The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-02-13
KAISER s CREED
is PICTURED IN
PATRIOTIC TALKS
ON LINCOLN DAY
''Might Makes Right"
Open Doctrine Taught
In Germany
YOUNG PRAISES
BELGIAN STAND
Fargo Labor Places World |
War As Cause of
Working People |
YOUNG PRAISES
BELGIAN STAND

Fargo labor at the close Of its
loyalty day celebration in the Audi
torium last evening--the second
mass meeting of the day-procIaiIn-
ed its support Of the administra
tion's war policy and its answering
purpose to direct every energy TO-
ward complete and final victory over
despotism.
Fully two thousand persons were
present at both the afternoon and
the evening exercises, and heard the
principles of democracy ex1olled IN
words and lessons from the man
whose birthday anniversary was
celebrated throughout the nation.
Speakers were Judge N. G. Young at
the afternoon meeting, and Hon. }.
T.. 7. O'Connor Of Grand Forks, at
the evening meeting.
We call upon the people Of Amer
lea everywhere to stand united in
this mighty struggle. in this Climax
of the whole contest between tyran-
ny and liberty, pledged to whatever.
sacrifice may be called for II the
name of victory for humanity and
the ideals for which enlightened
humanity now struggles with such
yalor and singlenass of purpose to-
the end that amtooracy may perish
forever from the eartn AMI that
democracy may bring Its blessings
to all people forever" relates one of
the resolutions.
Fargo labor regards the cause
for which the American nation IL
plunged into the world war funda-
mentally that of the working people
and resolves to go forward in the
line of duty, in fulhllment of the
noble aims of democracy and in the
spirit of concentration that Lincoln
made manifest with such nobility.
FIaus ussd As Decorations.
American and allied flags decorat- |
ed the interior of the Auditorium,
with 8. number of the allied flags
hanging near the stage. Boy Scouts
were the ushers and music was
furnished by the North Dakota
Agricultural college cadet band un-
nam. and the combined orchestras |
from the grade schools. w. F. |
Gushing presided at the afternoons
and the evening meetings an behalf
Of the representative labor organtza-
tions OF Fargo. In the center of the
proscenium was large picture OF
Abraham Lincoln, honored by labor
as its type of fairness, and worth of
man.
Another shattered dream of the
xaisers was pictured in the address
delivered at the Auditorium last
evening by Hon. J. +. 7. OConnor OF
Grand Forks. who read the famous
statement made by a German ad
miral to Admiral Dewey when the
German official predicted Germany
would start war in fifteen years
and said the Germans would be in
Paris in two weeks, EnglaId was to
be crushed next and then the United
States.
''The German officers prediction
was within one year Of being correct
with respect to the beginning of this
war" said Attorney O'Connor, Ger
many has not reached Paris yet, nor
ls England crushed. Plans some
times miscarry
Might Makes Right.
Attorney O'Connor said the Ger
man people had been educated for
the last fifty years that might
makes right and that the stand
ards governing the conduct of ma
lions must be different from that of
He read a quotation
from a predecessor of the present
kaiser TO the effect that a monarch
must forget he Is a Christian when ,
seeking advantages for his coun-
Lry.
That's the kind of doctrine open
y taught and practiced by the gov
arnment with which we are now at
war" said the speaker What |
contrast between that and the prin-
,iples OF your country and mine. !
We are not fighting the German !
people, but we are fighting the Ger !
nan government, military autocTa- /
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