Show AMERICA HAS ANSWERED OUR CALL OF DISTRESS SAYS BARON America answered our cr cry T of distress distress distress dis dis- dis- dis tress first with her loving sympathy and now with hastening legions of her sons We Ve firmly finnly trust that soon we shall acclaim the glorious triumph of our common cause The fight must be ho bewell howell e ewell well won We Ve shall not cease until the foe is crushed in such manner that he may never rise again to wreck the peace and quiet of the world In these ringing words Baron Ludwig l former fonner Belgian minister to the United States who heads the Belgian Belgian Belgian Bel Bel- gian commission which arrived in the city today spoke at the luncheon at the Hotel Utah His message caused the vast assembly of Utah's most prominent prominent prominent nent citizens to rise to their feet and applaud loudly Baron said that in the list of benefactors the name of Salt Lake occupied a foremost position for the Belgians knew by br the generous contributions contributions contributions con con- from here that they had more than done their part to provide relief for those starving in Belgium The speaker paid a tribute to II Ir C. C Hoover the food controller of this country He said that wherever Belgians Bel Del gians glans were to be found the name of Hoover would always be spoken in affectionate affectionate affectionate af af- memory and deep regard t Our suffering continued the baron I is almost at an end for in response I to the voice of or your eminent statesman President Wilson the entire American nation has sprung to arms anns to defend I the cause of Justice and the liberty of the peoples The starry banner has I already crossed the seas it is on the battlefields of Europe where It will willbe willbe willbo be bo crowned with the laurels of victory Baron Daron said On behalf of my colleagues and myself myself myself my my- self I offer you our hearty thanks for forthe forthe forthe I I the cordial and sympathetic welcome which you have given u us a and which Is another proof of the sympathy of your city for the misfortunes of my native I land My king has charged the mission of which I have the honor to be chief I to bear hear to the government and people of the United States the expression of I his gratitude and of the gratitude of ot the whole Belgian nation lor tor the tho generous gen een- erous and wholehearted help which the American I people have given to Belgium in the days of or her tragedy and sorrow MESSAGE TO U U. U US U.S. S. S Strictly speaking it was our mission mission mis mis- mIs-I mIs sion sian to deliver that message to the American government and through It to toI I II I the people But our feelings toward the generous people of the United States are such that we decided to undertake a Journey of twelve thousand thousand thousand thou thou- sand miles throughout your vast land landin in order to come to you in person and to tell you with our own lips Ups how deeply gr grateful we are to the states and to the cities which have given us so much help and so much sympathy In our hour of trial We also wished to come here to fee re renew renew re- re new our courage by the sight of the h wonderful results which have been accomplished accomplished accomplished ac ac- here through the brave rave work worl and the force of character of your early arly settlers Those brave men Jen having having having hav hav- ing abandoned the fertile Plans of Illinois and having followed the trail of emigration into this country which I was then but an arid grid desert having desert having as asIt asit asit Into voluntary exile into it were gone the desert for the sole object of or preserving preserving preserving pre pre- serving the principles of their belief and their rights they rights they transformed these waste places places' places Into into a garden 11 and formed this state of which the agricultural agricultural tural prosperity and even the Industrial Industrial industrial Indus Indus- trial activity is for us an object of wonder and of emulation The citizens of my beloved country will be Inspired Inspired Inspired-by by this same courage by this same ardor in the reconstruction tion of Belgium whose riches and whose resources have been almost by our enemies I do not wish to tell you of our mis mis- fortunes You know them only too well MILITARY AUTOCRACY You know how the lion when attacked b by the monstrous beast spoken of in the Book of Revelations nobly defended the passage confided to I his care and though covered with I wounds struck his bloody claws into the beast and held him until the allied nations had time to organize their ar ar- mies PAY DEARLY I But the tho enemy has made Belgium I pay dearly for the crime of ot destroying the ambitious dream of that emperor who thought to conquer Paris In four weeks My fellow countrymen are now be beneath beneath beneath be- be neath the iron heel of the invader All Allour Allour our supplies were confiscated then the raw material of commerce was etolen stolen I from us and finally our machinery was likewise taken awa away T. T All trade and commerce has been brought to a n standstill standstill stand stand- still and the silence of death stand stand-I reigns throughout our land which formerly was one of the principal centers of human activity The whole normal social and economic eco eco- life of Belgium was instantly i stopped Through the surrounding wall of steel of Germ German n bayonets nothing nothing noth noth- ing can pass The supply of foodstuffs foodstuffs foodstuffs food food- stuffs upon which the population de depends depends depends de- de for its life is stopped i The entire population of Belgium was menaced by famine but this danI danger danger dan dan- ger was averted by a man whose name I I is now known In even the smallest vil- vil I Continued on page page- page pa-e 6 6 I AMERICA HAS Continued from from- page 1 1 lage from Maine 1 to California for he lie has been called by the president to the high task of organizing one of the most important factors which make for victory This name is cherished and respected by the Belgian people for they look upon Mr Hoover as their savior He it is who organized the tho splendid work of the commission for relief in Belgium ium with which the citizens citizens citizens citi citi- zens of Salt Lake City have cooperated with so much generosity and zeal Inthe Inthe In Inthe the name of my sovereign I again express ex express ex- ex press to them our profound gratitude But though thanks to the generosity generosity gener gener- of ot America my country has up to the present time escaped from starvation starvation star star- my countrymen still remain ina ina In Ina a most deplorable situation They areat areat are areat at the mercy of ot a conqueror who by every every means in his power endeavors to cause them misery and suffering The beast whose claws will soon be cut is thirsting for revenge Crushing requisitions are levied on the crops heavy fines tines are imposed for tor any displeasure displeasure displeasure dis dis- dis- dis pleasure caused to the enemy peaceful peaceful peace peace- ful tul citizens are seized as hostages and shot for the alleged acts or others or even without any provocation If It it pleases the invader to choose this wa of terrorizing a locality After Alter robb robbery ry and oppression oppressIon and ana even wholesale murder the enemy re resourceful re- re in his deviltry reviewed the ancieN barbaric custom or driving oft off vast numbers of the civil population Into a life of ot slavery under the most revolting conditions Many many thousands of ot laborers have been in iii that way taken Into Germany Germany Germany Ger Ger- many or even taken to places Immediately Imme behind the German Gorman lines In northern France Our enemy wished to tomake tomal tomake mal make e these men take part In work to aid nit hit military operations When h n these noble patriots refused to work a against their country our enemy endea endea- vOl d to compel them by force by bru- bru bu treatment by starvation by exposure exposure exposure expo expo- sure to cold and even by otner other tortures torture the details ot of which I I have in authentic tic documents that it would mako make your flesh creep to read SIGN CONTRACT Tho enemy like a tempter demon would say eay to th them thID ID Sign a contract to work worle for us and you will bo be supplied with food your suffering will bo at atan atan an an end But these heroes like the martyrs martyrs mar mar- of olden times who refused to sacrifice to Idols responded even Inthe in inthe inthe the midst of ot their suffering No Nob We Va will not sign no we will never sign But the body may be bo killed al although although al- al though the soul remains unconquerable Many l of these patriots succumbed to pneumonia or tuberculosis or to other Ills caused by this horrible maltreat maltreat- ment mont It is only when these unfortunates have been reduced to human wrecks condemned to an early death that Germany Germany Ger Ocr many sends them back bacle into Belgium In cattle catlie cars in which many of ot them themI i die before reaching their homes Can you wonder that before beford such I I devilish ISh things thing we cried out to all the I world for help helP to d rescue cue our people from the hell I |