Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1918-06-24
PROF. KELLY De:
L|VfRS ADDRESS
Occupies Pulpit of the Congregational
Church and Makes Very Strong
Talk on "The Spirit of
America"
WAS ACCORDINGLY INTERESTING
Speaker Makes Fervent Appeal to the
People to Bury all Differences
and win the War.


the pastor, occupied the Congrega-
tiohal pulpit last evening and dis
coursed for al hour on "The Spirit
Of America" The address was absorb
ingly interesting and the speaker
made fervent appeal to the people
to bury all differences of whatever
kind and join intellectually in the
work of winning the war, the para
mount problem now before the civiliz-
ed world.
take to quote from Mr.. Kelly's adj
dress, but it wishes to briefly out
line in its own language a rev OF
the things he said:
When the great war broke in
Europe four years ago there was
question as to who was responsible,
but there is no question now. Every
body knows who started it and knows
why it was started. The military
caste of Germany deliberately launch
ed it and had for years been plan
ming for it. German propaganda had
penetrated every section of the world.
1t had entered South America and the
United States, and done its work in
Asia and China and in Africa. Moth
ing was forgotten and nothing left
undone to prepare the world to ac-
cept the German viewpoint.
1t has been widely published, said
the speaker, that 2O,OO0,OOO men have
fallen in battle since the great war
began and it has been repeatedly
stated the number of deaths among
in occupied and
conquered territory was equal to the
number of killed in battle. Then we
have a total Of 4O,0O0,0OO human
beings dying because of this war,
brought about by the Unsuitable greed
for pelf and power of the military
rulers OF Germany.
1t is to thwart the design of the
Teutonic nations that the Ulited
States has entered the conn1ct. We
are not in the war to help France,
to aid Belgium or to assist England.
We are in the war to preserve our
own institutions, the same as are
nearly all the republics of the world.
Germany insulted our flag, murdered
our citizens and violated our every
right upon the high seas.
A glowing tribute was paid the old
flag. 1t was at Yorktown and on
Lake Champlain, at Bulls Run and
at Santiago and Manila.
1t has lost some battles, but never
war. 1t is now in France. Nobody
knows what fate is in store for it.
everybody knows that 1t will never be
while in the hands of the
brave men who have gone to the fields
of Europe to defend it, to protect the
institutions it represents and to pre-
serve the liberty and freedom for
which it stands.
The people of the United States are
back of the boys and those at home
must do what they can to help in the
great conflict. The man who now
hangs onto his dollars that are need
ed in this war is Stacker and is
not doing his part in this great crisis.
The speaker said that a few men
here in Webster City who had ad-
dressed public meetings held for the
purpose of furthering bond issue cam
paigns and Red Cross contributions
had been criticised. He declared one
If the teachers of the public schools |
had been censured for the part he
had taken in these campaigns. Men
Who criticise those who give freely of
heir time to further these things"
declared the speaker, 'are not right
n their hearts," and with that de-
.laration the Freeman-Journal heart
ly agrees. There are a few men
light here in Webster City who have
laid disparaging things of those who
lave appeared at public meetings and
Urged people to buy bonds and sub
scribe to the Red Cross, and they
leserve the neat skinning Prof. Kelly
ave them last night.
Referring to the reported atrocities
# the German army in Belgium,
France and other occupied regions,
he speaker said it was not necessary
o prove them. A government that
would deliberately plan for the sink
ng of the Lusitania with its human
reight would not hesitate at anything.
IS revealing the real sentiments of