The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1918-04-26
BUY LIBERTY
Or SEE j. s. LOSE
Add to Funds That Will Forever
End Germany's Desired
lron-Hand Rule.
DUTY OF EVERYBODY TO HELP
Question Is Not Whether We Fee
Like Subscribing, but Our People
Must Spend or Be
Spent.
BY ALBERT BUSHNELL HART,
OF the VigiIantes.

OF the Nigilantes.
Proclaim liberty. throughout all the
land unto all the inhabitants thereof
so runs the legend on the Liberty bell,
which by favorite tradition pealed out
to the world the tidings of the birth of
the United States of Anne RIGA on that
famous July A, 1776. We thought that
message had gone out once for all ::
that freedom in the United States was
a rock of Gibraltar that Gould not be
scaled nor penetrated nor moved. We
have thought that the old days of ma
tiOnal sacrifice and anxiety were for
ever passed. What so strong, SO per-
manent, so vigorous, so dominant as
government of the people in these
United States?
If the American Revolution had been
only bell ringing and the passege of
resolutions, we should not now be the
foremost republic of the world nor any
| other kind of republic. The Declara-
| ton of Independence was bold state
ment of liberty which had still to be
made good. The heroes of the Revo-
luton knew how to watch as well as
to pray, how to march as well as to
resolute. The Declaration of indie
pendence is mighty force In the
world because when the country called
soldiers sprang into the ranks. Liberty
had to be spelled out by such big CAPT.
tai letters as Lexington, Illinois, Ben
nington, Eutaw, Rocky Mount, Trenton
and Yorktown.
We Are Better Fortified.
The hard fighting in the fell wo1
1nly half the battle Our forefathers |
were able to proclaim liberty |
Throughout the land" because they
found the sinews of war; 1t was one
thing to raise the flag, another to raise
troops and still another to raise the |
wind" There was not bank in the
United States till the Revolution was
nearly over and few were the people
who had money enough to lend to any
body, yet that 100000, of whom
fourth We're slaves who could have no
somehow induced the people
of the country to turn in their small
surplus of provisions, clothing and
supplies and take for it the
obligations of the government, which
toward the end of the dark period of
the Revolution seemed little likely ever
to be paid. They furnished about $685.
100000 in taxes, contributions and sup
plies and at the end of the war>the ma
tiOnal debts incurred in behalf of the
revolution were, including arrears of
interest, S70,000,O0O, which was then
about $40 a head on the population.
nan, woman and child, whites, In [
lianS and negroes, seamen, farmers, I
'lantation slaves as they ran. G
Must Spend or Be Spent.
Make no mistake; this is not ques q
ion of whether we feel like subscrib- Z
ng to loan any more than a question l
f whether we feel like receiving news !
t a break on the war front and the II
apture or retreat of the American L
roops. The nation is compelled to
hoose either to spend or to be spent. I
here is only one possible, way to end 7
ne war to the honor and safety of the y
nlted States and that is to fight for !,
!. Our sons fight in the army our u
aughters fight in the Red Cross, we =
lders must fight with safe deposit .
oxes and mortgage deeds and sheets =
securities. e
In the days. when the French were in -
lie habit of recruiting troops in Swift -
'rland, there was a saying, mo e,
oney, no Swiss!' Nowadays it is. =,
No money, no Yanki I" for unless you
describe to the loan your son cannot
trained or equipped or fed or trans.
,rted over seas or carried to the III
ont or protected by barrage of ar
lery fire or put. where he can attacl
e enemy.
Remember the Liberty Bell.
The battle is going on from day IN hi
Y in the national banks and the saw
gs banks and the trust companies -
G the treasures of the fraternities
q the clubs and the churches and
restaurants just as much as in
rthern France or Belgium. No one
dier can win at the front nor a hun-1
ed thousand together. 1t would take
Dul IL every one or that mill
n hangs back, there is no army. NO
r, nothing but, shame and misery
the nation> Just so, you cannot
ve your country all alone by your y
'scription to the third Liberty loan:
you can unite with million 9th.
. DO your duty>and expect and urge
ers to do theirs. That makes a vic
ious army of people pouring in their
Ting dollars as the boys at the front
/ hand grenades.
All the Inhabitants thereof" that is
at the Liberty bell aroused. Not
soldier only, not merely the Red
'ss, the Y. M, c. A. and the other
lie co-workers and co-fghters with
troops. You plain farmer. yo,,
ker, investor, manufacturer Won
tor, lawyer. teacher, scientific man
ineer. business man, railroad man,
'hanic. working man; you schoolboy
schoolgirl, listen to the Liberty hoi,