Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1918-05-09
Money is Fundamental.

thew wear and the shoes on their feet; -
give them food and Keep them warm ana
healthy and in order that they may hays
the strength 10 pull the trigger ana
charge with the bayonet when that tat2l
order comes. (Applause). We need lt
TO keep the great factories GONG u
purchase the steel with which 70 MAKE
shins that are so essential On the hlgh
seas today And OH my friends. how
tragic it was that IN 1914. when your
great far-sighted president (applause)
asked the Congress Of the United states
to pass a ship bill, with an initial ap-
preparation of $4,000 600, in order that
the government Of the United states
might Immediate. begin 10 pur some
ships upon the high seas tapplause) UNI
der the only flag at that time which
Germany respected - the stars ana
Stripes. (Applause). That bill was
passed in the House Of Representatives
bustered there to death. All, IT was a
tragedy for America that tnat bill was
defeated. It delayed our ship program
two years, my friends, two irretrleVable
periIed today more because of the de-
feat of that ship bill than any other
single act ~ of the American people
(Applause).
But we are trying to turn those ships
out now. What's the use of CRYING over
the past? / don't care anything about
the past except insofar as IL strength
ems us in our ideals and courage to go
necessary lessons for the future. l want
you to learn the lesson of that thing.
because unity Of a-unity-unitY
OF America is the thing now which all
must have. Let us put the carping critic,
the cheap politician, and all those who
consciously or uncOnsciously stand In the
way in the supreme effort OF America
let us put them to the rear. (Applause).
Let's tell them to stand aside and let the
legions Of liberty go forward. ZAP
plause).
All Fighting for Liberty.
But we need the money to build the
ships long delayed and to put them on
the high seas. We need it for a thou
sand and one purposes that L am nor
going to describe. We need these moneys
in order that the grand soldiers fighting
side by side with our grand American
sons in the trenches may be supplied
with the same things we give them; be-
cause I want to tell you. ladies' and
the trenches, the soldiers of France, the
soldiers of Belgium, and the soldiers Of
Italy, like the American soldier, are to-
day in this great war for liberty our
soldiers as well as our sons. Gap
plause). And we are going to keep them
just as stropg for the fight as we keen
our own me, and that, puts upon our
resources that great strain which cannot
be met If there is a single shirker in
America. (Applause).
Money VS.. Liberty.
Now what do we ask you to do to keep
this money supplied? 1t is so easy. Al
YOU are asked merely to do-what? Give
Sam asks you to lend your money to him
not lend as little as you can, but all
you can. If you don't value liberty less
than money, you lend 1t to Uncle Sam
APPLAUSE lie is going to save your
liberties and your homes. DO you want
to hold on to your money and lose your
liberties and property and have Ger
man sentinel prodding you in the back
with n bayonet? Or would you rather
lend it to your Uncle Sam and get It
back at par, with interest, and save your
liberty (applsuse) in the bargain and
give liberty to the world?
Now, everybody can lend money to the
government, because we have done this:
we have issued these bonds in denomina-
tons of $50, 500, $500, and $1,000 cash.
You can buy just IS many as you want,
and YOU ought to buy all that you can
But if you can't buy a 5o-dol1ar bond
even if YOU are too poor to DO that-then
which are obligations of the United
States Government just as much as the
! Liberty Bonds arc its Obligations. they
are Just as coed as the dollar bills that
you have in your pockets. However, /
am sure. as l look over this well-fed
crowd that none of you carry denomina-
lions so small as one-dollar bill. am
glad to see it. want to tell you Just
plause). | am one Of you myself.
War Savings Stamps.
These War Savings Stamps in SIS de-
nominations are just as good rs the cur
rency in your pocket. If you can't buy q
ve-dollar War Savings Stamp. which.
by the way, You can buy for S4.15 and
the government VIII give you SIS FOR It
on the LIST of Ja1u1r ~ 1928, five years
afterward because trc stamps accumu-
| I,t i,ta Of lDn 20. Cf
annum. compounded uu7gtery. SO you
are lending your m0"o.- tn i-Ucic sam on
security that is be tNan any savings
bank can give yoj', q YOU are getting
just as much interest for your money,
and besides. you are protecting your lib
critics
! Now. if you can't buy one of those
stamps, why, we have got it down to
where you can certainly come into this
great and glorious game Of liberty: You
can buy Thrift Stamps. They. cost You
CSC each, and you can accumulate these
stamps on a card that your postmaster
will give you and when you have got 16
of them. that is, 81 worth, you can go
to any postmaster and he will give you in
exchange a War Savings Stamp worth S..
But let me tell you, ladies and gentle
men. that the man who can buy 5000
worth of Liberty Bonds and buys a 25c
Thrift Stamp, doesn't do his duty (ar-
nlause). Don't he a 25c patriot when you
can be n $4,000 patriot.
Now. / want to qualify that by saving
this: The man or woman who subscribcs
25c to his government, when it is all he
can lend, is as great patriot, greater
patriot in many respects than the man
who could lend $50 900 and only lends
ten.
The degree of your patriotism. ladies'
and gentlemen, or the simple service in
which YOU take no chances except TO
benefit yourselves-t the test of patriotism
is not the amount, but is whether you
have done all you can. tApphuse).
Don't Sell Your Bond.
Now when you buy a government
bond ladies and gentlemen. don't sell
it right away. Oh, l want you to know
how YOU hurt the credit of your govern
ment when YOU buy your bond and get
the reputation in our community of hav-
ing done something and then sneak off
and sell IT the next day, and get from
under. That is not helping the govern
ment. l want to beg you all who buy a
government bond and don't intend to
keep it to please not buy it. l don't want
that money. (Applause.) And it Is
necessary for you to know why l don't
want it. l don't want it for your sake.
This isn't McAdoo; this is you; l only
represent you. NV business is to protect