New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1914-09-16
Monster Mass
Meeting Held
OF GERMAN-AMER-
leans FOR RED CROSS WORK
RUNS HIGH.
PLANS LAID TO RAISE s25oo OR
$4,000 FOR RELIEF
WORK.

turner Hall was crowded Monday
evening as it had never been crowded
before for a public meeting. Hundreds
OF men and women turned out for the
purpose of listening to the exposition of
the German side of the great conflict
that is now being waged on European
soil. In the order named Prof. Acker-
mann, Rev. DR.. Holm, Rev. Schiinkert
ard Rev. Geo. Mayer addressed the
meeting.
The gathering was an earnest one.
Forsover two hours the audience listened
lnJently, even intensely, to the words
as they fell from the lips of the speakers.
There was no cheering, there was no
disturbance, there was an impressive
quiet which was broken quite frequently
by bursts of applause when the speaker
made telling point. 1t was Just such an
audience as compels one to admit it's
sincerity and it's purpose do night and
convinces one that it cannot be swerved
from the path it has marked out. Even
tho large number of men stood in
the foyer of the hall for the entire time.
they showed no signs of WEAKNESS and
looked just as interested when the meet
ting came to an end as when it opened.
It = safe to say that the speakers might
have spoken twice as long without
firing the audience. The Second Regi-
mant Band furnished the instrumental
music and the male choir and the mixed
choir Of the Dr.. M. L. College sang
Deutschland ueber Allies, "Gott erhalte
FAM den Kaiser" and ''Du Schwert an
nniner Linken.''
The program was opened by few
Introductory remarks by the chairman
OF the meeting who then asked the
audience to rise and join in the song,
NV Country, IT'S of Thee which they
did with a will. At the close of the
missing they sang, ode Yacht: am
RheinSS with the same enthusiasm and
before. S.
The speakers had agreed among them
selves upon the order in which they were
to speak and the special feature of the
war situation they were to touch upon.
Upon Prof: Alderman devolved the
duty of telling in general about the
worlds greatest war that is now raging.
His address was a masterful one. He
stated in the outset that he was wholly
in accord with President Wilson's decla-
ration that people of the United States
should refrain from taking sides and
should do everything in their power to
preserve the neutrality of the country.
He said tlat in coming together as the
audience lad they were doing everything
in their pr wer to preserve the neutrality
OF this country, because nothing tends
more to cArify the situation than to tell
the truth about the situation and to
condemn il the strongest terms the acts
OF officers pf the marine who rush into
print and tall the Emperor of Germany
an insane PRISON and an egomoniac.
Prof. Acfermann deprecated the charge
that is beirg daily made that the German
Kaiser is responsible for the war. He
told the Audience that the Emperor of
Germany lad less to say in declaring
war than Ehe President of the United
States, th$ the Kingdoms that make
up the German Empire retain their
su9eralnty to greater extent than the
several stats of the United States and
that no ofInsive war could be declared
in Germant unless all, of the rulers of
the variou| Kingdoms comprising the
Empire hal given their consent. He
referred bri fly to the fact that Emperor
Williams retn of 26 years had been
one OF continuous peace and that
last year When he celebrated his 25th
jubilee as riler Of the German Empire
he was heraded to the skies by every
body as th Peace Lord of Europe.
Prof. Ackemann maintained that no
other factoi had been so potent in
preserving bace in Europe as Kaiser
William whd is now decried as .'War
Lord"
The speak then depicted the growth
of Germany kince it's birth as an empire
and paid Bkmarck high compliment
when he insisted that Alsace-L Lorraine
which had originally belonged to Ger
many shouldbe again restored to her.
He showed how Germany developed
from purdH agricultural state to a
manufacturing and commercial nation
and how Grmany by It's intensive
methods of 4rning had not only pro-
duced enough for it's own people but
had been abldto export million of dollars
worth to othr lands. He showed the
advancementSmade by Germany along
the lines of esearch and especially in
chemistry. H spoke of its shipping
industry and bid that all this combined
created in the heart of the Englishman
a jealous split which welcomed any
coalition, evei with barbarous Russia
and Servia and Japan in order to humble
Germany and weep not only her battle
ships but also Ter merchant marine from
the North Sea.
In closing tof. Alderman made a
glowing appeal to the American public