Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1915-08-06
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ment that refutes the London report n
positive language. Senate smith
points out in the same connection that
England refused to permit Russia 10
place il on the ~contraband list during
the war with Japan, n shows that
England has changed her viewpoint
since that time. The senator quotes
the language then applied by Great
Britain to Russia, that the efort 10
interfere with cotton shipments is a
most u~nwarranted interference with a
branch Of innocent commerce. senator
Smith also vigorously ~-denounces as
false the statement going the rounds
of the press to the effect that the
United States during the Civil war
blockaded a neutral port. Senator
Smith declares that the United states
will violate no precedent II 1t compeis
Great Britain to cease interfering with
innocent commerce destined for neu-
trail ports. He say it was Sir coward
Grey who attacked the Russian oroer
in the Russian Japanese war, n VINO
demanded in parliament that cotton De
left by Russia on the free list. Great
Britain declined to yield to the action
of Russia and insisted upon the rignt
of British citizens to ship cotton TO
:Japan. $50 far as ! a learn says
the senator Russia did not enforce
the order"
The special attention of the Federal
reserve banks to marketing the cotton
crop is called by a letter OF the tederai
reserve board. The letter outlines pre-
liminary plans to make available the
reserve system in the 1ali
movement Of cotton and other crops.
ct Is clearly to the ommon interest
that credit based upon this crop De
protected as far as possible from
danger Of generalization" says the
letter as to the cotton crop. NO
staple commodity is subject to great
er variations in prices, the violent
fluctuations offering an inviting heid
to the speculator. The board suggests
that reserve banks communicate with
members and others interested
point out that cotton producers should
begin at once arranging for proper
storage and insurance as rapidly as
ginned. Reserve banks should point
out to members that they are prepared
to re-discount notes OF farmers ana
merchants secured by proper ware
house receipts for cotton, accompanied
by evidence Of issuance. Notes should
be the customary collateral for mem
bers should be ready to state the grade
and market value Of cotton when they
offer the notes for re-discount. The
amount to be advanced will be left
primarily to the judgment OF the
members bank. The board suggests
that reserve banks call the attention
of members to the d~eSirability Of re-
serving storage space.
In an editorial headed Wake Up,
Politicians!" the London Daily Mail
Of last Wednesday morning reiterates
it's demand for compulsory military
service and for the complete stoppage
Of cotton shipments to Germany. At
the outset the editorial refers to the
anniversary celebrations Of Wednes-
day which are to assert the nations
infieXible determination to continue to
a victorious end the struggle for hu-
man freedom. 1t continues: 1T would
be well IL each meeting were to send
a heartening message to the ministers
of the collation. cabinet reminding them
what the nation expects Of them at this
hour of unparalleled danger; If they
would also by resolution favor COM
pulsory military service and the stop
page Of cotton shipments with greater
vigor. If this country is to conquer"
the editorial goes on. the leaders
must show a far higher degree of en-
ergy than they have yet displayed. The
nation Is ready. The first reform need
ed, by almost universal consent, is the
introduction Of compulsory service.
The right to strike has hitherto been
preserved at a cost Of profigate ex-
penditure and with gross u~nfairness
between man and man. The utter in
dustrial confusion Of voluntarism can
no longer give US the men we shall
need Or provide a constant flow Of re-
cruits to maintain new armies to their
full strength. The plain truth is that
so long a. we cling to voluntary SER
vice we are fighting with only half
our might. AS for the stoppage Of cot
tor shipments to Germany the facts
are now notorious that after twelve
months OF war n a change Of gov
eminent we have not yet proclaimed
the chief ingredient Of the German
Austrian powers c~ontraband. We have
proclaimed wool, oil. machine tools,
large scale maps and the like contra
band, but not this stuff with which
Germany kills u men,
London, August 4: The comment
Of the London afternoon papers on the
correspondence between Ambassador
Page and Foreign Secretary Sir Ed
ward Grey admits generally that
America and other neutralS have a
grievance but they insist, to use the
words Of the Westminster Gazette,
that Great Britain has been compel
ed to modify some of the accepted rules
because Germany has deliberately
broken these rules" The Gazette con-
tinues: For the moment we would
do well to recognize that on a strict
Interpretation Of international law neu-
trails have a grievance upon which
they are entitled to insist but that
this grievance arises in the main from
the peculiar use Germany has chosen
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upon merchantmen, both enemy n
neutral" This same newspaper notes
that silence of the American press on
the sinking Of the British steamer
Iberian, then it says: 1.-THE German
answer to the American note has been
most direct. 1t has the practical form
of killing without warning Of Ameri-
can seamen. Apparently If the Ameri-
can press has its way no notice is to
be taken Of this fact. This impress
sion of the real feeling Of the United
States in this matter will be no more
lost upon Germany than Upon this
country" The Evening Standard
says: THE notes exchanged show
that the differences between the Unit
ed States and Great Britain. although
serious, are by no means irreconcil-
able" 1t points out that Sir Edward
Grey unreservedly accepts the Ameri-
can main contention that international
law must prevail over national laws.
1t argues that the orders in council
make national law conform fully to
international requirements, but if the
United States does not accept this
view, then Sir Edward Grey comedies
that Great Britain shall make no OBJ
lection to an appeal to al international
tribunal. This latter is a very strong
point. the Evening Standard points
out, in so much as the United States
has elected to stand on international
principle.
- What is certain to have a far
reaching and almost immediate effect
on the European war has happened.
Warsaw has fallen and the far-flung
lines of the AuStro-German forces
are pressing close upon the Russians,
who are r%etreating to positions pre-
pared for them and offering what
military critics regard as greater ad-
vantages for a successful defense. The
Bavarian troops led by Prince Leopald
were first to enter the capital, but not
without fierce resistance by the Rus
SLAMS, who retired eastward in the di-