Content note: Wartime front page with enemy-naming headlines ('the Boche'), a cartoon of men with 'Liberty Bond' staves driving a figure on the ground, and a headline on a lynching. This object is shown as it was published. Why

New-York Tribune front page, Third Liberty Loan opening, 6 April 1918

A daily's front page on the day the Third Liberty Loan opened. A boxed Wilson war-message quotation heads the page; a large cartoon captioned 'Take a stave from your barrel and get in line' shows a column of men with 'Liberty Bond' staves driving a figure on the ground toward a signpost 'This way to Salt Creek'. Tells: the get-in-line caption (bandwagon) and the threatened figure (fear-appeal).

Date: April 6, 1918
Period: First World War
Made by: New-York Tribune (Tribune Association), New York; cartoon signed J. N. Ding
Region: North America
Country: United States
Medium: Newspaper pages
Issuer type: Media
Regime: Wilson Administration
Leader: Woodrow Wilson
Audience: Domestic public
Purpose: Fundraise
Themes: War and the military, Home front, Economy and finance
Event: World War I
Techniques: Bandwagon Fear appeal
Regime: Wilson administration
Leader: Woodrow Wilson
Source: Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
Source: Library of Congress, Chronicling America, retrieved October 2, 2026
Rights: Public domain (US newspaper, 1918; LOC: public domain or no known copyright restrictions)
New-York Tribune, 6 April 1918, via Library of Congress, Chronicling America (LCCN sn83030214)

Text on the object

Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

THE PLEDGE THAT SECURES THE LIBERTY LOAN
"We have no selfish ends to serve—We desire no conquest, no dominion—We seek no indemnities for ourselves, no material compensation for the sacrifices we shall freely make —We are but one of the champions of the rights of mankind—The world must be made safe for Democracy."—From President Wilson's War Message one year ago.

Germans Stopped on Both Sides of Somme; Great Tidal Wave Is Broken, Says Foch

Million Bells Will Proclaim the Opening To-day Of Campaign for $3,000,000,000 Liberty Loan
Third Appeal to Americans Made on First Anniversary of War Declaration—20 Million Investors the Goal
Mayor Hylan Issues Proclamation Urging All to Display Flag—City's Quota Is $900,000,000

Cartoon caption: TAKE A STAVE FROM YOUR BARREL AND GET IN LINE
In cartoon: LIBERTY BOND (on each stave); signpost: THIS WAY TO SALT CREEK; signature: J. N. Ding

Impetus Given Sedition Bill By Lynching — Prompt Action by Senate Urged to Avoid Mob Law
Aim to Reach Labor Slackers Through Draft — Departments to Submit Revision Plan to President
High Schools Bar "Review" As Pacifist — Shaw's Magazine Denounces Allies; Wilson Quoted as Authority

"We Will Try to Get Upper Hand of the Boche," Says Foch
Haig Hurls Enemy Back Along Front of 15 Miles

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Masthead, headlines and cartoon lettering transcribed from the committed image; body text not transcribed.