The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-10-11
NO TIME FOR PEACE,
AYL0AN SPEAKERS
Chauncey M. Depew and Others
Strike "Victory First" Note
Before Merchants.
KAISER'S BOAST QUOTED
Only Force Can Free Alsace-
Lorraine, Association
Is Told.
KAIsER's BOAST QUOTED

Victory for the Allies before peace
discussions was the keynote Of the
speeches at the luncheon and meeting OF
the Merchants Association yesterday in
the grand ballroom Of the Hotel Astor
arranged for tho speeding UP Of the
Fourth Liberty Loan.
Benjamin Strong. governor of the
Federal Reserve Bank in this district
who was the first speaker. said:
I'VE read this morning in the news
papers that English. French and Ameri-
can troops have thirty divisions of the
German army on the run. and we read
that brigade Of American troops had
Just come out OF pocket where they
had been four days surrounded, and had
been subsistins on oak leaves.
what does that mean? It means that
there is no truce on the western front.
and there Is going to be no truce in this
loan. And my last word is that so far
as the Liberty Loan organization 10 con-
| cerned there viii be no truce until the
last American soldier Is home victori-
ous."
Chauncey M. Depew said:
I'VE live In rapid times. The events
OF to-day are amazing, Of tomorrow
wonderful. Of the next day miraculous.
II taxes the mind to keep pace with .he
| change Of the hours. On the other side
| of the ocean our American army. march-
ing and fighting beside its gallant and
glorious comrades. the British and the
French. is winning series OF victories
day by day, week by week and month
by month with never a setback.
Best Security Ever offered
1--WE at home are marching through
the streets OF the cities and villages and
over the country roads to enlist interest
In the purchase of Liberty bonds Our
gallant boys are perilliue their lives for
us. and We are asked to peril neither our
lives nor our property for them. but to
invest in the best security ever offered
while these two hosts are marching
to victory the enemy makes a seductive
proposal for an armistice under which
both shall halt. Our success in France
| and beyond its borders means safety,
| security and liberty for all the future
| Our success here In this bond campaign
means that we will keep our armies sup
piled while they fight, that we will bring
them home when they have performed
| their task and will care for them after
| they arrive. This can only be done by
money Autocracy cries for peace be-
cause the present German loan has
| failed. The English loan has succeeded,
| 30 has the French and SO must the
American.
SIN this wild time or unnatural ex-
| element the most valuable possession is
| level head. Whoever else may par
4 40, Il ~ - l.
\ or dread. have faith that the one man
most important in all the world at this
crisis will act wisely and well. and that
is our President
Recalls Kaiser'S Boast
| IT do not see how any peace discus
sion on President Wilson'S terms can
take place while the German army is
holding Belgium and northern France
II was only the day before yesterday.
and apparently after this OFFER. that the
Kaiser said in a speech to his army.
We will fight until we have shed every
SAGE and Lorraine 1t was only yes
terday that the cable brought US the
news OF the barbaric and savage footing
| of French villages and the carrying of
from Belgian towns OF young men and
| women into slavery. This Is not a
change of heart. These are not the
works meet for repentance"
DR.. George e. Vincent. head Of the
Rockefeller Foundation. was the last
| speaker.
SIS anybody fatuous enough to inter.
pref that most skilful, that almost
Machiavellian document of inquiry into
any wabbling or into any uncertainty
as to what the answer OF the United
States IL to beY' he asked.
mo. You may rest perfectly secure
that to-day there has never been more
real perplexity In Berlin than there Is
at that table where sundry astute gen
tlemen are scratching their heads ir
perplexity as to what answer to make
TO those three innocent inquiries which
resolve themselves into a perfectly po
lite request to know whether they pre-
fer to be hung. drawn or quartered.
And you may be prepared. wher
those replies are received-you may bt
prepared for an answer that will make
clear, precise and unmistakable the pur.
pose Of the United States to continue
this war until autocracy has been de-
Stroyed"