Richard Purdy

“ The most convincing reason for this loan, as I see it, is the publication in the daily press of the last few weeks of the war maps of Europe, showing that shadowy and crooked German line, crooked in more senses than one, that all patriotic Americans have been so anxiously watching as it moves slowly mile by mile to the westward. It is our duty to hurry to that war front with all the haste and energy we can summon, and with every resource that our two hundred and fifty billions in national wealth can command, before that shadow crosses the Atlantic. ”

“ In the great Third Liberty Loan drive, just one statement seems necessary before an American audience. It is simply a question now of the survival of autocracy or democracy. They are in their death grapple. It is a fight to the finish and it is up to us. All the evidences about the city advertising this great loan, and the many speakers that appear before you, do so at the request of the government to thoroughly acquaint the American public with the situation. ”