davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-07-29
My Destruction Of American
" Life Can Bring on War

Then came the fight for armed ships
ard for military training" as outlined in
these dispatches:
Washington, Feb. 20, 1917.-At a meeting
of the Cabinet this afternoon the President
indicated his firm purpose to go to the ex-
treme of patience. He will insist on the long
est possible delay on the matter of arming
ships, and when he again goes before Con-
gress he will make plain that only as last
recourse, in the face of actual destruction of
American life and property, will this country
go to war
Washington, Feb. 81, 1917.-President Will
son and Secretary Baker, it is officially init
mated will go on record in favor of the prn-
ciple of universal military training.
Washington, Feb &c, 1917.-In his message
to Congress to-day President Wilson said:
"The overt act which have ventured to
hope the German commanders would in fact
avoid has not occurred.
81 am not now proposing or contemplating
war or any steps that need lead TO it. No
course of my choosing or of theirs will lead
to war War can come only by the wilful
acts and aggressions of others"
! Washington, Feb. 2s, 1917.-The pacifst
propaganda in Washington reached climax
to-day with the arrival Of William Jennings
Bryan and the reception by President Wilson
of two delegations Of pacifsts. The Presi-
( dent spent more than two. hours with the
/ propagandists, after which no statement
could be obtained from either the agitatorH
or the White House further than that the
President had assured them he would dc
everything possible to avoid war honorably.
Washington, March 4, 19l7.-President Will
son tonight informed the country in state
ment that he is without power to arm mer-
chant ships. In this statement he scored "the
wilful Senator's"
"The Senate of the United States is the
only legislative body in the world which can
not act when its majority is ready for &C.
ton A little group of wilful men, repre-
senting no opinion but their own, have rem
dered the great government Of the United
! States helpless and contemplate"
War now seemed imminent. President
Wilson is at once the champion of EARNED
neutrality" and of peace. At Washington
March 5, 1917, following his second oath
of Office, he said, in part:
1--WE have been deeply wronged upon the
seas, but we have not wished to wrong or
injure in return. We stand firm ir armed
neutrality, since it seems that in no other
way can we demonstrate what it is we insist
upon and cannot forego. We may even be
drawn on, by circumstances, not by our own
purpose or desire, to a more active assertion
! of our rights as we see them and a more
immediate association with the great strug-
/ gle itself"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-07-29
gle itself.
THE World Must Be Made
i Safe for Democracy

Finally here is war and here is Wilson,
the warrior. On April 2, 1917, President
Wilson, addressing both branches of the
SiXty-ffth Congress, assembled in the
House of Representatives, called for war
against Germany. From the memorable
document these pregnant paragraphs are
taken:
"The present German warfare against com
merce is warfare against mankind. 1t is
war against all nations. American ships
have been sunk, American lives taken, in
ways which it has stirred US very deeply to
learn of, but the ships and people of other
neutral and friendly nations have been sunk
and overwhelmed in the waters in the same
way.
II thought that it would suffice to assert
our neutral rights with arms, our right to
use the seas against unlawful interference,
our right to keep our people safe against
unlawful violence. But armed neutrality, it
now appears, is mpractcable.
with profound sense of the solemn and
even tragical character of the step am TAX
ing, and of the grave responsibilities which
it involves, but in unhesitating obedience to
what deem my constitutional duty, ad-
wise that the Congress declare the recent
course of the imperial German government
to be in fact nothing less than war against
the government and people of the United
States; that it formally accept the status of
belligerent which has thus been thrust
upon it.
Neutrality is no longer feasible or desira-
bic where the peace of the world is involved
and the freedom of it's people, and the mem
ace TO that peace and freedom lies in the
existence of autocratic governments, backed
by organized force which is controlled
wholly by their will, not by the will Of their
people. We have seen the last neutrality in
such circumstances.
1--WE have no quarrel with the German peo-
pie. We have no feeling toward them but
one of sympathy and friendship.
"A steadfast concert for peace can never be
maintained except by partnership Of demo-
cratic nations. No autocrstic government
could be trusted to keep faith within it or
observe its covenants.
THE Russian people have been added in
Gil IHeH HdI'e majesty anu HlShl 10 the
forces that are fighting for freedom in the
world, for justice and for peace. Here is a
fit partner for a league of honor.
"The world must be made safe for democ-
racy. It's peace must be planted upon the
trusted foundations of political liberty.
1--WE enter this war only where we are
clearly forced into it because there are no
other means of defending our rights. We
are, let me say again, the sincere friends of
the German people"
-le NJ G. l. IL
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-07-29

