The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1918-02-14
LIBERTY BOND Meeting
Mammoth Crowd Voices Its
Approval and Support.
WARNING TO PEOPLE
Speakers Flay the Kaiser, Expose
and Deplore German Brutality
and Point to Our Duty.

There was held ut the Court House
in this place yesterday afternoon Il
public meeting of more than usual in
tereSt. its chief aim being to arouse our
people as a whole to their duties while
the nation continues at war. AS court
has been in session all the week and
there were many visitors in town. the
court room was about full to its seat
ing capacity.
The speaker of the occasion was
Judge John Brooks. Of Dallas, Texas.
He was induced to come to Benton
largely through the solicitation of
Messrs. w. H. Hodges. jr.. \. Curtis.
II. T.. Skannal and other representative
South Bossier residents. and these and
many others We're present ut the meet
ing. Mr.. Hodges, at the head of the
organization gone into to solicit sub
scriptions to the third Liberty Bond
loan. called the meeting to order and
introduced Mr.. Will Young. of Shreve-
port, Cashier for the City National
Bank. -and well known to many Of
those present.
When the Banners reporter arrived
on the scene Mr. Young had the floor
and surprise was in store, at least.
for one We did not know that Ire
made any pretensions in this direction.
and his well-rounded utterances, the
many truths he presented, and the re-
peated applause they won. indicated
that he was not called OH all in vain.
The German curse is the menace
that confronts U.S." said Mr.. Young.
How are you going to keep it away
from your children and your children's
children? What are we going to do?
There is work to be done right here at
homework for every one. We must
take up the Governments war meas
| ures and carry them out to the letter,
and not ask why they are exacted of
| us. 1t should be enough to learn that
the Government says so, and 1t is only
cowardly to shirk these duties.
The speaker then fairly limbered up
and spoke of our duty toward the boys
IN the trenches in France; of the ten
| billions Of dollars that must come for
the next Liberty Loan. and stated that
the bonds were the best known secu-
rity in the world.
This is not a rich mans war, OF
rather, not on our part, said he
though the financiers Of New York
city have loaned the Government thus
far more than all the rest of the cOun
try taken together. They are not only
giving of their funds, but their time
and talent. You have heard the Stor!
of Mr.. Vandcrlip. the New York tinan
cial giant now in the employ of til,
Government on the muniticent salar,
of one dollar per ycar. And there sit:
Judge Brooks, IA Texas patriot who ha
!; given up a lucrative practice to accep
a position with the Government. and a
| IL salary that represents less thai
would come to him through his lega
practice. My. friends. is it not enough
alone for us to know these things? u
they not within themselves force upOl
us the SeriOusneSS-the enOrmity-O
the situation?
Mr.. Young closed with direct al
peal to the keencr sensibilitieS of hi
hearers. stressing the horrors Of tn
foreign terror. and as he seated hin
self to give way to the older and bette
sclooled speaker his last words wer
applauded to the echo.
Mr. Hodges then introduced Juds
Brooks. from hose salutatOry remark
= it was to he learned that he is who'll
a Southerner, of ScOtch- Irish -EngliS
extraction With this information 4
hand, the reader may well judge tha
: once OH his feet. it would he no e;iS
task to keep him quiet" as t'ncl
Josh would say. He spoke. and ente
tainingly and intelligently throughou
for nearly three hours. Reviewing OF
notes we find that there is more tina
enough material to fill the open sl,at
OH this page. SO, as to-day Is public;
ton day. there is only left the choit
of quoting him here and there, and II,
always literally, ut that.
Yesterday l travelled 125 mile
much of it over country roads. al
sroke for six hours. finishing UP
lantern light" said Judge Brooks: al
from the same we may well conclut
that this talented man has himself re
oyniZed the seriousness Of the plight
this nation and it's allies and has pc
haps also foreseen some of the graz
dangers and hidden intrigues th;
fairly honeycomb the future. In fat
80 to heart has he taken his preSe
duties that he has cut alOOf from h
profession, made his rW and left h
home with the declared intention
going wherever and to whatever leng
to best serve the nation In this {
pacity. Il am a volunteer said |
..and if | can better serve my count
by going to France and entering t
trenches, | am ready for that. !;
ready. friends, for anything i'll tt
great cause for humanity, and Oppos
to Enthusiastically even to sta
iilindfolded with my back to Il wall a
facing a shooting squad if that shor
come.
The call has come across the oce;l
HurrV. send us men. That means IL
the Germans are going to make tn
supreme effort to win this war i,efs
America can get fairly into 1t. 1t Il
serious message. We speakers ;
warned to keep well within the houl
Of truth in our public utterances. \
" if these things were not true l wo'
not tell son 50. The stories that mi:
lie told are frishtful and hidet