The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-10-17
DIR. LOveland Tells TOpekans of
It's Many Horrors.
Enough Men Killed To Stretch
Eight Times Across o. S.
PRUSSIANISM BEARS BLAME
Harvest of Frederick the
Greats Sowing Being Reaped.
Germany without Conscience
Curse of the World.

The damnable intrigue of the Ger
man government, apart from the Ger
man people, has brought the world to
it's present warning condition, accord
ing to DIR. Frank L. Loveland, who
spoke at the first Topeka war mass
meeting at the city auditorium Tues
day night 1t is the Prussian philo-
sophy instilled in the mind of the Ger
man people that has wrought havoc
with practically every civilized nation
of the world, he said.
From the time that Frederick the
Great founded a nation without pub
lie conscience down to the present
strain of the Hohenzollern dynasty
Prussianism has been the enemy to all
the world. Neitsche systematiZed this
German philosophy of government.
and Bismarck applied it, DR.. Loveland
related.
Fifteen hundred people attended
the first public gathering headed by
Dr. Loveland. The citizens of Topeka
received his talk with all the thanks
that a survey of the situation could
give to fond parents and wives. APP
pIause broke out at the conclusion of
every thought. The hall was deco
rated with posters for liberty bonds
and the American flag.
Doctor LoveIands lecture was the
first of its kind ever heard in the city
It was burning with a hatred for the
German government and yet was
cooled with true logic and thoro un-
derstanding of the situation. The
story of the German people and of the
government was historic sketch dat
ing from the time of Frederick the
Great the greatest Hohenzol1ern. The
philosophy of the German rulers apart
from that OF the common people was
explained and impressed on the fifteen
hundred listeners.
A GhostIy Army.
The war is even larger than we can
conceive, he declared. There has been
enough men shot during the present
conflict to march across the United
States and double back from WASH
ington into Canada Marching the
ghostly army of slaughtered men from
New York, to Washington, to Detroit,
to Omaha, and to Los Angeles. then
north to Seattle and thence into Can
ado, if the troops were marching eight
abreast, eight feet apart, there would
be thousands and thousands of spirits
that would not have moved from Wall
street
The money expended by the COM
bined armies on the present war, if
loaded on railroad trains. thirty cars
to the train and $4,000 pounds to each
car, with the trains one mile apart, the
gold expended in the slaughter would
extend clear across the state of Kansas
and clear to Denver, Col.
If the kaiser knew that America
was backing the president 100, 900, 900
strong, he would fear for the breaking
of the German morale. 1t wouldSplay
havoc with the German obstinacy
and the German spirit. To have this
fact known to the world would mark
the United States as a hero and would
brand the kaiser with the burning
iron of public sentiment. 1t would
end the war.
In addition to DR.. Loveland's lecture
on the soul of the German empire he
spoke of the liberty bond, what it
meant to the world as well as to the
government Senator James A. Trout
man. who prsided at the meeting, also
spoke on the bond issue and made a
plea for subscriptions.