The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-26
SWAT THE HUN WITH .B0NDS,' IS M00RE'S ADVICE ID HIS MEN
Empire President Urges Them to Make Last Two Days of Campaign
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While the Empire Coal company has already responded to the call of the gov errment regarding the liberty bond sale. Walter Moore, it's president, Is very anx- ious that within the two remaining days of the campaign, every employe buy a bond
 Yesterday he addressed the following patriotic letter to the men:
 My friends: America Is engaged in the most titanic struggle the world has ever known with the most interruptions foe that mankind ever faced. This. each and everyone of you know without my telling you about 1t in detail. You have been rendering a patriotic duty in your daily work of mining coal or participat- ing in it's mining. You are the mainstay of the country in this hour of gravity and peril
 However, each and everyone of us can do even more for our beloved coun- try and in order to preserve our coun- try for our children and our children chlden we must leave nothing undone to help the onward sweep into victory.
 Our government is asking all peoples to subscribe to the second liberty loan. The bonds are better than money. Al any time they are acceptable as cash by any merchant You are simply lend ing the government of the United States of America your money, for which your country pays you 4 per cent interest.
 Tt is for us here to be dedicated to the great task remaining before us-that the government of the people, by the people and for the people shall not perish from the earth.'-Lincoln's Gettysburg speech.
 Abraham Lincoln belongs to the ages. The deathless spirit that guided his hand as he wrote these words remains herit- age that none can take away from us.
 My friends at Empire, yours is the most wonderful privilege that has ever been reserved for any man; for, as your hand signs an application for one of these bonds, it becomes the hand Of Lincoln, helping to guard your own hearthstone, to wipe away the agon1es of nations, to preserve for all times the liberties of the peoples of the world.
 T feel sure that this chance to serve your government, to help defeat the un- speakable Hun, the assassins of the sea that, like a rattlesnake in the grass, sent our good ship Antilles and her crew of our boys to watery grave, will not be given you in vain. The boys of the Antilles gave their lives; they went to their deaths in the blackness of the night with no consolation, save duty well done and sacrifice for the land you and they love. Surely you will not with hold your help in dollars to back up the men who are ready to give their lives. You will not think more of your money than of our sons who are fighting at the front. So go at once and lend whatever sum you can afford to our gov ernment. The, bonds are available as low as $50 Let's.swat the Hun at home. The company will help you pay the bond. That is, we will deduct every pay day whatever sum you name to be applied on your bond, and when it Is paid for the company will deliver it to you. Don't t forget that it is the same as cash any where and at any time
 T desire to express my thanks to the employees at Empire for their unfailing courage and patriotism on many occa- sions lately experienced. and to say that think the appeal now being made will not go unheeded by the manhood of Elm pire.
 "When I can serve you in any way, call on me. Yours very truly.
 WALTER MOORE, President