Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-10-05
SECRETARY N|cADOO IN TOLEDO
Second Liberty Loan Campaign Opened in Toledo Area
Fulton County Men Attend Banquet at Toledo
Commerce Club and Hear Secretary of
the Treasury Monday Evening

About 300 bankers and members of
Liberty Loan Campaign Committees
from twenty counties of Northwestern
Ohio were guests ofAthe Toledo Com
merce Club at banquet last Monday
evening on the occasion of the form
al opening of the Second Liberty
Loan Campaign by Secretary of the
Treasury, VIM. G. McAdoo. From
Wauseon Mr.. W. B. Harris, chairman
of the county Liberty Loan Committee,
Messrs w. H. Eager, L. H. Deyo, C. P.
Grisier, F. H. Reighard and F. E.
Kenyon. Other parts of the county
were represented by Messers Davol
and Treadway of Metamora Linehan
of Swanton, Chas. Hause and DIR. E.
H. Rorick of Fayette.
At the Commerce Club preceding
the banquet an informal meeting was
held at which time the details of the
campaign for the sale of bonds for
the second issue of $3,GO0,O 100000.
were discussed. The Toledo Area
of the Fourth Federal Reserve Dis
trict is allotted $20,000,000. of the
bonds; $10,000,000 or one half of this
amount to be sold in Toledo and Lu-
cas- county, leaving $10,000,000 to be
sold in the twenty counties outside
of Lucas which comprise the balance
of this area. The new bonds will be
issued in the same denomination as
the preceding issue and will bear in
terest at the rate of per cent from
November 18th, 1917 They will ma
ture in twenty-five years with the
option on the part of the government
to call them in for payment at the
end of a ten year period.
The Toledo Area led all other areas
in the over subscription to the first
issue of Liberty Bonds reaching 123
l. per cent of the quota allotted to this
area; the Cleveland area was second
with 121 per cent of their quota.
| Several representatives from va
rious counties in the territory made
remarks, submitted and answered
questions The general spirit that
prevailed was that while the task
seemed to be difficult one it was to
| be undertaken whole heartedly and
with the expectation of success.
The first issue, 31k per cent bonds
are exchangeable- for the new per
cent bonds. Adjournment was taken
hundred sat down to a substantial
dinner following the dinner Rev.
Grant Speer of the Central Christian
church Toledo cave an inspiring pa
triotic afterdinner speech that thrilled
everyone present. Rev. Speer's ad-
dress followed the line of the four
things that are essential to making
of true patriotic American: Natur-
alization, Indoctrination, incubation
and enlistment. Rev. Speer said
: that in these times and under existing
conditions, the American preacher
who does not make the voice of the
church the voice of the State is dis
loyal to his country. He said that
the answer to the question as to why
the United States is at war with Ger
manv is contained in the preamble to
the Declaration of Independence.
: The assemblage adjourned to the Su
perior street side of the Hotel Secor
where they formed a part of an es-
cort to Secretary McAdoo to Memorial
Hall. The hall was filled to stand
ing room only and the audience cheer
ed both the secretary and Mr.. Shep-
herd the chairman of the meeting to
the echo. The secretaries address
made very clear the position held by
: the United States in this war; he scor.
7 ed the pacifists and denounced then
as those who were virtually SHOOTING
American soldiers in the back while
= they stood facing the German Army
1 in battle to defend the Democracy
whose benefits these same pacifist:
l were enjoying. Mr.. McAdoo tolC
Y WHY the money was needed and made
n clear the fact that the winning O.
J, the neace sought rests upon al
: the American people.
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