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NO MERCY TO SPIES
DEMAND OF M'AD0O
Be RelnOrSeleSS to Traitors Who
Seek to Stab America, Secretary
ExhOrts "SeditiOn SlammerS'-
Speaks at Union League.

High Lights of McAdoo's Speech.
Il would like to have seen the
face of the Kaiser if he We're looking
at stock ticker when Liberty tours
were selling at 971a He would have
been delighted; you could not do
anything to help him more than by
selling your bonds and depressing
the value of the Governments
credit"
You do not want to forget your
Uncle Sam
Suggestion is made you put out
the next bond issue at four and one
half per cent. interest; result would
be $8O0,OOO,OOO in interest added
yearly to cost of war"
Il wish the Great GCd could come
down to settle upon the heart of any
American who may make Uncle
Sam suffer-"
80 long as America is united,
fighting on noble and righteous
cause, she will be invincible."
I'VE do not intend to stop until
the Kaiser has been licked to a fin
ish."
MY esteemed Episcopalian broth
er, George Wharton Pepper, said
give the Kaiser a good licking;' he
was too mild
Il would be remorseless to the
man who sought to stab America
from behind"
Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo
swung his right arm wickedly at an
imaginary German propaganda.
This free soil is an unhealthful
place for traitors. or if it is not al
ready, it is part of our business to
make it So" And Mr.. McAdoo
lunged another bio wat a visionary
German spy.
An audience of 1900 men and wo-
men assembled from Pennsylvania
sixty-seven counties cheered the
speaker. The Secretary spoke in
Lincoln Hall, of the Union League,
opening nationwide campaign for
'sedition slammers" to suppress and
refute the lies spread by Americas
arch-enemies.
The meeting, one of the most stir
ring war rallies ever held in Phila
delphia, was arranged by the Com
mittee of Public Safety for Pennsyl-
vania.
Mr.. McAdoo delivered a message
last night which bore the imprint
Of President Wilson's approval, and
its burden was that Pennsylvania,
1.-The heart of Americas resources,
and the keystone in Americas de-
fense," must lead the nation in rout-
Ing German spies and propagandists.
Liberty Bond holders, who, thru
sales on the New York Stock Ex-
change, forced down the value of the
Liberty 'tfours," were branded trait
ors equally as dangerous as the Kai
ser's paid propagandists.
And Americas answer to these
few who wish to force Uncle Sam to
pay higher rates of interest on flu
ture bond flotations, is that the re-
mainder of the Liberty Loan, $10,-
O0O,O00,0OO, will be floated at four
per cent" declared Mr.. McAdoo.
With Mr.. McAdoo spoke Governor
Brumbaugh, George Wharton Pep
per, chairman of the Pennsylvania
safety committee; Lieutenant Paul
Perigord, Of the French Army, anG
William C. Sproul, president of the
Union League.
The liter, making his maiden
speech president Of Philadelphia.s
06s cub. touched lightly upon
Tue .UOuOI pdiu ny tue OTSdulZdIiOu
to = Democratic cabinet officer.
II believe, Mr.. Secretary" said
Mr.. Sproul, that you are the first
unrepentant Democrat to be publicly
honored in person in the Union Lea
que in all the years of its existence"
II regretted, as 1 heard Senator
Sproul introducing me as the first
Democrat to have received such a
distinction, that the Kaiser could
not have heard that introduction, be-
cause there is something ominous in
that for the KAISER" was Mr.. Nc
Adoo5s patriotic Comeback"
TT means that in this great time,
when America is fighting for her
own safety and the rights of humani-
ty and civilization of the world, when
the free democracy of ours has
championed the cause of civilization
with her gallant Allies, we no longer
breathe a noxious atmosphere in
America
The Kaiser would have realized
the consolidated dreams of Caesar,
Hannibal and Alexander; he would
have been the most powerful man
that ever existed upon the face of
al the globe, the one power in Eu-
rope, and then America next-that