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SATURDAY, APRIL 5, 1919
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
worrds should be an inspiration to
each one of us to attack the solution
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 a 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
tle made notable conquests for liberty,
so American business men in a dif
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 its cinimit
rnents 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
tuI 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? Ye3; 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 a barbarous autocracy
drove this nation into a war for the
preservation of civilization, it was
said to be impossible to organize an
American army that would be effect
ive 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
tbe seas in time to be a deciding or
helpful factor. I sat in the balls 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,
000 men. It was asking us to "live
in a fool's paradise," it was "giving
play to wild and unstable Imagina
tion,’ it was “misleading the American
people into a belief in impossibilities.”
Yet within the designated time 760,000
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 it was
a unit of American army engineers,
brigaded with the British before Cam
bria, who threw down their lmple
ments and picked up the castaway :
rifles ot their British comrades, With i
which they impeded the desperate at
tempt of veteran Prussian divisions to
retrieve the fortunes of battle. It was
the “impossible” American army that
arrested the German drive at Chateau
Thierry, 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
forward was impossible and besought
them to turn back. A few weeks ago
in France I was personally told of the
laconic answer of the American com
mander to this appeal. "Go back!”
he exclaimed, “Why, hell, we’ve just
got here; and my orders are to go
forward!” And they went forward;
and, as President Wilson In his ad
dress to Congress so pointedly said,
“from that moment it was back, back,
ever back for Germany.” She never
thereafter wrested a single foot of soil
from the allied armies.
“For four fateful years, nearly, the
dangerous salient at St. Mihiel pro
jected its threatening head into
France, menacing Verdun from the
flank. The Germans could . not be
driven back, it was said, without
_UIC..1 iVin oiling fnroO
Those familiar with the topography
said it was impossible. Yet, that un
tried American army made the assault
and drove the Prussians helter-skelter
under the defensive guns of Metz.
The operation was over in fourteen
hours, with 15,000 German prisoners
in the American prison pens.
“So, impossibilities are constantly
made possible; and when I am told of
the difficulties which will beset the
Victory Goan, I refuse to lose faith in
the enduring patriotism of the Ameri
can people; I decline to believe that
the fathers and the mothers who gave
four million sons to die, if need be,
that liberty might survive, will no\v
higgle over the material cost of sav
ing the very soul of civilization from
the perdition of Prussian tyranny.
"But I am told, in a rather discon
certing way, by men of steady judg
ment and tested patriotism, that we
must approach the problem of future
loans in a distinctly cold-blooded
mood; that things have assumed a dif
ferent phase; our attitude of mind
and heart is altered; we must con
sider the matter strictly from an in
vestment point of view and put the
loan on a commercial basis. Some
men tell me it will be impossible
again to appeal to the patriotism of
the American people. Frankly, gentle
men, I should despair of my country
if these things were exactly true. I
should doubt our ability to cope with
the problems of peace if we so quickly
should forget the obligations of war.
f wonder if those who talk in this
fashion speak considerately? They
tell about the “sacrifices” the Ameri
can people have made, and in their
voice there is a metallic tone and in
their mien unconscious austerity.
“What is meant by the “sacrifices”
of war for America? Where are our
devastated fields and ruined cities?
Where nnr cathedrals destroyed and
homes profaned? Where our flooded
mines and pillaged factories? Where
our defiled women and starved chij
dren and wrecked men? Where on
this wide continent does hunger stalk
abroad or pestilential disease claim its
thousands of victims? Is it, then, a
serious “sacrifice” to invest one’s
money in the interest-bearing obliga
tions of one’s government in order to
make everlastingly secure the nation’s
freedfim as well as the nation’s pros
perity? Is it a grave sacrifice to de
vote, one’s labor to such a cause and
in the process to acquire the habit of
thrift and saving, so sadly lacking as
a characteristic of the American peo
ple? Our allies fought for us nearly
three years before we began to fight
with them. For nearly that period of
time the United States profited tre
mendously, in a commercial and in
dustrial sense, by the European war.
Immense fortunes were made; pros
perity prevaded our land. Our do
mestic trade was almost past compu
tation ; our foreign trade in many lines
was epochal. It reached the immense
proportions of $23,422,191,652 of ex
ports against $11,881,973,986 of im- :
ports, showing a balance in our favor
of $11,580,217,666. We Imported more i
than $1,000,000,000 in gold from i
debtor nations. France and Britain i
tost millions of men killed and mil- i
lions of others wounded. Less than :
30,000 American heroes sleep beneath ;
the sod of France. These men made i
the supreme sacrifice. Should we dis- '
honor their memories or diminish the ]
glory of their service by pausing in '
the cheerful performance of an im- l
perative duty? i
“When men undertake to compute 1
the sacrifices of a war for freedom in
terms of commerce I would like them
to get a vision of some things I saw 1
not long ago on the far-flung battle i
fronts of France and Belgium. I I
would like to take them to the battle i
field of Ypres, which will live in song I
ind story, through time and eternity
is the most memorable of which his
;ory will ever give account. There
hey might perceive the real meaning
3f sacrifice. There they could see
what human heroism endured for the
liberty of the race here and the wide
world over. Standing on a gentle
knoll, this historic town of Ypres,
with no strategic or real military
value, was seemingly the symbol of
that for which Britain and her com
rade nations fought. From its ruins
one looks out and around upon miles
and miles of a dead level plain. There
Is not a shrub to shield from view the
body of a single brave man whose
valor illumines the history of the tre
mendous conflict there. Directly to
the north is Paschaendale ridge, and
to the southeast Mount Kimmel, con
stituting the only high ground any
where to be seen, taking Ypres in
front and flank. TheBe heights were
held by veteran Prussian legions, who
from their summits could see the cov
eted waters of the English channel.