What are you going to do with your
power? Are you going to translate it into
force or are you going to translate it into
peace and the salvation Of society?
Does it not interest you that America has
run before the rest of the world in making
trial of this great human experiment, and is
it not the sign and dawn of new age that
the one thing upon which the world is now
about to fall back is the moral judgment Of
mankind"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-07-29
II erman Crisis Reached, Wilson
VI Appeals to the Neutrals

On February 1, 1916, Germany resumed
her ruthless warfare and laid out zone
of submarine operations. The dismissal of
Ambassador Bernstorff and the recall Of
Ambassador Gerard followed. Many per-
sons still looked to the President for peace.
Nor did he deny them hope. His play for
neutral support again revealed his vision
of League of Nations and compact for
peace. On February his directions to our
diplomats abroad contained these phrases:
"You will Immediately notify the govern
ment to which you are accredited that the
United States. because of the German gov
ernment's recent announcement of its inten-
ton to renew unrestricted submarine war
fare, has no choice but to follow the course
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-07-29
THE Famous Too Proud
! To Fight" Utterance

1t was in Philadelphia, on May 10, 1915,
that he made his famous "too proud to
fight" declaration. This dispatch tells the
story three days after the sinking of the
Lusitania:
Philadelphia, May 10, 1915.-"Not because
it will not fight, but because peace is the
elevating influence of the world. There is
such a thing as a man being too proud to
fight; there is such thing as nation be.
ing so right that it does not need to con-
vince others by force that it is right" said
President Wilson to-day, speaking before H.
900 persons in Convention Hail.
The attacks upon neutral commerce and
upon unarmed ships brought forth the
"strict accountability" utterance and
marked a changing phase in the Executive
mind The mass opinion of the nation
also shifted toward preparedness, and
in part toward war. The Presidents
note TO Germany on the Lustania sinking,
delivered on May 10, 1915, bore these
phrases:.
"This government has already taken occa-
sion to inform the imperial German govern
ment that it cannot admit the adoption of
such measures or such warning of danger
to operate as in any degree an abbreviation
Of the rights of American shipmasters or
American citizens bound on lawful errands
as passengers on merchant ships of belliger-
ent nations and that it must hold the i'm
perial government to a strict accountability
for any infringement of those rights, inten-
tional or accidental"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-07-29
NJ Wilson'S Evolution from Pac1f1St to WarrlC

Washington, April 8, 1917-Presiden, ",
son to-day began his campaign to driy, -.
pacifists. little army men and opponent, :,
universal service into line behind his ,,,'
for CONSUMPTION in the present war ~
called Chairman Dent of the House NlH,..
Affairs Committee, protege Of ex-Chairr,.
Hay, to the White House, and insisted On -.
passage of the Administration army bill. II.
President warned Mr.. Dent Of the ,s,i,..
consequences which would attend the refine,
of the House to grant the President a.
war measure.
Washington, April 10, l9l7.-President VII
son to-day sent letter to Represent.,iv,
Helvering, of Kansas, strongly supporting q.
lective CONSUMPTION. II read in part:
"The principle OF the selective draft !.
short, has at its heart this idea: that th.,.
is a universal obligation to serve The Mn
if adopted, will do more, | believe. than An,
other single instrumentslity to create ii. j..
preston Of universal service in the army A.,
out of it, and, If properly administered will
be a great source of stimulation
His address before the Red Cross a,
Washington on March II, 1917, was re.
garded as being too gentle. Later he took
occasion to correct the impression it gave
He said in part:
81 believe that the American people Dor.
haps hardly yet realize the sacrifices and SUI.
ferngs that are before them. say Ii,
heart of the country is in this war because
it would not have gone into it II its hear
had not been prepared for it. We have gon.
in with no special grievance Of our own. Be-.
cause we have always said that we wer. IA,
friends and servants of mankind"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-07-29
Above-The President delivering
his great war address before a joint
session Of Congress.
In circle-President Wilson.

