The evening world., 1918-04-10
STRIKE HARD FROM HOME!

rTVHE Treasury Department issues a direct appeal to the country
to boost the Third Liberty Loan far above the $4,000, 100000
mark and make the number Of subscribers twenty million;
Let US not stop when We have reached Our quota. Let us
so forward and make the quota three or four times a great II
it is possible to do It, and let Us at the same time make the
number of subscribers to these bonds three times rs great a 1t
was before. There Is no answer that will carry such diScOuraS
ment to the enemies OF America and OF civilization as that
twenty million American citizens have subscribed this time
for Liberty Bonds
This time, for forceful reasons:
A great enemy offensive has just been launched. Despite the
success with which the Allies have slowed down and blocked the Ger
man drive, the German high command have promised too much, risked
too much to stop and admit their boasted stroke a failure They will
struggle on at all costs in desperate hope OF gaining In the west
enough to be magnified into a victOry-if they can deceive the Ger
man people as to the price.
- For weeks, possibly months, the Germans will fight furiously.
To help meet them and roll them back In defeat. American troops are
10 be rushed to the Allied front as fast ns they can be trained and
transported, or rather transported and trained.
While the soldiers of the United States in France are going
at double quick into the biggest battle in all history, should not
Americans at home back them up with the most staggering blow
American wealth and resource can strike against the confidence
and enduring power of the enemy7
This may indeed be the decisive battle, the British Premier,
Lloyd George, told the House OF Commons yesterday, declaring at the
spme time that tho placing OF American troops at the disposal of the
British and French might well determine the issue.
I'VE have now entered the most critical period of the
war. There is a lul in the storm. but the hurricane is not
yet over. The fate of the Empire. Of Europe and of liberty
may depend upon the success with which the last German
attack Is resisted and cOuntered"
The fate of all for which this great Republic stands. as we'll.
The Imperial German Government can no longer suppress the
truth about the strength Of the United States as bearing on the final
issue OF I'M conflict. uermnn newspapers now speak Warnlngy Of
"fhe danger from, America" the great ally across the Atlantic with
her mighty resources" and urge the necessity of early German victory
in the west.
Teutonic forebodings are further evidenced in desperate prop
uganda now conducted by German agents on the western war front
10 spread the impression among the German fighting forces that
American troops are not trusted by the French and British, that the
German offensive has badly frightened the United States units and
that Americans at home are in a panic which is making them neglect
war activities.
The first of these lying absurditics tho boys at the front can be
trusted to take care Of.
As for Americans at home, how can they better refute stories
Of panic than by rolling up in the shortest possible space of time
a Third Liberty Loan total that must smash all such German hopes
to atoms7
If the Treasury calls for three or four times the specified quota,
the Treasury is assuredly prepared to take care of heavy ovcrsub-
seiptons.
While it may be hard to understand the wisdom Of Secretary
McAdOos order ~forbidding the giving out Of day to day Loan totals, it
is easy to understand why the grand total should be as big as American
enthusiasm and resource can make it.
Stand ready to stifen that counter blow from the boys in
France with another from home.
Triple the minimum of the Third Liberty Loan.
Rally every dollar now to rout the war lords.
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