The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1918-03-29
BACK UP YOUR BOY IN TRENCH,
Es BY LoANiNG UNCLE
SAM MONEY.
HIT A BLOW FOR FREEDOM
Future Of America Depends on Men
Who Till SoiI--Put Your Saw
inas In the Safest
Place In World.

This is a patriotic appeal to farm.
ers. Your sons have gone to France
to fight freedoms battles. But it has
not been brought home to you that it
is the duty of those who remain at
home to support the government and
thereby back up the soldiers in the
trenches with every dollar you can
spare. Your duty does not end when
you increase production so the fight,
ing men may be fed.
Unless every American citizen does
his patriotic duty in purchasing Lib.
erty Bonds Uncle Sam cannot clothe,
feed, equip and maintain the army in
the field. One the of strongest argu-
ments advanced in defending the
farmer for not having bought Liberty
Bonds more heavily In the first two
issues is that he was doing for his
country more than his share in invest
ing money in the effort to increase
production than could have been done
in lending the money to the govern
ment
The argument is good in so far az
1T goes, but it does not 60 far enough.
The farmer is not the only producer
who is helping the nation by speeding
up production. Every manufacturer
who contributes to the vast array of
supplies necessary for the comfort,
health and success of the men in the
trenches fighting the most cruel and
heartless foe civilization ever faced
might make the same claim. And IL
1t was allowed what would become of
the Liberty Loan?
Why have many farmers not yet
invested In Liberty Bonds SO freely as
others? Because, owing to the COM.
parative isolation OF farm life, they
have not caught the patriotic infec.
ton which leads others, in city and
town, to put their last cent into bonds
and to buy them on credit at the
banks and pay for them out Of their
savings. Such persons must under
stand that Uncle Sam is calling for
help. The government appeals for a
loan from the farmer and all other
patriotic citizens.
Lives will be saved by every dollar
a farmer invests in a Liberty Bond.
The war will be shortened and dis
aster will be rendered impossible. No
class of American citizens has more
glorious page in the history of Amer.
lea than the man who tills the soil,
Once he is aroused to the dire need
OF the country he will invest every
spare dollar in Liberty Bonds.
No class of citizens is more inter.
ested in the outcome of the war than
are farmers. Farming cannot be car
ried on with the ocean closed to COM
merce. The highways of the sea must
be safe or the farmer cannot safely
engage in growing his crops and rails
ing stock. There are enough retired
farmers enjoying from their lands an
nual incomes smaller than they would
receive if they would invest in Lib
erty Bonds.
Farmers, do you know that $4,000
invested in Liberty Bonds will pay
the owner better return for his
money than if he invested it in farm
lands and rented the lands? Do you
know that the bondowner may Dor
row more freely on them at the banks
than he can upon lands? Do you know
that no investment can compare in
security and safety with government
bonds?
The cause of freedom needs every
cent that farmers can raise to send
the soldiers to France equipped, fed,
protected, to destroy Prussian mill
tarism, break the power of the saber
rattlers of Potsdam and bring peace
to the world.
When it comes to duty the farmer
must stand shoulder to shoulder with
his fellows. The fate of the nation is
at stake. The future of civilization
hangs in the balance Arouse, farmers
of America, and strike mighty blow
for liberty, for justice, for freedom
and for. peace. =