Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-09

We ought 10 boycott ITdueTS |
who are not loyal TO the United |
States. and run them out of the |
country.
friend. taken with himself That
was when Lieutenant Pat OBrien
started to hate the Hun. And if
II live to be a hundred years old l
will hate them. And so will you
when the long casualty lists come
in
Parents of Victim in Audience
Last night | was speaking in Buf-
falo," added Lieutenant Pat, and
the mother and father OF that dead
friend Of mine were in the audience.
That picture which was taken off his
body after his death / have in my
pocket tonight
Following this the lieutenant told
of his escape from a prison train by
jumping through the window while
it was moving thirty miles an hour.
on the train the officers were treat
ed with all manner of indignities,
and when Pat protested TO a German
officer, he received the answer that
IF had my way you'd ride with the
hogs
That would be far better than
riding with Germans" answered Pat
UBrien, before he jumped from the
window.
The story of how he wandered for
seventy-two nights through an
enemy country on his journey to the
frontier. living on cabbage and car
rots, swimming streams, travelling
only at nights and sleeping on the
ground during the day, was the most
interesting to which a Harrisburg
audience probably has ever listened.
When C finally reached the Holland
frontier. il was guarded by two
barbed wire fences six feet high with
an electrically charged wire fence
nine feet high between. BY means
of a rudely constructed ladder he
got over the first fence and dug un-
der the charged wires of the second.
Most Exciting Moment of Life
With my head and shoulders in
Holland, the rest of me in Germany,
and my back only an inch from a
wire that was carrying instant death.
| think / had the most exciting
moment in my life" he said.
He paid a tribute to the hospital
ity of the Hollanders. Arrived in
England, he was invited to talk to
the King, and did, for fifty-two min
utes.
Il wish l had stayed a while
longer and hung up a real record,
said Pat, for they told me mine was
officer lower in rank than a gen
eral."
Soon after this he arrived in Can
ada and then took ticket for the
greatest and best country in all the
world. the United States. His
speech ended with a patriotic appeal
to the people TO buy Liberty Bonds,
and TO help in the great drive which
starts in the city to-day.
Methodist Pastor Inspires
4. s. Patterson. chairman of the
Third Liberty Loan drive in the city,
presided at the huge mass meeting.
He first introduced the Rev. DR..
Robert Bagnell. who made an ad-
dress that brought repeated applause
and kept the audience cheering and
stamping and clapping fifteen min
utes after its conclusion.
IF the allies had been preparing
for a war for forty years, they'd
have done something by this time"
he declared, and the audience rose to
its feet and cheered until the build
ing shook. Wherever the Germans
and the allies have met on equal
grounds the Germans have been
beaten"
With such strong. pointed thrusts
as these. the Rev. Mr.. Bagnell en-
Unused the audience as no Harris
burg audience has been enthused
since the war began.
Wherever the Americans are he
declared, the Germans will find a
wall of adamant. There are. / think.
500. 900 Americans over there. Soon
they will take over the great segment
OF the battle line. Then" he shout
ed. something will happen to the
Germans
Death KneII For Autocracy
Mr.. Bagnell declared the German
peace drive more dangerous than
the German army drive. The speech
made by President Wilson in Balti-
more, he said, put an end to peace
talk, and sounded the deathknell OF
autocracy. He wrapped pro-Germnas
and pacifists. declaring it a disgrace
that they are tolerated while Amer
lean sons are dying in France.
He pleaded again and again for
liberal purchase of Liberty Bonds,
and urged that his hearers isolate
and boycott pro-Germans and not
tolerate them in the country to
which they are untrue. His speech
was nlled with announcement and
confidence. and was worth waiting
in the rain an hour to hear.
Community singing under the di-
rection of Mrs. J. G.. Sanders pre-
ceded the addresses. Mrs. Roy G..
Cox and George Sutton also sang.
Visits Theaters
Lieutenant Pat O'Brien gave the
atergoers OF Harrisburg a thrill Last
night. and incidentally added ma
terially to the programs at the vari-
Gus theaters.
Accompanied by IA band. he made
his way to all the Market street
moving picture houses and the vau-,
deville house. and without any an
nouncem ent, paraded down the CEN
tr9l aisle to the stage. preceded by
the band playing THE Star Spangled
Banner" At each theater the audi
ence rose to its feet until Lieuten-
ant Pat reached the stage. His talks
consisted of short appeals to his lis
teners to buy literally of the third
Liberty Bond issue.
He was accompa MED by Joseph II.
Wallazz. of the Liberty Loan execu-
mi