairs
and give every rart of the country the
variety of climate? it is normally ex?
pected to have at this season of the
year. Bliizards were reported last
night where moderate climate is the
right of the inhabitants, pansies
bloomed where snow should fall, and
spring showers drenched landscapes
accustomed to sleet and bail in Jan?
uary.
Fortunately, the faucet labelled
"Hare June Pay*" was poured over
New York and environs. It was the
warmest January 27 on record. At
0:30 p. BB, the mercury reached 66.5
degrees. This wus within four-tenths
of a degree of the hottest January* day
in Weather Bureau history. The result j
at an overcoated and woollen-clad '
city perspired, leaves peeped forth |
froaB trees and twenty-five children i
wandered away from homes on the ?
loarai East Sida thinking that spring i
had arrived. The leaves are scheduled |
for a frosty greeting within a few
days, and the children are being held
at three police stations nwaiting
parents.
Apparently the experts will readjust
Nats Turk'? climate first. It was an
nounced last night that co!,l??r weather
would arrive to-day, and that there
was a possibility that snow flurries or
rain might accompany it.
Residents of Lealsvilla were prepar?
ing to enjoy a mild day when the
"March storm" tank wns overturn"?!
over the city. Three houses were un?
roofed, barns were demolished, trees
blown down and the city drenched with
water and harassed by a gale.
Bo|ton was in the mldit of season?
able sales of heavy overcoats when
midsummer weather was ppilled over
the city. For fifty consecutive hours,
ending yesterday afternoon, the mer?
cury ha? not fallen below M decrees.
At Winsted, Conn., pansies blooming
might have caused considerably more
exultation but for the fact that a local
wouthor prophet saw n spider spinning
a web head downward and a cater?
pillar crawling south on his barn two
invariable signs of the coldest Feb?
ruary in the memory of man.
Feward, Alaska, dispatch"? announced
that boys and girls were attending
school in bare feet.
Little Bock, Ark., ordinarily free
from floods until spring, yes'erday re?
ported that 500 families, made home?
less by untimely flood?, bad been sent
to Watson. Ark. rittsburjrh found it
sold with a temperature of ??9 degrees.
Duluth, Minn., is the one city in the
country that is revelling in normal
weather snow drift?, a forty-mile gale
and a temperature of 10 to 20 degrees
below zero.
EMPEROR OF AUSTRI,
IN GRAVE CONDIT
Rome Hears Francis Josep
Rapidly Growing Worse
Borne, Jan. 27.--It is report?
Vatican circles that the conditii
Emperor Francia Joseph of Au
who has been ill for several da;
rapidly growing worse.
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HUGHES STILL SILEN"
ON NOMINATION TA
Won't Discuss Rumor That
Is Preparing Statement.
IKrnm Thi? Tribun? llur?a?J ]
Washington, Jan. 27.?Arousing
most intense interest amone politic
particularly those on the band wa
of Baverai booms, a rumor area Bui
to-day that Justice Hughes was wr
a statement which would say tha
would not take the nomination for
Presidency, even If It were offeree
a unanimous Bepublican conventlor
Justice Hughes long airo reached
point of refusing to comment on i
thing connected with the nomina?
? ? of his close friends ? t?te?. |
Itively to-night thnt he kn.-v' t h ?.?
tice was giving no consideration to f
thing political and whs neither wrii
.. '..??Dient nor thinking of doinii a
PRISONER AND JUDGE
GO ON WATER WAGC
Jerry Didn't Know Court Had
Taken Drink for 25 Years.
Captain John Greenwood, one of
beet known fishermen around Shee
head Bay, appeared In the Coney Isli,
police court yesterday to enter
ci.arge of disorderly conduct agaii
:. .1. ram iah.
"He won't work and h" drinks t
much." aaid Captain John.
"Young man, will you take the pled
for six months if I alga it with you
; asked Mai,-:strate Speer*. "It's t
-re or oix months in the workhou
lor you."
Jeremiah signed the pledpe. T
captain expressed bis satisfaction
such .sacrifice on the part of the map:
i trate, and that official warned Dl
Carey, head court officer, to "keep i
eye on Jeremiah and me."
