The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1917-10-18
We Are Proud of Kenosna.


There is new and inexpressible
pride today in being q citizen OF Keno
sha, for Kenosha has set a new mark
Of patriotism for the nation. She is
the first city of the United States to
nut the corporate cash and credit OF
thirty-1ive thousand people behind the
government--th first city to come
right up to the scratch and buy
Liberty bonds. 1t is proud distlnc-
tioa fer the city of Kenosha and it IS
going TO be proud distinction for the
members Of the Common Council that
they had the patriotism and good bust
ness sense to vote unanimously to let
the government use all that Kenosha
has in cash or credit. Of course there
are going to be a few carping critics
who will ask, elias the city the right, :"
but these fellows are the close personal
friends of Bill Hohenzollern and no.
body cares q whoop how much they
carp or criticise. If they really want
to know what the people of Kenosha
think of them let them take try at
stopping the loan of the money to sup
port the government. The city has sent
five hundred boys out to fight the bat
ties of the nation. They have a right
to demand the support of Kenosha as
contracts until the war is over.
The purchase Of this hundred thous-
and dollars in Liberty Loan bonds Is
the shrewdest piece of business shown
by O. council in Kenosha in years.
Kenos "a has shouted to the world:
s'Kenosha is not Stacker" and the
world is going to applaud the position
taken by this city and hundreds OF
other cities are going to say "Kenosha
has done it and we can do it,"
People of Kenosha need no longer
hesitate to buy Liberty Loan bonds
The faith of the city has been pledged
in them and that should be enough to
assure any doubling Thomases of their
value as an investment.
The good sense Of the aldermen is
going to be reflected later. If contrac-
tors want to DO business with Kenosha
they can do it in patriotic manner
and if they want to be paid they can
q corporate community to the last dol
lar of it's corporate funds. Their well
fare is Of paramount Importance to the
city Of Kenosha. 1t means more than
parks or breakwaters, retired bonds or
anything else. 1t is of more import
ance even than the payment of the
salaries of the city officials.
this let them wait to carry out their
take tkeir pay in Liberty Loan bonds.
If they are not patriotic enough to do
Some time in 1919 Kenosha is going to
be asked to pay off an old loan which
the city made way back in the days
when the first railroad was built.
These bonds are going to be sufficient
to retire this loan. The city has won
by the deal, because they are going
To secure four per cent interest on
money that they are paying but three
and half for. 1t is great oppor-
tunity for Kenosha. These certificates
signed in the name Of the United States
government should be sailed away in
the treasury of the city wit the under
standing that they are not coming out
until the city wants to redeem
itself from the old financial fets
ters which have held it for more
than three generations.
For a city to be patriotic is one
thing but to be patriotic and show good
business sense is better thing.
A great majority of the people of
Kenosha believe today that the great
est duty they have as citizens is to
bring this war to close at the earli-
est possible minute and they recognize
that to accomplish this result they must
put every available dollar behind the
government. Dollars in municipal treas
uries are not exempt from the financial
draft. They should be the irst money
to be pledged to the support of the
government. This means that every
man has some interest in the loan and
in the government.
No one but piker will hide behind
the suggestion that the fact that the
city has bought bonds win relieve him
of his duty. His city has seen its duty
as q city and it expects every man
who claims the protection Of it as a
city to see his duty as man and walk
right up and supplement the subscrip-
ton of the city with his own private
subscription. The city has pledged its
faith; it has declared itself ready to
take care Of its own boys and it ex-
poets you to pledge your cash and your
credit to take care of your own boys,
your own brothers. The three millions
of dollars asked from the city for this
loan will be but a drop in the bucket
if every man links his faith with the
faith of his city and does his part.
The thing is to do it today. Volunteer
and don't wait to be drafted.
Probably you noticed that the senior