The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1917-06-02

eral very striking paragraphs from this very striking and very
convincing address as it appeared in the Omaha Bee. The sec
rotary was urging upon the people of Omaha and the Middle
West the Importance of doing their bit in financing the war.
AS a result, Omaha alone took four millions of the Liberty
bonds as a starter.
Here is another declaration of the secretary that is worth
thinking about: 1--WE are offering you people who stay at
home a mortgage on the entire country-a mortgage ON the
soul of America. We are paying you three and One-half per
cent interest on your loan. And then we turn around and pay
that money to equip the boys whom we are sending to the bat
tlefeld for you. Are we going to be more tender with our
dollars than with our boys? The only protection we can give
them is the best equipment that our money will buy, in order
that they may defend themselves and have a fighting mans
chance for his life"
Mr.. McAdoo puts very plainly before the country that its
treasure as well as its manhood is included in the resources
pledged by congress to the world for our part in the war. But
he doesn't rest there, and he doesn't overstress the patriotic
aspect of the issue, for he gives us the material and the attract
i've side of the great bond issue in its proper way. He presents
it as one of the most attractive investments ever set before the
people. 1t is backed by the honor of the republic and backed
by the wealth of the nation. 1t pays a good rate of interest
and it is not rivaled as a ready or liquid" asset; it can be con-
verted into cash at any moment and there isn't a bank any
where that will not accept it as collateral. And it is being Of
fered in such denominations and under such terms as make II
possible for everybody to buy one. 1t is a whole savings bank
in itself, for the bond can be bought on the installment plan.
There NAV still be those who will fail to take seriously the
declaration regarding indemnities that we have quoted, but the
secretary's view of this question is the view long entertained
by Ambassador Gerard, who was in Germany when the war
began and remained until we entered the war ourselves. 1t is
the view of those responsible for the war, the autocrats and
military caste of Germany. 1t is one of Germany's notions of
war, the notion she imposed on France in 1874 and on Belgium
in this war.
More than a year ago we reprinted the following from the
Frankfurter Zeitung of February IS, 1916, which was given by
that newspaper as the view of the naval and military Officers
of the German empire:
with the fall of England. however. Russia and France will
also automatically collapse like the organs of "a body whose heart
has been bored through. Then also America will remain isolated
and must or her part accept any conditions which W e may i'm
pose, because in the peace treaties with III European foes W
j, among other things, also demand the handing ove of all
large batdeshps and submarines, whereby or fleet would be-
come " times thu, strength of the American navy Then Amer
lea would be compelled o surrender and a a matter of course
she would not only have to give up all he informed Germa liners
BUT ALSO PAY ALL THE WAR EXPENDITURES OF THE
GERMANIC POWERS AND THEIR ALLIES
And if there be any dreamer who is not yet awake; if there
be any doubter who still doubts, he need only recall the prom
ises made by the war party of Germany to the bankers of Ger
many when the first German war loan was floated, that this
loan and the expense of the war would be repaid from the in
IDENTITIES to be collected from those nations with whom Ger
many was at war.
If any Tribune reader wants to know where original copies
of this German newspaper can be found without going out of
the United States, the Tribune will inform him, and it is one of
those newspapers in Germany that are known as "semi-Offi-
cial," and always backing up" the government.
President Wilson knew the intentions of Germany long be-
fore he gave to congress his immortal message of April ?
America will not pay all the war expenditures OF the German"
powers and their allies" for free America will be a graveyard,
as Belgium and Serbia are. before that shall come to pass.
Are you doing your bit?
Two more private banks are on the financial rocks in Chi
cago. running the total wreckage over a score, in half that
number of years. These institutions, like all others of the
class, operate without supervision of any kind, and bring pow
erty and disaster to deluded depositors. The astonishing fea-
ture of the record is the failure of Illinois Legislatures to
provide legal safeguards for thrifty people.
Texas should not be Judged by the attempts of plotters to
defy the draft. History and tradition alike applaude the ex-
perts of Texans in gunwork. Symptoms of cold feet are alien
to the abiding spirit of the Alamo.
New York proposes to subscribe for a billion of the liberty