Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 May 1918 — TWO KINDS OF PATRIOTISM. [ARTICLE]

TWO KINDS OF PATRIOTISM.

Mr. Farmer, you have brought a lot of idle land into tillage this spring. You are going to raise all the grain and forage and live stock your farm can be made to produce. That’s one kind of patriotism, and a very necessary kind. Every farmer who brings a new acre of land Into cultivation is a soldier on the firing line for liberty and democracy. But there is another kind of patriotism that is just as necessary. It is just as necessary that the stuff you produce shall be put at the disposal of the fighting forces, as it is that you should raise it. That means money. You have money to pay for the labor of farming your land and producing grain and stock. The government must have money to buy your produce for the fighting men in France. Money is absolutely necessary to buv food, muni-

tions, clothing, ahips aad medical stores. You are doing your duty in raising the crops, that is very troe. Bat in a war like this one do man does his full duty who does not do all that he possibly can do. Bring out the grain you hare stored away. Sell it at the fair price fixed by the government. Bring out the money you hare stored up in the banks, or hidden away in your iron box behind the bars. Every dollar is urgently needed. Invest every idle dollar you have in Liberty bonds. The government will repay you in a few years. Meantime you will receive interest at the rate of per cent, with valuable tax exemptions, to make the investment better. Invest every dollar you can in bonds. Every dollar you bring o® of concealment means $lO added to the fighting capacity of the United States in the world war.