Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 74, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 April 1918 — WHY YOU MUST BUY LIBERTY BONDS [ARTICLE]

WHY YOU MUST BUY LIBERTY BONDS

War is a glutton that lives on lives and riches. There is no limit to the devouring greed of war. As long as there is an unconquered life, or an undevoured dollar war is hungry. When war attacks a nation there is no choice —every able-bodied man knows that he must fight—now or later. Selective drafts may misb a‘ man here and there for a few months, but if the war goes on a time comes when every man who can walk and carry a gun must go to the colors and fight for the very life of his country, his family, himself. When war attacks a nation there is no choice —every dollar is subject to the call of mobilization. Some of the dollars escape for a time and stay in their safe investment places earning profits for their owners. But if the war goes on long enough, every dollar must come out and enlist under the colors. In time of war, when the very life and death of a nation is being decided on bloody fields, money has no choice between courage and cowardice. Every dollar must fight or be classed as traitors and put in the outlaw list. Remember these things. The nation has a right to take absolutely every dollar of property in the United States for the life and death war against tyranny, autocracy, slavery and foreign aggression and vassalage. But the nation does not intend to exercise that final and desperate right. No! The government says: “The nation is fighting for its life. Lend us your money. We will give you LIBERTY BONDS, secured by all the wealth and (sovereign taxing power, bearing 4% per cent, interest, and protected by a good sinking fund, with tax exemption! to make the loan better. Avoid the extreme necessity. INVEST IN ALL THE LIBERTY BONDS YOU CAN.”