The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1918-04-03
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The Red Cross Sale at West Side Was
Complete Success-lt Was
Largely Attended.
MORE THAN $1,000 WAS REALIZED
L. r. Sutton Thrills the Large Audi
ence With His Patriotic Talk and
Handles Subject Without Gloves

The Red Cross sale day at the town
of West Side last Friday was COM
plete success. We understand about
$4,000 was realized from the public
sale. dinner and picture show. Al
business houses were closed part OF
the forenoon and all the afternoon
-and business as usual was thrown
into the discard while all joined in
working for the success of the sale.
Many of the men folks assisted at the
sale or played in the band, the ladies'
worked hard and faithful at the Pat
terson & Campbell auto garage, where
the West Side chapter of the Red
Cross served meals and the boys and
girls were also doing their bit selling
pop corn, cigars, etc.
A band stand was erected in front
of the City Hotel on Main street, and
at II o'clock in the forenoon the West
Side band. which has more than To-
cal reputation. gave band concert.
About half past one in the after
noon the speaking program started.
The band played THE Star Spangled
Banner" and f. B. Spottswood intro
duced the orator Of the day. L.. +.
Sutton. an, attorney residing at Clin-
ton, was the speaker and he thrilled
the audience with his patriotic talk.
We believe this was one Of the best
addresses delivered in the county for
years. The speaker was repeatedly
interrupted by appreciative applause
as he forcibly brought out telling
points in his address.
He said the world is on fire and the
United States expects every man, wo-
man and child to do their full duty.
1t is a struggle for our own lives and
those remaining at home are in as
much danger, should we fail, as those
who are "over there" There must
be Il just and settled peace. and to
secure such. it may be necessary to
finish the fight on our own shores.
If they subdue our boys and our al
lies in Europe, they will come to
America in an effort to make hell up
on earth more complete. He gave
facts to back up his assertions that
there is no real liberty in Germany;
it is one man governed people and
they know no liberty save the mail
fist. The government of Germany is
only fiction, so far as liberty is con-
cerned. Kaiser Bill is the whole thing.
He gave a little heart to heart talk
to those of our citizenship who were
born on foreign soil. He said all that
they have OF the old country is really
a memory. A memory of the country
where they were born and lived, many
of them, almost in pauperism and slav-
cry. To escape the mail list, slavery
and pauperism of their fatherland
they came to America. All that they
have, and hold dear, is in America.
Most of the friends of their youth
have died. and but few relatives still
remain in the country where they
were born. Their nearest relatives
their own families-are in America,
all the wealth that they possess is in
America and when they are summon
ed from this life, to meet loved ones
gone befote. their bodies will be
placed in a grave dug into American
soil All things earthly that they love
are here. and all that they possess of
their fatherland is bitter memory
OF the hardslips and privations. so Sc
we're that they left them, and came to
America, the real land of freedom and
the only land where they made every
cent they now possess and here it is
that they have had the only real hap
piness of their life. The days of neu-
trality have passed. We are either
for America, and those who are assist
ing in fighting shoulder to shoulder