Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-04-08
THE SPLENDID RECORD
RICHMOND IS MAKING
Largely Oversubscribed Her Appor-
tioDmcnt When Two Other Lib
erty Loans We're Floatcd.
STATE WILL KEEP HER RECORD
Patriotic Sentiment That Inspired
John Stuart Mill Half a Century
Ago Is More Pronounced To-Day
Than Ever Then.

Because Richmond took mora bonds
Of the first Liberty loan than were
apportioned to her, many people
thought she would as largely under
subscribe when the second loan was
launched. But Richmond did nothing
of the kind. Her npportionment was
s14.141,So0. and she took in Sle,To0.-
100. something over five and a
half million dollars more than Uncle
Sam asked her to buy, the exact over
age being s5,55S,3oo.
The whole state of Virginia was
asked to subscribe to s45.ooo,00o worth
OF bonds of the second loan. She took
S50.S50,50o. exactly S5.S5o,ooo more
than she was asked to take Thus it
will be seen that Richmond came
within little less than 100000 Of
taking all OF Virginia's oversubscrip-
ton. Other cities. all OF them except
two, oversubscribed also. and il the
counties had done as we'll as the cities
for the second loan Old Virginia would
have very nearly doubled the invest
mcnts the government asked her to
make.
OF the third Liberty loan. Richmond
will be asked to take not over So
100000, perhaps considerably less, and
all the signs OF the times indicate
that she Will again go largely beyond
the mark that shall be set for her.
That is Richmond's way.
If all the other cities in the State
shall do likewise and the counties shall
improve on tho record they made when
the other loans were noaleu, Virginia
Will stand higher on the honor roll
after this loan has been fioated than
she did before.
An enthusiastic worker in the loan
drive that is now on predicts that
Richmond and nil Virginia will large
~ oversubscribc the third apportion-
pent whatever Il may be. and ne
says they will do 1t because they be-
lieve as John Stuart Mill believed
half a century and more ago when he
wrote as follows:
War. in a good cause. Is not the
greatest evil which a nation can sur
fer. War is an ugly thing, but not
the ugliest OF things; the decayed and
degraded state OF moral and patriotic
feeling which thinks nothing worth n
war is worse. When people arc
used as mere human instruments for
firing cannon or thrusting bayonets, in
the service for the selfish purpose Of
a master. such war degrades a people.
a war to protect other human beings
against tyrannical injustice; war to
give victory TO their own ideas OF
right and good. and which Is their
own war. carried on for an honest pur-
pose by their free choice. is often the
means OF their regeneration. a man
who has nothing which he is willing
TO fight for, nothing which he cares
about more than he does about his
personal safety. Is a miserable crea-
ture, who has no chance of being free,
unless made and kept so by tho en-
crt!ons of better men than himself
AS long as justice and injustice have
not terminated their eyer-renewinE
tight for ascendancy In the affairs of
mankind. human beings must be will
Ing. when naed is, to do battle for
the one against the other
1t is true that the above was written
more than fifty years ago. but it sounds
very much as II 1t might have been
written this year and by some one
OF such patriots as those who are
pushing the third Liberty loan drive in
Richmond and throughout Virginia,