Magiatrata Bpaora explained lat
that he hadn't touched liquor in twe
*.y-:ivt- years?
MODEL FLEES STUDIO;
COURT TO HEAR WH1
' Artist Protests It Was Necessar
to Know Poser's Merits.
Whether Kdward McDowell, fiftj
nine, an artist, ?acted In an untlul
familiar manner with a Biaxial, Mr:
(Nellie Thomas, twenty-two, of 117 -lei
, ferson Avenue, Brooklyn, or natal
waa determining Mrs. Thomas's quali
I ftcationa as a model will not be know:
?until next Thursday, when both go be
fore Magistrate House.
Mi,. Thomas dashed out of McDow
,11'.- studio, at 2?> Fast Twenty-thir,
: Street, yeaterday, her hair and elothini
| diaarranged, and pleaded with a throat
! of ahoppera for protection.
1* all ?an..' about, Mrs. Thomas fold
trate House later, by hit
answering McDowell's a,ivtrtisement
for a model. She said that McDowell
was far too familiar. McDowell in?
sistid that aa an artist of twnty-nin?.
' experience i'i Now York, ?Jurini;
vhich many of hi-? works wen- huag in
galleries, lie vas ?implv endeavoring to
learn profeaaionallf if the model was
qualified to pos?- for a ptaiatiag he had
Leen commissioned to do.
AUTO HIT, TRAIN
DIKHED;2DEAD
Doctor and Engineer Kill?
ed and Physician's Wife,
Spine Broken, Dying.
Lakewood, X. J., Jan. 27. Dr. A. B.
Higgins, of Mnnasquan, drove his auto?
mobile, in which his wife wa? riding,
I
i across the Pennsylvania Kailroad
, tracks about an eighth of a mile from
the Allenwood station at 6:30 to-nitrht
as the I'hila.lelphia-Long Branch flyer
hove in sight.
The automobile was squarely across
the tracks when the engine struck it.
The machine was thrown twenty feet.
; The train tore along until the wheels
! of the pilot struck the planking at the
i next crossing. The engine left the
rails, went down a ten-foot embank?
I ment and overturned. The first car
; of the train, an unoccupied Pullman,
also left the tracks nd hung suspend
: ad BVOf the embankment.
Thomas Herrien, of Long Branch, the
I engineer, irai instantly killed, but bis
I fireman saved himself from Berioua in
' jury by jumping. Dr. and Mrs. Hig?
gins were taken in an automobile to
the Anne May Hospital at Spring Lake,
where the doctor ?iied a few minutes
afterward. Mrs. Higgins's spine is
broken and she cannot reeover.
The crossing used by l'r. Higgtai
gives an unobstructed ?How of the
tracks. The train was running full
?peed when it Ftruck the automobile.
Four persons in the second, cur, a ?lay
j coach, were badly cut and bruised and
; were rescued by the crew. In the other
I cars the twenty-odd passengers were
knocked about and received minor In?
juries.
Another machine behind that of the
Higginses was ??most struck by th??
Higgins car as it was pitched through
the air.
MRS. WARRENS TRUNKS
MAY BRING CIVIL SUIT
?New Action Planned if She
Escapes Indictment.
If Mr?. Whitney Wirren c?rnpe>. in?
dictment on the charge that she tried
I to defraud customs inspectors on her
1 recent return from Kur.ipe it is possi?
ble that a civil action will be brought
' against her on the ground that she
undervalued the contents of bet trunks.
This report came from Washington
'? last night after a conference between
'Assistant Attorney General Warren,
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury
Potara and Fred F. Cafataphen, repre
aenting United states Diatrid Attor?
ney H. Saowden Marsht.ll, of this city.
No linal decision on the criminal in?
dictment will be made until the De?
partment of Justice concludes its In*
veatigation of the case ROXt wash. The
Treasury Department, it is said, has
! practically decided in favor of a civil
! action.
flOra THAI.M TO FI.OHIDA.
S.?> ..rl Air I.it.' R] S!'...M.?t. .;.;.U.-t.
must aiiracil**? rwrte. Ia% n>i Broadway.
