Charlevoix county herald., 1917-10-19
Here For
D. Over There
+ -nse of Personal Participation
~ Winning the War Will Be
Had by Making Liberty
Bond investments.

KHAKI. lney are IN camp ana canton
ment. They have responded to the
gall.
TN"Over here" what are you going TO
do?
All may not 90 to the trenches. And
yet to an American citizen nothing
could be more distressing than the
thought Of not serving his country at
this time. The Liberty Loan offers to
every individual an opportunity OF be-
ing OF some assistance-the privilege
OF playing part. The firing line is no
farther than the nearest bank. To buy
q Liberty Bond is to contribute directly,
specifically, effectively toward Amer.
ica's victory. To buy Liberty Bond
is to deliver more effective blow in
defense OF American rights and of the
larger freedom. Every dollar you so
invest is shot at militarism.
Liberty! Men fight and die for il,
sacrifice every penny OF worldly wealth
for it. But in Liberty Bonds Uncle
Sam seeks no gratuity and asks no
sacrifice. He offers an investment that
will pay you per cent interest. Your
money, SO invested, will be used to
win the war, and your country returns
you your money-with per cent
II is to prove that we are a free
nation that we are at war with Ger
many. II is to live the kind of lives we
have determined TO live, to have the
kind Of institutions we desire, without
restraint or dictation OF Prussian auto
cracy that we are at war with Germany.
J. is because Germany made war on US
that we are at war with Germany. We
were patient and long enduring while
Germsp" committed hostile acts against
US fos, M two years, plotting against
US, pr fg duplicity, and destroying
the lives and property OF our citizens.
When the final challenge was flung in
our faces il was necessary for us to
accept that challenge or TO cease TO be
a free nation; to confess that our only
rights were chose Germany would allow
us to have orto stand forth boldly, free
people forced iS.:cht for righteous
cause, and join with the her liberty
loving nations OF the earth 20 end the
reign OF brutality, despotism 'Spd auto
cracy. We would only make onS choice.
We would not "choose the pathtof SUBJ
mission and suffer the most sacred
rights OF our Nation and our people to
be ignored or violated"
For US not to win this war will mean
that every landmark OF liberty has been
destroyed; that all in vain have been
the Anglo-Saxon struggles for free in
stitutions and liberty; that the Magma
Charta and the Declaration OF Indepen-
dence were not written with enduring
words; that the French Revolution was
but will-o'- '-the-wisp OF democracy.
Far off in his quiet, peaceful CON-
munity the farmer may feel, despite
his production and conservation, a
sense OF aloofness from war activities.
The thought will come to him that his
personal participation and contribution,
while important, are not sufficiently
direct. For no man can feel that he
has properly responded TO his impulses
of patriotism unless he has contributed,
actually, directly, personally toward the
winning OF the war. The Liberty Loan
offers the opportunity OF such a re-
sponse. Every farmer may 20 to the
front, by going to the bank and buying
a Liberty Bond. He is not GIVING the
Government anything. He is LEND.
ING his money to the Government He
is trusting the Government for what he
stands for. His dollars, so used, will
bring victory.
Not only would We have sacrificed
our honor and independence, but
disaster to the farmers and to all
American people would have followed
our tame submission to that order. We
hs~smet the challenge of the German
Imperial Government and money is
necessary to create, coordinate, and
bring into action the forces that mean
victory. An overwhelming subscrip.
tion to the Second Liberty Loan-to
which subscriptions may be made until
October 27th-not only will enable our
Government TO prosecute to the fulles,
extent the just war we are now engag.
ed in, but II will prove to the world,
as the President has said, that the
heart OF the country is with our fight.
ing men and with our country's cause.
Every bank in the country is expect
ed to arrange for the purchase OF bonds
on easy weekly and monthly install