The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1918-05-04
McADOO APPEALS TO
FARMERS TO BUY BONDS
Twenty Million Subscribers Needed To
Make Third Liberty Loan
Complete Success

ponds, the better 1t Is for America
and the more diseouraging it is to oul
enemies"
This IL the message which Secretary
OF the Treasury McAdoo bore to the
people Of the Sixth Federal Reserve
District in his tour of the district last
week In the interest of the third Lib.
erty Bond campaign.
Speaking before thousands of people
in six cities of the Southeast, the Sec
rotary was cheered to the echo BY his
immense audiences, Is he told Of the
needs Of the government, the character
OF the bonds. and made q stirring plea
Tor every man. woman and child in
the district to get into this war which
fs now being waged for their liberties,
II only by the purchase Of the smallest
bond.
Mr.. McAdoo made 1t plain that with
out the aid Of the farmers Of the
South, OF the merchants and profess,
sional men and all the laboring classes.
the third loan would be q failure,
which would be worse than q German
defeat.
THE banks must perfor,, their nee
essary functions and keep their funds
in liquid form to supply credits to the
industries engaged in the manufacture
Of munitions of war and in carrying
on the general business Of the country.
and we must not take all the funds out
Of these banks" he continued.
Want Twenty Million Buyers
DO you know, 1t would be q most
impressive thing IL we could say to
the Kaiser that not $4,000 Ameri-
In, h. 10
subscribed. but that this issue was
taken by fifteen or twenty million of
American citizens!"
In his speech, which rang from one
end OF the district to the other. the
mead OF the treasury traced the part
winch America has played in her one
year OF war; how she was forced into
the struggle against her wish, and
only took up arms after all her sacred
rights had been contravened By the
unprincipled Hun. He told how the
American nag was ordered on the high
seas by Berlin, and how the only Amer
lean ships that were allowed to sail
would have had to be- painted like a
barber pole in order to escape the tor
pedoes of the submarines.
In defense Of freedom and the
worlds liberty, America has in one
short year marshalled her resources to
a wonderful extent. and now at this
great crisis. when the supreme strug-
giles are being waged In Picardy and
our allies are crying for more men
and supplies, 1t Is our problem to
mobilize Americas might for the bat
tleneld as quickly and effectively as
possible The only way this can be
done is through the Liberty Loan:
through the subscriptions which must
come from the rank and hle of the
people of America.
Appealed to Women.
Mr.. McAdoO spoke Of the fine work
that is being done BY the women of
the nation, and urged them on to
greater efforts. He stressed the abso-
lutte necessity for saving, both food
and materials Of clothing, that our
armies may be fed and our allies sup
piled. He insisted that the people Of
This country must learn to sacrifice in
order that the war may be won.
We must realize that we are really
IN this war, and that war does mean
the secretary emphasized.
We must learn In the second year
)f the war that we must not indulge
ourselves to the extent that we have
L the past. We must purify our souls
Ind fortify our souls for this great
Ind mighty contest which is now pro-
'eeding upon the battlefields of Pr
'ardy. And the extent to which we do /.
hat Is the extent to which we are 20
ng to help ourselves.
Il have been told by some people
hat the rate of interest on Liberty
3Onds is too low, and, therefore, We
ould not rely upon the patriotism of
he American people to buy these
'onds. l. have been urged to mako
he rate of interest higher than IL is
oday, in order that the bonds might
ell more readily. l do not believe,
ny friends. that it is necessary to
aise the rate of interest on the bonds
n order to sell them. do not believe
hat the patriotism of America 10 ex-
ressed in the rate of interest on a
government Bond. l do not believe
hat the American dollar 10 q fugitive
nd must be chased by high rates of
interest when the governments credit
; back of them.
II want to tell you, fellow-citizens.
ecause this is your problem, as we'll
s mine, that il We do not all take
n intelligent stand now in favor of
eeping the rate of interest on. gov
bonds stabilized at ~ per
mum, unless we are willing to make
fight to preserve the Governments
redit uyon- that basis. then it is 60
- to be the most unfortunate thing
nat can possibly happen to the Amer
ian people. We have got to makeait
lear. to every man, to every woman.
nd to every child who buys govern
tent bond. that while II may be true