Spread out In the plains below, with
out shelter from enfilading fire of
great guns, was the army of our Brit
ish ally. The only protection the men
could get was from the multitude of
shell holes, nearly every one half
filled with water. Here by night and
Uriy, 111 mu vYuainci auu iuui, limiting
their way step by step, waist deep in
mud and mire, chilled to the bone,
these incomparable heroes, these cru
saders in the cause of liberty, fought
their way through inconceivable ob
stacles and drove the enemy off the
heights from which the hun had liter
ally viewed the Promised Land!
Great God! What a moment was that
for civilization! And how beyond the
imagination of a man to picture hu
man endurance and courage so ever
lastingly sublime!
‘‘We call this last the Victory Lib
erty Loan. It is that and more; it is a
Thanksgiving Loan. I stood upon the
battleship New York with Admiral
Rodman when the wireless news came
that Germany had capitulated, and
from the Grand Fleet I went down to
Edinburgh to accept an invitation
from the lord provost to a service of
thanksgiving in the cathedral of St.
Giles. There, under the nave. I heard
the great organ peal forth its sweet
thanksgiving strains and heard the
great choir sing a psalm of praise to
God for the victory over a common
foe. It was the one hundred and
twenty-fourth psalm that was rend
ered, and it sounded like a 6,000-year
old prophecy, so well adapted was it
• »v »•
to the moment, acclaiming the good
ness of God for sustaining the spirit
and stirring the valor of the allied
troops until they had overcome the
enemy when the hour seemed darkest.
And when I come home and hear
gentlemen say that we must suppress
all sentiment and approach this Lib
erty Loan on a cold-blooded business
basis, I wonder if 1 was too easily
moved by the thanksgiving strains
that went up from the cathedral in
Edinburth on the 12th of last Novem
ber.
“Men in this great exigency of war
have been transformed. We think to
day of the Transfiguration as if it
were altogether and finally super
natural. We speak of it as if it were
2,000 years away in time and 12,000
miles away in space, among the hills
of Palestine; but it is my belief that 1
in every great trial of humanity the j
transfiguration is ever present, and j
that men and women with spirit to •
sacrifice and with courage to conquer,
mount to its highest peaks and bring
Heaven down upon earth. It is my be
ief that Edith Cavell among women,
ind Albert among kings and Mercier
among churchman and Burgomaster :
Max among the lesser councilors, ,
Have their type in every nation of this !
earth; have their type among the I
tumble and private citizens of this (
and; have their type here in Pitts- 1
burgh tonight. While the best among I
is may presently witness In our own 1
winds and hearts a singular contest ^
letween avarice and that better ele- 1
nent of human nature which makes (
is willing to believe that man was j
;reated in the Image of God, the right j
iventually will prevail. W|e are not I
;oing to approach the last Liberty (
joan strictly In a commercial spirit, j
iVe are not going to float it strictly c
in a commercial basis. It Is impos- <
ilble to do it. A little thought will *
each the wisest among the financiers t
if this country that it Is impossible.
low to float purely for investment
lurposes a loan of five or six billions
if dollars. We have not to appeal to !
he patriotism of the American peo
lie, and It will not be done In vain,
rhere are yet two million American
loys in France and Germany who
nest be maintained In comfort and
irought home in safety and provided
vlth employment on their return.
rVhile congress is writing off the
looks $15,000,000,000 of authorize
Ions, for which public funds would
tave been expended had not the war
luddenly terminated, the Government
s still expending $2,000,000,001) per
nonth to meet the honorable commit
nents of the country. The honor oi
he government is involved. Being
pour government, it is your honor that
s involved; and I know that the ap
peal of the American government to
;he American people will meet a re
iponse of which the nation will be
jroud.”
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LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS
NOTICE OF- SALE
Jnited States of America, Territory
of Alaska, ss.
Notice is hereby given that I have
his day letied upon that certain one
tory frame dwelling house known as
he McVae house, same being situated
ipon government land of the United
States of America adjacent to station
[rounds of the Copper River & North
restern Railway Company, near the
own of Cordova, Alaska, under and
>y virtue of a certain chattel mort
:age given by Dan McVae to the
first Bank of Cordova, at Cordova,
tlaska, and by said bank assigned to
ohn Muller; said mortgage being
oreclosed and said property sold un
er Section 749 of the Compiled Laws
if Alaska. And I hereby give notice
iy virtue of the authority vested in
ie that I will sell said house and
he whole thereof to the highest bid
er for cash to make the sum of $600
pith Interest thereon at the rate of
2 per cent per annum from the 24th
ay of August, 1918, together with
osta and increased costs of sale. Said
ale to take place on the premises
n the 12th day of April, 1919, at the
our of 2 p. m.
Dated this 2d day of April, 1919.
F. R. BRENNEMAN,
U. S. Marshal.
By WM- L. FURSMAN. Deputy.
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viding that our valuation does not prove satisfactory, the furs will be
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| and from now on will devote my entire energy to the
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| BLANKETS AND QUILTS 1
LOGGERS’ SHOES AND SHOE FINDINGS |
RAIN GOODS
MATTRESSES AND SPRINGS
I TENTS AND A LINE OF CANVAS GOODS
I KITCHENWARE, STOVES 1
| CLAM DIGGERS’ SHOVELS AND SUPPLIES |
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| GENERAL FURNISHINGS
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