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Show WILSON APPEALS TO LOYAL AMERICANS TREASURE VOW YET UNFILLED, WILSON SAYS, URGING SUPPORT SUP-PORT OF VICTORY LOAN. Cables From Paris an Earnest Appeal For Ready Response to Fifth and Final Issue to Free World From Militarism. Washington. New evidence of America's purpose to redeem in full the pledges made on entering the war was asked of the nation on April 19, by President Wilson, who urged full subscription of the $4,500,000,000 Victory Vic-tory Liberty loan issue. Sixty thousand thou-sand men who gave their lives in France have redeemed the covenant of blood made two years ago, the president presi-dent said, but the "pledge of treasure remains yet to be fulfilled. President Wilson's message in full follows : "For two anxious years the American Ameri-can people have striven to fulfill the task of saving our civilization. By the exertion of unmeasured power they have quickly won the victory without which they would have remained in the field until the last resource had been exhausted. Bringing to the contest con-test a strength of spirit made doubly strong by the righteousness of their cause, they devoted themselves unswervingly un-swervingly to the prosecution of their undertaking with the full knowledge that no conquest lay in their path excepting ex-cepting the conquest of right. ' "Today the world stands freed from the threat of militarism which has so long weighed upon the spirit and the labor of peaceful nations. "But as yet we stand only at the threshhold of happier times. To enter we must fulfill to the utmost the engagements en-gagements we have made. The Victory Vic-tory Liberty loan is the indispensable means. Two years ago we pledged our lives and fortunes to the cause for which we have fought. Sixty thousand of our strongest sons have redeemed for us that pledge of blood. To redeem in full faith the promise of this sacr-rifice sacr-rifice we now must give this new evidence evi-dence of our' purpose." With the formal opening of the campaign cam-paign still nearly two days away, subscription sub-scription pledges began to pour into the treasury on Saturday, along with predictions of success perhaps even more optimistic than those accompanying accompany-ing the four previous bond issues. |