The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1918-07-25
Complimentary
Dinner Given to
Capt. FalIon

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Thru the efforts of the Canon City
Chamber of Commerce. dinner COM
pIimentary TO Capt. David Fallon of
the British army. was heid at the Ho-
tel Miller. at 1880 Sunday afternoon
at which coeers were laid for fifty
., opie The guests. all OF whom were
men. refresented all OF the business
and commercial interests OF the com
munity, The gathering was spIen-
did tribute TO brave and gallant
soldier who had been wounded more
than a dozen times while serving his
king on the battlefield and he ex-
pressed deep appreciation of the hon
OF done him here
Capt Fallon. incapacitated from fur
ther fighting in the trenches. by the
.nemy's bullets and shrapnei. is now
carrying on thru the agency of the
Chautauqua. propaganda OF educa-
ion In relation TO the hated Hun and
the methods Of "frightfulness' and
savagery he employees in warfare.
Capt Fsilon was asked by President
Wilson 10 tour the United States and
tell the people about Prussian mill
tarism and Its menace 10 mankind.
The opportunities afforded him by
study and experience has made him a
master of the subject and he has a
wonderful message to relate. No man
can hear IT and remain a passive. in
different spectator Of its horrors or
defend the kaiser and his war mad"
subjects in the great cataciysm OF hu-
man carnage into which they have
hurled mankind for universal power
and dominion.
Capt. Falion is of irish parentage.
was bred TO the profession of arms
and has been in the army for four
teen years. He went to the European
fighting front from Sidney. Australia,
with the first contingent of troops
from the island continent He say
service In France, in Gallopoli and
Nesopotsmin and had "a career such
as few men have lived thru and been
able TO relate.
During his after dinner talk at the
hotel on sunday. he traced the rise OF
Gerraan ~kuftur from its lnaueur-
alton by Prince Bismark in 1850 to
the present time: showing how ii had
extinguished the national honor: de-
s;royed religion and debased the bet
ter instincts of the people until they
regarded the most sacred treaties as
mere scraps OF paper and. gave
them license to commit the most hen
ious crimes 10 advance the interests
OF the Fa,herland. He showed how
the teachings OF this philosophy has
enabled them to make war unpro-
yoked upon Denmark IN 1862 and
steal the province of Sleswick- Hui-
stein from her and annex IL to Ger
many. How IL had forced war upon
Austria in 1866, upon France in 1870
and the present war; all of them with
out any other cause than for national
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
The Germans under the teaching
hs'N tNtofAt oat t*tt Aahcs
according to Capt. Fallon. and must
be curbed II civilization is to con.
tinue. He drew an anwfui indictment
OF the kaiser and his military ad-
visers and aroused great applause in
doing so.
America said Capt. Fallon. did
not enter the war too soon. for she
has for years cunninsly and crafty
been getting ready TO attack her and
take from her the riches she knows
exist here"
The inordinate ambition of Ger
many for territory and the lust of
conquest has made her an outlaw
among the nations, and she must be
fought and conquered AS the enemy
of mankind: otherwise the world will
be reduced to serfdon. 1nd vassal.
age. Capt. Failon said there was no
doubt that Germany would be beaten
in this war and he uttered the hope
that there would ne no cessation in
fighting her until the Allies marched
into Berlin and dictated the terms
of peace the world demanded.