Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 233, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 October 1917 — HOLD LIBERTY LOAN MEETING [ARTICLE]

HOLD LIBERTY LOAN MEETING

MANY REPRESENTATIVES FROM * COUNTY ATTEND MEETING HELD HERE. On the call of County Chairman J. H. Chapman, there was a number of representatives from over the county in attendance at the meeting held in the -interest of the Liberty loan bond sale, in the county commissioners’ room in the court house Tuesday afternoon. It was planned to put the matter of buying bonds up to everyone in the county. The bonds are a most excellent investment from the standpoint of earnings and the very best that can be had from the point of security. Our government is now offering to borrow the money to prosecute the war. If we don’t want to loan the money we can just give it a little later without hope of return of principal or interest. There are a number of men in this county who can and SHOULD buy twenty thousand dollars worth of these bonds. There are a larger number who should buy five thousand dollars worth. There is not a man in the county who cannot buy a hundred dollar bond on the splendid terms that the banks are offering these bonds. Most of the young men in this county over fifteen years" of" age can buy a fifty dollar bond. Some young fellows who have considerable property have been exempted from service while their fellows have been sent on to give their very lives for their country. If you put every dollar you have in the world in bonds you will not even then have shared equally with your fellow who may have to give his life. Many of our. women could buy bonds. And they should do so. You love the boys who have entered the army. How much do you love them? Measure that love out in the purchase of Liberty bonds and help the soldier so that he may fight most efficiently for you and for his country. The government should have every dollar it can use and should have it at the very earliest possible moment. We must feed our soldiers, we must clothe them, they must have the best instruments of destruction that skill can devise and money can secure. We must provide more fighting machines for the air and as well as under the water. We should be willing to give every dollar we have, but the government at this time is not asking that. We are simply asked to make an investment, every cent of which is to be returned to us and we are to have 4 per cent on the money. A government bond bearing 4 per cent interest to one living in Jasper county is a better investment than a taxable security bearing 7 or 8 per cent per annum. If we do not do our part NOW, we will do it later. Will we wait to be awakened by a casualty list that will have in it the names of our own sons?

Be patriotic, but if you do not want to be patriotic then be frugal and buy a Liberty loan bond.- If you are not interested, get interested. Talk it over with your wife, your husband, with your neighbor. The county organization is as follows: Chairman, J. H. Chapman; vice chairman, Abraham Halleck; secretary-treasurer, Charles G. Spitler; chairman county sales committee, Ray D. Thompson; public speaking committee, George A. Williams.. A number of men have been appointed. in all parts of the county, and a drive will be made to raise our full quota in this county, which is $320,000. Thomas O. Baxter, of the Lee, Higginson & Co., of Chicago, attended the meeting yesterday and he impressed upon all present' the necessity of raising this money. We can raise it by buying bonds or we can shell it out as taxes a little later. Let us be patriots, not slackers. Let us make an investment and not wait for an assessment. Let us proVe to our soldiers that we do value thei rlives. Let us tell Kaiser Bill and his hellish fiends that we demand their destruction. Attend the chicken supper at the Christian church Thursday evening. Lots of good things to .eat.