The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1915-01-08


Main street las; evening. commencing
at eight O'Clock In addition to q
very pleasing program OF musical
numbers. feature of the evening
was the address OF Congressman
elect Hon. +. +. Ellsworth. and a
large and appreciatiye audience were
present 70 hear the speaker, and the
home talent OF the city who furnished
the entertainment.
The program opened with 4 pipe
organ prelude By W. a, Johnson, the.
church organist, after which the audi
enee Joined In singing a hymn. Rev.
o. J. Arthur, pastor. read the gospel
lesson from the 2ist verse, second
chapter of st. Luke. Attorney John.
son announced the program numbers
as they were given. Miss Mildred
Francis. accompanied upon the piano
by Miss Mamie skuse,. sang "The
Holy City" very beautifully. Messrs.
ID. VI. Jones and Sidney Davies, the
popular, Welsh singers. rendered a
duet. and were accompanied on the
plano by Mrs. Ruth Hamilton. Miss
Anna Rosquist followed with a pleas
ing recitation entitled 1.-THE Temper
ance Workers." after which Miss Sig
rid Mellegren played pretty piano
solo. Miss Esther Rud gave vocal
solo, and Mrs. Oscar Anderson rend-
cred violin solo. the speaker Of
the evening then being introduced
by Attorney Johnson, who In a few
we'll chosen words explained that the
Scsndinavians loved a man who could
put up good clean fight, probably
because their ancestors were Morse
men,. and therefore they like Mr..
Ellsworth. He mentioned the fact
that Minnesota had furnished num-
Der of great men 10 the country. and
closed by regretting that Mr.. Els
worth was not of his own nationality.
Busy Hustlins Country.
AIr. Ellsworth gracefully acknow-
lodged his Introduction. saying that
he did not think It out of place for
a political man 10 address an audi.
enee from the pulpit of church.
lie called attention to the great
changes in public sentiment which
have taken place during the past
twenty or thirty years. the people
that the business of
managing the public affairs Is an
one, and therefor no man
engaged in doing the country's work
should have any conjunction about
appearing i'm the pulpit. Uniting the
serious with the humorous, Mr.. Ellis
worth Illustrated the change in con-
ditions from thirty years ago with
a humorous story. which showed that
from the sleepy. good old days, Amer
lea had developed in busy. ,hust-
ing country. where even minutes were
precious, and the United States had
become one OF The powers of the
world. = (
Nineteen hundred and: fifteen ought
TO be dedicated by the American
people 10 a serious and solemn study
Of themselves as a nation, and TO
The internal conditions of our coun-
try" said Mr. Ellsworth. He con-
tinued to show that there was never
in the history of the world time
ike the present, when great and vital
problems overshadowed things that,
would have been of vast moment at
other times. On Christmas eve,
President Wilson conferred with the.
head of Great Britain, his
message being of a tenure demand
ing THAT Great Britain must not in.
with the commerce of the
United States. At another time such
a message would have caused con-
sternation and terror on both sides
Of the hemisphere, but IL was now
being passed over as a mere incident,
owing TO the wars. us 1t not
strange said Mr.. Ellsworth, that
on Christmas eve in 1914, just one
hundred years last Thursday, the
men who had assembled at Client
reached the decision which closed
the treaty of Client? Is it NOT
strange coincidence that for one hun.
dred years which America has en-
loyed in peace, the matter of commerce
ofSthe seas has not been settled be-
tween England and us? Owing TO
the alliances OF the European nations
We thought that no nation would
dare TO attack another nation. but
last summer. like bolt out OF a
clear sky, came the news that six
great nations of Europe we're plunged
IN o mighty struggle. Where then
were their alliances? II is war
more drastic, more inhnman, and of
greater magnitude than any ever be.
fore. and almost eneircles the world. !
The whole world stood aehast a !
short time ago at the sinking OF the
Titanic and its attendant tragedies.
Terrible Tragedies Being Enacted,
Now, every day as terrible trag-
sdies are being enacted In a hun
lred thousand homes, when the men
fall i'm battle upon, the field of trag
edy. These tragedies are being en-
acted every single day. do not
expect the war In Europe to end
next spring. next summer, or next
TALL. ] fully expect the struggle TO :
continue. do not expect one of
.hese great nations TO conquer the
,ther by shining feats OF heroism.
.ut ! expec: n continuance of the
var by ball dog determination
,f the iiationg rid grinding out Of