Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-10-13
PLANTS SEED or
LIBERTY HERE TO
Be CARRIED BACK
Columbus Given Praise for Founding
Eaud Of Nation Now Striving
30 Give World Freedom.
KNIGHTS HONOR THE EXPLORER
4Ilouez Council Hears james u
0'BrleH Of Chicago and J. h.
scott OF City.

America by J1TE@e8|h"t -@+ t-A'@i''A4- w --T
held under the auspices of the ALI.
louez council. Knights Of Columbus,
I'll Hs haIf last evening before q large
crowd of rnesnbers and friends
The program consisted Of two elo-
qaent addresses. one by James G.
osBren. assistant corporation counsel
Of Chicago. and John K Scott. city
attorney az Rock Island and three
selections rendered by the *. or 81
quartet which IS composed OF Wa
McGuinn. arthur Burt, George eau
field and John &aab.
Landing lay" is the latest or legal
holidays To be observed in t1i5 coon-
Try and celebrations in honor OF
The discovery Of America are held
countrywide on Get T.
g. A BuschIe acted as chairman OF
the meeting and introduced the speak
ers of the evening James Z. Murphy
Of this CITY spoke q few words on
the value of this second Liberty loan
carnDafea ID he launched In this civ
next week lie related the need oL
the people To carry this war TO q sue
resgful end and that fl is UP to the pub
lid to purchase Liberty bonds 10 ac'
c0mDilsh st.
The main speaker Of the evening
was Rfr. 0'Brlen and he spoke on the
discovery OF America by Columbus
more than four hundred years ago
as follows THE trials and tribuia'
lions this wonderful genius must have
had in crossing the Atlantic are auaz-
ing Upon his landing on the shores
of this country there dawned new
era and the beginning of q new free
government,
-4f me beginning of she great Eur
opean war in 1914 this government
was little concerned ln the struggle
and the peoples Of This great free land
bought that the great expansion of
Tile vast Atlantic would keep this
countrys neutrality with other ma
lions. hui as time passed the Ger
man government began to murder cur
women and innocent children on the
Cd. Then { say no kaiser. no en-
aeror. no ruler and no king can claim
he rights Of seas and then I say
three cheers for She president of the
United States and congress that
signed the documents. which placed
his ereat nation into the world S war
iii other nations VINO ara fighting
aiust autoeraCy.
Looks to Us.
Now the whole of Europe turns her
eyes 30 this country To save her from
The despOtism Of the German empire.
This nation stands as the greatest
power OF asI nations aad is ready no
send troops to Europe over the same
Atlantic which columbus crossed J9
ma freedom. lu an eadeaFor % saJao-
.isu freedom fer the oid #ofld.
Mr OBreu said America IS the
breeding &EoAaez Lof 4Fe7AoLl anu az
- e5a-.a-fo ohfafn e. ami are ready
~, eeef se4et -r,+ofrsrz- and no show
III, -..l.,.f5 -ta fz IL. efrengasr mower
.,9 aarrh
.-nrrfre the last few months the
7-.,.,rf,- - rs+bo1see fu fhfs country.
- J..e-, e--s+Fl.5.as h.- MANY the
-+-..t.-,- l.,-,+sr,-se4 ..s(resr, f.. comes
-. re-+ nc I5fTfoffrz of This e9un+rz
20 ,rorf~e 4ha4r IovsItv in every
~ 10 ragff1sr army of fh5s
[-.r+,,. "A nor @e~f ara Catholics
" f,.Erfer 94xe several examples Of
.hie Jova1i*s referring TO the Sixty
mira regiment of New york. the
F3ebth 0f ohso and Seventh of Hi