Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-06-11
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What becomes of the money realized from the sale
Of Liberty Loan bonds?
Part of 1t Is loaned to the allies. How about that!
Are we to pinch and save in order that we may loan
money to Great Britain and France, with smaller sums
to the other belligerents of that group? Let us see.
Every dollar that those countries borrow In the
United States is paid out by them in the United States.
Some of it is paid for munitions Of war. But a vastly
greater proportion 10 paid out for food and clothing. Tor
the wheat from our northern farms. for the corn from the
great central belt, for the cotton and sugar from the
southern plantations. It is distributed as no similar sum
has ever been distributed before. If we apply to this sit
uation the sordid test, what do we get out of it," the
answer 10 that we get a great deal of 1t. all of US.
But that is beside the Question. No decent human
being. whether farmer. banker or MANUFACTURED, desires
war that he may profit by it. What other interest have
we in the disposition of this money. 1t helps to provide
supplies to millions Of civilians whose ordinary sources Of
supply have been cut off. 1t aids in making efficient the
troops of the British and French and Italians and Rus
SLAMS now at the front. Those men are fighting in our
war. They are fighting in a war in which our own peo-
pie. tho sons and brothers and near relatives and close
friends of most Of us. will soon be actively engaged. And
If, by so contributing to the success Of our allies that the
war will be shortened even by a day, by just so much Will
we be we shortening the time which our own men will
have to spend in that bloody struggle. Hence to proVlde
funds for the use of the Allies now is to provide funds
for the direct protection Of American life and the direc,
prevention of American suffering.
But not all this money goes to our neighbors. Most
Of it, billions Of dollars, will be received by our own gov
eminent and paid by that government for work done in
preparation for the entrance of our own young men upon
the field of battle. General Pershine, who is to command
the new National army, Is already across the Atlantic.
with members Of his staff, there to prepare for the re-
ception Of the American troops when they arrive. Snip
load after ship load of commodities for the use OF our
army will be sent across during the summer. Several
cargoes have already been sent All Of this means the
expenditure OF vast sums of money here at home in order
that our soldiers. our own sons or the sons OF our neigh
bors. the sons of the rich and of the poor alike, for all
stand on the same footing, may be made thoroughly eff
hcient. and that they may be rendered safe and comfort
able in so far as safety is compatible with the grim bust
ness of war.
These are some Of the things that are being done
with the money which patriotic Americans are suoscrip-
! ing. And yet a group Of Socialist agitators are touring
the state denouncing and ondemning the government and
seeking to hamper 1t in its necessary work of raising
funds for the prosecution Of the war in the most effective
d way possible in order that American lives may be saved.
These men are alive and at large today because of the
law and order which they are trying to break down, and
the patience and federation Of a government Of which
they are the avowed enemies.