Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1917-06-08
some OF THE REASONS
Whv You Should Buy. Liberty Bonds
and Help End the German War
The Time to Act is Now.

A. lady of my acquaintance in the
CITY of Washington recently adopted
two orphaned Belgian children. B!
good luck they managed to ge
across the ocean without being mur
d; cd by German Submarines.
The children are little girls, one OF
item t: Give ,ea;s CT, and the othe'
fourteen. Some time after they ar
rived they began to all, and doctor
was called in. He found that botf
were about to become mothers. They
had been the defenseless victims Of
Prussian officers.
Don't you want to punish such
people as those? And if you cannot
fight them weapon-in-hand, will yor
not fight them with your money
You can do it by buying Liberty
Bond.
If the Germans win in Europe.
they will thereupon attack US. Sup
posing that they succeed in invading
this country, they will practice upon
ourselves their methods of fright
fulness." Among other things, they
will debauch our little girls and
chop off the hands and feet of our
little boys. That is the way the
Prussians make war.
You are anxious that they shall
not have an opportunity to do these
things to us? Very we'll, then. Buy
Liberty Bond. and it will help to
make such happenings impossible.
Civilized warfare has always pro-
tected -combatants-particularly
women and children. But the Ger
mans have preferred to practice the
method of savages, speciality of
theirs being the murder and multila-
ton of children.
They would like to do that sort OF
thing here. If you wish to prevent
it, buy a Liberty Bond.
The policy of "frightfulness' is
based upon the idea that much is
gained by-terrorizing the enemy.
Hence, whenever the Germans perpe-
trate a new and particularly horrid
crime, they defend it on the ground
Of military necessity"
1t is a German military neces-
sity" to sink hospital ships; likewise
to direct the wholesale violation of
women and murder of non-combat-
ants. The private German soldier
is not the man responsible for these
methods. They are carried out under
orders from highest authority.
Shall they be applied to US? If
YOU want to prevent it, buy Liberty
1t is no .exaggeration to say that
fiends from hell could devise no Prac-
tices more diabolical than many OF
those which have been in common
employment by the Germans in this
war-at the expense, too. of people
who (the Belgians and French, for
instance) had done nothing to incur
their enmity.
But the Germans hate US with
fierce hatred, because they think our
have prevented them from
Quickly winning the war. They will
have no mercy on US, or upon our
women and children if they can get
at them to outrage and murder and
mutilate.
Will you not do everything you can
to keep them from getting the
chance? If so, buy Liberty Bond.
Are the Germans, who do or ap-
prove these. dreadful things, better
than you? They are better in one
very important respect, if you can buy
a Liberty Bond and will not do so.
Immense war loans have been floated
by the Kaiser's government, and
practically everybody in Germany
has subscribed to them to the ut
most of his means.
Whatever else may be said OF the
Germans, they are patriotic. Have
YOU less of the virtue Of patriotism
than they possess?
If YOU have as much, you will buy
a Liberty Bond, even if you have to
borrow the money.
Do you love your country! Are
YOU anxious for the safety of those
who have right to look to you for
safety and for protection?
Then buy Liberty Bond. The
money will help to fight the battle
for the free-to secure the future
freedom and safety of all mankind
You can give this aid at the moment
when it is most needed Do 1t now
Rene Bache.
Washington, D. &.