Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-23
GERMAN NATION
A LEPER, LOAN
WORKERS TOLD
Time Has Come TO Drive
Taint From Nation, the
Speaker Declares

Deputy Attorney General Keller
at noon to-day brought the several
hundred volunteer Liberty Loan
bond sellers to their feet, when, at
the first of the get-together meet
ings of the home drivers, he declar-
ed that Germany is a pariah nation.
Germany is a nation that is out
cast" said Mr.. Keller. TT is a leper
an unclean thing! 1t is our duty to
Danish ito drive it away from us;
TO ban it from our schools, from our
newspapers, from our pulpitsi And
1t is our duty here and now to prom
Use that never so long as we live will
we buy anything bearing the stamp
Made in Germany
To-day's meeting gave the Lib
erty Loan bond sellers an opportun-
ity to see the wortroom at the new
Post Office. In this huge place the
wartime lunch of sandwiches and
coffee was served the men who in the
next three days will comb Harris
burg in an effort to sell not less than
s3,5O0,000 worth of bonds and as
much more as possible.
Deputy Attorney General Kelle"
sounded the keynote for the workers
to-day.
Every man in this ROOM" he said.
''if an epidemic or pestilence were
threatening would give up every
thing he has in the world to protect
his wife and his children; his mother
or his sisters--his family. That
menace is here now; and it is up TO
each one Of us to give everything
in his power to stop il. The one
thing that saves the United States of
America from the fate that overlook
Belgium and parts of France is the
thin blue line of English, Irish, Aus
tralians. French, Canadians and
Americans which stems the tide
which fights on the field of France
"Might Makes Right
The Germans have preached Cor
years that the German people are
always right because they are the
German people. and they have said
that the smaller nations and peoples
have no rights which German need
respect. This country made the same
error sixty years ago when in the
Dred Scott law it said that negroes
had no rights which white people
were bound to respect. 1t required
four years of war and the blood of Il
million men TO wipe out that pro-
nouncement And it will take years
of fighting and the blood of millions
of men to wipe out the pronounce
ment OF the German nation.
In their campaign of ruthlessn ess
the Germans have reSorted to de-
struction, to arson. to murder, and
to rape. The German officers have
connived and encouraged their men
to ravish women i'm the lands they
have captured. Who will say that
with the excellent discipline of the
German army crimes of this sort
might not have been prevented mad
the officers desired? General Sher
man and so. 900 Americans marched
from Atlanta to the sea during the
Civil War, and while there was much
laying to waste it is not of record
that one white woman was injured.
In this country we are blind to
the dangers that besets us. We are
pitted against foe, that for fifty
years has made war it's business.
Germany deliberately went into the
wars of 1866 and 1870; and in 1870,
when in three short months it defeat
ed France at a cost of only $3.50, 900
900, it demanded and secured an in
demnity of $1,000,000, 900 and the
provinces of Alsace-Loraine, worth
at least 100000 more. Thus
with the blood of its own men-its
own people-it embarked on wars Of
conquests and laid plans for con-
quests of the future.
Time to Show Best
Il cannot see why we require thir-
ty days campaign to sell S3.000.00O.-
900 worth of bonds in the country,
and S3,500,000 in Harrisburg. These
bonds should have been taken up
over night. The funds have the best
security back of them-the pledge
Of the United States; and that pledge
is backed by your property and mine.
The man who hesitates at buying
bonds because the interest is but
4A per cent. is too small to be con-
1t is not a time to be plea
yunish over such trifles. 1t is time
to do YOUR best
Chairman Frank Sites explained
what is to be done by the teams. as
did President Andrew S. Patterson
of the Chamber of Commerce. The
division commanders, logged in mill
tary coverings, We're presented TO the
plaudits of the crowd
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