Middletown transcript., 1918-04-27
RALLY TO THE Sd LIBERTY LOAN

THE people of Germany with war debt of
L the unthinkable of S33, ,00O, O0O, 600,
thirty-three bions-one third of the total value
of our ow big and rich country only few years
ago-the impoverished, starving. ruined people
of Germany come promptly forward and fully
subscribe to their seventh 'Autocracy Loan of
So 1OO. 600. 900, following on the heels of their
Sixth Loan also So, 00, O00 900, or $17, ,4OO,
O0O 1000 war loans taken by them in little more
than three years
Shall we Amercans citizens of the richest
country in all the world, more than IS times as
large as Germany, not counting Alaska and the
Philippines etc, shall We fail to oversubscribe
this our third War Loan in support of the right
eous cause of Human Ere adom, shall we fail to
raise our third Liberty Loan which is smaller
than these sixth and seventh War Loans of Ger
many in support of hateful Autocracy that has
the whole world by the throat, our own with all
the rest desperately seeking to throttle it!
1t is said that this third Liberty Loan Of ours
which started out with such enthusiastic fervor
all over the land, is beginning to lag, threatens
to fall short of its noble mission. Can we, dare
we be so base? Are We still so wrapped up in
money getting, still, so composedly dreaming in
our slOthfu ease of security we think
foreign foe can disturb-that We will one penny
fail in raising this loan for the benefcent Gov
eminent seeking our protection-a loan as sure of
repayment, principle and interest, as Gods sea-
sons to make their annual's return Germany's
enormous war loans can never be repad-indped,
the interest alone is far greater than the entire
revenues from all sources of the whole German
Empireyet they continue to give.
Mo l,ro, e ,Ln To
buy even one poor $50 Liberty Bond, men who
have boasted of 'bowing in'' more than that
amount in single bout at the town tavern
How can any father with wife and little children
read of the horrid German brutalites to the
women and children of Belgium, France, Italy,
Serbia, Poland, Armenia and Russia. and who
knows that unless all America rally to the Ma
tons help with men and MONEY too, the fate,
already boastfully promised our land by the bloody
Kaiser, will surely befall Us how can such
father fail to buy Liberty Bond
Then let everyone buy Liberty Bond. on
easy nstallments, if not cash down, buy not only
on grounds of patriotism but also on grounds of
mere self-defence.
AS that leading Jewish Rabbi, Krauskoph
says, ''The only poor persons in this matter are
those in absolute want from extreme old age or
sickness-those, in word who ore entirely depen-
dent upon their friends or the state
Would anyone plead poverty if asked to
give weekly trife to help buy powder and shot
to repel band Of Sioux Savages bent on burning
our towns and homes and scaIping our people
men, women and children? Well, fercer, more
dangerous savages almost at our doors
savages far more deadly than the Sioux for these
Hun savagas prostituting all the light and
knowledge Of Christian civilization to the basest,
most brutal assault the world has ever known
&c. let rally with renewed patriotism to the
support of this the great cause of Our Own and
the Worlds Liberty II we do not, what will
our boys dying in the trenches think of our
"slacker' back-ire TO their devoted patriotism