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HON. FRANK O. LoWDEN HEART
lily RECEIVED THE CoLoRED
CITIZENS COMMITTEE FROM
CHICAGO.
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penditure of money in making the in
vestigation. The Illinois senator said
he would do all he could to get favor
able action upon it this week.
It does seem to US that the United
States Senate should aid Senator Sher
man in that direction and without de,
lay order an investigation into the late
race riots in the grand old State of
Illinois.
It appears that some of the Colored
people were also able to do some shoot
ing and killing at East st. Louis, as
well as the White, men for nine White
gentlemen who were the ring leaders of
the mob and were the chief ginks of the
bloody affair in that city have closed
their eyes in death and they have sue
cessfully winged their way to the happy
hunting ground for they laid down
their lives in the noble attempt to de-
fend and uphold mob and lynch law.
The Chicago citizens select or self
constituted so-called memorial commit
tee held forth at Institutional Church,
Monday evening, the Rev. Hon. Archi-
bald Jackson Carey, Phi. D. D. D.
turned on his regular prayer and was
the presiding officer. Edward H.
Wright read the report of the trip of
the committee to Springfield. Louis B.
NJ H. ,al ID
Col. R. S. Abbott, Col. s. B. Turner
and B. H. Lucas delivered the set
speeches; some policeman by the name
of Armstrong was secretary of the
meeting. Attorney William L. Martin
read the cut and dried resolutions which
were gotten up for the express purpose
of patting each committee on their
political backs.
Right here we loudly call upon the
Hon. S. B. Turner to please stand up
and state whether or not you held a
conversation with Julius F. Taylor
Wednesday afternoon, June 9th, 1917,
on 35th street near South Park Ave,
in which conversation you stated
that "you were looking for some va
cant ground-that you desired to Sc
cure an option on it-that it must be
located in a Colored district or neigh.
borhood-that the Board of Education
wanted to use it for play grounds for
Colored children and did not the writer
in the presence of White gentleman
state to the effect that "there was some
vacant ground on Calumet Ave. Just
north of the home of Col. John &.
Marshall and that there was also some
on Forest Ave. south of the Eighth
Regiment Armory and some on Prairie
Ave. south of 33rd street. Mr.. Turner
we pause for a replyf
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DAMAGES RECOVERED FREE.

Notice is hereby given to all persons
who suffered injury, loss of property OF
any damage whatsoever, in the riot in
East st. Louis, Ill, on or about July 2,
1917, to apply at the Office Of Atty,
Homer G. Phillips, 1885 Market st.,
st. Louis, Mo-, IMMEDIATELY, and
proper steps will be taken to protect
their interest and recover damages for
their loss without any charges whatso.
ever.
Legal Committee Of the National As
ISOLATION for the Advancement of
Colored People.
(Other papers please copy.)
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FIRST PRIZE FOR CLEAN UP
WEEK GOES TO ATLANTA,
GEORGIA.
Salisbury, North Carolina and New
Madrid, Missouri Gets Second and
Third Prizes. Cups to be Presented
at Chattanooga Meeting of National
Negro Business League.

Tuskegee Institute, Alabama, July.
THE three silver cups which were
offered by Mr.. Allen w. Clark, Chair
man of the National "Clean Up and
Paint Up" Bureau of st. Louis, Mis-.
souri,, for the most effective clean up
work done during the National Negro
Health Week, which was observed
April 21-2S, will be awarded to Allan
ia, Georgia; Salisbury, North Caro-
lima, and New Madrid, Missouri.
These beautifully engraved cups will
be presented to representatives Of
these respective cities during the next
annual meeting of the National Negro
Business League, which is to be held at
Chattanooga, Tennessee, August Is, 16,
II, 1917.
The Atlanta Committee to which the
first prize has been awarded presented
a most interesting report, which shows
how they worked with the aid of
twenty-five local organizations and en-
ployed 211 active workers. Mr.. H. II.
Pace, Secretary of the Standard Life
Insurance Company, is president of the
Atlanta Committee, and Mrs. John
Hope, General Chairman.
The campaign in Salisbury, North
Carolina, was conducted under the
general direction of the Salisbury Col
ored Civic League, of which Mrs. W.
F. Kelsey is president. The work of
the New Madrid Committee was con-
Quoted under the direction of the Col
ored Home Protection League, of
which Rev. J. w. D. Mayes is presi-
dent.
The reports from Nashville, Tennes-
see; Calhoun, Alabama, and Evans
vile, Indiana, deserve special mention
and it is the hope of the officers in
charge that the reports of the commit
tees named by the judges for prizes
and for special mention may be put
into booklet form, as guides for the
observance of future Clean Up Weeks.
The judges in the contest were as
follows:
DR.. Robert E. Jones, Editor South
western Christian Advocate, New Or
leans, Louisiana; DR.. A. M. Curtis,
Physician and Surgeon, former Sur
geon-in- Chief, Freedmen's Hospital,
Washington, D. c.; Hon. J. C. Napier,
President, National Negro Business
League, Nashville, Tennessee; DR.. Rob-
ert R. Motion, Principal, Tuskegee Nor
NAL and Industrial Institute, Tuskegee,
Alabama; Mr.. Heman E. Perry, Presi-
dent, Standard Life Insurance Com
pany, Atlanta, Georgia; Mr.. c. C.
Spaulding, North Carolina Mutual and
Provident Association, Durham, North
Carolina; Mr.. M. N. Work, Editor,
Negro Year Book, Tuskegee Institute,
Alabama; DR.. d. w. Byrd, President
National Medical Association, Nor
folk, Virginia; Mrs. Mary B. Talbert,
President National Federation of Col
ored Women's Clubs, Buffalo, New
York; Miss Mamie H. Burroughs,
Principal National Training School for
Women and Girls, Washington, D. c.;
Mr.. Eugene Kinckle Jones, Executive
Secretary, National League on Urban
Conditions Among Negroes, New York
City; DR.. A. Wherefore Williams,
Physician and Surgeon, Chicago, nli-
nois.
Chattanooga is wide awake with in
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MEETING OF THE KANSAS CLUB.

