Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-12-26
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ten a Rotary song which has since
become popular all around the
world, and the big audience has
Joined in singing it in his honor.
In turn Mr.. Lauder recalled the in
cident of his writing of this song
the words of which received their
first publication in the Harrisburg
Telegraph, and said he had just
completed another new one, not yet
published, which he would sing first
here as he had his Rotary song. He
sang it, wonderfully catching tune
of America in the war, exemplifying
the united spirit OF the north, the
south, the east and the west, and
destined, if the manner of it's recep-
ton by those present meant any,
thing, to become tremendously pop
ular.
Aid Boys at Front
The boys at the front must have
every assistance the civilian popula-
ton can give them" said Mr.. Laud-
er. I'VE want to become inoculated
with the serum of sacrifice and SER
vice. We never shall submit to the
rule of Prussianism. 1t is not glory,
not riches and not honor for which
we are contending, but liberty and
liberty alone. No man among us
may lose his liberty except he lose
his life. Liberty spells love, inde-
pendence and birthright, not alone
for us, but for the unborn genera
tions to come, and it will be hard
for the old, old man years hence
who must answer the question of his
grandchild why he, at the age of 90
to 80 years during the time of the
great war, took no part in it,
Don't be war wary" he cau=
tionel, Let us give the men at the
front every hope and faith that we
at home are solidly behind them"
and then speaking of the German
element in America he said: ''Why
don't the Germans in this country
try to help the Germans at home get
rid of the Kaiser and his Jvnker-
dom? If they are not willing so to
help it means that they want the
Kaiser and his Junkerdom brought
to these shores"
He said those abroad who knew
America knew also why we were
slow in taking up arms, and he
thanked God for a President like
Wilson at the head of the govern
ment. He said that at home it was no
longer England, but Great Britain
and the British Empire.
He told of the discovery of Ger
man guns buried in America, of
Warehouses; stored WlIn 1000 IN OrQef
that it might spoil and go to waste,
of schoolbooks tanned with Prussian-
ism and even German school teach
ers in this country, and he compared
these evils with what would ensue
did Prussianism have its way in the
world.
Mr.. Lauder told of two instances
of German barbarsm to illustrate his
point-one of sixty Highlanders cap
tured by Germans W sacompelled to
stand all night naked in a driving
rain and then told to go back to their
regiment across No-Man's Land in
that condition, when they were
moved down by machine gun fire
from behind, just outside the Ger
man trenches. Another had to do
with fountain pen. captured in q
German dugout, which exploded and
BILE wolf half the face of a British
soldier when he tried to write to his
mother with it.
Mr.. Lauder made a wonderful i'm
preston and his references to the
loss of his son. brought tears to the
eyes of fathers with sons in The scrv-
ice. At the conc'Ision Of his address
a delegation of Scotch bagppcrs
played national airs.