Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-09-17
TRACY R. BANGS
IS SPEAKER AT
FARGO MEETING
.Pacif1sts and Obstructionists
Scored by Local
Attorney.

Fargo, N. D.. Sept. 17.-Obstruc-
tionists IN congress and in North Da-
kota, who would permit peace resolu-
tons to be introduced and invite
peace councils to q state to hold meet
ings were trampled upon by Hon.
Tracy r. Bangs Of Grand Forks, who
speaking before 1000 people at the
Auditorium Sunday afternoon, made
the statement that when the newspa-
pers begin to print the stories Of the
American boys being killed in action
that they will wake up to q sense of
feeling that it was their foolishness
and criminal action which I'VE w a
great portion Of our suffering and
mourning."
Attorney Tracy Bangs was brought
to Fargo to open h path for the big
monthly budget campaign for the
american Red Cross which opens
Monday morning and will continue
for six big days. His denunciation Of
LaFollette. and Gronna and people in
North Dakota who invited the Peo-
pies Council to hold its meetings in
North Dakota and his laudations of
Gompers, Russell and barrow as pow
ers of strength, brought most of the
breaking the calm or the Sabbath aft
ernoon. x
Two Glasses OF Citizenship.
There are two classes of citizen
ship In the United States" said Attor-
ney Bangs. assets and liabilities, and
we are either true loyal citizens of
the first lass O. else traitors. We
can't be neutral now.In Europe to-
day a mad dog is loose. We in this
country, the great United States. and
the greatest country Of them all and
| xyn 1nPanf ri rH n ~ ~ Had 4 rynnn W RI
come to the issue Of the world and to
save it for democracy. If there are
any Germans in this country and they
are sympathizing with the imperial
government atehome, it would be best
that the United States should load
them all on a ship and send them
back to the land from whence they
came and IL they are ~torpedoed, 1t will
have beer done by their friends, peo-
pie who have taken Canadian soldiers
land nailed them on the barns, have
invented a liquid fire which they are
sending into the trenches and have
dropped bombs On innocent little chill
dren attending schools and have
dropped to such a low degree as to
wounded from the seat of battle to a
, base hospital. It is such a savage
and brutal dog that the United States
has been called upon to capture. We
will do it with Old Glory. She all
ready has been carried into the
trenches and it won't be the last time
either.
"'Just a few months ago we were
supposed to be neutral. There has
never been a time when any man or
woman who has a sense for freedom,
and Justice, since August 1914, who
could be anything but pro-Ally since
the German atrocities have, been
brought to the attention Of the civil
lied nations of the world. The con
duct Of the war on the part Of the
Germans and the autocratic powers
has never been >equalled in brutality,
Statements nave been made that the
United States has no business in this
war.
LET me say that it is the business
of every man Inc woman to be in this
war if he or she has a spark of Chris
tianitya in him or her. we, have IN
, this country children brought here
from France and Belgium and a
mother and her B-year-old daughter
are not FAR from us. Motherhood is
upon them, victims of the German as
saults and then some think it is not a
war for the United States. It is a war
that APPEALS to the woman as much
as the men. It is a wal on the part
of Germany to gain a foothold in the
western hemisphere more than fol
any other purpose. We can thank
first Belgium, secondly, France and
then England that we are permitted
to fight this very war in France today
and not on United States soil later.
Attorney Bangs declared that the
UNITED States. would be the angel t.
push back the stone, and that wher
this time came there would be thu
birth of new civilization. His speech
was one Of the most forcible that has
been given in Fargo since the wal
started. His long acquaintance with
political and social affairs of the state
equipped him with ammunition t.
make his talk take hold and. to grip
Secretary Hardy of the Fargo Com
mercial club, introduced the speaker
lin a few words. The invocation was
given by the Rev. Frost. pastor of the
First Methodist church of Fargo. Sc.
lections were played by the band OF
the streets. and front of the auditori'
UNI and in the building preceding the
meeting.
The attopney made the assertion
that SO per cent Of the wounded PEG
J pie are saved through the Red eros.
land he urged the people to give al