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The Commoner
VOL. 18, NO, 5
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What the Red Cross
is Doing
From tho Lincoln Daily Star.
Proflldont Wilson has designated
tho woek of May 20 for tho noxt Red
Cross fund drive. Ono hundred mil
lion dollars was raised a year ago
and a liko amount is asked this
spring.
The Impelling motive last year was
largely to mako provision for the
care of allied soldiers and dependents
of allied soldiers and the comfort of
tho American soldiers in tho train
ing camps. Tho impelling motive
this year will bo the caro of tho
American soldiers at tho battlefront
in France.
America has played no part in tho
war which offers more material proof
of its success than tho work of the
Hod Cross agencies. Despite tho few
Gorman lies which have been scat
tered, tho Rod CroBS has accom
plished in an elllclont manner a gi
gantic task. Its past record speaks
for itsolf.
It has formed the second line of
defense of all the allied armies in
tho field. Its army has been mobile.
Thoro lias been no year of delay In
gottlng it started. It has boon a
model of efficiency and effectiveness'.
It had a battery of motor ambu
lances at tho Piavo front four days
after the United Stats. - declared war
on Austria.
It is supporting 50,000 French
children.
It sends -applies to 3,423 French
'military hospitals.
It shipped forty-six freight car
loads of assorted supplies to Italy
from Franco within two weeks after
it began oporatlng in Italy.
It started a hundred different rem
edial activities in Italy whoso' result
was to strongthon tho spirit of the
Italian people, at tho tlmo when
things were lu the most critical con
dition. Without the American Red Cross
thousands in Rumania would have
starved to (loath.
Without it thousands of French
soldiers now gallantly fighting for us
at tile front would have died from
wounds, exposure and lack of food.
All this work will be continued to
a large extont this year, and in addi
tion will come tho greater task of
keeping alive 4n the heart of the
American soldier that spirit of the
home which is a cardinal virtue in
American life. The ideals of a na
tion must find their source in the
homes of the people. To the soldier
In the front line or in the camp be
hind the line the Red Cross brings
to him those things which his loved
ones at home would if distance per
mitted. Though his business may be
fighting, the American soldier must
not bo permitted to live on blood
alone, as docs the German soldier,
for'blood alono means lust and crime.
For these reasons the people at
homo can not afford to refuso the
funds which the Red Cross asks. The
gifts to that service are the concrete
expressions of fathers and mothers at
homo to their sons abroad and they
must show the faith of a nation
which is back of her defenders.
down by tho government, lot them
refuse to handle them. Surely this
is fair. F. B. STUART.
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MORE ABOUT LIBERTY LOANS,
Alplno, Calif., Feb. 1,9, 1918.
To The Commoner:
In your issue of January, 1918,
you say: "On another page will bg
found an editorial of the Sacramento
Bee. "The Liberty bonds
should be protected, nobby making
it unlawful to sell such bonds below
.par, as a bill introduced in congress
provided but by making them re
deemable "upon notice like the War
Savings Certificates. To prohibit
their sale below par would be likely
to discourage subscriptions to future
issues," etc.
May I. humbly and respectfully
protest against these conclusions? I
received $13 per month in unprotect
ed greenbacks during the Civil war.
Tho money interests depreciated
greenbacks until they sold for 30
cents on tho dollar in silver; and,
then they discriminated against sil
ver by making all their loans payable
n gold until they demonetized silvp"
It should be unlawful for any one
to buy or sell, or assist in buying or
selling, government money or secur
ities at less than their face value; or
to use one kind of government money
to depreciate another kind. When
tho supreme court of the United
States decided that contracts were
enforceable that were made payable
only in gold, a death blow was given
to silver. Congress will probably
chango this rule.
To make these bonds redeemable
"on notice" will not add to their
stability, and besides we all know
that tho government can not redeem
oven the six billions of Liberty bonds,
when our total currency today is only
$4, 018, 043,555, and only $030,190
647 of this is in coined gold.
