Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1917-11-01
BUSINESS PLACES
CLOSE DURING THE
EXERCISES HELD
Inspiring and Convincing Address
Given by M. J. Gillem of Racine
to Large Audience in Theater
They woke BarabOO up.

Fine music and convincing address.
Patriotic people march through rain.
One of the stirring days for Bara-
boo has passed into history The
Great Lakes Naval Training station
band has played and M. ]. Gillem OF
Racine has convinced his hearers the
United States in the war is right.
At 10 o'clock this morning the
stores closed and the parade for the
liberty loan was held. 1t was damp
and rainy, but they marched, several
blocks in length The order was as
follows:
Local officials and committee.
Great Lakes Naval Training Sta
ton band.
SQUAD of enlisted men with guns.
Red Cross workers with flags
City officials and others.
Pupils of the schools.
Boy Scouts with flags and liberty
loan banners.
Automobiles with veterans.
Citizens.
Speaker Introduced
The speaker was introduced IN the
crowded AL Ringing theater by r, T.
Perry, Reedsburg chairman OF the
county liberty loan committee. He
said the speaker would not state why
we are at war, all knowing that, but
would discuss why the people should
support the government. Of the
$1140.OO0 to be raised by this county,
but S325,OO had been subscribed,
that as the result of the work OF the
bankers. He said the statement cir
cuIated that the bonds could not be
converted into cash is untrue, ana
showed how far they would be above
par after the war is over. The IN
sidious statements have been made,
he said. to embarrass the government
and retard the loan.
Address by Nj. j. GiI!em
M. ]. Gillem, president of the
Mitchell Wagon company, Racine
then gave a convincing and patriotic
address. He spoke of the eight mil
lions in the banks and the sixty mil
lions Of wealth in the county and re-
gretted that so little had been sub
SCGlDeU. lie cOUI IJI1I41CIACCu MI - .
and the other bankers for the per
formance of their patriotic duty He
said this was the home of Governor
Philipp and all should stand with
him. the home of his, the speakers
classmate, Judge f. A. Evans, the
home Of Judge R. c. Siebecker,
good German-American, the home OF
ond all ShOnl0
be proud Of him.
The speaker said he came to make
those present 100 per cent Americans.
He wanted them to go to the bank
and get a passport Of an American
citizenship, a liberty bond This
county has sent $50 boys to the army
and in the argument to support them
he offered ten thousand dollars to
any man who would come forth and
saw he had abused him. This was not
a war of our choosing against the
Prussian war machine and he told
how that machine had tried to crush
those who came to this country years
ago.
Rise of Prussianism
The speaker told Of the rise OF Prus-
sianism through 400 years. Its home
was in Central Europe. They bor-
rowed money, passed the government
over to the present reigning house,
and the kaiser's ancestors began to
preach frightfulness and the divine
right of kings.
He told of the gain of Prussianism
through Frederick the Great, the con-
quest of the petty German states, the
robbery Of a part of Denmark and
the unscrupulous result of the war
with France, which was begun by Bis
mark sending forged telegram. 1t
was that machine which drove the
Germans to America, where they could
enjoy better conditions He told OF
the work Of the kaiser to build a
navy and increase the army, and how
he started the war. Germany expect
ed to take much more wealth from