The Cordova daily times., 1919-04-05
DEBT INCURRED IN A JUST
 CAUSE

Secretary of the Treasury Glass made the following patriotic speech before a recent meeting of the Pitts burg Chamber of Commerce, which re- lates to the forthcoming Victory Lib erty Loan campaign. His stirring words should be an inspiration to of the problem now before us with the same energy, enthusiasm and le- termination which has characterized the efforts of hundreds of thousands of Liberty Loan workers in the four preceding campaigns.
 "A world is to be rebuilt! Should we timidly pause and debate as to who should rebuild it? Not for an hour, gentlemen; the enterprise should be started right away, here at Pittsburgh, by the blare of your fur naces and the whirr of your mills and the din of thousand essential in- dustries. It should spread, in healthy progression, to the uttermost parts of the land. The American people should supplement the patriotism of war by the patriotism of peace; and just as American soldiers on the fields of bat tie made notable conquests for liberty, so American business men in diff ferent way and through different in- strumentalities should now give ex- pression to their patriotism by promptly and cheerfully meeting the obligations of citizenship which exi- gently involve triumphs of peace easily comparable, in their ultimate consequences, to the greatest victories of war.
 And the foremost obligation of which I can think is the duty of every American citizen, of humble station or high, to guard jealously the honor of the nation to refard it's cimmit- ments as 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 gov ernment at Washington their dread ful crash might tonight be disturbing the peace of the world and, with poig nant grief. be wringing the hearts of a million American mothers. The guns have ceased to fire? Yes; but should we requite this grace of God by haggling over the debt incurred to silence eternally the artillery's fright ful roar?
 When the intolerable maritime atrocities of barbarous autocracy drove this nation into war for the preservation of civilization, it was said to be impossible to organize an American army that would be effect i've in the struggle then deluging Europe in blood Yet we know, and the fugitive William Hohenzollern knows, that we did organize an 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 was said to be impossible to transport it across the seas in time to be a deciding or helpful factor. sat in the halls of congress and heard a distinguished and discerning statesman, with cruel bitterness, deride the American min ister of war for a suggestion that within an appointed time we would transport to France an army of 500,- GOO men. It was asking us to Tive in fools paradise" it was giving | play to wild and unstable imagina- 1ion,' it was misleading the American people into belief in impossibilities. Yet within the designated time 750,000 American soldiers were landed at the ports of our allies.
 "Then it was said that these un- tested troops could not be trained in time for effective combat. Yet 1t was 8 unit of American army engineers, brigaded with the British before Cam br1a, who threw down their imple-