The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1918-06-14

seeing a smaller amount grow into
a larger amount, without effort on
the part of the investor.
These stamps have another fea-
ture which the Liberty bonds do not
possess. The government will re-
tire them at the end of any month,
or at any time, paying the full
amount of money invested with the
interest accumulated to the date of
retirement. The stamps are there
fore worn above par from the day
they are purchased. The promise
of. the government to keep them
above par is as binding as the
promise to pay them at maturity.
Of course, the government does not
expect to be called on to so retire
these stamps. The government ex-
poets every man to do his duty and
that duty is to carry the stamps as
long as he is able. But the fact
that the denomination of the stamps
is small, and, therefore, an invita-
ton to people in poor circumstances
to become creditors makes it the
duty of the government to keep
these people in mind, and doing
this, and knowing that times come
when the poorer people are in want
and must have assistance, the gov
eminent has provided means for
them to receive the money invested
whenever it becomes necessary for
them to do 80.
The call which has come to us
will be met. The call for ~subscrip-
lions to the Liberty Bonds has been
met, and the call of mercy from the
battlefields of France has been met,
and this call will be met. The peo-
pie of Abbeville County will not be
slackers. They will not live under
the protection Of this great govern
ment and refuse to give it support. I
The time may not come when, as
MI. Sparks suggested, men will be
called on and told what their duty
is and told in no uncertain terms
to do it.. We do not advocate such
mainly because we believe
most Of the people patriotic and
ready to help. But a man who does
not answer the calls Of his govern
ment is a marked man. No man is
big that he may defy the state.
No really big man wants to defy the.
state. He desires to assist and do
his full measure, knowing that what
he does not do, another must do.
No brave man asks another man to
carry the guns for both Of them.
Our people are united as never
before to win this great war. The
world will be a poor place in which
to live unless we win. That is the
opinion of Mr.. Roosevelt, Mr. Taft,
Mr.. Wilson and of all the great
thinkers whose opinions we may
safely follow. The war has been
forced upon us. No man sought
more faithfully, more earnestly,
more sincerely, to let the cup pass
than did Mr.. Wilson. But Germany
would have none of it. Mr.. Lansing
has just told US that at the very
time Germany promised to quit
ships, the records show
that it was never intended by the
German government that the prom
Use would be kept, and that the
German ambassador asked his gov
eminent to warn him when the
sinkings were to begin again in or
der that he might destroy all Ger
man ships in American waters,
something which was in fact done.
It is needless now to recount the
murder of women and children and
babes, whose innocent graves are
today at the bottom of the deep,
and the insults heaped upon our
people.
Being in a war thus forced upon
US, the question comes, first, to "
cry man, What have I done to win