Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1917-10-03
SECOND LIBERTY LOAN.
McAdoo Asks for $4,000, 100000 Sub
scription before October II.
(By w. G. McAdoo, Secretary of the
Treasury


Treasury
For the purpose of
equipping with arms, clothing and
food our gallant soldiers who
have been called to the field;
maintaining our navy and our vail
ant tars upon the high seas;
providing the necessary means to
pay the wages of our soldiers and
sailors and, if the bill now pend
ing in congress passes, the
monthly allowances for the sup
port of their dependent families
and to supply them with life IN
surance.
constructing a fleet of merchant
vessels to maintain the line OF
communication with our brave
troops in France, and to keep, our
commerce afioat upon the high
seas in defiance of the German
kaiser and his submarines;
creating a great fleet of aeroplanes,
which will give complete suprem-
acy in the air to the United
States and the brave nations
fighting with US against the Ger
man military menace; and for
other necessary war purposes.
The CONGRESS of the United States
has authorized the secretary of the
treasury to sell to the American peo-
pie bonds of the United States bear
ing 4 per cent interest, with valuable
tax exemptions, and convertible I'M
der certain conditions into other IS
sues of United States bonds that may
be authorized by the congress. The
official circular of the treasury de-
partment gives full details.
There is now offered to the Amer1-
IL of J.
900 Of bonds to be known as the Sec
ond Liberty loan. They will be is
sued in such denominations and upon
such terms that every patriotic cltl-
zen will have an opportunity to assist
the government by lending his money
upon the security of United States
government bond.
It is essential to the success OF the
war and to the support OF our gallant
troops that these loans should not
only be subscribed but oversubscribed.
No one is asked to donate or give his
money to the government, but every
one is asked to lend his money to the
government. The loans will be re-
paid in full with interest at the rate
of per cent per annum. A govern
ment bond is the safest investment in
the world; it is as good as currency
bond bears interest and currency does
not. No other investment compares
with it for safety, ready convertible
ty into cash, and unquestioned avail
ability las collateral security for loans
in anv bank in the United States.
We fight, first of all, for Americas
vital rights, the right to the unmo-
Tested and unobstructed use of the
high seas so that the surplus products
of our farms, mines and factories may
be carried into the harbors of every
friendly nation of the world. Our
welfare and prosperity as a people de-
pend upon our right of peaceful inter-
course with all the nations of the
earth. To abandon these rights by
withdrawing our ships and commerce
from the seas upon the order of mil
itary despot in Europe would destroy
prosperity and bring disaster and hu-
initiation upon the American people.
We fight to protect our citizens
against assassination and murder up
on the high seas while in the peaceful
exercise of those rights demanded by
international law and every instinct
and dictate Of humanity.
We fight to preserve our democratic
institutions and our sovereignty as a
nation against the menace of power
full and ruthless military autocracy
headed by the German kaiser, whose
ambition is to dominate the world.
We fight also for the noble ideal of
universal democracy and liberty, the
right Of the smallest and weakest ma
tions equally with the most powerful
to live and govern themselves accord
ing to the will of their own people.
We fight for peace, for that just
and lasting peace which agonized and
tortured humanity Graves and which
not the sword nor the bayonet of a
military despot, butthe supremacy of
indicated right alone can restore to
a distracted world.
To secure these ends I appeal to
every man and woman who resides
upon the soil of free America and en-
joys the blessings Of her priceless in
stitutions to join the league of patri-
OTIS by purchasing a Liberty bond.