Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1917-10-17

but they all looked mighty good and
as looked at them could not help
thinking of this reward had read
about a few days before that the kai-
ser was going to give to the first
German soldier who captured an
American soldier-Oh, these iron
crosses are getting pretty cheap. He
was going to give him six weeks
vacation and enough money to
amount in our coin to $3.50, and as l
looked at those boys and especially
those Iowa boys, it occurred to me
that the German soldier who captured
one of these boys ought to have an
iron cross, and that he would need
the $3.50 to pay doctor bills and the
six weeks to get over it.
They haven't got the kind of cour-
age; their courage is the kind
heard of, about Negro boy down
South who was drafted. He went in
before the Board and they said, "Now,
this is a selective draft, Rastus, and
you can pick out what you would
like to do" He said: BOSS, can't
pick out what I would like to do but
1 can pick out what I wouldn't like
to do. I don't want anything to do
with them flying machines because
when anything happens to them there
is no place to get out and crank them"
and he said, II don't want anything
to do with the cavalry either. tell
you Boss, 1 don't want nothing to do
with the cavalry, because when the
order to retreat ever comes, l don't
want no boss in my way" They are
the kind of fellows who are full o.
the courage that they tell about a
couple of Irishmen, Pat and Mike. The
captain said he would give twenty-five
shillings for every German that they
killed. They went in and Pat was
sleeping in the trenches. Mike said,
"Pat, wake up" Pat says, "Why?"
Mike says, "They are coming" Pat
says, who is coming?" Mike says,
"the Germans" Pat says, "How
many?" Mike says, 100000 of them"
Pat said, "Begorry" as he grabbed his
gun, Here is where you and I are
going to make our fortune" We have
got the courage; are we going to
back up these people at the front or
not? They are going to be digging
in, in a little while over there. We
have got to dig into our pockets. We
might Just as we'll fix that in our minds
not in any five and ten cent bust
ness to help the government, but we
have got to help raise tremendous
sums of money. Here is the Liberty
Loan, the. second bond issue now be-
ing fOated. If that fails. that is equal
to great victory for our enemies. We
are spending tremendous amounts of
money. 1t costs money to equip an
army of a million men. Think of
the army field guns, machine guns,
the uniforms, the shoes, the food.
When those boys go over there to
fight for you and me, and for our
country, and the freedom OF our
country, and are willing to give their
lives. are we going to hold back and
not be willing to help with our dol
lars? What are your dollars going
to be worth if you get Prussian mill
tarism in this country? They won't
be worth much, and the farms won't
be worth much, and the business won't
be worth much, and you will pay out
more money in indemnities, and you
won't get the four per cent interest
these Liberty Bonds pay and you won't
get the money back either. These
bonds are good investment; they
will be kept at par-there isn't any
doubt about that. Four per cent in
terest; on the first 5000 of these there
are absolutely no taxesr State or Ma
tional, to pay; that is a pretty good
investment, outside the question of
patriotism. Above that, there are
some slight taxes, SO that if you want
ed to make good investment, you
ought to take some of those, but you
ought to more from the question Of
patriotism Read the appeal of the
President as to what it means. Oh,
nobody, in this country of ours wants
to stand back and not do their part.
Billy Sunday says, Flight, farm or
finance" If,you can't fight, you have
got to finance. Are our dollars more
sacred than human lives? We have
loaned some Of this money to France.
+ do not know how you feel about 1t;
when that war is over, do not want
to see us ask for any Of that money
back. 1t will come back to us from
Great Britain, and do not feel that
way about it from Great Britain, but
let me tell you; when we were a
little struggling nation, mere child
in the chain Of nations, hardly able
to walk, we reached out our hand for
help. Who came? The people stood
at the old Independence Hall at Phil
adelphia, and Washington marched by
on his way to Brandywine to
help our cause. Lafayette came, will
ing to give his life to this land of
freedom. Now, France, with her fields
in part destroyed, with the homes OF
modern France ruined, with her peo-
pie, large numbers of them, outcast,
reaches out her hands to us for help.
Oh, am glad We could help France
I am glad We could say to her, "YOu
came to us in our hour of trial; we
come to you now, and the old Stars
and Stripes are going to float side by
We are not forgetful as a great Repub-
lie, and whatever We have loaned to
you in this war, we cancel the Obllga-
tiOn."
These Liberty Bonds are as bomb
in the camp of the enemy. We show
them what the Republic can do. They
have accused us Of being merely a
commercial, money-loving nation. It
will prove it If we are not willing to
help invest our money in these bonds.
Why, my farmer friend, you are get
ting a lot of profit out of these great
advances in prices. realize the hard
life the farmers had; that he is en-
titled to great profits at this time. l
have felt that when we were fixing
prices or when they were for what
the farmer sells, in justice they ought