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f'Official Organ Ben Hill County and City of Fitzgerald
FINAL NOTICE [5 ONEW
T 0 CEAMAN EOVERNMENT
President Referred to German
Declaration Regarding Arm
ed Merchantmen.
y ——
Washington, April 19.—Presi
dent Wilson today at a joint ses
sion of Congress said he had giv
en Germany final and irrevocable
notification that the United
States will break dipiomatic re
lations if the illegal submarine
campaign- is continued.
The note, which is America’s
last word, is practically an ulti
matum demanding immediate
reply. Presumably it was to the
Berlin Foreign Ofice as the Pres
ident spoke. It was dispatched
last nighi with the idea of Ber
lin having it when the President
addressed Congress. The Presi
dent asked for no action from
Congress hut simpiy informed it
of the accumulaticr. of facts prov
ing Germany’s assurance to the
Uniied States were being violat
ed by the subinarine campaign.
The cabmarine campaign des
pite the earnest protests of the
United States, 18 being conducted
with renewed vigor in contraven
tion of all laws of nations and hu
manity and he means to sever
relations unless it is brought
wtihin law.
Diplomatic ‘history of the
world shows suich a course is al
most certain to be followed by
war.
_ The President recalled the Ger
man declaration of a war zone
around the British Isles in Feb
ruary, 1915, warning neutrals™as
well as belligerents to keep out
of those waters or enter at their
peril. The United States took
the stand that such a policy cer
tainly would result in gross and
palpable violations of internation
al law, particularly if submarines
were employed. The United
States based the protests on the
ground that neutrals and vessels
owned by neutrals would be ex
posed to extreme and intolerablel
risk and that the right to close
amy part of the high seas againstl
their use or expose them to such
risks could not lawfully be as-!
serted by any belligerent.
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Notwithstanding the American
[-protest, Germany at once pro
| ceeded to carry out her announc
ed policy. It was the expressed
hope that danger to neutrals’
would be reduced to a minimum
by instructions issued to subma—'
rine commanders and Germany |
assured the United States e'\v'ery|
possible precaution would be tak-l
en to respect neutral rights and
protect non-combatants. 1
“What actually happened in the
year since elapsed has shownl
these hopes not justified andl
‘these assurances insusceptible of
being fulfilled,” said President‘
Wilson. “Despite the assurances’
given Americans, German subma-l
rine commanders have attacked
wmerchant ships with greater ac~'
tivity wherever they could find
them. They have grown mnrel
and more ruthless and more in- |
discriminate as the months ha\'e[
gone by and they have been less
observant of restraints of any
kind and have delivered attacks]|
against every vessel o fevery na-|
tionality and bound upon every |
sort of errand. Sometimes the|
vessels were warned and some-|
times passengers and ‘crew were |
vouchsafed ‘poor secwrity of be-|
ing allowed to take to the ships|
boats before being sent to 'the!
bottom,” but again and again no!
warning was given and no escape
even to the ship’s boats, aliowed
those aboard. : ;
“What this government fore
saw must happen, has happened. |
Tragedy has followed tragedy on|
seas in such fashion and with]|
guch attendant dircumstances as
to make. it grossly evident war-|
fare o this sort, if warfare it be, |
cannot be carried on without the |
most palpable violations of thel
dictates alike or right and hu-|
manity.” |
The President then,referred to!
the German declaration regarding
armed merchantmen, issued last
February. He declared internat
ional law had Tong recognized the |
right of merchantmen to carry|
guns for protection and to use
them to repel attacks. Germany
claims the right to set this aside, |
The terms under which restraints '
were previously placed on the
FITZGERALD, BEN HILL COUNTY, GEORGIA, APRIL 21, 1916
BAPTIST MEETING WILL
: BE CLOSED TONIGHT
Baptist meeting closes tonight,
after which Mr. F. D. King, who
so successfully conducted the
meetings will leave for Ashboro,
N. C, where he will begin a se
ries of meetings at the First Bap
tist church. Mr. Wolslagle, the
gifted singer, who has left such a
good impression on voung and
old, will leave for Charlotte, N.
C., to conduct a sertes of meet
ings at the Baptist church of that
ey N s
The good wishes of the com
munity accompany these men.
gubmarine intimated that unarm
ed ships were exempt from at
tack without warning but even
that limitation failed to act as a
check of attacks upon ships of
every sort.
Germany has continually as
sured the United States passeng
er ships would he warned yet
again and again Germany per
mitted submarine commanders to
disregard the assurances. Great
liners like the Lusitania and Ara
bic and ferry bodts like the Sus
sex were attacked without warn
ing. The death roll of Ameri
can’s mounted to hundreds.
Hopes There Will be No Break.
