The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1918-03-14
VAN DYKE IN CHARLESTON.
HIGH PRAISE FOR BRAVE BEL
GIUM PEOPLE.
Former Minister to the Netherlands
Unspairing in His Arrangement
of the PruSSianS.

~~O
utmost capacity Sunday night to hear
a scathing denunciation of German
autocracy delivered by DR.. Henry Van
Dyke, celebrated preacher, orator
and writer, who now holds a chap
lain's commission in the United
States navy, with the rank OF lieu
tenant commander, speaking under
the auspices of the local Y. NJ. c. A.
Hundreds were unable t ohear DR..
Van Dyke
Switching from the stately rhythm
of the academic language for which
he is Justly famed, to the PLAIN
phraseology of the everyday Amerl-
can, the better to reach the heart of
the masses, the celebrated speaker
arraigned Germany and its methods
of warfare before the bar of humanl-
ty and indicted it on three damning
charges.
Germany wanted war; he assert
ed, Germany plotted war, Germany
got war and my prayer to God is
that she continues to get it-in the
neck
Places Blame on Potsdam.
DR.. Van Dyke then charged the
Kaiser's government, or, as he char
acterized it, as that predatory Pots
dam gang" with the accent on the
last syllable of t'Potsdam,' with
plunging the world into the most
horrible war the world has ever
known, with using tactics of barbar-
ism and piracy in conducting the war
and closed with the statement that
America must never discuss peace
with this arch-criminal until mill
tary, hereditary autocracy. with all
it's evil influences, has vanished for
ever from the face of the globe.
Long before the hour for DR.. Van
Dyke to begin his address crowds be-
gan forming in front of the Garden,
and when at last the doors were
thrown. open, few minutes before 8
o'clock, King street was solid mass
of waiting humanity for half block
in each direction from the theatre
doors.
Every seat in the orchestra and
balcony were taken, and those not
fortunate enough to secure seats
packed the vestibules and clustered
around the inner entrances to the
building. When the famous speaker
arose to address the crowd he was
greeted with tumultous applause,
and at the conclusion of his talk the
cheering was prolonged and deafen-
ing, DR.. Van Dyke being forced to
rise and respond to the insistent
hand-clapping of the large audience.
National Anthem Sung.
Following an overture from the or
chestra the meeting was called to
order by Secretary Clarence o. Getty,
of the Y. NJ. G. A., and then the
audience stood and joined in two
stanzas of the national anthem.
The invocation was rendered by
the Rev. John Kershaw, D. D., rector
of St. Michael's Episcopal church.
After stating the purpose of the Y.
M. C. A. in having DR.. Van Dyke
speak Mr.. Getty introduced Mr.. ]. P.
Kennedy Bryan, classmate and life
long friend of DR.. Van Dyke, who
formally presented the noted man
of letters to the audience.
Wearing the uniform of the Unit
ed States navy, DR.. Van Dyke began
by expressing his pleasure at again
being in Charleston and at being
able to come as. member of the
great navy of America, so ably di-
rected by Josephus Daniels of the sis
ter State of North Carolina, and
Woodrow Wilson, commander-in-
chief of the armies and navies of the
nation.
The names of both MIR. Wilson and
Mr.. Daniels were greeted with ap-
plause by the audience.
DR.. Van Dyke said in part:
'This speech has been called
Fight Through or Fail Through
The subsidized German-American
press has attacked me for referring
to the submarine warfare of the i'm
perial German government as acts
of piracy, on the ground that these
boats as the commissioned vessels
of government, can not commit acts
of piracy.
Can they? Let us turn to the
dictionary Here we find piracy to
be an act of robbery or depreciation
committed on the high seas without
authority from some civilized gov
ernment.'