New-York tribune., 1919-04-16
Victory Loan Workers Get Final Orders:
Plans Completed for Rotsing Campaign
Continued from page 1
~ interest in thanksgiving for the
soodness Of God.
Record Predicted by Glass

KecOTQ trSulSttu oN NtdSS
~ bid YOU Liberty loan workers to
he Of GOOD cheer. for aside from the
Commercial. financial or investment at
tractiveness of this loan you Will not
snneal 20 patriotism or the good sense
II the American people in vain.
II am confident that your organiza-
,ion will not only reach the high mark
NOW 10 its credit. but will excel every
nrev;ous performance that stands to
,.s honorable record. There is no
Great difficulty in handling this Vic.
rory loan. just rs there was little in
The four previous loans.
Rear Admiral Sims, n his address,
called on the American people to pay
the bills which he incurred as COM
n,ander of the American naval forces
in European waters.
Il do not pretend" he said, that
all nv expenditures were as wise as
nossible: | am nothing but q sailor.
and perhaps | made a sailorman's mis-
take But am your sailorman, you
nut me up against that proposition; 7
dd nv best; was your agent, and
Won are responsible for my actions.
Asks Reward of Service
Are you going to refuse to loan
money to pay for what the navy did
in Europe, including my mistakes ?
Are YOU going 20 refuse to pay insur-
ance for getting your 100000 lads
safely across the Atlantic? Because
that is what you are paying-insur-
ance.
"Ihe gentlemen who understand the
function of money in business, in the
reconstruction Of industries, and so
forth. can give YOU many sound reas-
ons why this loan should be sub
scrbed 10 by smany people as pos
sble. as widely distributed as possible.
That is ali Greek to me, who knows
little outside of warfare But from
nv point of view. as military man.
le. me say that the people of my cloth
gave you all they had to give-every
ounce Of brain and brawn the most
loyal and devoted service, the cheerful
enuradnce of every necessary hard
ship the facing of every necessary
peril, the pain of grievous wounds, and
the last supreme sacrifice that the
world might be decent place for you
TO live in.
Appeals for Soldiers
u would make my special appeal for
these lads, for the thousands of Gen
eral Pershings gallant lads who are
sleeping in France, and for those of
my officers and men and the officers
and men of the merchant marine who
are at the bottom Of the sea. These
men lent their lives to the government
at zero per cent and lost their capital.
Will the people at home decline to lend
their money at 4st per cent, with no
risk of loss9'
The admiral drew picture of the re-
Nt IL
progress of the loan drives here. "We
we're encouraged in all our work." he
said, "by the responses that were made
here by the people on This side in this
Liberty Loan business. 1t stimulates
everybody We felt that they were
backing US up and telling US to stick to
II. A failure Of loan meant the op-
posite'
The nation has incurred a debt of
honor Governor Strong said. in re-
ferrng to the Victory Liberty Loan
campaign for $4,000 100000, which be
gins next Monday. The bills which
are now tc be paid represent the money
spent so lavishly and upon such large
scale that it was one of the determining
factors in destroying the morale of the
German nation.
Bills Our esponsibility"
1T IS our responsibility, as part of
the government, to sec that those bills
are paid And, in part, the money will
be expended in bringing home a viz
torious armyl
You have observed the announce
ment that this is the last great Liberty
Loan drive, and our work, therefore, is
about concluded. We must finish it,
thinking not Of this transaction alone,
but Of our entire record. We propose,
and you propose, that that record shall
not De marred by failure.
When you return to your homes
from this meeting will you not say.
each Tor his own community, what we