Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1918-07-19
PATRIOTIC LEAGUE
Splendid Meeting of Fulton County
League of Patriots - Strong Ad-
dress From the Rev. Scott F. Her
shey of NapOleOn-Change of Front
on Part Of Man Charged With I'm
Americanism.

Probably the best meeting held to
date by the Fulton County League of
American Patriots was that of last
Friday evening. Many of the dele
gates to the meeting of Federation OF
Leagues, which was held In the al
ternoon in the court room, remained
over for the evening meeting and
helped to swell the crowd that liter
ally packed the court room Friday
evening. The meeting was opened
according to the action, taken by the
league at the previous meeting, by
singing America" and President +.
5. Ham introducing the Rev. Scott
f. Hershey of Napoleon, president OF
the Federation of Patriotic Leagues,
as the speaker of the evening.
Doctor Hershey's theme was "The
Intrigue and Plots of Germany With
in the United States" 1t was a mas
terplece IN the line of an arralgnment
of the dlabolical duplicity of a great
political power before the bar OF pub
lie opinion.
Thoroughly posted, and speaking OF
things he knew as authentic facts,
Dr. hershey touched upon two or
three of the samples OF German in
trigue IN America and the audience
was held at the closest attention dur
ing his address, wishing that he might
continue during the entire evening,
when he concluded.
DR.. Hershey challenged any one to
show. record Of any power that has
resorted to more diabolical plotting
and intrigue than has the Imperial
German Government in this country.
He. showed. how the German-Ameri-
4 can Alliance had been organized in
this country by the German govern
ment through it's agents for the main
purpose of constituting iii this coun-
try an organization that should in
this crisis work solely for the inter
ests of the German government and
" opposition to the interests of the
| United States government. He ar.
rayed the testimony showing how
these same agents have succeeded in
having established in the public
schools of this country the teaching
of the German language and German
literature in order to create strong
German sympathy in the minds of the
young, and he declared his firm con
vicition that the use of the German
language in this country should b,
terminated. Other intrigues alluded
to by DR.. Hershey were the platinum
intrigue whereby a German con
trolled company has gained control o.
J the platinum supply in this countr.
and succeeded in Withholding this es
: sential material from the government
in a time of special need; also tn
, newspaper intrigue which recent,
: came to light in the matter of tn
, New York Mail and Express. MI
Hershey also told of the pre-war ma
of the United States prepared b,
Germany wherein the partition of tn
territory of the United States be
tween Japan, Mexico, and Germany
: and the relegation of the Unite
! States government to the New Eng
: land states. DIR. Hershey was con
vincing and eloquent and his addres
made lasting impression upon thos
who heard him.
!. The hearing of charges of III
, Americanism on the part of E. "
Bloomer in which Mr.. Garfield wa
l' ably assisted by Mr.. Hess of NapC
leon. resulted in a clear-cut admis
sion on the part of Mr.. Bloomer {
: his error, a statement that he wa
! sorry for the attitude he had prev
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