The Watertown news. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1917-1919, 1917-06-01

people with more work to do will have more
money to spend and the people who have
money to spend will buy the result of our labor
Tney will buy the results OF the labor Of the
people right in this today. They buy the
results Of the labor of people just like us all
over the nation who are holding meetings today
and are the right people to buy these bonds.
Nov you have got the second reason as to
why you must come forward, each one Of you,
and subscribe to one Of these $50 bonds. Not
only are you going to the lives Of
soldiers at the front, some Of your friends
very likely, but you going to serve the in
terest of your own families and the interest of
you, yourselves, by keeping business good all
over the country and making it better than it
is today. Every man of you in this room who
subscribes to bond just makes his own job
SO much better and makes better the job of
every man in the room. In these days of in
dlvldual action, the action of every man for
himself, is considered a bad thing That's
why l am talking to you today. / am just as
much dependent on you men for what is pro-
duced here as you are dependent on the wages
you get to run your household That is true
all over the country Each of you in this
room is dependent for his best welfare on
every other man in the room. Any man who
does not come forward in the time of national
emergency is not the right kind of man for
his own interest and not the right kind of a
man for the interest of the nation, and not at
all the right kind of a man for the men who
work with him side by side every day. Now
you begin to what we have all got to do
in order to help ourselves. We have to help
each other We have to act unit just as
committees like this all the nation are
acting as unit today to help us right here in
this room as we'll as helping themselves and
helping everybody else who is worker
Now let's see what happens to each of
you men who subscribe to one of these bonds
Some Of you might think at first that you are
subscribing money out of your pockets. You
are not You are putting money into your
pockets. Each one Of these bonds is a first
mortgage on all the property in the United
States. 1t is just like $50 in gold 1t is the
basis of value of the whole nation. When you
get one OF these bonds in your hands, you are
holding piece of the United States of Ameri-
lea and a piece of its wealth.
What am asking you to do is to save 50
week. or $3.50 week for yourselves, which
will be nest egg for you long as you keep
1t. In case of sickness any kind OF trouble
coming to you, you've got that asset which is
just like much cash am asking you how
ever, to save it in way that will not only pro-
tect your own interests by giving you a nest
egg, but which will help keep business good
as nothing else can, help improve business as
nothing else can, and will protect the lives of
the boys who go to the front to fight for us
who stay here. Not among you today
has any excuse for not subscribing at least for
one of these bonds. Remember when you do
subscribe for q bond, you help yourself be-
cause you save that money for yourself every
week. until the bond is paid for and then you
keep the bond and the bond. You help
every other man in the room with you here be-
cause you help make his job better just as you
help make your job better; you help keep bust
ness good so that his family will be supported
to the best extent that the best interests and
the best business that this nation can bring
about.
Every man here can subscribe to a bond
because l am determined to make it possible
for him to do Some of you may find it
necessary to smoke little bit less, while you
are SAVING this $500 a week for yourselves.
Some OF you may find it necessary to eat
spaghetti for two meals week instead OF
roast beef. You fellows yourselves know lust
now you can save least little bit for a limited
time while you are saving this So 90 a week |
know perfectly well that the wages we pay you
here Will not permit you to buy very many
automobiles That is the condition which is
common to every other concern in this line of
business. L know it's going to be a sacrifice
for you to spare this $500 week out of what
you spend on the family | wouldn't expect
you to find it easily possible to save 50 90 a
week this way for whole year, on top of the
present uses you make of your money It can
be done easily enough if you put your minds
to it, for the limited time it will take for YOU
TO save the money for the payments on this
POND And just remember that you are saving
thls money for yourself. If, however there is
single man here who cannot make sacrifice
III any way to save this amount of money every
week. when this crisis of the whole nation and
the Crisis or the workers in this room with him
today demand it, let him come to me and will
md some way to help him.
/ "Now, then, there is the flag on the wall
It's our flag, isn't it? We've lived under that
nag and under it's protection for good MANY
years and now we've got to do something for
It, We've got to stand shoulder to shoulder
here today, and shoulder to shoulder working
Tor the needs of the nation while this war lasts,
Just as the boys who go to the front are going
to stand shoulder to shoulder under that flag
to keep it flying high
NOW is the time for each one of you to show
the same courage and self denial in saving a
small amount every week for yourselves and
LOT your feIloW-Workers, protecting your inter-
ests and theirs, the same courage that is going
W seho million OF our men to to serve
under that flag.