The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-03-30


to Enforce Peace two OF the most dis
tinguished speakers Of the countr.
DR.. Lyman Abbott, editor OF The Out
look, and DR.. Ernest Powell, Of New
York, who has but recently returned
from the fighting front in France, ad-
dressed a large audience at the First
Baptist Church last night.
The meeting opened with the sing
ing of America" by the audience. DR..
John Barbour, pastor Of the First
Presbyterian Church, delivered the in
vocation, after which County Judge
Harry p. Purnell introduced DR.. Abb
bolt. The high lights Of DR.. Abbott's
speech we're:
For several days past we have
been within the hearing Of German
guns. We stand In the way Of their
IMPOSING their will on the entire
world. We believe that line in France
is not going to give way and II 1t
stands as we believe 1t will stand 1t
will be because Of the strength of
France and Great Britain.
Can you imagine what would hap
pen If the armies of France and Great
Britain are destroyed? You have seen
the armies of Russia made Of no eff
feet, and destroyed and the same after
effects would happen to France and
Great Britain.
Shortly after the war broke out
crippled man in Alsace-Lorraine got
in the way of German general who
drew his sabre and slashed him to
death. Belgium was invaded and her
rights were slashed. Russia went to
her rescue and she, too, has been
slashed; England waited but when
she went to the rescue of Belgium
she, too, was slashed and so with
France and Italy, and the very exist
ence of the great British empire is
threatened and all over this country
the pail hangs with the same dire dis
aster.
"If it is in the power Of Germany
to come here she will go through
America the same as she went
through Belgium" Here DR.. Abbott
read from German writer's a record
the Kaiser had given orders
to shoot the entire male population.
Continuing DR.. Abbott said: afro
cities in war is part Of the German
plan and American ideals and tradi-
lions would meet the same fate as |
was meeted out to poor Belgium. But |
there is something greater than ira
dition, it is our ideal of life, liberty |
and pursuit of happiness. That is
why the Russian Jew came to our |
shores. 1t has united the South and
the North-each of which fought for
its conception of liberty-and today
we stand united people one and in
separable" DR.. Abbott was cheered
when he closed his address with
appeal for every Kentuckian
% do his and her duty in whatever
way they could to help win the war
Mrs. Carl Dodds very beautifully
sang 1.-THE Star-Spangled Banner"
Dr.. Ernest Powell was presented to
he audience in brief speech by
Judge Purnell. DR.. Powell held his
audience spellbound as he told his
audience of the part America was to
,lay in the war and also told of the
ltrocities of the Germans. He COM
jared the savagery of the Indians
When Daniel Boone and other pio-
leers were settling in this section to
he barbarism of the Hun today, cit
ng instances Of where women and
hildren had been carried awsy by the
indians but had been rescued and re-
urned safe; when women and chill
ren are carried away by the Huns
hey are sure never to return because
he German has no sense Of honor
nd takes pleasure in torturing his
risoners and after using them for
whatever may suit his purpose, they
re put to death II they have not al