The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-05-31
UNITED STATES
|. ENTERS WAR AT
CRUCIAL PERIOD
England Heavily Taxed,
Russia Out and France
Exhausted
MINNEAPOLIS MAN
SPEAKER In FARGO
Monte Appel Says Struggle
Had Inception at
Waterloo

Germany thought that the United
States was too busy piling up Its
mountains of gold to stop in her
quest for wealth to fight for an ideal.
There were many in this country who
shared the same idea. America has
stopped and her great task today is to
crush Germany to save democracy
Monte Appel Of Minneapolis, made
the foregoing declaration in the OPEN
ling of his Memorial day address at the
Fargo auditorium Wednesday after
noon, explaining that the United States
has entered the struggle with Russia
out of the war on account OF Internal
troubles, France exhausted and Eng
| land taxed to the limit. The auditor
ium was filed on the main floor, and
there were a scattered few In the bal
cony. The program was preceded by
a parade from the public library to the
meeting hall. ..f-.
Thousands lined the line of parade.
Company B headed the procession, fol-
lowed by the band and q platoon OF
police, q, A. r., Women.s RELIEF CORPS,
| Sons of Veterans and Spanish Amer
lean war veterans. School children,
each carrying an American flag, were
in the rear. sIE
r. m. Pollock Presided.
r. M. Pollock presided over the ex-
ercises which opened with a prayer by
Bishop John Poynts Tyler, followed by
the reading of general orders by Ad-
iutant s. ]. Hill, Miss Edith Oberg
gave Lincoln's Gettysburg address and
the Fargo high school girls glee club
sang number. 81 s
I'VE have shown the world that we
are ready to sacrifice money and lives
to defend democracy. We entered this
contest at q time when Russia was out
of it owing to internal troubles" said
Monte Appel. THE forces Of France
are practically exhausted and Eng
lan's resources are taxed to the limit.
We find ourselves face to face with the
task of crushing the wonderfully
efficient German military machine
and we are not hesltating to
now up to the people to show
that the German government had
made q mistake in sizing up the Amer
| lean people when 1t said the people or
| the United States will not stand for
entering the war, and thus depart
from the course of money-making.
Open Violations.
"Germanys violations OF its treaty
with Belgium was a deliberate act IN
1.-THE program of world conquest, as
was her submarine warfare, Launched
| last February. It was submarine war
| fare that prompted President Wilson
to declare war. The preservation OF
our ideals demanded that this country
take a decided stand in this matter.
Every move made by the German gov
eminent since the time or BISMARCK,
| every utterance of its public men, the
press and its political writers SHOWS
that GERMANY has been working on its
proSram of world conquest all this
| time. England knew Of these plans
and built her navy to protect her en-
pire. France has been preparing Tor
| the inevitable struggle. Belgium
thought she was safe through sacred
| treaties but those were shattered with
out moments consideration.
So Inception at Waterloo.
According to the speaker the present
world conflict had its inception at the
battle of Waterloo.
eft makes no difference what the
historians and our opinions are OF Ma
poleon. the fact remains that the I'M
Iperialistic governments Of that day
and after considered him an advocate
of republican government and that, as
such, he was menace 10 irnPeTialIs t,
| shortly after Napoleon's fall sew
eral monarchies of Europe formed
what Is known as the Holy Alliance,
| this organization being for the aVoWed
| Durnose of preventing the recurrence
| of a republican movement such as had
been started by Napoleon in France
The program of the alliance also IN
| cIuded the destruction Of the republic
| in the new world and plans to ac-
compliskl that purpose were set in mo-
tion on this continent but were nipped
| by the PRONUNCIATION Of the Monroe
/ doctrine.
some of these principles entered
into the civil war in this country when
the veterans whom we honor TO-DAY
made the supreme sacrifice to save the
republican form Of government on TINS
continent. They did not think the
struggle which started with the seces-
sion of the southern states would
4 amount to much and the president
thought the calling Of $4,000 troops to
serve for 90 days would settle the
trouble. There is a lesson for us in
this incident. The present crisis makes
BIT more fitting than ever that we pay
homage to these veterans"