New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1914-10-21

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THRONG CROWDS TO HEAR
WAR TALK
Standing room was at premium at
the mass meeting held at Turner Hall
Monday evening. Never before has
there been such turn out for a public
meeting. Every available seat in the
auditorium was taken, additional chairs
had been placed in the front part of the
hall, the door to the small hall had been
thrown open making room for quite a
number of eager listeners, the fire escapes
were packed, the foyer and every other
| available space in the hall was filled by
men standing and yet all this space was
not sufficient to hold the people that had
come to listen to Mayor Fritsche and to
Prof. Alderman. More than hundred
were turned away and it is estimated
that more than a thousand found room
in the Hall, somewhere and somehow.
! There were several hundred from the
| surrounding country alone. CORTLAND,
| Lafayette, West Newton, Milford, Sigel
and Cottonwood sent large delegations
| and more than fifty automobiles were
parked along the streets adjacent to
Turner Hall.
The meeting was presided over by Mr..
Otto Meyer who introduced the speakers.
The first called on was Prof. Ackermann
and he held the close attention. of his
audience for two hours. His talk was,
on the whole, a terrible arraignment of
England's perfdy. His address was
based on historical facts and provided a
comparison between the acts and dealings
of England and Germany with reference
to the outside world and with specia
reference to their attitude toward the
United States at critical periods in the
history of this country.
| The speaker asserted that the Germans
as race had been in existence for about
two thousand years, and that as early
as the fifth century they had distinguished
themselves under Hermann, the Che
rusker, in throwing off the Roman yoke.
He pictured to what a power the Ger
manic race had risen under Charlemagne.
He spoke of the horrors of the Thirty
Years War when ten million men,
women and children of the Teutonic
racesswere sacrificed and said that at the
end of this cruel war, Germany lay
crushed and bleeding and was torn into
189 separate municipalities with no
common ties, an easy prey to every
neighboring power. Not until the Fran
co-Prussian war did the Germans really
become united and world power but
for the last 43 years their growth as
! nation has been phenomenal.
Prof. Alderman then rapidly sketched
how Germany has grown industrially,
commercially and otherwise, growth so
marvellous that it has incurred the envy
of the other wolrd powers. He en-
phasized the fact that Germany has been
at peace with the entire world for fully
43 years and that Emperor William who
is dubbed the "War Lord" is the only
! ruler of any consequence in the entire
world whose country has not waged war
at some time or other since his accession
to the throne about 26 years ago.
The arraignment of England was
scathing one. The speaker pictured
the greed for territory and more territory
from the time that England appeared as
nation in the 18th century after the
destruction Of the Spanish Armada.
By means Of historical data he showed
that England had not respected the
rights of other nations and that at no
time has she held sacred treaty obi
cations if she found it convenient or
! necessary to ignore them. He showed
up also the atrocities that were COM
mitted by the English to gain their ends.
Without going into the methods used by
England in subjecting Egypt, India, and
the Transvaal to British rule, it will
suffice to show their methods of warfare
and their perfdious diplomacy as far
as this country is concerned. He told
how they drove the Dutch out of New
Amsterdam, how they conquered the
French, how they saddled negro slavery
on this country, and how during the
American Revolution and also in the
War of 1872 they melted the savage
Iroquois Indians and other tribes to 90
on the warpath against the colonists
and how they paid the Indians at the
rate of $500 per scalp. He also told
that during the war Of the Rebellion the
British permitted the building OF pri-
vateers in her navy yards and that in
many other ways she showed her SYM
pathy for the South. He then went IN 70