Robert J. Cuddihy to Woodrow Wilson

Title

Robert J. Cuddihy to Woodrow Wilson

Creator

Robert J. Cuddihy

Identifier

WWP21163

Date

1917 April 9

Source

Library of Congress, Woodrow Wilson Papers, 1786-1957

Language

English

Text

-COPY-TELEGRAM
New York

The President
The message which you delivered to the Congress on last Monday night will go ringing down the ages so long as the desire of political freedom lives within the human heart. It was a message that brought cheer and confidence to millions of American firesides. It was a message that will carry into the homes of the teeming millions in misgoverned Russia the spirit of hope and encouragement that the new birth of freedom which has come so suddenly has come to stay. It is a message which if in its entirety can reach the brave men who are fighting Germany's battle in the trenches on both Eastern and Western fronts will we hope bring a quickening of the spirit which cannot help but insure an early end to the autocratic government under which that nation is now suffering. We confess to a desire to read and reread it and we intend to issue it next week printed on Japanese vellum in such form that we can urge our readers and all Americans to hang it on the walls of their homes as a heritage for the study of our children. The reading columns of our paper as a matter of course are always at the disposal of the Government but at this time of great stress we desire to add that our advertising columns are at the service of the nation without any charge whatever whether it be to raise an army, increase the naval forces or sell bonds. If in the wisdom of Congress it is thought advisable to carry out the idea now stirring in the minds of so many of our citizens, that a gift or loan of one billion dollars be made to bleeding France, we suggest that such loan be made without interest and will consider it a high privilege to subscribe for two hundred and fifty thousand dollars of such bonds without interest for the first five years.
THE LITERARY DIGEST
By Robert J. Cuddihy, Treasurer.

Original Format

Enclosure

To

Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924

Files

http://resources.presidentwilson.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/WWI0176A.pdf

Collection

Citation

Robert J. Cuddihy, “Robert J. Cuddihy to Woodrow Wilson,” 1917 April 9, WWP21163, World War I Letters, Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library & Museum, Staunton, Virginia.