Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-04-07
FARMERS INVEST LIBERTY DQHD5 Ii![) SAVEE N|AT|0H BACK UF YOUR EoY IN TRENCH. ES gY LOAMiAC UNCLE
 SAM MON-Y. HlI A GLOW FOR FREEDOM Future of America Depends on Men Who Till Soii-Put Your Say-
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h!T A BLOW FOR FREEDOM

4als Is patriotic appeal to farm CTS. Your sons have gone to France to fight freedoms battles. But il has not peen brought home to you that it IS the duty of those who remain at home to support the government and thereby back Up the soldiers in the trenches with every dollar you can spare. Your duty does not end when you increase production so the fight ing men may be fed
 Unless every American citizen does his patriotic duty in purchasing Lib erty Bonds Uncle Sam cannot clothe, feed, equip and maintain the army in the field. One the of strongest argu- ments advanced In defending the farmer for not having bought Liberty bonds more heavily in the first two issues is that he was doing for his country more than his share in invest ing money in the effort to increase production than could have been done Ill lending the money to the govern ment.
 The argument is good in so far as il goes, but it does not go far enough. The farmer is not the only producer who is helping the nation by speeding up production. Every manufacturer Who contributes to the 7ast array of supplies necessary for the comfort, health and success of the men in the trenches fighting the most cruel and heartiess fee civilization ever faced might make the same claim. And if 1t was allowed what would become of the Liberty Loan?
 Why have many farmers not yet invested in Liberty Bonds so freely as others? Because, owing to the com paTatlVe isolation of farm life, they have not caught the patriotic infec- ton which leads others, in city and town, to put their last cent into bonds and to buy them on credit at the banks and pay for them out of their savings. Such persons must under stand that Uncle Sam is calling for help. The government appeals for loan from the farmer and all other patriotic citizens.
 Lives will be saved by every dollar a farmer invests in a Liberty Bond The war will be shortened and dis aster will be rendered impossible. Nc class of American citizens has a more glorious page in the history of Amer lca than the man who tills the soil. Once he is aroused to the dire need Of the country he will invest every spare dollar, in Liberty Bonds.
 No class of citizens is more inter- ested in t6e outcome of the war than are farmers. Farming cannot be car ried on with the ocean closed to com- mere. The highways of the sea must be safe or the farmer cannot safel, engage in growing his crops and rais- Ing stock. There are enough retired farmers enjoying from their lands an nual incomes smaller than they would receive if they would invest in Lib erty Bonds.
 Farmers, do you know that $1O,000 invested in Liberty Bonds will pay the owner a better return for his lgloney than if he invested it in farm
 
 know that the bondowner may bor- row more freely on them at the banks than he can upon lands? Do you know that no investment can compare in security and safety with government bonds?
 The cause of freedom needs every cent that farmers can raise to send the soldiers to France equipped, fed, protected, to destroy Prussian mi!i- tarism, break the power of the saber rattlers of Potsdam and bring peace to the world.
 When it comes to duty the farmer must stand shoulder to shoulder with his fellows. The fate of the nation is at stake. The future of civilization hangs in the balance. Arouse, farmers of America, and strike a mighty blow for liberty, for justice. for freedom and for peace.