The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-04-29
FARMERS AND THRIFT STAMPS.
Secretary McAdoo Points Out That Yer
monters Should Invest Heavily.

1t is a matter OF supreme national i'm
portance that the treasury OF the United
States shall be supplied at all times with
the amount of money needed TO furnish
the food, the clothing, the guns, the am.
muniton required by our soldiers to fight
successfully for the safety and liberty of
America. To pay the allowances made
by the government to the dependent
wives and children of these soldiers and
to pay the life insurance which the gov
eminent permits. every soldier to buy
from it, the treasury must also have the
necessary money to extend credit to the
valiant Britons, Belgians, French and
Italians who are fighting alongside Amer.
lean soldiers on the bloody battle fields
of France, Belgium and Italy. If the
American people fail to lend their money
TO their government for these noble pur-
poses, how can we gain victory in this
glorious causeH Everyone can help by
lending their money to the government.
| They do not make gift of their money,
| they merely lend it on impregnable Sc.
curity and are paid interest on the loan
at the same time.
The farmers of the nation can render
genuinely patriotic service by lending all
the money they can to their government
and encouraging everybody else to do
the same. II makes no difference how
small the loan, it will be helpful Those
who can only buy thrift stamps should
buy thrift stamps. Those who can only
buy war savings stamps should buy war
savings stamps. Those who can buy Lib
erty bonds should buy Liberty bonds.
Always they should buy as many stamps
and as many bonds as they can, instead
of as few The government has now put
these loans III such convenient form that
there is no citizen in the land who can
not help to some extent if he is patriotic |
enough to do so.
| rely upon the farmers, than whom |
there are no more vitality interested in |
protecting Americas future and the lib |
critics of the world, to do their utmost /
TO help in this great Liberty loan work.
The farmers are already performing pa
triotic service of the highest value in
raising the foodstuffs needed by our own
military forces and citizens at home and
by the soldiers and civilian populations
of the great nations associated with us,
but they have further duty TO perform.
They should invest all of their available
money in the obligations of their govern
ment. In doing so they will not only
benefit themselves by saving this money
but will be helping to defend their lib
critics, their rights and their farms
against the threatened aggressions of the
most powerful autocratic and military
government ever created.
The farmers of the nation traditional
" are freedom loving people. One hum
ired and forty-three years ago on the
10th of this month the farmers at Lex
ngton and Concord fired the first shot
for liberty and it was heard round the
world. | know that the American farm
,rs of to-day are just as liberty loving
is their heroic ancestors. / know that
hey will join with other Americans of
very business and profession in provid
ng the money which will enable their
government to fight to victorious con-
fusion this great war for liberty, JUS
ice and Americas sacred rights.
w. G. McAdoo,
Secretary of the Treasury.