The Little River news., 1917-11-21
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Great Crowd Heard Cur Congressman sunday Night on "i5ily We Are ill ihe
 War.

tOllSi cSs iildH OIlS |. " lif5O 3uui Goo- ed great crowd of people Sunday Il Ght at the auditorium, holding the audience under a spell of attent:venesS for almost two hours. As q prelimin aty the audience sang America, follow cd by a prayer by Rev. s. K. Burnett. The speaker was introduced by Hon. Seth c. Reynolds. A. P. Steel acted as chairman.
 Mir Wingo stated that the pres dent had requested that all members of congress go out among the people dur ing the vacation period and explain to the people the reasons Why we are st war. The speaker said that We did not go to war. but that war came to us. He said that he wanted to tell a peo- pie who boasted of being a Chr. r.stian nation whose lord was God that the fate of Christian nations was trembl- ing in the balance. He wanted to make no fourth of July speech but to tell the honest, brutal truth.
 He opened his address by reading from extracts from the German Kai5- CT and German writers i'll order that We may understand the German phil O. ophy and ideals of thought The substance of the German idea w&a shown to be that they believed the German race to be the chosen people of God and that the Kaiser was the divinely appointed mouthpiece of God apd the ins trument by which the Ger manic people might suDjegate the whole world by the sword for the hon or and glory of the Almighty. Hay ing proven by their own words and documents for period of 10 years the German point of view or attitude, MT. Ningo launched into the causes that brought America into the war. He recounted incident after incident step by step that had finally forced this nation into the war. He told of the Lusitania and other murders and the other incidents With which all were more or less familiar. On account of his association at Washington ke was able to tell of many Of the secret pass ages, with which the public vas not familiar. He told the inside of the many plots eminating from the German embaSsy, the Zimmerman note and others. He told of tie plot to blow up the capital wth the house and senate assemble at a time when the president was present, thus wiping out in one blast our entire government or g2n'zatior This too at a time when We were aIt peace with Germany. The thirteen plOtters had been arrested and had confessed He said that German gold had tried to buy congress and to control it. He could &t one time tro e the travels of a German agent who passed through this d strict causing telegrams to be sent to him by local people asking that certain measure
  spired by the same source because they were Worded alike. They start ed at Texarkana and went up the line Afterwards the Western Union had been paid for the millions of mossa ges by Che man traced to German sources. He spoke of the propagandas and fclse stories circulated to create sentiment which would! hamper the government. He sad that We ought to be thankful that we could send o2r boys to the trenches in Trapce instead of waiting for the war to come to Us where scenes would be enacted similar to those in Belgium.
 Mir Wingo took occasion to refer to the story that had been circulated ill the press to the effect that members of had exempted their own sal aries from the income tax. He read the law which was plain ana did not eX empt congressional incomes.
 The lecture by MT Wingo was spok- en of as great, On the subject it was the greatest and clearest ever made here. He left Monday for Washington after a strenuous speaking tour. His many friends here appreciate h.s hay ing visited AshdoWn before his return.
 After the address A, P, Steel, chair man of the Y. NJ C. A. for this county stated that at the Foreman meeting held by Mir Wingo Sunday morning collection of $1265 for Y NJ, C. A, and Red Cross worN had been made, thus Little River county out ahead of its prorata Of 5000. Rev. C. s. Wales dismissed the audience with a prayer.
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