Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1917-10-17
BUY A BOND
IT is YOUR DUTY
The Government is Going to Finance
This War and the People Will
Have to Pay.
A GOVERNMENT BOND
Is AN INVESTMENT
If Our Boys Risk Their Lives That
Right and Not Might Shall Pre-
vail, 1t is Our Duty to Take
the Government Loan.


The deliberation with which the
people are buying the second Liberty
bonds is arousilg government Off
Gals, says J. NJ. Dinwiddle, president
of the Cedar Rapids Savings bank
when interviewed on the subject Fri
day, and said that it is either a case
of buying the bonds or paying it in
taxes.
THE government is going to fin
.ance this war;" said Mr.. Dinwiddle.
1t has not yet thought best to do it
entirely by taxation, nor will it do it
that way, unless the Indifference o.
the public in buying Liberty bonds
shall oblige it to do so.
1t now offers to the public the sec
ond issue of Liberty loan bonds, max
ing the rate thereon 4 per cent.
There is one Of two things that will
follow this offer Either the bonds
will be taken by the public and paid
for or the public will be taxed to pro
duce the necessary amount.
The bond is an investment, and
will be repaid to the purchaser i'll
time
A tax is an expense, never to be re-
paid.
A bond will be repaid by low tax
alton covering a long period of years,
while tax once levied is payable at
once, or practically so, and once paid
is gone.
A bond is salable, and it makes
good collateral on which to borrow
should the possessor desire to sell or
borrow. 1t is property thoroughly
safe-guarded. While a tax is a 100
cents on the dollar expense.
The purchase of bond of our gov
eminent is a greater proof of patrio-
tism than to oblige an inforced taxa
ton to raise the funds for the gov
eminent. The American public is pa
triotic.
Should anyone have money on
which they could realize per cent
say $50 on each 81 900 loaned, and
should that person take bonds at 4
per cent, earning $40 per thousand
even though they had no advantage
because of the nontaxable quality q
the bond, their only contribution t
the carrying on of the war would be
$40 per thousand per year, or, sa!
500 per year on $4,000 bold in
vestment Would it not be good bust
as we'll as evidence of patriotism, t
take the bonds of the government a
this slight sacrifice rather than t.
pay that much, or several times tina
much, each year under tax levy?
The bonds may be bought and pal,
for at once, or may be bought on ia
stallments, the banks financing sue
purchases and paying the government
at once. Installme1t buying will com
nit the purchaser to scheme of saw
ing to which ne may adjust himself
or his affairs, and this would be a rea
war effort made by thrift and frugal
ity for our nations purposes, and
to be recommended.
If OUR BOYS risk life, our friend
and allies money and life, that right
not might, shall prevail, and that wo
manhood and childhood and manhoo
shall have a safe world in which t
live free from autocracy and intoler
ant domination wy should we not d
the plain duty of every citizen of on
country, take the obligation of on
government that it may successful
carry the war to a victorious conclu
sion? To do less is to betray our coun
try in it's fight for that right fo
which it has always stood. BUY
bond!