Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 54, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 October 1917 — ASKS ALL TO AID LOAN [ARTICLE]

ASKS ALL TO AID LOAN

VICE SAYS NOW IS THE TIME TO PROVE FAITH. Marshall Urges Americans to Take Enough Bonds So as to Feel Sacrifice for the Cause. Washington, Oct. 5. —Vice President Marshall, in a statement issued on behatf of the Liberty loan, said he wanted to see “every man, woman and child in America who has been waving the flag, singijig the ‘Star-Spangled Banner’ and bragging about the glories of democracy prove now by their work that they have a genuine faith in the American republic." “That proof,” added the vice president, “demands of us all that we take enough of the war obligations of this government to make us feel some sort of sacrifice for the cause in which each of us professes to believe and does believe.

“We have been running tip the American flag at all the schoolhouses; we have been rising with solemn countenances whenever the ‘StarSpangled Banner’ is played, and we have been proclaiming to the world our never-ending allegiance to those great principles of _ democracy upon which the republic Is founded and is now supposed to rest. v “Now we have reached the point where our faith is being put to the touchstone of bur Works, and we are soon to find out whether this love which we profess for our institutions, our country and our flag is but a sounding brass and a tinkling cymbal or whether It is a great and vital inspiration of individual and national life.”

New York, Oct. s.—Official and tinofficial subscriptions here to.; the second Liberty loan recorded up to eleven o'clock by the Liberty loan committee of the second federal reserve district totaled $107,088,000. Madison. Wjs.. Oft. 5. —W. G. Simmons, Kenosha millionaire, after listening io Secretary McAdoo’s two speeches for the new Liberty loan, subscribed to $250,000 of the bonds. Denver, Colo., Oct. s.—Assurances that- Oklahoma was thoroughly loyal, despite recent antl-National army disorders In that section, and that the country need have no fear the West would not do its part in carrying the second Liberty loan are contained in a telegram to Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo from Franklin K. Lane, secretary of the interior department. made public by him here after he had addressed a luncheon meeting of the local Civic association in behalf of the second Liberty loan. Kansas City, Mo.. Oct. s.—Onefourth of Kansas City’s second allotment of Liberty loan bonds, $19,500,000, has been subscribed for without