The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1918-05-03
American People Must Lend Part,
or Pay All to Finance
Great Conflict.
BUYING OF LIBERTY BONDS
Liberal Loans to Government Is Al
vancing Financial Assistance 70
Our Children, Obviating Total
Cost by Taxation.
(By EUGENE p. LYLE, JR., OF The
Viuilantes.)

cious thing. Being the most precious
thing, ii comes highest. No people Is
worthy Of freedom that is not Wiling
and eager to pay dearly for IL. III
fact, you will find no people possess
ing freedom that has not paid dearly
for Ii, and you will find no people con-
tinuing to possess freedom that does
not stand every ready to pay deariy'
over and over, TO retain ii.
If this were not true, Belgium,
France, Italy and England with her
oversee dominions, would now be as
Russia is today. If this were not
true, America would still be neutral,
contemptbly awaiting her turn TO pass
under the yoke.
Blood and treasure, anguish and sac
rifice-these are the coin we Drlng
TO market; the coin we must pay let
the coin mary be, and, is expressed III
dollars and cents, not alone as SYM
Dol of the real price we pay, but De-
cause this real price would be wan
tonly squandered. or paid In more
! CHASTITY measure than need be, IL 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 If he were not trained anu
equipped to make his blows count 10
the utmost, and the cost of this train
ing and equipment is an item that may
be. and is, 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 i'm history. One year of this war
Is costing us as much as 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, yes! OF that we are
proudly conscious that there Is ~
question. The one and only question
is the practical question of finance
How shall the money be found? W.
ourselves must supply 1t, since 1t can
not be borrowed elsewhere. But how
The bill is too big to pay cash Oh
the nail as we go. And, furthermore
to pay all as we go would be JUS
neither to ourselves nor to our pos
terity.
, It would not be just to ourselve
because we alone will not be the Dent
ficiaries. The generations to come WI
4 benefit-incalculably benefit in the Ill
critics preserved TO them-and 1t
4 proper that they should be left to al
sumo fair proportion of the DEP
They are buying freedom today
y much as we. But we shall nave
\ lend them the money now TO pay the
share. In lending 10 our governmer
in buying Liberty bonds we lend to OF
children; and gratefully our childre
will pay 1t. off.
ANY other arrangement would N
B be lust to them for the reason tina
should we strip ourselves bare to pf
all now. we would be crippled In pr
naring our children for the ordina
duties of citizenship. Better far tn
we retain enough TO so equip them
success in life that they may witho
undue hardship take over their quo
of this wars burden! Better for
and better for them
q Sound common sense, then, as w
\ rs equity, points the way. The wa
burden should be divided. Let us p
I'm cash as heavily as we wisely may
that is taxation. But the rest let
leave TO the future beneficiaries, ler
ing them the money now-that is D'
II ing Liberty bonds.
. Freedoms Great Price.
I The present moment is a good III
70 contemplate what will happen
evitably happen-if we do not lend
: posterity To help pay freedoms nj
price. Nothing is clearer than the
tentative.
/ II We do not lend our governm
, what il asks of US in loans, then
i must consent that the total cost
E taken from us outright by taxation
D even bv prorated confiscation.
: Before such an alternative even
: German or pro-German. having pr
: ertv interests I'm this country, sho
choose TO subscribe for Liberty boz
In our own self-interest, apart II
tho issues vital to the integrity or
manhood. we can do no less-no
than lend 10 the last cent we may
siblv save: and this not once mer
hut zach and every time that u
Sam steps from his counting house
tell us that he must have more moi
- Uncle Sam is telling US this 4
lie awaits our response. But III
not the only one who waits. Where
vi men are free or suffer 10 be free. Il
they await our response as the ans
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