The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-11-17
NORTHWEST now
PLEDGED TO SEE
WAR THROUGH TO
VICTORIOUS END
More Than 5000 Persons
Attend Great Loyalty
Gathering At st. Paul
HEAR MESSAGE
FROM WILSON
Speakers Include O'Con-
ner, Vrooman and Sena-
tors Nelson and Kellogg
tBy Assoeiated Press.l


st. Paul, Nov. 17.-As a demon
stration Of the loyalty of Minnesota
and the whole northwest. 5000 per-
sons. representing every county of
this state and the other common
wealths OF the territory, gathered in
the auditorium here yesterday and
affirmed their purpose to stand back
of the government in its prosecution
Of the war against Germany. The
audience. through the passage Of a
resolution, affirmed its determination
to see the war through to a success
full conclusion and pledged its sup
port in deeds, sacrifices and service,
as a message from President Wilson,
read at the meeting, suggested.
q The message from the President
read:
Nothing could be more significant
than your gathering TO express the
loyalty of the great northwest. II 1t
were possible. should gladly be with
you. You have come together as the
representatives of that western en-
pire in which the sons Of all sections
of America and the stocks of all the
nations Of Europe have made the
prairie and the forest the home Of a
new race and the temple of a new
faith. The time has come when that
home must be protected and that
faith affirmed in deeds, sacrifices and
service.
1T must come from every class.
every profession, every party, every
race, every creed, every section. This
is not q bankers war or q farmers
war, or a manufacturers war, or a
laboring mans war; 1t is a war of
every straight out American. wheth-
er the flag be his by birth or by
adoption.
1--WE are today a nation in arms
and we must fight and farm, mine
and manufacture. conserve food and
fuel, save and spend, to the one COM
mon purpose.
Looks to Northwest.
1T Is to the great northwest that
the nation looks as once before. for
that steadinesS Of purpose and firm
ness Of determination which shall
see this struggle through to a deci-
sion that shall make the masters of
Germany rue the day they unmask-
ID their purposes and challenged our
republic"
The speakers included T. P.
0'Conner, Irish member of the Brit
sh parliament; Carl Vrooman. as
sistant secretary OF agriculture;
Senators Nelson and kellogg OF
Minnesota. and the Rev. f. p. Peri
CORD, formerly a priest in this state
and now a lieutenant In the French
army.
Mr.. O'Conner taking as his text
IN American flag, which he held in
ais hand. dwelt on the opportuni-
les afforded emigrants from Europe
% this country as the basis for a
oyalty that should be untarnished
0y a divided allegiance.
Washington warned against en-
angling foreign alliances. warning
lot unnecessary in his time" said
Mr.. O'ConneT.
He declared the reichstag was no
more than a debating society, and
the freedom which the
German immigrant had found in this
If any German is foolish
enough to like the institutions of
Germany better than those OF this
and. then let him go back TO his own
country"
Either America had no right to
enter the war. Mr.. O'Conner said,
Dr. she must stay in the war until
he things that brought her into it,
ire destroyed.