Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 April 1918 — MONEY AS NEEDFUL AS MEN, SAYS GOVERNOR [ARTICLE]

MONEY AS NEEDFUL AS MEN, SAYS GOVERNOR

Wage Earners, Business Men, Farmers and Capitalists Are Vitally Interested in Triumph of Our Arms. By FRANK O. LOWDEN, [Governor of Illinois.] This is a war to establish the right of people to govern themselves. It is, therefore, a people's war. But a people cannot govern itself successfully tinless it is willing to finance a war waged upon it by military autocracy. ■ Democracy is doomed, unless it has the vitality to put forth 'its resources in support of a war, in which its very right to exist is challenged. Oiir enemy frequently has said that wo, as a nation, care for money alone. More than a million of our young men have given the lie to this charge by offering the supreme sacrifice—-the’ sacrifice of life itself—that their country mi g{it endure. Shall It now he said of the other millions —the millions ’who remain at home —that this charge is true? Will not our people at home, for whose security and future our soldiers have gone to the colors, will not they loan their dollars to the government in the support of a cause for which these men gladly offer to give their lives? liemember, money is as needful as men, if we are to prevail. Remember that if we do prevail, thesb bonds will be the best investment we shall have made during the period of the war. If we fail, even then they will be worth more than our cattle and lands, our factories and stores, or qny other property we may own. Our wage earners, business men and capitalists are vitally interested in the triumph of our arms. Let al) subscribe in proportion to their means. The nujnber who shall partake of this loan is as important as the total amount subscribed. If our people generally are united in absorbing our Liberty bonds, It will prove to the world that democracy knows what its llberties are worth, and is willing to defend them at any cost.