Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1918-05-03
DUTY OF EVERYBODY TO HELP
Question 10 Not Whether We Feel
Like Subscribing, but Our People
Must Spend or Be
Spent.
BY ALBERT BUSHNELL HART,
OF the Vlqllantes.

I
the United States of America on that
famous July 4. 1776. We thought that
p message had gone out once for all I;
= that freedom In the United States was
a rock OF Gibraltar that could not be
scaled nor penetrated nor moved. we
have thought that the old days Of ma
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
United Statesr
III the American Revolution had been
only bell ringing and the passage OF
resolutions, we should not now be the
foremost republic Of the world nor any
other kind of republic. The Declare
ton of Independence was bold state
ment of liberty which had still to be
made good. The heroes of the Revo-
luton knew how to watch as well as
to pray, how to march as well as to
resoIute. The Declaration OF indie
pendence Is mighty force in the
world because when the country called
soldiers sprang Into the ranks. Liberty
had to be spelled out by such big capi-
tai letters as Lexington, Illinois, Ben
nlngton. Eutaw. Rocky Mount, Trenton
and Yorktown.
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. 1t was one
thing to raise the flag. another to raise
troops and still another to raise the
wind" There was not bank In the
United States till the Revolution was
nearly over and few were the people
who had money enough to lend to any
body, yet that 3,000000, of whom |
fourth were slaves who could have no |
property. somehow induced the people |
of the country to turn in their small |
surplus OF provisions, clothing and
military supplies and take for 1t the
obligations OF the government, which
toward the end OF the dark period OF
the Revolution seemed little likely ever
TO be paid. They furnished about $685.
600 900 In taxes, contributions and sup
plies and at the end of the war the ma
tlonal debts incurred In behalf Of the
Revolution WERE including arrears of
interest, S70,OO0,000. which was then
about 500 head on the population.
man. woman and child, whites, In
dams 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 n loan any more than 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
II. Our sons fight In the army. our I
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. mo
money. no Swissr' Nowadays II is,
"No money. no Yank I" for unless you (
subscribe to the loan your son cannot c
be trained or equipped or fed er trans c
ported over seas or carried TO the d
front or protected by q barrage OF ar
tillery fire or put where he can attack Y
the enemy A
Remember the Liberty Bell. \
The battle Is going on from day to
lay In the national banks and the say
ngs hanks and the trust companies
IND the treasures Of the fraternities
md the clubs and the churches and h,
he restaurants just as much as IN nj
lorthern France or Belgium. No one Ii
0ldier can win at the front nor a hun Ia
Ired thousand together II would take of
million. hut IL every one OF that mil pl
lon hangs back. there Is no army. no
rnr. nothing but shame aud misery
or the nation. Just so. you cannot
ave your country all alone by your d,
Inscription TO the third Liberty loan; l.,
ut You can unite with n million 9th. nd
RS. DO your duty and expect and urge re
theirs 10 do theirs. That makes vie
,rious army of people pouring In their
attllng dollars as the boys ut the from,
urI hand grenades. of
"All the Inhabitants thereof" that Is I'M
hat the Liberty bell aroused. Not rei
Ne soldier only. not merely the Red Pr
ross. the y. M. G. A. and the other by
obIe co-workers and co-fghters with
he troops. You plain farmer. you
snker, Investor manufacturer: you
,ctor. lawyer. teacher. scientific man. ia,
igineer. business man. railroad man, on
echnnic. working man: you schoolboy ret
ii schoolgirl, listen to the Liberty bell Ed
loscribe to the Liberty loan sin