The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-11-06
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MEN AND MONEY WITHOUT LIMIT

MEN AND MONEY WITHOUT LIMIT
New York Times: The second Liber'
ty loan 70 far surpassos the first that
Germany can no longer doubt that Am
orleans are serious In pledging their
| lives their fortunes. and their sacred
honor to the cause of democracy. The
amount of the increase over the first
loan is satisfactory. but Is far from
telling the story. Life comes before
property. just as liberty comes before
both. and IN this cause Americans are
even more generous with their lives
than with the billions. The manner
in which Americans endured the con
, scription" test is more eloquent than
the manner In which they endured the
financial test, and there Is no discount
on the financial test at that.
In n way of speaking. the conscrip'
ton test was submission Of the war TO
universal suffrage. Never was there
a more nearly unanimous response.
Never was the quality Of the response
higher among either men or women.
High and low. rich and poor, ignorant
and education. allen and aborigine and
Immigrant responded with one accord.
Millionaires and their sons are In the
ranks Twenty New England colleges
lost $500, nearly half their students,
20 service OF the colorS or with the
colors. That is without counting alum
nj or faculties. Yale has a deficit of
S2js 900. partly made up by The saving
of 100000 on salaries Of professors on
war duty. Princeton lost 30 per cent
Of its membership. Harvard has a
total of 5000 IN the war against Kaiser
ism. Men are more than money, and
il is fitting that the response OF our
manhood should take precedence over
dollars. We are proud today Of our
financiers OF high and low degree, but
proudest of all of our citizen soldiers
The five billions is convincing total
but IL gains in persuaslYeness from the
signs that it comes 50 largely, as the
first billions came, from the common
people. Thirteen million Liberty but
tons were provided, and the supply was
insufficient. No doubt there was waste
OF them in the distribution. and no
totals of subscribers are available, but
II is sure that the bonds of smaller de-
nominations were most in demand.
More than 200, 900 of the $50 denomi
nation We're less than the demand here
alone, and there arc similar reports
from the country. Perhaps the ten
million of subscribers desired was OBJ
tained. If there were only five million,
II Is q marvellous accomplishment.
That would be per cent of population,
and the proportion of individual bond
holders of all sorts OF bonds previous
ly had been less than l per cent. Am
orleans are becoming aware both that
they have n government and that it
s in danger along with democracy. 1t
lis revulsion and relief to have our
public affairs turn upon politics of the
highest plane instead OF upon a wrangle
over he division of profits. The liber-
aity with which SO many millions of
Americans have parted with SO many
billions. along with 100000 of our best
who win be with the coiors before the
new year, is proof that our souls are
unconquered by sordid considerations.
These reflections are more approprl-
ate TO the presidents day Of prayer to-
day than eKultation merely over our
liberality with our dollars. We are
sending our men into the trenches with
clean consciences, with no taint of COW
etousness or treachery to humanity in
their errand. The prayers which win
ascend from uncounted churches To-Day
will not be an insult TO the Providence
which cares for all mankind. There
is no hypocrisy in the feeling that Am
orleans are not as Germans are. and
that the domination OF the world would
not be the least temptation for them TO
become so. Our unequaled strength in
men and money is no threat to others.
and Is not the chief source of our re-
lance upon success The justice OF our
cause is the explanation of the outpour-
ing which has just begun. which will
not cease until the last assault upon
democracy has been repealed.