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VAN DYKE IN CHARLESTON. HI^H PRAISE FOR BRAVE BELGIUM PEOPLE. Former Minister to the Net Iter la mis Unspairing in His Arraignment of the I*russians. More than S00 people jammed the Garden Theatre in Charleston to its utmost capacity Sunday night to hear a scathing denunciation of German autocracy delivered by Dr. Henry Van Dyke, celebrated preacher, orator and writer, who now holds a chap J ? ~ ? i?i Hin ITni'torl lam S I'OIU HllSSluii in lite v> uiwvt States navy, with the rank of lieutenant commander, speaking under the auspices of the local Y. M. C. A. j Hundreds were unable t ohear Dr. i Van Dyke. Switching from the stately rhythm of the academic language for which j he is justly famed, to the plain phraseology of the every-day American, the better lo reach the heart of the masses, the celebrated speaker arraigned Germany and its methods of warfare before the bar of humanity and indicted it on three damning charges. * "Germany wanted war," he asserted, "Germany plotted war, Germany got war and my prayer to God is ' that she continues to get it?in the neck." ^ \ Places Blame on Pot*dam. Dr. Van Dyke then charged nhe Kaiser's government, or. as he characterized it, as "that predatory Potsdam gang," with the accent on the) last syllable of "Potsdam," with * J 1 ?m not I piungmg Hie v>uriu uuu luc m wo i. horrible war the world has ever known, with using tactics of barbarism and piracy in conducting the war and closed with the statement that America must never discuss peace with this arch-criminal until military, hereditary autocracy, with all its evil influences, has vanished forever from the face of the globe. Long before the hour for Dr. Van Dyke to begin his address crowds began forming in front of the Garden, and when at last the doors were * ? f thrown- open, a few minutes before 8 o'clock, King street was a solid mass of waiting humanity for half a block in each direction from the theatre doors. Every seat in the orchestra and balcony were taken, and those not fortunate enough to secure seats packed the vestibules and clustered around the inner entrances to the building. When the famous speaker arose to address the crowd he was greeted with tumultous applause, and at the conclusion of his talk the cheering was prolonged and deafening, Dr. Van Dyke being forced to rise and respond to the insistent hand-clapping of the large audience. National Anthem Sung. Following an overture from the orchestra the meeting was called to order by Secretary Clarence O. Getty, of the Y. M. C. A., and then the audience stood and joined in two stanzas of the national anthem. The invocation was rendered by the Rev. John Kershaw, D. D., rector of St. Michael's Episcopal church. After stating the purpose of the Y. M. C. A. in having Dr. Van Dyke speak Mr. Getty introduced Mr. J. P. Kennedy Bryan, a classmate and life. .. long friend of Dr. Van Dyke, who formally presented the noted man of letters to the audience. Wearing the uniform of the United States navy, Dr. Van Dyke began by expressing his pleasure at again being in Charleston and at being able to come as. a member of the great navy of America, so ably directed by Josephus Daniels of the sister State of North Carolina, and Woodrow Wilson, commander-inchief of the armies and navies of the nation. The names of both Mr. Wilson and Mr. Daniels were greeted with applause by the audience. Dr. Van Dyke said in part: "This speech has been called 'Fight Through or Fail Through.' The subsidized German-American press has attacked me for referring to the submarine warfare of the imperial German government as acts of piracy, on the ground that these boats as the commissioned vessels / of a government, can not commit acts of piracy. "Can they? Let us turn to the dictionary. Here we find piracy to be 'an act of robbery or depredation committed on the high seas without authority from some civilized government.' "Can a nation that has plunged J + r? fliof if HiH nrkt lino ? U1 IU liliv/ > ai bUUt i u Uiu avt want, and that has committed the acts of atrocity that have been committed by the German submarines be called civilized? Predatory Potsdam Gang. "I shall not refer to the 'Imperial government of Germany,' but I have an expression of my own that fills the requirement, from both a descriptive and geographical point of view: 'that predatory Potsdam gang.' "In July of last year a German 1 submarine attacked a British merchant ship and brought her to the point of sinking. The crew and passengers sought the lifeboats, and one boat manned by officers and men of the sinking merchantman was summoned to approach the submarine. The British obeyed, for they knew that to refuse meant to be blown to pieces. "They were ordered to climb on the boat. The captain was sent be low a prisoner, while the others were huddled on the forward deck, their boat destroyed, and then the submarine slowly submerged, leaving the forty helpless captives to be washed into the sea, and of that forty, thirtyeight were drowned. Is not that piracy? "In February a submarine was disabled and brought to the verge of sinking by two American gunboats. The crew of. the sinking pirate swarmed to the deck, waiving their arms and shouting 'Kamerad,* and j then dived into the water and swam I toward the American boats. i How America does It. "These pirates were helpless on board, some so weak that it was necessary to throw out ropes to help them on board and one so near complete exhaustion that two American seamen sprang into the water and lifted him on board. They were taken below and given warm food and dry clothes. That is the difference in spirit between the German and American navies. "Germany prepared for this war long before there was an ostensible excuse for hostilities. In the summer of 1914,. before the crown prince of Austria had been assassinated, I saw in Luxembourg, from whence the first attack was made against neutral Countries. German troops roll in by