| Show PH SIMPKIN STIRS AUDIENCE A large audience was stirred to tie lie t ie depths of the soul tuesday evening by the patriotic address de dellver livere eu by rev P A simpkin in the third ward chapel the meeting was vas held under the auspices of the war saving thrift stamps committee and was presented over by Lh ul airman lairman lewis S pond the te chapel was waa not filled to its capacity which was a regrettable feature of the mec meeting ting there was a large attendance and for over an hour and a half parson simpkin simply bield his auditors spellbound by his narrative ot of events which caused american to enter the world war ar and his appeal to the patriotism of the people to stand by the gavern government ment and make it possible to bring about a glorious victory for far tile the cause of liberty libarty parson simpkin declared that he had seen the prussian program tor for world domination with his own eyes and had received from the lips or of ment wilson himself statements of facts acts that there was absolutely no question as to the determination of the german war nar lord to become the ruler ruler of the world the great plan contemplated the crusing of france by 1915 then russia would hould be given attention and would be conquered in 1918 with the combined resources of france and russia and the genius of the prussians together with their soldiers england was destined to succumb in 1920 by the humbling orr of john bull the germans proposed to exact tremendous indeman atles one of which was canada in its entirety the the war aar lord prop ased to turn his attention to cru crushing the united states which it was estimated ti would be done by 1923 1925 and in that year the kaiser proposed to come to america and be crowned as emperor of german america the speaker declared declare dhe he had seen with his own eyes the map with the words german america written across the face of the western hemisphere and while parson simpkin did not tell the meeting where this map and other ather information came from it was assumed that the papers were part of ct those which government agents secured in the raid upon the of one of 0 the chief conspirators in this country just before war was declared that this program will tall fall parson simpkin was willing to stake his reputation on as a prophet and yet he declared that is is not going to be play work to root out the curse of Pruss lantsm from the earth that it must be entirely uprooted and destroyed must be obvious to all red blooded americans tor for no free liberty loving man could ever submit to be ruled over by a kaiser or his kind the speaker paid a beautiful tribute to the boys who have gone over there and to the mothers and fathers who have sent them these have shown the rest of 0 us the way and they the greatest sacrifice no true amerlean Amerl can can think of the boys nho have gone and will yet go and feel just comfortable until he has done dane his bit at home the boys have to be fed and clothed and provided with iguls and ammunition uncle saro sam needs money and these are only two ways ho he can get it by taxation and by selling government bonds there is no better investment in the world that thrift stamps and baby bonds and liberty bonds and through rugh this medium uncle sam Is offering the people a an opportunity t to 0 finance the war and thus escape the heavy burden of taxation which Is practiced in germ many today the german workman gets 64 cents per day tor for his hard toll and then the government reaches out aut its hand and takes 1 32 2 cents ot of that wage as an income tax leaving the man only 32 cents a day to keep himself and family upon americans need never come to that if they are loyal to the government for this nation Is rich and the people by being saving and frugal can lend the government all the money it needs and at the same time store up their earnings against the time when it will be very useful A faint idea of the amount of af money necessary to tarry carry on this great glo and meet every requirement that Is made of the united states may be drawn from tho the following illustration since the year 1776 when the colonies struck tor for freedom and successfully won the right to rovern govern themselves down to april 1917 when this nation declared war the cost cast of running the government was this amount covers the cost of all tile me wars including vie the revolutionary war the salaries of presidents ind and all other government officials and employees the cost of 0 all improvements and current elpe expenses anses during the first year of the war le ie from last april to tile the present time the united states has spent or nearly one third as much as the government has spent in the one hundred and forty two years of its existence it if war continues for a number of years it can readily be seen what it will mean loyalty and sacrifice on the part of the people now will hasten the end and thus caus bring to an all earlier end the terrible burden which a continuation of the struggle imposes the speaker related a number 0 of horrifying incidents inc identa bearing upon the cruelty of tho the hun and which were related by harry lauder upon his recent visit to salt lake these incidents came under the personal observation of mr air lauder when lie ie visited the trenches in france so there Is no gainsaying gain saying them the m rev simpkin declared that the germans have out beasten any wild beast or ar race that ever lived upon this earth ile he closed his wounder wound erful tul address by a soul stirring appeal to the men and women of this city to save and serve their country to stand behind president wilson and the administration to live wisely and frugally and above all to exercise a faith that god will ardlan that this terrible struggle will be shortened before the speaker was introduced a musical program was rendered as follows quartet keep the home fires fire durning burning boys of the whittler whittier school chorus loyalty fourth grade students overture 11 II 11 Tra trovatore Trava toro high article it was regrettable that cie school or cheater under the direction of prof E D mann and a solo old glory by victor E B madsen As stated at the beg beginning ining of tills article it was regrettable egret table that the chapel was not packed to capacity those who attended the meeting listened to a masterpiece in the way orf of an address and those who remained at home missed the opportunity to have their feelings stirred in a manner that does not present itself every day |
