The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1918-05-31


| ing of the Eastern Shore Trust Com
pany, which was held in Cambridge
yesterday, Was one OF, if not the
| most successful that the Company
has yet held. The attendance was
very large, there being about seven
| ty-five persons here TO represent the
banks in Southern Maryland, while
the different branches on the East
i. ern Shore turned out to the number
OF hundred or more. \ majority
of the Southern Marylanders arrived
Wednesday afternoon, coming across
to Hooper's Island, where they were
met in automobiles and brought to
Cambridge.
Yesterday morning, about 8 o'clock
the Southern Maryland and Cam
bridge contingentS started on an au-
tomobile trip to fredericksburg and
SharptoWn. They were Joined en-
route for these places by representa-
tiyes OF South Dorchester, East New
Market, Hurloch and Vienna. After
making the trip TO SharptOWn, the
party returned 10 the beautiful home
OF Col. Zorro H. Brinsfield, at Eldora-
do, where reception was rendered
the members OF the party. 1t was
intended to include Vienna on the
building at that place is not COM
pleted, and the road from Brookview
to Vienna, following the rain of the
! night before, was thought be be
! somewhat sloppy, that portion of the
| trip was abandoned.
| IN the afternoon business meet
| ing was held at the Opera House but
! the real event of the gathering was
! the meeting at night, at the Opera
| House. That meeting was called to
! order by George w. Woolford Esq,
| president of the Company, who intro
! duced as the first speaker. Dr.. Brice
| W. Goldsborough, vice-president of
! the Company, who delivered the ad
| dress of welcome. DR.. Goldsborough
was followed by Mr.. John b. Gray, of
! Prince Frederick, who III his reply
| to the address by Dr. Goldsb0rough,
| told how the Eastern Shore Trust
| Co. had helped in the work of up
| building that section of the State, and
| how the banking relations had close
! ly welded the Two sections together.
After several delightful musical
! selections by Mr.. and Mrs. Hobart
| Smock. of Baltimore, Dr.. Talcott
| Williams, Director of the School OF
! Journalism of Columbia University,
was introduced. The address of DR..
| Williams was Il masterpieces; every
| word of it was so simple and plain
| that a child could understand it. His
| subject was Why War Came" and
| in the discussion of that subject he
showed clearly that war was bound
| to come, that the Bismark Constitu-
| ton of Germany was designed to OBJ
struct the growth of liberty in that
| country and was in such marked con
| trast to the constitutions in many
| other countries, particularly that of
! the United States, which was so
| drawn as to promote the growth OF
| liberty and freedom. He told how
| the HohenZollern family had in 4
short time developed from one of the
poorer royal families to the second /
richest in the world, how the Kaiser
is the largest stakeholder III the ia
nous Krupp Works, makers of guns
and ammunition, how the Balkan
States had been encouraged to make
war upon each other to break down
the cause of freedom and to enrich |
the Krupp stockholders; in fact, how
every phase of the German Govern
ment has been conducted in the in
terest of the prince and ducal fami-t
lies, not only to give them power and I
to strengthen their position, but even
to increase their private wealth.
In his address he traced the deYel-l
opments of the last forty years, show
ed and proved beyond the shadow OF
a doubt how Germany in the last flf-
teen or twenty years had redoubled
her preparations for the approaching
contest, how she had increased the
size of her army by one-fourth; how
at the outbreak of the war, accord
| ing to German authorities, she had
10000, 900 rifles and equipment on
hand, more than Italy, France and
England combined; how dye indus
try in Germany had increased in the
ten years before the war to an amaZ-
ing extent, while similar industries
in England and France had shown
but slight increases and in the Unit
ed States had shown none; this rapid
development was understood after
war came, because it was found that
these great plants could quickly be
transformed into plants for the man
ufacture of T. \. T., the most power
full explosive known to science, the
same equipment being used. Like
wise, great quantities of copper and
lead had been quietly accumulated ,
during the ten years preceding the
war; in fact, OH account of the Bis
mark constitution and the powers
which it conferred upon the ruling
| classes of Germany, it was possible,
with the greatest secrecy, for the
Kaiser and his advisers to prosecute
| secretly their plans for the present
| war which they expected would
| bring German domination Of the en-
i tire world.
He explained our troubles with
Germany, how she had interfered at
Samoa, how the Admiral of the Ger
| man fleet went to the Philippines
| with instructions to destroy the
| American fleet and take possession
| of those Islands, the German and
| Spanish Governments having nego-
| tiated a secret treaty by which Spain
agreed to give Germany the Islands
| in return for her help, and how she
would undoubtedly have attempted it
| had not the English feet come into
| the harbor and anchored between our
ships and those of Germany, prevent
! ing the secret attack which the Ger
man admiral intended to make. He
| told how Germany attempted to in
| terfere in VenZuela and were given
| 4S hours by President Roosevelt to
| SCI Oul, anu lllSy gu, ACdt Ihelt
! they were not ready for The world
war which they then had in mind
how German agents have plotted in
Cuba and Mexico against the United
States, how they have even plotted in
this country. How the German
i! Prince Henry came to this country,
apparently upon friendly mission,
| but really for the purpose of organic
ing the German.American citizens
who had served as soldiers and Off
mers in the Imperial German Army,
and how 100000 of these were or
| gained and how, in the cities of Chi
cago, Pittsburg, Cincinnati and New
York, they deliberately selected for
their headquarters places directly
opposite the National Armories how,
also there suddenly arose a great de-
| sire upon the part of Germans to be
| janitors in the United States Armo-