The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1917-11-22
HON. TH0S. D. .SCHALL
Gives Interesting Lecture at Meth
odist Church on 'Why We
Are In the War"
In a TwO-HOur Address He Covers
the Situation From an
American Standpoint.

American Standpoint.
Congressman Thos. D. Schall opened
the lyceum entertainment course at
the Methodist church last evening with
lecture on "Why We Are In the
War;" 1t was discourse of much
enlightenment to the average listener
and covered the grounds in detailed
form:
Mrs. Olof Wasenius opened the
proceedings with piano prelude and
Mr.. Schall and his good wife, who
accompanied him, were introduced to
the audience by Rev. James A. Geer,
pastor of the Methodist church, and
one of his schoolmates. Hereunder is
brief outline Of Mr.. Schall's lecture:
[ am not speaking this evening as
congressman but as neighbor.
The first aim is to get the mental
attitude of the people in the greatest
crisis the world has ever known. The
flag is meaningless unless it signifies
all that it represents. Our stars and
stripes represent a nation that has
never gone backward in it's supremacy.
Never was there a war that was not
fought against my relatives or your
relatives. The war of 1912 was not
fought against the fatherland but
motherland. 1t went into history with
the civil war and other conflicts.
Mexico is the richest land in the
world. For hundreds of square miles
it contains vast oil fields and rich
silver mines which Germany has made
every effort to control and with some
success.
To the Monroe doctrine is due the
fact that the western hemisphere has
not been converted into a slaughter
pen as has Europe. England has as
sisted the United States in the en-
forcement of this law but Germany
has tried to disrupt it-break it up
For 40 years Germany has been pre-:
pairing and the war was intended to
be started in Mexico. From the
United States has sprung 26 republics,
AS to the present war the kaiser
declared that Russia was afraid of
him and consequently sent his heaviest
forces to the west, thinking that Paris
could be invested and that England
would thereafter fall, but herein the
laser found his mistake. The kaiser
declares that he and God are in
partnership to control the eastern
hemisphere
1t is we'll that the Mexican govern
ment is not antagonistic to us. Japan
csc and German money, have been
pouring into that country for, years
to spread the peace propaganda.
Mexican newspapers have been SUBJ
sidized for the same purpose. Both
of these countries had sinister reasons
for this procedure.
The submarine menace is not so
great peril as was at first anticipate
ed-we are now in a position to cope
with the undersea terror better than
ever before and will no doubt in the
course of time be enabled to complete
ly subdue it.
AS to the pro-Germans in the Unit
ed States I would advise them to get
out and stay out. This is not merely
la war between Germany and England
but between the United States and
Germany. England has given America
many insults but she has always as
sisted in enforcing the Monroe doc
trine while Japan has always awaited
an opportunity to break it. Under the
circumstances the United States could
do no other than go to the assistance
of England in the hour of her neces-
sity when the British government had
stood firmly by us for II years. Then
when Germany commenced her SUBJ
marine warfare against the United
States, numbering her citizens, Presi-
dent Wilson considered this sufficient
cause for declaration of war. y
The kaiser figured that America
could not fully prepare for war within
two years and that. England by that
time would be whipped, but the allies
can, without question, hold out until
we place a formidable army in the