The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1919-04-16
Glass Urges Widest
Distribution Of Bonds
In Coming Campaign

NEW YORK. April 15.-Widcsprcad
distribution Of tho NTH and final Lib
rr;v loan-lhc $4,000. 200. 900 Victory"
Lnnn-as an un;idote TO BolshcVism,
was urged Today by Carter Glass. sec
oucnlly heard statement TINT II would
here tonight before 5000 loan CAM
pnigncrs Of the New York Federal Rc-
servo. district.
You wunt 10 give It widespread dis
tr,buton," he said. because in my DC
lief, tho surcst way to shoot down Bol
shevism is 10 lot the people OF ms
country have Il material interest IN tho
governments You want t. do il in or
der To innrulate the lesson uf saving
and of thrift"
An additional reason for absorption
Of the loan by tho people rather 'hnh
by banks, Secretary Glass said was
that tho greater amount Of tho loan
the banks were called upon 10 hnance'
The more would their ability be i'm
paired to meet tho demands Tor capltal
for commerce and industry.
I'VE should not hesitate moment
he DECLARED I'VE should go forward
m once. Just rs our American boys
illustrated tina hero!sm and rnlor OF
This nation upon tha bauedelds. so
American business men and business
women should illustrate the patriotism
"r "~ncc In q different way. and will
do II. i.L:LltS
Give and 30 Thankful.
We call This Victory Loan" he
continued, and It is that. But t2ink
i, might as we'll have been called
thanksgiving loan. I am appealing 10
M. fellow countrymen TO give thanks
to God that the war was. through the
vnlur and spirit Of our American ma
ton. kept three thousand miles away.
Secretary Glass then took up the ire
Quently heard statement that II would
be Impossible 10 floar another loan.
They said that II Was ialrt25sihle Tor
this country 20 organize IN .arn% that
would be Il deciding or even helpful fac
tor in the great European struggle" he
said And yet. you know. and William
Hohenzollern knows. that the Cn!tfI
States did organi:s an army that
helped drive the mad monarch INTO cN!ic
and restore the peace Of thc world
when we had organized the nrny
they said II was impossible TO rams
port Il across the seas IN time 10 DO
of service, md ! sat IN The halls OF
congress and heard y discerning and
distinguished statesman bitterly derIdc
the American secretary of WAY for SUP
costing that within q given period VIC
could transport 10000 men 10 France;
and yet. my friends within the cp-
rolnted time wo had transported not
only 100000 rncn. but 10000 men.
American ynlor.
"Thcn II, was said. utter they ?aG
been transported. that this u"tr2:ncH
infested array could net b. made -
In time 10 nc uf scr"ice- NJ !hc front
we know that !, was nj Chateau
Th{crry hat tn" American trcCpI !lc'
the bravo, heroic French. shaken no
almost shattered by four years OF do
pcrate struggle. rctr"rtinG from lht
battlefield ana imp!cr!ng the America =
Officers II turn hack. Il was said e
/ l9rtnce last October and pcrsol1.l!
heard of the laconic reply OF tho
| American cNlrTarter.
Turn back" sad he. Why, he'll, we
! Just rot here. and our orders arc TO sc
! forward
Go forward thcy did. and from ;ha:
moment the PruSsiers never captured
foo, Of Frcrcll soil. For more than
three years If waa said tina; it WINS i'm
possible 10 TAX" IN" Saint Mihicl sal
! lent from the Hun. and yrt that -Nn?o:!.
! can army made the assault and IN
| fourteen hours took tho salient and
penred 5000 Prussian prisoners. 50
| impossibiltcs arc constantly made
! possible.
| 1T get n little impatient With the i'm
! preston that the American people sha y
requitc the goodness Of God by look
Ing upon this Victory Loan in cold
! blood and upon commercial basis II
! Is higher in consideration than that.
| It has something Of righteousness about
| II and We ought to rcQuitc the good
| ness Of God in q better way than by
! its consideration from commercial
| point of view