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SENATORS ASK
BAN ON ARMS
Women's Embargo
Pica Stirs Attack
on War Traffic.
RANK HYPOCRISY,
ASSERTS KENYON
Democrats and Republi?
cans Echo His "Jingle
of the Dollar."
Washington, Jan. 27. An outburst of
denunciation against ahlpment of Amer?
ican-made war munitions to European
belligererts itirred the Senate to-day.
refleetiag a revival of sentiment which
may force a vote upon embargo reso?
lutions that have been pending in com?
mittee for several months.
A dozen Senators, Democrats as well
as Republicans, assailed the munitions
traffic, while those who have sided with
the administration in its stand that an
embargo woifld violate international
law were for the most part silent.
A petition for an embargo, bearing
more than a million signatures, started
the debate. A test vote at one time ;
teemed inevitable, but it was averted
after much parliamentary manoeuvring
by ref?rence of the petition to the For
c'gn Relations Committee.
I'etHimi Sent by Women.
Senator Kenyon, Iowa, Republican,
presented the petition, which had been
sent to the Senate by the organization |
of American Women for Strict Neutral-?
ity.
The petition expressed "earnest pro-;
test for humanitarian reasons against!
the exportation from this country ofj
'the thing? which kill' for the use ofj
the nations engaged in the pr?tent BS -
flict," anm added:
"Germany did not permit her citizen?
to sell trms or munitions of war to
Spain during our war wi'h that na?
tion."
Senator Kenyon characterized the
gele of niunitioni abroad as a "cold?
blooded, money making proposition,"
and denounced the policy of praying ?
for p<*ace on Sundays and selling |
weapon? ui war on week daya as rank.
hypocrisy.
"The rigners of these petitions are
not pro-llritish, not pro-German, but I
they are pro-American, pro-humanity,
pro-Christianity," he said. "The tre?
mendous shipment of things to kill
j-eople with i? not prompted bv hu?
manity."
Neutrality Breach Suggested.
An embargo was vigorously urged also
by Senators Hitchcock, Clapp, Works,
Ashurst, Lane, Martine and La Fol?
lette. Other Senators who spoko in
favor* of rn embargo were Clarke, of
Arkansas; Clark, of Wyoming; Smoot
and Townsend.
?Senator Stone, chairman of the For?
eign Relttions Committee. before
which the embargo resolutions are
pending, said he had opinions on the
nurits of the issue, but thought this
was not the time to discus:? them.
Senator Robinson was the only Sena?
tor who expressed himself os actually
opposed to an embargo, insisting that
it might return to plague the United
Stat?'s in time of conflict with other
nations.
Not Neutral, Says Townsend.
"It is an open secret that we have
not been exactly neutral,*1 aaid Senator
Townsend "We are regarded by many
European countries now as being one
of the Allie.? OS a result of our con?
tinued shipment of arms."
Senator Works, Republican, and au?
thor of another embargo resolution,
urged the embargo "in the interest of
the I'nited States." "Most of the com?
plications that have grown up between
u:< Bad foreign poweis have resulted
from this trtde In munitions," suld he.
"If we hi:d not b?en engtagtfd in this
nefarious business the people on the
Luaitaaia \?ould not have lost their
live?."
HAIL PROTEST
WARNSBRITAl
Seizures Arousing
Strong; Feeling Her
Says Lansing.
ACT PROMPTLY,
GREY IS TOL
Vexatiously Inquisitori
Note Calls Opening ol
Consular Post.
[Fr.im 111- Trllvin.? ll'ir'iiii "l
Washington, Jan. 27. Describing
detention and censorship of Ameri<
mails as "vexatiously inquisitorial" ;
calling attention to the "strong feel
aroused in this country," ?Secret;
Lansing*! note of protest to Great Hi
am, made public to-day, strikes a n
chord in the diplomatic corresponde!
?H* the war. For the first time Or
flritain is appended to on the grou
that her operations in contravention
r.eutral rights are subversive of I
(?n interests in that they influer
public opinion in neutral countr
against the Allies.
The note reveals that diplomatic a
consular pouches have been detain?
that valuable letters have been lost a
that foreign banks are refusing to ca
American drafts because they have
insurances that drafts are secure
the mails.
