New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1917-05-09
GREAT W0RLD WAR
GRAPHICALLY TOLD
PROMINENT LECTURERIRELATES
INCIDENTS OF THE AWFUL
STRUGGLE.
SEES VISION OF FOUR GREAT
EMPIRES WHEN PEACE COMES
AGAIN.

| SAID EInl Ll0SS, CIle well hIlOWu lecturer
and philosopher, Sunday night, before
an audience which almost filled the
lecture room of the Turner hall. But
there are some other causes underlying
that terrible cataclysm which draws
more and more nations into it's "mael-
strom'-just as a stone thrown into a
placid lake, is drawing more and more
circles which become larger and larger the
father away they are from the spot where
the stone was thrown into the water.
Thus by an inevitable law of nature, or
by political or national economical
DEVELOPMENTS, even America became in
volved in the struggle.
Billions at Stake.
Our own reasons for participation in
the war are not so ''ideal,'' but rather the
desire to serve J. Pierpont Morgan, and
the bunch with him, who have been
gamb bling, and invested billions of dollars
on the wrong side," which would mean
the loss of those billions, if the Central
Powers should be allowed to be victorious
over the Allies. There are also some
other reasons of national and economi-
cal kind, why the United States are
DESTROYS that the side Of Great Britain
should win in the great struggle.
Speaking the same language as Eng
land, the desire to expand commercial
supremacy over South and Central
America, etc., may have been deciding
factors, too, for the entry of the United
States into the war.
Silver Lining in Clouds.
However, there is one "si!ver lining"
even in this CHASTITY cloud of untold
misery and destruction, which has been
going on now for nearly three years.,
which the speaker painted in such a
heartrending, dramatic way that al
most all of the ladies present were sobbing
and weeping during his heart-breaking
tales of incidents of the war. He told
how the struggle is preying on the nerves,
especially of the fathers and mothers
living in this country, but whose sons or
near and dear relatives in the war who
have died on the field of battle,- some-
times three or four in one family, in the
same battle. The news of such battles,
he said, often drove fathers and mothers
to insanity. Instances of such tragedies
were told with names and all details
mentioned by the speaker. That "silver
lining, however, he said, is the ''steel
BATH" thru which every nation has to
go by that ocean of blood and tears, and
which will "rejuvenate' them and will
see them emerge stronger and more man.
ly from this awful struggle, which strains
every nerve and muscle to it's utmost,
and bringing out of them every bit of
energy which is in those people, making
them much more efficient after the war
is over.
True democracy, Mr.. LESS said, is
found in the trenches. It is there that
the son of the millionaire and the son Of
the laborer are on an equal footing. They
face the same perils, endure the same
hardships and undergo the same ex-
periences, living as true brothers. There
is no snobbery in the trenches, he de-
clared.
The speaker also paid tribute to the
women OF all the warning nations, for the
spirit in which they have taken up the
work of the men who have gone to war.
They have done their work faithfully
and we'll and should share the same re-
struggle is over.
Sees Four Imperiums.
In the vision of the lecturer there will
be four large 'imperiums" after the war;
the American continent, consisting of the
United States, South and Central Ameri-
ca, the United States predominating COM
mercially and otherwise; the Central
European ''empire'', with Germany as
the nucleus; the Eastern Empire with
Russia as the nucleus, and the East
Asiatic ''empire', with Japan as the
necleus.
The applause given the speaker during
his entire discourse indicated that the
audience was in thoro accord with his
views.
Capt. Albert Steinhauser presided at
the meeting. The first number on the
program was a piano solo by Miss
HENRIETTA Hauenstein, which was fol-
lowed with a song by Mrs. Herman
Helm.