The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1917-10-18
ENDURING PEACE
AND TRIUMPHANT
DEMOCRACY
United States Treasurer John Burke
Delivered Great Patriotic Address
Here This Evening.

This war must go on until it ends
in enduring peace and triumphant
democracy" was the concluding SEN
tence in Ex-Governor John Burke's
address at the First Presbyterian
church Thursday evening and the vo-
ciferous applause which followed
showed that the immense audience
which filled the edifice were in perfect
accord with the sentiments of North
Dakota's favorite son. The commit
tee in charge of the campaign for Lib
erty Bonds enlisted the services of
Mr.. Burke who is touring the North
west at this time in the interest of the
Second Liberty Loan. The speaker
was introduced by Hon. J. E. Greene
in happy and felicitous speech.
The speaker said there was no cause
for fear that North Dakota would fail
to do her part in the present Liberty
Loan campaign. He attributed the
seditious uterances Of certain foreign
born citizens of the commonwealth to
the transformation which for several
years past has been sedulously spread
by the German propagandists. He
said if the enemy were at our very
gates there would be no necessity Of
conscripting defenders. But we don't
want the Hun at our gates. The AL
lies are the bulwark which now pre-
vents such catastrophe. We are
raising funds to provide the Allies
with the sinews of war as well as to
supply our own needs along that line.
There are but two methods by which
a government may raise money, taxa
ton and bonds. By the former meth
cd your money is paid over and is
gone forever, by the latter method the
money is returned to you after lapse
of years with interest. He said there
were at this time $175,000,00O deposit
ed in the postal savings banks draw
ing but 2 IL per cent, while govern
ment bonds pay 4 per cent. The
United States must finance the entire
war. He explained the fact that the
Germans are able to finance their end
because of the fact that for the past
40 years they have been laying in
their supplies of war material at low
prices and with minimum expense
for labor, while our government and
the Allies are obliged to pay high war
time prices both for labor and mater
ial. We have already loaned the AL
lies about two and a half billion dol
lars, and this money was all being
expended in the United States. He
mentioned the critical condition which
confronted the allies prior to the en-
trance Of the United States in the
great world conflict. He said the Ger
mans would surely have conquered
and then their next objective would
have been to conquer this country. He
answered the criticism frequently
heard that the U. S. was slow in pre-
pairing for war by stating that we are
already better prepared than England
after two years of preparation under
Kitchener, the greatest organizer the
world has ever known. We have an
army of over 100000 men in training
and Che guessed) about quarter of a
million men on European soil master
ing the intricacies Of modern, scientific
warfare before they enter the
trenches.
He said we have no cause to worry
but that "our boys" would be properly
cared for if the government has the
necessary funds. He brot out the
fact that in some cases, eprhaps, ex-
horbitant prices were being paid for