Those who were not present at the
last meeting Of the Kansas Clu0
missed a mOstt excellent address Oy
Lawyer Warren Douglas. The net'
meeting will be July % at the resi-
dence of Mrs. Hattie Arrant, $3.50 u"
umet ave. A delightful program na'
been arranged. A Overton, pres'' ~
Railey, Sec.
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MOVE TO COMBAT NEGRO HOS
TILITY.

New York, July, Special-A wide
spread plan to forestall repetitions in
other cities of the recent Negro dis
turbanees in East st. Louis, ILL.,, Wa
announced here tonight by L. HOlling
worth Wood, chairman of the NatiOna
League on Urban Conditions Among
Negroes.
Mayors and other responsible citi'
zens in industrial centers Throughout
the north are being asked by letter to
give organized consideration TO prob
lens arising out of the migration OF
Negroes.
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The greatest benefactor of the race
will be that person who can mould
these diverse, inharmonious millions in
to homogeneous, courageous, active
people.
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Mr.. E. G. Gordon, one of the ushen
of the Illinois Central Railroad, is a
very active church member, being
chairman of Stewards Board and
President of choir of st. Paul's C. NJ.
E. church, 1914 s. Dearborn st. The
officers and members of the C. NJ. E
church are planning to erect a magni6-
cent building in the near future; hav.
ing received plans and specifications Of
same. They expect to break ground
the last of August or early in Septem.
Der, for the new building. The Rt
Rev. Bishop NJ. F. Jamison, ID. Of
Leigh, Texas, is in the city in the in.
terest of said church. Bishop JamisOn
preached to a crowded congregation
last Sunday morning (July 15th) at
st. Paul.
The Rt. Rev. Bishop r. A. Garter, Of
Georgia, also of the C. NJ. E. Church
will preach at st. Paul C. NJ. E. church
Sunday, July 22nd, at IL a. M. The
Rev. j. A. Winters, pastor of st. Paul,
extends welcome invitation to all Wis.
itors and friends.
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This riot was not a clash between
contending forces of white and black
labor. Every white man in East st.
Louis who wanted work had all he
could do. There is abundant work for
every Colored laborer in East st.
Louis that will not bring him in COM
petition with White labor.
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they sat down and folded their arms in
supine indifference, the liberty they had
so dearly purchased would be- taken
away from them.
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The fact is, the South is helpless
without Negro labor. The whole in
dustrial fabric of the South is built
upon Negro labor. 1t is cheap. 1t is
submissive. 1t is long suffering. The
aim of the White man of the South is
to impress the Colored people who
have recently left that section with the
fact that conditions are as intolerable
for them in the North and East as
those from which he is fleeing.
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EXTRACTS FROM THE SOUND
AND LOGICAL GRAFTON DELIv-
Erred BY ATTORNEY WALTER
M. FARMER AT THE RECENT
GREAT MEETING AT BETHEL
CHURCH.
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We must do something to arouse the
slumbering millions of our race to the
necessity of vigilance and action.
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The Colored people who have re-
Gently been driven out of East st.
Louis should return to their homes and
resume their labor. We must live
somewhere and if we permit ourselves
to be driven from one place to another
there is no telling whittier they will
drive US. The Colored man must
make up his mind to raise his ebenezer
somewhere and there stand or fall by
it.
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It is impossible for man to make
progress without the blessings of lib
erty. 1t is no wonder then that man
in every age and in every cline has
been willing to sacrifice so much fol
liberty. For without liberty, ambi'
ton is dead, aspiration is limited, re.
morse takes the seat of reason and
man becomes a miserable slave.
1t was for liberty that Toussaint
L'Ouverture armed the blacks of San
to Domingo and by intrepid military
daring and skill drove the enemies of
their freedom, the despoilers of their
homes from the Queen of the Antilles.
But these blacks knew as well as any
one should know, that eternal vigilance
is the price of liberty. They knew as
well as anyone should know that if
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HON. LAWRENCE Y. SHERMAN.

