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Show GERMH IHL1Y IS nun all mi THE COUIIIIir ; "In several places, outside of Utah, in tho last few days, it has been my pleasure to rebuke fittingly malicious gossip repeating and enlarging a slander slan-der that the governor was born In Germany and that he Is strongly pro-kaiser at the present time," said Will T. McNeil, of Nevada, Neva-da, veteran newspaper man and prominent prom-inent as n "field marshal" In a great constructive drive to colonize Mason valley and other garden spots -of the Battle-born state. He was talking to representatives of the Standard and the Deseret News at the New Healv. Saturday, while waiting over for a train, bound for Indianapolis, Chicago Chica-go and Pittsburgh. He was told of recent slanderous gosdip by silly persons per-sons in Ogden and Salt Lake. Germans of Milwaukee. ! "I returned recently," said Mr. Mc- i Nell, "from an eastern tour, including Milwaukee, Chicago, Indianapolis, : New York, etc., where I studied close- I ly the state of the public mind. The I people were united In support of the : government At Milwaukee, where I ( formerly lived, where I know how to ( gauge public sentiment, I found unusu- al enthusiasm for the national cause. ( The German element is especially loy- t al in this crisis. Their lovalty is per- fectly sincere, too. Not as much as 5 ( per cent Is pro-German, and this small t percentage represents die recently ar- rived Germans, not j'et naturalized and they are continually rebuked and 5 disciplined by tho German-born clti- zens. I was with two German-Ameri- cans on a street car, who overheard a (j man, speaking German, criticising the 9 government. They promptly rebuked U him and threatened to throw him off ty the car if he did not shut up. After ? reducing him to silence, thev explain- P ed that he was one of the few irrecon- 9 cilable 'red card' Socialists, who aro 9 condemning the government's war Q policy. fy Reason for Loyalty. "It is not only a slander upon the Teutonic race, but treason to public intelligence to insinuate that the German-Americans are in tho least disloyal. dis-loyal. Almost to a man they came to America to escape the effects of military mili-tary despotism and tho ills which flow from the monarchial system. They sought America as the land of the free and during (he last century have labored la-bored nobly to help make America in reality tho land of tho free. No one ever heard an intelligent German praising or defending the autocratic kaiser and his militarist clique. They j hate his whole system of government and all monarchial forms of govern- -men. They arc intense republicans, I of course, and would make any sacrifice sacri-fice of blood and treasure to defend . America. ' "All over the east I heard repetition of tho saying of General Carl Schurz- ! 'My country, right or wrong; If right, j to be kept right; if wrong, to be set right; but, right or wrong, mv coun- ' tiy' " j Going After Colonists. ( Mr. McNeil said he was going east c to bring back at least one hundred American families to occupy lands in I the fertile Mason valley of Novada j They' will begin arriving, he .said, with- fl in ninety days. "Nevada has 'seventeen 0 million acres open to the homestead- 9 er," he said, "and I am now helping j find a largo number of families to set- f tie on the rich garden and alfalfa 9 lands of Mason valley a tract of 20,- 000 acres. Whilo spreading the famo '" of these golden opportunities, I never ; iubw ciu uyjiui iuiiil iu ttrn Jnquirors of the great opportunities to be found in Utah. The Novadans are broad- J minded. The upbuilding of tho whole west is within tho scope of their col- onlzatlon work. "The Mormons now In Nevada aro doing splendid work, creating for themselves a veritable empire of op- ? portunity. Their efforts should have tho strong support of their great church." . j- Sees Mighty Tornado. v "On my recent visit to the east," s said Mr. McNeil, "at Newcastle, Ind., ja v ?Z1 y escaped being blotted out V the mighty tornado of a month aco 'l 'VflS u "tty'ng spectacle. It was he umbrella shaped elemental mon- er. The black top or body of the ngantic Invader seemed to fill the. lpavens and the all-destrovInK tan wept the earth In wide areas. Nearly my persons were killed outright in ind around Newcastle and the 7 man jrty damage was enormous. BuUd&es s large and substantial as the cSdS mlon depot were crushed like an en? ictuallv dTSJtow to?dattona S actually ripped up and hurled about: Jt2?i 8t5et4rhes of railroad track tvere utterly destroyed. The ties were rip- Sf cVP ?d. hurled mes away, and iSrf ra!ls wero bent "k bars of nnnJ ?mo ,,n corkscrew shape, some jooped in circles, some almost tied in rirPV? roar of t16 tornado was a hun- h STUS165 Srr than that of Nlag- & ti ,1 . Jt Bounded like tho end of tho world." I f?!i McNeU'B address for the next l imL!ays I?"1 bo the Spencer House. l I Sn .aS?1,s- Hg wI return via OS' I den within elx weeks. W " |