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Show H100 PLEASED OVER RESULTS OF TRIP BEST Declares People Are Behind the Administration's Programme Pro-gramme of Raising $1,-800,000,000 $1,-800,000,000 by Taxes. ALL WILLING TO MAKE SACRIFICES Bankers, Business Men and All Classes of Citizens Subscribing to Liberty Lib-erty Loan. WASHINGTON. May 27. Secretary McAdoo, home from a speaking tour of the middle and western cities in tlie Interest In-terest of the Liberty loan, declared in a statement tonight that the people were behind the administration's programme of raisins approximately $1,500,000,000 for war purpo&es by taxation. "I found the most gratifying disposition on the part of the people everywhere," said the statement, "to bear the necessary neces-sary additional taxation required, for the war and for the maintenance of sound economic conditions in the country. I spoke specifically of the necessity of raising rais-ing not less than $ 1,500.000,000 in new taxes, and the response of every audience audi-ence was instantaneous and gratifying. "While everyone wants the new taxes to be equitably distributed, there is a willingness in fact, eagerness to make necessary sacrifices. "There is no objection on the part of the great mass of the people to the proposal pro-posal to raise $1,800,900,000 by taxation. I found some opposition to the amount on the part of a few small groups of business men, but most of them seemed reconciled when the situation was explained. ex-plained. The real differences of opinion are about items of taxation, and not the total amount." Patriotic Support. Mr. McAdoo was particularly impressed on his trip, he declared, with the unselfish unself-ish an3 patriotic support that bankers, business men and all classes of people were giving to the Liberty loan. The middle and the central west, he said, are awake to the purposes of the war, the reasons for America's entry and tne ideals for which America is fighting. "I found not a single dissenter throughout through-out the entire trip,"' he said. "T was overwhelmed with messages to the president presi-dent of the loyal, enthusiastic and devoted devot-ed support of the people. The sentiment throughout the west may be summed up as follows: ' "This war was forced on Uncle Sam. Now that he is in it we don't intend that he shall te licked.' " Much Remains to Be Done. Much still has to be cone, the secretary finds, to make the Liberty loan tne overwhelming over-whelming success that he expects it to be. "If the people are aroused to Its importance.'' he said, "there will be no doubt about its success, but continuous hard work must be done until subscription subscrip-tion day, June 15. There is now an enthusiastic en-thusiastic impulse behind the loan, which, if maintained, will. I hope, result in a large oversubscription." Minneapolis, Mr. Mc Adoo said, had done "conspicuously valuable work." A house-to-house canvass there, he said, had resulted re-sulted in the sale of $i0, 000,000 bonds to 19.2 purchasers. Treasury officials announced tonight that, beginning tomorrow, the New York Stock exchange would begin a daily ad -vert i sing campaign to last until .June li In the interests of the bonds, in newspapers news-papers of New York. Cincinnati. Boston, ha .ti more, Philadelphia, San Francisco. St. Louis. Pittsburg and Chicago. |