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"I have feared two things, either that the Allies would win before the United States acted to show
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portunity to remind the audience that money is what is needed to win the war and that the Liberty Loan must be oversubscribed.
MONEY TO WIN WAR
The Liberty Loan was put squarely up to the people of New Brunswick by Col. C. E. Mitchell, president of the National City Company and head of the Liberty Loan subscription. "We are at war and war needs money," he declared. "When the Ger- mans crossed into Belgium our own liberty was en- dangered. The first step to preserve it is to sub- scribe the Liberty Loan."
In terse, clear, straight-from-the-shoulder phrases, he made clear to the big audience just how badly the loan was needed and explained the way in which the Liberty Loan subscription was to be conducted. "We haven't the 'advantage' Great Britain has of having bombs dropped in our cities to awaken the people, but we have the U-boats.
"Personally, I think the U-boat problem will be solved, but it is a menace.
"And our great danger is Russia. Nothing is be- ing done on the eastern front, and though I doubt that a separate peace will be made, it is possible that it will be worse, and that Russia will really, though not in name, become the ally of Prussianism. Six million men will be released from the Russian front, and limitless supplies will reach Germany. And the longer the war lasts, the bigger will be the burden the United States must bear."
EDUCATED TO BUY BONDS
Col. Mitchell said that Americans had not been educated as bond buyers as Europeans have, but we must get the habit.
It will mean economies. We must eliminate ·luxuries. This will not unsettle business be- cause those now engaged in making luxuries will turn to making war necessities, and the great sums to be spent by the government will cause great pros- perity. The speaker declared that there would be five jobs for every person thrown out of work. "And it is a fine chance for women to be good soldiers, for the men will be just as good and no better than the women they leave at home."
As Col. Mitchell concluded, Dr. Scott asked all who had bought bonds to stand. About 100 persons rose. All who intended to buy were then asked to rise, and the rest of the audience got up as a single person. Dr. Scott reminded them that they could subscribe in the lobby, and Col. Mitchell reminded them of the advertising slogan, "Eventually-why not now ?"
In introducing the next speaker, Judge Daly, Dr. Scott said: "When he is on the bench we call him 'your honor,' but now we call him ‘the darling Peter Francis of New Brunswick.'" Dr. Scott spoke highly of Judge Daly's efforts in the Naturalization Court to impress new citizens with the solemnity and dignity of American citizenship.
After such an explanation of the Liberty Bonds as Col. Mitchell had given, Judge Daly said in opening, the rest would be easy. "Now that New Brunswick understands there is no doubt as to the rest. As the French indemnity in 1871 was paid from the funds in the stockings of the honest peasant women of France, so will this loan be paid by the savings of the American people."
Love of country is the strongest trait of humanity, and it is based on civic patriotism. We should be proud of such a home town as sturdy old New Bruns- wick, he said, and the city is sure to do its part in the loan subscription.
Referring to the registration he declared that there were no deliberate slackers in New Brunswick. "If any failed to register they belong either in an in- stitution for the criminally sick or for the mentally ill."
"Our boys are ready to do their duty. Are we ready to do ours. They say, 'We have invested our lives for you, will you invest your money for us ?' Soldiers and sailors alone can't win. We must put money behind the men behind the guns.
"You need have no fear, Mr. Mitchell," he con- tinued, addressing the previous speaker, "the mass of the people will support the loan. They will not leave it to the rich alone.
"The crying demand is for the sustenance of war. Men are needed, but munitions are needed more."
PLEA FOR RED CROSS
Judge Daly also made a stirring apepal for the Red Cross. "The men have the glory and chivalry of war, if there is any left," he said. "But the women are bigger than that. They should have equal rights and more, too. They are away beyond us.
"At the beginning of the war the American Red Cross was the last in the list. Now it is better than that, but we must do more. The heart of the American people is there and we must help.
"There is the work in the field, but there is also the relief work at home. We must not forget the no- ble women who made us so proud on Memorial Day. In the dignity of glorious womanhood, they can teach us what real sacrifice is. Get behind them. Our boys are leaving. It is both sorrowful and joyous. But the women are staying behind, and theirs is the harder task.
