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Arizona republican., 1917-03-10

Coyotes will motor to Tempe today to meet the Tempe Normal in the anaual baIi game. fne high school lads have been shifted left and right by the new coach. Morgan. He predicts victory for the lads. lie was always ot the opinion Phoenix had enough material to make several teams. The right coaching is pu ting the team on q winning basis.
 The team is composed of heavy hit ters ard the infield is one of the fastest in the state Heflin, the boy wonder, is in his old form and will do some pitching in tCday's game.
 The school is confident of victory to- day as the team has been working in tip-top shape all week.
 Here's hoping the team wins.
 Horace Mckee has been appointed
Arizona republican., 1917-03-10

He represents the Mitchell Motor com pany and has the establishment of it's
The Tupelo journal., 1917-10-19

30-years' war, and of the middle
ages, all this on the other side Of the
waters and then the German fleets
having been driven from the seas the
German emperor resorted to what is
called ruthless submarine warfare.
Now let us examine and see what
that is, because that is where we
come into it.
1t is a principle of international
law which has been respected for
800 years-by everybody except a
body of pirates who were put down
by that grand old Democrat, Thomas
jefferson, for just that sort of thing
it has been a principle of interna-
tional law that any belligerent war
vessel has a right to visit and search
a neutral or a belligerent merchant
ship to determine whether there be
combatant passengers was a casus
belli, as the lawyers call ia
for war recognized as such in inter
national law.
The Tupelo journal., 1917-10-19
Cermany's Slaughter.

Now, Germany said: II can't do
that, my ships are all gone, | can't
board merchant ships from a subma-
rine. | can't carry the crews in
safely" 1t is a principle of inter-
national law that whever, as was the
case of the Confederacy in the war
between the states, if one of the bel
~ligerents had no port to which they
could carry ships, that they could
destroy the ship provided, provided,
remember it, that they took the nom
c~ombatants, crews and passengers to
a place of safety. Now, Germany
said: "Lcan't do that"
President Wilson replied: Then
if you cannot do this now, it is not
a reason for high sea assassination of
men, women and children. It is a
reason for not using submarines in
warfare upon merchant ships, and
America as a neutral power has as
much right upon the high seas as
The Tupelo journal., 1917-10-19

movement to put bombs upon ships
crossing the sea with slow burning
fuses, so that they would blow up on
the high seas and nobody would know
what happened to them-to use the
word of this ambassador down in the
Argentine Republic, who advised
Germany to sink the Argentine ships
contrary to their plighted word, but
to do it in such a way that there
would be no trace left. How many
ships went that way, we don't know.
In the meanwhile, what else was
going on? Each sinking of a ship on
the high seas without warning and
without visit and search and without
providing for the safety of the nom
Continued on page 8.(
The Tupelo journal., 1917-10-19

Here is the kaiser of Germany, i'm
bued from the time he was a boy
this high with the nation that he rules
by divine right-that is, in accord
ance with God-that he should rule,
and that he is responsible to no
body but God on high, and not to the
people below him.
Here is the idea that a state is a
separate entity not to be held ac-
countable to the same moral laws
which govern intercourse between
individuals. Here is the German
idea that the chief duty of a state is
to expand, to grow, to accelerate it.
self, to spread it's kultur or peculiar
civilization which is about the right
translation of the world kultur, be-
cause contrary to the general under
standing it does not mean culture as
our word culture signifies that is the
highest duty of a state, and that the
state owes no moral obligation as a
private individual does to another
state, so that with cold-bloodedness,
contraband of war, munitions of war,
or other things aboard it, and if the
merchant ships undertake to resist
or flee it can be fought and sunk.
1t is a principle of international
law that this visit and search must
take place, and that even then they
can take from the ship only the con-
traband of war, and if it be an enemy
ship, that is to say, a ship belong
ing to a subject of an enemy, they
can carry the ship to the nearest
port and submit the decision as to
whether the ship itself should be
condemned to prize court.
The Tupelo journal., 1917-10-19
SEN. WILLIAMS SPEECH
Senator John Sharp Williams
Talks to 5000 in Meridian

