William G. McAdoo to Woodrow Wilson

Everybody connected with the Liberty Loan is convinced that if you would issue a brief proclamation to the country, asking all good citizens to subscribe to the extent of their means to these bonds, it would have a powerful effect. I am really concerned about the success of the Loan unless we can get the people generally aroused to its importance. No one can bring it so forcibly to their minds and hearts as you can. I earnestly hope you may be willing to do this. I enclose a brief statement I gave to the press last night, which may be of use to you as suggesting an idea.
It is with extreme reluctance that I have felt obliged to accept a few invitations to make speeches in a number of places in the Central West. It has been represented to me as being essential that I should do so, as interest in the Loan seems very slight throughout that section. A failure would be disastrous from every point of view. I am leaving Wednesday, the 16th, and shall be gone about ten days.