Illinois, himself
United
calling thorough
o n
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On July 18th, an article appeared in
the Tribune under the heading, "Lack
of Work Large Factor in Negro
Troubles. Among other things it
stated: cit is reported that at the
stockyards alone 1000 Negroes who ap.
ply for work each morning are turned
away" Further it stated: eff there
are any considerable number of Ne
groes recently come to Chicago who
would be willing to go back home, The
Tribune knows how the journey could
be arranged without cost to then"
The Illinois Central being in need Of
men, one Of the officials called up the
stockyards to know if it was true that
they were turning away men. This Of
Acial was informed that the stockyards
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THE DoINGS OR THE MOVE
MENTs OF THE RED CAP MEN
AT THE 18TH STREET STATION
OF THE ILLINOIS CENTRAL
RAILROAD.

Mr.. Jas. Robinson and Mr.. NJ. D.
Roach are spending a six weeks trip
in Portsmouth, N. H, on the car of
Mr.. c. F. Parker, Vice Pres, 1. G. R. R.
Mr.. Saul Shields, one of our hust-
ling ushers will spend the next ten
days in Iowa and Nebraska towns. We
expect him to return next Saturday or
Sunday.
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The course Of progress and eiviliza-
tion is not strewn with flowers OF
scented with the fragrance of the vio-
let and the rose. No, my friends, it is
marked by fallen empires, broken
oaths, PROSTATE forms and seas of
blood. Such is the record of man Is
struggles upward, from the Garden of
Eden. Any race or people that ex-
poets to attain any enduring and per-
manent success without encountering
these tests, expects what never was
and never will be.
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The shocking display of lawlessness
and brutality that has recently dis
graced the great State of Illinois is the
result of a base conspiracy.
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They have sought this method OF
discouraging him with the hope of in
ducing him to return to the cotton
fields and plantations.
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AS race we must pass through the
same difficulties, encounter the same
besetments and stand the same tests
that other races have confronted in
their march of progress.
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was much in need Of men, showing
plainly that there is no necessity for
the Negro to return South for lack Of
work"
Captain Geo. W. Triee and CAPTAIN
VIM. Clifton are making good.
DR.. M. A. Majors, Mr.. A. L. Will.
Jams and Attorney NJ. L. Barclay,
spoke last Sunday to a very attentive
audience at Bethel Literary. Numer.
Gus of the hearers are anxious to again
hear these able speakers.
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Any one wishing to find VIM. Fergu
son Sunday afternoons between the
hours of three and five, call Yards
$3.50, American Giants Ball Park
He III be there.
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We were surprised when our ambu-
lance man and eo-usher, Mr.. James
Ferguson announced his marriage.
Good luck, old boy.
Mr.. VIM. Clifton, one of our Senior
Ushers, has been promoted to Captain.
The boys all like "The Brother" and
will heartily cooperate with him.
Mr.. Sandy w. Trice, Chief Usher,
Illinois Central, and President of
Bethel Literary, extends an invitation
to the ushers here as well as Polk st.
and the Northwestern, to attend the
Literary, Sunday, July Goth at 4
o'clock. Thanks, Chief, we III be there.
Mr.. Fred Saunders and wife are Wis
iting their home in Windsor. We ex-
peet them to return soon.
Rev. VIM. Y. Bell, brother of Usher
J. W. Bell, returned to the city last
week, having just completed his course
at Yale College with honors. His wife
and boy will soon leave for their
country home near Grand Junction,
Mich.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-27

