The Garden Island. [volume] (Lihue, Kauai, H.T.) 1902-current, 1918-10-01
PATRIOTIC RALLY
LIBERTY LOAN BOOSTED

Armory on Sunday afternoon was very
much of success in spite of one or
two mishaps to the musical part of
the program. The failure of the piano
at the last moment carried down with
it the vocal solo and the violin inter
lude; and the advent of the Japanese
war ship, and the doings connected
Herewith, so captivated the interest
of the school childrens chorus that it
did not appear on the scene at all
But with contagious good humor the
audience made the best of the situa-
ton, and entered into the singing
with enthusiasm. The Koloa quartet
relieved the situation nobly and sang
Keep the Home Fires Burning" with
much grace and charm.
a novel and unexpected feature of
the program was the reading of a
special telegram of good news from
the scene of war, which brought forth
enthusiastic applause. Also the read
ing of a graphic letter from Mss
Mabel Wilcox telling of her expert
ences at Havre, France, during an
air raid and bumbing of the place.
The address of the occasion, de-
livered by Richard l.. Halsey, was full
of fire, patriotism humor and cpl
gram, and made a strong appeal to
the audience, which frequently broke
forth into rounds of enthusiastic ap-
plause.
While the audience was not as
large as on some former occasions of
a like nature, probably because of the
absence of the Japanese element Of
the population, it was a very high
class audience, of superior intelligence
and responsiveness.
A collection was taken for the Red
Cross which amounted to $4,000.
In his stirring and eloquent address
at the patriotic rally Sunday after
noon, the speaker of the occasion, Mr..
Richard L. Ealsey, said in part:
THAT letter you have just heard
read from one of your own patriots
doing fine service on French soil, is a
renewed evidence of the ruthless and
brutal cruelty Of the German foe-a
cruelty that outruns anything known
in the history of civilization. Cast
ing to the winds all moral restraints
they started out at the beginning on
a career of perfidy and brutality
which has no parallel in history.
When America replied with dignity
and fOrebearance to the sinking Of the
Lusitania, and protested against the
repetition of such acts of war, Ger
many said "Oh, they will never fight,
They are so welded to the worship
OF the Golden Calf that they wont
fight; it will cost too much!"
But when we got walked up to it
there were forty-eight states in Ameri
ca that swung into harmony, and prct
ty soon the answer went back to
Germany, not the answer of patient
words of protest, but the tramp OF
khaHiclad men, and now the Central
Powers are beginning again, more
dolofully than ever before, to whine
for peace. When things are going
their way then it is war to the utter
most with every measure of cruelty
and brutality and perfidy that a de
praved mind can invent. But the
minute things begin to go against
them they howl for peace. They deal
out one kind of medicine but they
don't want to take any of the same
kind of thing back.
Those same khaki-clad boys have
been somewhat of a surprise to the
Germans-and even perhaps they
have been somewhat of a surprise tc
us-I mean a pleasant surprise. You
know one of the boys wrote home tC
his folks-"Ma, you know courage is
mighty common here. have some OF
it myself"
tell you. our boys are going il
strong over there, and the Kaiser is
getting mighty uneasy, and pretty
soon he won't have a Turkish pipe il
all his Mittel Europa dominions tha
will be long enough to pull any com
| fort out Of
When far down through the ages
| the children of a finer civilization
shall gaze on the evidences of desc
/ lation still to be seen in these wal
/ smitten countries, devastated by Ger
man brutality and vandalism, and shal
ask whence come the stains and scars
and when were they wrought, and are
/ told that it was in the 18th century
and by a people which laid claims t
a high degree of civilization, they vii
shudder and cry out that such ruth