Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-10-17
THE LIBERTY LOAN
MUST SUCCEED

II is of vital importance that the
fourth United States Liberty Loan
shall be fully subscribed quickly. 1t is
of vital Importance that the subscrip-
ton shall come, in the main, from the
mass of the people. II will be OF in
calcuIable benefit to all the interests
concerned. and these interests are the
greatest. so far as tradition and his
tory afford information. ever involved
in war since the world began, If the
loan shall not only be subscribed. and
subscribed quickly, but if the sub
seriptions shall greatly exceed the
amount called for.
No belief that the loan is in danger
of failure should be entertained; no
intimation of a possibility of its fail
ure should be permitted to go out 1t
must not fail. In the light of the Ger
man reply to the Presidents latest
utterance. il is more than ever neces-
sary that II should succeed.
To believe that the nation will re-
fuse TO support the loan would be to
believe that it will stop short of vic
tory; that il will consent TO the
triumph of autocracy; that has decid-
ed to turn its back upon all which, for
nearly century and half, the re-
public has held TO be essential to hui
man freedom, human progress. and
human happiness.
-, tn, he 20 he
United States TO justify, in the small
lest degree, anxiety lest it shall not,
at this crucial hour, rise to a full
sense of its duty to itself and of its
obligations to the nations with which
IL has become associated in this strug
gle. II is in the war to the last dollar
and the last man, and thus far, great
as have been the drafts upon it, only
a fraction of its man-power and of its
money power has been employed.
Only now is il prepared TO take upon
itself, to an extent commensurate with
its resources, the responsibilities
which it assumed in April. 1917.
Cost has never entered into the
thought of the American people. or in
TO the consideration of their govern
ment as an important factor in the
situation. That they have the means
of carrying on the war indefinitely
they know. That they have the dis
position to exhaust their resources, If
necessary to the achievement of un-
qualified victory, cannot be question
ed. There is surplus wealth enough
available in the country to take up the
entire loan in an hour. The govern
ment need only say the word and
banks and corporate and private CAPT.
tai would underwrite. without hesita-
ton, whatever part of the fourth Lib
erty bond issue might remain untaken.
But something else is wanted
So far as the United States and the
Allies are concerned, this is not a
capitalists war. If ever war was wag-
ed for the people, forall classes of the
people for the rights and liberties of
the mass. for democracy this conflict
is carried on by the Allies and the
United States in such a cause. And if
ever in the financial history of the
world a popular loan worthy of the
name was launched, that which the
United States is floating at the present
time is one.
II would be a deplorable thing. even
a shameful thing. if the mass should
throw the burden of war carried on
in its behalf upon class. Eventually.
a victorious issue of the conflict vii,
none more than the wage and salary
Garner, because it will go an immense
distance toward assuring the perpetu-
ity of peaceful industry, and the con-
sequent enlargement of opportunity,
to the average man. No one can truly
say that this is not a war that has
concern for him. 1t has personal, i'm
mediate, intimate concern for every
American worthy of the name. To as
sist in the winning of the war to the
limit of its ability, energy, and re-
sources is the greatest task the United
States has ever faced; to accomplish it,
every one, throughout its vast domain,
worthy of the liberty for which mill
lions have sacrificed and are sacrific-
ing their all. should come to its aid
A way will be opened for every one
moved by an honest purpose to buy
bond. No person with a patriotic
heart will be denied the privilege of
serving his country. Let no one who,
through self-denial, may save dollar
a week, be without an investment that
will draw dividends too precious to be
expressed in terms of money.-Chris-
tian Science Monitor.