The Alaska daily empire., 1919-04-24
GLASS SAYS AMERICAN PEOPLE WILL MAXI
 VICTORY LOAN' SUCCESS.

At A speech at Pittsburgh recently Secretary of easury Carter Glass declared that the Ameri ople will take up all the victory Loan, the bonds that will be issued and advan 9 reasons behind his declaration in a graphic spe m which the following is taken:
 "A world is to be rebuilt Should we tlmld- ly pause and debate to whom should re- build it? Not for hour, gentlemen; the enterprise should be started right away, here at Pittsburgh, by the blare of your furnaces and and the whrl of your mills and the din of thousand essential industries. It should spread in healthy progression, to the utter most parts of the iand The American people should supplement the patriotism Of war py the patriotism of peace; and just as American soldiers on the field of battle made notable conquests for liberty so American business men in different way and through different instrumentalities should now give expression to their patriotism by promptly and cheer fully meeting the obligations of citizenship which exigently involve triumphs of peace easily comparable in their ultimate conse- Quences, to the greatest victories of war.
 "And the foremost obligation of which l can think is the duty of every American citizen of humble station or high, to guard jealously the honor of the nation; to regard it's commitments his own and willingly to pledge his labor and his substance to a complete payment of the debt The guns have ceased to fire? Yes; yet, but for the commitments of the Government at Washing ton their dreadful crash might tonight be dis turbing the peace of the world, and, with poignant grief, be wringing the hearts of a million American soldiers. The guns have ceased to fire? Yes, but should requte this grace of God by haggling the debt incurred to silence eternally the artillerys frightful roar?
 'On every side they tell me of the stu pendous nature Of the official task which the President gracious enough to com init to by the appointment to the port folio of the treasury. Every felicitation, every word or note of congratulation, has admon- ished me of the gravity of my unsought eleva- tfon. The grim old Speaker of the House of Representatives, noting the generous things said of me by the public press, cautioned me to take warning from the Scripture which says Beware when all men speak well of you. For a little while 1 felt prompted to take refuge in my library there to renew an acquaintance of my youth and from the pages of Martin Chuzzewit get inspiration from Mark Tapley. the only character even of fiction who felt it privilege to be cheerful within the distressful precincts of a cemetery But l think l shall not yield to discourage ment. Of course, 1 perceive the difficulties which precede well those which con front me- Surprisingly brilliant admins tration of my predecessor in office will enable me to shine by comparison. No man of this generation could hope to excel Will fam G. McAdoo in the domain of national finance. And then, too, the is over, in a sense reactionary spirit is abroad The verve of mortal combat is abated. Men think they may give their patriotism rest But l refuse to halt in my task. decline to be- liere that the American people indif- feSent to the honorable commitments of thar, Government or would diminish ;he splerrAor of the Nations achievements in war hv an exhibition of avarice in time of peace. F1rr Liberty Loans have gone the fon1S hnd nothing nor anybody can shake my fsfth m the purpose of the country to put tsn csosAosU3fo the plendid sfruetu-e of na-