Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-08

A MERICANS! What does it
II mean to you-this anniversary
4 = of our entering the Great War?
What does it mean to you - the
PRESIDENTS call to the nation to
fight for its honor, for it's rights, and
for the rights and freedom of hu-
manity? When he said there may
be many months of fiery trial and
sacrifice ahead of us''-when he said,
ITO such task we can dedicate our
lives and our fortunes, everything
we are and everything we have" how
did his words come home to you?
Now, after year, at this serious
crisis of the war, do they burn their
way to the heart with a meaning
more real, with a more imperative
challenge?
Stern, terrible facts are driving
us to action. The fury and cruel
cunning of the enemy are unquench-
ed. Russia is under his heel, be-
deviled and plundered. Rumania
has been crushed and forced to sur
render. Fresh hordes of Huns are
being hurled against the western
front. The greatest battle of the
war is raging. The lust of conquest
and world-dominion is growing, as
1t feeds itself with first one helpless
victim and then another. New plots
are ready, and new agents of devilish
propaganda are being sent into
France, and Britain, and Italy, and
America to destroy them from with
in as Russia was destroyed. We
must win, or our fate will be as Rus
sia's. We must win, or our high
professions of service to humanity
Will be mockery to the name of
America through the ages to come.
10 l. &c 1,
is on fire; it has revealed it's soul to
world that did not know it before
and now is 'daZZled by the light. A
deathless purpose to win this war is
gripping the American people. The
Third Liberty Loan will test this pur-
pose--will give expression this
month.
Already the young men of America
have dedicated theiu lives" and
have gone TO meet their fiery trial
| and sacrifice" on the battleline in
France. Hundreds of thousands OF
our own boys are now facing the
cruel foe. Into the trenches, filled
with mud and blood; into the clouds
of poison-gas and the streams OF
! liquid-fire, into the iron hail, and
the whirlwind of destruction, they
have gone with shining eyes anC
shouts of defiance, to fight for us
and for world of brothers. They'll
! drive the enemy back - with oui
nelp.
| Now the sternest summons o.
duty, the holiest call of patriotism
comes to us for immediate answer
We mast now, we can not, evade it
| What are we at home going to do
this year. this month, to match tn,
heroism and sacrifice OF our boys Il
l.
snug at home. going to dedicate ou
fortunes-everything that we have.
to this supreme task, as we are call
ed now, to subscribe the Third Lib
erty Loan? We are expecting L
read of American heroism in battle
of the invincible strength and cour
age of our armies as they meet tn
foe. But heroism and strength, an
sacrifice are not enough. They
alone, can never win the war. Will
we are looking eagerly to our al
mics, they are looking eagerly to u;
They are expecting us to do our par
with as complete devotion and sac
rifice as they are doing theirs. |
we at home fail our armies on tn
betteline. they will-they must-fa
us, and be swept away in defeat an
disaster. This Third Liberty Loa
means not the mere preparation c
our armies. but their preserVatio
on the battleline, their very lives, an
the victory they must have if Amer
lea ond the whole cause of freedor
are to escape unspeakable ruin.
Day by day we shall scan wit
throbbing hearts the casualty list
cabled from the American Army 1
the field. The length of that casual
ty list depends qnols. Every one G
us is responsibleSPThis Third Libert
Loan is to keep that casualty lis
down. Every Liberty Bond you bu
this month is a life-saver sent b
you to the boys in France.
This loan must not fail; it mus
not even drag. Quick. eager over
subscription is our only possible &C
ton. Buying q few Liberty Bond
with money that can easily be spar
cd will not now be enough. w
must go deeper and lend until
hurts. We must square the should
ers, brace the back, grit the teetl
and lift until it strains every nerv
and muscle. Every mans none
E must burn as hotly with love of couu
, try as does the fire in some men
blood. The Nathan Hales of to-da
will go into the banks and the safe
ty-deposit rooms and count thei
money and securities with eagei
jealous thought of what they can d
of heroic service, and then will ex
claim, II only regret that / hav