Omaha daily bee., 1917-04-09
PUBLIC RoUSED
BY SPEAKERS WKO
SOUND WAR CALL
Former Secretary Of War
Stimson and Frederick R.
Coudert Deliver Patriotic
Talks at Auditorium.
NOT SAFE WAR'-STIMS0N
Former Official Points Out
Dangers That May
Result.
KAISER ,DEFIES ALL LAW
NOT SAFE WAR'-sTIMs0N
KAISER ,DEFIEs ALL LAW

vrhe call to war was sounded by
speakers at the patriotic mass meeting
Saturday evening in the Auditorium.
The war upon which the nation is
about to enter was pronounced mot
safe war by former Secretary OF
War Henry L. Stimson,
Don't underestimate the task be-
fore u.s." he warned.
He declared it is war in which we
must furnish great number OF men,
and not merely loan money TO our
allies. "rhe war may be decided by
the last 100000 men," he declared,
The Auditorium was profusely
decorated with flags, and the audience
comfortably filled the big building.
Members Of the Grand Army Of the
Republic marched in, headed by fife
and drum corps and amid applause.
A band played patriotic airs preceding
the speaking and "The Battle Cry OF
Freedom" "Star-Spanglcd Banner
and other patriotic songs were sung
by the audience during the meeting.
Judge w. D. McHugh, chairman of
the National Patriotic committee of
Omaha, presided.
Example Of Colonists.
All the speakers paid tribute to the
way the Americans of German birth
are showing their ioyaltyto this coun-
try. Judge McHugh, in his in.roduc-
tory remarks, pointed out that it is
no new thing for citizens Of this coun-
try to fight against the land OF their
BIRTH
That is what the colonists did in
the revolutionary war" he said. "They
fought against their mother land
They did the same thing in the war
Of 1922
r. L, ,Metcalfe sounded a high note
for the present war into which the
country Is entering.
| 1T rs not war of resentment, re-
venge or conquest. but war to eud
war" he said He pronounced the
kaiser "ihe worst blood-bespattered
monarch in the history OF the world,'
and declared. "In the intelligence of
man he is doomed; in the Justice of
God he must fail"
! He declared we must bind our
selves with the allies to make no
separate peace as guaranty that they
will make no separate peace with
out us.
Acts Of the Kaiser.
Frederick R. Coudert OF NewAYork.
authority on international Law, ex-
planned the successive acts OF the
kaiser which have made war inevit-
able for this country.
The world was amazed when, on
February 4, 1915, the destruction OF
neutral ships on the high seas was
ordered by Germany he said.
Nothing Of the sort had ever been
heard before People, couldn't be-
lieve they would do it.
| six weeks ago. from my Office
window in New York, | saw the
American flag imprisoned on more
than 100 ships in New York harbor.
They covered there because the
kaiser said they could not go out
upon the high seas"
He referred with sarcasm to the
kaiser's special permit "for one Amer
ican ship to sail each week, it to be
painted red and white like a barber
pole"
He spoke OF Belgium as the scene
OF mems wars through the centuries
and how it was finally erected into a
neutral state.
And the moment this was torn
down by Germany's violation of Bel
GUM, the reign of law ended and all
that men had built up through cen
turies was destroyed by an autocracy
that knew no law. The German au-
tocracy has torn down everything
that the German people love-"
| He read a manifesto by German
socialist leaders. which. after review
ing the violation of Belgium and the
butchery in other little countries, de-
clared the kaiser has covered our ma
tion with eternal shame"
Mr.. Coudert said, also:
There is at this time something as
to which there can be nothing save
union in thought and deed The hour
IS solemn one. almost religious i'll
its solemnity and in its purport.
America is perhaps the most
peaceful Of nations, not perhaps more
peaceful than was France, but GER
.ainly she is most peaceful nation:
yet, my friend, the typical American
is pacific in the true sense OF the
word. He believes a peace based
upon law and honor to be so inl-
portant that it is worth more than
mere material possession, il is worth
more than life. and he is ever willing
to fight to obtain it.
THAT is the kind OF pacihsm tha.
is honest, that is the kind that is true.