Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 April 1919 — SAYS THIS IS THE BEST LOAN [ARTICLE]

SAYS THIS IS THE BEST LOAN

Extracts from speech by S. J. Duncan-Clark delivered at Chicago Liberty loan conference of Indiana editors: “This fifth loan is the best loan. I have no reference now to the terms upon which it is offered. I am thinking of the conditions under j which this opportunity to serve our country is given to us. “In the first, second, third and fourth loans we were subscribing { money to pay for the taking of life; we were subscribing money to' sustain the sacrifices of our men in France. In this loan we are. subscribing money to pay the saving of life. Every soldier who.has come back to ns; every boy who awaits in France the hour of his return, represents a life saved to America by the expenditures on preparation for which this money is mow required. “In the earlier loans we were paying for a chance to win. In this loan we are paying for a victory won. The dearly bought prize is in our hands. There is no gamble in this loan. It is a sure thing; made sure by the blood of men who died on the firing line; nailed down by wooden crosses. “People say you cannot stir any enthusiasm over this loan; you cainnot quicken emotion. I do not believe it. I should be ashamed of the American people if that were true. “We sent 2,000,000 men overseas on an heroic mission. We said to them: 'Go and snatch victory out of defeat; go and win freedom for a world threatened with bondage; go yonder to the trenches and out of the smoke and the fire and the bloodshed bring back to us the assurance that the enemy is vanquished and that democracy triumphs over its foes.’ “And they did the job. They delivered the goods. They, paid the biggest part of the price themselves. Now it is up to us who stayed at home; up to us who sent them on this mission, to pay the balance. Their honor is bound np with ours in this loan. America cannot face the world with a receipted bill for the victory unless we do our part. They gave the crimson coin of blood; surely we will not fail to give the silver and the gold!”