Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-07
FIGHTING Mayor
HERE TO AID LOAN
Forty Per Cent City," Says
Seattle Executive of
Philadelphia
RALLY SPEAKER TONIGHT

! Let talk victory Loan, said Olt
Hanson. Scattle's scrapping anti
Bolshevst mayor, when Ire reached this
city today.
A slight man. with shock of wavy
white hair and piercing brown eyes look =
| ing out from a pale, lined face, he has
! that sense of power about him that ex =
| plains the stories of his fearlcssness that
come out of the Northwest 80
! He is on the last leg of n three weeks
tour of the country talking Victory
Loan. lie has caught only such sleep as
Pullmans afford, yet he is as fresh as
! four year old Eugene Field Hanson,
who runs yelling through the Bellevue
Stratford corridor with all the vigor of
an anti -Bolshcvist mayors son.
| or course he was asked about boil
shcvism and Bolsheviks, and what he
did with them and what he thinks of
them. But he waved them aside.
/ II want to talk about the loan he
demanded
And he is as emphatic and concise as
was that message hc sent from City
Hall the day of the Seattle revolution
when he told frightened Seattle that
the scat of government is still at City
Hail."
'Thc people of Philadelphia are
about 40 per cent Americans, according
to what | see in the morning papers,"
he started.
Calls This Forty Per Cent City"
He is like Billy Sunday in the force
fulness of his sharp sentences. He re t.
minds one of Billy. He, too. is slight
ana the lines of n face worn by strenu.
Gus living arc marked in this fighting
mayor s face as they arc in the face
OF the fighting evangelist.
why don't the people of this city
pull in their flags if they don't want
| to buy bonds?" he demanded. Let
them quit applaudng soldiers until they
buy their bonds. Why stand up when
the Star Spanglcd Banner is played in
| this 40 per cent city? Philadelphia
didn't rcpudiate the Revolution or the
! Civil War. What's the trouble here
/ now? You all expect TO go to Car,
grcss for appropriations, | suppose.
What will Congress say to you when
you want funds for reconstruction pur-
poses here?
They will want TO know down there
Why you were so laggard in helping
TO pay the debts you promised to pay
when you said you were behind the war.
'"Iou lied to them about the war if
you fall down on this loan now.
| why. this loan is so good. boys.
| that il President Wilson and Secrc-
tary Glass held private sale and let
only the bankers in on it the issue in
! 1920 would be on that alone and some
body would go TO Jail for letting the
bankers ROB the country. This loan is
better than anything yet. 1t pays Az
per cent and there is no tax on it for
average people.
"Of course if Philadelphia doesn t
want to help to bring her boys back,
other cities will no doubt put up the
money. but those boys are looking for
you to get them back.
Denies !. w. W. Hanging Party Story
But it seemed as if this man ought
to gtS around to boshcvism when the
city placed two solemn looking detcc
tivcs in the hotel corridor and had
motorcycle police waiting outside to
guard him in his wanderings about
J today. Finally he had something to say
but this was to deny n story sent out
not so long ago that he would resign
his Office and go out as he put it ito
attend I. W. W. hanging partics.''
That. of course. is not true" h,
said. Il didn't say that. 1t was tn,
Imagination of some one. How could
who ask other men to obey the laws
stand for any such breaking of laws
The whole thing about this Seattle sit
uation was nothing more than matter
Of enforcing the law as it stands"
But he was still thinking of tha
talk about the loan and he got barl
to it through bolshevism.
Need Homestead Law
You won't find boshcvism in
country where the average man is wei
treated he said. AT the close of th
Civil War the soldiers gave no troubl
because President. Lincoln signed tn
/ homestead law. We need that now #
get the men back to the land and f
) aid in finding employment. There ar
400 600, 600 acres of land in this coun
try undeveloped. Part the govcrnmen
owns, part is owned by the railroad
l and others by real estate spectators
! propose that the government develo
these lands and build homes for thos
soldiers or others tired of the city VIII
want better way Of living. But +