The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser., 1921-04-01
$4,000 PATRIOTS
HISS Rhine RALLY
$4,000 in Madison Square Gar
den, 10000 at Overflow Cheer
Preaching of Americanism.
"WAR ENTHUSIASM" PREVAILS
Littleton Declares Ii Is No Time for
SteriIized Neutrality-Wishes for a
Peace Made a. Potsdam-von
Mach's Speech "Treason."

New York City.-The all-American
mass meeting in and around Madison
Square Garden was a tremendous
demonstration of that brand of pa.
triotism which is pure, undiluted and
unadulterated. Its success was un-
qualified and unhyphenated. In all
the lavish spread Of color only one
flag was displayed-the Stars and
Stripes. For once not even the en-
signs of the Allies shared in the deco
rative honors.
The American Legion gave its an
swer to the "Rhine horror" propagan'
ia In a tremendous all-American dem
onstration in which 25,0OO persons
most of them war veterans, partici'
pated.
A bugler standing on the flag
swathed speakers stand at Madison
Square Garden sounded Taps while
14,OOO men and women stood reverent
ly at attention.
In the center Of the main floor 6OC
gOld-star mothers stood with theii
heads high in the beginning but
bowed in their hands and bathed in
tears as the poignant notes come to
a close. The silence ended in a sob
that filled the auditorium.
A moment later came the call:
"On this solemn night, filed with
the inspiration born Of the memories
of gallant men, we have come to
pledge ourselves that this nation shall
yet become a land Of the one tongue
one ideal, one flag"
The answer was passionate out
burst of cheering and frantic wav'
ing of flags, and the all-American
meeting of the American Legion and
a coalition of patriotic societies was
under way. Not again during the eve
ming could it be called "all-American; ;
it was anti-German and nothing else
The Garden was filled to the ca
pacity allowed by the authorities
three-auarters of an hour before the
meeting was called to order at S:15
Twenty thousand who sought but were
denied admission thronged Madison
Square, remaining for open air meet
ings that were held at three stands
along Madison and Fifth avenues. Nc
period Of the war saw such emotion
as marked the meetings inside ant
out.
Long before the meeting had be
gun the temper Of the crowds had
manifested itself. Bands played IL
every corner of the Garden. Post
after post of the Legion had marched
in; veterans of the Civil War from
North and South alike, veterans OF
the Spanish War and veterans Of still
other military adventures Of the Unit
ed States had been cheered as they
arrived; the Gold-Star mothers ario
their escort of D. S. G. men had been
given an especial greeting; nurses and
yeomen (F) had been hailed.
The enthusiasm started hours be
fore the meeting. In response to the
plea of the committee of patriotic so
cieties that organized the all-Americar
demonstration, shopkeepers and house
holders in all parts of the city ha6
flown the American flag. Hundreds
of thousands Of citizens pinned Ameri
can flags upon their lapels.
The great audience greeted with q
deafening chorus of Kisses mention
of DR.. Edmond Won Mach, the promoter
of the Horrors meeting. 1t con
demned hyphenism, linked German
propagandists with pulling pacifists.
bewildered Bolshevists' and Sim Feir
agitatOrS.
The meeting broke into prolong
ed outburst Of patriotic fervor wher
Martin w. Littleton, pointing to Gen
eral John J. Pershing seated nearby
on the speakers platform, declared
that the only mistake the allies had
made was that they had not marched
to Berlin to perfect Potsdam peace
instead of a Versailles armistice.
Two hundred patriotic and civic or
ganizations joined with the American
Legion to give fitting rebuke to the
German meeting held in the Garder
on February %, and to condemn the
holding of'any further ''polyglot propa
ganda."
General Pershing was the las
speaker and none of those who hat
preceded him awoke greater enthusi
asm. He said this meeting seemed tt
him especially timely. Certain infu
ences," he said, "again have arisen tt
poison the public mind and efforts are
being made to weaken the ties tha
hind I1S "