Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 83, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 April 1919 — LET US DO OUR SHARE [ARTICLE]

LET US DO OUR SHARE

Put the Finishing Touches to the Gorman Dream of World Conquest—lt Takes Money to. Hold the Obsequies of Kaiserism. Here is a good answer for the follow who says: "I bought the bonds of the previous loans, but why should I save and buy more?” The answer is concerned with sickness and death. Fortunately, the disease is the German dream of world conquest, and the funeral is that of the kaiser’s ambitions. Now, in the average American home, /where- sickness and death befall, the head of the’'family first pays for physicians, medicines and nurses. But when he has gone thus far, he does not stop. He cannot. He must go on and call in the undertaker.. He must finish the sad business. And so it is in the family of nations. We have been stricken with war —and now we must pay for it. Happily, the corpse, as has "been said, IS the German ambition. The United States and our allies must pay for the funeral. The first, second and third Liberty loans brought together and trained the army of physicians and nurses that was to combat the disease. The fourth loan transported them to the house of sickness and carried them through to the deathbed of Prussian autocracy. But we still have to pay the last bills of Imperialism’s passing, and the laying away of that dread corpse has been an unavoidable expense. The man who says: “I bought the other bonds but I’ll be darned If I’ll save now to buy mpre," is as illogical as a father who would say: “I paid for the doctor and nurses and the medicines, but I’ll be darned If Hl have a funeral.” Let us do our share in helplag along the obsequies of koiserism. It will be the best investment any of us can make.