The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1918-03-23
FARMER BULWARK
OF The NATION
Man Behind the Pillow Never
Fails in Emergency.
BIG BUYER OF LIBERTY BONDS
Takes His Time to Think Ii Over,
Then Gets to Work In Earnest.

HCn 1CIS 10 WOTh III EdTIlCSh.
through which the nation has passed,
the farmer looms large as the bulwark
of the nation.
1t is realized on all sides that the
source of wealth, and the good old
time respect for our national institu-
lions and our national integrity, must
come, as they have always come in
the past, from the soil.
In the days of ancient Rome, when
the very life of the republic was at
stake, Cincinnatus left his plough,
placed himself at the head of the ar
my, and, after winning victory, calm.
ly returned to his rustic pursuits.
In the day of peril to our own re-
public, the farmer again stands in
the center of the limelight.
1t is stated officially by persons in
authority in the third Liberty Loan
campaign that the rural districts are
expected to subscribe to more bonds.
in proportion to population than the
urban districts. This is said as the
results of preliminary reports reeeiv-
ed from district chairmen. These re-
ports show that the farmers have
made excellent profits during the last
season, that they have saved their
money, and that they are in a mood to
put it where it will do the most good
into Liberty Bonds.
There is, after all, a distinct differ
ence between the resident of the farm
ing district and the city resident. The
city man is used to spending his
money as fast as he makes it. : He
looks after his immediate wants first
and then thinks of the rainy day. The
farmer thinks of the future first OF
all. He knows that his money has
been earned by the sweat of his brow
and that he has none to spend foolish
ly. And, too, he is SO close to nature
and solitude that he has time to
think of the more serious things of life.
Thus the peril that the government
faces is much more real to the farmer
thar 1t is to the average city dweller,
because he knows it affects his home
and fields and very life, and is not
merely a headliner in the paper to
be forgotten as soon as read.
In the Revolutionary war and in the
Civil war, success would have been
impossible if the farmer had not come
forrrorJ Not an1U with rOnr11itc ond
crops, but with his ~hard-earned and
ungrudgingly offered money. There
will not be any exception now 1t is a
ease of the tiller of the soil rising in
his might against the predatory pow
ers which would violate the home and
make a joke of the home ties and ira
ditions.
When the third Liberty Loan was
being talked of, it was assumed that
the campaign would begin on the first
of March. But the date was deferred
until the sixth of April. Few per-
SON knew why this was So. But one
of the principal causes was the farm
err. It was felt that he would appre-
ciate having the loan drive occur after
the weather had cleared up. This
would make it possible to have meet
ings in the farming sections, to send
speakers, to get the folks together
and give them the same advantages
as the city folks enjoy in any large
undertaking.
Watch the farmers. They have the
money to spend. They know exactly
why it should be spent to aid the
government. And they are, as a class.
so imbued with the patriotic spirit,
that their showing in the Loan Is
bound to be sensational.