The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1917-10-12
A 1.-THE FOR OUR
FATHERLAND
OR EACH COUNTY'S QUOTA TEN PER
CENT. OF ITS BANK DEPOSITS.

AS all Christian Nations recognize,
the Bible as their best text book
Life's School Book-can we do better
than turn to it now for inspiration
and righteous stimulus in renewing
our efforts in the sale of bonds, for
Liberty
Open then, to the first book, four
teenth chapter and twentieth verse
of this greatest of Primers and read:
BLESSED be the most high God; which
hath delivered thine enemies into thy
hands and he gave tithe of all"
And so on throughout the good
book, in Leviticus, Numbers, Deuter-
onomy, Chronicles, Nehemiah, Pro-
verbs, Amos, Malachi, Matthew, Luke,
Romans and Hebrews, will be found
repeated reference to the peoples OBJ
! ligatiOn-both before and since the
time of Moses-of the tithe.
When, for instance, the spies Of the
chief priests and scribes asked is
| it lawful for us to give tribute unto
| Caesar or no ?" And Christ an
swered: Render unto Caesar the
things which be Caesars; and
unto God the things which
be Gods" Caesar represent
ed the country, even as our Chief
Magistrate represents the United
States Of America.
! And so we have not only the Bibli-
cal general admOnitiOn to give year
! ly 1.-THE Of all we possess; but we
have also this specific instance, just
quoted, of command to give to our
country.
And again, in St. Peter, Christ says:
Submit yourselves to every ordi-
nance of man for the Lords sake,
whether it be to the King as su-
preme, or unto the governors"
Now our supreme governor, wheth-
er you happened to vote for him or
not, is the Silent Man" in Washing
ton: President Woodrow Wilson.
This man and his colleagues, urg-
ed by their co-ordinated knowledge
land consequently possessing keenest
realization of future perils) which
knowledge is too ramitied and COM
plicated for the ordinary ineXpert
citizen to comprehension even to
know-have, after the careful COM
putation of the sum of our govern
ments present requirements, asked
us to raise, by the first of November,
three billions of dOllars-or-from
your county-just one-tenth OF its
deposited wealth.
Now this money can, and must be
raised, had it been an impossibility
to raise it, it would not have been
asked. And if three billion dollars
were raised during our Civil War,
with bank deposits what they then
We're one authority has said that we
should be able nOw-at the same
ratio-tO raise seventy billions OF
dollars.
And we shall not balk at our task,
our tithe, eXacted in the cause of
humanity and freedom.
But read, if you are uncOnvlnced,
the entire twenty-eighth chapter OF
Deuteronomy, in a part of which are
these promises: IF thou shalt bark
en- diligently to the voice of the Lord
thy God to observe and do all His
commandments the Lord thy God
will set thee on high above all nations
of the earth and all these blessings shall
come on thee and Overtake thee. :.
Blessed shalt thou be in the city, and
blessed shalt thou be in the field.
but if thou wilt not harken unto the
voice of the Lord thy God to observe
and to do all His commandments. E.
these curses shall come upon thee
and overtake thee: cursed thou be in
the city, and cursed thou be in the
field . the Lord shall bring a ma
ton against thee from far, from the
end of the earth a nation whose
tongue thou shalt not understand;
nation of fierce cOuntenance, which
shall not regard the person of the old
nor shew favour to the young, and he
shall eat the fruit of thy cattle, and
the fruit of thy land-until thou be
destroyed"
Therefore shall we not make haste
to observe the commandment OF the
tithe, lest we he destroyed.
Then let us buy bonds for any OF
the following five reasons
1st Because we shall, in meeting
the quota demand for our county, be
respecting the old Mosaic law of the
1.-THE.
End. We should each buy gener-
ously as we dare, and also become
sellers of bonds, because we are pat
riots.
3rd. Bonds should be bought by
man, woman and child, so that each
may become the instrument to aid in
fastening the end of all this suffering
and loss, as we'll as to tie ourselves
to our government.
4th. Buy a bond in order to help
in securing reaSsured confidence to
business interests which a quick and
complete subscription (better still
over subscription) to this bond issue
would insure; while the reverse would
undoubtedly precipitate a financial
depression that would be disastrous
to both rich and poor.
5th (and last, and lowest) reason
for purchasing Liberty Bonds-buy
them selishly, because they are the
surest and safest investment of dol
lars which anyone can make.
MRS. AUSTIN GALLAGHER.