The Prescott daily news., 1918-01-07
GOV. BROUCH TALKS
 ON WAR SITUATION
Addressed a Court Room Full of
 Farm and Town Folks This
 Morning on the Present War and Its Relation to Our People

Governor Charles Hlllman Brough | spoke for an hour and a half to a | court room damned with people this | morning, his audience being composed | mostly of people from over the 1 county and although his talk was rather scattering, each remark was addressed to someone or some class of people in the audience
 Judge G. R. Haynie spoke first and explained that the government had asked that circuit judges all over the state give the opening hours of circuit court to speakers for the purpose of more fully acquainting our people with the true war situation and that we are indeed fortunate in securing the foremost man in the state for our speaker. Judge Haynie then in- troduced Prosecuting Attorney Tilman B. Parks, who with we'll chosen re- marks introduced Governor Brough
 Governor Brough opened his address with his usual eloquent remarks of gratitude to his hearers and praise for Prescott and Nevada county He re- ferred to his recent interview with President Wilson. Provost Marshal General Crowder and other high off cials at Washington, the general opin- ion of the officials being that the pres ent war would last from three to five years longer, the length of the war probably depending on the backing the allies received from the United States and in turn the backing the people gave the government. He dwelt at length on the official conversation which took place in the year 1898 be- tween Admiral Dewey and a certain German admiral, the latter informing Dewey that within the next ten or if teen years of that date, Germany with her mighty naval and land forces would attack and conquer Europe and with these navies Germany would lombard our coast and capture the Yankee pigs, as he expressed it. and make us pay all the expense. Cover nor Trough reminded his hearers that the present year is ten years since that conversation and it seems that it will take the entire world to keep this prediction from coming true.
 
 He spoke of the different gases en- ployed by the Huns to help them win the war, each of which have been enumerated by an allied invention with the exception of the latest gas which is the most deadly. He very impressively related how the civil ians who unfortunately found them selves in Germany and their home else where, were subjected to the most barbaric crueltes; children's arms and legs being severed and tubercu- losis germs being injected into healthy people, the saving of 100000 of these victims being credited to the Red | Cross which used part of the fund of | a hundred million dollars raised in ! this country for the cause.
 Governor Brough spoke of the pres ent conflict as war of self defense, in which we are fighting to save our selves and our enormous national | business, and he very clearly stated | the position we would be in with our ! cotton, corn and other products were it not for the foreign markets, com pairing the prices of products of the farm in 1914 when his highness, Will helm, ordered all our ships but one week off the high seas, with the prices of today, when we are exporting four importing.
 The negroes came in with their share of praise from the governor and he was loudly cheered by the colored l section when he spoke of the $500 registered negroes in this state, all of whom he said were patriotic
 The present war, he said was war where the future of Christianity was not only involved but is back of. He quoted Napoleon Bonaparte as saying that God was with the heavy artillery and thank God we have the heavy ar tillery. He explained patent bomb invented and placed before the last Cnnrress hV a vnnnp Pannsvlvania