The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1917-10-21
WHY FARMERS Of
U.S.. SHOULD BUY
LIBERTY BONDS
BY HERBERT QUICK,
(Member Federal Farm Loan Roard +,

tMemoer Federal Farm Loan Board.)
| When | am asked why a farmer
| should buy Liberty Bonds | wonder
what | should say. 1t is so clear,
| that the farmer should make himself
the greatest buying class in the
world.
If all the other classes in tho
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 q
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 al
investments. Many farmers ara
holding lands which do not pay them
more than 2 to per cent after tbs
rents are collected. the repairs kept
up, INSURANCE paid and taxes settled.
II all the actual and retired farmers
in the United Sites would put in Lib
ETY. 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 4 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 evegy 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 Lib
erty Bonds because the value of his
r. Al H-.t
American living, the very right to an
independent 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
valuable. What is the value of farm
anyhow. except the privilege oS liys
ing a free American Yfe on a paiEiHx q
lar piece of land? Take that away,
and your farm becomes a 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 brushes them,
until the finish.
IF Germany wins, our lands will at
once be mortgaged 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 ten and
perhaps hundreds of billions Of dol
lars. All these indemnities, II Ger
many could defeat US, and the fight
against them in case we alone arc
able to defeat her, will be q mort
gage on every acre of farm land In
the United States: 49,
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
farm 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
the life of democracy. Let us strike
for freedom as did the farmers of
New England at Lexington and at
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
ers of the United States refused their
money while our young men are CIV
ing their lives for the hottest cause
ever fought for. Let US strike our
affairs 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.