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Show PEAGE MEETING II CHICAGO IS MDSTWARLIKE Thousands of Men and Women Crowd Into the Coliseum and Listen to Speeches. GERMANS LARGELY IN THE MAJORITY Great Britain Denounced and the United States Ridiculed; Bryan Criticised. CHICAGO, Feb. 7. More than 15j-000 15j-000 men and women jammed their way into the Coliseum today for a monster mass meeting, under the auspices of the. American Neutrality league, the purpose of which is to keep the United States neutral and to bring about ultimate peace among the warring nations. Fiery speeches' were mado by some, who severely criticised the administration administra-tion and certain American interests, which they accused of humiliating this country to aid .Great Britain. Others took a fling at preceding speakers and argued .that strict neutrality or peace never could be accomplished through demonstrations of racial prejudice and attacks on either this government or those involved in the European strife. Parade After Meeting. The meeting was made up of Irish, Germans and Austro-Hungariaus. At the end of the meeting, representatives of German societies formed a column, nearly 2000 strong and, singing their national hymns, marched through the loop. The meeting unanimously adopted resolutions res-olutions calling upon the government to 6top the shipment of ammunition to any of the warring nations and asking the American people to aid the administration admin-istration and to refrain from expressing violent animosity or violent friendship for either of the belligerents. , J. J. O'Leary of New York, president presi-dent of the American Truth society, denounced de-nounced England, pleaded for Germany and ridiculed the United States. Bryan Assailed. "I believe that it was right in this hall that William J. Bryan, our gifted secretary of state, proclaimed that the Republican party was trying to crucify cru-cify the pcoplo of this country upon a cross of gold," Mr. O'Leary said. "He is now trving to crucifv the fatherland of more than 25,000,000 of our poople upon a cross of British gold." There was hissing at the mention. of Mr. Bryan 's name and the chairman of the meeting aiose and declared he would leave the platform unless neutrality were preserved. Gustavus Schvau, a Swedish lecturer, who was to have been one of the chief speakers, told the audience he had sat in shame listening to the inflammatory speeches. He was not in sympathy with the spirit shown, he said, and 'would not have come to the meeting had he foreseen fore-seen the character it was to assume. Defended Bryan. Frank Buchanan, a labor leader, was met with hoots and cat calls when he defended the sincerity of purpose of Mr. Bryan. "While I may not agree with the secretary of state," ho said, ''I do believe in his sincerity in his work for peace and I believe he will be able to do some work that will be valuable. You are not going to make Progress by appealing to prejudice." 'flic Rev. Jenkin Lloyd Jones, pastor of All Souls church, who had been asked to act as chairman of the meeting, was half an hour late. When be reached the Coliseum he found the sidewalk lined by men selling banners bearing pictures of the German emperor, the German eagle and the inscription, "Deutschland Ueber Alles." O'Leary was speaking, amid applause, when Dr. Jones entered the hall. German Ger-man banners hung from the galleries and the banners of German societies, numbering 150, decorated the space about the speaker. American flags were outnumbered. Dr. Jones pleaded for a place for the flies' flags. "Where is the rose of England t" he demanded. "Why is the .French flag not there? Where is the Kussian flag.?'' Left the Meeting. . "Put them all there, I say. It' this ! a pro-German and anti-British meeting meet-ing and, mind you, my attitude would he the same if It were pro-British and "nti-German I have no place here and respectfully beg leave to withdraw." Before the arrival of Dr. Jones, the meeting adopted the declarations of the principles of neutrality adopted at Washington in a conference of various organizations, as well as formal resolutions reso-lutions protesting against the export of arms, ammunition and munitions of war, railing for the national control of the manufacture of weapons and for peace and harmony in the promotion of neutrality neu-trality without arousing animosities, "he resolutions deprecated the use of M'ships as a means of dropping bombs "r other missiles of destruction on un- |