Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1918-03-25
Two Ronsing Meetings Held Satur.
day Afternoon and Evening at
Methodist Church to Boost
Loan Interest.
APPEALS TO PATRIOTISM.
Duty OF People at Home is to Support
Men ut Front Through Real
Sacrifice.

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held in this city Saturday afternoon
and evening at the Methodist church.
The object was to stir up a wide
spread interest in the third Liberty
Loan and to Undue the working
committees with true spirit of pot
riotism-a spirit that will bring home
to all deep realization of the fact
that those who cannot personally
participate in the great war must
learn that, if the Allies are to win,
it will only be when those at home
learn the true meaning of the word
sacrifice.
The afternoon meeting was espec-
| tally for Liberty Loan committeeman
The gathering was largely attended,
every township in the county being
well represented. All came away en-
thusiastic and firmly convinced that
Hamilton county will take her full
share of the third loan. A special
appeal was made to the workers to
make their campaign one essentially
of an appeal to the patriotism of the
people-an appeal to those at home
to make sacrifice to aid the men at
the front and thus end the war at
the earliest possible moment. At the
! close Of the meeting, H. M. Sparboe,
county chairman of the Liberty Loan
| committees, asked those in the audi
ence who were with him heart and
soul in the work to rise-and every
| committeeman present arose.
Evening Meeting.
The evening meeting was for the
benefit of the general public-the OBJ
ject being to give the people clear
er idea of the needs Of the govern
ment in carrying on the war. The
| speakers We're Mrs. Cora Lewis Of
Kansas, Chaplain Biglow of Camp
Dodge and Gaylord Salzgaber, COM
missioner of pensions of Washing
ton, d. c. 1t. NJ Sparboe presided.
The meeting was largely attended and
the addresses went far to bringing
home to the people Of this community
their responsibility for the success of
the war.
Pointing to the things with which
European women have had to con-
tend, the sacrifices which they have
made without loss of their frey pa
triotism and the contrast between
these facts and the comparatively
small part American women are call
ed to play, Mrs. Lewis sounded a
call to arms and an enrolment of the
women of America in the second line
OF defense which should end only
with victory
WOmen's Part.
Women behind the lines of the
French army so about with the faces
of dead women except that they lack
the serenity which the touch of the
angel of death would bring; they
hang their heads in shame, through
no fault of their own, because they
have suffered worse than death. The
army of the kaiser would have been
merciful if it had placed them against
wall and shot Them" Mrs. Lewis
said. And yet after all, think of
what they are doing. They go into
the field and raise grain, they are go
ing into industry, into factories.
They go into munitions factories and
work until their skin is yellow-they
go hungry-they give up their babies |
to the care of others that they may
work for their country.
Have any of you suffered what |
our sisters across the water have suf- |!
fered? Think of the little you are |
asked: to economize, to buy liberty
bonds. This war has been going on
for long time and it will go on I'M
til millions of our boys are over
there--until the casualty lists are
columns long. Maybe it would not
need to be so long if we had started
TO sacrifice sooner; maybe we could
cut the casualty lists in half now il
we save food, buy bonds, put our
selves heart and soul into these
things. Our boys have offered them
selves and believe every young
American in the fighting forces of
our country has offered himself a
living sacrifice as Christ offered him
self for the saving of the world.
Americas Hope.
What hope have the women of
il our boys are killed by
the millions as the European young
men have been? Ten millions of
them today wait for the coming OF
the kaiser to judgment | am afraid