The Jasper weekly courier., 1918-04-12
American People Must Lend Part,
or Pay All to Finance
Great Conflict.
BUYING OF LIBERTY BONDS
Liberal Loans TO Government Is Ad-
vaneino Financial Assistance to
Our Children, Obviatina Total
Cost by Taxation.
(5y EUGENE p. LYLE, JR., Of The
vIQilantes.)

vIoIIsntes.)
Freedom comes high. being n pre-
cious thing. Being the most precious
thing. IL comes highest. No people is
worthy Of freedom that Is not willing
and eager to pay dearly for II. In
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 10 pay dearly,
over and over. Co retain IL.
If this were not true, Belgium,
France, Italy and England with her
oversee domInIous, would now be as
Russia IL today. If this were not
true, America would still be neutral.
oontcmptlbly awaiting her turn TO pass
under the yoke.
Blood and treasure, anguish and sac
rlnce-these are the coin we bring
TO market; the coin we must pay. Yet
the coin may be, and. IL expressed In
dollars and cents. not alone as n SYM
Dol of the real price we pay. but be-
cause this real price would be wnn-
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 mt the
heart of the heroic transaction.
Vainly would the soldier shed his
blood If he were not trained and
equipped TO make his blows count to
the utmost, and the cost of this train
be, and is, expressed in an exact num-
ber OF dollars added To an exact num-
ber 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 no
question. The one and only question
is the practical question of finance.
How shall the money be found? We
ourselves must supply 1t, since 1t can
not be borrowed elsewhere. But howl
The bill is too big to pay cash on
the nail as we go. And, furthermore
TO pay all as we go would be just
neither to ourselves nor TO our pos
terity.
1t would not be just to ourselves
because we alone will not be the bene.
ficiaries. The generations to come will
benefit-incalculably benefit in the lib
critics preserved to them-and it is
proper that they should be left to as
sumo fair proportion of the debt
They are buying freedom today as
much as we But we shall have tc
lend them the money now to pay theil
share. In lending to our government
in buying Liberty bonds we lend to ouI
children; and gratefully our children
will pay it off.
Any other arrangement would moi
be Just TO them for the reason that
should we strip ourselves bare to pay
all now, we would be crippled in pre-
pairing our children for the ordinary
duties of citizenship. Better far thai
we retain enough TO SO equip them fol-
success in life that they may without
undue hardship take over their quotf
of this wars burden Better for US
and better for them!
Sound common sense, then, as wei
as equity, points the way. The war:
burden should be divided. Let us pay
in cash as heavily as we wisely may
that is taxation But the rest let u.
leave TO the future beneflciaries, lend
ing them the money now-that is buy
ing Liberty bonds.
Freedoms Great Price.
The present moment is a good time
10 contemplate what will happen-in
evitably happen-if we do not lend Il
posterity 70 help pay freedoms huge
price. Nothing is clearer than the al
tentative.
II we do not lend our government
what X asks of us in loans, then W.
must consent that the total cost b'
taken from US outright by taxation
even by prorated coniscatiOn.
Before such an alternative even tn
German, or pro-German. having prop
erty interests I'm this country, shoul'
choose 10 subscribe for Liberty bonds
In our own self-interest. apart from
the issues vital 10 the integrity of ou
manhood. we can do no less-no les
than lend to the last cent we may pos
sibly save; and this not once merely
but each and every time that Uncl
Sam steps from his counting house T.
| tell us that he must have more money
Uncle Sam Is telling us this now
He awaits our response. But he 1
not the only one who waits. Whereve
men are free or suffer TO be free, ther
| they await our response as the answe
| 70 their hopes And there is yet an
other who waits-the enemy. Il
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