The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1917-10-04
The Llberty Loan

Providing the necessary means
b pay the wages of our soldiers
ind sailors and, if the bill now
pending in the Congress passes,
honthly allowances for the support
their dependent families and to
upply them with life insurance
Constructing a great fleet Of
nerchant vessels to maintain the
ine OF communication with our
brave troops in France, aNl to
keep our commerce afoat upon the
high seas in defiance of the Ger
nan Kaiser and his submarines:
Creating great feet of aero
planes, which will give complete
upremacy in the air to the, United
states and the brave nations fight
hg with us against the German
Military menace; and for other nee
ssary war purposes.
The Congress Of the United
tates has authorized the Secretary
the Treasury to sell to the Am.
rican people bonds of the United
tates bearing four per cent inter
It, with valuable tax exemptions,
nd convertible under certain con.
itions into other issues of United
tates bonds that may be authoriz-
by Congress. The official cir
plar Of the Treasury Department
ives full details.
There is now offered to the Am.
rican people a new issue of $4,000.
200, 900 Of bonds to be known as
he Second Liberty Loan. They
will be issued in such denomina-
ions and upon such terms that ev
lry patriotic citizen will have an
opp portunity to assist the Govern
ment by lending his money upon
the security Of q United States
Government bond.
1t is essential to the success Of
the war and to the support of our
gallant troops that these loans
/ shall not only be subscribed, but
over subscribed. No one is asked t.
donate or give his money to the
government but everyone is ask
ed to lend his money to the Gov
ernment. The loans will be re.
paid in full with interest at the rate
OF four per cent per annunl. A
Government bond is the safest in.
vestment in the world; it il as good
+ as currency and yet better, because
the Government bond bears inter
est and currency does not. No 9TH
er investment compares with it for
satety, ready convertibility inr1
cash. and mquestioned availability
as collateral security for loans ii!
any bank in the United States.
People by thousands ask the
treasury constantly how they can
n,elp NJ, the Government in this war.
Through the purchase of Liberr:,-
bonds every one can help. No
more foo'so5 patriotic duty can be per-
formed M e by those who cannot actu
any nght upon the field of battle
nan to furnish the Government
Mlth the necessary money to enable
II TO give our brave soldiers and
sailors all that they require to
make them strong for the fight and
@pable OF winning a swift victory
over our enemies.
We fight, first of all, for Ameri-
cas- vital rights, the right to the
unmolested and unobstructei us,
u the high seas, so that the sur
plus products If ,,ur farms. our
mines and our fctories may be car
rled : into the harbors of every
friendly nation in the world. Our
welfare and prosperity as peo-
PIE depend upon our right of peace
1Ql intercourse with all the nations
Of the earth. To abandon these
ilents by withdrawing our shi ips,
commerce from the seas upon the
order of a military despot in Eu'
rope would destroy prosperity and
bring disatser and humiliation up
on the American people.
We fight to protect our citizens
against assassination and murder
upon the high seas while in the
peaceful exercise of those rights
demanded by international law and
every instinct and dictate of hum
anity.
We fight to preserve our dem
ocratic institutions and our sover-
eighty as nation against the men,
ace of a powerful and ruthless mil
itary autocracy by the German
Kaiser, whose ambition is to do
the world.
We fight also for the noble ideal
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