Senator John Sharp Williams de-
livered his first speech of the series
of FIVE which he has announced to
deliver in the state, at Meridian Tues
day before an audience of 5000 peo-
pie, and received a great ovation.
Mr.. Williams subject was, cause of
the War Abroad and Why We are In
It." Mr.. Williams said in part as
follows:
Il have come here today to talk
to you about the causes of this pres
ent conflict. Perhaps the most i'm
portant case ever tried before the
civilized world as a jury is being tried
now by the peoples of the earth and
by the American people as a part of
that jury This world is now in a
crisis unparalleled since the time of
the breaking up of the Roman EN-
pire, when it looked as if all clvili-
cation, all enlightenment and all law
were about to disappear before the
Goth and Vandal, just as 1T has
looked recently for a little time as if
all civilization and law, the law of ma
tions especially, Were about to dis
appear before the descendants of
those Goths and Vandals, who have
proven you had but to scratch their
skins to bring the blood of their an
cestors to the front. The great case
which is being tried everywhere now
is in Europe, the cause of military
autoracy and absolute government
against democratic institutions, the
cause of the house of Hohenzollern
and Prussianized Germany, the house
of Hapsburg and Germanized Austria
against the free democracies of Bel
GUM and France and Great Britain.
The Tupelo journal., 1917-10-19

you as a belligerent have, because
the high seas belong to all the daugh-
tiers and sons Of men, and not to any
nation, not ven the emperor"
You remember the first time that
came 'up-the Lusitania, a British
merchant ship, packed with women
and children, as well as men-more
than a thousand of them-American
women and children, torpedoing
without warning, sunk in the spell
OF a moment, women and children
went unsung, unknelled, unshriven
to the bottom Of the sea in contra
dictlon to all the laws of nations of
the civilized people as / have just
outlined, and the president Of the
United States and Germany began to
negotiate as have described. Mean
while Germany evaded the issue dip
lomatized, delayed, and while that
was going on, kept up the same war
fare till the Arabic had gone down
with noncombatants and helpless
people on board, some of them
Americans, till several other ships
ha dgone down in the same way, un-
til finally the Sussex was sunk.
Then the president, notwithstand-
ing his fanatical devotion to peace,
finally sent his ultimatum and said
to emperor of all the Germanies:
This thing must stop"
And the kaiser sent word that it
would stop; that it should not be re-
peated any more.
Then he added to it a sort of string
to the effect that it was an equal
luty of the United States to see that
Great Britain did not interfere with
American commerce.
Some of you may remember that
| made a'speech upon the floor of the
Senate in which i said that Dixie
Land and the descendants of the
men who wore the gray would never
stand for the proposition of putting
a bale of merchandise upon the same
footing with human life. (Applause)
And hat these United States would
never so to war with any country
just fer the purpose of saving mer-
chandise and for the purpose Of en-
aiding The citizens to make money
ont Of trade upon the high seas.
(Applause.)
The Tupelo journal., 1917-10-19

have stated in a speech that America
entered this war for commercial rea-
sons and that it was a munition man
ufactureres' war. A SANDER, a cal
jimmy and a lie, fellow citizens.
(Applause.) We not only didn't en-
ter into it for that reason, but we
would not have entered it for that
reason if the depredations upon our
trade had continued another year COR
two years and all the world knew it.
We entered this wal because of
atrocities perpetrated upon our
American citizens, and not only that,
while these negotiations were going
on, Germany fired upon the Ameri-
can flag at the mast head of the Gulf
Light and upon the American flag at
the mast head of the Algonquin.
Congress has never declared war
against Germany. Congress declar-
ed that a state of war existed by the
~unprovoked act Of Germany.
In nine separate cases American
citizens sunk while being just where
they had a right to be-upon the
high seas-two or three times the
American flag fred upon, and that
was not all, for we trace it now
through Won Papen and Boyd un-
til we have got it so close to the am
bassador's skirts that it burns them
the whole organized movement in
the United States. to put bombs in
our factories and the organized
The Tupelo journal., 1917-10-19

