The Brinkley argus., 1917-11-16
RIGHTS OF AMERICAN AGalcuL-
 TURIsTs ENDANGERED BY EUROPEAN WAR.
SHOULD BE FIRST TO HELP
Every Purchase of Liberty Bond Is Blow at German Autocracy and
 Adds Strength to Boys Fight k ing for Democracy.
BY HERBERT QUICK

BY HERBERT QUICK
 Member of the Federal Farm Loan
 Board.
 When am asked why farmer should buy Liberty Bonds wonder what should say. It Is so clear that the farmer, of all persons, should make himself the greatest buying class in the world.
 If all the other classes in the United etates should lie down and refuse to buy, the farmers should rally to the flag and buy, buy, buy these bonds as long as they had a cent to invest.
 do not wish to appeal to farmers to buy bonds because they are good investments. They are good invest ments, as any good business man can see. They are safety itself. Nothing can ever throw doubt on them as in vestments. Many farmers are hold ing lands which do not pay them more than 3 to 8 per cent after the rents are collected, the repairs kept up, in- surance paid and taxes settled. If all ku6 dCLuhl anu ICSii hci AhOAS IA SAS United States would put in Liberty Bonds the money they could get for lands which pay them less than the Liberty Bends will pay, they alone cGhld buy all the bonds to be issued
 Liberty Bonds pay per cent. They are the best security for loans at the banks when the owner wants loan They are cheaper to carry than the land. A man may buy Liberty Bonds and forget about them except to col lect the interest every six months.
 But that is not the main reason why we should buy, and buy, and keep on buying as long as any are offered. The farmer should buy Liberty Bonds be- cause the value of his farm, the chance to make a peaceful American living, the very right to an independ- ent life is staked on this WET.
 The German empire threatens the world. It seeks to take from us the very thing that makes our farms val uable. What is the value of farm, anyhow, except the privilege of liv- ing a free American life on a particu- lar piece of land? Take that away and your farm becomes thing which Is worthless.
 Germany Is out to conquer the world Germany still has the chance to crush Russia, France, Italy and Great Britain. If she crushes them, she crushes us; for We are in the war until the finish
 If Germany wins, our lands will at once be rtgaged for all the terrible struggle which will then be upon us to save ourselves from invasion. She will demand of us that we pay her indemnities running into the tens and perhapg hundreds Of billions of dol lars. All these indemnities, if Ger nany could defeat us, and the fight against them in case we alone are able to defeat her, will be a mortgage United States.
 Germany is half licked now. We have fighting with us the mightiest nations of the world If We cannot whip her with their help what will a farm be worth in the United States when we face her alone?
 Buy b Is. farmers. and help make the world safe for cur kind of life the life of democracy. Let us strike for freedom as did the farmers of New England at Lexington and Concord, and the farmers of the South at Kings Mountain
 Let us finish Germany now, while we have help.
 Let it never be said that the farm CTS of the United States refused their money while our young men are giy ing their lives for the holiest cause ever fought for. Let us strike for our altars and our fires-and for the farms we love. All these are at stake in this the greatest of all wars. Don't let your dollars be slackers.