"The flag is not a thing of bunting and of color, but a glorious representation of the fundamental principles of truth and justice and the redress of human wrongs. We are carrying it to aid suffering human-kind and to win the peace of God that passeth understanding."
As Judge Daly concluded, the audience burst into a wild outburst of applause that lasted for several minutes. The demonstration was tremendous.
Rev. James F. Devine, of the Sacred Heart Church, pronounced the benediction.
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NEW BRUNSWICK
SECOND LIBERTY LOAN
LIBERTY BONDS FOR SALE HERE
SECOND LIBERTY LOAN
Chairman HENRY G. PARKER
Vice Chairman WILLIAM J. MCCURDY
Secretary-Treasurer F. M. YORSTON
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
EDWARD W. HICKS HENRY G. PARKER CHAS. A. McCORMICK
WILLIAM J. MCCURDY, A. J. JONES J. K. RICE, JR. F. M. YORSTON
Campaign-October, 1917. Headquarters-Home Defense League 109 Albany Street
New Brunswick's quota
$2,553,000
Subscribed
$2,900,000
Campaign expenses paid for by assessment upon members of the General Committee.
VERY seat in the Opera House was filled and hundreds were standing when the Second Liberty Loan bond mass meeting opened on the evening October 14, 1917.
Dr Austin Scott was the chairman of the meet- ing which began at 8:15 o'clock. Every seat was filled; the boxes were overflowing, scores stood in the back of the auditorium-upstairs and down, and many were accommodated on the stage.
Opening prayer was offered by Rev. Dr. George H. Payson.
The first speaker was Senator William E. Florance. Eighty
"This is the greatest crisis the world has ever faced," he said, "and I share the feeling with every patriotic American that our nation will not be found wanting. We are called upon to give twenty-one bil- lions of dollars, an almost incalculable sum of money. But we will do it. We are asked to assemble two million men, and put them into the battlefield. We have those men in training or in the field now.
"WE MUST STAND BY"
"Our country is standing by, ready to do its bit. And so is our town, New Brunswick, standing by, ready to do her bit, too. Time was, you know, when
HENRY G. PARKER Chairman of the First and Second Liberty Loans
CHARLES A. M'CORMICK Chairman of the Fifth Liberty Loan
JAMES W. JOHNSON Chairman of the Third and Fourth Liberty Loans.
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THE MEMBERS OF CO. H. 113TH U. S. INF., AS THEY APPEARED ON THEIR RETURN TO TAKE PART IN THE WELCOME RECEP- TION TENDERED THEM BY THE CITIZENS OF NEW BRUNSWICK, N. J.
ROBERT E. ROSS, Liberty Loan Campaign Manager, County Food Administrator
SIDNEY B. CARPENDER, Chairmana United War Drive
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PETER F. DALY Liberty Loan Campaign Manager Chairman, K. of C. Drive.
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we were considered a pretty cold proposition in this town. We were said to be niggardly and miserly and small. But that was quite a spell ago. This town woke up to its responsibilities, it seems to me, when the campaign for the new Y. M. C. A. building was on, and we raised $175,000 and thought nothing of it. And I recall that New Brunswick willingly and promptly, gave $25,000 to the Red Cross, and another $20,000 for the war work of the Y. M. C. A. And the Young Men's Hebrew Association has done its bit, and the Knights of Columbus has done its bit.
And now that it has come to pass that our gov- ernment needs more money with which to back up our men, I know we are going to respond nobly and quickly as the true Americans, the genuine patriots, and we will stand by to give every man and every dollar in this fight to erase the bloody hand of the Hun from the face of the earth."
Mrs. Hults sang a delightfully sympathetic and appropriate song, "O, Lord of Life," at this point, and was warmly applauded.
Dr. Chamberlain gave some first hand experiences he had only that year while in the Persian gulf. He told of the inherent treachery of the Hun character that was exhibited in its fullest development in this war crisis.
"The German government as it is now composed, is a menace to the peace of all people," he said. "The Hun is a menace to human relationship, and because of this, he must be forever disarmed, or he must be erased from existence. To accomplish this great task, to achieve this duty, we must have the men and the equipment. We already have the men. We must have the money. That is why I say to you that it is your plain duty, it is your insurance premium for peace and safety for America, that you should buy Liberty bonds."
