Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-04-22
BUY BONDS THROUGH
LOYALTY, NOT GAIN
Job f. Hedges Stirs Queen Thea
tire Crowd in Patriotic
Address.

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| bond and who heard job T., Hedges o
New York speak at the Queen Theatre
last night, and who fails TO buy one oi
| more bonds today, deserves in the opinion
| of majority who heard this distinguished
lawyer To be classed with the pro-Cier-
| mans.
Mr. Hedges is known rs one of the clever.
| est after dinner speakers that this country
possesses. lie was feeling good last night
| and his heart is in this conflict and as n
consequence he gave n patriotic address
| that has not been cxcelled by any speaker
| the Committee on Patriotic Addresses has
| obtained for the Sunday evening meetings
| at the Queen.
While the underlying and immediate
reason for his address last night was the
Liberty Loan, Mr. Hedges was most I'M
prrssive through his attempt to shame
those who have not bought bonds. He
dccticd the man who bought bonds solely
for investment and without sentiment.
These hc opincd would do tho purchasers
little good
He contendcd that ~ argue about tho
war was di>laval That the matter had
been fixed when this country announced
its determination Il wear ago That -
person who permitted some ono to make
disloyaI remarks about the country or I'M
pngn this country 5 purposes was dlsloNal.
And YOU know what the penalty Tor dis
LOYALTY is in this country, he added 'Its
death
III | wasn't AS old Is am, he SAID,
I'D either hc over there or dead
Then he proceeded to give his idea Of
what the war meant, what its inception
was for and his ideas about Amercanlsm
in general
Its not remarkable that we didn't
get started earlier he went on, That
would he the way in a democracy We
couldn't believe that for forty years
there had been conspiracy on foot
to obtain control Of the world But
now we know that It was 50.
This is not war between Germany
and the United States. Its a war be-
tween Germany and every cltIzcn IN
the United states. Germany form
81 government and our form OF govern
ment cannot exist any longer on this
globe. One or the other must fall America
i nut going to WIN this war. she ~ gong to
help WIN It.
CRIME ~ BlLGluM Is CRIME HERE.
~ crime IN Belgium is a crime IN
this country | have always believed
that when Germany went INTO Belgium,
this nation should have entered
protest The day the Lu~ltanla was sunk
BernStorfI should have seen sent home and
the second dan after we should have been
1t war With Germany
..t,crnanv has done things IN = me-
chaural way. Nothing spiritual or
psvchologlral has been accomplished
in the Tcutons Germany was told
England was asleep, and She was, but
Germany didn't let her remain asleep
She Killed a few women and children
and woke her up and England has been
awake ever since.
She thought France had no spirit
but she learned differently She was
told America was too busy chasing
the dollars to g 70 war. and she was
almost right But She forgot Ameri-
can emotions We have never thought
nationally for fifty years Every time
We have been called upon to give aid
for famine or pcStilence We have done
il, bat we have always remained IN our
country
There are people who repeat to Us
that Washington said we were never
70 bother with European alliances and
we haven't Bur .ve got some respect
able European associations Alr. Hedges
then paid lis respects to paciasts III gen
crai
DE9, KIBEe = PAcIFIST
What i a pacifst2' he asked. III
give YOU my Interpretation OF such
creature lis the iIcgitItnate offspring
oi hope and i regret We have men
who have brains and no >pIno Others
with spine and no brains What We need
now Is men ul both brains and spine hat
~ynchronizo.
We were told ne couldn GET into
this war because England had taken
some If our ships back in 1872 Well.
rna,.be they did We have been living
on her navy for 100 year. We we're
told bv some that We couldn 20 70
war because we had 50 many German
syInpathizers among Us We were told
that we might become military ma
ton But the reason Is we dldnt want
10 pay the price We didn't want TO pay
for big army and navy. What We failed
10 spend IN millions years ago We shall pay
for now in billions.
IF We had had real navy and army,
we might have saved many lives.
Il hope that when this war Is over
We shall be zig enough 10 forget
our loans to our allies and consider that
ur have been repaid by the loss Of life
and property. saved 10 Us by them ii We
aren't big enough to do this. hen We
aren't big enough 70 be worth saving
That will be the first test Of our spiritual
regeneration.
FIGHT OR SUBSCRIBE.
This should be our thought, fight
or subscribe Go across or come across.
That what our constitution stands for.
That's what oar fathers announced this
nation stood for to allow every man to
ENJOY life, liberty and the pursuit Of
happiness Livery human being IN tins
United States is under written contract
to preserve these principles Other argu-
ment- hat might be used are religion and
morality
There was never any doubt Of our
getting INTO this war That is not unless
We denied this Constitution. It's not "A
contest between autocracy and democracy.
although it's true enough IN an academic
sense ii : really whether men and women
in tins country have by the grace of God
the right to live or whether they have the
right BY the grace Of another.
IF this war, he continued, is by
Il Prussinn system won with the aid OF
"A German people, then every German
American ought to rise up here and 20 10
the front line trench 10 save the German
people from he PrIssan system If IT. .
Prllssian system through the cooperation
of the Grriu4n UpoDlc then every German