Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1917-10-25
PATRIOTIC RALLY
FOR LIBERTY LOAN
Enthuiastic Audience Hears STIR
ing Addresses At State House
VIM. c. REDFlELD'S GRAFTON
Capt. Eberle Urges People To Do Their
Utmost, Not BIT" Judge Boyd
illustrates Talk

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While the audience was not as large
as it should have been, enthusiasm
and patriotism were in nowise lack
ing at the Patriotic Rally for the Lib
erty Loan Bonds held last night in the
House of Delegates at the State
/ House
| The Naval Academy band did its
utmost to draw the crowds by play
ing all the patriotic airs on the State
House Hill before the time announced
for the meeting. The strong north
west winds waited the strains of
Three Cheers for the Red, White and
Blue Maryland, My Maryland, !"
| Dixie Columbia, the Gem of the
] Ocean, far out over the city, stirring
! patriotism that might have lain DOR
mant, and set mems blood tingliing
with love for their country If any
thing should have crowded that House
of Delegates, gallery and auditorium.
| it was the music of the Naval Acad-
emy band, even if the real cause.-the
nations appeal did not do it,
Col. Harry j. Hopkins, chairman OF
| the local committee of the Liberty
Loan campaign, presided Standing
beneath the handsome United States
and Maryland flags above the Speak
er''s desk. he called the meeting to
order and called on DR. II. W. Burgan
pastor of the First NJ. E. Church, for
the invocation. Dr. Burgan's prayer
was filed with patriotism, love of
country, breathing an earnest appeal
to the Throne of Grace for divine
blessing on army and navy, and the
cause they espouse.
Hon. William G. RedieId.
Col Hopkins introduced the Hon
William C. Redfield, Secretary of Com
merce, the orator of the evening, who
made an address such as is seldom
heard anywhere Mr. Redfeld spoke
as never man spake before He call
ed a spade, a spade. He presented
facts and figures without veneer, with
out garnish. lie told the truth about
the country at war with the whole
world, and nothing but the truth, and
the truth hurts, some people some
times.
MIR, Redheld told how to make the
Liberty Loan Bond great success.
1t makes but little difference to the
u. s. Treasury how much money is
raised by these bonds, but it makes
considerable difference to the boys in
France. 1t is the great morale OF the
nation. 1t means to you and me sue
cess or failure 1t means everything
to our soldiers and sailors in France
or on the battleships TO know that the
people at home are behind them.
The North Sea and the English
Channel, Mr.. Redfeld said are not the
best places, nor is the deck of bat
tleship bed of roses, but if people
at home are not behind the men who
are there to fight for and protect
| them, it makes things harder to bear.
MIR. Redfield's theme was "Why We
Need What We Need He said we
are a kindly people; we would rather
give away one dollar than save FIVE
cents, we are generous, lavish, even
wasteful 1t is foreign to our nation
to think unkindly of other people.
| There is no nation whom we desire
to thrust out, neither do we seek
money, nor lands. All we have asked
is peaceful exchange. We were not or
ganized for war Our industries have
been diverted; our ploughshares have
been turned into pruning hooks, and
! our peaceful habiliment into instru-
ments of war. We are calling to peo-
ple to eat more sparingly, to waste
nothing. We are facing sacrifices
such as we have never known or
named, all that this great nation may
be victorious in its fight against autoc-
racy and for democracy.
We would willingly even now stop
the sacrifice of our children. We are
called reluctantly. none the less earn
estly to fight.
Thank God for the spirit of Ameri-
canism. which is ever helpful
spirit
Mr.. Redfield said he was led to An
napolis to ask the people here to put
their savings into the Liberty Loan
Bond. This is the second loan, and
| il will not be the last There Will be
| more. Why are we taking part in
war 5000 miles away? First, be-
cause it is safer and better to take
part in ii so far than to let it come
nearer There has entered into this
world something we dared not dream
was in it. That a so-called Christian
people should run amuck, seems hard
" possible Mr. Redfield asked his
auditors to wipe out the memories OF
three and half years Had they been
told that any nation could enter
peaceful towns, slaughter women and
children, lead young women away in
defiance of parents to worse than
murder. lives of shame. that they
could treat as scraps of paper mes
sages sent by this government. drop
bombs on hospitals with sick and dy-
ing. we would not have believed these
things. yet they have come to pass
through the dominance of the Prus-
sian spirit. Il do not want to call il
the German spirit" said Mr.. Redfeld
It has taken in payment the soul Of
the race. it has held the sacred things
of life to be the common things; II