Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-09-28
WHAT HAVE LIBERTY BONDS
DONE TO SMASH HUNISM?
Tode,'s News Reports from Various War
Fronts Furnish the Best Answer

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actually frightened the world. The three
words of his eliminating boast still stand
as the most foolish sentence ever uttered
in any language.
Americans haven't paid. They have
| grown richer in all material and spir-
itual things. The Emperor of the Huns
has helped Americans. He taught them
to invest their money in Government war
bonds. He helped to make thrift Il ma
tional trait in the United States. All
sorts of people everywhere are begin
ming to realize that they have saved
hundreds of thousands of dollars that
otherwise would have vanished in foolish
eXpenditure-as the money has always
gone that we hoped to ave but didn't.
This saving has been unbelievably easy.
But this il aside. What we started to
talk about was the complaint of an
earnest banker. who said: IL hardly
know what to say about the fourth Lib
erty Loan. | aeem to have said it all in
trying to make people understand the
necessity and the value of the other Lib
erty Loans"
If this man were but to look again at
the shifting battleline, or if he were TO
take a map of the Balkan territory and
observe the swift d-isintegration Of the
entire German-owned military system, he
would realize that all that need be said
for the fourth Liberty Loan is being
written wildly, hour by hour. in the his
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Everywhere the systems of defense
that shield despotism are %crumbling like
Il rotten house in Il storm. Oppressed
peoples are looking upward to the light.
Our own armies have gone forward
~surcrbly without any of the agonizing
setsbacks that France and Italy and
Great Britain had to endure. Their
thickening broods of air machines are in
the skies above an afrighted enemy.
Their great guns are heard on the other
side of the Rhine. These things could
not be if it were not for the Liberty
Loans that have passed. Beside the
magic of the dollars that you have saved.
the magic of Aladdin's genie who built d
castle in a second appears like a bit Of
vaudeville.
A year ago a gorilla in a silver helmet
had almost strangled civilization. Liberty
Loans helped to tuvN him back.
Pompous brutes, sleety-hearted, cruel,
vain and arrogant, looked down with dis
dain upon free government and deter
mined that it should be swept from the
earth by fire. Now they are %quaking,
beaten and afraid. Your dollars helped
to turn the tides against them.
Armies in tatters and a huddle of
whining d~iplomatists at Berlin are all
that remain of the miehtiest and most
sinister enterprise ever conceived by
human minds. But for the part played
by America this conspiracy for a world
dominated by a paranoic might have
been successful. Great Britain and
France have said that We entered the
war at the crucial hour. If that is true,
then your energy, transmitted into the
money you loaned the Government and
transmitted once again in the American
army, has represented the might of de-
'cency and justice raised at the full tide
of battle against the brute powers that
threatened the world.
Your money-the money that you still
hare in the form of Liberty Bonds
helped to Work the miracle.
1t did more than that. 1t has helped
to set your flag up nobly in the far
places as a thing that little children kneel
to and that women who have known war
cannot look at without wet eyes.
1t has rekindled the fire upon hearths
swept cold by a savage war. Partly be-
cause of your money women in France
and Belgium can put their children tc
sleep in peace. 1t has served to protect
your own boy abroad. to give him the
assurance that goes with the best artil
lery, the best ships, the best air machines
and the longest range guns. 1t enabled
our armies to wipe out German defense,
wherever they decided to strike. You
money-still safely to your credit in the
treasury of the nation-has yet served t.
be a shield to your soldier and to ever!
OlneT SOluler WIZ isHts yOuA Ddtlles, 10
it has permitted their proper equipmen
in a task difficult beyond belief. 1t ha
stripped all his p~retensions from tn,
most dangerous emperor in history. ]
was your money-translated into energ,
by our army-that carried the American
flag to triumph after triumph at Chateau
Thierry and st. Mihiel, 1t took our gun
to Metz.
Liberty Loans have established a ne,
international brotherhood. They hav
tied US forever to France, TO Great Brit
ain and to Italy. We shall never agai
be strangers in these lands. They sha'
be to US a second home.
No new arguments left to sell Libert
Bondsl Why, there are new argument
unlimited, and not only arguments, Blu
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