Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1917-05-24
LIBERTY BOND
IN EVERY HOME
NANCE WAR FOR DEMoc-,
RACY.
PATRIOTIC PURPOSE EVIDENT
Every Bank in st. Louis District Is
Urged to Place Bonds on sale to
Patrons--Chamber Of Com
merce Resolutions.

The slogan "a Liberty Bond in Ev-
cry Home" will be carried into every
county in Missouri and Illinois in or
der to induce the people to purchase
these securities, and to give every
person feeling of real responsibility
in connection with the war.
Bankers from all over both states
have just returned to their homes
from a meeting In st. Louis, where
each was given final instructions as
to the disposition of these obligations,
and each financier pledged support in
carrying out the movement.
The slogan "a Liberty Bond in Ev-
cry Home" originated in st. Louis,
declared Breckenridge Jones, presi-
dent of the Mississippi Valley Trust
company, in addressing the bankers.
The same movement is being car
ried to all parts of the United States.
"The American Bankers associa-
ton has adopted the slogan, and will
send notices to this effect to every
one Of its $4,000 member banks in the
country" he stated.
Jones then told the bankers of the
plan used to determine how much Of
the Liberty Loan each county ought
to subscribe to.
ut is suggested that by adding the
banking strength basis, wealth basis
and population basis, and dividing by
three, an average will be obtained
which should be considered as the
minimum that each county should
subscribe for Liberty Bonds" he
stated.
Figures and Counties Given.
Following is the list of counties in
Missouri and Illinois and the amounts
which, according to Jones, they should
subscribe to the loan:
Missouri counties-Bollinger, $279,-
300; Butler, $500, $50; Cape Girardeau,
$541 ,26O; Carter, s1O4,76O; Dunklin,
S593,640; Franklin, $576,1SO; Iron,
s157,14O; Jefferson, $541,26O; Lincoln,
S391,74O; Madison, S2O9,520; New
Madrid, $366,660; Perry, $27O,36O;
Ripley, $244,44O; st. Charles, SAIL
42O; st. Francois, $69S,4OO; Ste. Gen.
evieve, $174,600; st. Louis city, $13,-
461,660; st. Louis county, $1,6O6, 1920;
Scott, $436,500; Stoddard, $541,26O;
Washington, $244,440; Wayne, $780,
$50; Reynolds, $174,6OO; Mississippi,
$279,360; Montgomery, $264,900; Penn
iscot, $366,66O, and Warren, $174,6OO.
Illinois counties - Alexander, $445,-
230; Clinton, $446,776; Franklin, $685.
0S6; Gallatin, $23S,344; Hamilton,
$350,1S4; Hardin, $136,1S8; Jackson,
$6S9,67O; Johnson, 1891 $3.50; Jefferson,
s570,942; Madison, $1,759,9 1896; Massac,
$279,36O; Marion, $6S6,17S; Monroe,
$263,646; Perry, $43S,OO8; Pope, $221,-
TAP; Pulaski, $S12,5S4; Randolph,
$56S,196; st. Clair, $2,346,S7O; Saline,
$5S4,91O; Union, $417,77O; Washing
ton, $366,66O; Wayne, $5OS,OS6; Wa
bash, $291,5S2; White, $44O,46S; Will
Hanson, $370,152; Bond, $331,74O, and
Edwards, $195,552.
Stickers Are Printed.
The slogan, "a Liberty Bond in Ev-
cry Home" was adopted by the public
ity committee of the st. Louis Clear
ing House association and the cham
Der of commerce.
N. A. Mcmillan, president of the st.
Louis Clearing House association,
presided at the meeting of the bank
ers.
Resolution.
The Bankers Conference in st.
Louis, at special meeting, adopted
the following resolution:
Whereas, The United States is now
engaged in a war upon the result Of
which depends the continued enjoy
ment by every citizen of this country
of those liberties for which our people
have in times past been willing to
lay down their lives and sacrifice
their wealth; and,
Whereas, The government has ur-
gently called for such financial sup
port by asking every patriotic citizen
to subscribe to the new issue of gov
eminent bonds known as the Liberty
Loan; and,
Whereas, The bonds are to be is
sued In such denominations that prac-
tically every family in the United
States which has any feeling OF pa
triotic responsibility can subscribe
therefor; now, therefore. be it
Resolved, That the members of this
body hereby wholly and unreservedly
pledge themselves. their time and their
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purpose of awakening the patriotic
sentiment Of their various communi-
ties and impressing them with the
high duty of Immediately coming to
the financial support of our govern
ment in this hour of peril; and,
Resolved That every member of