Douglas Island news., 1917-10-26

Tomorrow is the last day for buying Liberty Bonds aud all applications for bonds must be in by noon. Smgly your m- vcsmcut will not amount to great deal, but collectively the investment of your- self and thousands of others will be mighty factors in winning the war.
 Money invested in Liberty Bonds is as safe as it can possibly be anywhere on earth. The investment is Al and the sc- curitv is the best possible. You are paid fair but certain interest and, if your bus mess ever demands that you negotiate your holdings. you can do SD without the loss oi a cent ou your investment.
 Another thing. The government needs and must have the money By offering vou security in the way of Liberty Bond, it is simply borrowing the money from you at a fair rate of interest But the govern mcut MUST have the money, and, i'm ease iI is mot secured by the method of borrow ing as 1t does ou Liberty Bonds, then the money required for the prosecution of the war will be raised by taxation and you will have Co pay anyhow and, in the latter event, SO far as you are concerned It will bc gone forever Taxes pay mo interest to the individual paycc and taxes never come back except in a general way. The govern mcut must have the money and it will get it bv direct taxation unless the required amount can be borrowed ou the bonds now offered. In other words, do you prefer hcping the government voluntarily and at the same time fortifymg yourself with the best security ou earth, OF do you prefer waiting for the government to extract the same money from you by taxation giving you nothing in return but a tax receipt on which you can never realize one cent!
 IL is up to you Only remember that the government MUST have the money if the war is to be won and if peace is to reign. Otherwise. the world will be Gcrmanizcd and the principles of civil liberty forever and ctcually lost
 Will you do your share in helping the cause of right, justice and common human ity!
 Read the following from the Official Bulletin and then put on your hat. mfurl yom umbrella and make bee line to your bank and apply for a Liberty Loan bond:
 "I.ikcuing the United States to a great corporation with more than a hundred mil lion stockholders and with capital stock and resources of more than S25OOOO,OOO. OOO and au annual income of S5OOOO,OOO,- GOO. each American citizen iS a Stockholdcr in this great corporation. Even those whose only assets are their earning capac- itv own shares in our public domain and property and are working on proht-slar ing basis, with a vote and a voice in the management of the corporation and with the right to acquire more stock at any time.
 "A Liberty Bond may be likcned to a share of preferred stock in this gigantic corporation Like preferred stock in other corporations. it may not return, at times, SD large a dividend as common stock, but the dividend from it is certain and sure. It is stock that pays per cent dividend, and while i'm some years crop failures may decrease the farmers dividends from his land Co less than nothing and various causes may lessen OF destroy dividends from all other sorts of property, the dividend from the Liberty Loan Bond is certain and sure, subject to no failure.
 "Thc owner of a Liberty Loan Bond holds written tangible evidence of being a stockholdcr in the United States, the great est, the most glorious, the most honorable and the most successful corporation in the world He holds the certificate of being a citizen willing to support his government and to lend money to his country when it