One gentleman went so far, | be-
lieve or was reported to have gone
so far, as to have said that Wall
Street was behind this war. Hasn't
Wall Street got sins enough to stand
without and accusation of this? The
same senator said that this war was
brought on by the House of Morgan
y. Pierpont Morgan. Did Wall
Street blow up the Lusitania? Did
Wall Street sink the Arabic? Did
Wall Street fire on the flag of the
Gulf Light and the Algonquin? Did
the house of Morgan undertake to
bomb Morgan in his own house in
New York? (Applause.) What
must be the brainstorms and audacity
II not the Stiffness, of men who talk
like that?
The Tupelo journal., 1917-10-19
Many Causes for War.


Firing upon u flag in a cause of
war recognized in international law
as a cause for war. Interfering with
and destroying natural and domestic
of a country is recogn zed
BIS International law as a cause for
wa.
And that was not all.
While holding our hands in pre-
tended friendship she was sending
messages to Mexico to arouse hostil-
ity upon our southern border and
went so far in the arrogance and IN
science of the house of H~ohenzollern
as to promise Mexico Texas, Arizo-
ma and New Mexico as the spoils of
the war.
And that was not all. Negotia-
tons for Mexico to negotiate with
Japan that Japan might take us up
on the Pacific side while we faced
Germany upon the Atlantic and Mex
leo upon the south.
Now, what do you think of the
mani care not how high he be,
whether he be in private life or
whether he be in ofice-who says
that these people entered this war
for commercial reasons, or that if it
had not been for commercial reasons
they would not have been in it.
Why, don't you remember when
some of the southern representatives
were standing on the floor in Wash
ington and trying to get us to war
with Great Britain because she was
interfering with our cotton trade,
that / said, and the heart of the
south re-echoed it, the administration
re-echoed it, that |, for one, would
never be willing to make war in or
der even to protect the cotton trade.
That /, for one, would never be
willing to make wal in order to pro-
tect even the cotton trade, though
my very existence and the food of my
wife and children depends upon cot
ton
What must be the audacity. What
must be the egotism, what must be
the capacity for fasehood of any
man that ever says or %insinuates that
we are in this conflict for commercial
reasons or any sort of m~ercenary
reason whatsoever. (Applause.)
Freedom of speech, %sacredness of
conviction, sacredness of what sort
of conviction. To be convicted of
falsehood, that you know yourself is
false. Freedom of speech, what sort
of. speech, freedom to speak calumny
and SANDERS against your own peo-
pie and your own president and your
own party and your own Congress. Is
there no respect to be paid to the
convictions Of the president and con-
victions of the Congress and the con-
victions Of the people? No respect
to be paid to any convictions except
the convictions of the Congress and
the convictions of the people? No
respect to be paid to any convictions
except the convictions of a little
group of egotistical and willful
men? My friends, all that history IS
known to you, and yet somehow or
other, simply because you have been
SO far away from the scenes of the
actual armed conflict you have not
realized it.
The Tupelo journal., 1917-10-19
NOTICE.

The Methodist and Baptist cars to
the two Orphan Homes will run a
few days before Thanksgiving.
date will be given later.) Let all
things intended for the Methodist
Home be so marked and brought to
Reeves G. Co.. Bring what you have
any time and leave it there and it
will be sent on this car. Let's fill
up a car at Tupelo for these 226
children.
AIM TO LIVE 100 YEARS OLD
Keep the bowels clean and liver
active without Calomel-take Ven
Lax. 5000. ADV.
The Tupelo journal., 1917-10-19
Net a Trade War.

Some Of you men ought TO re-
member that The president Of the
United States, in an interview from
the White House, said that the sena-
tor from Mississippi had expressed
his very views. There is a senator
of the United States reported to
The Tupelo journal., 1917-10-19
The Case in America.