1t was on November 8, 1915, that Presi-
dent Wilson quoted Ezekiel" in support
of his new attitude on preparedness. In
letter to Seth Low he said:
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-07-29
\ 7 egotiations Over the Lusitania
| ' Affair Creep Toward a Climax

The third Lusitania note, on July %,
1915, sharply challenged Germany's meth
DDS and yet credited Germany with having
the same great object, freedom Of the seas,
in these phrases:
"Tf belligerent cannot retaliate against
an enemy without injuring the lives of neu-
trails, as well as their property, humanity, as
we'll as justice and due regard for the dig
nifty of neutral powers, should dictate that
the practice be discontinued. II persisted in,
IL would in such circumstances constitute an
objectionable offence against the sovereignty
Of the neutral nation affected.
"The government of the United States and
the imperial German government are con-
tending for the same great object, have long
stood together in urging the very principles
upon which the government of the United
States will continue to contend, for that free
dom, from whatever quarter violated, without
compromise and at any cost"
The peace medal of the American School
Peace League was awarded TO the Presi-
dent on August "a, 1915. On September .
he was indirectly quoted as saying that he
had "a single track mind"
THE First Whisper of War
i In Preparedness"
The first preparedness note was struck
on May 5, 1915, following the Roosevelt
Gardner attacks. In his address before
the Manhattan Club, in New York, Presi
dent Wilson said:
1--WE feel justified in preparing ourselves
to vindicate our right to independent and -
molested action by making the force that is
in US ready for assertion. We do want TO
feel there is a great body of citizens who
have received at least the most rudimentary
and necessary forms Of military training;
that they will be ready to form themselves
into a fighting force at the call of the nation,
and that the nation has the munitions and
supplies with which to equip them without
delay should it be necessary to call them into
action. For the rest, it calls for the training
within the next three years of a force of
100000 citizen soldiers, to be raised in an
nual contingents Of $4,000"
We come upon transitional evidences in
Mr.. Wilson's mind in this item:
Washington. Nov. 5, 19l5.--william J.
Bryan's long expected rupture with Presi-
dent Wilson on the national defence issue
came to-day. In n formal statement Mr..
Bryan declared that the Presidents policy
was "a departure from our traditions, re-
versal Of our national policy, a menace to
our peace and safety and a challenge to the
spirit Of Christianity, which teaches us TO
influence others by example rather than
force
The President in his speech at the an
rual dinner Of the Railway Business Asso-
citation, at the Waldorf-Astoyia, January
81, 1916, said:
There are some things Americans want
more than peace. We won't seek war, but we
won't try TO avoid it If it becomes a neces-
sits."
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-07-29

laid down in its note of April Is. 1915 the
Sussex note !. 1t has, therefore, recalled the
American Ambassador to Berlin and has de-
livered passports to the German Ambassador
to the United States
"The course taken is, in the Presidents
view. entirely in conformity with the princl-
Piles he enunciated in his address TO the SEN
ate on January r. The address proposing
a World League for Peace He believes e
will make for the peace of the world if other
neutral powers can find it possible to take
similar action"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-07-29
THE Next Step Is the Decision
l To Adopt Consumption

After first trying the expedient Of call
ing for volunteers the President as a con-
scriptionist now stands revealed for the
first time in these two dispatches:
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-07-29
MIR. Wilson Goes Out to
lNl Arouse the Nation

