Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-04-15
mRVEY GIVES
FINE ADDRESS
FOR LEGION
Military Instructor Heard in
Splendid Patriotic Talk
Yesterday.

Al the regular meeting yesterday
s~safternoon of Labor's Loyal Legion.
sSsolonel Ca1as. II. .McVey. who leaves
E%soon for France. gave a splendid
Aspatriotic address.
Yesterdays meeting was excep-
4tionally interesting. Aside from the
haddress n a brief business meet
AAi9g. there was a o program, con-
Es4sting mostly Of the reading OF war
%poems.
n Colonel McVey said in part:
q IT gives me very great pleasure to
Msthis gathering and discuss SO impor-
giant a question as the present crisis
Gin the war. When I first came to
1.-THE state I had heard a great deal
Mwhtch was unfavorable to it but after
sshavtng lived here some time and
shaving come in contact with the men
Nand who have made up this
@Labor's Loyal Legion, I have absolute
sssconfidence n the integrity Of the
Isspeople Of the state, of North Dakota.
NJ ? been my privilege recently to
aasshave had the opportunity to appear
Abefore q great many people-'in this
estate and I know from their attitude
#that their determination to win this
Mwar cannot be excelled by that of
Many other state in the union. How
Tever many times h qeustion as to
9whether we have the right or respon-
SSsibility to be in this war a been
ERASED.
Germany with her form Of gov
sgrnment, her deals Of absolutism,
aher devotion to the military ideal.
represents the immovable object that
islands in the path of the irresistible
agiorce of the progress of modern civ
siHzation and democracy. That a
aclash between these two factors is
&inevitable oes not need discussion.
10 Whit narha no ~ vnpy1A hA wo1I IN hnvm
Van explanation of the conditions, both
Wsocial n economic which have re-
rrduced one of h greatest nations in
mthe world to a position of subserv-
Nency where 1t obeys meekly the. de-
sacrees of its imperial master.
= German Social System.
The whole social system Of Ger
ssfmany may be favorably compared to
ssthat Of a pyramid. The bottom layer
sabeing composed of the common peo-
sple. which in Germany as in all coun-
Atries, makes up a large percentage of
Nthe population. Above the common
Npeople come the bourgeois, who rank
somewhat higher in.,the social scale,
Abut still are not Of the elect. Above
Ssor junker class and above that come
rathe greater nobility and then come
Sthe different royal families of the diff
Weren't states and principalities Of
AGermany ana at the top OF that pya-
Mmid m his Imperial, but by the
AGrace Of God, Higher, Kaiser Will
helm II. We know that he is Kaiser
and by the grace Of God, because he
has. told us so, Inc being the direct
and only representative Of Sod upon
aearth. It would be a bold man who
4would deny him the title Of the
@Lord's most high. Perhaps this sys-
stem of social organization is more
Cor less well understood, but perhaps
&we do not know of the system of
Selections that exists in Germany.
Il No professor. no instructor, or pub
, Iaic school teacher, may give vent to
'Wany ideas or express any theories
(which do not absolutely coincide with
Athe form and the outlines which are
4presented to him at the direction OF
Sthe German government. Should he
Mventure to do so, his position would
g. ssPt once be forfeited and he would be
Equity under the German criminal
Claw. This admirable system, not
Sonly extends to the educational and
business and economic features OF
E1ife, but also to that of religious ac-
Htivities. The state church in Ger.
NTnany is Lutheran.
= Freedom OF thought, such as we
understand 1t. Is not understood in
Germany. Liberty of conscience ir
xseligious worship is not sanctioned
sunder h German government. AL
aof the pleasing liberties which we ir
sour free and democratic country