The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1918-10-11

eERMANY's WAR CHEST At SPAN
DAU KEEP WAS READY
WITH ARMY.
OUR CHEST Is BEING FILLED
What Could Our Fighters DO II the
Liberty Loan FaiIed7
d gold win wars;

Blood and steel and gold win wars;
and not the least of these is gold.
There Is a tower In Berlin, the Span
dau Keep, where for generation be-
fore the year 1914 Germany was hoard
ing the yellow metal that was to
launch her imperial effort at conquer
ing the world. The hoard long since
vanished in the red furnace of war and
loan after loan has been raised in Ger
many in order to carry on the conflict.
Germany had the trained men, the
blood of the nation; she had the steel
and she further increased her steel re-
sources by Immediately Selling the
great iron-mining sections Of France
as we'll as Belgium, but the gold, the
credit, has had to be found as the war
moved along.
When Germany can no longer raise
or force loans, or plumber conquered
countries, the war will end in a Ger
man defeat. Blood and steel are help
less without it,.
Gold Is Vital Here.
Our own wa preparations would
never have moved had it not been for
the modified credit of the nation.
Without American gold the Allies
must have faltered. " the country
could no longer raise the money to
carry on the war all the training camps
would be deserted, our ships would lay
at the docks, the American navy would
gather rust in quiet waters and the
American army, overseas, would face
starvation. Our cannon would fall
| quiet for lack of shells, our rifles
W ould be empty. The Huns could mas
sacre the American troops at will.
That is what it means when we are
4 asked to subscribe to a Liberty Loan.
That is the real meaning Of the Fourth
Liberty Loan. Our armies must be
kept in the field. Our navy must be
kept at work and our transports and
} freighters must pillow the seas with
J men and munitions and food. That Is
} why the buyer of Liberty Bond is
actually backing up the men who are
!, with Pershing.
) The blood and the steel have gone
a overseas and the dollars, or what tn,
. dollars will buy, must follow then
% and keep following them.
Not an Idle Phrase.
" Buy a Liberty Bond and Back th'
n Boys Over There" Is not an idl
d solemn meaning. Picture to yoursel
~ the despair that would overtake ever
W American in France II he knew Lii
% erty Loan had hopelessly failed, tina
!" his relatives and friends were no Ions
~ er willing to buy bonds that he Nigh
NJ live and fight on!
no The rifle in his hand might as we
10 be broken stick. His bayonet Nigh
Do as we'll be burnt match. He woul
" realize that, no matter what he Ia
d. done, how he had fought. how man
mn American graves there were on Ii
mo hills OF France-that the war was los
20 that there was nothing but mockei
w back OF the American front.
VI That was what, in a measure. ha
w pened TO the Russian armies when Il
W. loose-tongued revolutionaries seize
~ the government. The support OF u
O army was gone. Here in America, 80
90 miles away from the star shells IN
70 spot the night and the shrapnel burs
w that spangle the days. we are call
S ~ upon TO supply the gold that Is to ba
an the blood and steel The Fourth l.
ri erty Loan is the call for Americ
- gold, for the gold that must be ps
10 OF the combination of men. money a
~ iron that makes and stiffens arm
10 and makes or breaks nations.
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