The last speaker was Mr. Benson. He wore the uniform of the American Ambulance.
Mr. Benson, speaker for the Liberty Loan cam- paign meetings, seemed to sense a little wave of sur- prise passing over the big audience, when he spoke of leaving the Presbyterian ministry to go over to France to give his services to the cause.
"Oh, all of us ministers do not have long, gray whiskers, you know," he smiled. "Really, you'd be surprised to know how up-to-date some of us are be- coming." The crowd laughed delightedly.
Mr. Benson made a brief but stirring appeal for the Liberty Loan.
"If you could realize what I know, that issue would be bought up before tomorrow's nightfall," he said gravely. "If you could have seen what war means, as war is reckoned today, you would pour more and more billions into the government's war chests to stop this war now. And money will do it."
He related experiences in Belgium.
"I saw graves there where hundreds were buried, one corpse piled on top of another. These dead men and women and crowds of children had been shot down by the machine guns of the Huns, for no greater crime than that they were citizens of Belgium. I can assure you that there has never been a more terrible, bestial, brutal man to walk God's earth, than this 'super-man' of the Ger- man empire as he considers himself today. We are fighting a nation of maniacs; a whole country, a whole people, whose brains have gone crooked.
"The Kaiser and Von Tirpitz and Hindenburg have all said this: 'We are at the fateful hour, now that America is in the war. We must preserve our super- iority over the world by our might!'
"Well, by God, we have come now," cried Benson, "and we shall show them what might means."
The crowd rocked and yelled its approval, and went home with a determination to buy bonds and clean up William the Wicked and his horde of Huns.
LIEUT. L. S. WEBB AND HIS ARABIAN CHARGER
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NEW BRUNSWICK
THIRD LIBERTY LOAN
GOING - GOING-
THIRD LIBERTY
GONE
Chairman JAMES W. JOHNSON
Vice Chairman .. WILLIAM J. MCCURDY
Vice Chairman J. K. RICE, JR.
Secretary-Treasurer.
F. M. YORSTON
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
S. B. CARPENDER
J. K. RICE, JR.
EDW. F. FARRINGTON
T. ELY SCHENCK
JAMES W. JOHNSON RUSSELL E. WATSON
A. J. JONES
H. H. WEIDA
R. W. JOHNSON
E. E. CONNOLLY
HENRY G. PARKER F. M. YORSTON
Subscribed $2,139,050
tion committee consisting of Judge Peter F. Daly, Robert E. Ross, Henry G. Parker, Theodore Whitlock, Clifford I. Voorhees, James K. Rice, Jr., Elmer E. Connolly, Robert W. Johnson and Francis M. Yor- ston, were in attendance. James W. Johnson, general chairman of the committee, was also present.
Judge Daly, chairman of the organization commit- tee, outlined to the committeemen just what was expected of them. He spoke of the confidence that the committee had in the party workers and because of the very fact that the campaign is to be a non- partisan one, success would surely be attained.
As was confidently predicted from the very open- ing of the drive, New Brunswick went "over the top" with glowing colors.
Never did the committee doubt that they would attain the quota, and after the first two days of the campaign, the committee voluntarily raised the mini- mum quota to $2,000,000. With this amount as the goal, the workers bent every effort to reach it. This city went one step further and subscribed $2,139,050.
This was a wonderful showing and those who had charge of the campaign were more than pleased with the way in which the people of this city responded.
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ASTING aside all political animosities, the Republican and Democratic county committeemen united their forces at a meeting held in the Court House, and arranged for assuming the burden of work in the Third Liberty Loan canvass. This was the first time the committeemen were ever called upon to perform a function of this sort. In the two previous loans, a general call was made for volun- teers to canvass the city.
The coterie of Democrats were led by County Chairman Thos. H. Hagerty, who pledged the un- divided support of the Democratic "machine" in this patriotic movement. He declared every committee- man of the city would participate in the campaign and do his utmost to make it a success.
State Committeeman James A. Morrison spoke for the Republican committeemen and declared that the Republican organization of New Brunswick was ready at all times to stand behind the President, and in this movement, he said, the Republicans would not be found wanting.
