The Huttig news., 1917-10-27
RIGHTS OF AMERICAN AGRicUl- TURlsTs ENDANGERED BY EA EUROPEAN WAR.
SHOULD BE FIRST TO HELP
Every Purchase of Liberty Bond Is
 Blow at German Autocracy and | Adds Strength to Boys Fight Ing for Democracy.
BY HERBERT QUICK
Member of the Federal Farm Loan i Board

WCHlUCt OI lilC GOCt al CT TIT EOdH
 Board.
 When I am asked why farmer should buy Liberty Bonds I wonder what I should say. 1t 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 States 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 10 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 to 3 per cent after the rents are collected, the repairs kept up, in Burance paid and taxes settled. If all he actual and retired farmers in the oa4,ted States would put in Liberty Bonds the money they could get for lands which pay them less than the Liberty Bonds will pay, they alone could 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 a loan They are cheaper to carry than the land. A man may buy Liberty Bonds and forget about them except to col feet 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 peaceful American living. the very right to an independ- ent life Is staked on this war
 The German empire threatens the world It seeks to take from us the very thing that makes our farms val uabis. What is the value of farm. anyhow, except the privilege of liv- Ing free American life on 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 moItgaged 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 ndemnities running into the tens and perhaps hundreds of billions of dol lars. All these indemnities, if Ger many could defeat us, and the fight against them in case we alone are able to defeat her, will be a mortgage pn every acre of farm land in the United States.
 Germany is half licked now. We nave fighting with us the mightiest nations of the world. If We cannot whip her with their help what will )arm be worth in the United States when we face her alone?
 Buy bonds, farmers, and help make the world safe for our kind of life he life of democracy. Let us strike Tor freedom as did the farmers of New England at Lexington and Concord, md 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 FITS of the United States refused their money while our young men are giv- Ing their lives for the hoiiest cause evM 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.