The Alaska daily empire., 1919-04-24

tional credit by making the Victory Loan an abundant success
 Moreover MT Postmaster, 1 have lived to see so many impossible things come to pass that 1 am not easily deterred by insu- perahle difficulties.
 "They said it was impossible to revise the banking and currency system of the United States The thing had been tried periodic ally for quarter of a century. From the time of the Indianapolis Monetary Confer ence the most astute public men of the fin ancia, sphere had attempted the feat and failed Yet the banking and currency system was revised so effectualy that those who were opposed as frankly as those who ap- proved, confidently declare that the achieve ment helped tremendously to win the war and completely saved the Nation rom hn- ancial chaos
 After the system was devised the breaking suddenly on an affrighted world, It was said to be impossible to put the system immediately into operation. One Of the very sanest of all American bankers gave warning that to open reserve bank in such an exig- ency was to invite wreck and ruin. Yet the . echo of the first gun fired at Liege had scarce ly died away when the system was put into effect
 When the intoerabe maritime atrocities of 2 barbarous autocracy drove this Nation into for the preservation of civiliza- tior, 1t said to be impossible to organize an American army that would be effective in the struggle then deluGing Europe in blood Yet we know, and tho fugitive Will jam IIohenzolern knows, that we did organ i2e army which speedily helped to drive the mad monarch into exile and to insure the peace of the world And when the army was organized it said to be impossible to tram port l. across the seas in time to be deciding or helpful ia'tor l sat in the Ha's of Congress and hrnd q distinguished an discerning statesman, with cruel bitterness deride the American Minister of War for a sugge stion that within an appointed tin," we rol'G transport to France an arny Of 5po,G00 men. It was asking us to Tive in fools paradise it was giving play to wild and unstable ina agination,' it was misleading the American people into belief in impos- abilities. Yet within the designated time 750 900 American soldiers landed at the ports of our allies.
 Then it was said that these untested troops could not be trained in time for effec- tive combat. Yet it unit of American engineers, brigaded with the British before Cambria, who threw down their implements and picked up the castaway rifles of their British comrades with which they impeded the desperate attempt of veteran Prussian divisions to retrieve the fortunes of battle It the impossible American army that arrested the German drive at Chateau Thier- ry, first halting the Huns and then driving them back. The sorely pressed but brave and heroic French, shaken by four years of frightful struggle, were in desperate retreat They told American officers that to go for ward impossible and besought them to turn back. few weeks ago in France 1 personally told of the laconic answer of the American commander to this appeal Go back!' he exclaimed, why, he'll we've just got here; and my orders are to go forward! And the went for ward; and, as President Wilson in his ad- dress to Congress pointedly said from that moment it was back, back, back for Germany She never thereafter wrested a single foot of soil from the Allied armies
 So impossiblities are constantly made possible; and when l am told the difficulties which will beset the Victory Loan, 1 refuse to lose faith in the enduring patriotism of the American people"