The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1919-05-09

the ruin, the pestllence and the fam
Inc, wrought in the area, he dramat-
ically asked, Now what has America
sacrificed In comparison with thisg
Where are your ruined cities. your de.
stroyed churches and cathedrals, your
stolen works of art, your violated wo-
men, your MANNED and famished
babes, your enslaved children; your
farms plowed and riven by the plough
share of war? Tell me about your
sacrifices where In all America has
gaunt famine stalked these four years
and more?"
| Continuing, the secretary said:
Where Is one figure of this great
TRANSPORTATION of the world, this aw-
full cataclism where Christian civiliza-
ton was at stake. to which no patriot
ic and humane American can ever look
with pride. That was the three years
of the conflict during which our allies
fought and bled and suffered and died
by the tens of thousands In our de-
Tense and we were all the time enjoy
ing prosperity never before known
in the annals Of time. Great Britain
alone has 100000 buried under the sod
of France and Flanders; heroic France
has million and quarter who fell
on the field of honor and another mil
lion so MANNED that they can never
again take their places in industry
and commerce, Only sixty thousand
of our brave army sleep in France.
And yet you tell me about our sacri-
fice.'
The description of the great battle
field Ypres was most vivid and realis-
tic and the audience was moved, to its
feet when he reached his climax which
was most notable tribute to the valor
and heroism of the Anglo-Saxon race.
He declared that for four years the
Anglo-Saxons had by their tenacity
and valor,. their undying heroism, bar
red the Hun from the English channel
although the army was actually in
sight of the Promised land He said
that the children Of Israel after wan
dering for forty years in the wilder
ness could not have been more bitter
ly disappointed If they had been de-
MED formal admission to the Promis-
ed land than were the Germans when
the valor of the Anglo-Saxon race de-
MED them conquest of the channel
ports although in sight of them.
The secretary said that before the
terms of the loan were announced he
he had visited many great bankers in
New York and they had all advised
him that he could not in this campaign
appeal to patriotism and sentiment,
that the loan must be floated on a cold
blooded commercial basis. This he re-
fused to believe and before he would
dishonor the memory Of the sixty
thousand heroic dead Of America who
had died that we might live, and not
appeal to the sentiment OF the peo-
pie he would resign his Office as sec
rotary of the treasury. He spoke of
the devotion of the French people, of
their unyielding determination n to
make France forever free and ideclar-4
ed that we were the beneficiaries of
their sacrifices. IN
1t was such an address as ought to
| be heard by all Americans proud of
their race, conscious of their power
and resources and deeply concerned
that this great fabric of free govern
ment will not perish from the earth
The secretary truly declared that a
wide distribution Of the loan would,
more than anything else, destroy the
horrid spectre of Bolshevism that is
already abroad in the land. When men
have direct and financial interest
in their government they become ad-
vocates of order, the defenders of law
true interpreters of liberty. This loan
must be put over" 1t would dishonor
the memory of the brave men, living
and dead, who won our liberties again
J. l. FINNEY.