Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-08-17

rich Post, single handed with the
Bible as his only weapon, went among
the warning Indians and pacified
them. He asserted that the Germans
| in this country were the first to pro-
test against slavery in the year 1888.
Again he said that three times dur
ing the Revolution they covered
Washingtons retreat, when, he al
! legged, the German peasant women of
Valley Forge fed the soldiers; when,
he said, a band of Germans raised
$100, 900 to ,clothe Washington's army,
and when General Steuben as drill
master in one winter turned an army
of undisciplined men into an organic
military body.
He told in detail the part the Ger
mans played around Baltimore in the
War of 1872, and again in the Civil
War He told of the contribution of
the Germans in the peaceful pursuits,
and as one example cited that it was
German, Christoph Sauer, who
printed the first Bible in this country.
I'VE have a right to demand" he
continued, that we are not slapped
/, in the face whenever we pick up a
paper. But we want to be just. We
do not want this war to be carried
into this country, but we make front
against uIWdTTdnIeQ aIIdCkS.
81 as an American-born citizen
never felt so ashamed of my country
as during the last two weeks So
much hatred, so much ignorance as
has been displayed here 1 have never
witnessed anywhere.
Look what they have made Of the
kaiser They have called him the
war lord, a misleading translation of
the old German, word 'Kriegsherr,
meaning nothing else but chief COM
mander of the army. The kaiser has
not as much power as the President
of the United States. He is only the
chairman of the Bundesrath, COM
posed OF the reigning heads of each
independent State in the Union. But
even with the Bundesrath there can
be no declaration of war unless the
biggest states outside Of Prussia and
Bavaria consents. Finally, the money
must be voted by the Reichstag.
They say he killed a hundred of
the Socialist delegates to the reich
stag. / am not a Socialist But all
honor to them. When the hour of
need came they voted, one and all. for
the war, and their leader shook hands
with the emperor, pledging his and
his colleagues support"
Peril in Japanese.
DR.. Hexamer gave it as his opinion
that if Germany wanted war it would
have had many chances during the
Russo-Japanese war and the Boer
war. He spoke of the peril involved
should Japan by the general coalition
| win the supremacy in the Pacific
Ocean. He also Severely criticised
America for making use of the open
door Korea offered and then cow
ardly" allowing Japan to come in.
| ITO permit Japan to gain more of a
| foothold in the Pacific" he said.
would mean to turn the ocean into
a Yellow Sea-"
| In opening his remarks Mr. Koelble
| said. as a German, he would like to
/ talk In the language of which Paris
will soon hear enough but, that for
the benefit of the younger element he
would make his address in the Ian
guage of this country.
| The speaker said that with twenty
| five millions of Germans and twenty
millions of Irish alone there was not
much of English blood in this coun-
try. He saw no reason why the
! United States should uphold England
that had allied itself with the Asiatic
hordes of Russia and the yellow
peril represented by the laps" He
ridiculed the philosophy of some PEG.
pie and papers that they were only
against the kaiser, but that they
were in sympathy with the sixty-sis
million people of his realm, whom ht
had forced into war Just think o.
the reflection on these millions of ac
knowledged highly intelligent citi
zens," the speaker remarked.
"They make so much of the stand
ing army of Germany, but say moth.
ing about the standing feet Of Eng
land, kept large for predatory pur
poses only, as history has shown
This glorious British nation is pro
tecting the neutrality of Belgium
This same glorious Britain carried OF
the Boer war and crushed the free
dom of a people that lived at peac
with everyone.
There is another little nation" tn
lspeaker continued, that has beef
crushed. If ever a country was en-
titled to be free it is Ireland and i
they get few guns and ammunition
for a few rounds of shot they'll b
free. If all goes well, and this war
over, I'll predict a new triple allianc
lin which there will be no traitors n
backsliders, an alliance between Aus
tria, Germany and Ireland"
Declaring that he was a believer Il
peace as the only solution TO the Worl
problem, DIR. Holman said that never
theless he had come to the parting o
the ways when zone people are fight
ing for their very existence" TIL
speaker told how at the insistence O
German and American friends he ha
become a citizen and like the res
amalgamated with the nation. "Bu
now that I, you, all Of us have don
this this abuse is the thanks thi
the receipt for your patriotism
DIR. Hoffman spoke of the sacrifice
the German citizens had made 70