The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1917-12-21


finish him before we get through
with him. This infamous despoi,
this sacrilegious egotist, who dares
30 claim partnership with God---we
viii dissolve that partnership-that
IS part OF Americas job.
II there be in this country man
or woman who understands anything
ABOUT the causes of this war who
says that we did not have ample JUS
tification for it. he hasn't anything
in his veins but yellow blood-there
is no red blood in him.
We might as well let these peo-
pie know where they stand, because
II they 90 not sympathiZe with
America, and if they do not have the
love OF liberty in their souls, we
cant let them have a place upon our
soil. We must make this sort of
people understand they are separate
and apart, they are contagious, and
they must be confined.
There are some anemic ana
treacherous people in America, some
cowardly people, who are urging al
this time, or talking about peace.
We are not hesitating to waste,n |
necessary, human life to save liber /
ty, and we must not hesitate to waste
money to save liberty and human
life," the speaker went on. Il say i
that merely because what we mus.
do is not to criticize things we don't |
know in this time. Let us not in
dulge in idle criticism at this time !
merely because we like to be spite |
full or because some tax bill pinches,
or merely because some special in !,
Of iS
The interests of the nation in this )
great time must be paramount to
every individual consideration. We
must not stop to measure our patri- |
otism in percentage of interest or In |
dollars or in any other materials |
when we are giving our sons gladly |
to save the nation"
After explaining the necessity of !
not only financing the war for this |
country, but taking care of Grea, |
Britain, France and Belgium also
and sending to the western front the |
American army, the Secretary took |!
up the subject of the Liberty Bona |
issues. He declared:
mo sooner have we issued bonds :
than this thing happened-some men |
proceeded to offer their bonds on the !
New York Stock Exchange. Wha, |
was the result? OF course. the de-
mand in the market had been vir- |
tually exhausted; always when you |
sell a great issue of Government !
bonds the demand is going to be ex-
hausted after the subscription.
I'VE did go out and work to the |
limit to get persons to buy all the |
bonds they could take, and the re-
suit is that there is no demand. The |
New York Stock Exchange is the on
ly exchange in the world which has
been doing business in such a way
that stocks and bonds can be solo |
there at some price.
Il want to say to you in all SIN
certify, my friends, that it is not the
man who subscribes for a Govern
ment bond and then sells it imme-
diately, even when he does need the
money, who deserves credit for that
transaction. He is not patriot; he
is not helping the Government; he is
hurting his Government. Do you see
why? Because he sells it below par
and he presses the price, and the
Government whom he is supposed to
be assisting is not being assisted and
he is interfering with the credit OF
his Government, which is very I'M
profitable thing to the nation in this
critical time. l want you to- realize
it, because 1 think most of these
bond sales have been thoughtlessly
made.
Now, if thoughtless or unpatri-
otto men or archtraitors will con-
tinue in this 1 would like to have
seen the face of the Kaiser if he had
been looking at ticker in New York 4
when bonds were sold at 97A. He ,
would have been delighted.
The suggestion is made that you
must put the rate of interest up on
the next issue; that you must do this
because $15,000,000 have been sold
by cutters, who sold them down at
97A at time when Uncle Sam was
weak and could not protect himself.
You do not want to forget your I'm
Gle Sam -,.-------------
As to the treatment for German
spies and propagandists. the Secre-
tary said: Zone has only to reflect
upon the rate o; Russia
Of the propagandists who gave the
Kaiser to understand that the peo-
pie of this nation were material and
dollar loving and would not fight, Mr..
McAdoo said:
That is the pictur' the German
Kaiser had in his heart; put, on, he
made a mistake-a mistake which he
will discover when the first American
bayonets land in the streets of Ber-
lin, and that is where we are going
to carry them. America would give
billions of dollars for liberty, blu, !
she would not yield dollar to an
Infamous pirate.
''If the Kaiser had realized his
dream that we would accept his or
der, what would have been the re-
suit? Every factory in these great
United States would have felt its eff
fects. Every farm, every mine in
America would have suffered La
borers everywhere would have been
turned out of employment and the
products of our soil would have rot
ted upon the fields, and the price OF
every comm odity would have gone
below the cost OF production.