ship sank in about 40 minutes from
time of first torpedo. Had fired six
rockets which were seen by Admiralty
patrol. Wireless also used up to last
minute. Boats scattered two or three
miles in swells IL feet high. Burned
flares and were picked up seriatim be-
TWEEN 3 and a. m. Feb. &C."
y second dispatch rom Consul Frost,
times $50 o'clock this morning says;
Deaths Mrs. and Miss Hoy as report
ed no wpositively confirmed. Cedric
B. Ivat, of New York. probably Ameri-
can is lost.
Total survivors landed here 261.
Landed at BantryN IA. Total on board
294. missing 13. of whom five drowned
and eight, including Hoy ladies, died OF
exposure and buried at sea. Six hos
pital cases, none believed grave. First
torpedo struck abaft engine, steamer
going II TO is knots, engine stopped
and ship turned listing to starboard,
so that most boats got off that side.
Twenty minutes later when most boats
were clear submrine fired second tor
pedo. striking engine portside."
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-27
American Woman and
Her Daughter Died of
Exposure After Sinking
By Associated Press

London, Feb. 27.-United States
Consul Frost at Queenstown has tele-
graphed the American embassy here
that Mrs. Hoy and her daughter died
of exposure and that their bodies
were buried at sea. -...-.-
Consul Frost's message read:
Mrs. Mary Hoy and Miss Elizabeth
Hoy passengers on the Laconia, died
from exposure. Their bodies were
buried at sea-"
Mrs. Hoy's husband, DR.. Albert H.
Hoy, who is a Civil War veteran, and
her son, Austin 7. Hoy, reside in Lon
don. The latter called at the embassy
this morning and received a copy of
the message from CoEsul Frost.
AS far as the embassy knows, these
two were the only Americans lost on
the Laconia. The embassy's list of
American passenger survivors is as fol-
lows:
F. p. Gibbons, Chicago Tribune;
Mrs. F. E. Harris. wife of Colonel
Harris, U. s. A; A. T. Kirby, New
York, and the Rev. Joseph Waring,
Baltimore,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-27
Second Torpedo Fired
When Lite Boats We're
Still Close to Vessel

Queenstown. Feb. 27.-Correct re-
turns of those missing from the
sunken Cunarder Laconia are not yet
obtainable, although the Cunard staff
Is working on the list of crew and
passengers. Four passengers are
among those sent to hospitalS Their
injuries are slight. Among the four is
Or. Hawke, resident of San Fran
cisco, who said he was playing a game
of bridge in the ships surgeons room
when he heard an awful crash and
guessed that the ship had been at
tackled by submarine. He said the
first torpedo struck the liner aft on the
starboard side and everyone made for
the life preservers. The passengers
had previously been instructed in boat
drill and got into the boats without
panic. DR.. Hawke said that all be-
haved we'll and that the discipline was
truly good. He continued:
Endangers Lifcboats
The submarine returned after we
had been in the boat and fired another
torpedo which put out the lights and
was followed by a terrific explosion
and the ship must have sunk soon
after. The second torpedo, mind YOU
was fired although the lifeboats were
close the vessel and the crew of the
submarine could not have failed to see
us as it was moonlight. 1t was about
$3.50 p. m. on Sunday when we took
to the boats and about o'clock on
the following morning when we were
picked up"
DR.. Hawke gave the highest praise
to the behavior of the women and
children and said that the captain and
crew were marvellous. 1t appears that
two boats reached Bantry with 22
pheople, eight of the occupants having
died from exposure. Among those
saved was the singer Miss Mitsie
Siklosi, of Paris.
The bodies of the eight persons who
died were consigned to the deep.
Among the Laconia's firemen were Is
American negroes.
Everthing possible was done to re-
lieve the suffering of the American
women, but the shock and the hard
ships of exposure to the cold proved
fatal to Mrs. Hoy and her daughter
Mrs. f. E. Harris, wife of an American
army officer, was cheered loudly by
the other survivors on landing. She
was the last woman to leave the ship
getting intothe captains boat, and dis
played such bravery that she was ac-
corded the honor of being the first to
land.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-27
DIDN'T HEED THE
DINNER WHISTLE
Railroad Man Says Appetite Was So
Poor He Didn't Want
to Eat
TANLAC sHARPENED 1T

Some appetite I've got these days.
believe me-" says w. II. Miller, a
p. r. r. brakeman, who lives at 2150
Atlas ST., Harrisburg, Pa. Some
times l feel as If 1 could eat the side
of a house and still have room for a
little dessert.
And when 1 look back a ways and
remember how often l didn't bother
to go home to dinner because 1 didn't
want anything to eat-believe me it's
some change"
II sure felt rotten in those days, no
appetite, stomach on the bum, pains
in my back and arms and always tired
and weary. Gee, felt about Sc years
old"
but when I got wise to TanIac,
began to feel younger day by day un-
til now feel like a real human be-
ing"
mo aches or pains, sleep simply
great and altogether I'm feeling fine.
Tanlac sure is great stuff for putting
YOU back in condition and the best
part of it is that it does it quick.
began to feel better right away"
Tanlac, the famous reconstructive
tonic. is now being introduced here at
Gorgas' Drug Store, where the Tanlac
man is meeting the people and eX-
planning the merits of this master
medicine.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-27
WAR SITUATION CLOSES
ONE ROOM IN ARMORY