The case that is being tried in
America today is the case of the
president of the United States against
a small d~isloyal element, a little
group, led by a little group Of wilful
men in the Congress o fthe United
States. The thing to determine is
whether you are going to respect the
opinion of your elected representa-
lives and Of your elected chief mag
i~strate, or whether you + going to
pay a sort of sacred attention to the
so-called sacred convictions of a lit
tie group of egotistical and wilful
men who set themselves upon a high
pedestal and pirate about the sacred
ness of their convictions. One. OF
these senators has gone so far, or IS
reported to have gone so far, IN his
speech at st. Paul as to have re-
peated the old lie which Bernstorff
told that the Lusitania was loaded to
the guards with munitions of war and
that the president knew this. When
Bernstorff, driven into a corner, gave
his authority for that, the man who
told him that was indicted for per-
jury, pleaded guilty, and is now IN
the ~penitentiary. Yet a senator of
the United States goes to st. Paul
and repeats this lie, SANDER and
calumny against his own country.
You hear much about the freedom
of speech. No man is more attach
ed to that than /, but, my friends,
freedom of speech consists in the
freedom to tell the truth. Even as
between me and you, my freedom
of speech doesn't extend to the
point of lying to you, and if the IS
sue were between me and you l
could be indicted for criminal libel
or sued for SANDER or libel. But it
is a strange thing that a man cannot
be indicted for slandering and libel
ing his own land, and that a mar
cannot be indicted or sued for lying
about his own president, his own
Congress and his people. While
they are engaged in fighting the war
of democracy against absolutism and
civilization against organized atrocl-
ty, it has been said-and hope that
it is not true-that n of those SEN
ators has slandered the American
people by saying that while France
and Great Britain had Germany
down, we were stabbing her in the
back, thereby imputing to the Amer
lean people not only atrocity and
falsehood, but cowardice as well. l
hope and believe that that u%tterance
never came from any senator of the
United States, because nothing else
less called for, less provoked or less
rue could come from the mouth of
any human being.
The Tupelo journal., 1917-10-19

Now, ny friends, / have dwelt'
upon the causes of war abroad and
here. Now, | am going to dwell for
a moment upon the underlying cause
that would have rendered a condict
between the great queen republic of
the west and the great house Of
Hohenzollern inevitable some day,
somehow. if this European wal had
not existed.
This inevitable clash arises out Of
two different ideas of what consti-
tute5 a state, a nation, a government.
The Tupelo journal., 1917-10-19

Now my friends, l am a peace IA
matte. ! say with Thomas Jefferson,
'EIy passion is peace" | yield to no
mar in my love for it. ! have never
been surpassed by any man as far
as my public record goes in my de-
votion to it. ! stood by the presi-
dent of the United States when, af-
ter proyocation and ~prcvocation, he
was long suffering and patient and
when Republicans and other political
enemies OF his and some Of this same
yillful group within the Democratic
party, called him 2 coward because
he had allowed America to submit
10 insult.
The time came when the thing be-
gan to touch us. Atrocities in Eu-
ape, murdered men, revisited women,
nIyed educational institutions,
things in Servia and in Po-
pg the d~esoiation OF the
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-08-10

boast when you mention paying your
income tax.
Our one tax that carried with it
distinction; an aura of wealth and
exclusiveness, has become vulgarized
by the war. Even some newspaper
men must begin to consider 1t seri-
ously.
The war revenue bill as finally re-
vised by the senate, leaves the ex-
empted income but $4,000 for heads
Of families in place of $4,000, and
$1,000 for others in place of $4,000
An extra 5000 exemption is allowed
for each minor dependent child.
The senate also did a fairly good
job OF taxing the big incomes. al
though there is still comfortable
margin to work on as the expenses
of the war increase. The man who
spends more than $4,000 a year on
living expenses for himself and his
family in war times, is not entitled to
much cosideration when the tax
levies. are made. AS the expenses of
the war pile up, this source of rev.
enue should be one Of the first to be
tapped. The following table will
show the sum derived under the old
law, and the proposed taxes, and
will give an idea of what is left in
the reservoir to be taken at the
proper time:
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-08-10

