The vidette. (Iuka, Tishomingo County, Miss.) 1912-1967, 1917-10-25
EioHTs or AMERICAN AoHlcuL-
ruSlsTs ENDANGERED nv
EUROPEAN WAR.
SHOULD De FIRST TO HELP
Every Purchase Of Liberty Bond 10
Slew at German Autecraey and
Adds Strength to Boys Fight
la for Democracy.
BY HERBERT QUICK
Member OF the Federal Farm Loan
Board.


Board.
When | am asked why a farmer
should buy Liberty Bonds I wonder
what | should say. 1t is SO clear that
the farmer. OF all persons, should
make himself the greatest buying
class in tue. world.
II all the other classes In the United
States should lie down and refuse to
Luy, the farmers should rally to ths
flag and buy. buy. buy these bonds a.
long as they had cent to invest.
do not wish to appeal to farmers
TO buy bonds because they are good
investments They sre sood invest.
nerls, as any good business man can
see. They are safety itself Nothing
can ever throw doubt on them as In
vestments. Many farmers are hold
Ing lands which do not pay them moro
than TO 3 per cent after the rents
are collected. the repsirs kept up. In
surance paid and taxes settled. IL all
the actual and retired farmers in the
United States would put IN Liberty
Bonds the money they could get for
lands wh!ch pay them less than the
Liberty Bonds will pay, they alone
could buy all the bonds TO be issued.
Liberty Bonds pay per cent. Taey
are the best security for loans at the
banks when the owner wants q loan
They are cheaper to carry than the
land. A man may buy Liberty Bonds
and forget about them except to col
lect the interest every sis months.
But that Is not the main reason wAs
we should buy, and buy. and keep on
buying as long as any are offered. The
farmer should buy Liberty Bonds be.
cause the value Of his farm. the
chance to make a peaceful American
living. the very right to an indspend-
ent life 10 staked on this war.
The German empire threatens ths
world. II seeks to take from us the
very thing that makes our farms val
liable. What Ia the value OF farm.
anyhow. except the privilege Of liv-
ing free American Life on a particu-
lar piece of landf Take that away.
and your farm becomes q thing which
Is worthless.
Germany IL out to conquer the
world. Germany stili has the chance
TO crush Russia, France. italy and
Great Britain. II che brushes them,
she brushes us: for We are IN the war
until the hnish.
n Germany wins, our lands will at
once be mortgsged for all the terrible
struggle which will then be upon us
to save ourselves from invasion. She
will demand Of us that we pay her
indemnities running into the tens and
perhaps hundreds of billions of dol.
lars. All these indemnities. IL Ger
many could defeat US. and the fight
against them In case We alone are
able to defeat her, viii be a mortgage
on every acre OF farm land In the
United States.
Germany Is half licked now. We
have fighting with as the mightiest
nations Of the world. IL we cannot
whip her with their help what will
farm be worth in the United States
when we face her alone?
Buy bonds. farmers. and hslp make
the world safe for our kind of life
the life Of democracy. Let az strike
for freedom as did the farmers Of New
England at Lexington and Concord.
and the farmers Of the South at
Kings Mountain.
Let US finish Germany now. while
we have help.
Let It never be said that the farm.
ers OF the United States refused their
money while our young men are Civ
ing their lives for the holisst cause
ever fought for. Let us strike for our
affairs and our flrvs--and for the farms
We love. All these are at stake in
his the greatest Of all wass. DoM't
let your dollars be slackers.