Judsonia weekly advance., 1917-11-07
fxs Text Withheld From People of Germany by Kaiser's
 Government.
PASSAGES WERE SUPPRESSED
Report of Wolff Telegraph Bureau, Unofficiai Mouthpiece of Kaiser, Shows Wilson's Address
 Distorted


 The German people never had an op- portunity to read the full text of the address delivered by President Wilson before congress on April 2, 1917, in which the president called upon con gress to declare the existence of the state of war then being waged upon the United States by Germany. In the copies of this address which were per mitted to be published in Germany, many passages were suppressed, ac- cOrding to the committee on public information of the United States gov ernment. The passages suppressed in- clnded those in which the president told why the United States had been forced to enter into the war against Germany ill protection of it's rights and In order to make the world safe for democracy.
 The committee on public information has issued copy of the presidents address, showing the passages which were suppressed by the Wolff Tele- graph bureau, which is under govern ment censorship and has been consist entfy employed by the German govern ment for the promulgation of it's off cfai opinions. The following is an of hciai copy of the presidents address with the passages suppressed by the Wolff Telegraph bureau shown in bold faced type:
 Gentlemen of the Congress.
 have caIlad fbe copnroc, ordinary session because there are se- rleas very serious, choices of policy to De made, and made immediately which It Is neither right nor constitutionally permissible that should assume the re- accessibility of making
 On the 3d of February last officially lato before you the extraordinary an ncsncement of the Imperial German government that on and after the 1st day of February it was it's purpose to put aside all restraints of law or of hu- manfty and use it's submarines to sink every vessel that sought to approach either the ports of Great Britain and IreAand or the western coasts of Europe or any of the ports controlled by the enemies of Germany within the Medi- terranean. That had seemed to be the object of the German submarine war fare earlier in the war, but since April of last year the Imperial government
 
 ders of its undersea craft, in conform ity 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 submarines might seek to destroy, when no resistance was offered or es- cape attempted, and care taken that their crews were given at least fair chance to save their lives in their open boats. The precautions taken were meager and haphazard enough, as was proved In distressing instance after instnnce in the progress of the cruel nnd unmnnIy business, but q certain de- gree of restraint was observed.
 The new policy has swept every re- strfction aside. Vessels of every kind. whatever their flag, their character their cargo, their destination their erFund, have been ruthlessly sent to the bottom without warning and with out thought of help or mercy for those On board the vessels of friendly neu- trafs along with those of belligerents Even hospital ships and ships carrying relief to the sOreIy bereaved and strIcl- en people of Belgium, though the lat ter were provided with safe conduct through the prescribed areas by the German government itself and were distinguished by unmistakable marks of Identity, have been sunk with the same reckless lack of compassion or Of principle
 was for little while unable to believe that such things would fin fact be done by any government that had hitherto subscribed to the humane practices of civilized nations. Inter- national law had It's origin in the nt- tempt to set up some law which would be respected and observed upon the sens, where no nation hnd right of dominion and where lay the free high ways of the world. By painful stage after stage has that law been built up with meager enough results. indeed. after all was accomplished that could be accomplished but always with a clear view. at lenst, of what the heart and conscience of mankind demanded.
 This minimum of right the German government 'has swept aside under the plea of retaliation and necessity and because it had no weapons which it could use at sea except these, which it Is impossible to employ as 1t is em- ploying them. without throwing to the wind all scruples 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 involved. immense and serious as that Is. but only of the wanton and wholesale destruction of the lives of non 0u-combatants, men, women. and chill dren. engaged in pursuits which have always. even in the darkest periods of modern history, been deemed innocent and legitimate. Property can he paid for, the lives of peaceful and innocent people cannot be. The present German submarine warfare against commert is q warfare against mankind.
 IL is . war against all nations. Amer. isan ships have been sunk. American Mves taken, in ways which 1t has stirred us very deeply to learn of, but the shlps mad people of other neutral