! me q message to send back to The
Vigilantes In America"
Can Do Everything.
What can you dor" he repeated,
as IL the idea had inspired him.
why you can do everything. You
have great power" he did not say
the greatest. and being q man OF the
sword ] could hardly expect that
you can keep your people thorough
~ alive as TO what this war means,
its tremendous importance in big
things and In little things. Never
get tired in so doing. Let the word
go from your hearts to the smallest
towns and villages OF America. You,
as representative of The viRilantes
over here should keep the people at
home informed. You can tell them
all about our boys, how they feel,
how they live, enjoy themselves,
what they think and do, tell them
of their spirit, their courage, all, all.
Tell them particularly OF the fine
work that is being done by the Y.
M. c. A.-think Of the men who have
charge of IL being on hand to receive
our troops when they landed! Tell
them Of the splendid work done by
Major Murphy, on my staff, In the
Red Cross which is organizing work
that was in many places dis
organized, undisciplined, and is be-
ing put into fine shape.
Don't think any detail too
insignificant. Keep the people at
home advised-keep then advised"
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Other Mems Views
An Editorial That May or May Not
Square With The Forums
Opinions.

The New York Sun: We have the
word Of Governor Williams of Okla
homa for 1t that there is nothing
serious behind the sensational re-
ports Of disorderly opposition to the
enforcement of the draft law in his
state. He is supported by the inter-
nal evidence supplied in news reports
Of the pursuit of malcontents. These
are not records of grave AFFAIRS, but
chronicle the ordinary incidents of a
sheriff's chase after bad men. II they
had not been inspired to activity by
the draft they would probably have
started trouble over the liquor law or
the hot weather or line fence.
But Mexico Is being told that there
is "insurrection in the United States
against compulsory service, that
"'rebels' issue manifestoes against
the war;, and that 'the military au-
thorities thus far have failed to take
steps TO repress the revolution, and
this is the sort of news" that, furth-
er embellished-or elaborated" as
George Creel might say--w.ll even
tually reach Germanw for distribu-
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-08-10
pIcTAToRs AND DEsPoTs.

Within the last few weeks, the two
biggest republics in the world war
have voluntarily placed their affairs
in the hands of dictators.
Russia and America are governed
by dictators with powers greater in
some respects than those possessed by
any rulers in Europe. Kerensky and
President Wilson have today respon-
sibilities such as few men in the his
tory of the world have carried.
In the United States. Congress has
been rapidly transferring its prero-
gatives to the President. The food
control bill, the espionage BILL the
priority bill, the draft law, the war
budget, and a dozen other measures
have placed him in almost complete
control of the food. fuel, transporta-
ton, shipping, money, and business
enterprises Of nation OF 100000. 900
people.
In Russia, Kerensky has been made
an absolute ruler of 160,000,0o0 peo-
pie in the new republic of Russia.
He has powers greater, in some re-
spects. that those welded by the de-
posed car.
The answer OF this anomaly, Of
course, is obvious. America, fight
ing for freedom from dictators, is
ruled by a dictator, but the dictator
is given his powers by the people
themselves.
Kerenslxy. supplanting dictator, is
given his powers, not by Divine Right,
but by the people.
Both are dictators granted tenn
porary powers for the purpose Of ac-
hieving and preserving liberty for the
people they represent. They differ
from all other dictators Of history.
Benevolent or otherwise. in that one
vital respect. They are dictators by
sufferance. not by might. They have
no powers or privileges to pass on to
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-08-10

packing them in a solution of water
glass or lime water, or covering
them with paraffin or varnish. Eggs
can be kept in good condition in
this way for a number of months.
For currant use fresh eggs usual
ly can be kept satisfactorily for two
or three weeks without such treat
ment In a refrigerator or dry, cool
cellar. If infertile, such eggs may
be kept still longer.
Because fewer eggs are produced
in the most populous regions OF the
country than are consumed there,
and because the seasons have a.
marked effect on the number Of eggs
laid, city housewives must use cold
storage eggs during some periods Of
the year If they are to supply their
tables at all with this food
The fact that eggs have been held
in cold storage does not necessarily
mean that they are Of low quality.
Carefully handled cold storage eggs
often are of better quality than fresh
local eggs that have been improp-
erly cared for.