Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 May 1918 — YES, JOE HAS “COME ACROSS” [ARTICLE]

YES, JOE HAS “COME ACROSS”

And Will Continue to Do So as Long as It Is Necessary. Joseph Kosta of Union township, a native of Bohemia but now as patriotic a citizen as we have in Jasper county, recently received a letter from his nephew, Stanley J. Lane of Newton township, who is now stationed at, Camp Meade, Maryland, and in it Stanley wrote as to what the soldiers from home thought about the Third Liberty load. He said: “A SSO bond will buy me one ttench knife, five rifle grenades, fourteen hand grenades; a SIOO bond will clothe me or feed me for eight months; a SIOO and a SSO bond will clothe and equip me and keep me in France for a year. Some subscriber may want to know that he has made the above possible. If you have purchased to yoUr greatest possible extent, pass this on to some one else. Every one of us needs some one behind providing the money and the tools. I am 'going across,’ you ‘come across,’ ” In reply Joe wrote: “Dear Soldier Nephew—Your letter received and was pleased to hear from you. I ‘come across,’ you are ‘going across;’ keep on going and I with the other 1 10,000,000 liberty loving people will keep on ‘coming.’ I came across. Bought $1,700 of Liberty bonds so far and promise to keep on coming with every drive to the limit of my means. When 1 arrived in Rensselaer Ihirty-seven

years ago, I was SSO in debt to yowr father for my passage—or, I may say, SSO in debt to the whole liberty loving people. Don’t think for once that I will not keep on "coming.” , I surely wish to show you and all the liberty loving people

of America that 1 a>gbreeiate the blessings liberty I am eajoyi** here in this greatest aad best rowtry on the globe, in the best state, county and township. Oar township and county was among the first "over the top** to deliver the world from kaiser rate. “I came from kaiser rule. Tan are going to rale the kaiser, md I promise you that if tfee supplies my bonds buy are not deSirer>d fist enough, that I am ready to drive the mules and deliver the goods to you. If God wills that yon and I be ‘planted’ in Berlin ar Prague, so that American liberty eaa sprout there, surely our children and their's in torn to the ead of ttmn will pray for us. It matters sot so much how long we stay, but matters much how we leave this wortdThere could not be a nobier gift than giving one’s sei' far liberty and justice, to follow onr Redeemer's steps. v' “So keep on going: we will kee> on coming. Your loving unde.

JOSEPH KOSTA.