The Arvada enterprise. (Arvada, Colo.) 1908-1970, 1918-04-04
PRECIOUS FREEDOM
and COST OF war
American People Must Lend Part
or Pay All to Finance
Great Conflict.
BUYING OF LIBERTY BONDS

QUINN VI u0IkII 0UNUS
Liberal Leans to Government 10 Al
vanelng Financial Assistance to
Our Children. obvIatlne Total
Cost by Taxation.
10y EUGENE P. LYLE, JR., Of The
viollantss.)
Freedom comes high. being a pre-
cious thing. Being the most precious
thing, It comes highest. No people 10
worthy Of freedom that is not willing
and eager to pay dearly for 1t. In
fact. you will find NO people possess-
Ing freedom that has not paid dearly
for It, and you will ind no people con-
tinuing to possess freedom that does
not stand every ready to pay dearly.
over and over. to retain 1t.
II this were not true. Belgium.
France, Italy and England with her
oversee dominions, would now be a.
Russia Is today. II this were not
true. America would still be neutral.
contemptibly awaiting her turn to pass
under the yoke.
Blood and treasure. anguish and sac
rifce-these are the coin we bring
to market; the coin we must pay. Yet
the coin may be, and, 10 expressed in
dollars and cents. not alone az SYM
Dol Of the real price We pay. but be-
cause this real price would be wan
tonly sQuandered, or paid In more
CHASTITY measure than need be. II the
cold, calm. practical business Of dol
lar-and-cents financing were not at the
heart Of the heroic transaction.
Vainly would the soldier shed his
blood II he were not trained and
equipped to make his blows count to
the utmost. and the cost Of this train
ing and equipment IL an item that may
be. and IL, expressed in an exact num-
Der Of dollars added to an exact num-
Der of cents. His country must spend
precisely this amount to enable him to
defend her.
Consequently we Of America are
now confronted with the biggest war
bill In history. One year Of this war
10 costing US AZ much az all the wars
we have had before added to all the
other expenses Of our federal govern
ment since we FIRST won our freedom.
Lending to Our Children.
Ungrudgingly. ycsi OF that we are
proudly conscious that there IL no
question. The one and only question
II the practical question Of finance
How shall the money be foundf We
ourselves must supply 1t, since It can
not be borrowed elsewhere. But how I
The blu In too big to pay cash ON
the nail IN we 20. And. furthermore,
to nay all - we 20 would be just
neither to ourselves nor to our pos.
terity.
II would not he just TO ourselves
because we alone will not be the bene.
heiaries. The generations to come will
beneflt-incalculably beneht In the lib
critics preserved to them-and II Il
proper that they should be left to ~
sumo fair proportion Of the debt
They are buying freedom today nj
much M We. hut we shall have "a
lend them the money now TO ray theii
share. In lending to our government
In buying Liberty bonds we lend to Oui
children: and gratefully our children
will pay II of.
Any other arrangement would NOT
he Just to them for the reason that
! should we strip ourselves bare to pay
all now. we would be crippled In pre-.
pairing our children for the ordinary
duties Of citizenship. Better far that
we retain enough to No equip them for
success In life thnt they may without
undue hardship take over their quots
Of this wars burden! Better for US
and better for them!
Sound common sense. then. ~ well
m equity. points the way. The war;
burden should he divided. Let us pay
In cash nm heavily M we wisely may
that In taxation. But the rest let 10
leave 10 the future bcneiiciarie~. lend.
ing them the money nOw-thNt In buy.
ing Liberty bonds.
Frssdom's Great Price.
The present moment In good time
to contemplate what will hnppen-in.
cvitnbiy hnppcn--if we do not lend 10
postcrity 10 help pay freedoms huge
price. Nothing In clearer than the 81.
Tentative.
II we do no, lend our government
what II asks Of nv In loans, then Wa
must consent TINT the t0ini cost be-
tut.u from ,s u,itrIvht nv tnSntiOn-