Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-10-02
Georgia S Patriotic Duty
To the Neu Liberty Loan.

The Offering of the second Liberty loan affords
the rank and file of the American people espe-
cially inviting opportunity show their patriot
ism and good sense. The bonds to be sold for this
loan, like those OF the one preceding, will be in
denominations as low as fifty dollars and will be
purchasable -easy-payment plans. They will
bear four per cent interest. an appreciably higher
rate than that. of the first bonds and will be easily
negotiable. For safety. few IL any forms of in
vestment are comparable to them; they are backed
BY all the power all the resources, all the integ-
rity Of the entire United States. Who owns Lib
erty bond. owns something far more valuable than
its equivalent in gold; he invincible Sc
curity that will grow in worth continually with
the passing years. and attest both the wisdom and
loyalty OF fits owner.
- II Is an honor to own a Liberty bond;
than that. It is duty. By subscribing to this
loan OF three billion dollars or more the citizen
will take definite, personal part in winning his
rountry's war for safety and freedom and right.
He will contribute Just much to the everlasting
protection OF American shores against brutal Prus-
sianism. He will be supporting the gallant youths
who by hundreds of thousands have Joined the
colors Offering their lives that their nations honor
may be kept unsulied and its resides kept secure.
When those brave boys giving their ALL who
that has spark OF patriotism pride will fail to
do HIS utmost to sustain and cheer them in the
hghtf
It is largely for their sustenance that this Lib
erty loan is TO be raised. Its proceeds will keep
up the flow Of supplies needed for great armies
now In the making and for the large American
contingents already in France. For this alone.
millions upon millions Of dollars required; and
equipment and provisions are but the first steps
in the hercuIean task Of putting and keeping
forces in the fight. Without these financial sin
ews, our armies can do nothing they cannot even
subsist. And without a loyal response from the
rank and file of Americans, those alimportant
sinews cannot be secured. In very vital sense,
therefore, the winning of the depends the
man back home whose immediate and paramount
duty is to buy Liberty bonds.
Not only the winning of the but the short
ening of it depends largely the success of this
Liberty loan The most inspiring thing the Amer
lean public now do for its cause and the most
depressing thing it do for the Kaiser's cause
is to oversubscribe the three billion dollar loan.
Suppose they make it five billions within the
OF the next few weeks. What an answer from the
plain people of the United States to the Hohen-
EoIlern tyrant and his pack of lords who
bent upon overrunning the world, What notice
TO the German masses that will have deal
ings with their faithless, war-breeding, murderous
despots, The more speedily and more powerfully
we manifest will to win, the will the
war be over. And at this iuncture there is no
way by which the American people can manifest
their determined loyalty so plainly effectively
as by supporting the Liberty loan.
: The campaign for the sale of these bonds be-
gins tomorrow, October the first, the threshold
OF the most prosperous autumn country, par
ticularIy the agricultural sections, have known
Here in the South and in Georgia, where the fruit
<ul months have briInmed store and where the
fires of patriotism have always burned bright
and true. let us see TO IL that our duty is fully
. done and our traditions worthily upheld.