Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-10-21

, to Sou or your heirs, and In the mean
time you will have received 31-2 per
cent interest for thirty years. Pretty
socd investment from n purely selfisi,
ana financial point of view. isn't Il?
And you will be n holder of a United:
states government bond. q thing usual
~ In the past only the privilege of
the rich You will be directly inter-
ested In the finances of your great
government. You will be more than n
nominal shareholder in this great ma
tional corporation. you will bio n stock
holder. your money will be directly
involved.
And now before we close the fnan-
cial discussion let us look upon lust
one more phase. II the people, that Is,
you and your neighbor and the man
across the street. take up these Liberty
bonds. the loan will have been made
principally through the vast bulk Of the
citizenship of the nation 1t will be
that the peoples money made the war
successful. and that is no small matter.
morally or physically, when it is con-
sidered rs against the letting Of Wall
street and the big financiers buy all
these bonds, receive all tho future
credit for having done so. and subse-
auently gain all the power naturally
accruinS from such course Lets
make the Liberty bond Issue the peo-
pies issue, not that of the few rich
men or the nation.
Liberty bond In your home means
that IN future years, the principal will
come back when II will be very well
come, II means that you will always
have that money to look forward to,
IL means that you can know that II Is
safer than invested in any other thing
in the world. 1t means that nothing but
the destruction of the world can take
II away from you. and 1t means that in
children or your nephews and nieces or
your grandchildren:
81 was not called upon to go to the
field of battle. but I did my bit by put
ting my money into the hands OF my
government to provide the weapons and
the comforts Of the soldiers who went
out like knights of old to fight the
greatest battle OF the worlds history
the battles that make you free to-day,
tho battle that through victory kept
you from being enslaved to-day to the
most brutal. domineerinx and cruelty
autocratic class the worlds civillza ton
has ever had to struggle to success
against. I bought n Liberty bond as
my protest against the rape and muir
der and torture OF the innocents in
Belgium and Serbia and Armenia
where the sword of the German beast
disembowelcd countless numbers Of
women and children and little babies I
owned Liberty bond then to put
strength into the arms Of the men who
went to beat down this brute whose
eyes were blinded by blood, whose very
brain was mad with the insane joy
OF human suffering. And my Liberty
bond, together with thousands OF
others. kept this fair land free from
the awful heel OF that German autocrat.
who would have pillaged and plundcred.
raped and burned and destroyed here
as he did far away. If he had not been
forced to his knees and the hangman's
moose.
The Liberty bond I bouht cost me a
few dollars invested. II and others
like me had not used these few dollars
to protect the rest OF my little possess
stons all would have been swept away
into the plumber OF the conqueror /
equipped a fighting man to protect my