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Show PURPOSES "OF LIBERTY L01 M GUT New Understanding Results Re-sults as Light Is Shed by Franklin K. Lane. Special to The Tribune. OGDEX, Oct. 67 A now understanding understand-ing of the purposes of theLiberty Ioud and a bettor realization of this na- tion 's place iu the world war., were unfolded un-folded to an audience in the Ogden tabernacle this afternoon when Franklin Frank-lin K. Lane, secretary of the United States department of interior, delivered deliv-ered an aiidress in the- interest of the second campaign for bonds. The statements state-ments of the cabinet member were received re-ceived with demonstrations of patriotic fervor that will mean results in the Libertv loan campaign. In view of the fact that the Ogden meeting hail been arranged virtually between trains and for a Saturday afternoon. after-noon. Secretary Lane stated that he had never appeared before a more flattering flat-tering audience. He was more than surprised, he said, that so many people should turn away from the busy period of a Saturday afternoon and whilo a. great conference and state fair are going go-ing on in Salt Lake City to attend a meeting of this character. He declared that to him it was evidence more conclusive con-clusive than anything else of the deep interest in tho "enterprise in which the nation is now engaged. Several hundred people were in the tabernacle at the appointed hour for the meeting and nearly all scats were filled by 2:30 o'clock'. Mayor A. R. Heywood presided, introducing Secretary Secre-tary Lane as the man sent out by President Presi-dent Wilson to tell those who stay at home what they must do to help win the war. An outburst of applause which lasted sevoral minutes, greeted the cabinet member as he arose to speak. Such a demonstration, together with tho fact that nearly 1000 people could' find time to leave their work and their business on a Saturday afternoon, convinced con-vinced Secretary Lane, he said, that the hearts of the people, as well as their boys and their dollars, are in the fight to bring liberty to all mankind. man-kind. Speaking of his interest in his native west, Secretary Lane said he held himsolf to be tho champion of the west at the cabinet table In Washington, Washing-ton, D. C. "Therefore I come to this, my section sec-tion of the country, to feel your pulse, to see how you feel about this war and to see if stimulation is necessary, " declared the cabinet member. "I have found that no stimulation is necessary for the, pulse is strong and regular. There is no difference between the man of the east and the man of the west at this time. "Throughout my travels I Jtave found that the interest is warm, bur, as I visit each successive community they tell me that over there beyond the hills the condition is not what it should be. I've been going on and on bevond the hills, searching for those who have not the proper interest, but I find that those people are just as strong as those. I left and then those beyond the 'hills tell mo somebody else is not strong. "I have found there is no section of our people unpatriotic. The jfarmer is just as loyal as the railroad man and the railroad man is just as loyal as the manufacturer, and so on down the line. I have given up trying to find those who are not strong, those who need stimulation in these patriotic times." Secretary Lane outlined with crisp illustration il-lustration and forceful words the position posi-tion of this nation in the world war, how the United States would have been placed in the position of the craven if this country had failed to strike the blow for the freedom of democracy. de-mocracy. He told of Europe's recognition recogni-tion of American ideals in the placing of a wreath upon, the tomb of George Washington by the English and French commissions during their visits to this countrv. "There are to be no more Caesars, but Prussia does not know that the clay of Caesars has passed," said the speaker. speak-er. "We are to give our dollars as we have given our boys to bring the Prussian Prus-sian rulers to a realization of this fact. I would like to see the United States conquer the world and I think we can conquer the world not physi-cnllv, physi-cnllv, but bv the nobilitv of what we do. " The audience paid a tribute of prolonged pro-longed applause to President Wilson when Secretarv Lane told of the leadership lead-ership under which the army and navy is engaged in the present struggle. He outlined in some detail the purposes in which tho billions of dollars are to be expended, calling special attention to the need of not less than 22,000 aeroplanes. aero-planes. The meeting was closed with a. rendition rendi-tion of the national air played by the Ogden-Southern Pacific band, which also furnished music in the business district prior to the meeting. Secretary Lane was tho guest of Ogden Og-den bankers and others at luncheon in the Weber club today. Tho cabinet member arrived from Salt Lake City nt 12:13 o'clock. The Ogden men at the luncheon were Mavor A. R. Hev-wood, Hev-wood, W. H. Wattis. C. A. Day, L. F. Kueipp. W. W. Browning, L. R. Eccles, E. E. Smith. J. T. Eldredge, Jr.. John Watson. James Burton. R. A. Moves, James Pingree and A. P. Bigelow. Immediately after the tabernacle meeting. Secretarv Lane departed over the Southern Pacific for San Francisco. Fran-cisco. On his present trip he is the guest of E. O. McCormick, vice president presi-dent of the Southern Pacific company. In addition to Secretary Lane and the railroad official, the party includes Lathrop Brown, assistant secretary of the department of interior, and J. P. Potter, private secretary- to Mr. Lane. |
