The Prescott daily news., 1917-10-19
SHOULD BE FIRST TO HELP
Every Purchase of Liberty Bond ls Blow at German Autocracy and Adds Strength to Boys Fight
 Ing for Democracy.
BY HERBERT QUICK
Member of the Federal Farm Loan
 Board

When I am asked why a farme. should buy Liberty Bonds I wonder what I should say. It is so clear that the farmer, of all persons, should make himself the greatest buying class in the world.
 If all the other classes in the United States should lie down and refuse to buy, the farmers should rally to the flag and buy. buy, buy these bonds as long as they had cent to invest do not wish to appeal to farmers to buy bonds because they are good investments. They are good invest ments. as any good business man can see. They are safety itself. Nothing can ever throw doubt on them as in- vestments. Many farmers are hold ing lands which do not pay them more than to 3 per cent after the rents are collected. the repairs kept up. in- surance paid and taxes settled. If all the actual and retired farmers in the United States would put in Liberty Bonds the money they could get for lands which pay them less than the Liberty Bands will pay, they alone could buy all the bonds to be issued.
 Liberty Bonds pay per cent They are the best security for loans at the banks when the owner wants a loan. They are cheaper to carry than the land. A man may buy Liberty Bonds and forget about them except to col lect the interest every six months.
 But that Is not the main reason why we should buy, and buy, and keep on buying as long as any are offered. The farmer should buy Liberty Bonds be- cause the value of his farm, the chance to make a peaceful American living. the very right to an independ- ent life is staked on this war
 The German empire threatens the world. It seeks to take from us the very thing that makes our farsls val uable What is the value of farm, anyhow, except the privilege of liv- ing free American life on a particu- lar piece of land? Take that away, and your farm becomes a thing which i7 worthless.
 Germany Is out to conquer the world. Germany still has the chance to crush Russia. France, Italy and Great Britain If she crushes them. she crushes us; for We are in the war until the finish.
 If Germany wins, our lands will at once be mortgaged for all the terrible struggle which will then be upon us to save ourselves from invasion. She will demand of us that we pay her lndemnities running into the tens and perhaps hundreds of billions of dol. ,ars. All these indemnities, If Ger. nany could defeat us, and the fight against them in case we alone arc able to defeat her, will be a mortgage on every acre of farm land in the United States.
 Germany Is half licked now. We nave fighting with us the mightiest nations of the world If We cannot whip her with their help what will & arm be worth in the United States when~we face her alone?
 buy Dc IS, farmers, ana help make the world safe for our kind of life he life of democracy. Let us strike 'or freedom as did the farmers of New England at Lexington and Concord and the farmers of the South at Kings Mountain.
 Let us finish Germany now, while we have help.
 Let 1t never be said that the farm FITS of the United States refused their money while our young men are giv- ng their lives for the holiest cause ever fought for. Let us strike for our altars and our fires-and for the farms we love. All these are at stake in his the greatest of all wars. Don't let your dollars be slackers.