The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1914-10-01
THE GERMAN MEETING.

mere was meeting of Germans at
rner hall last Sunday afternoon for
purpose of placing before the Ger
Ia American people of Manitowoc
all others interested presentation
the causes leading to the present
r in Europe and Germany's reasons
entering the same, and for prepar-
the way for the raising OF funds,
ould 1T become necessary later on,
the German and Austrian people
DO will have to suffer the consequent
of the terrible war now being wag-
in Europe. The meeting was large
attended. Addresses were delivered
Prof. Leo Stern of Milwaukee and
dge Baensch of this city. Hubert
lge presided and introduced the
eakers. The following report of the
dresses is taken from the Manitowoc
erman) Post:
'Mr. Stern stated that it was not his
rpose to Judge as to the causes of
e war, nor as to who is to blame,
II did he intend to reflect upon any
the nations engaged therein, but be
ID come for the sole purpose of advo-
ting the cause of humanity and char
Y. 1t was proposed to give helping
'nd to the German and the Austrian
eople, who will have to suffer the ev-
consequences of this terrible war.
nd to accomplish this, aid societies
ere being organized throughout the
nd. In Milwaukee such a society has
een organized with the most promi-
ent citizens at the head, and to which,
BIT only from Milwaukee, but also from
her cities in the state, Madison,
rausau, etc., considerable sums had
cen forwarded. Now is the time to
leviate the suffering in the old Faith
tland. and at the same time uphold
he honor of German Americans.
SIN the course of his address he re-
rred to the shameful ISLANDERS that
re being spread by the enemies of
ermany, who charge the German ar
y with committing outrages which
o German soldier is capable Of The
host abused man is the German kai-
pr, and yet he is man who stakes his
hole personality for what he considers
light The German Kaiser, with his
X sons, of whom two are already
Founded, has gone with the army,
Fhile the King of England is comfor-
ably lodged in Buckingham Palace,
he president of the French Republic
enjoying the beautiful climate at
bordeaux, ana me Lzai OF tne I.usol-
ms, not feeling safe in St. Petersburg,
as fled to Moscow, and is hiding in
he Kremlin, not daring to look out the
window for fear that some of his Mou-
iks, whom he Is sending to the sham
kes by the hundred thousand, may
AXE his life..
Germany is surrounded by malicious
.nemies. But the German Americans
.re no better situated. They too, have
enemies to fight, and it is high time
hat they firmly unite and renounce
III pettiness, otherwise they will be
wholly oppressed. Even in Wisconsin,
whose population has such large per-
entage of German blood, it is not pos
!ibe to exercise that influence which
S their just due. The speaker, whose
remarks found lively applause, closed
with an appeal to the generosity of the
Germans in Manitowoc for their breth-
zen in the old Fatherland.
Emil Baensch, who was then called
upon, in referring 20 the remarks of
Mr.. Stern as to the standing of the
German Americans, emphasized that
| Ihe schools were to blame. The schools
gnore what other nations have done
For America, and teach that this is an
English country. And yet, when the
Declaration of Independence had been
adopted, the Continental Congress
found it necessary to distribute that
document in seven different LANGUAGES
and German monk furnished the
1t Is not true that Eng.
land is our mother country. Over two
hundred years ago all Europe particip-
ated in the building of this nation, and
Europe is our mother country.
"On account of the presence of many
Of the younger people, the speaker
made use of the English language part
of the time. He gave interesting de-
tails as to the extent of the German ell
ement, not only in the northern and
north western states, but also in the
south, and sho wed that in Virginia,
Georgia, North and South Carolina,
the German element, even prior to the
was widely distributed and
exercised considerable influence.
"He described what citizens of Ger
m an ancestry had done for this coun-
try, mentioned the fact that the first
blood shed in the war for independence
was that OF German boy, referred to
the great servicas Of Herkimer and his
German fellow citizens of the Mohawk
valley, and recalled the fact that the
only one OF the warning nations that we
ever had war with, was England"
POLITICS ARE QUIET.