Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 June 1918 — GENERAL AND STATE NEWS [ARTICLE]

GENERAL AND STATE NEWS

Telegraphic Reports From Many Parts of the Country. SHORT RITS OF THE UHUSUAL A Happenings in the Nearby Cities and Towns—Matters of Minor Mention From Many Places. NOT THE IDEA OF UNCLE SAM U. S. Authorities Deprecate the Attitude of Coercion. Washington, June 24.—Any attempt to coerce persons into buying Liberty’ bonds, War Savings stamps or Thrift stams is without the approval of the government. Naturally the government expects every person who is financially able to do so to bear his or her share of the financial burden of the war, but the government never has and, it was asserted today by officials competent to speak, never will, resort to coercive methods. The treasury deparment, which represents the government in the financial transactions connected with the war, regards any attempt to compel the individual to contribute financially to the support of the war by threatening him as smacking of Prussianism. ,