Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1919-04-02
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WILL not FAIL:
People Must Do Their Full Share
), Putting Victory Loan lover
the Top"
PATRIOTISM WILL DO IT
omeiaIs Of War Loan Organization
Prepare for Campaign and Ars Con-
Ad0nt Of Successful Outcoms-To
Uphold Past Record.

Prepare for Campaign and Ars Con-
Adsnt Of Successful outcoms-To
Uphold Past Record.
The people of the Ninth Federal
Reserve District will do their full
share in finishing the job"
A. R. Rogers, Chairman Of the War
Loan Organization. unhesitatingly
made this promise to Carter Glass.
Secretary Of the Treasury, when no
visited District Headquarters recently.
We know tho temper, tho patrio-
tism and the record Of the people Of
the Northwest too well to have any
fear Of their response to the loan Of
THANKSGIVING" was the secretary's re-
spouse.
Therefore, it il up to AZ to con-
ttnue to lead tho United States over
Ae top" said Theodore Void, Gov
ernor Of the Ninth District Federal
Reserve Bank. Because of past per-
formances the whole country 10 e.
pecting great things OF Us In tho test
of peace time patriotism; and. judy
ing from the ambition, enthusiasm and
optimism already in evidence among
our workers, we will not fail"
Speakers Get Busy.
"We're of to = flying start" said
Joseph Chapman, district director Of
speakers. Our campaign of platform
education and instruction opened
March "a. Every county is or viii
shortly be organized with q speakers
chairman. From now until the big
buying day, April p, there shouldn't
be q meeting. large or small, In the
whole district without a Victory Loan
speaker on the program. Anyone
who finds his county unorgani1ed
should take 1t up at once with his
county chairman or with us. Il IL
up to every man, woman and child
to get busy and keep busy until the
job IL finished"
The Opening Gun.
-" Americas duty to her soldiers who
suffered and bled and died for liberty
on the fields of France was empha-
sized in a stirring speech by Carter
Glass, Secretary of the Treasury, in
the Minneapolis Auditorium the night
Of March 20.
In his talk he pointed out the need
Of raising money the government must
have Ito finish the job" that the wear
ers of the khaki started 80 wei on
the other side of the Atlantic.
i The speech was the opening gun in
the Victory Loan campaign that opens
April Fl and was followed closely by
q capacity house, made up OF county
~f;hairmen from the Ninth District and
yention. He spoke in part as follows:
i when I am told Of tho difficulties
which will beset the Victory Loan
refuse to lose faith in the enduring
patriotism Of the American people;
decline to believe that the fathers and
mothers who gave four million sons
to die, If need be. that liberty might
survive, will now haggle over the ma
1terial cost of saving the very soul Of
civilization from the perdition of Prus-
sian tyranny.
,proach the problem Of future loans In
q distinctly cold-blooded mood. Some
men tell me it will DO impossible again
to appeal to the patriotism Of the
American people. Frankly, gentlemen,
Il should despair Of my country II these
,s.aangs were exactly true. should
doubt our ability to cope with the
problems Of peace If SO quickly we
should forget the obligations of war.
-@rAnp ~ thnoo vHhn %olk In fh%o
fashion speak considerately7 They
tell about tho sacrifices" tho Ameri.
can people have made, and in their
voices there 10 . metallic tone and in
their mien unconscious auster1ty.
"Whas| is meant by the sacrifices OF
war fol- America? Where are ou1
devastated fields and ruined cities
Where our cathedrals destroyed and
homes profaned? Where our dehled
women and starved children and
wrecked men? Where on this wide
continent does hunger stalk abroad OF
pestilential disease claim It's thousands
of victims? Is 1t. then, q serious sac
r1flce to invest ones money in the
Understanding obligations Of ones
government in order to make ever
lastingly secure the nations freedom
as we'll as tho nations property?
"Our allies fought for US nearly
three years before we began to fight
with them. For nearly that period Of
ttme the United States proflted tire
}msndously, in . commercial and in
5dustrial sense, by the European war
Immense fortunes we're made; pros
perity pervaded our land. France ant
Britain lost millions Of men killed and
millions of others wounded. Less thar
sixty thousand American heroes slesl
beneath the sod Of France Those me1
made the supreme sacrifice. Shoult
we dishonor their memories or dimin
lsh the glory Of their service by paus
anx in tho cheerful performance of q,
imperative duty?
"When mon undertake to comput,
the sacrifices Of q war for freedom II
terms Of commerce would like then
TO ret 4 vision of some things SAY
not long ago on the far-nung BATH
fronts Of Ypres, which will live Il
song and story, through time and etel
nifty, % the most memorable Of wh1c
history will ever give account. Their
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