Mayor Edward F. Farrington presided at the gath- ering and the members of the Liberty Loan organiza-
EDWARD W. HICKS N. G. RUTGERS
WILLIAM J. McCURDY R. G. WRIGHT
ABRAHAM MARCUS
New Brunswick's Quota .. $1,505,800
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FOURTH LIBERTY LOAN
On the Skids
FOURTH _- - LIBERTY
IOAN
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Chairman JAMES W. JOHNSON
Vice Chairman WILLIAM J. MCCURDY
Vice Chairman. J. K. RICE, JR.
Secretary-Treasurer. F. M. YORSTON
Asst. Secretary
G. P. MONTRASTELLO
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
S. B. CARPENDER
J. K. RICE, JR.
EDW. F. FARRINGTON
A. J. JONES
R. W. JOHNSON
ABRAHAM MARCUS E. E. CONNOLLY
New Brunswick's Quota $3,011,500
HERE were few indications that Spanish influenza, so prevalent in the city, had interfered to any great extent with the attendance at the Fourth Liberty Loan mass meeting of October 6, 1918.
Dr. John A. Ingham gave the invocation, after which the audience joined heartily in singing "The Star-Spangled Banner."
Cosmo Hamilton, lately Lieutenant in the British Army, and John Grier Hibben, President of Princeton University, two of the speakers scheduled to appear, were unable to be present as both were suffering with influenza, so Dr. Henry Van Dyke of Princeton, an officer in the Naval Reserve, made the opening address.
He said that failure of the American people to raise the full Liberty Loan quota of $6,000,000,000 would have exactly the same effect as if a hole were
EDWARD W. HICKS N. G. RUTGERS
RUSSELL E. WATSON
R. G. WRIGHT
WILLIAM J. MCCURDY
JAMES A. O'CONNELL
HENRY G. PARKER
F. M. YORSTON
Subscribed $3,633,100
bored in the bottom of ten of our biggest battleships.
He paid a glowing tribute to the U. S. Navy, stating that in spite of the fiendish ingenuity and cunning of the U-boats and the horrors of submarine warfare, not one troop ship had been sunk. "It takes money to keep our great gray fleet at its heroic work," he stated, "but we shall keep right on until the war is won."
The speaker warned his listeners not to be too sanguine over recent developments. "What we must win is a complete, decisive victory over the Huns. Nothing but utter defeat will ever make Ger- many realize that her dream of world dominion was merely a dream. Honor to our heroic dead, fidelity to the living and faithfulness to our American ideals render it imperative that nothing less than this shall be the goal."
He spoke in eloquent praise of courageous France.
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T. ELY SCHENCK
H. H. WEIDA
JAMES W. JOHNSON
NEW
BRUNSWICK
"Attacked in the back with perfidious treachery, she was yet able for three and a half weary years to keep at bay the largest army ever gathered together in the history of the world. I shall never forget while ambassador to the Netherlands, the morning of September 19, 1914, when as a representative from a neutral country to a neutral country I had to sit with my mouth closed while my heart burned with righteous indignation. I shall never forget the scenes of Prussian cruelty I witnessed later, not once, but scores and scores of times.
"The world must set the seal of condemnation on the way in which the Germans have waged this war. Our wrath and horror must be expressed so unequivo- cally that such a conflict must be made forever impossible. We do not want the annihilation of Germany. We do want to put the fear of God into the German nation.
"Thank God, this war-sick world is beginning to see a vision of peace, coming slowly perhaps, but very, very surely. From the windows of her beautiful palace smile the faces of the soldiers and sailors who have fought to make her possible. Up the long ave- nue leading to that palace I see the flags of the victorious allies, the Union Jack, the Tricolor of France, the flags of Belgium, of Servia, of Italy, of Greece. There are other banners there, borne aloft and waving proudly, but the one dearest of all to my own heart is the starry banner of our own United States.
"Every lover of peace must buy bonds of the Fourth Liberty Loan in order that our beautiful standard may have an honored place in that pro- cession," he asserted, and concluded his fine address by the recitation of the beautiful poem,
"Oh Fair Flag, Oh Free Flag!"
