Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 53, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 October 1918 — CAPT. KIDD WAS A HOARDER [ARTICLE]

CAPT. KIDD WAS A HOARDER

Hoarding Money and Hiding It Does Nobody Any Good—Buy Bonds. It takes very little ingenuity to “cache” money where the government can’t find it. Captain Kidd burled a lot of his pirate “swag” somewhere along the Spanish main, where no one - ever did find it—where it never did a living soul any good- —never built a hospital —never alleviated human suffering —never helped along the works of civilization and humanity just dead money: absolutely dead, like the soul of the pirate who hid it. The brave thing now isn’t hiding money. The only thing that counts in this terrible time is service. Service With the colors, or service backing up the fighters who have offered their lives for the righteous cause. Hiding and hoarding money is not service. It is the opposite; it is taking money out of service. It is a species of desertion. A deserter in the army stands up before a firing squad and pays the proper penalty. A hoarder is a money deserter who is entitled to the same penalty. Sometimes he is merely thoughtless. Sometimes he is just selfish. But anyway he is doing a great wrong to the United States and a deadly wrong to the world and civilization. i The world does not need Captain Kidds. Nor does America. But America does need 20,000,000 more Liberty Bond buyers. If you have any money stowed away out of sight bring it out and have It changed into the most useful of all forms —fourth Liberty bonds. , .