Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1917-05-31
REGISTRATION DAY LIBERTY LOAN WEEK
Governor Harding Urges Iowa
to Buy War Bonds.
TIME SET, MAY 27 TO JUNE 2

Des 'Moines.-Governor Harding has
| set aside the week of May q to June
as Liberty Loan Week" in the in.
terest OF floating the war bonds of
our country.
The proclamation issued by the
governor follows:
A PROCLAMATION.
To the People OF Iowa:
BY virtue of the authority in me
vested, l hereby bring to the atten-
ton of the citizens OF the Common
wealth of Iowa the movement to make
Liberty Loan Week" a period of ma
ton wide patriotic response and urge
that Iowa occupy her customary place
in the vanguard of her sister states.
Our country is at war with for.
eign nation, not as a matter Of choice,
not for conquest. not for greed Of
gold and not because of malice or
hatred; but rather to maintain our
self respect, to preserve to our peo-
pie their guaranteed rights and to
perpetuate and extend the principles
of democratic government SO we'll es-
tablished in our own country and SO
essential to the liberty of mankind
everywhere.
This war is contest between de-
mocracy on the one side and autoc-
racy on the other for control of the
world. II we lose now by our mac
ton or unpreparedness all the fight.
ing and suffering of the Revolutionary
and Civil Wars will have been for
naught
Our patriotism is on trial and the
test is whether or not our people
will help with their accumulated
wealth by loaning it to the Govern
ment in this trying hour. A kindly
Providence and Government in
which the individual is supreme have
made all our people happy and pros
porous. Now, in order to preserve
this liberty, it is our patriotic duty
as people to assist the Government
by helping with this wealth that Is
ours.
This is the hour when you can rem
der real service to your country and
to the world If we do not respond
with our accumulated wealth now,
in the days to come it will mean the
sacrifice of untold thousands of lives
of the young manhood OF our state
and country.
No loyal citizen will concern him.
self now about acquiring more wealth.
His whole thought should be to pre-
serve the principal and give the Fed.
eral Government the benefit of what
ever use can be made of 1t. Property
is as nothing when human life is at
stake; human life is as nothing when
the fate of democracy is in the bal
ance. !, therefore, call upon all our
citizens to respond to this Liberty
Loan" to the point that it becomes a
sacrifice.
All banks and bond houses are au.
thorized by our Federal Government
to receive subscriptions to this Lib
erty Loan" The bonds have been
issued in denominations within the
reach of all and the payments can
be arranged to suit the purchaser.
Therefore, by virtue of the power
In me vested as Governor Of the
State of Iowa, ! call upon all our
people to subscribe to this loan and
in accordance therewith set apart
and designate the period beginning
May 81 and ending June 2, 1917, as
Liberty Loan Week" and I earnestly
urge that you make this week time
of generous participation and state
wide manifestation OF patriotic loyal.
ty.
In testimony whereof, / have here
unto set my hand and caused to be
affixed the Great Seal of the State.
(SEAL)
Done at Des Moines, this I'D day
Of May, 1917.
BY the Governor: w. L. Harding.
w. S. Allen,
Secretary Of State