The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1918-10-18
FIGHTING LOAN"
IS DESIGNATION
OF FOURTH LOAN
FIRST WAS FOR ASSEMBLY, SEC
oNO For ADVANCE GUARD,
THIRD FOR OPENING GUNS.
NOW The "HOT STUFF" is ON
With This Liberty Loan Issue the
Hun Glimpses the Fiery
Writing.

When the First Liberty Loan was
raised, in 1917, America was merely
planning her armies. The First Loan
was used to bolster up the credit OF
our Allies. When the Second Loan was
on we were Just beginning to get the
vanguard, the patrols, we might say,
OF our forces overseas.
When the Third Loan was floated
the German drive was getting under
way and the Allied line in the west
was trembling. Even then our troops,
while arriving in vast numbers, we're
not playing any active part in the
giant battles that were laundering
from the North Sea down across
France.
But the Fourth Loan! W. have
made history in the last few weeks.
Who will ever forget Chateau.Thlerry
and Belleau? Or Cantigny, or the des-
perate fighting in the Marine salient,
the splendid victorious rush of the
Americans out Of the Compiegne Wood
on the German flank, or the grim bat
Ting side by side with Frenchmen on
the way to ST. Gobain Wood? We have
been fighting since that Third Loan
went owe We are fighting now.
Response From the Homes.
This Fourth Loan Is q Fighting
Loan" America has seen her dead in
the hills and fields Of France. Our cas-.
ualty lists are lengthening. We are
family sensing the hurts that England
and France have felt for more than
four years. But our resources in men
and money have been scarcely touched
while France and England have beer
steadily throwing in their human anC
financial resources for weary veal
after year.
But we have had a taste Of the rea
quality Of the greatest war in history
This loan will be subscribed in man!
homes with the realization that on,
who has gone will never again gladdel
the doorway, and in thousands Of 9th
er homes there will be the tense real
cation that every bond bought an
every dollar subscribed is helping t
back up the lad overseas who has gon
from that home.
American cannon are laundering Il
the Toul sector, they have smasheu
their way into st. Mihiel, they ar
menacing the Rhine cities and roarinI
over the war-weary fields Of Picardy
As we raise this loan we have the fee
ing that at last we have gone in" an
are massing for that last series Of tel
rifle blows that are to shake the In
perial German strongholds from eel
ter to circumference,
For this is a Fighting Loan" Thos
that have gone before were the loan
OF preparation, Of making ready, bu
at last we are ready. Our full strengt
is finally being modified. The HUI
has felt the power OF America and ha
/, reeled under the strength Of the Ne.
, World that has come to the rescue {
, the Old. With the Fourth Liberty Loa
. the German has glimpsed the fieT
. writing, painted on the skies Of Franc
a and along his OWL borders by the grej
, guns of America.
\ This is the Fighting Loan" Thel
n Is an American Sector" now. 1t is I
tiny little fragment Of the great lii
q that runs up from Switzerland TO Il
sea, 1t is growing and growing, +
lieving the tired fighters Of France al
the wearied men of Britain, givir
, them a chance to rest and again hu
themselves into the line that is no
moving eastward and northward wi
r the "reminiscences Of Fate.
q And the Fighting Dollars" Of Anne
- lea are backing up that fighting lii
OF American olive drab and makil
the Fighting Loan n of the mi
stones Of the great war.