??reat Britain's attention is called
the fact that such operations are "wit
out compensating military advantag?
the inference beinj? that they would
less objectionable if they served a re
p-irpose in assisting Great I?rita
r.gair.st Germany.
Ambassador Page is instructed
"lay this matter immediately befo
the Pri'ish govei .nient in a formal ai
vigorous protest and press for a di
continuance of these unwarranted i
tcrferences with inviolable mails." 1
is also directed to "impress upon S
Fdward Grey the necessity for prom]
action in this matter."
Grey Consult?! French.
Sir Edward Grey, in a note mad
public by the State Department to-da;
states that the American note raise
important questions of principle whic
cannot be decided without referrin
'hem to the Allied governments, pai
t cularly the Frenen. The Foreig
Minister expressed the hope that
reply would be forwarded soon.
The State Department contends tha
mails on the neutral ships are inwol
able on the high seas, except parce
mail, which is subject to the ordin?r;
laws of contraband. In the case of ves
sels which merely touch at Britisl
ports, the contention is that sealei
i.'ails never properly come into the CUS
tody of the British postal service anc
ere consequently not subject to censor?
ship. It is admitted privately, how.
? ver, that in the case o( ships which
touch at Hritish ports voluntarily this
1 osition i.- debatable.
Where vessels go into Hritish port?
because of the regulations requiring all
merchant shipping to report for ex?
amination bet?re passing the British
patrol, the St.v.e Department holds that
no territorial jurisdiction can be ac?
quired in that way and that the mails
en such ships are inviolable.
Very few of the neutral steamers in
question, it is stated, have put into
British porta voluntarily. The Hritish
i ..vetnment's attention l? called to the
? '? of October 2\ on interference with
commerce, in which this government
held that ships must be searched for
contraband on the high seas and that
to take them into port for such a pur
5 ose was an unwarrantable extension
i f the bellig-irent right of visit and
search. It is held that the same prin
. .pie appliaa to mail steamers in the
I resent controversy.
Names Many Instances.
"Department advised that Hritish
customs authorities removed from Dan
;.-!. -/.tamer ??scar II ISA bags parcel
mail en route from United States to
Norway, Sweden and Denmark; that
British port authorities have removed
fiom Swedish steamer Stockholm 58
bi.gs parcel mail on route Gothenburg,
Sweden, to Neu York; that ?.OO0 pack- '.
&'?-* of merchandise, American prop
C<?n?lnn?.i1 on (Mga T, ml um? 1
"You Shall Fight!"
Can the King compel? The Englishman's opinion
of conscription is cleverly caught by the camera and
registered for you in
The Graphic Section
of next Sunday's Tribune. It is one of a company of
absorbing features, each of them worth a word to your
newsde.tler to-day.
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THE PRESIDENT AND .MRS. WILSON.
Leaving the Waldorf between speeches for a ride in Central Park.
WILSON'S HINT OF APPROACHING CRISIS
TAKEN AS WARNING TO VON BERNSTORFF
I r a T - frB . ?' Il'irrau.]
Washington, Jan. 27.?The news from New York to-night
that President Wilson had emphasized in his address that he
could not tell "what the international relations of the country
would be to-morrow" was taken here as a direct warning to
Ambassador von Bernstorff. State Department officials to-day
let it be known that the German envoy had been told this wa.
the last chance his country would have to give satisfaction on
the Lusitania issue. The two items of news were read together.
The announcement from the State Department was sim?
ply that von Bernstorff had been informed that President Wil?
son and Secretary Lansing would not receive any more tenta?
tive proposals from the Kaiser. Officials refuse to define the
administration's attitude more exactly or to say what will be
done if Germany evades again. Confidence is expressed, how?
ever, that Germany will accede to the American demands.
This hope is based on the belief that Ambassador von Bern?
storff already has power to satisfy this government, but wishes
to choose a time more opportune for political effect.
In German quarters the same confidence is voiced, but it
is said that the issue is entirely up to Berlin and that Ambas?
sador von Bernstorff has reached the limit of his powers. A
statement of SecretaryLansing's position has been telegraphed
to Berlin, with the recommendation that the demands be ac?
ceded to promptly.
