News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1921-03-23
$4,000 PATRIOTS 7
HISS Rhine RALLY
$4,000 in Madison Square Gar
den, 10000 at Overflow Cheer
Preaching of AmericaniSm.
"WAR ENTHUSIASM" PREVAILS
Littleton Declares 1t Is No Time for
SterIized Observation-Disclosures for a
Peace Made at Proclamation
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
unauthorized. Its success was I'M
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-
da in a tremendous all-Amercan dem
onstration III which $4,000 persons,
most of them war veterans, part!ci-
pated.
A bugler standing on the flag
swathed speakers stand at Madison
Square Garden sounded Taps" while
$4,000 men and women stood reverent-
~ at atlentlOn.
In the center of the main floor 600
gold-star mothers stood with their
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 sob
that filled the auditorium.
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 a passionate out
burst of cheering and a 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-quarters of an hour before the
Twentythousand who sought but were
denied admission thronged Madison
Square, remaining for open air meet
ings that We're held at three stands
along Madison and Fifth avenues. No
period of the war saw such emotion
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out.
Long before the meeting had be-
gun the temper of the crowds had
manifested itself Bands played in
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 and
their escort of ID. S. C. 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-American
demonstration, shopkeepers and house
holders in all parts of the city had
flown the American flag. Hundreds
Of thousands of citizens pinned Ameri-
,an flags upon their lapels.
She great audience greeted with
leafening chorus of Kisses a mention
If Dr. Edmond Won Mach, the promoter
If the Horrors meeting. 1t con-
lemned hyphenism, linked German
with "pulinf pacitsts,'
'ewildered Bo'5hevists' and Sim Fem
gitatOrs.
The meeting broke into a prolong-
d outburst of patriotic fervor when
lartin w. littIeton, pointing to Gen
raj John ]. Iers ing seated nearby
n the speakers PLATFORM, declared
hat the only mistul,2 the allies had
lade was that they had not MARCHED
Berlin to perfect Il Potidam peace
lstead of Versailles armistice,
Two hundred patriotic and civic or,
anizations joined with the American
egion TO give IA fitting rebule to the
erman meeting held in the Garden
4 February %, and to condemn the
olding of,any further polyglot propa-
lnda."
General Pershing was tho lat
'eaker and none of those Nau hi;
'eceded him awoke greater euthu>
I'm. He said this meeting seemed III
m especially timely. Certain infu-
ces," he said, again have arisen to
ison the public mind and efforts are
ing made to weaken sthe ties thas
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