The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1918-10-01
Mass Meeting Saturday Ad-
dressed BY Mrs. Slater and
Senator Elect Pollock.
A LARGE CROWD PRESENT
Fourth Drive is Now Under
Way in Lancaster County
Though No Figures of Sales
Are Given Out.
The Liberty bond drive is on.


The fourth campaign was formally
| launched at a mass meeting held in |
the opera house Saturday, and while
the drive is now we'll under way, no
I figures OF sales in Lancaster county
could be secured at the time The
News goes to press. All committees
have been appointed and the work
ers are "at it, and will continue at
the top.
The meeting Saturday was ad-
dressed by Mrs. Slater, of Columbia.
state organizer for the women's COM
mi.tee, and Senetar-elect w. p. Pol
| lock. Mayor Stewart made a short
address of welcome and Colonel Lee
roy Springs, who was master Of.
ceremonies, closed the meeting with
short address calling upon all the
people to buy bonds to their limit.
Mrs. Slater devoted her address to
tn, nart the women of South Carolina
are playing in war work and said that
not only are England and France
watching us in this fourth Liberty
| loan but that Germany, with keen
eyes, Is watching and that the MUIR
derous Hun would rejoice if we fail
| to subscribe the loan. Mrs. Slater
said she was supposed to talk or
/ ganization but that she found the
I women of Lancaster so wonderfully
organized already that no remarks
from her on that point were neces-
sary. Her address was received with
a great deal OF interest by the five
or six hundred people present
Mr.. Pollock spoke of the boys who
have gone to fight for the preserva-
! tion Of our homes and our lives. and
that the world may not only be made
safe for democracy but that il be
/ made safe place to live in He
mentioned the wealth OF the United
states and compared it to the
amount of loans which the govern
ment has asked for since the United
States entered the war 1--WE have.
not one penny for the German hell
hounds OF the old world But when
II called upon to buy Liberty bonds you
are not giving as you did willingly
\ in the Red Cross, the Y. NJ. G.. A.
and other drives for funds. you are
investing in the safest security the
world knows. and the man who re-
I fuses, II in his power to subscribe.
ought to be run out OF the coun-
try"
He upheld Secretary McAdoo's
doctrine Of half-soled breeches and
shoes in order that the people may
save and invest their savings in Lib
erty bonds.
Mr.. Pollock spoke OF Germany's
ravishing of Serbia and Belgium. of
the spy system in this country and
the sinking Of the Lusitania and
how Germany said it was a mistake
and regretted 1t. but went right
ahead and sunk the Sussex, lieing
every time ii said it was a mistake.
He spoke of the debt we owe France.
OF Lafayette and his legioDs who
came over here when we were strug-
Cling for our independence. He
said America is fighting not for land
or money, but for principle and is
going on until peace for the world is
made. peace, the termscof which will
be dictated by your president in the
city of Berlin.
An interesting feature of the nee.
ing was the asking of the mothers
present who h'd sons in the service
to stand and twenty-seven arose. A
special tribute was paid them.