The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-08-28
BUY BONDS until IT HELPS.
NOT UNTIL IT HURTS YOU

of man to stand beside the men who
are dying on the battlefield and be
able to say to them:
LAS you are making the sacrifice
of your life for me and for civiliza-
ton, SO l am standing by your side to
the last ounce OF my financial power,
and in the great day of reckoning, when
all men shall stand before the Judg-
ment Seat of Eternity, l am willing
to have my effort in the mighty cause
placed by the side of the record of
the men who are dying that others
may live and in doing so are following
the example Of the Son of God Him
SELF
Until you have made your purchase
of Liberty bonds and your contribu-
tons to the great work of the chart
table organizations, whether they be
the Red Cross, the Y NJ. c. A., or the
Y. w. G. A., or the X. Of c., or what
ever may best express your individual
effort to help the soldiers, on this
basis, then think not for one moment
that you can stand with clear con-
science before the men who are CIV
ing their lives, and who in the great
Day Of Judgment. when the hearts
plain, shall be able to compare what
they have done with what you have
done.
Buy Liberty Bonds, therefore, until
your buying helps you, until your
buying gives you clear conscience,
until your buying enobles your soul
and broadens your conception, even
by your financial investment in Lib
erty bonds, of the tremendous struggle
of all ages.
In buying Libery bonds you buy the
safest investment on earth. You give
nothing. The country gives you in
return for your money a security safer
than would be a first mortgage on
every railroad in the United States:
safer than the cash in your bank or
In your safe deposit vaults; safer than
the home in which you live; because
the railroads and the cash in the bank
and in safety vallts, the home in which
you live, the farm which you claim,
the iron ore and the coal to which
you hold title are all practically under
first mortgage to the government
for the redemption of these Liberty
bonds. More than that, every ounce
Of physical and mental power, every
ounce of initiative and of brain force
in the nation is under mortgage for
the repayment of these bonds. The
government has the right to take your
farm, your home, your railroad bonds,
to take your earnings, to take the po-
tentiality of all your material and
financial power expressed in material
things, for the purpose of redeeming
these bonds.
But the government gives you in
these Liberty bonds it's promise to
pay good rate of interest. to redeem
them at specified time, and in do
ing this, it offers you the safest in
vestment which today can be found
in all the world. If it did not pay you !
a single dollar of interest, If it's prom
Use to redeem the bonds was indefi- |
mite as to time, the government would
still have a moral and a physical right ;
to claim your utmost contribution to .
he extent of all your wealth and your
power for the prosecution of
The war.
Buy Liberty bonds, therefore, and
BUY them until it helps you individ-
tally to understand the whole war is
sue, because where your treasure is,
there your heart will be- and when
YOU have bought them in this way,
then you have bought Liberty
bonds to the extent that your pur-
chase will relp the government, will
help every soldier on the battlefield,
will help all civilization, and to the .
extent that you fail to do your share
in this work you are recreant to your
duty to your country, to humanity.
and to God Himself.
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