The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1918-04-12
A PATRIOTIC RALLY.

| lish army, would visit Okanogan coun-
| ty last week to primarily deliver an
address before the Stockmen's Asso-
citation at Okanogan, giving first hand
information relative to actual condi-
tions at the front, and particularly to
boost for the sale of Liberty Loan
bonds. At the last hour Guy C. Browne
of Wenatchee, head of the Council for
Defense of this district, received word
that Capt. Daw was unable to fill the
date.
BY a stroke of good fortune man
was found to fill Capt. DAVIS appoint
ment, and a most worthy sustitute he
proved to be. This gentleman was
Capt. E. G. Jackson, of the Canadian
expeditionary forces, who saw service
in the hottest battles in both Turkey
and France over a period of three
years, or at least that part of three
years that he was not confined in a
hospital recovering from rough man.
handling through the fortunes of war,
for the Captain was called upon to de-
vote eleven months to recovering
from wounds and shell Shock. Captain
Jackson is on the retired list, owing
to his wounds, and came to Wenatchee
for the purpose of looking after lands
owned by Englishmen snow serving
their country at the front. Captain
Jackson lived in the United States for
a number Of years. He was living here
when the war broke out and at once
offered his services and was accepted
Mr.. Browne appealed. to Captain
Jackson in his dilemma, and seeing an
opportunity to aid the cause upon
which his heart is set the Captain ac-
cepted the invitation without hesita-
tion, and within fifteen minutes was
in a car with Mr.. Browne speeding
northward. They made the run from
Wenatchee to Okanogan in four hours
and that would indicate that Mr.
Browne was subjecting the gallant
captain to about as great a risk to life
and limb as charge through heavy
barage fire. But they got there just
the same.
Captain Jackson spoke before the
s:tockmen's Association Friday even
irg, and then he was conscripted to
speak before a patriotic meeting held
at Nelson Saturday afternoon The
call for Captain Jackson became a i
habit, as all the towns In this upper
country wanted him. Although the
Captain is game. there is limit to
human endurance. aud he s.coNld be
secured only for Oroville and Pateros. |
Speaking here Saturday evening and
at PaterOs Sunday evening.
Ther, had been much uncertainty
about securing speaker for Orovillr
before Capt. Jackson was finally land
ed. 1t was supposed that Capt. Daw
would fill date here, and the issue
of the Gazette of last week was held
back for several hours in order to
make announcement of the time and
place of the speaking, but as no
information could be secur-
ed as to whether a speaker would be
here an announcement had to be omit |
ted in the end. However, general pub
licity was given Saturday to the ar
made for the appearance
of Capt. Jackson at the Orpheum that
evening, and at the hour when the
speaking was to commence the hal!
was crowded to it's capacity, the vast
majority of those present being men
Captain Jackson was introduced by
Dr.. D. H. Lewis. The Captain showed
the strain Of travel and speech making,
besides was suffering from an annoy
ing cough. The Captain is not flow
cry orator, but a plain, blunt man. We
may say every inch man, fair pro-
totype of thousands, aye, tens OF
thousands, Of the men from France.
Italy, England and her dependencies
and America that have cheerfully
gayly, willingly gone forth to offer
their lives for an ideal, to fight TO the
death II needs be in the cause of hui
manity against the most inhuman ma
ton that has ever existed upon the
earth's crust. His address sank deeper,
carried stronger conviction to his
hearers, aroused a more sincere pa
triotic feeling, was more convincing
as to the justice of the cause of the
allies, and aroused more fixed deter
mination among those present to lend
of their every means to win the war
than would have elegantly rounded
sentences and ORNATE periods. The
audience saw before them one who had
passed through the hell and horror of
modern warfare, had suffered beyond
the power of words to express, and yet
still so earnest in his faith In the cause
for which he suffered that he would
be willing to again face all the dan
gers he had passed through were he
physically fit.
Captain Jackson has happy facul-
ty of telling story of the war as he
saw it in plain, unvarnished language,
explaining many of the features that
have been a puzzle to the readers of
war news, and had ready and apt ans
wers for every question propounded,
and at his invitation many questions
were asked at the close of his address.
He paid high tribute to the French
General Fouch, now in supreme COM
mand of the allied forces in France
and with his supreme optimism con-
vinced his audience that in the pres
ent drive the Germans could never
break through the lines. He had
fought over the same ground earlier
in the war where the big battle is now
in progress, and is familiar with the
conditions making for sturdy defense
on the part Of the allies. He believed it
twas a part of the strategy of war to
induce attack by the enemy in the
open. as the attacking force always
sustains the greatest preponderance
OF losses, and in the loss of man power
the war Is to be finally decided. In
/ his 0wn Worda ha Illuminated tLa -