To prohibit sales below par of any
part of our money or sp.p.nruioo m
give them stability and encourage
IUIUIB luveaiuiums; out lr the bank
ers and brokers can create a depres
sion in two months of 3 per cent on
our Liberty bonds and clean un
$180,000,000, what will be the result
asked ?fUtUre l0anS tWs kInd are
The owner of a bond may use it
n private dealings or exchanges as
! vTJ IS pri?"Jbttt the banks.
pShKM "from hSg8 &
value"011111 lGSS tUaU their 'we
The war must be won nnrt ,,
producer will win It cl y ,"
"W by. so1" tackles. No
" "' """ ol men, should bo n7
lowed to assist the kaiser by umlmL
raining the government credit or eoT
eminent money. Thnt ii,l s Y"
ment has the Power 'o'potecHSr
BRYAN'S TORONTO ADVERTISING
So it always is. The' speech that
a few hotheads shouted down in Tor
onto the other day wflV'be the speech
that will go farthest' over Canada
and give Mr. Bryan the greatest
nearing ana respect, xne ursi. re
ports, eager to spread the sensa
tional, had it that the audience in
MaBsey hall, Toronto, had refused to
listen, and so Mr. Bryan had at last
been repudiated in public. But now
it develops that the great majority
pf the 3,500 people wanted to hear
him and hung their heads in shame
that thirty returned Canadian sol
diers prevented his speaking, offer
ing in their ignorance an insult to a
great man and friend coming to
them as the representative of 25,
000,000 prohibition workers of the
United States. Mr. Bryan comes out
of the pandemonium far better than
the disturbers, who, by the way
howled down their own premier
when he attempted to speak. He
was unruffled, he sat down and spoke
to the reporters near the platform,
he urged that force be not used. And
he has won out in public opinion,
just as Beecher won out over the
English mob in the Civil war times.
The voice of the mob sentences it
self. It is the voice of ignorance in
spired by sinister leaders. Canada
is all right. .i
"I doubt if ever I have spoken to
so large an audience with so few
prejudiced against me in It," says
Mr. Bryan. "Among United States
audiences, opposition to a speaker is
not so likely to manifest itself as in
a British audience, where opponents
engage in what they call 'heckling'
more than they do here. Putoilc men
of Great Britain and Canada occa
sionally meet with that experience."
The Lyceum Magazine.
the man power of 1,100,000 adult
WWiCUO "- u"o umtuu states Is en,
iug to waste in it. fDes vtJt
Register
Des Moines
"WHERE IS BRYAN?"
"By the way, what has become of
one William Jennings Bryan of whom
we used to hear occasionally in times
gone by? We have with us Teddy
Roosevelt, Bryan's champion satellte
on the political firmament; yes, even
the lesser luminary, Wm. Howard
Taft, is occasionally heard of. But
Bryan, where is F,ryan?" Red Win?
Eagle. 5
Where is Bryan? Bryan is here,
there everywhere, talking as only
Bryan, can talk, electrifying the pat
riotic heart of the nation, thundering
anathemas against old John Barley
corn, sledge hammering for the right
of women to the ballot, championing
every good cause, battling against
wrong and oppression wherever they
exist and exemplifying in his life the
principles of right living and right
thinking.
There is no limit to Bryan's influ
ence and power. Twice has he nom
inated and elected Woodrow Wilson
president of the United States. He
it was who decreed that United States
senators should be elected by a vote
of tho'people instead of by the legis
latures. He it was "who but recently
gave the people the right to make
prohibition and woman suffrage a
part of the fundamental law of the
land.
In a short time Bryan will come to
Minnesota and aid in purging the
state of the liquor demon, and papers
like the Eagle will tremble at his
coming. "Where is Bryan.?" As well
might one -ask, where is the savior of
the world? Fairmont Minn., Sen
tinel. - -
PUT THEM TO WORK
The Register has received its
annual present ,from the distillers
and wholesale liquor dealers, "The
Anti-Prohibition Manual." Here is
the opening statement in the manual-
a u7? that the Production
and distribution of alcoholic bever-
?6-.enftS emP"yment directly to
1,100,000 persons?"
It is hard to realize it. It is hard
to realize that at a time when the
one cry heard throughout the world
is for menmen to fight, and men
to back the fighters 1,100 000
able-bodied . Americans should be
employed in the production and dis
tribution of alcoholic beverages
wasting their labor, wasting food
the0dnatiSonand ,0TOta rale of
VUbU mau power is coinc to
waste in the liquor industry, a
cording to "The Anti-Prohihitfnn
Manual " to build all Le shlpwe
need to defeat the submarine
Enough is going to waste , t? eofye
completely the great question of
IZLVZ0. e United
--.-w, .. "uiamves ana our allies
Our wasted man power is 1
nient were it mobilized PBUt:
task, to insure allied victory ove?
Germany with an absolute definite
nessjhich we all wish we ?.
ofsi,ioo,ooo sjxrs
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