The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-09-16
LOAN CAMPAIGN OPENED
AT Big MEETING SUNDAY
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now up to us to give up the things
,, we think we need. The United States
has the first call on our resources
now.
I'm this bond drive it isn't ques-
ton of how many bonds you have
| bought, but 1t is q question of how
many you have got.
THE man Of wealth, in this COM
| ing bond issue, must buy more bonds
in proportion to his ability, than the
man of less means. The man who is
worth 100000 must do more in
proportion than the man who can
buy only a $50 or 800 bond. They,
the people of wealth, must take these
bonds in greater numbers than ever
| before"
Mr.. Mcdowell related the story of
q German farmer in Richland coun-
ty, who concluded this years farm
| ing operations with a $4,000 profit,
| just enough to pay the debt on his
farm. He elected to pay but $1,000
on the home mortgage, and is using
the other $4,000 to purchase Liberty
bonds, declaring the governments
need greater than his own.
Mr.. Bangs in Powerful Appeal.
Tracy Bangs made a powerful ap"
peal for the support Of the nations
Fourth Liberty loan. He opened with
the declaration that the man who is
| able to, and does not take bonds in
the coming campaign, is just as
much g. traitor to the country as the
man who is giving information to the
enemy.
This is our war" he said. ut has
cir
is not a. war against the ruling
classes OF Germany, but it is war
against every man and woman in
Germany, Austria, Turkey and Bull
garia, They, the people, have been
committing the terrible atrocities
and they are our enemy. ANY one
who breaches that we are only fight
ing the ruling classes, is preaching a
false doctrine in the light of the ter
rible record made by the people of
Germany, who have made the name
German, a stencil in the nostrils of
the civilized world.
When our troops march as pris-
oners in the streets Of Berlin, women
spit in their faces. They are not the
ruling classes, but the German men
dred years there won't be a single
article, stamped Made in Germany
offered for sale in the United
States.
I'VE must fight, and we must kill
Germans, for that is the only way.
This is not a pink tea war;.
The speaker paid his attention to
pacifists, whom he termed doughty,
flabby pacifists," no good anywhere
in the world. A pacifist, he said,
never accomplished anything.
Mr. Bangs dealt at length with the
theory, expounded in some quarters
that we are in the war to help Eng
land, to help France, or to help Bel
GUM, but these reasons fell short Of
the mark, the real purpose Of Amer
lea in the war, he said, being to re-
pair the nations debt to humanity,
For the English. he had high praise,
reciting their accomplishments, their
fighting ability, their thoroughgo-
ing prosecution of the war from the
beginning.
England, he said. had raised seven
war loans, without a drive, for the
people of England know what war
means. The crepe on the door Of
thousands and thousands of English
homes, he said, was constant re-
mtnder of war to those people, and
they, didn't require to be urged into
loaning their money to the govern
ment. When the time comes, If it
ever does, that America is in the
same position, then this country will
not need loan drives.
Profits out Of the war were de-
nounced, and he insisted that no man
had a, right to personally profit from
the war, and that whatever profits
were made during the war period
should go into Liberty bonds
Americas spirit, said Mr.. Bangs,
would win the war, and he had high
hopes that the Christmas of 1919
would csc the Yankees home. or on
their way back here. The spirit of
a people in the war, he said, meant
everything, and he quoted from the
Kaiser's recent speech in making that
point. That the American army has
the spirit, he said, had been evil
denced on more than one occasion
and it was for the people at home to
show the same spirit in all of their
war undertakings. The wiping out of
the st. Mihiel salient in two days,
after that salient had been maintained
four years, was characterized as in
dicative Of what Americans will do
in the war.
The American Soldier.
The American soldier as seen by
was presented by Mr.. Bangs.
Kipling declared the American sol
der different from all the other sol |
diers in the war, and the reason for
that had long puzzled him until he |
found it in the fact that they are |
woman trained. .n...
This training, in the schools, said |
accounts for their spirit. He |
pictured the incident OF American |
soldiers coming on a destroyed dolls |
house, the Americans finding a little |
doll ground into the dust under the |
spiked heel Of a Hun soldier. That /
single act enraged the American sol |
diers as nothing else could.
Like women, says Kipling, once the
American soldier Is enraged, his |
only thought is revenge and he |
throws everything else to the winds |
Ia the prosecution OF that one idea.
Mr. Bangs declared KipIing's work
was wonderful compliment to the /
women Of America and to the Fan
See soldiers.
Dealing briefly with the conten-
ton in some quarters that it is a rich
mans war and a poor mans fight, I
he said such names as Roosevelt, |
Taft, and any number OF others, were
sufficient to disprove that contention.
In pleading for bond investment, /
Mr.. Bangs maintained that at the
close of the war, United States gov
srnment bonds viii be the only bonds
ind the only security that will not |
be depressed in value, and that the
farmer who buys a $1,000 bond today
with 500 bushels Of wheat is far