Cleveland County herald., 1918-05-02
Add to Funds That Will Forever End Germany's Desired
 Iron-Hand Rule.
DUTY OF EVERYBODY TO HELP
Question Is Not Whether We Feel Like Subscribing, but Our People Must Spend or Be
 Spent.
By ALBERT BUSHNELL HART,
 Of the ViqiIanteS.


 land unto all the inhabitants thereof so runs the legend on the Liberty bell which by favorite tradition pealed out to the world the tidings of the birth of | the United States of America on that | famous July 4, 1776 We thought that message had gone out once for all; 1 that freedom in the United States was | rock of Gibraltar that could not be scaled nor penetrated nor moved. We | have thought that the old days of na- l tional sacrifice and anxiety were for ever passed. What so strong, so per manent, so vigorous, so dominant as | government of the people in these 1 United States?
 If the American Revolution had been only bell ringing and the passage of resolutions, we should not now be the 1 foremost republic of the world nor any l other kind of republic. The Deelara- | tion of Independence was bold state ment of liberty which had still to be made good. The heroes of the Revo- | lution knew how to watch as well as to pray, how to march as well as to resolute. The Declaration of 1nde- pendence is a mighty force In the world because when the country called soldiers sprang into the ranks Liberty 1 had to be spelled out by such big capi- | tai letters as Lexington, Illinois, Ben nington, Eutaw, Rocky Mount, Trenton and Yorktown.
 l We Are Better Fortified
 The hard fighting in the field won only half the battle. Our forefathers were able to proclaim liberty throughout the land" because they found the sinews of war. It was one thing to raise the flag, another to raise troops and still another to raise the wind" There was not bank in the 1 United States till the Revolution was nearly over and few were the people who had money enough to lend to any body, yet that 300O,000, of whom fourth were slaves who could have no property, somehow induced the people of the country to turn iDsr their sfnaii surplus of provisions, {clothing and military supplies and-take for it the obligations of the government, which toward the end of the dark period of the Revolution seemed little likely ever to be paid. Tkey furnished about $65,- 100000 in taxes, contributions and SUD- plies and 9t the end of the war the na- tional debts incurred in behalf of the RevolItien were, including arrears of inteyest, S7o,oo00OO, which was then about $20 a head on the population. man, woman and child, whites, h. dians and negroes, seamen, farmers, Plantation slaves as they ran. Must Spend or Be Spent.
 Make no mistake; this is not ques- ton of whether we feel like subscrib- ing to loan any more than a question of whether we feel like receiving news of break on the war front and the capture or retreat of the American troops. The nation is compelled to choose either to spend or to be spent. There is only one possible way to end the war to the honor and safety of the United States and that Is to fight for 1t. Our sons fight. in the army, our daughters fight in the Red Cross, we elders must fight with safe deposit boxes and mortgage deeds and sheets of securities.
 In the days when the French were in the habit of recruiting troops in Swift zerland, there was saying, "No money, nc Swiss !" Nowadays it is, "No money, no Yank!" for unless you subscribe to the loan your son cannot be trained or equipped or fed or trans ported over seas or carried to the front or protected by barrage of ar | tillery fire or put where he can attack the enemy
 Remember the Liberty Bell. The battle is going on from day to day in the national banks and the saw ings banks and the trust companies and the treasuries of the fraternities and the clubs and the churches and the restaurants just as much as in northern France or Belgium. No one soldier can win at the front nor hun dred thousand together. It would take a million, but if every one of that mill lion hangs back, there is no army, no war, nothing but shame and misery for the nation. Just so, you cannot save your country all alone by your subscription to the third Liberty loan: but you can unite with million oth- CTS. Do your duty and expect and urge others to do theirs. That makes a vic torious army of people pouring in their rattling dollars as the boys at the front hurl hand grenades.
 "All the inhabitants thereof" that is what the Liberty bell aroused. Not the soldier only, not merely the Red Cross, the Y. M. c. A. and the other noble co-workers and co-fighters with the troops. You plain farmer, you banker, investor, manufacturer; you doctor, lawyer. teacher, scientific man, engineer, business man, railroad man, mechanic, working man; you schoolboy | . c4I 1<tvI Ifo%N~ &04 41 II.