WILSON'S CAREER
DEPENDS ON TOUR
Political Life.Not Defence,
the Issue, Critics4 Analysis
of National Trip.
Warning of imminent danger, ap?
peals to patriotism, pleas for non-par?
tisanship, defence of preparedness as
something different from militarism,
and a frank admission of his own con?
version to the cause since the last ses?
sion of Congress these were the weap?
ons which President Wilson chose last
night to open the crucial battle of his
political career.
The address was made before a sym?
pathetic audience, composed of men of
high intelligence and appreciation of
foreign affairs. It was tipped with wit,
keen logic and polished rnetoric; it was
greeted with liberal applause. Yet,
HBSa he had taken his seat, and the
half minute's cheTing was over, one
could not but feel that 'he homage had
been paid to the 1'resulent; not to the
leader. There was no great enthusiasm,
no apparent solidifying of support, and
no evidence that any man had been
eaavertad from whatavar views ?vj had
Leid when Uta ftesl?tT.. br??an to
Bf? sa a.
Far more ?"?arching t?-hts await Mr.
Wilson in the speeches he will deliver
in the next week, politicians believe
When he starts to-night from Wash?
ington for his six days of speechmak
ing the most vigorous he hai ever un?
dertaken h<- goes almost at once into
the enemies' country. He will be in
the Middle West, where the farmer
vote, the pacifist sentiment, the Ltryitn
following and th? hyphenated alleg?
iance are strong.
Future Depends on Crusade.
On the light which he began here
the wiseacres believe his whole politi?
cal future depends. Th.-y see in it his
..?st chance to redeem an administra?
tion which has bo.-n BUdsr increasing
rire ever since Raaaavalt a year ago
began to raise the cry that the country
must arm to meet the new condition?
?':?" ?orld war had brought. And they
' ??>, that it must be by Republican
und not Democratic vot.s in ( ongreis
( ??iiiiiiur.l on |,!4?<- 3, ?nliirnn S
PERSIA READY TO JOIN
ALLIES, ATHENS HEARS
Reliable Reports Back Rumor,
Says London Paper.
( Br Cabla ?o Th- Tribune. ]
London, Jan. 27. The Athens corre?
spondent of "The Daily Mail" says: "It
is freely stated here in reliable circles
that I'ersia is about to join the Allied
cause."
BRITAIN ADDS TO LIST
OF CONTRABAND GOODS
Absolute Ban Put on Automobile
Accessories.
London, Jan. 2H. Notice has been
given that a number of articles have
been added to the lists of absolute and
conditional contraband. t'ork, bones,
lead, soap, vegetable fibres, acetones,
phosphorus and its compounds and all
kinds of motor accessories are now ab?
solute contraband.
Among the additions to the list of
conditional contraband are sausage
skins.
WE MUST PRAY TO WIN,
SAYS ADMIRAL BEATTY
Religious Revival Britain's Cry?
ing Need. Officer Says.
Liverpool, Jan. 28 Vina Admiral
Sir David B latt**, commander of the
lirst British battle-cruiser squadron,
has made a stirring appeal for a great
r-li"?".!? revlv?! ?- ??>;?; I ??id. [n ?4 ?a??.
ter read at the annual convention of
the Society for the Propagation o;'
Christian Knowleiiire, he writes:
"Surely, Almighty God does not in?
tend this war to be just a hideous
fracas or a blood-drunken orgy. Ther
must be a purpose in it; improvement
mu^t come out of it.
"In what direction? France has al?
ready shown us the way, and has risen
out of her ruined cities with a revival
of religion that II wonderful. Russin
has been welded into a whole, and re?
ligion plays a grtat part. Kngland still
remains to be taken out of the stupor
of self-satisfaction and complacency
1 into which her flourishing condition
has steeped her. I'ntrl ?she can be
stirred out of this condition, until a
religious revival takes place, ju.-t s
long will the war continue.
"When she can look on the futur
with humbler eyes and a prayer on
her lips, then we can begin to count
the days toward the end. Your s<c ??? .
I is helping to this end. and so II help
I ing to bring the war to a successful
end."
