Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 96, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 March 1919 — VICTORY LOAN AN APPEAL TO OUR BUSINESS SENSE [ARTICLE]

VICTORY LOAN AN APPEAL TO OUR BUSINESS SENSE

As a Business Proposition No Man Can Afford Not to Suboartbo to Pull Limit of Hl# Ability. By KDQAR RICE BURROUGHS, Author of "Tarxen of tho Apoo." Tbero aro an Inflnlta number of excellent reasons why we should support the Victory Liberty Loan. The finest sentiments we possess must prompt us to subscribe to this loan even more freely than we did to the others. The government must get money or it would not ask us for It. The man who was prompted to lend In the past through fear that If he did not the Germans might get over here and make It unpleasant for him Is mighty “yellow” if he will not subscribe, now that the danger is past. Our responss to previous loans indicated that we were thoroughly in accord with the principles for which we were fighting, and by our response woauthorized the expenditure of the sums necessary properly to prosecute the war. These enormous expenses must continue for some time. The obligations involved must not be repudiated. They are our obligations as individuals and w# must look upon them as such. It Is not only a matter of necessity! it is a matter of personal honor for us to meet these obligations promptly and gladly. On the other hand, there Is in the Victory loan an appeal to our business sense as well as to our patriotism. There Is the appeal to self-interest, for the loan Is not to be without profit to us. We are given an opportunity to Invest in an absolutely safe security, and we will receive a good rate of interest. As a business proposition no man can afford not to subscribe to the full limit of his ability.

And there is another reason why we should subscribe every cent that we can rake and scrape together. It is this: If the government cannot raise the necessary funds by the sale of Liberty bonds, It must do it by direct taxation. The government has the power to tax us to meet these obligations, we are taxed we not only will get mo Interest but we will never get the principal back again. £ It seems to me that both the wisdom and necessity for and immediately subscribing this Fifth Liberty Loan must be obvious to anyone whose mentality is greater than that of a ehild % of ten. We are supposed to be an Intelligent people, capable of governing ourselves and others. We pride ourselves upon our business acumen, upon our energy and ufron our patriotism. In the Victory Liberty Loan we shall hnve an opportunity tcf*prove to the world that we are better than vain boasters, and that we are fully deserving of the estimate which have placed upon ourselves as a people. The time is here. The opportunity is here. The eyes of the world are upon u> — upon you. What the wor’d shall think of us depends not upon the action of others but upon what you do—YOU.