In Cleveland on January 20, 1916, he
said:
81 should feel that was guilty of an IN
pardonable omission IL did not go out and
tell my fellow countrymen that new circum-
stances have arisen which make it absolutely
necessary that this country prepare herself,
not for war, not for anything that smacks in
the least Of aggression, but for adequate ma
tional defence"
At Kansas City on February 8, 1916
he told the Westerners that he favored
IAN impregnable navy"
At Des Moines, Iowa, where he encoun-
tered farmers, he said on February i:
There are actually men in America who
are preaching war There are men who want
the United States to have entanglng alli-
ances abroad"
He did not, he said, think these war agi-
tators represented the voice of America.
The background at this period showed
fight at Washington over the resolution
"to warn Americans off belligerent ships"
as indicated by this dispatch;
Washington, March 7, 1916.-By a vote Of
276 to 143 the House of Representatives to-
day killed the McLemore resolution warning
Americans off armed belligerent ships.
THE President Begins Now to
i Assume a Militant Attitude
Rid of Bryan and beset with demands
for preparedness on one side, by demands
for war on another and by German aggres-
sion at sea on a third, the President be-
gan to show a militant attitude, as indi-
Gated by this note to Berlin on April 10,
1916:
"Unless the imperial government should
now Immediately declare and effect an aban-
donment of its present methods of submarine
warfare against passenger and freight-carry-
ing vessels. the government of the United
States can have no choice but to sever diplo-
matte relations with the German Empire al
together This action the government of the
United States contemplates with the great
est reluctance, but feels constrained to take
in behalf Of humanity and the rights OF neu-
trail nations"
But he chung to the vision of peace again
in his speech at Charlotte, N. C., May 20,
4el6, when he said:
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-07-29

young men TO spend the best years Of their
lives making soldiers Of themselves
On December 90, President Wilson OPP
posed the belligerents in placing food upon
the conditional contraband list
Europe Will Say: You Kept Your
L Heads When We Lost Our"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-07-29
Navy Yard Activities

wv re ARE hearing a good deal about
wv the production Of merchant
tonnage to feed the submarine,
The Sentinel=record., 1917-03-21

FOR SALE Three tracts Of land on
 Malvern road, between city limits and Country Club. one tract 90 acres one 10, and one 9 acres; sas line crosses 10 acres. Inquire Mls. M J Mooney. Route
 No. 2-17-1
The Sentinel=record., 1917-03-21
ADMINisrRATRlx NOTICE.

Notice is hereby given that the under siered administratrix of the estate ot Nathan Thomas deceased. will apply 10 tine Probate Court of Garland county, Arkansas. on the twelfth day of March l911. or as soon thereafter as she can be heard for an order authorizing and directing the sale of certain real estate belonging to said estate. lying and be- ing situated in Montgomery county Arkansas.
 West one-half of the northeast eighty acres, part Of the southwest of the north west tWcntN-foW acres, part of the west ouc-h3if of the southwest eighty acres northeast of tho southwest forty acres All in section thirty--iV township one range t~enty-two west Montgomery county Arkansas.
 The above described lands will be sold for the purpose of paving the debts pro 0attd and allowed against the estate of Nathan Thomas, deceased, and the sur plus, fl any, be paid tO the legal and lawful hcIrs Of said estate.
 Given under mV hnd at Hot Springs. Arkansas, this seventeenth day of Feb Iuary. l917
 JOHN ELLA THOMAS. AdministratriN of the estate Ot Nathan
 Thomas. Deceased
 Thos. J. GadsOn, attorney for admin istratriN.
The Sentinel=record., 1917-03-21
DAILY GRAIN LETTER.

