New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-10-19

out it no government can possibly pro-
gress.
Coming into the war as you did, you
have thrown yourselves INTO IT win
YOUR whole heart and soul. Your Con-
gress. which represents your people,
has passed laws granting powers TO the
Administration which enabled them 70
carry on this great war unfettered and
untrammeled. Your Congress has
passed also laws giving supplies and
authorizations Of finance which are so
stupendous as almost TO stagger AT
least US. who have got so used TO mill
ions and hundreds of millions and
thousands Of millions.
And vet. | am here. with the other
speakers. pleading with you 20 support
the second Liberty Loan which has
been launched. | am not going TO tell
YOU what you know so far better than
/. that this is an investment OF the best
security. | am pleading with you ana
proud and privileged 70 be mere 20 add
my small testimony 20 that OF the dls-
tinguished men on the platform. 20 ada
nv PRAYER TO you 10 do all you can 70
subscribe every dollar you can ma 20
the loan, not so much because rear
the result. but because this loan ana
your subscriptions 70 it must be one OF
your answers TO Germany's derision OF
Americas actions.
Money Is No Sacrifice
IF you could only picture TO your
selves. as believe you Will, as. IN
deed. you must, there will never have
20 be another meeting here calling upon
YOU to subscribe. Subscribe what
nancy Wha. Is the sacrifice OF
money in this struggle: What does ~
mean? Think Of all the rest, and II
you are fortunate enough, as you are,
10 be in this country and 20 be pro-
tected from those things, then | pray
YOU, pour out your help, give your as
sistance to those who are less for
tunate; think Of them as you do 1t, and
remember that every bond for which
YOU subscribe is the equivalent 20 the
protection for a friend Every dollar
that you may put into this will help to
save some one for whom you care.
Every she'll which this loan produces
will bring the victory closer to its end.
"You are lighting for a glorious
cause; you are fighting for war TO
end war. Paradoxical as it may seem,
you are fighting a war for peace, a
durable peace, for our children and
cur children's children. When the end
comes, and it is yet at remote dis
ance. let no mar think that peace is in
sight. II il comes earlier than ex-
pected. il is all TO the good; but never
relax your precautions. II is part Of
the enemy's vile to make you think at
times that peace is drawing near
Secretary of Interior Taken Ill
In introducing Mr.. Wickersham,
Chairman Butler disclosed the fact
that Secretary Of the Interior Frank
lin X. Lane, who was TO have spoken
at the rally, had been taken i'll in Phil
adelphia after addressing the Chamber
Of Commerce there.
adelphia while on his way here from
Washington. His illness is not consid-
cred serious.
Mr.. Wickersham told of several in
cidents showing that the war was draw
ing nearer TO the consciousness of the
American people. and said:
II undertake TO say that II II ever
gets thoroughly into the consciousness
Of America what il does mean, then,
instead of the government having TO
organize Liberty Loan committees TO
20 out and ask for the money, the peo-
pie OF these United States will rse
in phalanx and storm the Treasury 20
rour in all they have to the support OF
the war.
Democracy's Great Task
"Our President has said that we are
in this war to make the world safe for