The Huttig news., 1918-04-13
FARMERS INVEST
 IN LIBERTY BONDS
 AND SAVE NATION
BACK UP YOUR BOY IN TRENcA- ES BY LOANiAc UNCLE
 SAM MONEY.
HIT A BLOW FOR FREEDOM
Future of America Depends on Men Who Till Soli--Put Your Ssv- inps in the Safest
 Place In World.

This is patriotic appeal to farm CTS. Your sons have gone to France to fight freedoms battles. But 1t has not been brought home to you that it is the duty of those who remain At home to support the government and thereby back up the soldiers in the trenches with every dollar you eau spare. Your duty does not end when you increase production so the fight ing men may be fed.
 Unless every American citizen does his patriotic duty in purchasing Lib erty Bonds Uncle Sam cannot clothe, feed. equlp and maintain the army in the field. One the Of strongest argu- ments advanced in defending tho farmer for not having bought Liberty Bonds more heavily in the frat two issues is that be was doing for his country more than his share in invest ing money in the effort to increase production than could have been done in lending the money to the govern. ment
 The argument is good in 50 far aA 1t goes, but 1t does not go far enough. The farmer is not the only producer who is helping the nation by speeding up production. Every manufacturer who contributes to the yast array Of supplies necessary for the comfort. health and success os the men in the trenches fighting the most cruel and heartiess foe civilization ever faced might make. the same claim. And If it was allowed what would become of the Liberty Loan?
 Why have many farmers not yet invested in Liberty Bonds so freely as others? Because, owing to the con- parative Isolation of farm life. they have not caught the patriotic infec- ton which leAds. others. in city and town, to put theiE-i -ixet cent into bonds and to buy them on credit at the banks and pay for them out of their savings. Such persons must under stand that Uncle Sam is calling for help. The government appeals for & loan from the farmer and all other patriotic citixens
 Lives will be saved by every dollar . farmer invests in . Liberty Bond The war will be shortened and dis sster will be rendered impossible. No class of American citizens has a more glorious page in the history of Amer ica than the man who tills the soil. Once he is aroused to the dire need of the country he will invest every spare dollar in Liberty .Bsads.
 No class of citizens k more inter ssted in the outcome Of ths war than are farmsrs- Farming cannot be car ried on with the ocean closed to con- mer2e. The highways of the sea must Dc safe or the farmer cannot safel* engage In growing his crops and rais- ing stock. There arc enough retired farmers enjoying from their lands an- neal incomes smaller than they would receive if they would invest in L.b- efty Bonds.
 Farmers, do you know that 10000 invested in Liberty Bonds will pay the owner . better return for his money than if hs invested it in farm lands and rented, the lands! Do you know that the hensiowner may Dor row more freely on them at the banks tnan ne can upon lands: Do you xnow that no investment can compare in security and safety with soyernmest bonds!
 The cause of freedom needs every cent that farmers can raise to send the soldiers to France equipped, fed, protected. to destroy Prussian Diii. tarism, break the power of the xabes rattlers of Potsdam and bring peace 10 the world.
 When it comes to duty the faruasr must stand shoulder to shoulder with | his fellows. The fate of the nation is at stake. The future of civilization hangs in the balance. Arouse. farmers Of America, and strike . mighty blow for liberty. for justice, for freedom and for peace.