The Detroit times., 1917-10-08
The Second Liberty Loan
Drive Is On In Detroit
1t Must Be a Success


Under the same capable leadership an,
with the same spirit which put over De
troit's share of the first Liberty bonds
and more, too, Detroit begins today t.
float its share Of the second loan. place,
at SAC, $4,000.
The loan should appeal to every man
woman and--yes, to every child in De
troit.
1t is not enough to say that one ha;
subscribed to the first loan.
The loyal American should subscribe
for every loan if possible.
And in many cases it will be possible
by dint Of economy.
The second Liberty loan has got to be
a success.
Every Liberty Loan has got to be a
success.
If the nation can't float its loans, the
money will have to be secured in other
and more drastic ways, and this would
unsettle the entire economic. financial
and industrial fabric of the country.
But there is something else, too quite
as important:
A failure on the part Of this fabulous
" rich country to oversubscribe each Of
its war loans would be worse than a
dozen failures in dozen gigantic offens-
Ives IN France or Flanders.
1t would be sign to Germany that all
her offenses had failed to arouse resent
ment.
The Germans would say ard right
fully, that the Americans condoned the
Lusitania assassinations; that we cared
nothing about attacks upon ships flying
the American flag; that we were indiffer-
ent about the proved Germanic plots 70
blow up our factories.
More-they would say, WITH every
sign of truth, that the people were not
supporting their government; that the
people were pro-peace and even pro-Ger-
man.
The failure, or near-failure of any Of
our Liberty Loans would do more than
a dozen victories TO ginger up the waning
morale of the German armies and peo-
pie.
To the soldiers In the trenches, weary
Of the war and hopeless of success
against the allies, the message would go
forth: Hold out yet a little longer. The
Americans are not coming into this war
with their full power"
To the people back home, cold and
hungry and praying for peace, the kaiser
lists would say: Endure yet a little
while and crushing victory will be ours.
The Americans are not coming"
No Detroiter, no American with red
blood, no American who believes in
democracy and freedom. can afford to let
any such message go back to Germany.
We are sending our best boys to
France.
1t is up to us to stand back of them
with ell we have of money and supplies.
They are there to see the war thru to
the end.
1t is our part to see them thru to the
end.
If we don't, we are betraying them.
The American people have never been
cutters.
1t is unbelievable that they will be
now.
On the contrary, there is every reason
to believe they will make of this second
Liberty Loan a tremendous success.
1t can only be such success if every
man, woman and child makes it his or
her personal business to help.
It can only be such p success if the
loan is very largely oversubscribed, and
If those proffering their money include a
huge number of people Of modest means
Such a loan would bear to the Ger.
man rulers in unmistakable tones the
news that the American people en- nasse
were backing their government with
blood and gold to remove forever the ter
rible menace Of Prussian crime.