Omaha daily bee., 1918-04-08
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DECIDES WAR
! FOR VICTORY
DR.. vioIette Says America Is
Fighting Whole German Ma
ton and 1t Must Soon
Be Realized.

81 witnessed today the most inspir-
ing. the most impressive parade I
have ever looked upon," was the
opening statement of DR.. E. E. Vio-
lette. director of the speakers bureau
of the tenth federal reserve district,
in his speech on behalf of the third
Liberty loan at the Auditorium Satur-
day night.
II shall always remember that
spectacle of $4,000 men, women and
children marching and counter march
ing through the streets of Omaha.
THE complaint was made to me
that they did not keep step.
mo. their feet did not, that is true,
but that huge concourse kept step by
heart throbs."
JOLTS FOR THE KAISER.
Although his stbject was supposed
to have been The Evolution of
Democracy DR.. Violette asserted
that a speaker should learn not TO
stick to his subject. but to stick to his
audience, and he believed it to be an
occasion on which to hand the kaiser
few verbal jolts.
And he did. He was frequently in
terrupted by applause and cheers
from an audience of more than $500
people.
Get aboard the Liberty loan lin
tied. 1t will spell doom for the Haps-
burgs and Hohenzollerns for all time.
Hates Name Germany.
Il would rather take the /. o. U.
of common gambler than a peace
treaty signed and sealed with the
blood of Bill of Potsdam. hate the
name Germany. If go to France in
June, as / hope to, will lay aside
God and religion and grab a gun to
get the Hun. God and Germany can
not be thought of at the same time.
When that prince of patriots.
President Woodrow Wilson, said
good bye to autocracy, he made but
one mistake. He said that we were
not fighting the German people, but
| the kaiser. i want to say that we're
| lighting the bloody Hun. That crowd
in the parade today sang my favorite
song, To He'll With the Kaiser I
wish the people in my congregation
in Kansas City would insert it In their
hymn books.
Autocracy Doomed.
"The honor of autocracy went
down forever with the sinking of the
Lusitania The kings will have to
move out.
when we went to school, we were
taught that the bite of dying snake
is more poisonous just before it
passes away than at any d>her time.
The serpent of autocracy is breathing
its last. 1t ras put all the poison of
accumulated centuries into its last
stronghold, the house of Hohen-
zollern."
Wilson Hampered.
Dr. Violette urged patience with
President Wilson.
Think what you would have done
with such house of misrepresenta-
tives as he has had to deal with, men
like Senator Stone, Senator Reed and
Senator La Toilette. (Cheers)
"If there is any man who thinks
that America is not the best place
to live in, let him obtain a passport,
if he can, and get out. If he doesn't,
an epitaph will be written on his
tombstone similar to that of the man
who was kicked by mule, not dead,
but kicked hence"
The speaker referred to Count Won
Bernstorff as the reincarnation of
Judas Iscariot and said it was a pity
some had not assassinated him as he
sat enjoying President Wilson's hos
pitality.
Bravery Of Troops.
High tribute was paid to the Ameri-
cans now fighting lover there" To
illustrate their bravery, DR.. Violette
told of meeting a British army officer
Friday night in Kansas City, who as
serted that the Americans were the
finest fighting men in Europe.
"Why," replied DR.. Violette, they
could not be much superior to your
splendid troops"
"Oh, but they are, you know. The
difference between the American SOL
diers and the boys with whom fight
is that sometimes we miss a hun,
but those damned Americans never
do"
Already Over the Top.
Before introducing DR.. Violette,
John L. Kennedy read kilograms from
Weston and Taylor. Neb., and Buffalo
county, announcing that they would
not wait for the 18th to subscribe for
the Liberty loan, but had already
gone "over the top"
This has been a glorious day in
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