Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 83, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 April 1919 — AMERICA NO PLACE FOR THE PESSIMIST [ARTICLE]

AMERICA NO PLACE FOR THE PESSIMIST

Secretary es the Treasury Glass Says These Be Days of Rejoicing, of Confidence and High “A thing difficult of understanding ia the reactionary spirit which, in some quarters, seems to have seized hold of American business,” declared Secretary of the Treasury Glass in a recent interview on the coining Victory liberty Loan. “It manifests itself in a gloomy and pessimistic view of the future in no way justified by conditions, present qr discernible, and in a disposition to cavil at the further expenditures the government is under the necessity of making in order to liquidate the war.” Secretary Glass declared he saw no reason whatever for dark foreboding. On the contrary, he was firm in the belief that these should be days of rejoicing, of confidence and high resolve. "America is the least injured of any of the nations which took active part in the death grapple with autocracy oa the soil of France and Flandeys,” he continued. “Except for the 60,000 who gave up their lives and the thousands who hre returning, maimed or wounded, the United States has made no real sacrifice. t*ls the American spirit less courageous than the spirit of the French ol i the Belgians? France, sorrowing but undaunted, has set about to rapair the wreck the ruthless Invaders wrought, and refuses to view the future darkly. Belgium, stripped of all save honor, looks forward to the day when a greater nation will arise on the mins of the old. Shall America, then, bend and groan under the imaginings of a burden which it should bear lightly, if felt at all? “The coming issue of government bonds has been designated the Victory Liberty Loan. It seems to me that it might well be* termed also the Thanksgiving Loan, for if people had cause for Thanksgiving, we are that people. “Those Americans who today are among the carpers and qulbblers are not worthy of the name of Americans. They are not worthy the boys they sent forth to make, if need be, the supreme sacrifice that liberty might live. “Now that the coming of peace has restored their sons to them, will they tighten up their purse strings and adopt an attitude which seems to say, *The war is over; I did my part while the fighting was in progress, and now let the government go hang.’ Ido not think so. I believe that when the next loan la offered they will understand its necessity and will gladly meet its requirements.”