President Wilson was cheered
as he entered the hall. After de
claring*that Germany was unable
to observe international law
while carrying on submarine war
fare according to the announced
plans of February, 1915, and
i‘ebruary, 1916, and caliing the
sinking of the Lusitania and Ara
bic and Sussex “stngularly tragi
cal and unjustifiable” and that the
Germans, instead of sinking ships
only in the war zone about the
British Isles, were attacking net
trals and belligerents atike wher
ever fotmpd e PRident rsaid
“I have deemed it my duty,
therefore, to say to the Imperial
German government that if it is
still its purpose to proseeute re
lentless and indiscriminate war
fare the United States is at last
forced to the conclusion there is
but one course it can pursue and
that unless the Imperial German
government ‘should now imme
diately declare and effect the
abandonment of its present meth
ods of warfare against passenger
and freight vessels carrying this
government can have no choice
but to sever diplomatnc relations
altogether.” |
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ANNUAL SLAUGHTER
IN THE UNITED STATES
Last Year 75,000 Persons Killed
in Accidents and Many Hurt
The modern world is a danger
ous place in which to live. The
figures showing the number of
deaths from violesice in recent
years is appalling, Last year in
the United States alone 73,000
persons were killed in accidents
of one kind or 4nother, while
nearly 2,000,000 more were injur
ed. About 35,000 workmen were
killed while at their tasks. On the:
railroads of the country about
10,000 persons are killed every
year, and 20 times that number
are injured. On the streets and
roads 5,000 deaths are caused by
vehicles, the automobile being re
cponsible for half this number of
victims. ;
Mrs. W. R. Paulk received a
telegram this morning informing
her that Reason Paulk is continu
ing to improve in the hospital in
Baltimore. |
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: (;,'”'.,tf’t)n'ming to our annual custom of assembling on Easter
Sunday to participate in religious services, we will worship
this year with the congregation of the Central Methodist
Church, Sunday, April 23, 1916, at 11 o'clock.
Rev. L. A, Hill will deliver the sermon.
All Sir Knights are courteously invited to be present.
Sir Knights will asserble %t the Asylum at 10:00 o'clock,
in full uniform.
Courteously,
J. D. DORMINEY, J. B. SEANOR,
Recorder liminent Commander.
Special attention is also called to:
Our Good Friday meeting April 21, 191,
Election of officers.
The Grand Conclave, at Rome, Ga., May 10th, 1916. A
delegation is requested to go from this Commandecry.
bEORGIA FEDERATION OF LAROR
ISSEMBLES IV SAUARNH
EXTENSION OF ROAD
FAVORED BY COUNCIL
Waycross, = April 20—At a
meeting of city council resolu
tions favoring the extension of
the state road from Atlanta to St.
Marys via Waycross were adopt
ed.
Recently a communication was
received irom former State Sen
ator J. A. J. Heuderson on the
subject and he stated he favored
and would work for building the
road to the sea.
Action of this kind by many
cities an dtowns in the state is an
ticipated as a result of the organ
ized effort that is under way.
Waycross people as a whole are
ready to assist in the undertak
ing in every way possible.
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VOL. XXI, NO. 48
Federation Turns Down Local
Option. Can’t Be Used as
Catspaw .No Labor Party
Savannah, Ga., April 21.—1 n
the absence of President Louie
Marquardt, Vive-President Mec-
Kenna, Still and McDaniel pre
sided over the meetings of the
State Federation which opened
its annual session in the city this
! morning.
l The session is well represented
Iby all labor bodies from the or
'ganized cities in tie state and a
Igreat deal of work wil be the out
’come of the meeting. Important
measures effecting labor in the
!state had their attention and the
feeling of a class movement is
thoroughly in evidence in the de
liberations thus far held.
IFitzgerald has extended official
invitations by Mayor Paulk and
'Secrct:n’y Gelders of the Chams
ber of Commerce and seems to
!lmvc the field for itself, for the
annual convention in 1917,
- C. H. Ray, representing the
Railway Trainmen Brother
hoods of Savannah, asked the
Georgia Federation of Labor at
its convention today to support
the trainmen in their present
contest for an eight-hour fay. He
denied 1t was the oveitime they
were sceking, but literally the
eight-hour day. He said the situ
ation was ‘“‘very grave,” and that
he did not kiaw wiaty the out
come would be. lle declared that
he knew there would be no arbi
tration.of the demands, for “we
have Tound that in arbitration or
mediation the working man al
ways come out on the short end.”
The federation pledged the train
men Its support.
The Federation of Labor weint
on record today in most emphat
ic terms as refusing to adopt the
proposition to form a labor party
m this state.
The convention also went on
record as refusing to lend its en
dorsement to local option. A res
olution to this effect was intro
duced and freely discussed, but
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