The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1918-11-07
GOVERNMENT WARNS LINDEN
PEOPLE ON SALE OF BONDS

Don't sell your Liberty Bonds, is
the substance of warning to Lynden
people which was received this week
from the Treasury Department.
The following is the notice:
Next to the imperative duty of
American citizens to support the Lib
erty loan is their duty to hold their
Liberty bonds. 1t is not full service
to the country to purchase Liberty
bonds and then throw them upon the
market, thus putting upon others the
real burden of financing the war. I'm
less the necessity for disposing of
them is very great, every owner of a
Liberty bond should hold fast to it,
Holding onto ones bonds means
money to his government but also
that one has not only lent so much
that he is not spending that money
for goods, labor, and transportation
needed by the nation in the prosecu-
ton of the war, and is thus leaving
the resources of the country more
freely at the disposal of the govern
ment as well as giving it financial
backing. This is a double service.
Secretary Baker says that the wide
distribution of the Liberty bonds
amongst the mass of the American
people makes our Liberty loans the
soundest national financing in his
tory. 1t is a good thing for every
Liberty bond holder to be a creditor
of his or her government, and it is
q good thing for the nation for it's OBJ
legations to be widely scattered
amongst it's citizens and not longest
ed into the hands of the rich. 1t is
a most hopeful thing for the United
States that the best investment in
the world, the Liberty bond. are very
widely distributed amongst millions
of its citizens.
Judging the future by the past. our
Government bonds issued during this
war are going to rise greatly in value
with peace. In 1888. 4 per cent Unit
ed States bonds sold in the open mar
ket as high as $3.50, and in 1901
brought over $139 = that is, $139
and some cents for a 500 bond.
That the Liberty bonds are going to
rise we'll above par in value is some
thing that the most conservative
will admit is we'll within the bounds
of possibility.
The shrewd and INSCRIPTIONS, the
birds of prey in finance, realize the
worth of Liberty bonds and are going
to use every effort to secure them
from the hands Of those owners of
them who are uniformed or who are
ignorant of stock and investment
values. The favorite method will
probably be offering stock of wildcat
companies or other speculative ven
lures. Speculative is really too con-
sentative a word to apply to some
of these stocks, since to say that
they have speculative value is fiat
tering in the extreme; they have no
value at all. except in the hands OF
INSCRIPTIONS people, who trade them
for money or Liberty bonds to ignor-
ant investors.
Some of the get-rich-quick schem-
ers propose not to trade their gold
brick stock for Liberty bonds but to
lend their clients money to buy their
stock. taking Liberty bonds as secur-
ity. This is camoufage = only
thinly disguised method of securing
Liberty bonds for worthless or near
worthless stock.
Every holder Of Liberty bond
before he disposes of 1t, and especial
" before he trades it for stocks or
other bonds, should consult bank.
Much money will be thereby saved
to the owners of Liberty bonds and
the finances of the American people
be better conserved.