'hicaeo. March 20 The trade for the daV was less active. with the incentive Tor an aggressive move in either ditrc- uon lacking There was a rather liberal amount of realizing in evidence from me Co time, which tended to enCourago
 nc bear contingent Co press their adVan-
 age. Buying power was not of a very itUaCtVe character. but nevertheless the market showed q good tone and reacted Well from the depressionS. Political news was rather unsettlmg-.the president about to call his cabinet into conference ana predictlons free that hnstiitieS will practically be declared on Gprmapv. From a cash standpoint the news wa9 exceptionally strong. i5 3-4 cents over Kansas City May was paid in that mar kct for turkey wheat new hieh pre- mum on the crop. Omaha messages claimed seaboard bidding 20 cents over Chicago May for hard winter whenr at 1moha. and also demand from mills. No' red wheat at Baltimore which permts ot some garlic in it. sold at IS cents over Chicago May There was a hotioeahle improvement in the amount of hard wheat changing hands here f0- day. which is thought to be on a better outlook for cars to make shipments ttp TO late hour the Scahoard news burea1 had not confirmed any export takiues
 nd claimed q lack of interest hv leading DuNers. Numerous statistics were given me trade to diEest--a leading Statistfci1u estmated winter wheat crop based on prevailing conditions and allowing for
 huo,OO0 tO 1000 GOO acres being. ah9u- u"ut' Hl ot9,NUV,Utu tO 3SV.O00. .0O0 bushels against f32. .000 100 harvested hast year The same party estima ted March ] sur plus for export and carryover at 667. noooo0, exports from March l tn June 30 last year were 79 000 G00 There may be some further down turn i'm the absence of export buying, but We believe inc op- onrtuuitv lies on the buying side and setback
 Corn; New high levels Were again reached, but not maintained owing 10 large volume of profit taking by local parties who bought at lower prices There was no change in the news or outlook but the feeling that the market Is en- titled to fair sized reaction seems quite general Country offerings as vet show no signs of increasing and the demand IS as urgent as ever with fancy prices being paid bv industries. as well as hv eastern consumers--the volume of husi- ness consummated with the latter how ever is limited by the acute car situa- non, although looseninE un is believed 70 be In prospect Export cIearances for the day were 501 900 bushels Some ir- regularity is likely for the next day or two until realizing pressure has been thoroughly disested. after which the up. ward course should he resumed
 oats Receipts are small and market
The Sentinel=record., 1917-03-21
DAILY STOCK LETTER.

Now York. March 20.-The covering movement continued and snorts retreat ed rapidly there was d rather substan- ldl mquHN for outside account. For A While iu the afternoon. the market was irregular bat strength prevailed at the close. Nothing dctinItr Was ObtuindDlc Wlth respect to the outcome of the cabI- Het mteuuE nor Was any IukunS obtain able as tu the stand which the German cuancc4ot assumed in his remarks 70 Che tcichstag.
 The tenor of the supreme court deei- slou in the AdamSOn law Interpretation son primarily that the same seems to strongly suggest that the country In the future ls not likely Co be tied up in an unexpected manner as result of wage DynU oNer%leS. Be3rlSuucSS prevailed Tor such d long time among the profess sluutl element that the short interest had assumed much larger proportions than generally supposed and cOnseuucut- " the prolonged GOV ering has surprised some of the most ardent bulls
 JloWcY the principal thing it would seem, k 10 bear in mind. is what likely lo be the status of international affairs in Germany and Austria after the recent happenings in Russia. The opinion is expressed that in the event of the Cen- ttd powers elect tO restrict their Subma- ilne Wdrttr that the influence win be adverse on public sentiment in those states, SO that while from a domestic viewpoint, fundamentals aLe sound and security prices still relatively cheap, stlll !t may be well to bear steniy in mind that new set of conditions insofar as ihterndtu' al politics are concerned may be inlectet into the situation when least pNUttftt
The Sentinel=record., 1917-03-21
DAILY COTTON LETTER.

New York. March 2o-The upward ten dencV continued with prices at one tima Sl5o bale above yesterdays finals al- though heavy profit taking iu the after. noon deahngs erased a goodly part ofi the initial advance. The census burcauN report issued at the start. showing giu-I ulne of ll,5j7 900 bales with 3s00o re malnlne of this tO bo guned. was con- suued rather Dullishly n9smuch as 1t in dlc1ted crop Of about 100000 bales smaller than the government forecast in earlv December This in conjunction with the unsatisfactory adViceS gelatfsr to new crop prospects In the eastern and central belt and more rain predicted for the sections mentioned. stimulated the activity Of the bull element and induced a Fairly good outside demand Offerings at the advance except for profit takine account bore no significance and the tWlure of a. greater selling power in tho south tu develop on the recent sharp ad- Vance attests the indifference and ndc- pendence Of southern holders even at the current level Opinion is freely express ed that our entrance into actual hostfH- ties. if same occur, will result in n broad uand for this staple. Spot market in the south continues strong. The dimin- l>hing supply in New York and the hieb srot basis In the south initiating against shipments here seems 10 be of sufficiert
 uiluence nc the moment to discourage operations on the selling side Of the near ny positions. that is the old crop months Factors Oi the moment are suggestive Of further advance in pTire1