Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 99, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 April 1916 — GERMANS TO HOLD MEETING JUNE 18TH [ARTICLE]

GERMANS TO HOLD MEETING JUNE 18TH

Speakers From Chicago and Hammond, Band From Hammond and , Big Gathering in Union. R. H. Eilts, of Union township, attended a meeting in Hammond Monday evening of German-Americans who hold that their loyalty to the United States is not impaired by their sympathies for their native country. Mr. Eilts says that it was a great meeting, filled with patriotism for America and that it hopes that it may have an influence in avoiding a severance of doplomatic relations with Germany. Many telegrams were sent to Congressman Will R. Wood in Washington asking him to use his influence against a war with Germany. Mr. Eilts had secured a number of signers to the telegram in Rensselaer and Jasper county. Plans were instituted at the Hammond meeting for a big gathering of German-Americans to be held in the German settlement of Union township on June 18th. The meeting will be in the nature of a big picnic and will be addressed by a German orator from Hammond and an American orator from Chicago. While the meeting .s to be in the interest of Germany it will in no manner, Mr. Eilts says, lessen the loyalty of any person to the cause of America. The Germans who are interested in this movement all assert their faith in the United States government but claim that the country’s attitude has not been neutral but has been partial to the allies. Mr. Eilts is working on a plan to secure funds for the work of the Red Cross in Germany and expects to receive considerable financial aid in this country.