AMERICA PUTS
SOME THINGS
ABOVE PEACE
Will Fight for Honor
of Country if
Threatened.
POSSIBLE HOSTILE
ACTION FE.ARED
Won't Seek War, but
Won't Try to Avoid It
if Necessity Calls.
President Wilson lagt nicht ex?
pressed his first graft doubts as to
possible foreign complications?com?
plications that he intimated might
come any day. Aloof with this
statement came assertions that
Americans wore ready to fight for
their ideals.
These new views on the part <f
the President ram" in a discussion
of governmental affairs at the an?
nual dinner of the Railway Business
association at the "??'aldorf-AstorU.
So earnest did the President be?
come that he forgot his original
manuscript, departed from his first
plans of less definite discussion, and
repeatedly referred to the possibility
of militant action in defence of the
nation's honor.
? "I cannot tell you what the inter?
national relations of this country
will be to-morrow; and I use the
word literally," ?aid the President.
"And 1 would not dare keep silent
and let the country suppose that to?
morrow was certain to be a3 bright
as to-day. America will never bo
the aggressor; America will always
seek to th?* last p-->int nt wh'ch her
honor is involved to avoid the things
which disturb the peace of the
world. But a-Vmerica does not
control the rimmtMMII ai the
world, and we must be sure that we
are faithful servants of those things
which we love, and are ready to de?
fend them against every contingency
that may affect or impair them."
"There are some things Amcr
I ?cans want more than peace. We
? won't seek war, but we won't try t*
avoid it if it becomes a necessity.
I would rather surrender territory
than those idea's which an? the staff
of life to the American soul.
I The President*! speech in full at ths
Railway Business Association dinner
was as folio .v? :
"The question, it se-ms to m?, w+iieh
most demands claruication just now is
the question to which your t-.a.-tmaster
has referred the question of prepara?
tion for national defence; becaaat, lia?
gularly enough, it has been deeply
clouded by paaaiOH and rrejuliee. It
is very singular that a question tha
elements of which are so .simple and io
obviou? should hav- o.-ei. m l?clouded
by the discussion of men of high mo?
tive, men of purpose as handsome a?
any of us may claim, and yet apparent?
ly incapable of divesting th.mselveg of
that sort of provincialism which con?
sists in thinking the contents of their
own mind to be the contents of tha
mind of th- world. Kor, g> ntlemen,
while America is a very great nation,
while America contain? all the element?
of fine force and accomplishment,
America does not constitu't? the major
part of the world.
"We live in a world which we did
not make, which we cannot aJter, which
cannot think into a different condition
from that which actually exist?. It
would be a hopeless piece of provin?
cialism to suppose tr.at because ?I
think differently from the rest of tha
world we are at liberty to assume that
the rest of the world will permit ua to
enjoy thet though' without duturb
ar.ee.
"It is a ivrpriaiaa; eircanataace al.s
?hat men should allow partiaaR feeling
or personal ?ambition to creep into tha
discussion of this fiiridamcn'.il thing.
How can Americans differ about tha
safety of America ?
"I, for my part, am ambitious that
America should do a (mate r ,mA mora
difficult thing than the great nationi
on the other side of the water hav?
done. In all the belligerent countriel
men, without distinction nt party, ha?/?
drawn together to accomplish a suc?
cessful prosecution of the war. Is it
not a more difficult and a more desira?
ble thing that all Americans should put
aartiaaa prapeaaaealae aalde and draw
?.(.?ether for the MCCeeafal prosecu?
tion of peace" I c.\et that distinction
for America, and I ktlieve thai Amer?
ica is going to enjoy that distinction.
"Only the other day the leader of
the Republican minority in the Housa
of ReOr-s.-r.-aVves !. .vired .1 speech
that showed that h? >? .- ; > .. !;. ai. I I
take it for fiaataj thai UM ner. ba
hind him w.re ready ?.,. "argel party
lues m order that all ttlen may aal
? with a common mind at?.d impulse for
the service of the Country. And I want,
Iupon this tirst public occa?: m, to pay
my tribute of respect and obligation to
hint.
"I find it very hard indeed to ap