CAPTAIN MORIZE SPEAKS
The second speaker of the afternoon, Captain Andre Morize, of the French Military Mission, ınade a very pleasing impression. Tall and dark in his handsome uniform, Capt. Morize betrayed few signs of the strain and stress of the exciting scenes he has witnessed on the French firing-lines.
"I was on the Belgian border on that day, fighting against terrific odds. There were few of our men left. We were short of ammunition, short of food, we were fighting in water up to our waists, weary, disheartened, depressed. That night there came to our commander a short order signed by General Foch. The order read, 'Men of the northern army are to hold. Remember that an army is never beaten until its members believe they are beaten. The Germans shall not pass.'
"They did not pass," Capt. Morize said, and the audience thundered its admiration and approval. "Three times that same general sent the same mes- sage to other troops at different places. The fourth message came in 1918. You all know it. It was very
different in its purport. It said, 'Now we will pass.' and the troops of Great Britain, of France, and of the United States, with those of the other allies, did pass and are passing.
"Don't let that victorious passage pause. Remem- ber that the allied soldiers are no longer men ex- hausted from retreat and defeat, no longer men who fight without hope of help and succor. France alone has now 4,700,000 men on the fighting line, and the splendid generosity of America has heartened the great armies fully as much as have the heroism and self-sacrifice of the American troops.
THE ARMY AT HOME
"In every war there are always two armies-the men at the front who bear the heavy brunt of battle, and the older men, women and children who make up the home army behind them. Your purchase of the Fourth Liberty Bonds means that you are putting inspiration into every soldier who is fighting for you and for the freedom of the world.
"Obedience and sacrifice are the two great watch- words in the soldier's heart. Never shall I forget the young soldier in my command who turned to me after he had been fatally wounded, and asked me over and over, 'Did I do my full duty ? Did I do all I could ?' And when I bent down and said, 'Yes, my lad, you did all you could, and more too,' the most wonderful light shone in the eyes of the dying man.
"Let me say to you here and now, your govern- ment commands your help. Are you answering her appeal as you should ? Are you doing your full duty ? Are you doing all you can ? If so, you will know the fullest happiness in the years to come, and your heart will thrill at the realization that you had a share in winning the victory that shall indeed make this world a safe and pleasant place to live in."
A feature of the afternoon was the enthusiastic applause given Dr. Scott, who proved to be an ideal presiding officer. In speaking of the new loan he declared that the drives reminded him of a rhyme the boys had used in his boyhood days, in counting out for a game.
"One to begin, Two to show,
Three, to make ready, Four, to go!"
"All the three other loans were merely prepara- tory," Dr. Scott declared. "But this Fourth Loan, is to go, and is a final signal to the enemy that America is in the grimmest earnest. It is also a symbol of the fact that the United States aims and ideals, stated in our Constitution one hundred and thirty-one years ago, are rapidly be- coming the ideals of every Christian nation."
THE BIG PARADE
On October 7, 1918, at 7:30 the crowd that lined both sides of George and Albany streets several columns deep began to grow impatient when, sud- denly, strains of music were heard from the direction
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of the Albany street bridge.' Amid a burst of applause the band from the Federal Rendezvous hove into view with Bandmaster William Gerhardt lead- ing, vigorously swinging his baton. The crowd broke loose, yelled, threw hats in the air, and demonstrated its enthusiasm. The band, composed of 31 pieces and considered one of the finest naval bands extant, blared its way down George street, to take its place in the line of march with the Red Cross workers at George and Hamilton streets.
The proceedings in connection with the parade were finely attuned. Things went off without a hitch, thanks to Robert C. Nicholas, who was grand marshal of the affair, and his assistant, Andrew Kirkpatrick.
Special mention should be made of Mr. Nicholas' services for the occasion, because, after putting in two strenuous days aiding the victims of the Morgan disaster, he resolutely stuck to his intention of organizing the parade.
The parade got under way at 8:30 from George and Hamilton streets, with the Camp Raritan band at the head and the Foreign Legion and wounded American soldiers following close in its wake. The Foreign Legion had about 15 of its members present, all of whom have seen service since the beginning of the war. Each of the legionaries was decorated with a number of medals won at every battlefront of the war for gallant service.
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