El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-06-12
WHY ANOTHER LIBERTY BOND
is WAITING FOR YOUR MONEY
s.

T AN sure that the army and the people held together
by the strong hand Of our gracious kaiser, will en-
- force against any power on earth such peace as
Germany desires, that the present will not have
been fought in vain" Thus teraphed field marshal count
Hindenburg. chief in command and the German
peros iron man" In this war to the Potsdam Union for
German Peace It portTays forcibly words the
determination to impose Germanys will upon the world by
force of "Any power EARTH MEANS In this in
stance the United States, than it applies to
France or England.
And what is to be answer the course of time
American army to fight it out with Germany battle
fields in Flanders, France, Russia, Macedonia Right
is to be the Liberty loan of s. 100000
Money is army in itself and every dollar soldier.
Money is powerful It buys big and little cannon It buys
machine guns and rifles, bombs and hand grenades uni
FORMS boots and blankets food and ammunition
Money puts power In the guns 1t provides the millions
of shells which the British artillery rained on the 1aes
Timy and Messines ridge, and the million pounds of
plosve which blew up the German front line 1t provided
zirplanes to swarm the German lines, and put
those apanes bombs and machine guns to scatter German
supply trains bodies of Ienforcements puts guns
and grenade in the hands Of the infantry which charged
forward and captured the dangerous salient the ridge
and ammunition in their belts to shoot when the village
Of Messnes entered
Whence does the money come? 1t has been coming from
France and Great Britain, chiefly the latter whose
pendtures proceeding at the rate of 900 day
Both allies are feeling the financial strain very greatly
The money of the future must partly from Great
Britain and France but in increasingly large amounts from
the United States Andrew Bonar Law, chancellor of the
sxchequer informed the house of cay two
ago that Great Britain has been advanced $1,000 by
the United States That the amount Of the Liberty loan
not al of which has yet been raised but all Of which must
be raised
The Liberty loan the first saIvo to be fired by the
United States in the against Germany is incomplete
Last Friday lacked s7ooooooo of being subscribed The
fac that had been oversubsbed not due to any
lack of financial ability the part of the American peo
pie any opposition to the governments war aims with
which people In the United States IN hearty SYM
pathy 1t due to apathy to lack of understanding
imperative is the need for the money The money
must be The United States and the entente allies
viii lose without it. Unless the American people for
ward quickly and willingly with the cash for the Liberty
and for such other issues may follow it, Germany
viii win and %enforee against any power earth such
peace Germany desires"
This is matter of patriotism and winning the war; and
also of self interest Americans going into Europe to
endure the msee of the trenches and the dangers Of bonn
bardment and be shot bayoneted to death in the
charge They give all for humanity. The at home
who subscrbes to the Liberty loan fires his shot also
against the enemy and is paid 81 percent plus exemption
taxation his bonds, for doing. Some are
holding back because they feel their dollars not espe
aly needed for the Liberty loan %w be subscribed any
how" and they prefer to make theirs eight percent
They both night and wrong. The Liberty loan viii be
fully subscribed, but only Jones and Smith and al the
other people of the American nation subscribe by hum
dreds of millions every day from until Friday.
This is the time when to decide whether their
patriotism larger than eight percent it Is they must
subscribe at or having subscribed less than their full
ability increase their subscription immediately