The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, March 14, 1918, Page 6, Image 6
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
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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."
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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"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.
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