French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1916-1919, 1917-10-25
WHY SHOULD THE FARMER
BUY LIBERTY BONDS2
CBy Herbert Quick. Member of the
Federal Farm Loan Board.

CBy Herbert Quick, Member of the
Federal Farm Loan Board.
When l am asked why a farmer
should buy Liberty Bonds I wonder
what I should say. 1t is SO clear tnat
the farmer Of all persons should make
n1mself the greatest buying class in
ne world.
If all the other classes in the Uni
ted 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 a cent to invest.
/ do not wish to appeal to the farm
ers to buy bonds because they are
good investments. They are good in
vestment as any good business man
can see. They r safety itself. Moth
ing can ever throw doubt on them
as investments. Many farmers are
holding lands which do not pay Them
nor than two to three per cent after
the rents r collected, the repairs
kept up, insurance 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 Bonds will pay,
they, alone could buy all the bonds to
be issued. 4
Liberty Bonds pay four 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 collect the interest every six
months.
But that is not the main a why
We should buy, and buy. and keep on
buying as long as any are offered.
The farmer should buy Liberty Bonds
because the value Of his farm, the
chance to make a peaceful American
living, the very right to an indepen-
dent life is staked on this war.
The German empire threatens the
world. 1t seeks to take from us the
very thing that makes I'll farms val
liable. What is the value of a farm
anyhow, except the privilege of living
a free American life on a particular
piece of land? Take that away, and
your farm becomes a thing which is
worthless.
Germany. is out to conquer the
world. Germany still has the
chance to crush Russia, France, Italy,
and Great Britain. If she brushes
them, she brushes 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 in
IDENTITIES running into the tens and
perhaps hundreds of billions of dol
lars. Ali these indemnities, if Ger
many could defeat us. and the fight
against them in case we alone are able
to defeat her. will be a mortgage on
every acre of farm land in the United
States. ~ \
Germany is half licked now. We
have fighting with US the. mightiest
nations of the world. If we cannot
whip her with their help what will a
farm be worth in the United States
when We face her alone?
f Buy bonds, farmers. and help make
the world safe for our kind of life-the
life of democracy. Let US strike for
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 it be said that the farm
Pers of the. United States refused their
money while u young men are Civ
ing their lives for the hottest cause
ever fought for. Let us strike for
our affairs and our fres-and for the
farms we love. All these are at stake
in. this the greatest Of all wars. Don't
let your dollars be slackers.