The daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Leflore Co., Miss.) 1916-1919, 1919-04-28
Ball PLAYER's OLD
ZEAL To F|GUREI IN
VICTORY MATCH
CAMPAIGN OF WHlsPERlNcs
AGAINST THE LOAN FAILS TO.
SHAKE REAL AMERICANS.
EYE THE PRo-GERMANs
II You Hear Any Grabbing About
Failure, You Can Usually
Find "a Reason"

~ "AA ASVI-
ing right he is, as he expresses it, gull
OF that old confidence Come 10
think of it, any man or any nation full
OF that old confidence" is in a pretty
good position to win.
For several weeks there has been a
campaign of ~whisperings intended TO
undermine our confidence in the Vic
tory Liberty Loan. Most of the argu-
ments are childish. They are shame
ful to e on the lips of one of the
greatest peoples of the world. They
sound petty and mean in a people tnat
came into a losing war and snatched
victory out of the struggle.
Maybe there are some people who
honestly believe that the Victory Lib
erty Loan will be hard to subscribe.
1t is a queer world and there are soma
queer people therein, so it may be
that there is some honesty back If
these u~tterances. But for the, most
part they are the u%tterances of per
pie who want the loan to fail for so ne
reason or other. Get that? Who want
the loan to fail.
Take a look around. See if the man
whom you knew to be a pro German,
but who closed up like "a clam after
the espionage law got to working
good. see if he isn't pretty sure that
the loan will fail. Take the British
hater, b man who has never pulled
his mind forward from Colonial lays
n old hatreds n see if he isn't
quite peevish about the loan and if he
isn't AFRAID that it will not go through.
Tho -,o- rl~ -o:-- ..
for any reason or for all reasons is
now Grabbing" about the loan. lie
may nave been oItwardly right pa
triOtic for a few months, but he is now
feeling the weight of public opinion
less than he did and his true senli-
ments are coming to the surface again.
Reduced to words, these people are
trying to reate this kind of a feeling.
The war is over all but signing up:
there is no iced OF giving the gov
eminent any more money and pubic
support is going to be weak and fall
terlng. But don't you believe it. This
country is full of Americans!
Out to Finish the Job.
And these Americans are out to
finish up the job. They didn't go INTO
this thing with the idea of throwing
up their hanas when the end of the joD
was in sight. Not them. They have
been back of the United States Of
America every minute and they pro.
pose to stay there in spite Of all the
"~defeatisis' and m carriers and
dirty little whisperers in the country.
What they want to see is the 1riv-
ing of. the last nail in the coffin or
Prussianism. They want to be right
there with a spade in hand when the
world is patting down the earth over
the grave OF militarism. They like
to finish a thing they start.
Do you remember how these same
Americans, these same folks who have
made and kept a great country, Wen.
after that Fourth Liberty Loan a lit
tie while back? When the effort had
ended it was found that in just ih.-e
weeks they had raised or pleu..d
themselves to raise ) $500, 0OO, 900.
That same splri, ISN'T dead. The
men who went ol.t and pledged t4.;4t
much money habit leaIly Lesun .
extend themselves a. vt Wien 1T
/ loan drive ended. They hadn't na-
COHe really WdIiIeO up 10 TIE JOO.
All that is necessity to put another
loan over with even greater speed
than the Fourth is to let the real
Americans know that heir nation real
ly needs the money.
In a little over Is months the Ame--
lean people have taken over about
Sis. 0O0, 000, 900 in war loans. That is
only a billion dollars a month on he
average. Yet you would have to LOOK
fast and far to fnd any American VINO
has actually gone broke in the per-
Torrance of his duty. We haven
known what a real strain is on this
side of the water. 1t is necessary to
go to France and England to fed
people who ave practically given all
they had in the way Of property 20
make sure that their countries Ind
the world might live.
There is plenty of money in tina
country to meet the Victory Libe.y
Loan. Ii YOU VII take what you can
spare n put into it, if everyone else
does the same - why, then it go5s
over and quickly. 1t is a personal nlst-
ter after all. you know.
BEWARE THE PESSIMiST.