New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-10-19
Chief Justice Of England
Arouses Great Audience
in Carnegie Hall
Germany Must Be
Beaten, He Declares
America Will Do Her
Share, Promises Attorney
General Wickersham

'If you have faith IN your govern
ment, as | believe you have; II you
put your trust in your President and
his administration, as believe you
do. then pour out your money 20 help
the Administration shorten the war"
Putting the whole power Of his voice
into the appeal. Viscount Reading,
Lord Chief Justice of England. last
night called on the four thousand men
and women who jammed Carnegie Hall
TO come forward in support of the
second Liberty Loan.
The rally for the loan. organized by
the Liberty Loan Committee. was at
tended with tremendous enthusiasm.
Every one Of Lord Readings points, as
he enumerated the just causes OF this
country going TO war, was greeted
by applause. cheering and the waving
of flags.
The mighticst roar Of approval. how
ever. greeted the answer OF America.
voiced by former Attorney General
George W. Wickersham. when he said,
after the conclusion Of Lord Readings
address:
"My Lord Chief Justice. we are pro-
verbally slow IN coming 20 the bat,
bu. when we come there we MAKE a
liner
We do not waste time standing
around in advance. but we get there
AZ the appointed hour. II was the
same thing with the last Liberty Loan.
I, will be the same thing with this
Liberty Loan. and with every Liberty
Loan"
Distinguished Men Present
Carnegie Halls platform was thronged
with n distinguished gathering VIXEN
Or. Nicholas Murray Butler. the chair
man. began his Introductory address.
Among those on the platform were J.
Pierpont Morgan. Benjamin Strong,
governor Of the Federal Reserve Bank
Of New York. and George Wharton Pep
per. of Philadelphia. who also spoke
Among those who occupied boxes
were Lady Reading. Mrs. Pepper. Mrs.
John T. Pratt. Mortimer Schiff, Briga-
der General White. head Of the British
Recruiting Mission: Lord and Lady Alb
erdeen. Consul General Give Bayley
and Colonel Swinton. OF the British
army.
Shortly before the meeting was
called to order by DR.. Butler a detach-
ment of one hundred men Of the 18th
Coast Defence command. under COM
mand Of Lieutenant John y. HUMPHREYS,
arrived al the hall. and, amid the hand
clapping Of the audience, filed on the
platform.
After rehearsing the incidents and
motives surrounding the start OF the
world war and the entrance OF this
country into il. Lord Reading solemnly
gave this pledge in the names of Great
britain and France:
Great Britain has determined that.
come what may, whatever sacrifices she
may have 10 make, be they ever so
great. be they even far greater than
we have yet reckoned. she will never
sheathe her sword until Germany has
realized that she is in the fight TO the
end.
France Will Not Die or Surrender
France is determined that she may
die, but she will never surrender. But
France may take comfort, France will
not die, and France will not surren-
der"
After declaring his belief that Russia
would yet take an active part in bring
ing victory to Allied arms Lord Read
ing continued:
in all this great organization Of
war, in all the assembling of the prod
ucts Of the world for the purpose Of de-
fence and of gaining a victory over the
enemy. money must always be the NOV
ing spirit. It is necessary that you
should have the money to pay for the
labor and to pay for the material that
/ has been won from the ground. With