The Detroit times., 1917-10-08
The Second Liberty Loan
Drive Is On In Detroit
1t Must Be a Success


Under the same capable leadership an,
with the same spirit which put over De
troits share of the first Liberty bonds
and more. too, Detroit begins today d
float its share Of the second loan place.
at $42,742,OOO.
The loan should appeal to every man
woman and-yes, to every child in De-
troit.
1t is not enough to say that one has
subscribed to the first loan.
The loyal American should subscribe
for every loan if possible
And in many cases IL viii be pos o.a
By dint of economy.
The second Liberty loan has got 20 oe
a success.
Every Liberty Loan has got to be g
success.
If the nation can't float its loans, the
money Will have to be secured in other
and more drastic ways, and this wouId
unsettle the entire economic. financial
and industrial fabric of the country.
But there is something else, too quite
as important:
A failure on the part Of this fabulous
" rich country TO oversubscribe each OF
its war loans would be worse than a
dozen failures in a dozen gigantic ohens-
ives in France or Flanders.
II would be sign 70 07G5TnTaT7y 1111TaTTr ~
her offenses had failed to arouse resent
ment
The Germans would say, and right
fully, that the Americans condoned the
Lusitania assassinations; that We cared
nothing about attacks upon ships flying
the American flag; that we were indiffer-
ent about the proved Germanic plots TO
blow up our factories.
More-they would say, with every
sign or truth, tiIar the people vVr5 7T0VV
supporting their government; that the
people were pro-peace and even pro-Ger-
man.
The failure, or near-failure, of any of
our Liberty Loans would do more than
dozen victories to ginger up the waning
morale of the German armies and peo-
pie.
To the soldiers in the trenches. weary
of the war and hopeless of success
against the allies, the message would go
forth: Hold out yet little longer. The
Americans are not coming into this war
with their full power
To the people back home. cold and
hungry and praying for peace the kaiser
lists would say: Endure yet little
while and crushing victory will be ours.
The Americans are not coming"
No Detroiter, no American with red
blood, no American who believes in
democracy and freedom, can afford to let
any such message 90 back to Germany
We are sending our best boys to
France.
1t is up to us to stand back of them
with all we have of money and supplies
They are there to see the war thru to
the end.
1t is our part to see them thru to the
end.
If we don't, we are betraying them
The American people have never been
cutters.
1t is unbelievable that they will be
now.
On the contrary, there is every reason
to believe they viii make Of this second
Liberty Loan a tremendous success.
1t can only be such a success if every
man, woman and child makes it his or
her personal business to help.
1t can only be such a success if the
loan is very largely oversubscribed, and
if those profierng their money include Il
huge number Of people of modest means.
Such loan would bear TO the Scr
man rulers in unmistakable tones the
news that the American people en- mas
were backing their government with
blood and gold to remove forever the tei-
rible menace of Prussian crime