Plans for the entertainment of the
troops on March 5 had to be rear
ranged when the committee learned
last evening that they will not be per-
mitted to use the north parlor of the
armory at Second and Forster streets.
The officers have used the one room
as headquarters and because of the
present. situation have declined to give
their permission for its use for the en-
tertainment. AS a result the refresh
ment committee will meet tomorrow
night in the home of Mrs. A. II.
Gerdes, 1908 North Third street. 9th
erwise the plans are about completed.
City Commissioner E. u. Gross will
deliver the address of welcome. An
orchestra will furnish music for the
dancing. hTe entire second floor is
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-27
AMERICAN PRESS SEES
IN SPEECH STEP TO WAR

clear that Americans cannot submit
further ana retain their self-respect
What the President asks is not much
under all circumstances. 1t should
be granted by reclamation.
Pittsburgh Gazcttc-Timcs: President
Wilson in addressing Congress did not
make out Il good case in support of
his request fof. dictatorial powers.
President Wilson says: 1T would be
most imprudent to be unprepared.
That is u complete argument against
his desire to go ii alone. Adequate
preparation at the present time must
include the presence of Congress in
Washington to act in conjunction with
constitution. MIR. Wilson should sum-
mon the sixty-fifth Congress.
San Francisco Chronicle: If this
government defines the rights of AM
srican citizens on the high seas, it is
morally bound to provide for the pro-
lection of those rights by whatever
means are found necessary.
Spokane Chronicles: President Will
son has spoken for humanity. The
stars and stripes are not to be bluffed
off the high seas. Piracy. is not to
run amuck without armed resistance
from the United States. The Presi-
dent has pronounced policy that is
certain to command the support OF
the nations strength.
Boise Udaho) Daily Statesman:
The President SAYS the present con-
dition is intolerable; that the freedom
of the sea is, in fact, denied to us; and
if we are to be a nation fit to survove,
the time has arrived 10 not only assert
our rights, but to enforce them. If
that means war, war it will be. The
paths of the sea will be paths of sea
so long only as they can be freely
travelled by our ships.
Seattle (Wash.) Post Intelligencer:
Diplomacp having failed to safeguard
our rights, the rPesident proposes a
recourse to armed neutrality to check
the unwarranted infringement we
are suffering at the hands of Ger
many" Such a recourse is manifestly
justified by the German submarine op-
erations, now reaching the overt act
climax in the torpedoing without
warning of the Laconia.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-27

American newspapers, discussing
President Wilson's address to Con-
gress, see the United States moving
nearer to war with Germany. Some of
the expressions of opinion follow:
The Baltimore sun: That the
Presidents address increases the seri-
BUSINESS of the situation, in one re-
spect, cannot be questioned. Breaking
off relations with Germany brought us
one step nearer 10 war. Armed neu-
trality' will doul less bring us one
more step nearer. There is faint
glimmer of hope in the fact that the
Orleans and the Rochester got safely
through to France and that several
other American boats hace gone un-
hurt through the prohibited waters.
But it is only a glimmer."
Louisville Herald: with discretion
the rPesident pledges himself to use
the authority he seeks; with such re-
straint as under the circumstances,
map be possible. With heart all but
broken that patience can no further
go and thatthe day of peace may well
be drawing to its close, he is none the
less resolute TO safeguard and to vim
dicate the rights, the lives, the prop
erty of our citizens. He could not
have done less. To have dallied furth-
er would have been cowardiCe. Amer
lea is with its President
Cleveland Leader: President Will
sons appeal to Congress is a logical,
reasonable, perfectly correct step to-
ward war. This is true, notwith-
standing his earnest protestauons or
his desire and home to avoid haStili-
ties. There is nothing less which the
President might have done, with de-
cent regard for the honor and welfare
fthe nation and the highest dictates
of humanity. The country is with the
head of the government in every such
step toward a final determination of
the. issues between the United States
and Germany.
CIeevland News: Congress should
accord the President anything possible
that will help him protect American
rights on the seas, instantly and un-
reservedly. The world is watching to
see whether manhood's spark is still
alive in America. II is abundantly