Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1917-10-26
GOV. STUART ON
LIBERTY LOAN
Makes Great Address Here in
Behalf of Nations Effort to
Finance The Great War.

"The war is too far away" some
people say, when asked to subscribe
to the Liberty Loan. "Thank God for
that We want to keep it there"
"If we had not challenged Ger
many's right to drive us from the
high seas, thousands of honest Amer
lean men would be walking up and
down the country today seeking
bread. Poverty and panic would be
abroad in the land"
''NO man in this country has dol
lar he can call his own until he has
laid it at the foot of Columbia, and
offered ii to his country"
Had it not been for brave. suffer-
ing France and our Allies, Germany
would have landed men on Ameri-
can soil, and today the bruits and
savages of the Kaiser would be raw
ishing our land, butchering our brave
men and desecrating our homes"
81 have n profound contempt for
any man who says that this is rich
mans war and q poor mans fight.
This is a war in which all men are
engaged"
"An American soldier lay dying in
the trenches in France. In his last
moments the thought will come to
him, Were those people back home
worth fighting for The answer is
with YOU"
God bless the Red Cross, the no
blest organization under Gods sum-"
''The farmers of the nation have
never prOspered in the history of the
nation as they have in the past few
years. They are not supporting the
Government in this crisis as they
should"
Above are few of the striking
sentences from the great Liberty Day
address delivered here Wednesday by
Governor H. c. Stuart, who came all
the way from Richmond, that he
might bring home to the people of
Tazewell county the situation that is
facing the country now in financing
the great war.
The Governor arrived from Blue
field about twelve o'clock, the trip
being made in the automobile of Mr..
j. w. Chapman. The train from
Richmond reached Bluefeld too late
to make connection with the Clinch
Valley train, and Mr.. Chapman turn
ed his car over to a committee, who
secured the services of Mr.. Black,
the mechanician. The round trip was
made in about two hours.
Mr.. ]. w. Chapman introduced the
Governor to the audience, assembled
in the court house. Mr.. Chapman
impressed upon his hearers the ne
cessity for subscribing to the Lib
erty Loan.
Governor Stuart spoke for about an
hour, and never has he appeared in
Tazewell in better form or made
deeper impression upon his hearers.
His description of German atrocity,
and his sledge hammer for the Lib
erty Loan could not have been deliv-
cred with more telling effect. He
briefly outlined what would have hap
pened to this country if the United
States had not come to the relief of
the Allied armies, who were slowly
bleeding to death and at a point
where surrender seemed inevitable,
when the United States threw it's
great moral force into the struggle,
and preparing further to throw its
great physical force to the aid of the
armies who are struggling to defeat
the greatest autocracy the world has
ever been cursed with.
Governor Stuart said it was a well
known fact that the Allies were at
point when the United States entered
the struggle where it appeared that
German frightfulness and submarine
warfare might crush the allies. When
that happened. the Kaiser would have
seized the English and French ma
vies, and could have landed five mil
lion trained German soldiers on the
American soil, and could have batter
ed our cities to pieces.
The Governor laid much ctress on
our duty to subscribe to the Liberty
Loan, that our boys in the army may
be cared for-clothed, fed, and pro-
tected, and given every advantage
possible in waging successfully the
war against liberty.
It is believed that Governor Stuart's
address will go long ways toward
increasing the Tazewell subscription
to the loan.
Governor Stuart Luncheon Guest of
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Preston.
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