every train. ''While fishing in a quiet little stream with some German friends, I inquired why so many troops were mobilizing, and my German friends said that they were giving the soldiers a change of air. and that the air was very good at this particular place. '"France at the outbreak of the war had a comparatively strong army, but it was in a state of reorganization and was not concentrated. Russia had a large army in point of man-power, but an average of just one rifle to every nine men. Servia Tried to Keep Peace. "Servia offered to settle the controversy by acceding to eight of Austria's ten demands and agreeing to be tried and punished by The Hague tribunal for whatever she had done, but Germany said, 'nothing doing.' When I speak of Germany I also include Austria, like including the tail when speaking of a dog. _ _ . _ \ "Great Britain, France, Italy and Russia urged Germany to settle the matter without actually resorting to arms, but again Germany replied 'nothing doing,' and then invaded the neutral territory of Belgium, tearing to pieces its own treaty to protect the neutrality of Belgium and never dreaming that the little nation would dare offer resistance. "But, thank God Belgium did dare offer resistance and during those first six days of the war prevented the light of civilization from being extinguished. "I have sat in my office in the shadow of the Palace of Peace and heard the stories told by Belgian 1 refugees of how their women had been violated before their eyes by , drunken German soldiers, of their 1 daughters carried away into white slavery under pretense of being servants to German officers. Of a little child crucified because it stumbled in the way of a drunken soldier, and of men and boys stood up and shot for refusing to tell the Germans things that would enable them to hunt down and kill the Belgian soldiers. 'Belgians Wantonly Murdered. "T traveler! thrnneh the ruins of the Belgian villages while the smoke was yet rising from the ruins and smelled the odor of the bodies murdered beneath them. I have seen that water let in for defense slowly recede, leaving stark and bare the bodies of, the murdered inhabitants, one here with a mute arm extended toward Heaven. "I visited a French evacuation hospital and was shown around by the commandant, who on approaching a ward occupied by German prisonerpatients, cautioned me not to say anything that would excite them. "I witnessed an operation in this hospital and saw a splendid, rugged man subjected to a trepanning operation by one of the best surgeons in France, while three nurses stood by. I asked the commandant if the man would recover, and the official was sure that he would, as the operation had been entirely successful. Then he added, 'the man is a German.' "A few months later those obscene vultures of Potsdam airmen flew over that hospital dropping bombs on the building, marked as it was with a huge red cross stretching all the way across the roof, killing doctors, nurses and their own wounded prisont en;. Is This Civilization? "Then when the uninjured attendants sought to save the patients from the names these vultures swept over three times at low altitude sweeping the ground with machine gun fire. "Does a civilized nation commit such attrocities as this? Does a civ-, ilized nation poison wells so that the! returning inhabitants will be poison-j ed? Does a civilized nation infuse the germs of a terrible contagious! disease in a then neutral country to kill off the man-power before an ex pected war'/ Does a civiuzeu nauuu use gas, a weapon discarded by tliej Chinese more than 100 years ago as> inhumane and barbarous, on theirj enemies? "There may be some who would sit at a green cloth table and talk peace; with such a nation, but I would not.; Not with a nation that has plunged the world into such a war, that has: on its head the blood of the best of: earth's young manhood, and is re-1 sponsible for this terrible pentecost: of suffering. "The Bible says when a man smites I you on the right cheek .turn to him j the left. Germany smote us on the right cheek when she sunk the Lusi-f tania, then on the left when the Ara-i bic went down, and followed up with a kick in the rear, and then declared! that they would sink all ships with-; out warning and without any effort toj save the crew. Ho\C Senimes Acted. "A Confederate cruiser, the Alabama, commanded by a Southern | gentleman, Capt. Raphael Semmes,j destroyed many vessels, but never; without warning, and never without arranging to take care of the passengers. Once he let his prizes go because he could not take off the pas sengers. and could not conveniently take them to port. This is the tra_! dition and spirit of the American navy. "The German spy system in America is unexcelled for expensiveness, j uncrupulousness and boneheadedness. If they had not looked with such cynical contempt on the American, people they might have done us, greater damage. "I, speaking for myself and with-' out authority, favor taking every! man convicted by courtmartial of j spying and hanging him by the neck1 until he j is dead, instead of taking! them to North Carolina where they; can play tennis during the summer! and spring. "A man should not be judged by his name or his accent, but by his heart, and his heart should be judged by his action and speech. I am opposed to discriminating against any man because he has a German name, or because German blood flows in his veins. Some of these are among our most loyal citizens." Dr. Van Dyke closed his materful appeal with a prophecy that America would never consent to sit at the , peace table with such a foe until military, hereditary autocracy has' vanished from the face of the globe. Dr. Kershaw pronounced the benediction. rT,"T^ m an on/^ nno loHr r\Tmr_ l n u in^11 auu uut iauj " vi v> VT v* come by the closeness of the atmosphere owing to the tremendous crowd and were removed from the building. 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